/lit/ - Literature

We don't.

I don't know. I have no idea who he is (except that, I imagine, he's a novelist). Care to fill me in?

He's a novelist. Scifi/fantasy. He wrote a book called Dragonbone Chair.

I am operating under the assumption that /lit/ is extremely high brow and genre fiction like fantasy etc is frowned upon, but I'm just testing the waters anyway.

I read the Dragonbone Chair series (I think that's what it's called) a couple years back. I enjoyed it, but it didn't really leave any sort of lasting impression, I can't remember anything about it even.

>>2846159
We talk about crappy fantasy books sometimes. You'll probably find a few people with bad taste who like them. I wish you luck.

>>2846166
thanks

I tried to read The Dragonbone Chair, but it was too derivative and slow paced for my liking, so I quit halfway through. He's a talented writer, though. Polished, fluid prose is not so common in the fantasy genre. I've heard the story gets better as it goes on, and I'm a huge fan of epic fantasy series', so I might give it another try someday.

Have you read the whole trilogy, OP?

yeah, I read it as a 12 year old and re-read it just recently, and I loved it. This is after having just read the Thomas Covernant series for the first time, and the Memory Sorrow and Thorn series shits all over it.

But I have the funny feeling that I'm the /lit/ equivalent of someone on /mu/ who listens to Linkin Park

His Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is very slow and long-winded, but one of the best tradition completed fantasy series written.

I have the first two, but only finished the Dragonbone Chair. It was incredibly slow, but the writing was decent (miles better than GRRM, but not better than Abercombie). The ending was incredibly awesome, though. After getting through Richard K. Morgan's books, I'm going to get back to the second.
>>2846159
Well, duh. /Lit/ is full of whiny cunts who hate fun.

>>2846289
>Writing is miles better than Martin
>But not better than Abercrombie

>>2846298
Maybe you're misinformed. You probably only read "The Blade Itself", but his writing is pretty solid after that. It's some of the best in modern fantasy, but that's coming from a fanboy. Or maybe you're some Martinfag who think he's god.

>>2846245
Get used to it. No fun allowed in /lit/. Just dumbfucks philosophizing random shit and acting like they understand the books they read.

>>2846318
I've read all the novels from both authors so we'll just have to agree to disagree on the better writer.