/lit/ - Literature

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Dungeon Defense LN is decent, practically on par with full-fledged Western novels. It's good because it plagiarized from various well thought-out novels and philosophy books. In a way, it's basically a fanfiction of multiple series.
>The novel has been discontinued due to the author getting caught plagiarizing massively.
>The author plagiarized a lot of his writing (i.e. he's literally taken the words of other authors word-by-word). This includes works by Friedrich Nietzsche, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire, and Hwang Ji-u.
>He's also taken ideas from 12 other authors, which includes Emmanuel Kant, Shakespeare, etc; 4 other authors he's taken ideas from but modified slightly (these include George R.R. Martin, Nietzche, etc.)
>For example, in chapter 25, the magician that appears in the story gives a lecture. The author directly admitted that the content of this lecture comes from an 1860 speech by Karl Ernst von Baer, which he got from the translated version of Nietzche's work, <Die vorplatonischen Philosophen>. But, the same chapter has a near word-for-word line from Neitzche's Zarathustra, but the author did not mention that. This is only one example of many.
>A lot of "good quality writing" and philosophical thoughts/writing is literal plagiarism of other people's writing.