/lit/ - Literature

I enjoyed Moorcock and Robert E Howard a lot.
When other authors write fantasy, it's like they're genuinely going out of their way to avoid making something good or fun. In other fantasy, when the hero is carrying out a good plan to crush his enemies, its always spoiled, there always has to be some twist or upset that ruins his plan, force him to go through some hard ship, and then defeat the enemy through some roundabout way. It becomes incredibly monotonous and predictable. Instead if conan is smacking some monster's shit in, you don't know whether he's going to lop its head off and that's that, or if the monster is suddenly going to slay his friend and escape or a sorcerer is going to sneak up behind him and clock him with a magical blackjack.
It's ridiculous that I need to read pulp to get something that's not predictable and repetitive.

Beyond the Black River was my favorite story, and I think I enjoyed the stories about Aquilonia better than the eastern one and I wish there were more stories about when Conan was a king since Robert Howard's writing of monarchy is a lot of fun.