/lit/ - Literature

>>13398271
It's the book that took me the longest time to read out of all the books I've EVER read. I think I dropped it and started it back up again like 4 times. In general, I found it unbearable. Gene's characters are boring as fuck, and his prose isn't nearly fun enough to merit the entry for me. And I feel like it's one of those things where you get memed into going the full way
>read the first chapter and say you don't like it
>>bruh, you gotta read at least a quarter
>read a quarter and say you don't like it
>>bruh, just read at least until the midway point and get past the intro
>read over halfway
>>BRUH, YOU'RE SO CLOSE, JUST FINISH THE FIRST BOOK
>finish the first book and don't like it
>>well, bro, you gotta at least read the second, the first is just an introduction
And so on and so on. I am absolutely certain it will end in me reading them all, disliking them, and then the whole conversation ending with
>LOL YOU'RE JUST TOO STUPID TO GET IT LMAO
The only series I've ever read that I only started to like near the end was the original Prince of Nothing trilogy, as everything fell into place in the Thousandfold Thought. That's about it. An Bakker's prose is pretty magnificent outside of the absurd Herodotus tier monster scenes and the cringy fetish cuck shit and monster rape.