Comment on Is "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy considered a good book?
boatswain@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
I mean, it’s Tom Clancy. It’s a fun read, like Dan Brown or Brandon Sanderson, but it’s not literature or anything.
Comment on Is "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy considered a good book?
boatswain@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
I mean, it’s Tom Clancy. It’s a fun read, like Dan Brown or Brandon Sanderson, but it’s not literature or anything.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
First in what way is Sanderson similar to Clancy? Sanderson books are massive tomes of epic fantasy. In what way is it not “literature”? Or do you just consider only non-fiction “literature”
boatswain@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
They’re both mass-market pulp that are entertaining to read. There’s plenty of sci-fi and fantasy that’s literature: Ursula LeGuin, Tolkien, Gene Wolfe, NK Jemisin, Vonnegut… the list goes on.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Chaucer, Heywood, Shakespeare…
boatswain@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
Oh, and Dunsany! Can’t believe I forgot him.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
LOL