Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Previous:>>24690786>Thread Question:What's your favorite author known a particular book which lead to people overlooking everything else he wrote?
>>24703379>tqnowhere near an extreme example, but glen cook and the black company. he is actually rather prolific.
>>24703379>What's your favorite author known a particular book which lead to people overlooking everything else he wrote?well for most people, Tolkien
How's Dungeon Crawler Carl?I was talking to a friend about how I find most progression fantasy/it's like a video game stories boring despite liking the idea on paper. He suggested it and when I told him I often find the parodies also boring he insisted it seemed like a basic parody at first, but it has hidden depths.
>>24703650>litrpgnot a single good book in that genre
>>24703659wrong. Dungeon Crawler Carl, Solo Leveling, any RR. Those area ll awesome books and very funny
>>24703650https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_book/1029811-sffg?book_id=56791389
>>24703688You always defer to the collective when someone asks for an opinion?
>>24703650It's broken containment and is the closest one to a breakout with mainstream appeal for litrpg. At 140k ratings on Goodreads that's the same as GRRM's Fire and Blood. It's just below Will of the Many. It's a bit less than half of The Blade Itself. It probably still yet has a good bit more to grow.
>>24703698Would you have preferred that I linked my review by itself?
>>24703650The audiobook version elevates the story.
>>24703379Victra best girl>TQ>>24703390 is correct, though I'm sure we have plenty of Silmarillionfags like myself here. Maybe Dunsany as well with The King of Elfland's Daughter, though all his work is niche now. Narnia also gets vastly more recognition than the Space Trilogy or Till We Have Faces.
>>24703650It's pretty good
Anyone read The Devils by Abercrombie?I'm in the middle of it and I'm already tired.
>>24703761that's a fair review. If the roles were reversed, we'll be screaming what a dickless loser the guy is and how he's written to be unrealistic, unheroic, and a faggot.
>that's a fair review. If the roles were reversed, we'll be screaming what a dickless loser the guy is and how he's written to be unrealistic, unheroic, and a faggot.
can you all stop reading such disgusting dogshit modern slop. At least if you are going to read something modern find something good to tell us about. Thank you.
>>24703710Yes but based on the other replies I should probably explain why I usually find these stories to be disappointing. The short version is, they lack tension.First the progression in a lot of these stories is boring. Especially for the ones based on video games the steps the character takes are automatic, frequent, smooth, and tiny. When I prefer these steps to be deliberate, occasional, difficult, and big.Then you have the character whose progression we're following. Often main characters who leave me feeling nothing for them or their goals, though the latter is often a world building issue as well. A writer needs to give a compelling answer to what their growing strength means to them, for them, to those around them,and for everyone else. Something they usually fail to do.
>>24703841We don't read.
>>24703650continuing on from >>24703705I've been procrastinating writing about this. I may as well do so now. One of the most surprising sff-related results from me doing the booktube playlists was how prevalent Dungeon Crawler Carl was. It's become a book that people are reading because other people are reading it. From what I can tell, the the greatest influence on booktubers is other booktubers, so it's spread far and wide. Personally, I believed the book had niche appeal, but it seems I was wrong. There are so many videos of people who say they didn't think they would like it, but they were told to read it, or that it became popular enough for them to try it out. Often they turn out to really like it. There are videos from the entire spectrum of people. Two I found to be particularly notable were a young Black woman who said she didn't really read sff and a young Black guy with a popular TikTok account who had an interview with Dinniman on his Youtube account. Dinniman seems to give a lot of video interviews. Honestly, I find it a bit surreal. That being said, the vast majority say that they enjoyed it mostly for the comedy, and not really anything else. I assume that means that for almost all series there's going to be a sharp drop-off through the series. For now though, even though those who don't have any interest in videogames, D&D, number go up, or even SFF in cases are reading it. Many are going to feel blindsided, or confused, if they get far enough into the series where it gets really heavy with the standard LitRPG elements. Having dozens of pages of inventory and mechanics talk to start with seems like it'd be something many bounce off of. Maybe I'll be wrong again though. I don't think this will mean all that much for other books in genre overall though in terms greater acceptance from readers. I haven't seen others really, but maybe I'm not paying enough attention. For all I know, many may be reading it and not even realize that it's LitRPG. On a related note, I don't believe that it'll do all that much for Dinniman's previous work, or his upcoming non-DCC book. Personally I'm not all that interested in this previous work, but I'll give his upcoming one a try.
>>24703761>>24703821I read up to Tech World but dropped the series there because I couldn't stand the main character.
>>24703849Not true, I read 200,000k+ words a day of fanfiction.
>>24703841Define "something good". I may write up sometime later about how I looked at various current year books. There were some that were rather amusing.
>>24703864You read over 600 pages every single day?
>>24703867No progression/litrpgNo female/warrior anime tier romance slopNo Sanderson, Albercrombie, YA, etc slopNo massive door stopper of a series that could tell the same story in a trilogy or even 1 book.The bare minimum I know crazy. It won't happen I've lurked these threads for years. Some good modern books I have read recently are Elder Race, Red Rabbit, and The Haar.
>>24703893I read fanfiction until I get bored of chinese webslop then I read chinese webslop until I get bored of fanfictionhttps://www.fanfiction.net/s/13541061/1/Shield-Kid-s-Bizarre-AdventureHere's the story I've almost completed over the past day.
>>24703922You must really be zooming through then, though I suppose comprehension or remembering any of it is among the least of your concerns. Perhaps this could be called vine reading. Mindless slop that takes up to time and let's you forget that you're alive. Better and cheaper than being drunk all day.
>>24703944*vibe reading
anons I'm trying to get into fantasy. I read a light novel. "Overlord" the one that had an anime adaptation.I didn't like the excessive waifu parts of it but I LOVED the world building, politicking but especially the SADISTIC power displays. Completely humiliating your enemies by grand display of superiority on a physical/spiritual and civilizational level.What are the recommendation?
>>24703985
>>24703650I'm reading book 3 currently.I've laughed out loud and basedfaced multiple times. was not really expecting to like it this muchmy first litRPG though, so I have no frame of reference for the rest of the genre
>>24703988NTA but which one is the better between this and LotM? I see both mentioned all the time.
>>24703991Reverend Insanity is better written in terms of prose. It's not great but LOTM's is awful.LOTM is much better written in terms of plot; even when it seems meandering at the very least every single thread is 'paid off' by the end. RI's strength, plotwise, is that the author understands that setbacks make regaining power all that much cooler. That said it's incomplete and will always remain that way.
