/lit/ - Literature

>>17342280
Alright, I finished the 4th book. Citadel. Which was clearly meant to be the finale. Despite the later released Urth.
I'm just going to stop here. I stopped caring about what was happening partway though the third book. But I didn't have that conscious thought until partway though the fourth. When I finally said to myself "I don't care".

I just didn't care. I can't really point to anything "wrong" with the book. Like, it's written well enough written. And the concepts are ok. I just didn't feel any real concern over the events. Things just happened. Like I said in previous posts, the character constantly gets sidetracked. Happening into one situation or another without any higher purpose. It's almost like a series of vignettes that have been strung together. Until the end, when he tries to call back everything he set up. Which at that point, I was so lost, I didn't really care who's motivations served who's goals. And it sounded like everyone was being manipulated by higher powers to serve a singular purpose anyway. So in the end, did anyone's schemes really matter?
Though the guy who could only speak in accepted scripture was hilarious. That was a really cool and funny idea. The one exciting element in all of book 4.

I feel like Book of the New Sun is more of an aesthetic experience. It's like the movie Heavy Metal. You know that movie, right? You have all these animators come together to make an experience that is more about the aesthetic than the narrative. You enjoy it for the animation, and the setting and tone and babes, and swords, and guns, and skulls, and hardcore violence. And that's all well and good. But you can't expect people to pay attention to all that for a 4 book series. Which amounts to about 38 hours of audio.