I read his "On Blue's Waters", without having read anything else of his before. A lot of the references in the book were completely mysterious to me (but would

I read his "On Blue's Waters", without having read anything else of his before. A lot of the references in the book were completely mysterious to me (but would not have been had I read Book of the New Sun and Book of the Long Sun. But I loved it. And I didn't mind that the references were mysterious to me. It added to the feeling of the book, actually, which is very melancholic, and sort of follows the Odysseus template. Couldn't recommend the book more.