/lit/ - Literature

I'm having a hard time figuring out whether this is the worst attempt at aping Gene Wolfe I've witnessed so far. I mean, Rothfuss is a dolt who does not understand that unreliable narrator is not a device with which to iron out all the narrative holes and poor characterization down the road, but Bakker - on the other hand - does not have an inkling of an thought as to how to actually build a world.

>Day of a Thousand Suns

Gee whiz Scott, I wonder what that might be, after you established with so much eloquence that characters such as "Jesu", Plutarch and Nietzche are still well known among those that actually read something in your post-apoc iteration of the Earth. Now if only you had some idea where do Necromancers, Shamans et al fit in with nuclear devices and why did the world go straight to grimdark ritter fantasy rather than actually harvesting some of the stuff? At least Wolfe's world only seemed that way to the reader and him being a Christfag covered some of the forays into the miraculous.

What's your excuse, Bakker?

Next up for me: Ubik.

Here's hoping it's not shit.