Prove to me that Hogg isn't an absolute literary masterpiece

>>7587312

DUDE BUTT-RAPE LMAO

>>7587312
I'm only 250 pages into Dhalgren and Jesus Christ i just can't.. I don't read any sci-fi and was using it for a book to read when i couldn't sleep but holy fuck does it read like some RPG i played as a kid.
Can someone encourage me to keep going, or is it easier to reinforce my mindset on all this apparently lit savvy sci-fi as total trash?

>>7588216
>all this apparently lit savvy sci-fi as total trash?
Just read good examples of it. Sci-fi's almost inherelty speculative aims are largely incompatible with traditional literary quality, but when it eschews speculation, it's just another aesthetic choice. Book of the New Sun is surely one of the best literary woks in recent memory.

>>7588216
Have you read Tales of Neveryon? much more accessible and probably the sharpest writing I've ever seen in a more traditional Fantasy, with some post-modern curiosities