/lit/ - Literature

I just finished reading The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson and I am going to talk about it a little because another anon was a few threads back. Everything from this line
>And I knew that they made some great preparation in the Pyramid for our defence; for all the night did begin now to shake and to quiver with the mighty beat of the Earth-Current.
and onwards more than made up for the slow parts preceding it. My fucking face when, pic related.
The setting and descriptions and overall tone of the book was great. There were some ideas in here that are still unique even to this day, at least as far as I've read. I enjoyed the archaic prose, and I even enjoyed some of the narrator's teenager-tier lovesickness for his waifu. His fixation on her feet was pretty funny. A lot of people gave this book shit for being almost half filled with him thinking about and interacting with his lover and not really doing anything to advance the story but it really didn't bother me. I managed to stay hooked and invested all the way through.
Seriously those last 20 pages were nerve-wracking. I was really pissed off when his waifu apparently died at the foot of the Pyramid, and I kept waiting for her to get better, but she didn't. I really thought the narrator was gonna kill himself at her funeral, but then she did get better and I felt an actual sense of relief. I can't remember the last time I got so invested in the outcome of a book. A close to a 10/10 as I might ever find, will read again in a few years.