/lit/ - Literature

>have always disliked fantasy, the entire genre
>someone's ranting about "The Lies Of Locke Lamora"
>read Goodreads review, everyone loves it
>download, start to read the first page

‘Have I got a deal for you!’ the Thiefmaker began, perhaps inauspiciously.
‘Another deal like Calo and Galdo, maybe?’ said the Eyeless Priest. ‘I’ve still got my hands full training those giggling idiots out of every bad habit they picked up from you and replacing them with the bad habits I need.’

>into the trash it goes

What is it with the overly verbose, tryhard "cleverness" in fantasy?

Most of lit's threads are either about books you're supposed to like and read because they're sophisticated, or because you need to read them to be "well read", or about books that are popular but seen in the eyes of /lit/ as terrible or somehow unworthy because they are not sophisticated, and you don't need to read them to be well read.

This thread is neither of those.

This thread if for books you LIKED. Books you ENJOYED. Not because of some preconceptions on how objectively good or bad it was, but because you found it to be FUN to read it. Tell us about the books you sat down with and couldn't stop reading, and tell us why.

I'll start with this, The Lies of Locke Lamora. I've got a soft spot for heist books, and this really hit all the marks for me; I loved the way the Camorri were, and the way religion and medicine were handled in a way that it actually felt like the intended time period, and not the 21st century imposed onto another setting. The cutthroat wit and general style of the main characters had me laughing out loud several times as well.