/lit/ - Literature

Pits unique-ish but I didnt like the first book much at all so I stopped there and do not recommend

Better that most genre fiction but it's not that special. At least Gene can actually write though.

>>11508899
Should have posted this here >>11506416 . Would be nice if you removed this clutter of a thread once you post there.

>>11508962
Kindly remove yourself from a thread you're clearly not interested in contributing to

It's dream-like. Locations, side characters, events just roll by with no real explanation. While it's a unique experience I never felt the urge to read past the first book. You can only tease me for so long, I have to see some rules established at some point

>>11508899
Yes. If you don't like re-reading, it's not for you though. Also, if you're familiar with standard SFF, then you probably will find it strange. It's more akin to Eco, Proust, and Borges than it is to GURRM.

It's now officially part of the meme tetralogy so you have to read it if you want to be a /lit/izen.

>>11508990
Kindly remove yourself from existence. Containment threads exists for a reason.

>>11509023
Imagine being such a pussy that some thread about a book you don't like on a book board is enough to upset you. Really imagine it.

>>11508962
Holy shit, based

>>11509030
I enjoyed the book, just believe containment threads exist for a reason.

>>11509080
Well apparently enough people think otherwise

>>11509007
>I have to see some rules established at some point
why tho?

>>11509080
This whole board is filled with hardscrabble illiterates whose jaws lock the minute they (mis)recognize something as pertaining to Jews. The containment thread exists -why? So that people who didn't discover books until Youtube can recommend one another Culture of Critique unimpeded? Its fine if people want to talk about New Sun.

You're clearly a toiler. Keep your rules where they belong -your disgusting job.

>>11509017
i strongly disagree with the popular notion that this book needs to be re-read

>>11508962
Fuck off

>>11509023
Containment threads are not a thing. Show me where the rules are on this site for that or kys, ass.

>>11509080
yes, the >Finnegans Wake frogs, five different Nietzsche threads open at all times, ten daily reminders and all kinds of pointless shitposting threads are all vastly superior and less cancerous to the board than a thread actually purposed to discuss a book
you're fighting the good fight here

>>11509781
this.

Literally the only sci-fi/fantasy worth reading

>>11508899
Yeah, it's good. Wasted on genre fictionfags tho.

>>11510138
Tolstoy also just a fictionfag. Lol plebs. Heal your autism

I've read nearly half of the /lit/ top 100 (2016) and it's the best book I've read so far.

>>11508899

Yes, but it's better as a guided read. Use the podcast Alzabo Soup as a companion.

>>11509164
Because after a while I'm just drifting along, not invested into the story. When there aren't any established rules you feel that at any point the author could pull something out of his ass to force a particular outcome.

>>11510235
>Alzavo Soup

Fucking stop meming these morons. They were actually dumb enough to say Dr. Talos' play doesn't mirror the plot

OP just read the book on your own and then come back to the internet once your done to discuss what you just read and maybe read it a second time too.

Long Sun and Short Sun are also both very good and worth your time

reddit: the book

>>11511589
based

>>11510235
just get Lexicon Urthus to help with the strange vocabulary.
other than that, do your own thinking

>>11508899

Yes, with some caveats:

When you strip away the absolutely fantastic worldbuilding, double density prose, anachronyms, layers of allusion and obtuse, puzzle-like narration, what you are actually left with is a rather haphazard story of a man on the run who lurches from one random scenario to another, without much of a feeling of progression - you could cut the book up, paste Severian's encounters together in a different order, and not lose much sense of narrative thrust.

You also need to read the entire book to appreciate individual parts of the book to their fullest extent. Unfortunately, some people can't make it that far; it's a pretty big committment to wade through hundreds of pages of what seems like pointless shit in order to perceive the shape of the whole enough to make the detail worth being interested in.

>>11509007
Oh man are you gonna hate reading McCarthy