/lit/ - Literature

Supposedly these are the covers to the Japanese editions of the series.

I feel like great literature is great literature regardless of whether it's "genre" or "literary." Hell, Blood Meridian is technically a genre book; it's a Western. The question is, does the book have things to say to readers in a universal sense? Does the book have a meaning that goes beyond a niche audience? I'd argue BOTNS does. It's notably philosophical in a lot of points. Theological, too.

Can we discuss this masterpiece of a novel? Thoughts? Personal theories? Favorite/least favorite characters?

looking for Wolfe recommendations. I have most of the solar cycle, I'm asking for the last 2 in the series that I haven't got yet. Also thinking of asking for Latro in the Mist and Pirate Freedom. I've heard later Wolfe has more mixed reviews, thoughts? What's the period considered the cutoff? Home Fires sounds like an interesting premise, but idk if I should go for earlier works instead

I have a pdf of Fifth head of Cerberus, I do want a physical copy but I can wait too

>>18980549

There are more than one Severian.
Thecla sometimes takes the helm while narrating.

>>14709541
This

Good Content Edition

>What are the last three SFF books you read, and what did you think of them?
>What are you thinking about reading next?

FANTASY
Selected:
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General:
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Flowchart:
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SCIENCE FICTION
Selected:
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General:
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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SF&F author listing with ratings and summaries:
>http://greatsfandf.com/authors-full-list.php

>>10820637
no one ever accused him of doing anything wrong

he even clearly regrets the few morally grey things he did do

>>10571304
he is pretty reliable but hes also technically unreliable in that hes not a mouth of god narrator and there are mistakes/changes he makes in the telling of the story

later in the story he ponders about why morwenna (a women he executed) poisoned her husband and son even though he knows and talked about earlier in the story how she was really innocent and framed by another women who proudly admitted to doing it

>>10477181
The Book of the New Sun

>>8197981
Get fucked. Marc Arimini shits bigger than this nerd. Arimini's analysis is genuinely groundbreaking stuff on a subject you can't really find much worthwhile on anywhere else.

Cliffy Lee just takes entry-level /lit/ stuff and gives you nothing of substance, just 'yeah i read this book it's pretty cool. like, favourite, subscribe.'

>>7857766
Better than expected.