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First for Bakker
book 7 is going to be nuts
>>23629546Some of my favorite booktubers have gotten into Bakker so now I can watch their videos while playing Civilization 4 and pretend that I too have read Bakker
Fourth for xianxia
>>23629551Im hyped for it. Been tempted to read the chapters on kemono, but i managed to hold off
First for xanxia
>>23629608Obvious false flag
How is the second book? I feel like the ending dropped the ball in the end. The author couldn't handle all the diverse threads and figure out a convincing motivation / behavior for the daemon. Does it improve or does it continue to unravel into even more of a mess?
Bros, I am going to reread Reverend Insanity (for the third time). What am i in for?
>>23629681Faggoty weeb shit.
>>23629696Projecting
Anyone read it yet?
>>23629648Ending of the first book that is.
>>23629681Read ISSTH
Was John Brunner a cuckold? I really get that vibe occasionally reading his works. Romance and relationships only figure very rarely in his books, which isn't too unusual for science fiction, but when they do they tend to be short, disappointing, unfulfilling affairs, most commonly without either participant having much motivation to continue the relationship after the social/technological/psychological drama of the story is resolved. However cheap physical pleasure, polyamory (especially interracial), etc tends to figure heavily (especially in his magnum opus Stand on Zanzibar), but never makes the protagonists spiritually happy. In an "about the author" blurb in one novel he reveals that he lived with his wife "and a friend" in a flat in London. It really suggests to me that this man might have been a cuckold living in sexual inferiority to his own wife's possessor.
Has the NA cover of Wind and Truth been revealed yet?
>>23629107>TiganaYeah, I have no idea why it's praised so much, Tigana is utter garbage. So many words, so little said. Constant soap opera-grade melodrama, forced worldbuilding, and general filler.The two things I found most ridiculous were:>send your son to invade and conquer foreign lands>he gets killed in battle>completely lose it and dedicate your life to muh revenge>literally nobody, not even this guy's mortal enemies, ever see the flaw in this reasoningLike dude, YOU SENT YOUR SON TO WAR. People die in war. This is not fucking rocket surgery.and everybody's going on and on about >muh country, >muh name, and >muh history, but nobody seems to care about actual people living there. Starvation, poverty, oppression, ridiculous brutality, that's all just facts of life, nothing to get excited about. But everyone's ready to die for fucking Tigana at the drop of a hat.
>>23629755I would've read it on the day it came out, I could've read it months before that, but my reading has decreased. Hopefully I'll get around to it reading then writing about it within a couple weeks.
>>23628430 (Me)Read the memery sad Thorn novella.Is the series good? I was underwhelmed.Like 50 pages of meandering setup for the climax of>we die I dunnoSlightly less pointless than Hedge Knight.
new buehlman out yesterday hotties did you pick yours up?i was initially disappointed it's a prequel but pretty quickly got investedhoping it goes more into goblin society than the first book bc they're pretty compelling villains>consider humans as livestock, keeps breeding pens & torture prisons>kill every horse in the world>have asymmetrical bodies, hate & destroy symmetrical buildings & infrastructure>bodies don't decompose
>>23629529Cool wizard tower
>>23630208>female protagonistno
>>23630293based
>>23629529recommend me some excellent fantasy novels which are grounded and play in not!medieval europe plus magic and fantasy creatures. basically tolkien-like fantasy.
>>23630332realm of the elderlings
>>23630332>not!medieval europe>basically tolkien-like fantasy.Did you actually read anything from Tolkien? His fantasy is not like that at all.Look at The Witcher or ASOIAF.
>>23630363thanks bro>>23630367okay you're a fucking retard. stop talking to me or my wife's son at once
>>23629592>https://kemono.su/patreon/user/5429305You WILL read all of the new chapters. You WILL come back here and discuss the plot with me. You WILL like it.
