/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19671748]

>read this
>he doesn't fuck his aunt
aaand dropped

[Anonymous No.19671771]

>>19671748
no idea what this is but based

[Anonymous No.19672678]

>>19671748
The real flaw is that he doesn't fuck the snake queen in book 2.

[Anonymous No.19672750]

>>19671771
a disappointment

[Anonymous No.19673046]

It baffles me that Eddings is never talked about on /lit/, it's a very comfy fantasy series I read constantly when I was a kid

[Anonymous No.19673073]

>>19673046
I guess it's already part of the past, and wasn't deemed as enough of a stepping stone in the genre to be remembered. But yeah I agree, everything he wrote except for these god awful prequels was great. Particularly liked the Emouchet books.

[Anonymous No.19673082]

>>19673073
Yeah, that sounds reasonable. When I was young, all I read was Tolkien, Eddings and Susan Cooper on repeat, and I thought that was like the canon of fantasy literature, lol. And nowadays nobody reads the latter two.
By the prequels, do you mean Belgarath and Polgara? I remember enjoying Belgarath a lot, but found Polgara a drag at times (maybe because I never really appreciated her character all that much in Belgariad / Malloreon).

[Anonymous No.19673099]

>>19673082
Yeah I do mean these, I found them tedious, but it was a long time ago so I couldnt even tell you why at this point.
Similarly, I thought Tad Williams would be remembered as a major fantasy writer, but now the only times I see him mentioned is on a footnote as one of grrm's many inspirations.

[Anonymous No.19673110]

>>19673099
Heh, seems to be the same case then. Never heard of WIlliams myself.

[Anonymous No.19673148]

>>19671748
I read the Belgariad and Malloreon for the very first time last February/March and it's genuinely one of the greatest things I've ever read, second only to Tolkien

[Anonymous No.19674278]

>>19673148
Did you like Malloreon as much as The Belgariad?

[Anonymous No.19674770]

>>19674278
Yes actually, though I'm probably one of the few people who does.

[Anonymous No.19675663]

>>19674770
Nce. I also enjoyed Malloreon, even though I dislike the whole choice thing (too many plot holes, too easy to see the "right" choice). Mallorea was a cool place, though, and I really liked dverything with Zakath.

[Anonymous No.19675694]

>>19671748
Those of you claiming to like Eddings, how do you get past the fact that every last one of his book series is
>OMIGOD THE BLUE STOOOOONE
>I'M STOOOONING
?

[Anonymous No.19675698]

>>19675694
By not being a brain broken oomer, probably

[Anonymous No.19675807]

>>19673046
Most of the /sffg/ is obviously underage. I learned about the series on /vrpg/ of all places, enjoyed what I read, and then recommended it further to a questionably young dryad fetishist on some board.

[Anonymous No.19676115]

>>19675807
it's spammed by 2 or 3 morons who worship that leaf cuckold Bakker, of course they aren't going to talk about anything else, it's like trying to talk about Star Wars honestly on /tv/

[Anonymous No.19676310]

>>19673099
That is a shame about Williams, I think he is markedly better than GRRM.

[Anonymous No.19677257]

>>19676310
That's because everybody is better than GRRM, it's really not difficult. Williams' work is equally bleak, sadistic, meaningless, poorly-plotted, and full of unexplained asspulls, but what makes him better than Martin is that he doesn't spam cunt cock shit fuck nigger faggot in his text like a 14 year old like Martin does.

[Anonymous No.19677537]

>>19673082
>all I read was Tolkien, Eddings and Susan Cooper on repeat
Nice, those and The Chronicles of Prydain were based.

[Anonymous No.19677766]

>>19673099
i think eddings is better than williams and martin