I wish more stories in the genre were written like RI to be honest. The protagonist is a proactive evil genius but the world is reactive enough to not let him away with it. He's always getting his shit kicked in by the world but he finds a way to work harder, work smarter, evade his enemies, come up with a new plan and rise higher.
>>24703841I'll read whatever the fuck I want, retard. Keep crying about it
I have a very basic magic system, twelve elements. Fire, water, life, death, etc. However each element has three names associated with them: the name of the type of magic user, a trained and “licensed” version of the magic user, and the organization associated with them.For example, the night element: a person born with a connection to this element is a darktwister, who can use the ability darktwisting. A trained and “licensed” master of this craft is a Moonlight Apostle, a member of the Dark Sky Church.For day it would be lightgifter/lightgifting, Sunbound, Sun Cult. So on and so forth, for all twelve elements (most of which don't even get mentioned in the story). Do you think I should bother putting a glossary for all this shit, or are modern readers high IQ enough to understand that a guy called a Current Guildsman who is using the power of waveforming to help guide a ship into a berth is using some sort of water magic?
>>24703991Reverend Insanity is cancelled, unfinished. LotM has an ending.
>>24704040>Reverend Insanity is cancelledJust because winnie didn't like his parody cameo. Sad!
>>24703988I was more looking for "real books" and not more light novel type of things. I kind of want to graduate from "shameful" books that I can't talk about with colleagues towards genuine books.
>>24704038As long as you don't lore dump it should be easy to remember.
>>24703985>SADISTIC power displays>Completely humiliating Aaron Oster - Supermage >sound of crunching bones...ribs were shattered...loud crunching sound, his skull caved...felt a rush of power as...lifeless body hit the ground with an audible squelch>punched a hole straight through the man's chest...leaving a gaping hole where his chi-heart used to be...in a pool of spreading blood>A rush of powered entered him as the guard died...he'd just ranked up...he couldn't help but grin>the new wind blade destroyed the man's head in a shower of gore>piercing scream as the spike emerged from his chest...body convulsed...massive amount of blood pumped from the wound...he went limp...a distinct sense of satisfaction as he watched the man in his death throes>He stood still for a moment to his admire his work. He'd easily killed a thousand people with that attack, a new personal recordNeven Iliev - Everybody Loves Big Chests>The fleshy tongue coiled around the young adventurer...eaten in three bites. Level up!>It continued to sit there, slowly digesting its victim>CRUNCH! NOOOO! RON! CRUNCH MUNCH. Her brother...eaten right in front of her...blood and guts gushed out all over the place>she actually had an orgasm while the Mimic was ripping off her breasts...transformed into a hardcore masochist who longed to be hurt and abused>spurt after spurt of semen to her innermost depths...not a single drop ran down her thigh>four streams of semen...poured into her...two in her lower entrances and two more down her throatRob J. Hayes - The Heresy Within>"wouldn't it be nice ta bend her over an' shove it up her arse so hard she screams?">"You were raping the the daughter while we were killing the father?">He raped boys and girls alike and slit their throats after to bathe in their blood as to keep himself young.
>>24704047I think it should come across as non-dumpy. I refer to the whole thing as the Twelve Paths, but the only elements that appears as main characters are life, death, and night. Wind, wood, day, and water magicians appear as background characters. I namedrop fire, earth metal, distance(space), and all this is spread out and introduced over the course of 100k+ words. I think it’ll be fine, thanks
>>24704046If that's what matters most to you, why not read what your colleagues suggest?
>>24704065It was just an example, not the actual purpose. Looking for a more high-brow experience in general because I'm slowly building my brain back up from tiktok brainrot. Brainrot -> long form youtube -> Anime -> Manga -> Light Novels and I now want the next step, actual novels.
>>24704038>I have a very basic magic system>36 terms for magic users>12 organizations
>>24704071What do you think about Game of Thrones?
>>24703650Anything based on a video game or with progression is gutter trash that shouldn't appeal to you if you are older than 16. Even basic bitch fantasy is superior because it may still have a degree of authenticity. What authenticity can a setting with literal video game style xp progression have? What suspension of disbelief or awe can it inspire? The meta is too on the nose. How can anyone truly immersed in the story not lose immersion when a number appears on the protags head and increases everytime he kills an enemy as if it's a video game.
>>24704073Well actually there are seven other magic types on top of that, but those ones are animal based
>>24704087>How can anyone enjoy what I don't? They're wrong, must stop, and then do better.
>>24704101We must be better men, /sffg/.
Horse.
>>24703650i stopped reading when some of the characters started discussing gossip girlit was pretty awful before that, but that was the final straw
>>24704056>she actually had an orgasm while the Mimic was ripping off her breasts...transformed into a hardcore masochist who longed to be hurt and abusedDoes it have more guro-esque stuff like this throughout the series?
>>24704145Yes actually it gets ridiculous. There's an explicit version you need to hunt for because I believe the 'main' releases had it toned down.
>>24704094Let me explain further. Continuing on with the night element:As I wrote, a person born with a connection to this element is a darktwister, who can use the ability darktwisting. A trained and “licensed” master of this craft is a Moonlight Apostle, a member of the Dark Sky Church. If you were thinking that this follows Brandon Sanderson's system with metals, you'd be right! While I'd like to come up with my own original ideas, for now I'm settling with copying one of the greatest masters of fantasy. However, unlike him, I'm willing to go much further into detail. This is where my advantage lies. Here's the Dark Sky Church's ranksInitiate: Darkened Apprentice: Shadow PilgrimJourneyman: Night PriestMaster: Moonlight ApostleGrandmaster: Starless ProphetHowever, that's just for the Dark Sky Church, there are competing organizations for every element, each with their own naming scheme for their members and what their ability is called. Another huge part is that while unlicensed and considered heretics, it's possible to have multiple elements. Each combination has its own name. Dark and Light together is called twistedgifted. Yes, it's simply combining names together to make this basic system easier to remember. After all, there's only thousands and thousands of possible combinations. Someone who can use all the elements is called an Elementborn. Heh, you see what I did there? I thought about mimicking Avatar's bending system with the elements, but thought that may be too obvious, so I combined it with Sanderson's system. That's how the best artists do their work. If you can't tell this is a different anon writing this, then you may have a problem.
Anyone read Erik A. Otto? I'm reading Proliferation right now, and it's OK but the prose is so sophomoric - Oops! All Tell - but the story seems good. Curious if the series improves.For anyone interested, it's a neat combo of underdescribed apocalypse plus AI-run-amok story that does OK. But goddamn is the actual writing mediocre. Characters are pretty two dimensional, too.
I used to dislike Nynaeve and think she was annoying as shit. Then I met f*male characters that made her seem like kitten. Now I like her.
