/lit/ - Literature

>>21617067
The sample chapters he posted were from The Darkness That Comes Before—the book ACM reviles without having read more than its first five pages (as she admits right off the bat, in her post, and contradicts somewhere in the comments). I read the chapters, and then much of the initial draft, and then the entire final product, when it was published.

I cringed more than once, as I read; the myriad, relentless abuses of power and people in the book are pretty hard to bear. But I never felt that Scott’s depiction of these abuses was gratuitous or self-indulgent. Partly because I know him, yes—but also because I’m pretty clear that authors don’t have to be nasty people to write about nasty things.

Authors use imagination and intellect to make things up—things they might be drawn to on aesthetic or thematic levels, but which might horrify them on an emotional one. He made up a dark, dire, grim patriarchal world in which women, men, beasts—hell, any and all life forms—are degraded. I understand readers who say, “Wow—this book isn’t my thing at all—I’m going to put it down forever.” But it’s a gargantuan leap from “I really don’t like this book” to “I really don’t like the man who wrote this book.” It’s a leap ACM makes effortlessly—because she was never actually reacting to his fiction. No: she’s made her claims about his novels, and him, based only on things he’s said in online forums and interviews and on his blog; based on the “impressions” of shadowy second-hand sources.

But why? She attacks his books without having read them. She attacks his character without having met him. There’s no reason here, and no reasons—just an inexplicably personal kind of rancour.

There's only one King of Fantasy and it ain't some british poofster and his midget stories

>>20756991
chad

>>20397240
The litrpg dweebs have lost steam, now is our chance to reclaim the thread for King Bakker and reign Supreme

NGL, feels good to come back 8 hours later and see this thread still up.

Thank you for promoting my books.

King of /sffg/.

Simple as.

Uh? What was that?
You want more Bakker-pills?

Take this one then: Kellhus is literally lowering his intellect voluntarily around Esmenet in order to fall in love with her so that he can tap into Cishaurim sorcery

What an absolute chad.

>>18010365
I agree with you on Bakker's woman problem in general. The main female characters are either hypersexed fuck dolls like Serwë. or hypersexed, too-smart-for-you bitches like Esmenet and Serwa. With the exception of a few background characters like Istreya and the Swayal witch who got salted at Dagliash, there are almost no women which aren't presented as sex objects for the male characters, and there's very little range in age or occupation (20s-30s, prostitute or concubine). Bakker's other writing bears this same approach, look at Neuropath.

I love his incandescent writing, his descriptive power, and his brilliant insights into the nature of humanity and reality, but sometimes I wish he could just step a little further outside himself – the tall, gangly, high IQ, argumentative, arrogant, prickish, sensitive, easily wounded, giganerd canuck bastard – to find characters with other ways of being in the world.

>"Ah, the Argument."

I’m what you would call a cynic.
This isn’t to be confused with a skeptic. Skeptics don’t believe in anything because they care too much. For them the dignity of truth is perpetually beyond the slovenly reach of humankind. We’re just not qualified.
A cynic, on the other hand, doesn’t believe in anything because he doesn’t care enough. I mean, really, who gives a fuck?

Ngl, these last couple of threads have been pure kino.

>>17537104
>bakker is high school philosophy tier
post phd dissertation with references
>oh wait he can't

>>17525149
Some anon claimed one of those is Watts' wife.
Is there any truth to it?

>February 19
What went wrong?

>>17271592
R scott bakker

>"It goes like this: A slender young bull and his harem of cows are shocked to discover that their owner has purchased another bull, far deeper of chest, far thicker of horn, and far more violent of temper. Even still, when the owner’s sons drive the mighty newcomer to pasture, the young bull lowers his horns, begins snorting and stamping. ‘No!’ his cows cry. ‘Please, don’t risk your life for us!’ ‘Risk my life?’ the young bull exclaims. ‘I’m just making sure he knows I’m a bull!’”

I miss this lil' nigga like you wouldn't believe

>>8486368