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>>23605114
Yes.

>>23605214
I read Use of Weapons too, was underwhelming given the hype.
>muh bone chair and Shyamalan twist

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Why is Serwe burning in hell?

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>So did the Great Ordeal of Anasûrimbor Kellhus perish in salt and butchery.

Holy fuck, I didn't think he would do it. This is almost as good as the ending to the first trilogy.

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Who is the person on the left?

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>>21432134
The Darkness that Comes Before. Best fantasy I've read. Starts slow and is Berserk tier grimdark though, so it's not for everyone.

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>>20930345
/lit/'s love for Bakker makes sense to me once I realized how contrarian /lit/ is. Bakker makes leftists seethe with his sexism, total lack of "le strong woman in an ancient society BTFOing gender roles and physical limitations," and somewhat racist overtones with blonde haired blue eyes Hyperboreans being ubermensch who built the greatest societies and eclipsed all future eras. Also his biological determinism with the Dunyain breeding for intellect and reflex. Women being the soil for seed too, etc.

But he enrages the right with his left leaning blog commentary, particularly calling the Orange Man a retard. Also his eliminitivist turn in the early 2010s is very anti-traditonalist, and his Beserk tier violent and rape filled horror world gets spliced on to Tolkien and inverts it. His elves are even similar, but now demented sadists. Also the inclusion of gays.

But of course /lit/ is a negative feedback system where anything that gets liked for being contrarian will then become a target for second stage contraiarians.

But it's still memeable either way.

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>>20881728
>be most intelligent man to ever exist, able to see all possible futures and select the best path forward
>every path is filled with rape and murder

Ya can't get raped by the rape aliens if you go to their rape fortress and rape them first...

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>>20851779
Bakker had a coherent philosophy. You have a thing, and then its opposite, like Heraclitus. It's the dialectical.

Now there is this Absolute, but to attain that you need to progress through the dialectical. How do you do that? Hegel told us, sublation.

But this is a novel, and so how does our hero protagonist and ultimate good guy, you know who, do it? By raping. This is why he has to rape and murder all the bad guys, but why he also has to rape, and then often murder the decent characters too, and why the books end suggesting he is probably going off to go rape, and maybe kill the gods too.

Just the way it goes. Freedom ain't free.

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>>20693101
Large parts of the slog and the ghost dragon could go too. Just have it involve different characters and make it a side story?

Obviously you still need that arc, but it could be made shorter in some areas. Definitely not the Survivor parts though, those are some of the best parts in the whole series

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