> Just read "the Book of the New Sun" in its entirety and I can't understand the appeal people find in it. The author really enjoys telling stories, and is very bad at telling a story. The world is glorious, and he does nothing with it. The protagonist is a nymphomaniac borderline[1] rapist who goes on long monologues about women as nothing more than objects (and many more monologues that are rarely insightful). The protagonist never changes, the story jumps from a chance encounter to a deus ex machina and back through random events of no consequence. But, as with literature, its very subjective, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've been hesitant about reading BOTNS, and this just confirms my suspicions that I should skip it.