>>24704287Nynaeve best girl
>>24704287If only I knew how bad it could get.
>>24704370I'm starting to see the light.
>>24704391Nynaeve actually is best because she has a quality story arc. She starts out as a big fish in a small pond, which is why she's insufferable. Then she gets thrown into a larger world where she can no longer boss people around, and you see her have to deal with her limitations even when she's kind of in denial about them. She changes and matures as a character, but over a long time and not in a simple way.
>>24704190Incredibly upsetting post. Take it down
>>24704412>take it down You seem to be unaware of how 4chan works. Posts can't be deleted after a certain amount of time.
>>24703915>No Sanderson, Albercrombie, YA, etc slopSo you hate fun. Understood.
>>24703688yikes
I really liked how Sevro found out about Ulysses. Lightbringer is pretty dang good so far.
>>24704547Why?
>>24704553Golden Son > Light Bringer > Dark Age > Iron Gold > Morning Star = Red Rising
>>24704604Morningstar grew on me after listening to it on audio the second time around. The whole business with the Rim was kino start to finish. It's probably still down there with Red Rising, but RR is certainly the weakest.
>>24704604For me right now it's Red Rising > Golden Son > Morning Star. Haven't started on the sequel trilogy yet--I can only handle first person slop in small doses.
Calling what you read "slop" is self-disrespecting and one step away from self-loathing.
If the first Red Rising Saga book started instead with how the second series is, it never would've become successful. Red Rising did so well because it's the worst written.
>>24704672Chill bro. It's a quasi-YA first-person perspective space melodrama with bad writing. I enjoyed it, but that doesn't mean I have to think it's on the level of like H.G. Wells or something. It's OK to be aware that some of the stuff you like isn't great.>>24704678I thought Red Rising had the worst writing but the best plot of the original trilogy. I liked the more grounded approach where Darrow has to use strategy to accomplish his goals and you actually see how this plays out rather than having some deus ex machina reveal at a crucial moment. The plot contrivances get worse through the trilogy until you get to the ridiculous ending of Morning Star.
>>24704713It's funny reading your replies to that anon. One day you'll join us in knowing that all fiction is slop.
>>24704728no. just because you read bad books doesn't mean we are in the same club. I have a disdain for plebs
>he reads genreslop>he reads fictionslop
>>24704672But what about the times where you're not 100% there for the book. For eample when I'm tired and lie down in bed and grab a book it's going to be some sort of slop. Currently it's Fang Yuan's slop. If I read something good where I have to pay attention I'd either miss stuff or not remember half of it tomorrow.And how would it be self-loathing? You don't base your identity on what you consooom, right anon?
I finished up the Hyperion series a few months ago, and I've been wanting to read something similar. It easily became one of the best series I read, any recs?
>>24704815Sleep, don't read.
>>24704728>all fiction is slop>he says on the science fiction and fantasy thread
>he reads bookslop
>>24704893>reading bookslop instead of 4chan postsNGMI
>>24704646Mad how anyone could think red rising is better than golden son
>>24703985Goddamn, those covers are a mess.
>>24704996>trashing one of the few good covers for both light novels and genre novels in general in the modern age.
>>24703650I don’t get litrpg as a concept. Vidya stories are crippled by the gamey aspects and the upside is (hopefully) that the game is engaging. So you remove the actual game part and you just talk about it and keep the shitty vidya story having done the worst of both worlds. Even “cozy” fantasy blabbing on about making coffee drinks to a gnome makes more sense.
>>24705034Art is good, but whoever did doesn't understand the basics of composition or detail saturation. They just look too busy.
I've read Dune trilogy long time ago. Now with the movies and TV series I kind of got interested in it again. And at the same time I have a desire to "invest" myself in to some sci-fi universe or setting. And Dune is just on to of my head, also the Foundation maybe. Does anyone have any other suggestion for quality setting? Because I've heard that Dune gets worse with each book and Foundation is a bit too outdated.
>>24705098I've not read it yet but I've heard the Sun Eater series is very Dune adjacent.
>>24703650one of the few authors more reddit than sanderson
>>24703688>not a single actual review/sffg/ has failed me for once.
>>24705098I suggest red rising
>>24705130that's the sort of audience that reads drivel like that. don't expect coherent thoughts.
>>24705062it appeals to autists, they don't want to be shown that a character is strong, they want to know that he's got 18 strength and he used to have 14, that's a 28% improvement!!!
>>24705146>they don't want to be shown that a character is strong, they want to know that he's got 18 strength and he used to have 14, that's a 28% improvement!!!That actually explains it perfectly and leads me to think these people would probably enjoy it more if the entire thing was presented in wikipedia-style format.
Are any of the Warhammer Fantasy books worth reading?
>>24705034>one of the few good coversDamn it's that bad huh
>>24705156surprisingly, most of them. 40k books are the ones with a problem.
>>24703761>writing reviews as they're reading the bookdo people actually do that?
Chat we eating good
>>24704811>open book>it's wordslop
Is Stand on Zanzibar any good?
>>24705297
litrpg is based and keyed
>>24705146It's more that previous authors have failed to show that a character became stronger properly. Litrpg forces the hand of the author, so they can't pull the usual move of "character for exactly strong enough to beat the big bad".
>>24704140Whore*
>>24703650at first fun/maybe vaguely novel but the formula is trite and I felt like I had seen it all before
>>24705471seethe Cassius
>>24703985though not sadistic you might like the the kings dark tidings bookskinda shits the bed after second book though
>>24704140Size queen.
>>24705130What's an "actual review" to you?
>>24705603A paragraph of text at least.
>>24705638Did you not see the one that's several paragraphs, a full 4chan post worth of text?
>>24705130>>24705638>he missed Yev's reviewGranted, Yev is the only reliable reviewer from the group, considering he runs it. The /sffg/ group is as poor as this thread when it comes to 1) finding new books and 2) actual book discussion.
>>24705674That isn't to say there aren't many others who write them though, as per the review thread, which I really ought to update and improve sometime, since it's been years. The group is relatively close now to 1,000 members though. Maybe next year.There are also those who post their reviews here, from time to time, though not reliably as you note. Not that I've been doing that much this year either.On a related note, I'm tentatively planning to be reading and writing about a lot of 2025 books for the rest of the year but I haven't committed to it yet. May tie it into another contest/game sort of thing, in relation to something else. To be decided.
