/lit/ - Literature

>>917820

It's more individual tales of heroism in The Silmarillion, as opposed to large scale battles. It's no less awesome though.

>>917809

Will definitely help to have read the Silmarillion so that you're familiar with the story and the style Tolkien uses in it.

Dance, Dance, Dance (only a sort of sequel, because I read it before AWSC and it didn't matter one bit) is his best IMO. Murakami writes a good set of characters this time AND has something to say about his country and modern society.

I'm much more fond of Murakami's earlier works though (even parts of Pinball are great).

>His short stories are much better.
lol, no. Why do people always think this?

>>912021

Soseki, Kawabata, Akutagawa, Tanizaki - all are a lot better in my opinion.

Dude is low-tier for Japanese authors.

If he hadn't killed himself no-one would really care. The old cliché of death doing wonders for your career applies here.

>>909681

It's your job to keep literature elite, huh?

I suppose you only watch foreign language art-house cinema too and listen to nothing but classical music. I'm sure you're a real fun guy to be around.

And I do read literary fiction too. But I'm not so insecure that I have to read nothing but that. I can read for pure entertainment too, no matter what snobs like you think.

>>909539

Sure, when you get off your pseudo-intellectual high horse (herp derp, fantasy sucks).

WUBC is the easiest, but not the best.

Contains a new Black Company tale by Cook, a new Elric tale by Moorcock, plus original shorts by the likes of Wolfe, Erikson, Abercrombie, Lynch, Nix and more.

This anthology is going to rock when I get round to reading it.

Turtles are evil creatures. They move slowly because they are burdened by the weight of sin.

Sorta depends on whether you like 40K and Star Wars, doesn't it?

Always liked the classic: "Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."

The fuck is wrong with all your bowels, taking so long to do a shit?

Not getting enough fibre, /lit/?

Commute.

>>903418
*unlike

Could be awesome. Hope he actually gives all the dirty details, unless Campbell who pussied out.

It's all about LyX.

Read whole books on certain long plane journey's.

>>903104

I never claimed Underworld is hard - it's just soulless and damn boring. I kept thinking something might develop and in 350 pages it didn't. I don't feel an obligation after that long to keep hanging around.

I'm just impressed you made it that far OP.

I recently tackled Underworld and caved in and quit after about 350 pages.

Yeah, they get worse as they go along.