/lit/ - Literature

This is how it actually works.

To be filtered by Bakker is to be filtered by aesthetic splendor, power of cognition, and wisdom.

>>22920928
your taste is shit

>>22831335
Oh yea I'm sorry. I should have just called it shit.

>>22831221
This reminds me to fucking drop Jack Vance few ranks in my chart. What a horrible book this is. No wonder people (rightfully) think scifi is shit.

>reading Jack Vance, Dying Earth stories
>Sun is dying
>Sun only emits red light
>Red has the longest wavelength, lowest energy, if it is scattered it can only become more red or go infrared
>For some reason the author describes things that are green, blue, brown and other colours
>green glass
>pale green larch
>dark blue sky
Nice "sci-fi" guys

>>22644209
>https://pastebin.com/e1T27tWC
Won't comment on the story or worldbuilding, but the prose is somewhat solid. Better than anything one sees in /wg/. Godspeed anon.

Reading Dostoyevsky's The Idiot I came to the realisation that Brandon Sanderson took the idea and personality of Hoid/Wit from the character of Ferdyshtchenko. This is apparent from Part 1 Chapter 13, where Ferdyshtchenko even says:
>You see, excellency, all the world is witty and clever except myself. I am neither.
Also, his role in the parties was to:
>But these vulgarities seemed to please Nastasia Philipovna, although too often they were both rude and offensive. Those who wished to go to her house were forced to put up with Ferdishenko. Possibly the latter was not mistaken in imagining that he was received simply in order to annoy Totski, who disliked him extremely. Gania also was often made the butt of the jester’s sarcasms, who used this method of keeping in Nastasia Philipovna’s good graces.

Of course, none of Brandon Sanderson readers has noticed this because they don't read good books.

>>22237367
Nah it was only me. Forgot to use trips that other time.

>>22237263
Interesting interpretation but I wouldnt read the passage as nothing else than a quasi-biblical tale of devotion to God. Kelmomas and Nay Cauti both, as Bakker himself has said in a QA, have similarly wired brains which made them compatible with the you know what. The Dunyain Consult probably gazed at the Inverse Fire and were convinced that this is the way but Kellhus on the other hand saw Outside as just another place he will conquer.

>>22237200
It's what the creators of Inchiroi believed anyways. But it is a likely explanation for how the Outside works. No solid reasons that are given to the reader.

Don't know about the Tusk but how things turn out with Kelmomas suggest that this is the case. The gods are blind to No-God. It is a direct analogy to the No-Ships and other No stuff of Dune where those with prescience can't see them.

>>22237186
What would you like to talk about? How the Cishaurim are actually saved and absolutepilled?

>>22234483
I've only read first book but the image I got is he is a based life enjoyer and based schizo magic enjoyer

>>22222655
I have that black edition. It is fine. The three other books I got as one of those new paperbacks. Personally, I don't care too much of editions and I prefer to get paperbacks. The black leather-like cover feels nice tho.

>>22220876
>>22222789
see >>22222891
It is a rather gruesome scene, I won't go into details. And yes, it is from The Second Apocalypse.

>>22221969
It is a good book. Every book in the series (except Children) improves on the previous books. Contrary to what most believe, Chapter-House is actually the best book (source: me).

>>22219169
It used to have a fanatical fan base here until they started going away from sffg as this place has been filling with light novel readers. Couple of them are still here to remind that Bakker exists. The books are honest to God good but they are not for everyone and most will get filtered by the first book. People either appreciate them or drop when they get frustrated because not everything is spoon-fed to them. I suggest you give a try, after all, that is the only way to be sure.

Shortly, not everyone likes every book. But because Bakker fans were vocal, the other party had to be as opposed to Bakker as the fans were for him.

>>22213860
>everyone from the anasûrimbor of the survivor prince gets to keep the anasûrimbor last name
I suppose names are logically ok because they help keep track of individuals and surnames help keep track of bloodlines. The fact that Anasurimbors exist 2000 years later also means that they had pretty good genetics for breeding. Also, the following lines can be interpreted in a number of ways and you can choose what way to go:
>“I was a prince,” he mumbled.
>The stranger brought him to the others, and together they celebrated their strange fortune. They cried out—not to the Gods they had repudiated but to one another—that here was evident a great correspondence of cause. Here awareness most holy could be tended. In Ishuäl, they had found shelter against the end of the world.

>>22211062
Golden Middle chads rise!

>>22210976
If only he could have written it less long. What a bore that section was. The Poet and the Satyr sections however, gold.

>>22210853
Read first two books.
Don't read 3rd and 4th, the quality drop is enormous.

>>22210200
>fell for the Dick
>>22209968
based
>>22209921
cringe

>>22209599
>Theogony, Work and Days, Elegies
>The Persians and other plays
>Theban Plays

>>22208747
R. Scott Bakker's novel and some memes attached to it. You should read his work.

>>22208685
>self published books
No wonder the reviews have been extra bad (they were NEVER good)

>>22101627
Internet is full of discussion for each canto and you may provide yourself quality information about each Canto, like the link in >>22100943

>>22101807
Yeah I've read Inferno twice, and Purgatorio is waiting on a shelf

>>22102569
For the best experience of Divine Comedy, one should read La Vita Nuova as well (and Virgil's Aeneid)

>>22102619
>>22102634
>>22102638
I always thought simply in terms of the story starting on bad terms and ending in good terms as we go through hell, rise through purgatorio and end up in paradise. And, if you one wants to be really picky about it, one might say it is not possible to write a Tragedy in a Christian setting (because Jesus saves and all sins can be forgiven.)

>>22102743
I'll put one up

Dune

>>21974252
Both sides have good authors, and all these right wing left wing dichotomies are mostly artificial. Some might be even wrongly put to one side or another. Anyways, here's some authors from the picture that are good in my opinion:
>R. Scott Bakker
>Ursula K. Le Guin
>Robert E. Howard
>Frank Herbert
Others are decent also but I left them unnamed. I'd like to conclude this topic by saying that if you like an author, never ever go and read what they post online. Never read their blogs for the love of god. It is like Bakker himself said it: Reading an author's personal blog is like looking up a tranny's skirt. All you will find is another dick.

>>21974339
I hate how this image persists here as some booby trap or rat poison; all rat poison is also food but there's poison. Only here, the ratio of poison to food is about 60 to 40.

Anyway what's up? I tried to read Rise of Endymion but holy shit that book is so bad it killed all my will to read any more science fiction so instead I read:
>Iliad
>Odyssey
>Inferno
>Confessions
>Oresteia