/lit/ - Literature

>>9920962
I prefer Demon's Souls and Bloodborne but I like Dark Souls. Dark Souls 2 was good and better than 3 but no-one admits it
From Dark Souls, I would recommend Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun like others in the thread and fiction like Lovecraft and Howard. The series is inspired by that vague half-remembered fantasy of childhood you might find in those authors, maybe you would enjoy some mythology as well in which case you should start with Bullfinch's.
My personal favourite writers are Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville and Cormac McCarthy of which you should definitely read Heart of Darkness, Moby Dick and Blood Meridian

reading the tread it seems there's a lot of people with the exact same idea as me

to make full use of it you should know:
>newton, special relativity, wave and particle properties of light
>greco-roman mythologies (IMPORTANT)
>the Bible
>greco-roman history along with terminology, latin roots
I don't even know enough to comment on the philosophical aspects.
You may think this is a bit much for sci-fi but it's just that dense in knowledge and allusion, you may know half of this and not even pick up on it if you aren't paying attention. It's a unique experience, honestly. I have not seen another writer incorporate this width of knowledge into genre fiction.

Wolfe is a very clever guy, irrepressible scientific and mythological knowledge blended wonderfully with his philosophy and far-future Severian who understands but contextually falls just short of Wolfe's little easter eggs. It's incredibly refreshing to read someone so unshackled by ordinary pitfalls, you get the impression he doesn't read anything but mythology, physics, history and philosophy and developes a unique masterpiece in fiction because of it.

Severian, read your book

Sword of the Lictor > Claw of the Concillator > Citadel of the Autarch > Shadow of the Torturer

What the fuck is Severian's problem?

Is Severian the only transgender character in Wolfe ouvre?

>>8524651

Book of the Meme Sun

>>5318892
I recognize that artist