/lit/ - Literature

Greatest fantasy ever penned

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>>23188377
Ah this brings back memories
For me probably this series

I'm curious about these, have you read and would you recommend?

who do i read after bakker?

>>22952031
Read Darkness a few weeks ago and looking finishing the rest of the original trilogy this year. I'll maybe start getting into the Aspect Emporer books as well but those don't seem to get the same acclaim.

Why can't /lit/ just admit that it mogs LOTR into oblivion? You can't cling to old shit forever

>/lit/ recs me Bakker
>reads PoN
>it's just Berserk with extra steps, even down to having same scenes and concepts

Just finished the unholy consult today, what did I think of the series?

The Second Apocalypse series by R. Scott Bakker

>The Second Apocalypse is inspired by God and all the haters therefore hate all that is good and beautiful. They are devils, demons!
ftfy

Bakker
is
King

Start with kino instead
>Crying “Glory to the God!” Athjeäri and his thanes broke ranks, crouching forward on their mounts, slowly dipping their lances. More Houses abandoned the line and pounded toward the Kianene: Wanhail, Anfirig, Werijen Greatheart, and then old Gothyelk himself, bellowing, “Heaven wills it!” Like an avalanche, House after House followed, until almost all the mail-clad might of the MiddleNorth cantered out to greet their foe. “There!” footmen on the line would cry, glimpsing the Red Lion of Saubon or the Black Stag of Gothyelk and his sons. From a trot the massive warhorses were urged to a slow gallop. Nesting thrushes took flight, burst slapping into the sky. Everything became breath and iron, the rumble of brothers before, behind, and to the side. Then, like a cloud of locusts, arrows swept among them. There was a hellish racket punctuated by screaming horses and astonished shouts. Warhorses toppled and thrashed, yanking knights to the ground, breaking backs, crushing legs. Then the madness fell away. Once again it was the pure thunder of the charge. The strange camaraderie of men bent to a single, fatal purpose. Hummocks, scrub, and the bones of the Vulgar Holy War’s dead rushed beneath. The wind bled through chain links, tousled Thunyeri braids and Tydonni crests. Bright banners slapped against the sky. The heathen, wicked and foul, drew closer, ever closer. One last storm of arrows, these ones almost horizontal to the ground, punching against shield and armour. Some were struck from their saddles. Tongue tips were bitten off in the concussion of the fall. The unhorsed arched across the turf, screamed and swatted at the sky. Wounded mounts danced in frothing circles nearby. The rest thundered on, over grasses, through patches of blooming milkwort waving in the wind. They couched their lances, twenty thousand men draped in great mail hauberks over thick felt, with coifs across their faces and helms that swept down to their cheeks, riding chargers caparisoned in mail or iron plates. The fear dissolved into drunken speed, into the momentum, became so mingled with exhilaration as to be indistinguishable from it. They were addicted to the charge, the Men of the Tusk. Everything focused into the glittering tip of a lance. The target nearer, nearer … The rumble of hooves and drums drowned their kinsmen’s song. They crashed through a thin screen of sumac … Saw eyes whiten in sudden terror. Then impact. The jarring splinter of wood as lances speared through shield, through armour. Suddenly the ground became still and solid beneath them, and the air rang with wails and shouts. Hands drew sword and axe. Everywhere figures grappled and hacked. Horses reared. Blades pitched blood into the sky. And the Kianene fell, undone by their ferocity, crumpling beneath northern hands, dying beneath pale faces and merciless blue eyes. The heathen recoiled from the slaughter—and fled

>>21842699
the KING himself

other books with a large focus on interracial cuckolding? i loved this one, and him taking proyas afterwards was just icing on the cake

> Prince of Nothing, Scott Bakker
Does to Tolkien and Fantasy what Blood Meridian does to the Western, and is probably the most solid fantasy series around right now. Imagine the filthy offspring of Tolkien and Frank Herbert coursing through a medieval Mediterranean world with heavy doses of Aristotelian philosophy. Perhaps one of the few fantasies whose settings in a pre-industrial world is actually thematically relevant to its characters. Also boasts some of the best traditional historical worldbuilding in contemporary fantasy.

Now answer me this, adventurer of the /sffg/ kingdom.

Whats worse, to be a young zoomer with a lot of life ahead, posting on a /lit/ thread making the thread go faster, or a boomer that will die soon, alone and pathetic, wasting his precious time making sure the /lit/ thread wont go faster? The young fool that posts or the old fool that cares about meaningless things and controls the time?

>>20973039
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>>20914287
Covers should be universal in my honest opinion. For the western market, at least.

>>20783585
prince of nothing trilogy by r scott bakker

What am I in for?

Read Bakker.