/lit/ - Literature

>>19870819
>I fell for the Bakker meme and I’m 20% into TDTCB and I’m considering dropping it.
Not my problem.
>Like how the fuck am I supposed to read this shit?
Your eyes.
> It drops a reference to yet another person or religion or dead fuck or alive fuck or location about 88 times a chapter.
What did you except? Your average Shonen Jump?
>Do I just power through and ignore the shit?
Again, not my problem.
>I guess I’m just having trouble making any connection to this world, because it’s not giving me a chance to, and then there’s like 420 sentences of sprawling philosophy or whatever the fuck between every interaction.
There is literally little to no philosophy in the book. What the fuck are you on about?
>I thought I’d absolutely love it during the beginning, when Kallus is chased by Sranc and he meets the No-God guy or whatever he was. But then it’s just like wordswordswords
Yes, books are made of words.
>Is it clearly not for me or is it just an exceptionally slow and wandering start?
The beginning is fine, it's your attention span that's not.
>Consulate
The absolute state of low IQs attempting to read Bakker.