/lit/ - Literature

>>20229767
That is correct, yes.

>>20229767
Debating to or not to read book of the new sun

>>20229767
Ursula K. Le Guin called him one of the greatest, comparing him to Herman Melville
>>20231816
Have a go at something simpler to test the waters, Fifth Head of Cerberus or Soldier of the Mist (you'll more likely find that packaged in an omnibus with Soldier of Arete that is titled 'Latro in the Mist')

>Is
2 soon

maybe in his genre

he's the quintessential author for people who are replacing video games with reading

>>20229767
Having not read all his novels, and none of his short stories yet, I can at least say that not everything he did is a masterpiece. Book of the New Sun is special and I don't think he or anyone else has done something like it. But if you removed that, he would still be a very high quality spec fiction author with an impressive body of work. He was putting out a lot of stuff before, during, and after BotNS, including an additional 7-book series in the same world. And those aren't massive tomes that drag on, with huge ups and downs in quality throughout the series, they're all about 300 pages and of a solid consistency throughout.
He was a great author. He wasn't a gay fag or a pussy either.

>>20229767
He's a hack worshipped by stoner boomers
Heinlein for dummies, and Heinie is pretty dumb

>>20229767
Yes, he is one of the best. Just read his works. Everything is worth it. He is a master and discovering him was probably one of the best things that happened to me these past few years.

>>20229767
he has some great books but I would not consider him a great of all time. he can be too gimmicky in my opinion

>>20231843
>Ursula K. Le Guin called him one of the greatest, comparing him to Herman Melville
Ursula K. Le Guin means nothing to me and that opinion is embarrassingly myopic.

Genreshit is lazy writing, a panoply of fuckin dragons, wizturds and so on. Fuck off

>>20232358
Why do you hate fun?

>>20232377
Its not fun for me. But whatever floats your boat, kiddo.

>>20232377
Not him but the moment someone regurgitates those 5 exact words in that very specific arrangement I wish miserable death on them.

He's the best author name Gene for sure

>>20229767
/lit/ anon 20231863 called him the quintessential author for people who are replacing video games with reading

>>20229767
Yes.

>>20229767
No, Tolkien is the greatest writer of all time. Wolfe is a hack that can’t even compete with Ursula LeGuin.

>>20229767
He's nothing more than a /lit/ meme. Read Tolkien if you want to see how a great writer

>>20232388
A panoply of fuckin dragons?

>>20231816
If you have to debate whether to read it you're never going to make it

>>20233254
>>20233629
This Tolkien cocksucker is in the other Wolfe thread too.

take the Wolfe pill

>>20235511
You feel like rating his novels? Maybe only the standalone ones.

>>20232491
That would be Brandon Sanderson. The average "gamer" is never going to finish BotNS.

>>20229767
He is a /sffg/ meme. He's the one they get to post outside of their general. He's alright

>>20231863
accurate

>>20235917
I wouldn’t put so much stock in /sffg/. Those fags get mad whenever Ursula LeGuin and Wolfe are talked in the same sentence. Not knowing those two were friends.

>>20229767
no, i am

Honestly, I don't understand if you enjoy writing/language/books how you can dislike Wolfe.

>>20231816
I’d go for it anon. Didn’t capture me at first but just finished Cidatel earlier this year and it’s one of my favorite books of all time now.

>>20236939
It's simply elitism. It's not about lack of enjoyment of reading the novel but rather dissatisfaction with the novel's perceived place in some vague literary hierarchy. It's aesthetics over substance with those people.

>>20232377
There's nothing "fun" about "fantasy", neither is there anything fantastical about it either. Completely divorced from human history, culture and tradition, from the human experience. Spectacle for spectacle's sake. "Authors" of fantasy only read other genreshit, superficial shadows of shadows of shadows of actual human writing, so they can only produce superficial banal feces that only a braindead child would find entertaining. Book of the New Sun is one of the few fantasies that are actual fantasies though.