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I've never read a book twice until now. I usually get bored somewhere in the middle but this one I couldn't put down.
After finishing book six earlier this year I decided to read the first book just so read about Kellhus' origin again. Only wanted to read the first couple of chapters and realised that the lack of knowledge of the Dunyain regarding magic was already mentioned. the thousand thousand halls were also mentioned right in the beginning lol. also I didn't know how much doubt and difficulty Kellhus had in the beginning, while in the second trilogy he is basically god.
but man this story is so fucking good. the whole build up, the in depth characters, the fascinating relationships, the insights. especially Cnaiür has to be one of the best written characters. I've started book 2 again. will also probably read book 3 but not the others since they fall off in quality imo. it gets stretched too much while the first 3 books are very tight.
is this one of the most underrated fantasy stories?
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Speaking of which, the final book just dropped. Holy shit.
also is this accurate?
tekne>aporos>metagnosis>gnosis>daimos>psûkhe>anagogis
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Should have posted this in /sffg/, nobody in outer /lit/ will care. I once read the opening to the first book and thought that it was okay but I could see the series becoming bloated and bogged down in lore so I decided against continuing. Bakker seems to be a moderately respected /sffg/ author, I'd say the series is about reasonably rated. I didn't hate what little I read, but he doesn't seem to be one of the genre's greats either.
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>>9724949
The whole existential schtick behind the series is why he stands out. His prose isn't bad but he's no Gene Wolfe. Better than GRRM, Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss and Joe Abercrombie combined though.
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>>9724964
>Better than GRRM, Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss and Joe Abercrombie
I'll pay that, but you really aren't saying much. GRRM had potential but his only really ambitious work is ASoIaF which is dead in the water, Sanderson is an autist who comes up with story ideas by playing with action figures and watching anime, Rothfuss just writes about student debt and women he wishes he could have sex with and I've never read Abercrombie but his books look like edgy hackwork just from their titles.
Fantasy was a mistake.
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if tolkien is cannabis and grrm is crack then bakker is dxm
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