I have never read any Zelazny before and I can't believe how sloppy this writing is. Only a few pages in:>"You must see now that my armor cannot be breached. It was forged by the Salamanders themselves and bathed in the blood of ten virgins…">Dilvish cut at his head and as he had cut at him, Dilvish had circled slowly to his left, so that now Lance stood with his back to the horse of steel, called Black.>"Now, Black!" cried Dilvish.>Then did Black rear high up on his bind legs and fall forward, bringing his front hooves down toward Lance.>The man called Lance turned rapidly around and they struck him on the chest. He fell.>Two shining hoof marks had been imprinted upon his breastplate.>"You were right," said Dilvish. "It is still unbreached.">Lance moaned again.The combat is so clumsily written that Zelazny has to refer to both characters by name repeatedly, but after calling the second man "Lance" he instead calls him "The man called Lance" a few lines later. Lance moans "again" despite not having done it a first time. A few pages earlier a different character is described as "firing" a crossbow. How do these details get missed?
>>24705670>>24705674I genuinely have not seen his review. Thanks.
Why are italian omnibus editions of classic series from mondadori getting such ugly/bland covers nowadays? This one is especially insulting
>>24703387It's funny because if you looked at Cook's biography you'd assume Garrett PI was his main series he'd be best known for.
>>24705742saving on artist's probably
>>24704604For some reason he seems to really pop off with the 3rd books of his series.
>>24704087I thought I would really like Progression Fantasy because I heavily enjoy stories where the MC starts at a bottom rungs of their society, power system, or organization and ends as one of the most powerful people in the setting. But it's starting to seem o enjoy it being a feature rather than the entire point.
Am I the only one who found Dark Age and Iron Gold to be oddly funny? Like so much bad shit happens it wraps around to being comical especially when I start just expecting things to go wrong for our heroes.
>>24705714He probably didn't realize how poorly prepared he was to write action scenes until he tried it, then gave up and settled for writing awkward low effort slop because he didn't care that much.
>>24705714>I have never read any Zelazny before and I can't believe how sloppy this writing is.Zelazny is the quintessential "No skill @ All panache" Anglophone scifi author. People who love him don't love him for good prose, or sensible plots, or scientific hardness, or literary restraint. He is loved for taking whatever the fuck he wanted and then writing whatever the fuck he wanted, in whichever way he wanted, without giving a single fuck about how clumsy or amateurish it seems. He was what kids nowdays call "based af".
just finished rereading harry potter for the first time in around 15 years and it was so incredibly kino the whole way throughnow i have a large emptiness inside of me, what is a good fantasy series to delve into to fill the void?
>>24705279Čitao sam one o robotima od Asimova skoro, nije loš.
>>24705714Zelazny has never been praised for his good prose, anon. You need to see him from a different angle
>>24706056>kinofeck off
>>24703387I'm gonna have to go with Glen Cook as well, because my favorite books by him are the Instrumentality of the Night series (4 books, unfinished) which basically nobody has heard of even if they know about Glen Cook.
>>24705062>Even “cozy” fantasy blabbing on about making coffee drinks to a gnome makes more sense.To you, maybe. If I wanted to read that kind of drivel I'd just read chick lit and pretend the people are elves.
>>24705638That's a tall order for people who read, sorry, LISTEN, to litrpg stories. Most of them are only literate enough to navigate an app on their phone and have never actually READ a novel in their life. Expecting such people to produce a detailed analysis, in writing no less, is preposterous. I think an ideal review should still be under 1000 words unless you're planning on publishing an article about the book, and I don't think 500-800 words is too much to ask for a book review, but asking that from litrpg fans is asking for the moon and the sky along with it.
is Mistborn YA? because it starts to feel likeI'm enjoying it, I'm halfway through the first book but maybe it's the feeling I got after reading emperor of thorns and then this...
Soft magic is better.
>>24706056well it depends on how old are you, unironically. If you are an adult and you feel le void after reading HP you really need to up your game
>>24706228Have you actually read any YA stuff? I see a lot of people saying stuff like this and it makes me wonder how much YA they've read.
>>24706215>I think an ideal review should still be under 1000 words unless you're planning on publishing an article about the book, and I don't think 500-800 words is too much to ask for a book reviewJesus, buddy. Take it easy.
>>24706215A /lit/ post is 3,000 characters maximum. That's 500-600 words assuming 5-6 characters per word including spaces.
>>24706283For examples of ~3,000 character reviews , refer to the archives where I've posted 100s of that length in these threads.
>>24706283My own book reviews posted to /sffg/ use the whole character limit and sometimes have to have a second post. I've never written them up in a word processor but I'd imagine they clock in around 600-ish words on average. Sometimes that feels like not enough space, but upon rereading what I wrote, I find that I rambled or dove into unnecessary detail about some things, and it's a good constraint for teaching one to summarize.
>>24705781I never found it funny but I seldom found it sad either. Mostly it was just meaningless carnage, especially during Ephraim's and Lyria's arcs. And then there's Lysander who tries to be a hero of the Core but spends 80% of the book going bald from radiation poisoning in a desert. I didn't really care about anyone who died until the very end, either.
>>24705692I appreciate everyone who writes reviews for the group. It's important you tell them that.
>>24706230Correct.
>>24706228it was not written to be YA but it has been shelved as YA
>>24706228It is YA, and after a while you'll realize a lot of the stuff posted in this general is YAslop, but soilennials get upset if you point that out
>>24706371>but it has been shelved as YAWhere? I've never seen it shelved as YA. Not in big chains, not in used book stores.
Japanese mistborn cut each book in half for a six book trilogy.
>>24706394>>24706371that's what I thought, honestly>>24706239well I have read plenty of YA when I was a YA and despite this being a cool story, it's not clearly adult literature. You could argue it's on the verge of it but it's not certainly a book for a mature audience.
>>24706397https://www.amazon.com/Mistborn-Trilogy-TPB-Boxed-Set/dp/0765381524
>>24706394the generation who call harry potter a masterpiece, what would you expect?
>The japanese cover: VIN-CHAN!!!
>The spanish cover: AHH MY HEMORRHOIDS
>>24706408the fucking gooks have to ruin everything I swear
>>24706408Japanese translations of English texts are always significantly longer by character count than the original. That, and Japan's publishing industry favors shorter, slimmer volumes.
I just finished BG3 and I quite enjoyed it. I saw that there are a lot of D&D books. Any advice where to start? I don't know anything else from the D&D world apart from BG3. Minthara best girl btw
>>24706456Only ones that are generally recommended are Drizzt books. He’s an antihero Drow
>>24706446You have that backwards. Japanese translations of English have less characters, unless kanji isn't used at all for whatever reason. They may visually take up more room and have a greater file size, but that's a different issue. >>24706480How is he an antihero?
Original book cover art
>>24706529Reissued cover artQuite the change.
