/lit/ - Literature

>>16511593
>based in (as in fiction set in mythological times)
Circe; I won't say its the best but its popular, the gal that wrote it knew her stuff, and the author is a qt
>re-telling of Greek mythology
Hamilton's Mythology, there's an audiobook and the pdf is super easy to find; the opening chapters are pretty boring but the stuff covering the adventurers and Norse is pretty great

Crimson curtains in
a dark bedroom; doppelgan-
-ger of unconscious.

Once in a prison,
now inexplicably walk-
-ing the hometown streets.

Nothing was the same;
e himself became the strang-
-er in a strange land.

>>16448848
what sort of meter/form are you using here, if any?

>>15911238
how do I classify Folktale Lit such as The Aeneid and Le Morte D'Arthur?

Would you rather live the life (and afterlife if applicable) of Faust or of Stoner? You must choose one. There is a correct answer.

>>10045472
I largely echo >>10046069 about ERB and John Carter. They must have been great for the time, but the problem is John Carter is such a Mary Sue figure, a superhuman, and this removes any sense of peril or conflict, so the story is just a running tally of how great John Carter is and look at all the cool stuff he can do on Mars. Burroughs' dialogue is also completely perfunctory and cliched and the plotting is to a formula. To its credit, the descriptive and exotic detail of the Martian landscape, animals, and its different alien races is still very imaginative, and it's written in a breakneck pace.

The likes of C.L. Moore and Leigh Brackett and Robert Howard would grow up reading Burroughs and write Martian and fantasy stories in the 30s/40s that hold up much better.

Saying all this, Burroughs still interests me enough to want to read his hollow earth series eventually - his imagination, like Hodgson's, goes a long way towards his redemption, only Burroughs can be read without a furrowed brow.