/lit/ - Literature

R. Scott Bakker is the most important living writer. No one else writes such dark, disturbing, yet philosophically profound fiction. His work is so rich, so deep, that it can't possibly be summarized. We would be fools to try.

In that light, I found myself at a complete loss while trying to find the right way to review the novel The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. The story has only been out for one month, and for those less familiar with Bakker's work than I am, a new release is always difficult to review. Yet Bakker's newest novel is his most ambitious, and it has all the elements one expects from Bakker's best novels: dark, philosophical, rich, layered, and very disturbing.