/lit/ - Literature

>>22351620
>Also, chapter 9.23 was a bit of a disappointment considering it was one of the most notable chapters (due to title and warning), but still really nice. Seems like Vol 9 really is picking up after the slog that was parts of volume 8
V9 is way better than V8 so far, not bogged down with myriad of plotlines and focused. And soon it will be ending and we are finally getting new lands arc we deserve in V10, not this endless teasing.

>>20831642
The Mating Rituals 2 chapter spawned pretty unhinged behaviour among some readers, people went bonkers over some sexual stuff in several millions long novel. Some even claimed the story was family friendly before (idk if that's some strange delusion or american attitude, genocide and rape mountain okay, some consensual sex bad, lmao).

Interlude - Lifting Ants chapter had some bad implications about Bird - he wasn't a child and only pretended to be one, not that he was acting, but Bird is a rational being that knows what he's doing. Which means he was well aware he shouldn't have gone to Pallass. He almost started a continental war over a petty, selfish reasons, and after that he wasn't even properly punished for it, Numb even congratulated him. Klbkch was the only one that seemed to understand the severity of the events and other characters villained him for it.

In short, Bird turned out to be a dangerous sociopath who's constantly enabled by Erin, instead of locked up. No, he even freely uses a weapon. Pure insanity. I know it's just a story, but the way Bird was treated made me frustrated, an otherwise serious story turned into a cartoon. There's some further stuff that makes Bird looks even bad, but even this is crazy. Sorry for the rant, but you are far enough in the story for me to start ranting.

The Glory scene was not just great, but showed that Pirateaba had started introducing some actual schizo beliefs about the world. Great actions and events, both good and bad, being glorious. I love that stuff, every great fantasy writer starts doing some schizo stuff like this at some point and I took it as a sign of Pirateaba coming into the next stage of his growth as a writer.