/lit/ - Literature

Well, this was easily the corniest fantasy book I've ever read. Some parts were so cringe I literally had to close the book and go do something else for a few minutes.

I have read Name of the Wind a long time ago when I was little. I recall that ultimately I found the story to be rather boring and unengaging. Can't recall the specifics, but I think I found the whole intro plot about the heroes great exploits to be very cliche in fantasy tropes. Meanwhile his youth story about the magic university felt uninteresting and the very end of the book with the quote "a man sat in the tavern, a man waiting for death" or something like that gave off the vibe that the book it self didn't found it self to be interesting, but melancholically boring. I didn't even think that it will have a sequel, but now I find that it does, and apparently the last book of the trilogy should be released at some point.

So the question - is the book series actually worth reading, especially now with a more mature lense, or was I correct in my first reading that I found it boring?

Is there another series that is so wildly inconsistent? That swings from really good to terrible every other chapter? I don't want to use the word cringekino, but it's enjoyably bad and the whole meta surrounding it only makes it an even more beautiful shitshow.

These books rule the school. My girlfriends pregnent we're going to name the baby Kvothe.

I just read both of these and they weren't all that bad, most of the hate and meme opinions were overblown and unwarranted. The writing started out pure cringetism but it sounds really nice in your head and the prose carries it. My favorite part was how heavily he leans on Borges and makes a world out of it without butchering the whole thing. Hated most of the characters but I hate people so take that as you will.
simping for a literal whore is total bullshit but kvothe is a fucking asshole and deserves it. The end where she doesn't like how it feels and turns into a hole was worth all the simp.

Any other easy reading comfylit?

Is there another series that is so wildly inconsistent? That swings from really good to terrible every other chapter? I don't want to use the word cringekino, but it's enjoyably bad and the whole meta surrounding it only makes it an even more beautiful shitshow.

the last fantasy books i read were 'malazan book of the fallen', years ago.
they might have raised the bar too high, because i had heard good things about kingkiller chronicles.. isntead, i get a shitty isekai by an author informing us he's a neckbeard. literal cuck monologue at the end. aside from the cringe, the book was otherwise ok.
anyway, how's book 2? do i cut my losses?
do i quit fantasy forever?
i might just finish 3 body problem.