/lit/ - Literature

I'm currently reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
It's a pretty decent Canterbury Tales in Space type of book, but honestly the best tale was the first one. The rest have kind of been snoozers and the frame narrative hasn't really been that interesting.

Previously finished The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. I thought the magic system in that book was interesting and there was some cool worldbuilding, but my god it was just a brutal book. Not quite as difficult to read as The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, but just... grim as fuck and really graphic. Child murder, kidnapping, rape, body horror, sex slavery, the list goes on. It just wasn't a fun book.