It's Friday, what are you gaming and reading? For me, It's Tales of Maj'Eyal and Hawkwoods Voyage
>>23630540Cogmind, fellow Rogueliker, and A Canticle for Leibowitz
Just came to jav of a older woman molesting a bbw and a school girl. Now it's time to enter the nascent soul arc in a xianxia novel. But first, let me post this
>>23630208i liked it more than blacktongue thief, the war focus was way more interesting
>>23630293this
>>23630540Playing wrath of the righteus, though im pretty close to abonding my current run and start a new one with a different class. Not reading anything currently, but might give waylander a try soon
>>23629546THE COFFERS
Peek pirate fiction? Space or regular.
>>23631010I'm quite liking William Hope Hodgson's pirate stories, mixed in amongst everything else. They're not really adventures though. More just single encounters, and from the perspective of the people being pirated. They're pretty horrifying for the most part. Read enough, and you might even stumble upon the story of a nigger haunting the topsails at night.
Could a heroic fantasy book set in the 21st century work, or would it be too silly?
>>23629592Highly advise never reading anything at patreon pace if you can restrain yourselfI did it with a bunch of stories I like and now I have to read them in weird fits and starts where I let chapters build up for like a month or two and then read them all.Much better to just read a book when its done
>>23631010Wyvern is the best pirate book by a mile imoIt's dutch east indies though so it's not quite what people expect.
>>23631386Isn't that one of the best places to be a pirate, even though the Carribean and Mediterranean are more iconic?
>>23630540It's no longer Friday here but I plan to wrap up the last 10 chapters of Fires of Heaven today.Though it does look like I'll be starting off with a Nynaeve chapter, so this might be easier said than done.
>Book has multiple POV characters>People skip POV sections of characters they don't likeI hear about people doing this constantly and it seems crazy to me. Surely you're missing out on huge chunks of plot doing that.
>>23630540Playing MMOs as per usual, frequently the dead kindToday, I read the most recent two chapters of Dungeon Crawler Carl, as well as the little bit (chapter or two) to finish part one of Godclads book two.
>>23631652If I don't like someone's POV then I just put the audiobook at x2 speed until it's over or simply read the first sentence in a paragraph and move on.I do this with WoT every time there's a female POV and it works like a charm.
>>23631671World of Thunderthighs?
>>23631811Worms of Tunguska, obviously.
>>23631652I did that with WOT didn't feel like I missed much.So many characters, things got covered multiple ways.
>>23631374Is Reign of Fire cool?Yes.I like those kinds of books a lot, or such and such travels back in time with this and that.You get to pick your own dwindling supplies and determine what's so important.Well I guess I'm jumping the gun and assuming things are scarce.It can still be cool. I don't know who you would have the hero slay. If it's corporate dudes then just know you're going to be wanking off like 1,000 guys who want to see the tiny hat tribe hang.
>>23631475Spices and exotic goods = money
>>23629551>Dungeon Cuck CarlNext /sffg/ will try to convince me that The Wandering Estrogen polluted Inn and He Who Shites With Monsters are good.
>>23631973thanks for your eternal bump
>>23631973All reddit tier litrpg slop, you want to filter for novels with sexual content
>>23631990DCC has plenty of sexual content. One of its most significant characters has a VERY BLATANT foot fetish.
>>23629529Logically the magic system of cultivation is more tethered in reality then some chosen farmboy attaining an overpowered talking sword or riding a massive flight capable lizard into battle and it not eating him before also acquiring that sweet sweet princess pussy. But for all the credibility in the world, without fail each and every work of cultivation fantasy fucks itself with en-tropic young master face slapping, autistic repition of power levels, meditative hand waving on character inconcictencies and a host of mindless jade beauties fawning over miniaturized Asian cock. And that is all before you reach the not so small matter cringe worthy dialogue.
>>23631991The foot fetish is reddit teir, le quirky fetish. How do you not know this? No. You do. You are just posting in bad faith.
>>23631991>Dinneman is a foot fag as well as a cat cuck.Checks out.
