/lit/ - Literature

>>20374117
Yeah, I think the starting Bakker books are his best in the way he introduces things and concepts and history and relations, the they are followed by his final books, which tie things together is at least a mildly satisfying way.
The middle is Bakker's weakest point because he tends to drag things a few thousand pages too much. It's only so many times I can read about an army of battered men fighting against a huge horde of sranc. Bakker's strongest point is his descriptive scenarios (featured in the beginning books) and the horrifying conclusions to scenarios (featured in the endings of his books).

I only wish he had better dialogue and would stop being so frustratingly cryptic.

>>19565155
I've lost it all

The nukes can't fall soon enough

Please, whoever posted those 2 sranc, NEVER post that shit in my general again. In this case, I DO NOT FUCK SRANC

>>17627058
I'll be honest, I'll cosplay as Nil’giccas / Incariol / Cleric

>>17617451
I unironically used to have this aesthetic
Damn I miss mid 2000s

>>17610818
From a strictly hylic point of view, the Consult is an obvious choice.
However the metaphysics of Earwa make it very hard to side with the Gods.

Drawfag here. Are there any accurate description of nonmen women? I'd like to try my hand.

I'm rereading through the whole god damned Second Apocalypse / Aspect Emperor. I'm about at the part where Inrau dies and I realized early Bakker was full of soul. The characters felt human, were having real dialogues, had charisma, showed real emotion.
Compare to that, by the end of the fucking Unholy Consult, NOBODY feels like human anymore. I want to believe Bakker did it on purpose to show how much Kellhus / the Consult got under people's skin and how brutal the world became in the meanwhile.
At the beginning of "The Darkness that Comes Before" you had a bunch of guys dealing with fairly inane stuff, some dudes laughing at a whore in a bar, and by the Aspect Emperor series you get literal "I FUCK SRANC" tier insanity running around.

In truth though, I'm fairly sure Bakker got severely depressed by the time he got to write the second series and especially the last book, and that affected the atmosphere of his writing.

>Siöl ... home.

>>17344004
>Siöl.... home

I can't help but feel sad for the nonmen. They can't even commit suicide, that shit got evolved out of their psyche.