What mass market stuff do you guys enjoy? Surely you don't exclusively read classics or highly literary stuff all the time.
>>25408606The Crying of Lot 49
>>25408612This was actually a really fun read
>>25408606Unironically had a blast reading the first 3 books from A Song of Ice and Fire. Also, love anything Lovecraft.
>>25408733Neither ASOIAF is considered slop/slop adjacent though right? Certainly not Lovecraft.
>>25408733I love the ASOIAF books but kinda wish I hadn't read them cause let's be honest. George is going to die and it will never be completed.
>>25408736Both are slop
>>25408606Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston write great popcorn thrillers, like the Agent Pendergast series
Has anybody tried Robin Hobb? I see a lot of praise for her liveship traders, but I’ve read the forst book of her assassin’s apprenctice series and it felt dull and had zero interest in reading the 2nd book.
>>25408757Pretentious and delusional
Not slop, but Stephen King is always a fun easy read.
>>25408736Martin is 100% slop.
Keigo Higashino, I suppose
>>25408774Fantasy is all considered slop, even LOTR. That’s not to say that none of them are good or entertaining.
>>25408795King is like <<safe>> slop I think pretentious literary communities have all agreed that he is fine to read. So in a way, picking him as your guilty pleasure is as performative and stupid as only reading Pynchon. I personally enjoyed Dungeon Crawler Carl. Red rising was good too but I grimaced at points.
>>25408865Pretentious and delusional.
>>25408606this stuff is interesting
>>25408606this book kind of sucks honestly. it's made for people who think hunger games is a great piece of literature
I read the entirety of that web novel "worm", it's YA superhero sloppa.I highly enjoyed it.
>>25409287I enjoyed it. 1st book is just the hunger games but not bad and the rest of the series is a lot more interesting of a space opera.
>>25409112He's not a guilty pleasure at all. I just mentioned King because he's popular for a reason and will likely appeal to most people.
>>25408606>Surely you don't exclusively read classics or highly literary stuff all the timeI do.If I want slop, there's movies and tv shows.
>>25410003Holy shit I think I just heard every panty on earth drop anon
>>25410058I ironically enough forgot I even read that this year. It was okay though the ending did nothing for me.
>>25410064Feel the same way about Annihilation. >Incomprehensible horror >I couldn't comprehend it and thus it didn't have much impact
>>25408606ASOIAF... uh, I guess I liked the first Hunger Games book as a kid... not sure what else.I like a lot of mid to late 20th century sci-fi, but I don't think that qualifies as mass market, although it is far from high lit too. It is somewhere in the middle.
>>25408795King is slop.
>>25410082You thinking stuff like the Foundation series? I still love them. Honestly people need to stop acting like everything is high lit or slop. There's stuff in between. It's kinda like how people only really think in percentages of 0, 50 or 100.
Just finished picrel. Warhammer is my comfyslop
Not slop but I like Gillian Flynn quite a bit.
>>25408606>>25409967Should I read the 2nd book? My only major problem is that Darrow is too much of a Gary Stu
>>25408606King and GRRM are great writers and I don't care how much /lit/ and other fart huffing losers claim they aren't
>>25410580They're both pretty great. A lot of people on here just really care about how strangers online perceive them and are pretentious as fuck because of it.
>>25410580>>25410583Samefag.
>>25410596no
Does the Three-Body Problem count?As for extreme slop I've enjoyed recently, not sure if it fits mass market though:The Apothecary DiariesThe Archmage CoefficientLord of Mysteries
>>25410640Three-Body Problem is the definition of slop.
>>25410640Never read any manga or web novels desu. Maybe I should give it a try. Idk if three body problem counts but I've heard a lot of people recommend it
>>25410058Good shit but drags occasionally
>>25408762I've read her in middle school as a French class assignment (yes, a translation). It was intriguing, maybe I should have a look again.
ive been reading nothing but classics, pulitzer prize, etc... and dungeon crawler carl. ive read my fair share of slop though
>>25411740Damn that nigga writes a lot
>>25409112>King is like <<safe>> slop I think pretentious literary communities have all agreed that he is fine to read. So in a way, picking him as your guilty pleasure is as performative and stupid as only reading Pynchon. I personally enjoyed Dungeon Crawler Carl.This is a borderline insane opinion and if you think DCC is in any way on par with King I question if you can read at all.
