/lit/ - Literature

>>9815111

no. Dan Simmons never has characters doing shit that has no rational basis.

"dum de dum, trying to return the Claw to the Pelerines, i think i'll hang out in this hut in this garden in this other dimension for a few months."

Dan Simmons writes like a guy who has been in a fight. Gene Wolfe writes like a guy who saw a fight in a film once.

>>7381522
finish reading all four and then complain about being confused. you sound like a kid who refuses to eat his vegetables. and we all know what happens to kids who refuse to eat their vegetables.

the Shrike comes and hangs them on the Tree of Pain.

the one where the Shrike impales everyone on a tree made of spikes.

Here's what I've read so far, are my tastes patrician?

Frank Herbert:

Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse: Dune

Douglass Adams:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless

PKD:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
A Scanner Darkly


Asimov:

I, Robot
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation

Neal Stephenson:

The Diamond Age
Snow Crash

Dan Simmons:

Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion


Been loving Hyperion so far.

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