Ok which one of you told me this book was like dark souls?
I am mad, I went out and brought it and am halfway through reading it and it is absolutely nothing like dark souls...
This is closer to Master and Margarita than dark souls. Half way through and their has been zero sword fights, one fight with plants? and thats about it.
Does this thing turn around in the second half and go dark souls mode or have I been trolled?
>He fell for the Wolfe meme
Wolfe is a hack and not worth reading.
Yeah I dont think ill bother finishing it, I started Salems lot by stephen king and its immediately interesting to read.
That other book I had to force my way through the entire first 200 pages and have no motivation to keep going.
Its just a glorified romance novel and nothing remotely to do with dark souls.
I just know whoever recomended it to me is now having a good laugh.
Frick off dumbshit
fpbp
there is nothing particular that makes it stand out in terms of quality of storytelling or character writing or even prose
>dark souls
Stop.
There’s a general for you to discuss this anon.
pretty sure they’ll also give you the right recommendations
It's similar in the sense of the enigmatic narrative that has to be teased out from contextual cues and the atmosphere of a civilization in decline, not because of big sword swing swong gameplay.
Dark souls is some lone wolf nobody fighting their way through a dangerous and decaying world with lots of sword fights and violence and epic locations and enemies he must fight.
This book is some rambling guy in a love triangle wandering around aimlessly who has so far been in one fight with flowers?
The plot seems more weird than anything which is why i was saying its more like master and margarita, a love story in a strange world.
>vidyaBlack person
Lol, I swear whenever someone is whining about something on IQfy, and they say they play video games, I know I'm in for a good laugh. You morons are some of the most plebian gays I've come across, right next to frogposters.
Read more books before posting cringe next time.
somebody else on this board recomended salems lot by stephen king and its immediately good from the first chapter. I think ill just abandon gene wolfe as a trolling attempt from a rogue lit poster.
>he chooses king over wolfe
>is mad when they call him a midwit
>chooses king over wolfe
>is a midwit
Stephen King is a household name, I had never heard of Gene Wolfe before this board, pretty sure thats no coincidence.
>dark souls
>salem's lot
>filtered by botns
frick off holy shit stop ruining the fricking board
Book of the new sun 3806 votes on goodreads, salems lot 389,400 votes.
Yup I see it now, I have been trolled.
Book of the new sun is clearly some obscure meme used to troll people. Cant believe I fell for it.
you're an actual fricking moron, like <90 IQ unironically. BOTNS is not some super secret IQfy meme, and if you're unironically getting filtered by it and trying to defend your mental deficiency by saying it's not as popular as stephen king, have a nice day.
you're a fricking buffoon, stick to stephen king, he's right up your ally you fricking monkey.
I feel like I just watched all the raw footage from "Planet Earth", the hours of following around some bird waiting for it to do something, and I don't even have David Attenborough to narrate. Actually, I finally understand why people say, "I don't really get science fiction."
I don't doubt the prowess of the author or the beauty of the prose. This clearly took some writing, I just wish it led to something more fulfilling. All the time and effort went into saying things in a complex way rather than saying complex things. The plot meandered and never really held my interest, even when I could get through the fog of the unreliable narrator and the futuristic language. I feel like I would have gotten just as much by trying to read Harry Potter in French. At least then, I know something interest will happen in the end, and hey, maybe I can learn some French along the way.
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I don't get it. It's sloppily constructed, intentionally vague, and peopled with ridiculous characters. There is distinction between wit and mere cleverness, and this one clearly belongs in the latter category. I'm not sure exactly what happens (and upon perusing the other reviews I find I am not alone in that), but I also don't care what happened
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I read this at the recommendation of a friend, otherwise I probably would not have finished it.
It's a very odd book. The premise is interesting enough, and the writing is actually pretty good as well, if from a bit of an odd perspective.
However, somewhere between those two it falls apart. There is no thrust to it. It feels aimless. Individual scenes are good, but have little to do with the scene before them or after them. There is great detail spent on things that are not relevant to the plot, and things that are relevant to the plot are often vague and underdeveloped. This is all, I suppose, somewhat realistic, but it does not make for a good story.
>fricking IQfy Black person
>gets filtered by botns
>argues that stephen king is better because more popular
>peanut sized brain can't form criticism beyond no sword fights and violence so he has to post other people's reviews in an effort to save face
i can't imagine letting a fricking science fiction book from 40 years ago do this much fricking mental damage. you are a truly sad man, a bugman, an npc if there's such a thing. wolfe is laughing at you from the beyond. please go back to IQfy and shit up that board instead.
Wouldn't call it obscure, at worst it's a meme in the same way that recommending Infinite Jest is
Soulsgays truly are the dark souls of homosexualry
What are some books like Super Mario?
Pale Fire
the book of the new sun by gene wolfe
The Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
Dude, this series is closer to some avant-garde European novel than to any video game. Haven't you seen the guides?
holy shit I wish I had seen that guide before I brought it, it would of saved me 200 pages of reading and $24
Also what books are like the middle picture in that guide? Thats what I want to read
Not my own taste but you should perhaps poke around https://www.royalroad.com/
They're scientific non-fiction. Absolutely nothing to do with Wolfe.
A Hangman's Diary reads exactly like a diary of a historical person.
Divine comedy