Talk:Approved literature

Anyone think that The Wheel of Time series should be on this list?

probably.

Unapproved & Shunned

Can we get rid of this category? And not just here, but in all the approved lists. This stuff adds nothing, is focusing how terrible X waas and usually regard works that are already forgotten, often for years, by pretty much everyone. What's the point of having this listed? In fact, the list from Literature list is the best example of how pointless and dated those things are. Nobody cares about any of those works and the worst thing to do is reminding they even were a thing.

Shunned

Maybe we should add a section for shunned works that are infamous for being terrible since the webcomics page has such a section as well. I've got two obvious ones:

• Terry GoodBadkind - The Sword of Truth: An infamous series full of Terry's magical realm BDSM, utterly gratuitous rape and torture (Terry's cheap/lazy method of making his 'heroes' look better by comparison) and a case of Protagonist Centered Morality and Designated Hero worse than Sonichu.
• Stephanie Meyer - Twilight: The cast is full of Mary Sues, the relationship glorifies abuse and the it has one of the most excessive cases of purple prose in existence.
• Christopher Paolini - The Inheritance Series: A Mary Sue main character and a derivative plot. It was written when Paolini was a teenager and it shows. Every single book could be used as a doorstopper and there are lot of times when the plot grinds to a halt for entire chapters just for the characters to think about the most inane of topics.

Donald Tyson works anyone?

Not if it may be legit but there is this author named Donald Tyson who have been some great Cthulhu Mythos novels, the first one is Necronomicon, The Wandering of Alhazred, which not only incorporates the passages cited in the original Lovecraft stories but stays true to Lovecraft's original canon (eg: Alhazred refusing to believe in the existence of Shoggoths, the Nameless City built by immortal reptilians, the Deep Ones intebreeding with coastal populations, the Great Race of Yith coming to prehistoric Earth and the war between the Great Old Ones and the Elder Things), the second one is a sort of expanded universe titled Alhazred, Author of the Necronomicon, which is related in first person and brings the details of Alhazred origins, how he came to become an outcast and learned all the lore written in the first book and adds new characters, and gives a decent historical contextual recreation of the early days of the Islam.

Sources

For those of us who don't frequent /tg/ but use this website all the same, is it safe to put books from the goodreads list here?

Chronicles of Amber and Kane series

I'm surprised those aren't on the list. I'd put them on there but I don't know if they are actually "/tg/ approved".

It seems a little obscure (I haven't read them, didn't even know when they were published, at least), but sure. These lists have always been someone inserting their personal favorite movie/tv show in an article. The only thing I'll argue with right know is having Thucydides and Xenophon on this list with no Shakespeare, Chaucer, or Poe (the Anabasis and the History of the Peloponnesian War aren't that significant of literature, even if some consider them a "good read" (which is fucking impossible given the total lack of acceptable translations and the hopeless exaggerations of Athenians and Thracians)). --Kracked Mynd (talk) 15:38, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

The Hornblower and Sharpe series should go under historical fiction

The former is THE Age of Sail book series and the latter is what Gaunt's Ghosts was based off of. Zufield (talk) 03:36, 31 August 2019 (UTC)