/lit/ - Literature

Why are so many writers, those praised in the mainstream or even here, so incapable of writing a story for over 200 pages without it becoming pretentious and repetitive? I'm convinced by now any fictional work over 200 pages is almost guaranteed trash. The only long book that I've read that I didn't have a disdain for by the end was Lord of the Rings as well as some some classic children's books here and there.

Pic related. Was great up until he went left his guild, maybe even before that is when it just felt the story was too far up its own ass.

>genre fiction is awf-

I just started the 4th book of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun.

I took a break after the Claw of the Conciliator to read Neuromancer (which I did not connect with at all) and then returned to Sword of the Lictor which was probably the most plot driven book of the series so far.

I'm going to be honest in my assessment. At first I didn't like the series at all up until maybe halfway through Claw but while reading Neuromancer I realized how much better written Wolfe's series is.

I don't know if anyone else has felt this way where a series grows on them but BotNS really has grown on me.

If anyone would like to talk about it, I'd love to.

Okay, /lit/.

I've read book Shadow of the Torturer and am about 50 pages through Claw of the Conciliator.

The world is cool enough, the writing good enough but I'm seriously having trouble getting motivated to come back to the story. I have never been particularly interested in fantasy which I think is a large part of my problem with the book. I had heard the Le Guin quote that Wolfe is the "Melville of Sci-fi/Fantasy" and I heard that it was one of the few books in sci-fi fantasy worth of literary consideration. I just can't say I'm enamored with it.

Maybe it's the main character, some of the fantasy tropes I dislike that keep cropping up, I'm really not sure why it isn't clicking or what I might be missing.

If you like this book series, please just let me know if I should be hooked by this point or if the final two books are worth the wait because if nothing really grabs me about it in the next fifty pages I'm considering just dropping the series.

Just finished this book.

Was it good?

Should I?

Mega pleb here. How was this?

>>7021168
doesn't fit the setting
shitty hardcover
faux gilded crap

OP confirmed for pleb

>>7021190
generic royalty edition of a classic novel

boring


pic related is above average

>>5114560

It's good, but I'm personally more of a fan of this one. It captures the main character very well, and really gives off that futuristic but middle ages vibe that New Sun does so well.