>>24703662Again. Not a single good book. The ones you listed are le heckin' cool, Reddit-tier garbage.
>>24703761If a foid is screeching about an /sffg/ book on Goodreads, then it must be good.
>>24706540When will you accept that the Reddit sff lists are basically the same as the /sffg/ ones?
>>24706543We have to ban all Redditors from posting here.
>>24706548It doesn't concern me what redditors like or dislike. For some reason you have allowed these people to carve out a permanent foothold in your brain. You cannot enjoy anything without first making sure no redditors also enjoy it first. I cannot imagine enslaving myself to strangers in this way.
>>24706557litrpg is garbage. simple as.
>>24706535Too animu
>>24706564I agree, but I managed to arrive at this conclusion without consulting with reddit first.
>>24706535wow that's a completely different vibe. which one is closer to the tone of the book?
Not that Kind of Good Guy - John Ringo, published by Baenhttps://upstreamreviews.substack.com/p/book-review-not-that-kind-of-goodGoodreads421 rating, 61 reviews, 4.44 starshttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224299731-not-that-kind-of-good-guyReview excerpts>400 pages of Ringo's ideology..the world is secretly ruled by a rich elite for their own pleasure, that bad guys are all rapists and child abusers...makes it fine for the protagonist to kill bad guys without any form of legal process>kid genius has to explain...Fox News approved obsessions.>liberals will *HATE* this. Conservatives will alternate between glee and horror.>I was NOT expecting was a thinly veiled q anon propaganda novel. The entire world is run by child transporting pedos and everyone is evil...Everything else is controlled by the child molesting super cartel.... tween Batman on crack waving his q propaganda pamphlet..I consider myself pretty right leaning but this is conspiracy craziness to the extreme.>every fear the Right wing MAGA crowd has about the Left is dialed up to 11.>Michael is a thirteen-year-old orphan who grew up in a ghetto, raised by a transexual black prostitute.>progressive people evil child molesting killers bad, conservative maga people fantastic people>A multi-generational Deep State that plays the Left against the Right...the coming Storm plays in the background.>The whole book was basically land mines of hot buttons>can't go more than a couple pages without spewing hate.>a pretty good book when he's not trying to "own the libs"...but dude, just tell the story.Book Excerpts>The Nebraska Killer killed Al Gore during the 2000 election, which just gave the Left another reason to hate Bush.>I’m being called a transphobe! I’m a trans ally!>You’re finding out just how vicious the Left is when they find a victim.>Notice how Antifa got itself pantsed a few times by just general dudes, Kyle Rittenhouse comes to mind, there were all of a sudden articles about ‘The White Supremacy Basis of Working Out’?>“I don’t care what you say, you transphobe!” the woman said. “Trans are lied about all the time. We are not pedophiles! I know half the trans community in New York!>“You’re just a MAGA hater!” the woman said. “You’re the face of white supremacy! You like to beat up gays! Homophobe!”>Colonialism bad. White people colonialists. White people bad. Bad colonists. Brown and black and Asian people good. White people bad.>an active and aggressive pedophile. She is also the ‘youth outreach coordinator’ for the New York Super Corps and in charge of the Junior Super Corps>That’s how these things always work. Epstein, Weinstein...other Steins.>The 9/11 Commission had identified “mistakes,”...Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. What the hell is twenty-one?>“THE STORM IS COMING!”>Trump>Biden>Obama>Clinton
>>24706701I don't know, I saw it again as I was going through books today. I tried reading when it when first came out, but I don't remember anything about it other than I wasn't interested.
>>24706535Needs to be more animu.
>>24706230Shut up George.
This shit is boring as fuck
Why is it such sloppa in here lately? I thought we'd talk about actual scifi like Inverted World or Concrete Island or War of the Worlds, real scifi about society and humanityNot heckin dungeon crawler le 4th wall
>>24707186I figured because it's by John Gwynne
>>24707186I thought it was masterfully crafted and brutally compelling
>>24707198Anthony Ryan, you need to write more sequels to Blood Song, but make them good this time.
>>24706541That's how I got memed into Bakker. But when they were talking about all the rape they forgot to mention all the gay rape.
>>24707225The only source from which I ever heard about Bakker was the autistic spammer in these threads, so I surmised he must not be worth reading if there was literally no one else to recommend him. When your chosen prophet is a severely autistic man who shits up a general thread for 5 years, it doesn't speak to the quality of your work.
>>24707186Yup. 9/10 covers, 5/10 series.
>>24707241>5 years6+
>>24707247My it really has been that long, hasn't it?
>>24706704>superhero book talks about modern politicsi'd rather work, and I hate my job
>>24706609too animuDICK, maybe
>reading mother of learning>MC tells a telepathic spider that using derogatory terms to refer to non-psychics is "bigoted"okaaay>about 2 chapters later, the author drops the word "mindrape" okayyou know for all the MIND/MENTAL magic/manipulation we see in this genre, i personally rarely if ever see the actual word mindrape and the author is some Croatian fag so no clue why Western politics is in my webnovel bullshit (the first part, I find the second part funny)
>>24707346the spiders are great
>>24707367i'm at the first part of ARC 2 so please no spoilers. i was sad to see them killed off and hope they come back
>>24707371all kinds more spooders
>>24707380>giant jumpan spidersfuckin kawaii
>>24707380Can you herd them for a jamboree?
It's so weird how over the course of reading Wheel of Time, I have now come to the point where Aes Sedai involvement is a universally bad sign. The white tower is incompetent at best, and a hive of darkfriends at worst. They make whitecloaks look reasonable, and the Seanchean a better option. Fuck it, I'm team Tuon now, may the empress live forever.
>>24707531>I have now come to the point where Aes Sedai involvement is a universally bad sign.>Misandrist matriarchal order>They fuck things upYeah, can't imagine why.
>>24707600It's just crazy to me how the Children of Light, who were set up to be bigoted zealots, wound up being far more reasonable and less corrupt than the Aes Sedai toward the end of the series. Also, the minute Egwene joined the Aes Sedai in Salidar she began the biggest cunt in the universe. Like what the fuck.
>>24707702are they really bigoted though
>>24707186I tried getting into it because I have just done a series play through of God of War and was in a mood for anything that was about gods and mythologies. Fuck me it was a slog. Stopped around 1/3 into the book. Maybe it gets better but I was not impressed with what I read.
well that was fucking tedious
After reading 2001 and A Clockwork Orange then watching the films I can confirm Kubrick is a fucking hack
>>24707789at least we got to see prime nicole kidman dancing topless
>>24705300It's great, perfecly encapsulates New Wave Science fiction>"It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in order to make him fight on behalf of his rulers, the rich and powerful who are too cunning to fight their own battles-in short to defend not himself but people whom he's never met and moreover would not care to be in the same room with him-you have to condition him into loving violence not for the benefits it bestows on him but for its own sake. Result: the society has to defend itself from its defenders, because what's admirable in wartime is termed psychopathic in peace. It's easier to wreck a man than to repair him"
>sffg praising literal genuine anti-white cuckold fiction
>>24707767If you still want something about gods and mythologies, I recommend Shadowmarch by Tad Williams.
