/lit/ - Literature

>>21402042
what are they about?
i like the sun

>>21402144
Torturer's apprentice gets kicked out of his guild for being a simp, goes on wacky adventurer eventually becoming the king. All the while he is a Jesus figure, by the end he is Jesus. all takes place on a far future dying earth

>>21402042
CS Lewis, That Hideous Strength

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>>21402042
>Gene Wolfe's
Wolfe is a hack.

read vance, read melville, read lafferty, read borges

>>21402042
Eragon

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>>21404845
but for many ithe experience is more like this.

>>21404858
or, regrettably, even this

>>21404873
Its not really that complicated.

>>21404888
nigger they literally remake the universe and have cacogens (heh) going back in time with god-aliums outside of time. also, mc goes back in time, becomes also the first king, bangs his dead grandmother (before going back in time) and makes her birth his dad (after going back in time? I don't really remember how he managed that). he also dies like 100 times and the universe may or may not get reset each time.

>>21404873
Add malazan to the chart.

>>21402182
>Torturer's apprentice gets kicked out of his guild for being a simp
If that’s what you thought happened your comprehension is laughably bad. They exiled him because he forged her torture and execution order to get her killed.

>>21404888
>Chile
Fucking retard

>>21405194
>They exiled him because he forged her torture and execution order to get her killed
I tried explaining this to a guy in another thread and he called me worst post on /lit/

>>21405230
alright give me a rundown on this theory
because I don't see it

>>21402042
>go into BotNS expecting deep fantasy for once
>same old shit of a coomer fantasy author fulfilling his sexual fantasies at the expense of the reader

why are they all like this, bros?

>>21405249
You arn't reading between the lines in that paragraph? Severian is just like whoops here is the excruciation orders right here somehow.

And then there is my pic related, which comes a few pages later.

>>21405127
the only thing Malazan deserves is irrelevancy

>>21405194
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>>21405267
I thought he sees the excruciation order, it happens, explains to her that the way the torture works is that she's going to self-harm herself to death over the span of a month, and then he leaves the knife in her room for her to kill herself?

t. read Shadow of the Torturer last year and still hasn't started Claw yet

>>21402042
In no particular order, just glancing over at my bookshelves:
>Vance's Lyonesse/Dying Earth
>Peake's Gormenghast + Boy in Darkness
>Miéville's Perdido Street Station
>Clark's Zothique cycle
>Holdstock's Mythago Wood chronicles
>Bujold's World of the Five Gods
>Dowling's Rynosseros chronicles
>Harrison's Viriconium chronicles
>Moorcock's Elric chronicles
>Carter's Simrana cycle
>Schweitzer's Mask Of The Sorcerer
>Dunsany's King of Elfland's Daughter, and Time and the God's saga
>Leiber's Books of Lankhmar
>Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur
>Spenser's The Faerie Queene
>Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
>Anderson's Broken Sword, and King of Ys chronicles
>Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
>Crowley's The Deep
>Tolkien's Legendarium
>Howard's Conan, Kull, and Bran Mac Morn
>Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy
>Bakker's Second Apocalypse cycle
All of those I'd consider fantasy of simlar quality to Wolfe, although your mileage may vary. They should keep you going for a while. Also, another /sffg/fag will inevitably post the shelf that saved /sffg/ ITT and almost all of that guys collection is worth reading.

>>21405298
>still hasn't started Claw yet
this is all spoilers and deep diving after several rereads. You should not be in these threads if you haven't even begun book 2. What the hell are you even doing here

wolfenjoyer? is that you?

>>21402042
It's far from the level of new sun, but reading elric gave me a similar enjoyment to severian's adventures in sword of the lictor, which was my favorite part

That and the precestor

>>21405310
>shelf that saved /sffg/‘s buck
WHOMST HAS SUMMONED THE ANCIENT ONE?

>>21406243
I think...
this meme format is full of shits there is a fine line between accounting for things that happen in
the world while remaining isolated as a savant, and unconscious psychological projections which have nothing
to do with that as a spectrum.

>>21402238
The Space Trilogy is decent, but I wouldn't consider it to be similar to BotNS. I heard Jack Vance's Dying Earth scratches that same itch but I haven't read it yet.

>>21403539
You post this in every Wolfe thread.

>>21407644
Not worthy