/lit/ - Literature

>>21261324
I have to disagree anon. For how much Sword and Sorcery I’ve read, Robert E. Howard still stands out as the master largely because his prose lent his character and stories a liveliness that sets them apart.
Gene Wolfe uses archaic vocabulary and a simple, almost modernist style in Book of the New Sun and it does a wonderful job at making his world feel half familiar, half alien.
J. R. R. Tolkien wrote The Silmarillion in the style of an old mythology to great effect. There’s a beauty to that book which I think no other fantasy novel has been able to capture, the first line still sticks with me;
“There was Eru, the One”
I think prose is very important.

Re-Read:
The House on Mango Street
Dubliners
Ulysses

Read:
The Citadel of the Autarch
The Conquering Sword of Conan
Child of God
His Pretend Amish Bride
Swords and Deviltry
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Amerika: The Missing Person
Kull: Exile of Atlantis
The Great Divorce
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, and it’s All the Small Stuff
This is Water
Night Winds
As I Lay Dying
Thieves’ World
The Bizarchives Vol. 1
The Three of Swords
The Sunset Limited
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Gentleman in Moscow
Death Angel’s Shadow
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Tarnsman of Gor

Finished:
The New American Bible
>>20778446
Good list OP, highly recommend the Silmarillion if you like Tolkien.
>>20778523
Interesting Gone with the Wind is on both your guys’ lists. Never read it myself.
>>20778550
Are you the anon that usually posts about them on the /sffg/?

>>20661334
What are you reading and what are you planning to read?