/lit/ - Literature

Isn't this book just The Time Machine but with worse storytelling?

>>23116197
There's a long list of literature I'd sooner see get the anime treatment before that.

I am conflicted on these books. Part of them really appeal to me and I want to keep reading. But then another part keeps me from really getting into it when I start actually reading them.

Tolkien just rewrote fucking Beowulf except made it more boring and dragged out with autism.
Pic related predates Tolkien by decades and is better, more imaginative, more exciting and more creative than Tolkien's autistic poetry anthology with a threadbare plot.
Conan by RE Howard is better too.

Based

How has the Barsoom series aged?

>>19532114
very nice this one

>Introduces main character
>Casually divulges that he's an immortal at the very start of the story
>Never explains why or even brings the topic up again after this

God, I fucking love oldschool pulp.

Is this worth a read?
I've never read 'pulp' before so I don't really know what I'm in for.

I'm depressed. Any fun escapism books? This and Glory Road are my favorites.

I'm depressed. Any fun escapism books? This and Glory Road are my favorites.

I want to read the literature equivalent of a Marvel movie, flash with no substance.

Any recommendations?

Should I read the first three Barsoom novels?

>>11088370
You want "planetary romance". Check out the Barsoom series.

what's some essential sοy literature?
pic unrelated

Has anyone read the whole Barsoom series? Is it worth continuing past the first book.

Also, Victoria Era and turn of the century sci fi general.

>>9620401

This is campy as fuck but it's basically Western Dude In Space. It might be more interesting if your protagonist wasn't so strait-laced but was more Little Caesar or Walter White or whatever. I don't know tho, I'm not a writer.

>>9620408
i'd read it

>manly thread
>no Burroughs
/fitlit/izens?!?!?!?!?!

John Carter was better than Tarzan

>>7995521
How about a chart for Sword and Planet stories?

>You will never be a pulp lit protagonist, like John Carter or Conan

I am reading A princess of Mars. So far it is all in first person which annoys me. Does it stay in first person or do any of the books go to third person?