Discord in Scarlet edition>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recommendations):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Banned Authors:Joe AbercrombieA.A. AttanasioR. Scott BakkerC.J. CherryhGlen CookSteven EriksonR.A. LaffertyMark LawrenceGeorge R.R. MartinPatrick RothfussGene Wolfe>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffgPrevious:>>25485235
>>25492118what does "banned authors" mean? it feels like every thread mentions at least one or two of them.
kinda digging this modern fantasy/scifi book
>>25492256Try and find out. Only counts if you make a thoughtful post about them, though.
Out of the banned list I have read work of Cook and Martin only. Well, maybe one book of Erikson way way back, I forget.
>>25492118funny how these pointless threads feel the need to ordain these kind of rules. I don't read any of them, but it speaks to the quality of these generals
>>25492256>>25492334It's Baynefag mad that people arent discussing self published amazon slop
>>25492334There are no rules anon.
Finished the third Red Rising book. I was expecting it to end badly again, with some kind of sacrifice that sets up the next book, but surprisingly it all ended on a pretty happy note (for Darrow, at least). My thoughts so far: 2 > 3 > 1. How's the rest of the trilogy?I think I want to take a break and read something else for a while. Heard good things about this Abercrombie guy. Should I give The First Law trilogy a try?
>>25492267So did I.
>>25492267Buy an ad.
>>25491982bakkerfans are retarded
>>25492256>>25492272There are no banned authors. OP has no authority to ban anyone. I'll prove it: Joe Abercrombie, A.A. Attanasio, R. Scott Bakker, C.J. Cherryh, Glen Cook, Steven Erikson, R.A. Lafferty, Mark Lawrence, George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, and Gene Wolfe all think OP is gay. Sneed.
I liked it...
>>25492507What did you like about it? Was there anything you disliked?
>>25492507>endorsed by GRRMIt HAS to be good!
>>25492507Its shit
>>25492507DNF for me.
>>25492515It was a decent story with good characters and nice world building.The first 150 pages or so were a bit of a struggle, but it paid off by the end.
>>25491982I see. Well, I think of such things, sometimes.
After putting it off for years I finally read Neuromancer. I don't know why I picked it up and dropped it so much, I loved the writing. It really had a natural and organic surrealism in it, very surprising. Reading it made me appreciate Abel Ferrara's rendition of New Rose Hotel even more and how Ferrara was able to capture that same surreal feeling I got from reading Gibson.As I was reading it I was also playing through the Classic Marathon trilogy and it paired nicely with it, do recommend. overall great time/10
bakkerfag mad in /wng/>>25492387
>>25492554>and nice world building.So it was padded garbage.
What are the most fun old school adventure/fantasy stories, like Jules Verne or HG Wells/related material?
>>25492578Philip Jose Farmer.
>>25492578Read Robert E Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs
>>25492576No
post physically impossible book scenes
>>25492267It's really not good, but I don't want to get into it again.>>25492495Based.>>25492403>Should I give The First Law trilogy a try?It's depressing. The whole series is just stupid morons repeatedly fucking up or losing. Incompetence is universal. Intelligence is universally absent.Might be your thing if you like laughing at the characters idiot moments, but I couldn't enjoy it. Not Demon Star either.
>>25492723>and then, the woman orgasmed.
>>25492768Stop reading grimdark.
>>25492817I did. I'm trying to keep others from making the same mistake.
>>25492818What's your favorite uplifting sff that celebrates the joys of life?
>>25492835The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time, Red Rising.
is it possible for a fantasy book to have all POVs be enjoyable? reading a book right now where I'm only really invested in one pov. The other POV was basically misery porn for 100 chapters (ebook so more like 70 chapters of a real book im guessing) before the actual story part got started. And this isnt a flaw like past books I've read, but the characters are never interesting enough on their own to carry the story while it basically stays stuck in one place and one experience.
>>25492889>The other POV was basically misery porn for 100 chapters (ebook so more like 70 chapters of a real book im guessing)I assume you mean pages,not chapters.
>>25492891yes
>>25492889The best fantasy books don't switch POV at all.
>>25492898The best books are first person present with an everyman protagonist doesn't get in the way of self-inserting. That's why silent protagonists in games are best possible protagonist.
>>25492898Lord of the Rings switches POVs constantly.
>>25492889just don't have shitty povs, it's that simple
>>25493000Every book has an unenjoyable POV
>>25493000Checked. It really is that simple.
I have read about 250 pages today for ebook length, and 200 for real paperback length. I'd say I'm not really yet invested in the book, but I'm only 50% of the way through the book so theres still time.
>>25492898It's acceptable to do brief asides with other characters, but principally yeah it's a bad narrative crutch if every 1-2 chapters switches pov.>>25492905Prime example of mediocre fantasy.
>>25493062>Prime example of mediocre fantasy.kek based
With all the slop being printed it’s weird that this good book hasn’t been translated in English.
