/lit/ - Literature

I finished Tigana. I didn't know it was a stand-alone, but it was a pleasant surprise. The world had room for a lot of things, the scale is not huge so it reminded of Rothfuss style, just a little less masturbatory that him.
The writing was actually pretty decent, except for some overly flowery descriptions. Even though small sequences filled pages and pages for no apparent reason, it eventually becomes tolerable, even enjoyable. Same with conflict.
The drama was a little too much though. Same with sex. Too emotional and pretentious, or framed poorly as tragedy. The tone is made lighter with a few good jokes, but it's a drama, not a pure adventure novel.
I had asked for something like BotNS, and the picaresque aspects and dozen allegories felt similar, in a vague sense.

Should I read more GGK?
I just don't like old fashioned flashbacks. Or drama for teenagers.
How's this one (>>12466345), anon?

>dumb purple prose
>dialogue reads almost like the name of the wind
>overly complicated religion (apparently shared by the whole world)
>pedo priests, gay aristocrats
>one MC is a prodigious singer with perfect memory
>20 years ago evil wizard casts a spell so the name of a place is erased from everyone's memory
>MC in tears when he learns the name of his birthplace (where he lived 1 or 2 years as a baby)
>also the title of the book
>their secret sign code is literally a fucking metal sign /../,
I'm going to keep reading it but I fucking hate you, Anon.