/lit/ - Literature

>>23389096
Dickinson, Plath, Sontag, Woolf, Weil, Sappho probably, Austin, Ursula K Leguin...

>>23358912
While the quality of recording isn't great, the performance of the voice actor in the audiobook is pretty good. In times of intense action/rush of thought he picks up the pace and it feels more intense listening to it. World building and expository choices are in an older style, but Leguin has enough mastery of prose to call it classic over outdated/cliched.

>>23318021
Flannery O'Connor
Virgina Woolf
Anna Kavan
Usula LeGuin
Grazia Deledda

>>23293147
>LeGuin
what does the Omelas story have to do with Gnosticism? The world is le good but has suffering at its root and you should exit the world? The connection to Gnosticism seems tenuous there. Don't put shit on there just to fill out the chart

>>23293496
>world-affirming gnosticism is a contradiction
According to whom? I guess an intelligent gnostic is probably a contradiction too, amirite??? :p

I'd drop the leguin. She's pleb. Drop castaneda too. He's a scammer. Personally I found bloom's voyage quite weak. Gnostic world is good modern academia. But no other modern academia? Suppose the rest is alright tho. No clue on who Rosario is. Couple other no names on there. Commentary on pistis sophia but no pistis sophia itself? Weird choices wrt Laruelle too. Sloterdijk is based tho

>>23280539
Dame Frances Yates
Jane Ellen Harrison
Dione Fortune
LeGuin before she hit menopause and went all hysterically shrill about how evil men are...

- "voyage to arcturus"
- Dunsany's Pegana work
- nothing by that overrated bitch leguin

>>23266298

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Wolfe is peak prose and literally the only ppl who disagree are plebs who have not studied latin and greek and get filtered by archaic words.

Also:
>dat copypasta
Lmao. Imagine pretending Moorcock is anything special.

>dunsany
Machen is better

>leguin
Ugly femoid seething with ressentiment


>eddison, peake, delaney
Influential but hardly the best. Tolkien is more influential. And better. But that's also a bad thing since he is therefore ripped off furthermost

>herbert
Lmao. Fat fuck fetishist writing goyslop. New movies was kino tho

>>23220678
Fair. Both are faggots though, Clive literally.

>>23220653
It's both, but Gaiman was picked from nepotism. LeGuin would have been a better choice. Abercrombie is a natural choice for a movie deal, since his story resembles JRRT and GRRM more, but Gaiman got the adaptation deals. They're both big names and invested in genre fiction, but were passed over by the tribe.

>>23205799
OP here. Keely is a midwit faggot and a jawlet who doesn't look like his avatar.

>never found the book to be difficult or complex
This is bullshit. BotNS's style is ornate and difficult. Keely most certainly doesn't know all the words used.

>the unusual parts were evasive and vague
Most readers make this mistake, but Keely is a known critic, and to make peremptory judgments despite knowing Wolfe was praised by Asimov and LeGuin is very, very stupid.

>>23168168
Viriconium and The Centauri Device are by a Brit.
>>23168171
>no Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven is by LeGuin.
>no Kindred
Reddit BS.

>>23159698
>Last
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin, 4/6 stars.
A fun little story not generally what I enjoy but the writing was more than enough to keep me interested. Since they're so short I have no problem continuing to see if I'll like the rest.
>Current
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance and The Odyssey, Lattimore translation. Dying Earth is wild, but very similar to Earthsea in style and so far The Odyssey is much less compelling than The Iliad.
>Next
Probably The Tombs of Atuan or The Eyes of the Overworld.

>>23152801
Iris Murdoch
Ursula LeGuin
Marilynne Robinson
Olga Tokarczuk
Emily Bronte
Doris Lessing
Edith Warton

but OP is clearly chatting shit, and the great books by great female novelists are also about imbalance of power.

>>23151935
>Literally no one knew who ursula k leguin was until anon's favorite youtuber made a video about one of her books.
I frequently made posts and threads about her. You faggots couldn't shut up about how she's the proto-woke.

>>23151924
Literally no one knew who ursula k leguin was until anon's favorite youtuber made a video about one of her books.

>>23146740
just read The Dispossessed by Ursula Leguin, really liked it. Next up, Hard to Be a God by Strugatsky Bros.

>According to Dickinson's hypothesis, the chief obstacle to admitting the past existence of dragons is the difficulty of powered flight by such a large organism. To resolve this, he introduces a dirigible-like structure in which hydrochloric acid would dissolve large amounts of rapidly growing bone, releasing massive amounts of hydrogen that, once aloft, would support the body above the ground. The dragon's wings are traced to "modifications of the ribcage" (an anatomical evolutionary path shared by the genus Draco), and the expulsion of fire from the throat, as a means of removal of excess gas. The absence of fossil evidence is traced again to the internal acids, which (in Dickinson's view) would dissolve the bones soon after death.
>Dickinson states he got the idea for his "pseudo-scientific monograph" after looking at one of Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea books:
>This one had a bulky body and rather stubby wings, which obviously would never get it airborne, let alone with the two people it was carrying on its back, and all its own weight of muscle and bone. Obviously any lift had to come from the body itself. Its very shape suggested some kind of gas-bag. I thought about it for the rest of the journey, and on and off for a couple of days after, and at the end of that time had managed to slot everything I knew about dragons – why they laired in caves, around which nothing would grow and where hoards of gold could be found, why they had a preferred diet of princesses, how and why they breathed fire, why they had only one vulnerable spot and their blood melted the blade of the sword that killed them, and so on – into a coherent theory that explained why these things were necessary accompaniments to the evolution of lighter-than-air flight.

>>22950805
>Beloved, Pride and Prejudice, Lispector, LeGuin
It's shit
>>22950814
Fuck you tranny

I don't have a favorite book, but if I was forced to choose one, I would agree that it's Androids. PKD is my favorite writer of all time.
Check out the rest of PKD's catalog. I recommend his short story collections, as well as the novels The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch and Ubik.
Other favorite "weird fiction" authors include H.P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, and Kurt Vonnegut.
"The Lathe Of Heaven" by Ursula K. LeGuin was the most PKD book I've ever read that wasn't actually written by PKD.
Finally, "The Laundry Files" by Charles Stross is my new favorite series. The premise is that technology can now perform the sort of interdimensional transport that used to be the purview of deranged cultists making blood sacrifices under full moons, so now there are government agencies tasked with keeping reality from coming apart.
My effortpost is done. Hope you found it useful.

Luckily Storygraph did all the work for me. It was going to be a nightmare putting my 2023 reads into a chart on my own.

Top reads:
>The Wounded Land by Stephen R. Donaldson
>The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Return to the Whorl, and The Knight by Gene Wolfe
>The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
>Shatterpoint by Matthew Stover
>'Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis
>The Green Mile by Stephen King

Weirdly I dnf'd White Gold Wielder even though book 1 was the best book I read last year. Couldn't pinpoint exactly why.

>>22888914
they just hate earthsea because the mc has olive skin, if he was white bakkerfag would be posting "first for LeGuin"

>>22844035
>Charlotte bronte
>Jean Rhys
>Ursula LeGuin

Wrong again roastie

>>22773959
Earth Sea by LeGuin. Chicks dig it.