/lit/ - Literature

>>16771983
jesus, Chip Delany is looking very pale these days.

>>16771983
One of the most miserable things I have EVER read is Patrick Rothfuss' short biography of himself. It was so disgusting it convinced me never to read any of his books.

>>16771983
I don't know but he is a cuck neckbeard whose every utterance seems like it belongs in a cringe compilation.

>>16773048
this is the dude with currently the best prose in the fantasy genre?

>>16773048

>>16773057
get gnome'd

>>16773057
Oh fucking God it's like if you gave the average Reddit retard a global platform.

>>16773069
I don’t know yall. Looks like a happy and well adjusted guy living his dream life with a full family. I can’t hate him for living the dream, he’s not even offensively bad or pretentious like an RC Waldun type. Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if Robin was spamming threads about him to force the creation of another lolcow.

>>16773048
>Heart of bile.

Feel free to disregard any author who says, "she said sarcastically."

>>16772029
qrd?

>>16771983
Cause he’s a pig. It’s been so long that I now hate KvOThE. Such a stupid fucking name.

Reminder:

"The lion's share of old-school literature IS fantasy, they just pretend it isn't. The Odyssey is full of gods and spells. Oedipus Rex has a sphinx and a prophecy. There are witches in Macbeth, faeries in Midsummer Night's Dream, and a ghost in Hamlet. Dante's Inferno? Beowulf? All looks like fantasy to me....

I think a lot of people read and respect fantasy storytelling. A lot of the more forward-thinking colleges offer classes studying it, though they usually call it speculative fiction or magical realism to make themselves feel better. We all know the truth though: it's fantasy.

As far as having my book recognized as literature? [Pat shrugs] Why would I want that? I mean, have you read Great Expectations? Gech. Why would I want to invited into their little club? Give me Tim Powers and Phillip K Dick. Give me
Le Guin, Gaiman, and Pratchett. Give me McKillip and Whedon. These are the storytellers. These are our modern mythmakers. Our oracles. Our dreamers. I want to be on that team."

http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/2007/03/patrick-rothfuss-interview.html

>>16774787
>give me gay man

>>16774787
That's the thing about becoming popular in the mainstream, though. It doesn't last at all. If you get famous in pop culture and the mainstream, in a couple years once the hype has died down, you'll only be remembered as nostalgic, as a product of your time. In academia, you get a lot less attention at first but you get remembered and discussed for a years upon years on end. The only way to be truly remembered is by making meaningful contributions to academia. Think about Harold Bloom; he's unknown outside of academic circles, but inside of them he's highly respected and his works and writings are preserved and will be discussed for years and years.

>>16774841
Yeah, and even if you dont take posterity into account, it's hard not to see how a little more effort towards the quality of their prose wouldn't improve most fantasy writers' books.

That being said, although I meme him, I've read the first volume of this guy's series, and once you pass the horrible, overstreched beginning, it isn't that bad, as popular fantasy goes.