/lit/ - Literature

>>10425852

This piece of fucking trash. I read the whole thing because I refused to believe the entire book could be such an irredeemably poor excuse for a novel. The writing is alright, but considering the characters that are cardboard cutouts, the subplots that don't really have anything to do with one another except a vague "uhhhh the forest man they're all connected through the forest", that one entire subplot with the inventor of the camera and the animalistic/lustful native African girl whose sole purpose as far as I can tell is to act as fetish fuel (not even a feminist, but jesus christ Brian), and the weird, gratuitous amounts of violence and sex throughout the thing, there isn't really anything enjoyable here at all unless you enjoy reading an author hamfistedly projecting his fetishes everywhere. Maybe the settings? That's about it.

God damn this book and its author and all the people who hyped it up

The Vorrh does a good job of addressing cultural appropriation and race relations without losing the story, I think.

Can anyone recommend me some unusual or weird fantasy/horror?
The obvious examples from horror are Lovecraft and his buddies like Lord Dunsany. I don't enjoy China Mieville because his prose and plot delivery are really bad, but I hope that shows you the sort of thing I'm going for.
The thing that really interests me though is weird fantasy. I've just read "The Vorrh" and "The Erstwhile" by Brian Catling, and they are fantastic books. The man is a sculptor, painter and poet, so he knows what to say and how to say it. I followed this up with "The Library at Mount Char", which has some nice ideas, but mediocre prose (not ruinous as China, though). Jeff VanderMeer seems to be an alright choice, but I'm really interested in getting something that reminds me of The Vorrh.