>Wow this is an amazing setting>The lore of this place is fantastic>What an adventure!*The Hero Meets the Girl*>Entire last half of book is feet fetish, kissing, infantilism, physical punishment in a master/slave relationshipWhat the fuck? I understand why it's not more popular now... what the fuck was the last half of that book? Up until then it was my favorite read of all time.
>>25429507WOAH WOAH WOAH. Slow down. What are we talking about here? How bad is the infantilism? Is the slave/master relationship comfy or degenerate?
>>25429507And the problem is?
>>25429519The problem is the shocking and abrupt complete narrative change from a highly original sci-fi fantasy epic to a weird repeating paragraph for hundreds of pages about beating a girl for being silly, simping over her feet, and kissing when they see any new visual or fart.It's awful.
>>25429528No one sees farts.
It’s kinda sad that this thread may discourage people from reading Hodgson. He’s so obviously a time traveler.
>>25429507Maybe you should consider why the back half of the book focuses on that.
>>25429563don't worry, he's already on my tbr list
>>25429564Because he had nothing left in the tank and decided to take his self-insert and make his perfect child-woman through punishment?
>>25429563Well, at least it encouraged me to download the book.
>>25429507Honestly sounds like Chambers' The King in Yellow collection. Starts with awesome stories about the Yellow Sign and ends with crappy romance.
>>25429507Wait till you read "House on the Borderland" same exact thing, really cool setting, character starts exploring..,.and falls into space before the last half of the book is just him traveling through space looking at impossibly old temples in an impossibly black existence where the universe is dying and light has long since ceased to touch. For 50 pagesA lot of authors just don't know how to write an ending and wrap up their story so they do this bullshit instead.
>>25429563On the contrary I've had The Night Land sitting on my shelf for years and this thread just bumped it up to my next read
>>25430030This is fine as it fits the books theme.The Night Land last half is just gross.
>>25429563Karnak is pretty good outside of the "do understand me?" moments.
Sexless literary prudes in this thread. If you wandered over a lightless desert, facing countless dangers and supernatural evils, you’re telling me you wouldn’t be infatuated over the descendent reincarnation of your past-temporally dead wife?
