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2012-09-06 12:23 2958806 Anonymous (1281128812825.jpg 300x423 43kB)
hey /lit/ I want to take a taste of some low class and no merit literature. I mean some trashy sci fi and plebquest fantasy Can /lit/ reccomendate me stuff like that? I'm also thinking about reading 50 shades.

3 min later 2958811 Anonymous
go to amazon and buy someone's self-published book

5 min later 2958817 Anonymous
Pendragon, all ten books. Pure enjoyable dumb literature with a great scifi/fantasy feel.

6 min later 2958818 Standard Toaster
Do you want "pleb" books or "bad" books? Not all "pleb" books are terrible, but all "bad" books are "pleb" books, usually. A "pleb" fantasy series would I guess be that one Brent Weeks trilogy. Something about the NIght. A "bad" fantasy series is Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series or Legend of the Seeker or whatever the series is called.

11 min later 2958826 Anonymous
>>2958806 For bad sci-fi, try the Honor Harrington series. The guy's just an awful, awful writer for everything except lavish descriptions of a million nuclear space missiles detonating at once, which are admittedly awesome to read. Problem is, he writes characters the same way.

16 min later 2958833 Anonymous
>>2958806 I remember the brief Huge Orson Welles meme.

24 min later 2958842 Anonymous
>>2958826 Have you ever considered writing pithy reviews for newspapers? Because you should, and I'm being completely sincere here.

28 min later 2958849 Anonymous (calle borjesson straight edge tripfag.png 642x428 590kB)
>go to the sci-fi/fantasy section of a bookstore >pick a random book >congratulations, you've acquired "low class" and "no merit" literature

31 min later 2958855 Anonymous (patrick.jpg 631x704 99kB)
Its pretty pleb but I don't considered it bad, in fact I really enjoyed The Wheel of Time. WoT though, either you love it or you hate it. No middle ground.

32 min later 2958856 Anonymous
Why in the world do you want to read something 'low class' and with 'no merit'? If you want to read some scifi or fantasy you can read quality examples of both genres (inb4 all fantasy and sci fi are pleb). You can find more bad literature outside these two styles.

32 min later 2958857 Anonymous
>>2958849 >congratulations, you're an ignorant, elitist fag

35 min later 2958863 Anonymous
>>2958857 In order for his statement to be false at least 50% or more of random sci-fi and fantasy books should be middle to upper class. Is that what you are stating?

46 min later 2958880 Anonymous (1281146061024.jpg 480x360 86kB)
>>2958818 I understand the difference, I'm looking for "pleb" >>2958856 Expand my horizonts

51 min later 2958887 Anonymous
>>2958863 Not really. Every genre consists of a minority of gems in a sea of poo. This applies to non-genre literature too. The chances of randomly picking out a sub par example in the sci fi or fantasy section is pretty great, but the same is true for any style of writing or genre. If he was to pick a great work of scifi or fantasy what then? >>2958849 iks just talking shit.

53 min later 2958889 Anonymous
Try the Kingkiller Chronicles. It's not bad at all, actually, and very accessible (for literature).

58 min later 2958896 Anonymous
What a shitty thread so far. OP, I'm gonna pull two titles out of the air for you. Sci Fi: >Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg. My favorite sci fi novel, it even got a nice write up at B&N today. http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Explorations-The-BN-SciFi-and/Robert-Silverberg-s-Transcenden tal-Classic-Still-Mind-Blowing/ba-p/1381212 Fantasy: >The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfus. I read this a couple books ago and liked it a lot. It's a plebey fantasy coming-of-ager, but it had a certain magic that kept the pages turning. This one is also a relatively new book, so you can really make people mad by saying you liked it. .

1 hours later 2958943 Anonymous (1.jpg 350x350 16kB)
just read ASOIAF. it's trashy as all hell but impossible to put down. if that doesn't strike your fancy, you could always sample the King of the plebs - pic related. I'd suggest the Stand or the Long Walk.

1 hours later 2958971 Anonymous
>>2958896 silverberg fuck yeah. pretty sure this is what op wants. this was probably written in a week and it's plenty entertaining, but it's also not brainmeltingly dumb.

