Lee Hunts

I just finished The Unholy Consult, the final book in R. Scott Bakker's Aspect-Emperor series, and the latest release in the overall Second Apocalypse series. This series has taken me as many as six months to read in totality, which is a shocking number in retrospect; but then, I really shouldn't be shocked. This series has consumed my life, and for a good reason. Alongside GRRM's ASOIAF, I think Bakker's book series is probably among the most formative series' that I have read in terms of how I see fiction. As an aspiring author, this means it has had a profound influence on how I want to write my own stories. It's just a shame that I am not nearly as skilled as Bakker is in so many respects, haha. But I can try. I've been working on the first arc of my own epic fantasy series for years now, inspired by the political intrigue of Martin, the long-term story structure of One Piece, and the abrasive characterization of Abercrombie. I started this series with a...

I just finished reading The Great Ordeal, which is the third book in R. Scott Bakker's Aspect-Emperor series, and the sixth book in the larger Second Apocalypse series. It took me nearly two months to read this book, in part because I burned out on reading after Christmas and had to take a break, but also because this book is so dense that I had to read the fucker much slower than usual. And if we are being honest, these two factors are almost certainly intertwined. Bakker's books keep getting more dense, particularly in terms of the prose. It also gets deeper into philosophical ideas, the subjects nowhere near as simple as they used to be, but this was never really an impediment, given that I find these kinds of things to be intrinsically interesting. Either way, I read this one very slow, and I imagine that the last book will be another slog like this one. But what did I think of it? Let's get into that. No Spoilers Prose Because I mentioned the prose above, I figure I sh...