/lit/ - Literature

>hurr durr a pop schlock TV writer isn't the best wordsmith ever

Yeah, no shit, retard. Find some harder targets.

Still more well regarded than you'll ever be.
Enjoy a lifetime of bitterness and excuses which become less and less effective at staving off the fear of your impending death and disappointingly average life.

totally serviceable. in what ways is it deficient?

>>6458285
In what ways is it not?

What a lazy fat piece of CUNTS, letting his meme TV show catch up to the book he takes 5 years to write and then letting it continue the story

>>6458341
Has the show actually caught up to the books now? Is it this season or next when it will surpass them?

>>6458327

so you have no argument. gotcha.

>thinking a genre writer should be compared to nabokov

>>6458365
In what way is it "totally serviceable?

I enjoyed his books.

>>6458348
This season is them catching up, Season 6 will be new material

I kinda like it. I find it entertaining. Obviously is not literature like we think about it but it gets you trough the day. The thing I didn't like and kept off the books was the fact taht every edning of his novels was a fucking cliffhanger. Like he was jerking me off and when I was about to cum he stopeed and went back to his home for another 5 years. Nothing resolved, nothing ended, just cliffhangers

>>6458365
>nabokov
A sexist who supported the vietnam war? What a midget of an intellectual.

>>6458412
It communicates that a wolf was howling in the distance and hungry crows circled a broken tower. In what way is it deficient?

Canis lupian shrieks dwiddled into elsewhere. A kawking kettle of crows (black birds) could scarcely stay still for their kettle of corn on a cob of corn.

>>6458765
Ok please describe your definition of deficient. We obviously have different meaning pertaining to literature.

>>6458781
You're going to have to tell people why you don't like it eventually anon, best to just get it out of the way.

So much autism in this thread. I don't even think he's that great of a writer but you'd have to be at the most extreme end of the spectrum to complain about that sentence specifically as if it's some sort of crime against humanity.

>>6458258
I´ve read the first book of the song of fire and ice. I found the plot interesting and the prose, taking in mind that it´s popular lit, decent. Though, I see it as a waste of time to read 5 novels who will not profit me in any way as to read other 5 books.

>>6458788
what an ironic way to avoid my question.

>>6458812
Not the guy you're talking to.

But you still haven't answered this>>6458285

>>6458839
I'm not the guy you're quoting either, but it seems obvious that the guy you ARE quoting is never going to answer.

Some people just feel the need to take it upon themselves to be offended by something that has no impact on their lives. Hell, that's why Tumblr and /pol/ exist in the first place.

>>6458258
>waiting for corn

>>6458926
FUCKING BEAT ME TO IT

>>6458939
Jesus, Vladdy, button your shirt, we don't want to see your gross old man pecs.

>>6458965
Don't lie. They're the light of your life, the fire of your loins. Your sin. Your soul.

>>6458926
>>6458939
>>6458965
>>6458983

>>6458418
me too

>>6458761
We're talking about literature here not people or politics

>>6458926
please no corn father

>>6458926
pls, no corn father

>>6458258
>this simple descriptive statement doesn't tell me about nihilism and le neetchez?
>so le pleb XD
>fucking genre fiction amirite guys?

>>6459005
Who writes literature?

>>6459024
how embarrassing

He is just so damn good at writing about feasts and combat. It's no Tolkien, it's no Tolstoy; but it's daaaamn good story telling and conflict.

>>6459041
me

>>6459101
>He is just so damn good at writing about feasts and combat
post proof

>>6458926
please no, corn father

>>6458926
pls no corn father

>>6458926
pls no, corn father

Corn in medieval times? I guess I'm the one who has to prove this guy wrong.

>>6459190
I don't think his stuff is set in any real period/location...right? I might be wrong.

>>6459190
it's a fantasy, there could be eggs growing out of rocks if he wanted them to

>>6459190
Dude, there's fucking dragons, wyverns and shit. I don't think he's going for realism.

wolves and corn are symbols in the book

wolves are the monsters of winter, foreshadowing some kind of hunt

crows are the southern lords vying for the crown-broken tower

it sets the tone for the rest to follow
this is pretty standard
taking it out of context is lowbrow tbh

>>6459190
What the hell do you mean, "medieval times"? Just because maize wasn't found in Europe in our world has no bearing on Martin's world. We didn't have many ice spiders either.
More importantly, in British English, "corn" can mean any cereal grain. Chaucer and older texts talk about "corn," and they just mean grains (and incidentally, "meat" meant vegetables--"flesh" meant meat).

>>6459203
No, it's in a fictional universe with dragons and magic

It has a medieval setting with inspiration from the real world

>>6458926
please no, corn father

>>6460247
>that pic
Not outstanding prose, but why would it be? Honestly, seeing him write about someone shitting themselves to death actually makes me respect him a little more. That isn't your generic high fantasy tripe.

>>6458926
what if my prose is subpar. will not posting the phrase in this thread elevate me to mediocrity? i figure that will lop off at least five years from my time struggling to get published.

>>6458812
go away fagtron i hate people like you

I read a little of (I think) the first book at a book store and I ran into "___lings" and at the time I had no patience for that trope, so it turned me off the series.

>>6458926
please no, corn father

>>6458926
please no, corn father

At least he's actually finished a novel :^)

>>6458926
please no corn father

>>6458285
Does it feature a cuckold? No.

Does it feature masturbation on the beach? No.

Is it modernist experimentation? No.

Three strikes, it's out.

>>6460927
So have I.

>>6462711
yours is even worse lmao

>>6458926
Please no, corn father!

>>6458926
please no, corn father

>>6458285
>Somewhere, off in the stances, a noun was verb
Cliche and soggy as fuck. This exact construction was used so many times it is nauseating.

>Crows circled the broken tower, waiting for corn
Terrible tense shift here. Should have led with past progressive tense to make it more congruent.

>>6458926
Please, no corn, father

>>6458285
>Somewhere, off in the distance, a noun was verb
Cliche and soggy as fuck. This exact construction was used so many times it is nauseating.

>Crows circled the broken tower, waiting for corn
Terrible tense shift here. Should have led with past progressive tense to make it more congruent.