/lit/ - Literature

>can't imagine anyone ever caring about me, enjoying my company and loving me

Books for this feel? Asking for a friend.

>>11370555
>characters who die in the first 4 books
The series is 10 books long. That's nearly half the story right there. Besides, these are the main characters of these books they're in, just like Ned Stark is arguably the main character of Game of Thrones despite dying at the end.

>The problem is in the first few books you're with all these old campaigners in their twilight years who do nothing but reminisce
Fuck's sake, did you just ignore the part about Tattersail? Whiskeyjack knew her for all of five minutes in book one and saw her do nothing of importance save watch over a guy while he slept, now in book three he's stroking his cock about how great she was.

>but muh Bridgeburners in their twilight years
Erikson does this with nearly every character, not just the Bridgeburners. He's so shit at characterizing them by their actions that he needs to have another character pop on screen and tell us how evil/crazy/cool they are. And you know what? Fuck you about the Bridgeburners because people who have never even met nor heard of Whiskeyjack will start blubbering about how serious and solemn he is and how there's some deep strategic bullshit going on under his grizzled bearded face.

All this character bullshit is only part of a greater issue because Erikson even does this with basic plot points and revelatory information. It seems like every character needs to explain the proper interpretation of some detail out loud to the audience. Maybe I'm being too harsh on Erikson though. Maybe it's because he's writing these books for braindead Redditors that he feels the need to do away with subtlety and just outright explain everything.

Erikson is an anthropologist first, a dungeon master second, and (regardless of what comes between) a writer dead fucking last. The only thing keeping me going is the hope of more undead dinosaurs fucking shit up, but Erikson seems to care more about showing off his collection of overpowered but undercharacterized Mary Sues he pulled straight from his tabletop campaigns.

Is the Earthsea series any good?

>>8935096
There is a library near here. And a nice coffee shop.

When I'm gone from home for more than thirty minutes, though, my father starts calling and asking if I'm okay and when I'm gonna make it back because he doesn't want to wait too long to eat dinner, etc. It is that bad.

I'm intending to set my own "writing time" in the evenings where I put on some headphones and try to ignore the "hey anon, hey anon" hollering that happens when I don't show my face for over fifteen minutes.

Do I have to read?

>>6845684

>that webm

>You will never be that skilled at something