>travel with group of strangers
>put your life on the line for them
>fight for them
>do everything you can fucking do for redemption
>you...LE RAPED?
>suffer for the rest of eternity as some disabled bird man
All of that just for some commentary on how rape is bad, was china mieville raped as a child or something?

I've never read it, but the way you explained it is entirely reasonable. Redemption does not exist.

Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker.

>>24545291 (OP)
I was more offended by the bug gf getting raped retarded literally the moment before they save her.

>>24545291 (OP)
He was already broken and done by the time of the confession. The confession to Grimnebulin just reveals that he didn't care about figuring out what the bird man had done at the start, he was just interested in the abstract challenge of flight.

>>24545291 (OP)
>desperate attempt to fly again
>redemption
Not so sure about that Anon. He even accepted the futility and plucked himself to rid of the birdiness.

the red and the black

>>24545291 (OP)
I was far more annoyed by the communist Construct Council.

>>24546035
What the fuck is this nigga even saying?

>>24546136
if you can't understand that without help you should really find another board

>>24546035
>china

>>24545291 (OP)
>was he raped or something
Yes, every single commie is a victim of rape

>>24545291 (OP)
Yeah it was wack. There's are some cool ideas/aesthetics in his books but it's hit and miss.
>>24545597
I still think about this sometimes. It was so abrupt and needlessly edgy and harsh. Also contrived. What are the odds they get the meme moth off her at the exact moment she's still only half retarded?

>>24548013
>Yeah it was wack. There's are some cool ideas/aesthetics in his books but it's hit and miss.
I enjoyed The Scar a lot more, I think.

>>24545976
The whole point of the ending was bathos. It’s basically said from page 1 that after Waterloo it was impossible to live in heroic times anymore, what were you expecting from the ending total Sorel victory or some epic tragedy? Please

>>24545291 (OP)
Have you tried not identifying with a rapist?

>>24548337
I don't look at bathos with pleasure unless I'm writing it, and it wasn't so much that, it was the bizarre choice for a lady in her condition to do *that* at the end, it went from a simple fiction to absurd fantasy.

>>24546136
Just another privileged and insecure dork seething that Tolkien will always be a better author than him

>>24549209
No.