/lit/ - Literature

This and Demonata were amazing series.

>>10806143
>I love the depth of the characters and the world
That's fine. Even 15 years later I still have a massive respect for Naruto for its world building. It's very possible for something to be a great achievement in creativity and still be awful as a work of art. Just don't claim it's some masterpiece and waste my time reading it.
>>10806474
At least you're not claiming a YA novel has to focus on a young teenager, which everyone else seems to think. The only point is that mostly YA novels don't have morally ambiguous protags. That's true but most novels in general also don't. There might be a lower percentage in the YA but it's definitely there. I can list off examples from my childhood. Artemis Fowl is even below the YA range and it's about a psychopath criminal with relationship issues. It's not in the form of rape or being a literal torturer but I guess kids under the age of 12 don't reach that level of edge yet. CHERUB had a lot of moral ambiguity, with psychopaths. The main character wasn't evil but him cheating on his girlfriend and generally being a dick as well as the drug use was enough to get the majority of our school year to read it. We were 11, 12, 13 and most of my class was talking about it.
And again, ASOIaF appeals largely to late teens early twenties people with the same edgy attitude, just evolved into more "mature" topics like rape and torture.
>I've never seen Sam Hyde mentioned
The entire joke of this board is that everyone's trying to one-up each other on how smart they are. They're not going to admit that they only read their favorite fantasy novel because some idol who they're desperately trying to imitate recommended it. It makes them look retarded.
I only knew of Sam recommending it once on facebook years ago, which is where I got the pic, but you can see from 3 or 4 other people on this thread he's actually recommended it more than once, and they are in fact aware of it. Even if you didn't find it through Sam I guarantee a lot of the people you've talked about the books with did.
>>10806536
I've already listed off the elements of his writing I didn't like, that's all I can do.
>>10806702
>animeposter
>"I'd rather have a character driven story"
Don't ever post in my thread again please
>>10807257
The incest was hinted at even in Claw. There's also brother-sister incest in the first book. I can see why edgelords had to find something to rave about when Game of Thrones became too popular for them. If we were posting 20 years ago people would be talking about what a masterpiece those books are because of GRRM's hidden subplot that only people of high intellect can appreciate.