/lit/ - Literature

>>23257464
i dont give a shit about materialism but why does gene wolfe look like that

Apologize

>>22827633
*vores you*

>>22122085
>blocks your path

>>22067607
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>>22067846
Kek, this whole time I thought you were talking about my man Gene.

Other than unreliable narrators, what are some other literary crutches unskilled authors misuse?

Is it accurate to call him the Tolkien of sci-fi?

>>21281674
Like the other anon said, I’d start with Conan. Del Rey has the best versions of his stories if you want physical.
>>21282866
>boss fights
Those fights were probably what made this one my favorite. There was a great literary quality to them that made them so exciting.
>>21281740
My personal favorite of the series. I think it was the part where he reveals who the Conciliator was to Little Severian that I truly fell in love with it.
>>21283502
Book of the New Sun, best sff prose I’ve read outside of maybe Tolkien.

Who's the European Gene Wolfe?

Why is Gene Wolfe so popular on /lit/ but nowhere else?

>>20788716
I don’t believe he read any Wolfe.

>>20731861
I think there’s a lot of other stuff out there that isn’t like that anon. I’d recommend Book of the New Sun if you want something that feels wholly original.

I want some dense speculative fiction like Book of the New Sun to sink my teeth into. Basically, any sort of fantastic prose, with deep world building. Recs?

>>20280799
Read Book of the New Sun

>>19962812
Fifth Head of Cerberus

>Publisher asks for “Jacket Shot” for Shadow of the Torturer.
>Buys a sports jacket at Goodwill, brings it to a gun range, and shoots it full of holes.
>Take a picture of that and sends it to the publisher.

I don't get him

What would need to happen for Gene Wolfe to become widely popular?

I finally 'get' BoTNS and it's so good, I love this man for almost filtering me.

Mr eggman passing by.

>>15378631

What is it about King’s writing that appeals to so many people? Clearly, King’s readers — many of whom seem to get hooked on him when they are adolescents — don’t care that the sentences he writes or the scenes he constructs are dull. There must be something in the narrative arc, or in the nature of King’s characters, that these readers can’t resist. My sense is that King appeals to the aggrieved adolescent, or the aggrieved nerdy adolescent, or the aggrieved nerdy adult, who believes that people can be divided into bad and good (the latter would, of course, include the aggrieved adolescent or adult), a reader who would rather not consider the proposition that we are all, each of us, nice good people awash in problems and entirely capable of evil. King coddles his readers, all nice, good, ordinary, likeable people (just like the heroes of his books), though this doesn’t completely explain why these readers are so tolerant of the bloat in these novels, why they will let King go on for a couple hundred pages about some matter that has no vital connection to the subject of the book.

I’m glad /lit/ memed me into reading his works, he really was amazing. Love how his stories are huge puzzles. “Seven American Nights” is one of the best short stories I‘ve ever read, and BOTNS puts every other science fantasy to shame.

Thoughts on this walrus-looking muhfucka? Like, sheeeit.

>>13308173

>tee hee it looks like you aren't smart enough to solve my clever riddles. you might have to read it MULTIPLE TIMES to really understand it hahahahaha.