>>24707753Yes. But ti turns out by coincidence the women they're bigoted against actually do harbor a huge number of dark friends, more than any other large organization in the books except maybe the Black Tower which had to forcibly turn men to the shadow using Black Ajah, so even then Aes Sedai are at fault.
>>24707807thanks anon I'll check it out
Any recs for scifi mystery books? Kind of like Jack Vance where they have to catch a criminal.
anybody read old shit
>>24707842>1998>old
>Dead...dead as fuck...How do you go from Best Served Cold to THAT?
>>24707328But you see, it's based because it owns the libs!
>>24707885lots of reddit browsing
I wasn't really enjoying Journey To The Centre of The Earth at first, but ever since they actually descended I've been thoroughly enjoying it
Does Mimara see her own sin?
>the science in journey is wrong>there is NOT a secret hollow earth beneath the surface>do not investigate any further >believe your government
>>24707186What do you mean? Ryan told me it was masterfully crafted and brutally compelling.
>Ewgene:"Why are we being punished instead of treated as heroines for uncovering the Black Ajah and recovering the Horn of Valere">Reality:Falls for obvious trap and get slaved, get rescued and fuck it up by starting to blow shit up, ruins thousands of years of propaganda by using her powers on a normal person, damages the Tower's relationship with the country most positive towards AS by getting their daughter-heir kidnapped, Rand and the boys are the ones to recover the horn before her stupidity makes it harder for them to escape with it, the horn even coming back to Tar Valon has nothing to do with the girls and it ruins decades of planning between Siuan and Moiraine.This girl is downright delusional.
I have a £20 voucher from Folio Society because it's my birthday soon. What should I get bros?
>>24708273Tau Zero
>>24708280Not on there. I'm looking at Dune, American Gods or the Odyssey/Iliad. Dune is so expensive compared to the others though
>>24708290Do not get American Gods sweet jesus it's fucking cringeThe very first lines are>Shadow had done three years in prison. He was big enough and looked don't-fuck-with-me enough that his biggest problem was killing time. So he kept himself in shape, and taught himself coin tricks, and thought a lot about how much he loved his wife.The premise sounded interesting to me but seeing I was in for writing like that turned me off
>>24706619No one here consulted Reddit to come to the same conclusion.
>>24707225Just ignore those scenes.
>>24708189Yes. The series parallels Egwene and Lanfear constantly for a reason, she's a borderline antagonist.
>>24708189Egwene is a masterclass in unreliable PoV. If you take her thoughts at face value she seems like a brave, well-meaning girl but looked at from anyone else's PoV she's just a spoiled brat who is a terrible, HORRIBLE judge of character. Characters that Egwene hates or thinks badly of are usually competent and decent people, and the people that Egwene likes or has sympathy for are usually idiots or literal darkfriends. >Padan Fain admits to being an Uber Darkfriend who has done things so vile Jordan won't even describe them to us, and was responsible for attacking her home and killing several people's known all her life>Egwene still goes to visit him in prison because "maybe I can help him!"This is just the first instance of it, but she again instinctively trusts or sympathizes with darkfriends multiple times. I can think of 3 other notable instances off the top of my head.
>>24708590She's also a two-faced hypocrite but that's later in the series.
There should be a Wheel of Time general.
>>24708598>less than 10 posts in a 200+ post thread>waaaah make a general already!
>>24708621>believes only the current thread exists and that dedicated threads don't create their own conversation
>>24708598THE SAME FIVE BOOKSTHE SAME FIVE BOOKSIN THIS SCI-FI AND FANTASY THREAD THEY POST THE SAME FIVE BOOKS
>>24708598>>24708621At this rate you might as well say that /sffg/ should get its own board with /lotrg/, /botns/, /wotg/, /grrm/, /rrg/, /malazan/, etc.
>>24708638Long running single-topic generals become garbage extremely quickly on this site. Even sffg can't fully buck being infected with people autistically posting the same dumb shit over and over. It gets so much worse when it's a single topic instead of multiple genres.Go look at half the threads on /vg/ and you'll find most of them are literally just 550 posts of nonsense spam with a couple of hundred legitimate posts between. And I do mean nonsense spam, some of them to the point it's not even words.
>>24708647would be comfy
>>24708649True, I frequent /erg/ for Nightreign updates but it's 60% tranny erping
>>24708649/vg/ was always a poor board of low quality. Don't forget that it began as a containment board .
>>24708647And Bakker?
>>24707186I really liked his other two series, havent read this one.
>>24708785/grig/ gay rape and incest general
>>24708290just get Dune.
>>24708694it still is
>>24707845>27 years>not olduh
>>24708899>anything older than me is old, but I'll never be old, so the age when anything is old increases every year
>>24708943That has been me for years, I'm currently at the point where you are still a young adult until 35.
>>24708875I agree with you.
>>24708966correct
>>24703379Books for this feel
>>24709153You mean to tell them they haven't commissioned some novels yet? You'd think their 40k audience would be demanding some BL-tier slop by now.
>>24707767>maybe it gets betterIt doesn't.
>>24707769I felt it could have been a lot better if it handled the cast a little differently. Valerie and Moore are the true protagonists, but neither work in that role. Valerie is fun and really the only person in the story who has agency, but she's also inscrutable, overpowered, unrelatable, and doesn't get much screentime. Moore is likable and relatable but he spends more than half of the book cooped up in his quarters obsessively listening to radio signals. The supporting characters are all some combination of unlikable and forgettable. Brukks could have been enjoyable if he had some engaging people he could play the straight man to, he's at his best when he's interacting with Moore and Valerie, but he spends most of his time with the flat side characters instead.
>>24708899maybe in real life hwn we are talking about people but in literature that's a baby, if a 30 year old book is old then what is Lord Dunsany? prehistory?
>>24709308Genre slop typically has a short lifespan. All those mass market paperbacks from the 90s are ancient and forgotten now.
