>poet character to give the author excuse to post walls of poetry in the bookplease no
Did you pick up on the subtle hints that the author likes Keats?
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>>25603418I just skipped them.
>>25603418The first book isn't too bad. Second is far worse. And the rest of the series is just no.
>>25603547I will add that Hyperion had the strongest opening to a story that I've read thus far. The first part is incredible.
>>25603418If you're not a fan of tangents and unrelated asides maybe dont read a book structured after Cantebury tales idk.
>>25603418Prosimetrum is based, faggot.
>>25603547Second book is insanely fun sci-fi, the first book was just setting the stage for it, it's the second book which was the actual plot. But yes books 3 and 4 are horrible.
i genuinely hate when someone starts singing in fiction and they expect you to read their wall of text
>>25603418I hate how authors do this to show you how smart and well read they are. Comics do this all the fucking time
>>25603418why not? he also had one of his wife's poems in ilium/olympos, it's cool to spice things up and help the medicine go downwait, are you a translator?
Oisín (pronounced uh-SHEEN or oh-SHEEN), famously anglicized as Ossian, is the legendary warrior-poet of Irish mythologyIrish mythology's warrior-poet Oisín (son of Fionn mac Cumhaill) became Scotland's Ossian through the 18th-century literary adaptation and creative fabrication of Scottish poet James MacphersonBoth set in the Gaelic worldThe "Homer of the North" Invention: Macpherson took these traditional figures (turning Fionn mac Cumhaill into Fingal and Oisín into the anglicized Ossian) and wove them into sweeping, pseudo-epic poems.Macpherson published these works as Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1760), Fingal (1761), and Temora (1763), claiming they were direct translations of ancient Scottish Gaelic manuscripts. Later 19th-century analysis proved the "Gaelic originals" were largely Macpherson’s own English-to-Gaelic compositions blended with classical epics like Homer and Milton.While the poems became a massive global sensation—influencing Goethe, Napoleon, and Thomas Jefferson—they outraged Irish scholars because Macpherson had appropriated and repackaged core Irish mythology
>>25603418>instead of gay poetry and elf songs the author has the MC share tales from the cool book he carries around with him>"I have no way of knowing whether you, who eventually will read this record, like stories or not. If you do not, no doubt you have turned these pages without attention. I confess that I love them. Indeed it often seems to me that of all the good things in the world, the only ones humanity can claim for itself are stories and music; the rest, mercy, beauty, sleep, clean water and hot food (as the Ascian would have said) are all the work of the Increate. Thus, stories are small things indeed in the scheme of the universe, but it is hard not to love best what is our own — hard for me, at least."
Imagine a booktok version of the shrike
>>25603418Good book overall though.
