Reading The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson. I was really enjoying it, but then 3/4ths of the way through out of nowhere the main character gets cucked, completely out of the blue and the main character's wife seems completely out of character to make this happen. The main character's friend also gets cucked by the same guy, and that guy also is implied to have fucked every single woman that lives at the main character's farm/homestead.That character then ends up becoming a major supporting character and a friend to the protagonist.I just want to drop it now, but I'm close to the end.
That really touched a nerve, huh? Do you harbour feelings of enmity towards your wife's boyfriend?
>>24835869I didn't like it because Ylva, the main protagonist's wife, seemed out of character in the moment when she decides to cheat. It feels bad after a large part of the book was about the protagonist winning over Ylva's father, going away for a long time and then eventually reuniting with Ylva in this very sweet and funny scene where he love for him seemed so sincere..But then cuckoldry out of nowhere.
>>24835893You're projecting male virtues onto a female. Rookie mistake
>>24836340It made me sad, I cared about them...Now their relationship feels fake to me, all the romance from earlier evaporated.
>>24835775ahh, no wonder they were shilling this garbage so hard.thanks for the warning brah.
>>24836484Who's shilling it? It's a pretty old book.
>>24836495it was being shilled here a few years back now. among other places. i thought it was because of some new NYRB release, but now I see that it was the typical demoralization campaign (which has worked splendidly judging by the quality of this board and the internet at large now)
>>24835775That doesn't happen at all. What the fuck are you talking about, anon?
>>24836514>Magister Rainald>trying to play interferenceclever tranny
>>24836514Did you not read the book? Magister Rainald quite literally cucks Rapp and then cucks Orm right after and then implied that he fucked all the women when they are all crying because he's leaving and they've made all kinds of stuff for him.Ylva says to Rainald that he probably wont be fooling around with women anytime soon because he got hurt, fell down a tree or stung by a bunch of bees or some shit, and then he says some I wish shit and reaches out his arms for Ylva and the narrator says some bullshit about "and what they did no one would ever know"Paraphrasing because I read it in the original language
>>24836592it's one of those demoralization fags i was telling you about. you thought i was crazy, didn't you?
>>24836592Lmao you're right, I never read the second "book" more than once because it's quite a bit weaker than the original. I think I just dismissed it as the narrator being cheeky, a bit like the old sagas, rather than anything serious. I did reread the bit you're referencing just now; I don't know why the fuck Bengtsson, being the type of man that he was, would turn Orm into a cuckold. Though the second "book" was famously written under pressure from the publisher.
>>24836606>backpedaling trannygtfo faggot.
>>24836606First book was way better.