I want a novel that's a procession of POVs, with none repeated.
>>25493142cringe trollbait
>>25493142Brunner gets close to this in Stand on Zanzibar, Jagged Orbit, Sheep Look Up.
>>25492889No. Every story with a regularly rotating cast of povs inevitably will have readers enjoying one pov more than others and getting disappointed. Or worse, when the author uses pov swaps to draw out cliffhangers in their own fucking book as if its a shitty webnovel desperate for you to click on another chapter. >MEANWHILE ON NAMEK...
>>25492507I also liked it but the later books suck absolute ass.
it's ok
>>25493333It does seem very dependent on how relatable it is.
>>25493349It reminded me of The Wall (Marlen Haushofer) and Dawn (Octavia Butler). Interesting premise followed by an extremely boring middle section and mediocre payoff.
First Law....is GENIUS!!!
Best obscure but still in print 1950s sci fi novel you have. I’ve read all the greats but I want more. I occasionally read modern sci fi, and while I don’t hate it, it doesn’t inspire the pure wonder the classics do
>>25493378idk about obscure but anything by Stanislaw Lem
Reading n00b what scifi fits the my aesthetic for dramatic homo erotic twinks?
>>25493434Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer
>>25493434
Old granny writes about several succubi demons living in a teenage boy’s head as he undresses??
>>25493501femcoomer
>>25493378Not obscure, but Childhood's End is still the best "aliens arrive to earth" book there is.
I have to admit, I didn't expect so much rape when I picked up Lyonesse.
>>25493142Eschbach's The Carpet Makers
Rec me some good stories where weaponized innovation and the blending of magic and technology is big part of the narrative. Preferably the MC is the one pioneering this revolutionary fusion of techno-sorcery.
>>25493662Discworld, particularly the Watch series, Feet Of Clay and Thudto some lesser extent, Men At Arms and The TruthFOC is a bog-standard police procedural but with magicfor example, instead of CCTV or surveillance vans on stakeout, they use gargoyles, which are living stone creatures in DiscworldThud mixes in a good deal of politicsTruth involves at least two major uses of techno-magic but since it revolves around the birth of the printing press and journalism in Discworld, the innovation is mainly in other thingsGoing Postal and Making Money is also about inventing stuff which you can tell by the titles, but again more about systems than actual magicparticularly since magic in Discworld is not so much a two-edged sword, but more like using a morningstar for a volleyballhowever there are a couple of interesting uses of magic-tech here and thereif you're more into high fantasy military then I've heard good things about the Powder Mage trilogy but I haven't read it myself, I'm not that interested
>>25492267> Goodreads tags: Fantasy, Scifi,... Queer, DystopiaNo thank you.
>>25492889No, because the simple reality that any given reader is inevitably going to like one more than the other means that the one they like less will seem bad by comparison. Constantly having multiple povs is self defeating, you can do an extra pov now and then and it's fine as long as it's just extra, but getting pulled away from a plot mid way inherently sucks.
Gave in and read this. It was actually good, and not r*ddit as expected.But why didn't they just create a trap or physical barrier to solve the problem? Series of disposable traps with high powered co2-frequency light to fuck up migration would at least control and maybe entirely wipe out the astrophage, and would be much lower cost and risk than the eponymous plan.
>>25493724Yet another victim fallen prey to megapopular slop.
>>25493708I agree that they should be used in moderation, but one nice thing about having multiple POVs is that if there's a boring part of a character's story you can skip it by switching to the other POV, then shift back when it is time for the first character to do something interesting again. Technically you can do this in a book with one POV, but it's much more obvious that way.
>>25493724I don't remember the deets, but what kind of bait could you give the astrophage that would be brighter than the sun?
>>25493511lol what
>>25493757Doesn't have to be brighter than the sun, just brighter than venus FROM the sun, in the particular wave length that co2 puts off. Seems a lot more feasible than trying to create an interstellar craft.>>25493732It's not as sloppy as I expected. Light, but entertaining and pretty well plotted and not terribly written. I usually lean away from modern popular books, but had three people whose tastes I respect and that align with mine tell me it was worth a read - and they turned out to be right. Ymmv.
Ordering books takes too long in my country so I'm thinking about buying an ebook reader. Any recs, or are they pretty much all the same?
>>25493849>brighter than venus FROM the sun, in the particular wave length that co2 puts offoh I get it nowyeah that would workbut on the other hand, such a trap in space would require space manufacturing technologies and capacities that rival the construction of the Hail Mary by far
>>25493864If you're going to be pirating books then Kobo is by far the easier route, if not generally I'd say Kindle but there's not a huge difference.
