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whats your favourite piece of fiction (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

My real favorite book is Caliban and the Witch. Which I haven't read, but seems like the sort of thing I ought to like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is a good book, but it is better to not have read it, as you can project more onto it from yourself and less experience what it is about.

In terms of Rothfuss / King Killer,

Also, like, I hate to admit it but I was in love with Name of the Wind for like a week. I tore through four-hundred pages while thinking "oh, it's his first book, everyone says it's great, I'm sure it'll get good just around the corner." I could see Rothfuss was setting up a grand deconstruction of a bunch of the great Fantasy books that came before him and I was there for it.

Is something that I shared, too. But then I gave up after the not ideal writing of women and power fantasy trips that are happening and enjoyed it as Isekai light anime in which I don't take stuff serious. Did help the vibe quite a bit. Of course the exterior - the tavern and such - are a different vibe. There are also slight elements of a weird early 2000s progressive homophobia or trans phobia to be found at some edges.

Some phrases of the books are quite nice though and the description of scenes does paint a picture and feels somewhat like an old TTRPG group you are sitting with on a table.