/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16016466]

Without fail, every fantasy writer I look into turns out to be a fat disgusting simp limp dick neckbeard. Is there a single fantasy series out there written by a chad?

[Anonymous No.16016469]

>>16016466
no, because chad's live their fantasies

[Anonymous No.16016472]

>>16016466
No; fantasy is for manchildren and people with soft minds typically have soft bodies.

[Anonymous No.16016476]

>>16016469
woah

[Anonymous No.16016505]

>>16016469
In shaking senpai

[Anonymous No.16016533]

>>16016466
The Jhereg series is alpha af

[Anonymous No.16016542]

>>16016466
Joe Abercrombie is a Chad, but his books are shit

[Anonymous No.16016557]

Sanderson is a Christian though, shouldn't /v/ like him?

[Anonymous No.16016577]

>>16016557
/lit/ hates Sanderson because they see his writing and his wealth and think they can do better

[Anonymous No.16016586]

>>16016466
Gormenghast

[Anonymous No.16016627]

Chads write literature.

[Anonymous No.16016684]

>>16016557
He is Mormon.

[Anonymous No.16016700]

Vox Day

[Anonymous No.16016709]

>>16016466

[Anonymous No.16016862]

>>16016709
Yeah Tolkien is unironically a massive Chad. Tolkien served in World War I. Tolkien was at the Battle of the Somme, he saw death on a massive, horrifying scale. And then he came home and wrote The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings.

[Anonymous No.16016903]

>woah cowabunga duuuude consciousness isn't real thats gnarly af bro major harshing of my vibes

[Anonymous No.16017152]

>>16016709
>>16016862
>writes the only valuable fantasy in existence

[Anonymous No.16017163]

>>16017152
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.16017199]

>>16016466
Gene Wolfe wrote Book of the New Sun and helped invent the Pringle.

[Anonymous No.16017201]

>>16016557
>liking a christian
>/v/ liking a christian
>any person who isn't schizobot 9000 liking a christian
>christianity having any meaningful influence on writing
gtfo

[Anonymous No.16017211]

>>16017201
>groyper
This part is accurate. I fucking hate the pick and choose christianity of the groypers

[Anonymous No.16017433]

>>16016862
Tolkien tended to shirk his duties as a soldier, however.

[Anonymous No.16017464]

>>16016466
People here mention Tolkien, Wolfe, Peake as being a few people who write fantasy and arent complete losers, arent these three the only fantasy authors worth reading anyway?

[Anonymous No.16017467]

>>16016469
delet

[Anonymous No.16017486]

>>16017464
Probably...

[Anonymous No.16017493]

>>16016466
i like david miitchell's take on writing mostly straight fiction with some fantasy elements. love the mongolia section in his first novel ghostwritten

[Anonymous No.16017503]

Darren Shan is a gigamogger

[Anonymous No.16017520]

>>16017464
Of those, only Peake wrote literature. Tolkien and Wolfe were genre authors.

>20C Fantasy Literature
James Branch Cabell - Jurgen (1919)
E.R. Eddison - The Worm Ouroboros (1922)
Lord Dunsany - The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)
Hope Mirrlees - Lud-In-The-Mist (1926)
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita (1940)
Mervyn Peake - The Gormenghast Trilogy (1946)
John Crowley - Little, Big (1981)

[Anonymous No.16017603]

>>16016466
MIles (aka Christian) Cameron is a former Air Intelligence Officer and spent 20 years doing humint for the US military. You can see his love for the reenacting through his books.

[Anonymous No.16019096]

>>16016466

[Anonymous No.16019115]

China Miéville

[Anonymous No.16019128]

>>16017433
Good, that war was retarded

[Anonymous No.16019137]

>>16017433
A bong soldier’s main duty during WW 1 was to get shot. Glad he shirked a bit.

[Anonymous No.16019185]

>LM: Did your war experiences have the kind of permanent effect on your sensibility as it apparently had on other writers, like Mailer, Hemingway, and Vonnegut?

>Wolfe: I'm sure they did, but it's difficult to say exactly how. I only caught about the last four months of the war—I was there for the cease fire and for quite some time afterwards. I saw just enough action to realize what it was like. I got shot at a few times, shot at a few people, was shelled. You don't go through those experiences without getting a different outlook on life than you would have had without them. Just before you arrived this morning, I was talking on the phone with Harlan Ellison about a recent incident in which he wound up decking Charles Platt, and he mentioned how many of his friends had censured him for his violent reaction. Well, it would never occur to me to rebuke Harlan because I accept that if you're not violent at certain times you're going to wind up being the victim of violence. The fact that you stand there and let someone hit you in the face doesn't do anything to eliminate violence (it may even contribute to further violence) —which is one of the underlying themes in The Book of the New Sun.

[Anonymous No.16019219]

>>16016862
>>16016466
>Cucks a beta orbiter out of his qt wife
>Makes her convert to his religion
>Has 4 children with her

[Anonymous No.16019268]

>>16016577
Is The Wheel of Time the only respectable work of high fantasy that stands the test of time?
Or have my teenage memories deceived me.

[Anonymous No.16019279]

>>16019185
>talking on the phone with Harlan Ellison about a recent incident in which he wound up decking Charles Platt
Absolute madman.

[Anonymous No.16019345]

>>16017503
KEK!
Oh boy I haven't organically thought about those vampire books since I was about 11.
Some good stuff in them though, mostly because he wasn't afraid to sneak horrific gore into what your mom would think was standard Y.A. tripe.
Even then though I was reading him during a period where I was reading any book with a dragon on the cover in an effort to find anything as good as Tolkien. Unsurprisingly I did not.

>>16016709
>>16019219
Came here to post this

[Anonymous No.16019347]

>>16016903
On white luck warrior rn

I like it

[Anonymous No.16019552]

>>16016542
how can that be?
I think they are good because I like them

[Anonymous No.16019753]

>>16019185
Fuuuck, I'm deeefinitely reading this now.