/lit/ - Literature

Any tips for going into this? I'm reading The Knight right now and I really like it.

>>17124760
I'm the same way when it comes to bullshit I don't want to read. I'm checking out something that was suggested to me and then realize it sucks dick and I haven't care to know what is happening. Usually the point is a first person narrative and nothing is actually happening.

>>16579090
*blocks ur path*

>>14243042
Thought it was this for a second.

Can someone convince me to read pic related ? I'm feeling depressed and would like to feel excited about reading a book again

/v/ here

should I read this? is it really the "dark souls" of books?

Does patrician fantasy exist?

First book in this behemoth. Really liking it so far, but it does get a bit slow at times. The subtle world building is my favorite part.

Is this book the best way to explain Christian doctrine to atheist redditors?

Baldanders did literally nothing wrong.

The guy that wrote this is one perverted old fuck. He's supposed to be a Christian, but he writes about women like an adherent of Crowley.

Is it actually worth reading or is it just another piece of genre fiction? Also generally what are sci-fi/fantasy books that are actually worth reading (apart from LOTR, The Hobbit and Philip K Dick)

so was severian a good peon or an evil (persons)? or did he give two shits either way?

Ooooh ooooh I got one!

Well, something like a 30 page novella happens over the span of 4 volumes, but it's pretty much negligible and lost in the noise.

This is now a Science Fiction and Japanese Literature thread. Anyone got any good recs by pic related or by Asimov? I have never enjoyed neither of their works.

I'm looking for a new book to read and came across The Book of the New Sun
Is it enjoyable or will I waste my time?

Alright boys get your tin foil hats out, it's time for theories about the series. I'll start

>Severian died when he was fighting with Vodalus
>Dr. Thalos gives him the same coin that Vodalus gives him
>the coin is fake
When you go back to the first book and read what he says about symbols he says that all symbols are lies and we merely accept the precepts of reality and continue forward.
>The coin is a metaphor for the lie that we accept and proceed with the story
From there we continue the story as is, it could be a line or it could not be, time is supposed to be viewed as a sea.
The key to the story and its meaning is that there is a sea of outcomes that the reader doesn't grasp, to be perfect and memory and an unreliable narrator, how is that possible? Severian is a vehicle to represent the possibilities of time and the infinite, all are equally remember-able, but what is true is a matter of faith.

>>7787054

If Borges wrote full-length novels he would have written something like BOTNS.

So, is the Book of the New Sun one long novel, or four individual novels in a series?

>>6420634
FYI recovery meetings isn't hookup sites.