/lit/ - Literature

The book finder RNG has been kind to me of late

>A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery by Curtis Craddock (fantasy/steampunk)
I waited a month for this to get uploaded and it was exactly what I hoped.
Steampunk with great prose (it is exactly the right flavour of prose in the middle of purple and beige) with a great cast of characters who I enjoy, with a mystery that unfolds with precision and perfect pacing and a fascinating system of magical systems blended in with the precise amount of scifi and body horror. Also, the MCs are amongst my favourites.

>Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner (fantasy/fae)
Thank god for PT bounty requests because a great person filled my request and bought/uploaded it it for me. Apparently this was the short story collection that inspired the Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell books (in particular, the gentleman with thistle-down hair). Just like jsamn it contains a bunch of amoral fairies doing CUTE amoral fairy things in a very macabre way but there are other stories as well where humans are also in part the perpetrators. It can be fairly difficult to puzzle out what message the author is giving for some particular stories which makes a nice change from the extremely unsubtle attempts of modern authors to drill messages into your brain at any given moment.

The three particularly strong stories are the first, second and last stories.

>The Nine by Tracy Townsend (scifantasy/steampunk heist)
Apparently the RNG (because I select by what I think I will like not by what I think it is about) has seen fit to bestow another steampunk novel on me. I really enjoyed the concept of a self writing book that chronicles the life of nine people trialled by god and the fundamental god particle-esque sections are really reminiscent of Pullman (but in terms of adult fantasy) are very attractive. I also love this specific brand of mentalic/psychic powers a la newtypes etc.

One of the flaws with this novel is that it starts off with a ridiculously large amount of POVs but rest assured the author trims them down by the end and another flaw was the fact that I wasn't a big fan of the main antagonist species even though the concept (them walking on their eyes) was excellent.

I loved the MCs and would hope that other authors write characters that are endearing and as fascinating as the ones crafted by this author.

>A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (scifi/post apocalyptic)
This is a book that takes until the latter 1/3 to deliver but rest assured that Fiat Voluntas Tua is one of the most outstandingly horrifying plots that I have ever read. From the bicephalous Mrs Grales/Rachel, to the conflict between the doctor and the brother and to the highly memorable Poet in the earlier section, I highly recommend this book to anyone mildly interested in religious and post apoc spec fic.

>>10425327
I can't figure it out

>>10291793
If there was one fictional character/god I could have a chat with about religion, I'd want to have a chat and a photo with PKD's Palmer Eldritch. If I couldn't have a chat with Eldritch, I'd opt for a chat and a photo with Bridger - the super cute little kid from TLtL.

Odium seems to be the kind of character who is fundamentally deceitful - he was pretty nice with Dalinar but you can tell that he's up to the neck in scheming with Taravangian and Taravangian is a terrible person to be around given how often he keeps draining people's blood to get his shitty propherices. And I'd rather be on a happier planet having a chat then someone's magical slave on a planet where hell is literally and figuratively real and gets constantly stomped by the apocalypse, retard tier wars where everyone dies for no reason, a personalised hell where the top tier magic users get tortured and tortured again and locals who are enslaved and then start turning into demons- Roshar seems like a terrible place to live.

Szeth is also boring as a fuck, you can't get a straight talk with Hoid, so I'd rather have a conversation with Nightblood or Vasher.

>>10025048
Have you had a feel of your entire abdomen to check for any large masses?

And why aren't you eating? Is it because you feel sick or because you just don't want to make it worse?

How long have you had this constipation for?