/lit/ - Literature

>>23470741
OK, and? I don't deny that Earthsea has a story and things happen. You seem to think I'm shitting on Earthsea and that seems to make you rather angry... What I was saying is that it fits the mould of fairly generic genre fiction (and I do not mean that generic=bad), and that it's hardly a deep work of literature compared to serious literary fiction. It also doesn't have the extreme creative depth of Tolkien's work (which, before you become mistaken, I do not include in the aforementioned category of literary fiction), which is a singular, obsessive, and vastly influential body of work that few could realistically compare to. So I view it as good but not essential. I've thus far been called a Nazi and told to kill myself for these views, which is amusing. But, like the heckin brave "chud" I am (I'm not really, you just think I am), I'm gonna stand by them. Have you considered reading more books? Then you might see what I mean.
>>23470747
I guess, in the sense that it grew out of very Christian European cultures and is a response to Christianity, amongst other things. A lot of early secular humanist material is explicitly built from metaphors about the church. I'm not saying that it IS Christianity, but it has serious roots in it even as a response to it (again, amongst other things, it also has influences that are not Christian).