/lit/ - Literature

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Pet Rock
Peta's exposé on the reemerging pet rock industry.

>finish the Wizard Knight
>thoroughly disliked it
>prose was good though characters felt stiff and unlikable
>endless politicking with the Giants
>concludes rather abruptly with a jaunt into full-scale warfare where once again muh timezones lay waste to any sense of pace
>finally done, now I can read The Lightbringer book 5
>been looking forward to this shit since I finished book 4 like 2 years ago
>start reading
>it's boring garbage
>too much time spent describing irrelevant places, people and things
>too self aware, can't go a single chapter without Weeks patting himself on the back for being so clever
>realise every book was like this I just couldn't see it

What the fuck happened? I didn't enjoy the Wizard Knight and yet I long to read something with the same narrative austerity. I can't help but admire Wolfe because if he did not tell the most interesting story he was at least very economical with it. What do I read now? I can't continue with Weeks.