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What's /lit/ think of these

>> No.808710

Crap.

Next?

>> No.808714
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808714

what does /lit/ think of THESE?

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WHAT DOES /LIT/ THINK OF THE GIBSON?

>> No.808729

>>808719
I think neuromancer is a pretty cool guy. eh flatlines behind a wall black ice and doesn't afraid of anything

>> No.808735

>>808729
aheheaueaheueahuehahahahaha

(that's the sound of laughter that isn't laughter)

>> No.808742

>>808708
They're great read'em OP.
(8-11 suck horribly)

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>>808735
that was one of my favorite things in the whole book

>> No.808755

>>808742
I'm actually on 9 and it's moving slow as hell but I'm too far to quit. Oh and brofist to you.

>> No.808757

>>808735

I thought that was the sound of Brazilian laughter...

>> No.808789

>>808714
I lol'd.

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>over 3 books in a series
>people actually reading them

>> No.808812

>>808806

>implying updike isn't awesome

>> No.808956

Latest one written by Sanderson regains a great deal of the momentum. Feels like the first few books again.

While it has nostalgia value since it was the first fantasy series I got in to, it falls behind A Song of Ice and Fire and Malazan Book of the Fallen.

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808968

how do these compare, maybe explain the general differences i want to start one or the other.
thanks /lit/

>> No.808975

>>808968
Start with Robert Jordan.

What you just linked is a fantasy version of Ayn Rand.

>> No.808978

If you're going to read a fucking 5,000 page fantasy series, you may as well read In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

>> No.808979

>>808975
aight thanks, dont really get the reference but, i have both sitting on my desk in front of me, beside lotr trilogy and a few small novels this will be my first delve in the fantasy genre, i play dnd weekly though.
inb4virgin

>> No.808985

>>808978
that isn't fantasy at all.

Op, you should read till book 6 get summaries of what happened until 10 and then continue reading. Jordan went to sleep for about 4 books in the middle. Its pretty good fantasy. Bits of it can drag, the hurr hurr gender dynamics and hilariously inept minibosses for example but overall its quite fun.

>> No.808988

>>808985

How do you know? Have you read it?

>> No.808991

>>808988
funnily enough yes. All of six of the the things.

>> No.808994

>>808812

Hell yea. The rabbit series was fuckin awesome. I love Updike.

>>808968

I actually read this when I was young(er). Back then, I had no idea what Objectivism was and I didn't care for the messages in the novels. The actual plot of the story was great.

That being said, I went back and read through some of them lately, and I realized how horribly bogged down with philosophical bullshit it is.

>> No.809000

>>808994
Oh come on, the plot was appalling. Of the six books I read the plot of three of the books was Richard gets kidnapped. That silly bastard gets captured more often than princess peach

>> No.809013

>>808991

Then you totally remember the time the narrator turned into a knight and Albertine turned into an elf and and they traveled through time to Sodom and Gommorah and fought the wizard Charlus in the Guermantes' dungeon? I think I remember Swann as the lovable anthropomorphic mascot.

>> No.809023

>>809000

Hm...you have a point. My memory of the books isn't that great, but lemme try to recount some of those times.

1. Captured by Darken Rahl / Denna and tortured
2. Captured by Sisters of the Light
3. Captured by Nicci
4. Captured by Jagang

I can only count 4 from all 10 books. But I'm prolly missing a point. Still, it was an enthralling plot for me when I was younger.

>> No.809025

>>809013
you forgot the bit where odette chops off gilbete's hand with a lightsaberand howls I am you mother

>> No.809036

In the first book bdsm chick captures in him, in the second one some nun captures him and in the sixth a hot nun kidnaps him. I'm sure there were a bunch of times kahalan got captured too but richard constantly getting sexually abused is just hilarious and I suspect a secret fantasy of goodkind's

>> No.809083

>>809025

Oh yeah. Francoise was bad ass as well. Although the narrator was pretty overpowered with his magical Madeleine DEM though.

>> No.809254

Rorbert Jordan to Ayn Rand..
fuck you /lit/

>> No.809262

>>808708
they were handing these out for free at comicon