>>24709317All books are genre
So I wrote a book, but I suck at selling books. It's a silly Sci-fi novel because I'm a gooner for Douglas Adams. It’s called Welcome to the Deep Estate. ARC readers thought it was a pretty fun and funny read.Da Blurb:John Doe always thought his dad was bonkers, ranting about secret lizard people and a shadowy Deep State pulling the strings. Then a newspaper from another timeline lands on his doorstep, and things get… weird. A hidden message leads him to an unlisted office with an extra-secret elevator that only has one button: Down.At the very bottom, John discovers the Deep Estate nestled inside The Backrooms, and the secret organization keeping the world blissfully unaware of the truth: reality is kind of insane.Get ready to dive headfirst into the mind-warping, bureaucratic belly of the beast that is The Bureau of the Bizarre. Their job? To catalog, contain, and hide away all the weird things the universe spits out when it’s bored or drunk.Quick STFU FAQ>No, the cover art is not AI.>Yes, I use Em Dashes>No, that doesn't mean I wrote it with AI.Check out the reviews here:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239514749-welcome-to-the-deep-estaEbook/Paperback Here:https://a.co/d/82LI32URead the first chapter:https://kevinkaneauthor.substack.com/p/preview-welcome-to-the-deep-estate-6fcRead the second chapter:https://kevinkaneauthor.substack.com/p/preview-welcome-to-the-deep-estate-3d0
Hmmmm that's a nyo from me
interracial ganbangs are hot but only if the woman is either a pawg of a milf.
Interracial is only good if it's white man X female or lesbian interracial
>>24709380Sorry you've got to do better. Give me a desperate fox wife at least.
>>24709424No, just a hot vampire lady, radioactive twink, and a horny Victorian demon doll.
>>24709380>not litrpgSorry but if number no go up then I no read
>>24707186That cover always makes me laugh because what the fuck is that guy gonna do
>>24709465Even worse, can you imagine how bad that dragon's breath stinks?
I want to start either>Abercrombie >Fritz Leiber>Glen Cook>Karl Edward WagnerMy favorite fantasy is Bakker, BOTNS, Cugel's Saga, Malus Darkblade and the old Drizzt books. So, which one do I pick first? Or if anyone have anything to close to the feeling of "Planescape Torment" but in book I'll take it too.
>>24708280Ah yes, Tau Zero, aka "this is what a ramscoop is and this is what tau is and hey wouldn't it suck if this one crazy thing happened?"
You guys tricked me into reading this piece of shit. This is the worst piece of shit fantasy novel I've ever read, what a miserable slog. I finished Tales From Earthsea as well. It is definitely better than Tehanu, but I can't say much else good about it. Awful. What happened between the 3rd and 4th book?
>>24709503You mean "hey what if this one crazy thing happened but instead of focusing on that I talked about relationships and infidelity on board a small spaceship doing its thing instead HAHA"waste of my fucking time
>>24709496Start with Wagner or Leiber.
Alright, Tchaikovsky. I read Elder Race, which was pretty kino. What should I go for next? I narrowed it down to three options>The Tiger and the Wolf: tribal fantasy shapeshifter princess escapes her warmongering father who seeks to rule the northern region>The Expert System's Brother: guy living in a dystopian world ruled by software ghosts is exiled from his weird house>Made Things: a thief living in Wizard City allies with tiny puppet golem things until she makes a momentous discovery
>>24709509Hey, I quite liked the original trilogy.I couldn't keep up with Tehanu, it didn't have the same attention-grabbing quality. Does it really suck that much? I know she got a lot more liberal in her advanced age.
>>24709511Thank you I'll start with Leiber this seems great
>>24709496Go with Leiber, wagner, cook and instead of reading redditcrombie you can read David Gemmell
The First Law is a fine series, don't read anything else by Abercrombie.
Is Tau Zero not worth reading?
>>24709576Not unless you want to be sorely disappointed like I was. I assume you refer to my comment above.
>>24709576I'm the other guy.I think it's worth reading, for sure. It's short, it's a classic, it's rather simple & straightforward. It's basically a lesson on ramscoops and relativity, with a small dynamic of interpersonal conflict. That last part is what soured otherAnon to it, but I think it helps bring the story down to a human scope. Without it, it's just a physics lesson.Also, again, it's very short. So you can decide for yourself whether you love it or hate it but have another proverbial notch on your scifi-classics belt.
>>24709576https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_book/1029811-sffg?book_id=240617
>>24709596Did Yuo Know? Feds often post links to websites they can track, in order to monitor who is connecting to websites they cannot track.
>>24709576Gateway by Pohl is better
>>24709608Did you know that that 4chan has handed over its information several times and cooperates with law enforcement? You seem unaware you are very much tracked here.
>>24709615Then if the government knows I want a latina gf why haven't they provided it
>>24709631shadow is that you
>>24709633I'm not sure if I actually genuinely want a latina gf or just daydreamingApparently they're really high maintenance and do constant shit tests
>>24709596>aniara is one of the best books I've readNever heard of it, is this random anon correct?
>>24709649His preferences run towards the literary.https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_book/1029811-sffg?book_id=1138948
>>24708171 she isn't damned
>>24709649yes, Harry Martinson won the Nobel because of it, this was back when the nobel meant something b t w
What did Howard mean by this?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blow_the_Chinks_Down!
>>24709781he wanted to suck asian penises
>>24709781>>24706704Probably not all that different from what Ringo meant by this.
>>24709834howard was just a little racist (and perhaps a bit gay) he wasn't a full on schizo like ringo.
Anons what was the short story that went something like>set in futuristic world >there's a certain image that makes you insane >main character has special scramble glasses so he can graffiti the image without going insane >something happens and he goes insane because he sees the image I'm describing it pretty badly but I know you know it
>>24709846Smile Dog
>>24709846BLIT
>>24709865Is that like Updog?
>>24709883what's updog?
>>24709572I'd agree, I read all + the short stories collectionthe series definitely peaked with 2 and 3 in first lawsome of them were decent but just not as good
>>24703714>>24703650Is there any place to get the audiobook for free?
>>24710006Many. What is your preferred method of downloading?
>>24709519Between it and the next book the setting basically becomes a medium for litigating gender-based exclusion, misogyny, and celibacy. All of the men are either violent rapist misogynists, useless retards, or are enlightened by their interactions with women and are feminists. Sparrowhawk gets so butchered, he regresses to a child and is only saved by losing his virginity. There is a scene where a character is forced to walk on her hands and feet like a dog because she is a woman who stands up for herself and that intimidates a wizard. It feels like someone who hates the source material doing a sequel. The first three books are pretty good imo, I'm probably even going to read the last one to give it a chance because the fifth one was good enough, even if it was a lot like the fourth, but damn it that fourth book is such a piece of shit.
I like fantasy and I like sci-fi but I don't like when there's fantasy in my sci-fi books. Examples are Dune, Blindsight, WH40k. Not sure if this is a popular or unpopular opinion.
