/lit/ - Literature

>>19443836
Prose and plotting. Who alive and writing fantasy does both better? You’ve got Sanderson and Rothfuss, along with some w*man authors writing pussy shit. Bakker has the iron men of the tusk singing their hymns as the march into traceries of sorcerous destruction, foreboding and eerie worldbuilding of a millennia long war between creatures too inhuman to comprehend and men so far removed from the war started by their ancestors they don’t even remember or understand it anymore. A savour who leads them to salvation but is actual just as inhuman as the monsters they’re crusading against.

Sure it has edgelord philosophy (like a lot of ‘mature fantasy’; Malazan), but it’s well written and has a strong tone and aesthetic to it. Read, for example, the showdown at the Sareötic Library. Who the fuck else writes magic like that nowadays? Something with actual meat to it/weight behind it, something that doesn't just feel like a vibeo game ability or D&D spell. Bakker might not be one of the greats, but at least he tries and fails, which imo puts him above the schlock being squeezed out for zombified modern audiences.