>>23631935>I don't know who you would have the hero slayScientologists, the Illuminati, CIA assassins, Skinwalkers.
>>23630208>>23630293>female protagonistThis is fine>female protagonist with no boobsThis is unacceptable.What's even the point?
>>23630208Looking at the cover of that makes me think.I don't think I've read a book that really goes into battle details.A LOT of the scifi I read was the interesting scifi stuff and then the battle is like, "The ship is in half and on fire after the explosion and..."So I've yet to read interesting battles in books. Very, very peculiar.
>>23632061>CIA assassinsYou made me think about Ninja Gaiden.I'd say heroic fantasy can absolutely happen then. Those whole NES games are about the CIA getting their hands on demon shit that they shouldn't and the clash of swords and guns worked pretty well to me. Ryu is the son of a ninja and uses ninja arts and magic and has a magical sword, his GF and friends have guns and shoot demons.It always felt like there was tension. Guns will cut right through Ryu, but he's a fast as hell ninja. If you lose your grasp on him, he might kill you from the shadows.You don't have to have magic though. Ryu was just a human after all. There's even a compelling human that makes it into Hell with Ryu who's just some ex-army guy.
>>23632185Karl Edward Wagner liked to sperg over battle details. I think every one of his books has at least one lavishly detailed battle scene. Wayne Barlowe is pretty detailed with the battles in God's Demon.
>>23631386There's so much stuff called Wyvern. Is it the book by A.A Attanasio?
>>23629681Fang Yuan wins
>>23631811>WoT>irritating women>incredible bloatIt's obviously wheel of time.
Anyone here read Chronicles of Prydain? Just wondering what they're like.
>>23629901>and (spoiler)From the way you put it it does seem to me like a commentary about romanticizing nobility, monarchy and medieval times in general versus how the times actually were for the common people. Of course I'm not saying this for sure was actually the intent of the author or that it's a good commentary since I haven't read the book.
>>23632262yeah
Here is a cute butt, now tell me which xianxia to read next I've read:against the godsarrogant young mastercoiling dragoncultivation chat groupelder cultivatorintro to os abstractions using plan 9immortal only accepts female disciplesi shall seal the heavesmartial god asuramarital worldmolting the mortal coilpath of the ascendantrenegade immortal (twice)scp gacha system in a cultivation worldsovereign of the three realmsstellar transformationstygian magetales of demons and godstechnocultivatorthe dao of Magicthe desolate era (twice)the new journey of an old soulthe void king.the way of the daotrue martial worldunfathomable seniorupgrade specialist in another worldwarlock of the magus world
>>23632882seek help, unironically
>>23632882>marital worldmartial world*lol
>>23632884>seek helpI'd rather seek dao
>>23631991>tfw you will never get your feet licked by aiwhy even live...
>>23631860>writing is so redundant that you can skip full chapters and be fineI think that's a sign of bad writing
>>23632961You skip any book and be fine, so is all writing bad?
>>23632882I am not seeing RI on that list
>>23632888I'd rather seek trips -------------------/
>>23632994Renegade immortal is on the list. I'm talking about real xianxia not pokemon. Seriously even the fucking renegade immortal wiki call them pokemon. It's also fairly old at this point, but not old enough to be genre defining like CD and preCD novels
>>23629576links? I wanna watch normies misunderstand the genius of Bakker
>>23632970nta but reading books hasnt kept you from becoming a sophist
>xianxia spam>Shit-rpg spam>Favorite booktubers>Bakkerfagging My low expectations remain unmet.
Books for this feel. Say bakker and I'll kill myselfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wc-AQJ2MYo
>>23633033https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMiws6PVhEo
>>23633072bakker
>>23633072Also make it a xianxia. My vote is CD if you haven't already read it. And if you haven't ... what the hell is wrong with you.
>>23633070What's the deal with this xianxia shit, you're telling me people unironically read Japanese light novels but Chinese?