>>25408606I liked Red Rising but the part where they demonstrate Darrow's intelligence by essentially having him solve a Rubik's cube and the other guy is like "IMPOSSIBLE!" was fucking hilarious
Usually some Brandon Sanderson stuff like Mistborn
>>25408606ObligatoryI love the Halo novels even though they’re slop
>>25412442Some video game books are genuinely pretty entertaining. The Warhammer stuff is fun too.
>>25408736Lovecraft isn’t slop but ASOIAF definitely is, if you can’t see that you need to go back.
>>25408606read first two books in ASOIAF so far. just read red rising and definitely not something I'd usually pick up but it's fun enough. will probably continue with the series. does the writing get better? I can recognize and accept it's fantasy/sci-fi slop but the prose (rather lack of) in Red Rising is dull. Also, Darrow seems to be the greatest thing imaginable and is basically a Mary Sue but whatever.
>>25412750Personally I dont think it gets better for some of the reasons you noted. But retards will swear up and down that it totally becomes less hunger games mary sue and deeper the more of the series you read
>>25412750Red Rising is better if you view it as satire. A few books in Darrow is just space Mao Zedong with hundreds of millions of deaths under his watch.
>>25412989I started the 2nd book and so far it seems way better in scope even though the prose isn't much better. But it's not just the hunger games anymore and it seems like Darrow is getting actually struggling so that's nice. It's "Gary Stu" btw.
>>25408606I prefer slopI've read 900 chapters of korean webnovel (to say nothing about thousands of chapters of webtoons)I read all of the Cradle series in about 3 weeks.I read Red Rising, but couldn't into the rest of the trilogy.Slop is my comfort zone. I read a lot of scholarship for my grad program so I just read slop for fun in my free time.
>>25413285Based and only actual slop enjoyer so far. The rest in this thread are just mediocre fiction. Not slop.
>>25408606I read the first page and thought it was communist propaganda. how right or wrong was I?
>>25413752The later books have the socialists being fooled by facists into fucking everything up. The facist genocidal state also runs circles around and dabs on the retarded liberal democracy so hard it collapses into a dictatorship.
>>25408606>Surely you don't exclusively read classics or highly literary stuff all the time.I do>b-but do you never feel the need for something fun? Yea that's what over-the-top medium-budget action movies are for
>>25414085
Blake Crouch is fun, short and easy
Legend of Drizzt
>>25414100How is it reddit? Reddit reads Brandon Sanderson and Carl dungeon
>>25408606King is the king of slop but I found some of its novels enjoyable, Salem's lot is possibly my favorite horror novelGRRM is fantasy slop but as long as fantasy usually goes he's a good writerAlso I read some 40K novel when I was younger but mostly Horus Heresy stuff. I heard that the Night lords trilogy and Chiapas Caine books are good so I might pick them up in the future
>>25408606I love this nigga like you wouldn't believe.
damn looking through the thread the concept of slop has truly changedout in the real world slop is at a different level than what lit considers slopGRRM isn't slop, neither is (most of) Sanderson
>>25414704People on here call everything slop and absolutely refuse to acknowledge that things can be average or mildly good
>>25414720I think a lot of it is antipathy towards obnoxious fans. Sanderfags are what people hate most about reddit and his writing has gotten worse to cater to that demographic unfortunately. GRRM seems to be either you love it or hate it sort of thing and all the anti Tolkien shit doesn't help even though I'm pretty sure Martin respects him as an author and just has a different perspective on writing.
>>25414755>all the anti Tolkien shitit doesn't exist and Tolkien is one of GRRM's favorite writers. Those memes came from tradcath larpers who see Tolkien as "their guy" and hate Martin for not being a religious writer.
>>25415315You didn't understand. The fans are the ones doing the anti Tolkien shit.
>>25415363Guy you originally replied to, honestly I don't see fans doing that stuff either. And I used to be a pretty big ASOIAF fan and interact in their communities a lot. If Tolkien was ever bought up 90% of the time they'd encourage you to read both or were fans of both themselves. It's a very small minority who wants to disparage other series or writers so I highly doubt that explains it.
>>25410596Probably not. Here's the real samefag:>>25408736>>25410580Normalfags choose one book or series to read and then their entire literary understanding revolves around that singular title they idolize upon a pedestal.
>>25415765I'm sure it is a vocal minority. The problem is we're on a reactionary Vietnamese flipbook forum so there will be anons who want to tear it down because they resent the loud retards who say they love it.
