/lit/ - Literature

>>10570059
Mostly drawing but a small amount of writing and coding.
Also animu/mango

>>10555064
Here you go (in order of my favourites)
1. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
2. Ubik
I think that 3S and Ubik should be read together. Prepare for a massive mindfuck.
3. A Maze of Death
Man the fucking ending. This one is slightly weak at the start, but the Building and the tenches on Delmak-O are very Strugatsky brothers if you get what I mean.
4. A Man in a High Castle -> more social scifi. But I enjoyed it very much.
5. Flow My Tears, the Policeman said
It was enjoyable, but I feel completely overrated and felt completely different in tone (celebs, sex, glamour) to the other PKDs.
6. VALIS -> a bit crazy, but also autobiographical. VALIS is a bit fucking weird, especially because some of the people seem to have inspired characters from his other books, like potmaker-chan. I liked PKD's philosophical interludes, but it's quite sf lite
7. DADOES and Martian Timeslip
Currently reading non Dick stuff but Minority Report (the book) was a total mindfuck.
1-4 had the biggest punchline ending. Same with Martian TS but I didn't like the characters as much. These five are the most worth investing in, in my opinion.

The rest are all being conserved.
---
Currently reading Revelation Space by Reynolds where author-kun doesn't really seem to understand human beans and almost everyone appears to be a cold and somewhat emotionless sociopath.

>>10437635
Cloud Atlas
>Story 1
Similar flavour to Conrad's Heart of Darkness with less horror and I liked both
>Story 2
This is like the cut up technique applied to a letter, but not as nice or as organic as Burroughs stuff (it's quite stilted).

I'll report back.

>>10396156
Well when I use my filters to autobump sffg to the top, I use the i flag on /sffg/ which is the case insensitive filter.
>>10396638
The #ebooks channel on IRCHighway is the single biggest source of easily pirated fiction ebooks in existence. Simply @search any author or book and paste a line from the .txt sent to you in order to download a book instantly.

>>10389860
It's 2000+17. This trilogy should have had Thrawn in it or an actually likeable character like a Char clone with more Imperialwank and less black on white morality.

>>10337246
God is a collection of several people's shitty fanfiction and some people are shitty at keeping him in character or rolling over other people's characterisation. When I read this years back I realised that most people have either never read the bible or purposefully ignore most of it due to the large amount of genocide it advocates.

>>10329113
>>10329128
The Invisible Man >>> The Time Machine >>> shit >>> The War of the Worlds
Griffin is a great character.

I'm half way through this book, PKD's Maze of Death and Leckie's Provenance. Insofar, this book has been a substandard exercise in worldbuilding with the exception of that part in the book where the man abuses his daemon, which was pretty messed up with minimal plot other than lore thrown in at regular intervals. Malcolm is fairly bland as a character and unremarkable.

Thus far, the quality of the writing definitely is not the gripping story I remember from my childhood, but I would also argue that the majority of the quality of the series was already lost during the Subtle Knife and the bizarrely convenient alternate universe hopping as they do battle with the Spectres plot that ensued.