>>24710016Direct download would be best but torrent is fine too. Or anything, really.
>>24710034Choose whichever you prefer https://forum.mobilism.me/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=591591https://forum.mobilism.me/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=6024039If you prefer MEGA, I can do that, but I can't post it publicly because reasons.
>>24707225Lmao that’s exactly how I, too, was memed into (the first three books of) Bakker. It’s like 75% of the way to good but gets oddly repetitive with the character relationships just going in loops. I can also appreciate wanting a grittier fantasy story but lovecraftian rape demons is a little eye-rolling.
>>24710006https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/dunigeon-crawler-carl-book-1-matt-dinniman/Make an account and click magnet.
Which of the recommendation charts are actually valuable and not retarded memes?
>>24710215I will go back through them tomorrow and make a containment folder again and it can be argued which belong in there or not. It has always been my position that the charts have many problems and there are better ways, but it's what many like.
>>24704394>>24704391Also the more you read, the more you realise Nyneave being a bitch to every single Aes Sedai is completely 100% earned, and she's in the right, because fuck the Aes Sedai
>>24710230Another anon here. Many have several issues. I went on a binge looking through them last week and noticed the questionable state of quality and redundancy for some. I can go through again tomorrow to point out specific problems perhaps.
I haven't read much fantasy in my life. Was too busy consuming weeb stuff. If I enjoyed the dragonbone chair series and asoiaf what else would appeal to me?
>>24710270Bakker.
>>24709730how convenient.
>>24710265Just to clear, the only thing I will do is move them into folders. I won't be deleting anything and I definitely won't be editing anything. So, whatever problems you have with individual charts will not be fixed. That's an issue for their original creator.
>>24710338You literally have two of the same chart with different filenames, as one such example.
>>24710339I haven't done deduplication in a while, that's true.
>>24710289Which one is his best work? Also isn't he known for his atrocious pacing and padding?
>>24710400When it comes to the ponderous, more-than-trilogy epic fantasy, Bakker is quite literally the most effacious with words. Tad Williams, Robin Hobb, Janny Wurts, Robert Jordan, Steven Erikson, ect; The Second Apocalypse is half the length, if not a third in some cases, of their respective series'. And by the end of the Aspect-Emperor series, the story will shatter all preconivened notions of the "fantasy story" and delve into a truly Hellish biblical nightmare.This might be the must subjective part, but his prose his unrivaled: it is equally parts tonally dense in atmospheric melancholy and poeticly epic to match Tolkien at his best.
>>24706704From the substack review During a Baltimore shootout with MS-13, thirteen-year-old orphan Michael Edwards is shot to pieces … but he’s saved when his superpowers kick in.Michael’s only problem is to deal with The Society, the secret masters of the world who pull strings behind the scenes. They’re a deep state / World Economic Forum hybrid that manipulates governments and hierarchies.But Michael also has a secret society of his own called Gondola. And Gondola doesn’t play nice either.There’s a fully self-aware AI, demons, witch doctors, two competent FBI agents (bringing the book fully into fantasMichael’s file is referred to several times as “The War and Peace of Child Abuse.”Michael is a self-taught thirteen-year-old with multiple graduate papers in multiple areas. since I was six and figured out how to set it up, I’ve been listening to two college lectures at a time on earbuds, one in either ear, sped up to usually three times speed.”Ringo basically took 2020 as well as I did, and my thoughts on 2020 involve arson, because nukes are too quick.Discussions of rape and pederasty, sexualizing children, and someone who expresses Marion Zimmer Bradley’s opinion that “everyone is innately homosexual.”
Any good harem fantasy recommendations? They can even be more smutty, but they gotta be fantasy.
>>24710507There used to be a guy who wrote reviews of them here and I've seen a few reading them currently in the Goodreads and rating them well. I'd look for you, but I really must sleep now.
>>24710500holy fucking slop
>>24710500sounds like shitkino
>>24710507I like Heretic Spellblade, the writer is not cringe and can do worldbuilding.
>>24710270Malazan. Ignore bakker unless you like gay rape
>>24710539Good night, anon.>>24710612Thanks, I've seen it mentioned here and there. I guess I'll check it out.
>>24710507>good haremthat's a contradiction
>>24710652It's not. Ever great fantasy story has to have a harem, else it wouldn't be great.
>>24710507Mage Breaker. Someone here also recommended Heretic Spellblade but that series is fucking long. The same author of Spell blade also wrote Mob Sorcery which has a new book coming out on the 12th of this month.
>>24710507Ard's Oath 7 just came out and I've enjoyed the series. Bruce Sentar gets glazed a little too much in the community imo, and Ard (the MC in this series) can be insufferable sometimes, but the girls, smut, and action in this series carry it. It's the closest to an epic fantasy that the author has done, and one of the few series from him I really like. Sadly (or not, depending on your tastes), it gets less smutty as it goes on because his audience wants harems without sex for some reason.
>>24710507I've shilled Sarah Hawke before and I'll do it again. I love her stuff. She has two fantasy series: Dread Knight and and Dragon Sovereign. The first is dark fantasy and the second is a more traditional power fantasy harem story. Both have spinoffs that are even better than the first series.
>>24710108I thought it did some things quite well, but yeah, there are some failings. It feels somewhat dated with 2006 era edgelordism, like in the middle of a sorcery battle "his wards could no more protect him than a thin linen shift against a rapist..."Also the philosophy parts are sort of mixed. Parts are quite good, especially how it mixes with the sorcery. But the 00s early 2010s New Athiesm eliminativism stuff feels very dated, especially in Neuropath. Having seen this BTFO over and over since then, with even its big proponents abandoning it, it's hard not to read it and cringe.
Rate my 100€ total World of Books haul
>>24711296What did you do with the remaining €90 ?
>>24711296>comes down to 10€ per booknot bad
>>24711296>>24711308>>24711323Consider that none of these are available in bookstores in my country. Of the authors' work, you can only find Wolfe's BOTNS.
>>24708189Siuan called the trio retards for falling for a trap that even a child would be smart enough to avoid was very based
I still haven't read LOTR
>>24711955That puts you in the large majority.
>>24711984What? I thought everyone loved lotr
>>24711985There's literally no book a majority of /sffg/ has read. The best that can be done is a significant plurality relative to other books.
The most read book currently is probably Dune, it was near the top last time, but I didn't do more than cursory checking at the moment.
>>24711955I rewatched the movies for the first time since 2002-2004-ish when I saw them with my dad and bro, it was a comfy nostalgia trip, but no I'm not going to read the book, not sorry.
