Is he a meme?
Is he patrician?
Is he a commercial genre turd or a serious writer?
Short Answer: Meme outside of fantasy, patrician within fantasy.
>>7588038
You fucking dickhead, meme in this context just refers to cultural ubiquity on the internet. It's a totally separate question to the other two.
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He's fairly erudite -- more patrish than anyone on here.
>>7588335
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I'm currently thought the second book of the Book of the New Sun and I can say it's pretty good, but he'd made it a tad shorter.
>>7588022
>>7588375
When you're done with all of New Sun, you will wish it was longer.
>>7588022
Patrician. Just from the sheer amount of books he's read. He's mentioned reading In Search of Lost Time more than twice.
>>7589070
y-you haven't senpai?
baka...
Book of the new sun is fantastic. The style is greater than any other scifi, and the narrative is dense and complex. Arguably the greatest work of speculative fiction- at least that I have read.
A lot of his work is fantastic. I've read a decent amount of sff and he is by a large margin the best