/lit/ - Literature

this is EXACTLY what you want

Epic, high fantasy with elves, wizards, dark lords, and all that? Don’t know, don’t care.

Pure literary fantasy? Already has.

>>20067589
That's ok, that just means you dislike tropey shit fantasy, I feel you. In every genre the majority of books will be crap. Just gotta look to the classics to read the genre in it's perfected form and also fantasists that are working new ground and using interesting themes, by the nature of fantasy you will often find them mixing a bit of magical realism or horror/weird lit. I reccomend checking out: Tolkien, Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, John Crowley, Hope Mirrlees, Lord Dunsany, Terry Pratchett, China Mieville, Jeff Vandermeer (Ambergris), Susanna Clarke.

This is the comfiest book ever

>>19324492
i didn't read your post but this book for that pic

>>19182528
John Crowley is the only American writer that deserves it. He should have won it last year instead of Gluck.

>Muh Pynchon
>Muh Delillo
>Muh McCarthy
John Crowley is the only American writer that deserves the prize

Thoughts on Little, Big and John Crowley in general? Is the Aegypt series worth checking out?

Any suggestions for fantasy that has more ambition when it comes to prose/style and concepts rather than a huge emphasis on worldbuilding, as most popular fantasy does? I love the work of Gene Wolfe, John Crowley and Ursula Le Guin in particular, and I just ordered myself a copy of Holdstock's Mythago Wood.

I tend to prefer fantasy (and sci-fi) written before the 2000s, but that's me. Not that I'm running out of books to read, but totally open to recommendations.

Thoughts on Little, Big and John Crowley in general? Is he the greatest American writer alive today?

Bought this. What am I in for?

What do you think of this book?

>>17813831
Read this a few days ago and enjoyed it.

I've been reading Little, Big and enjoying it but it's really showing me how damaged my attention span has become in recent years.

Has anyone else read this book? What is your interpretation about the rape/weird sex shit that goes on in it?

I've posted this before but every time I see this book brought up on /lit/ everyone refers to it as being this super comfy fairy tale, but there's so much uncomfortable shit going on in this book that I find this such a strange opinion. (There's an entire section about a guy going around fucking underage girls, and there's a part where a guy rapes his cousin while she's asleep).

I really don't know why people parade this book around as 'comfy' reading.

Is this a good book to start reading fantasy?
I found it in my garage and saw it won a few best in fantasy awards.

You've read the best Modern Fantasy Novel haven't you Anon? Even Harold Bloom loved it.

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>>15293168
It doesn't take place strictly in faerie villages. You have real-world places, too.

>>15184138
>Borges blurred the lines since like 1930s.
And they have continued to be blurred even more since then.

Harold Bloom on Little, Big:
> I have read and reread Little, Big at least a dozen times, and always am startled and refreshed. It seems to me the best book of its kind since Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Like the Alice books, Little, Big is an imaginative masterpiece, in which the sense of wonder never subsides. Little, Big is a family saga in which several generations live on surprisingly close terms with the faery folk, hence the title. So perpetually fresh is this book, changing each time I reread it, that I find it virtually impossible to describe, and scarcely can summarize it. I pick it up again at odd moments, sometimes when I wake up at night and can't fall asleep again. Though it is a good-sized volume, I think I remember every page. Little, Big is for readers from nine to ninety, because it naturalizes and renders domestic the marvelous.

Why isn't this book talked about more, bros? This guy's prose is on the level of Pynchon