I am severely disheartened by the lack of Gene Wolfe love on this forum.

He's a great author. I'd recommend anything by him to a fan of fantasy, even though you won't be able to understand half of it.

I read part of Shadow of the Torturer or something (I think that was his), and quit just because of the style. If the title is right, and I'm thinking of the right book. It wasn't necessarily a bad style, it was just so overwhelmingly weird, I couldn't handle it. I had a bunch of other stuff I was reading at the same time, and just sorta phased it out in favor of the rest. Someday I'll probably go back to it, because I've heard good things about him. Or maybe I'm thinking of something else entirely, and will never find it again.

That's the very first book in what many regard to be his best series. Yeah, the writing style is profoundly strangle. In his defense, he's trying to make his writing sound like the translation of a journal from the future, heh.

You should get back into it even though it doesn't get any easier.

I got that "Knight" book on Justin's recommendation, and put it down after 75 pages. The style was too irritating for me to continue with it.

Knight is TERRIBLE in comparison to his other works. I would advise you to not use that as a touchstone for the rest.