1 hours later 2958975 Anonymous (1280972848246.jpg 1000x698 265kB)
>>2958943 King and ASOIAF are like the kind of stuff I'm looking for but all of those books are pretty long and this is not a project I wish to dedicate too much time

2 hours later 2959128 Anonymous
>>2958943 Christ, The Stand had a horrible ending. Yet somehow I don't regret reading it... CONFOUND YOU, KING, CONFOUND YOU!

3 hours later 2959136 Anonymous
>>2958975 King has written a lot of short stories and short novels. Pick up one of his collections of short fiction. They're generally better than his long form novels anyway.

3 hours later 2959176 Anonymous
>>2959136 >Longer and suckier >Shorter and better Uff can't decide

5 hours later 2959395 Anonymous (the_founding.jpg 440x672 62kB)
The Founding sounds like exactly what you're looking for. Dan Abnett is pretty great at writing battle scenes.

5 hours later 2959405 Anonymous (eisenhorn.jpg 252x387 27kB)
You may also consider Eisenhorn, which has better characters than the Gaunt's Ghosts series (though not as much action). Most perturbatory.

5 hours later 2959438 Anonymous
>>2958806 Atlas Shrugged. Can't get worse than that, OP.

5 hours later 2959441 Anonymous
Relevant to my interests, I've been wanting to read some simple fiction, nothing too high-brow, just a fun page turner that isn't too dumb/childish, ie Percy Jackson

6 hours later 2959464 Anonymous
>>2959395 >>2959405 Do I need any WH knowlage before picking it up?

6 hours later 2959493 Anonymous
The Eye of Argon

6 hours later 2959514 Anonymous (heroesdie.jpg 285x475 53kB)
You sure you can handle this?

6 hours later 2959521 Anonymous
>>2959493 Already readed it, I even make an audiobook >>2959514 Looks heterosexual

6 hours later 2959528 Anonymous (Blade_of_tyshalle.jpg 312x475 37kB)
>>2959521 I can show you the door...

6 hours later 2959533 Anonymous (Caine Black Knife.jpg 266x400 29kB)
>>2959521 ...but you're the one who must walk through it.

6 hours later 2959551 Anonymous
>>2958943 What do people mean when they describe Asoiaf as 'trashy'? This word is always thrown around the instance these books are brought up on /lit/. I have no idea if it's supposed to mean anything significant. The books have some very well-realized themes and ideas, it's just that they're written in simple language.

7 hours later 2959564 Anonymous (m5ldlqUELf1r9zy3co8_r1_500.png 500x271 148kB)
>>2959528 >>2959533

8 hours later 2959656 Anonymous
>>2959551 > The books have some very well-realized themes and ideas No, they don't. They're shitty soap opera with ridiculous Renfayre constumes.

8 hours later 2959661 Anonymous
>>2959656 good post imo

20 hours later 2960593 Anonymous
Bumping

23 hours later 2961061 Anonymous (1330304535296.gif 450x253 2681kB)
>>2960593 >>2960593

24 hours later 2961106 βPictorishawk
Ringworld series and Protector, by Larry Niven. You really can't pull anything from it but SF wankery and bad dialogue. Also I really like the Protectors' behavior and how they run on resolve.

24 hours later 2961114 Anonymous (1344876877283.jpg 640x480 360kB)
>>2958880 >Expand my horizonts Some fantasy: Lord Dunsany Clark Ashton Smith George MacDonald Fritz Leiber Robert E. Howard Jack Vance Leigh Brackett Poul Anderson Gene Wolfe Guy Gavriel Kay Hope Mirlees Patrick Rothfuss Roger Zelazny Terry Pratchett Edgar Rice Burroughs Some SF: Alfred Bester Frank Herbert Robert A. Heinlein Arthur C. Clarke Philip K. Dick Jack Vance Theodore Sturgeon Frederik Pohl Cordwainer Smith Ursula LeGuin Spider Robinson

24 hours later 2961124 βPictorishawk
>>2961114 b-b-but a lot of these have literary merit.

24 hours later 2961133 Anonymous
>>2961124 Maybe, I just didn't feel right in parading out Black Library or RGP tie-in horrors when he was asking for his "horizons to be expanded".

28 hours later 2961607 Anonymous
Last bump. This question still stands >>2959464

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