>>25493871Maybe, but really you just need to pump out a series of drones with a nanoscale blender blade that shines the light very brightly. Launch one every so often, and it'll at least cut growth down significantly, even if it doesn't kill all of them. You maybe only need to bring them a certain distance off course for them to then run out of energy and die before they can breed and return, which then is basically just a high energy beacon. Idk, it seems like something worth considering, but I also get that it's not the plot and so doesn't really matter. The plot is internally consistent enough to work. It's funny how much launch capability has advanced between the time of writing and now, as an aside. The whole project would be an order of magnitude cheaper, and thus could be larger or more complex, because the cost of putting weight into orbit has dropped so significantly in the last few years.
>>25493873Never had any problems using zlib/anna's->send to kindle web page->kindle app on phone or paperwhite. Even tracks progress between the two very well, these days - that used to be an annoyance.You should buy indie published books and those of fairly new, living authors you really like. Otherwise you're just feeding the book jew by buying, so should pirate.
Today, we will summon a literary alien, in order to cleanse /sffg/. Which one will we be requesting an audience with, /sffg/?
oh wow A Trade in Blood was boring.
>>25493873This.I will add that I have used a Kindle (Paperwhite) for around a decade now -- near-daily usage -- and it still performs well, if you're worried about wear and tear. Of course, Kobos should be faster, or just format whatever you get with KOreader. And if you transfer-through-USB (I never use the internet on my Kindle, myself), the physical port will get loose eventually so that can be annoying.
>>25493920the difficulty is in making a CO2 beacon with the brightness of Venus. I think it would have to be a pretty big beaconyou could breed Astrophage to provide the initial energy to power the first torch, but you still need to make the emitters and the reactors, and lift that out of Earth's atmospherethe big hurdle is that first CO2 beaconafter the first beacon, you can use the harvested Astrophage to power a space industry to defray the costs of building the next beaconsin fact this is probably a good Plan B for them to try while waiting for the spacecraftbut upon reflection, it wouldn't be a permanent solution, because it doesn't solve the question of hungry Astrophage attacking the Sun from the rest of the universe, it only kills them after it's already fed and fullFYI Andy Weir mentioned later he also made a mistake in his calculations for the Haili Mary's Astrophage fuel tanks, it's a few multiples or even an order of magnitude smaller than it should be, I forget which
>>25493940I felt like the showpiece, the brain control fungus was just to simple for a whole book, felt like something that you'd use for a side-gigthat everything there was to show and say, could fit into a prelude Sure, it's a interesting and grotesque premise. But... Not whole book kind of interesting
>>25493956yeah and pretty much from the get-go you know about the fungus. 80% of the book is just figuring out who did it, which is tiring because they have like a dozen red herrings. am i just bad at mysteries or are you not supposed to be able to figure it out yourself?
>>25493110>look it up>first review I see calls Jaworski misogynisticYou son of a bitch, I'm in.Should I read his Récits du Vieux Royaume short stories first?
>>25493971>>25493956>>25493940At the end of my audiobook, the author talked about how "sometimes the best advice is to scrap everything and start over again."Made it sound like something fucky was going on with the 3rd book. And why it turned out as, what seems like a short story, dragged out to span a whole book.Whole book just reeks of rushing out something to meet a deadline and a previous scrapped project to me
>>25493501Grannies write the wildest coomer shit because nobody can argue with them.
>>25493354>Interesting premise followed by an extremely boring middle section and mediocre payoffToo bad. That's what I expected based on the synopsis but still, I hoped I'd be wrong. Shan't read it then. I have too many books to read and not enough time for mid stuff.
>>25493954If you keep them from breeding, occasional infections from other systems wouldn't really matter. You're probably right that I'm underestimating the energy needed to out-shine reflected venus - i figure you can get closer to the sun than venus is, and have a direct source, something like a powerful light AND co2 trapped in a transparent space that allows both passive reflection and direct light creation. And as you said, if you then harvest the astrophage, you'll have some value there as well. Even if you only siphon a majority of them long term, you'd slow the reproduction and exponential growth by enough to make it essentially "solved", or at least give you hundreds or thousands of years to slowly adjust to weaker sunlight or let the technology mature and improve.I don't think there's any way to capture them prior to getting to the sun, you'd have to disrupt the path once they're charged.
>>25494003yeah and the only real character development is a vague hint that din was conditioned from birth or sumn. oh also more hints that ana is the emperor's daughter or some shit but come on we knew that since book one.
>>25494038ntaYou've responded to a post about a different book, not Trade of Blood.>>25493993ntaSeems like you took an adversarial approach. That makes enjoyment more difficult.
nta
>>25494093Who are you then?!!
Im kinda bored of reading the book im reading despite there being no clear or significant low quality moments. Its just boring and slow.
>>25494096Performative
>>25494016>You're probably right that I'm underestimating the energy needed to out-shine reflected venusit turns out you're right, at least according to AIit's piss-easy to build a laser that can out-emit the spectral radiance of Venus's CO2 - that is, outshine the "brightness" of Venus's CO2 to a spaceborne particle, because AI claims the power consumption is minimalby thus trapping "full" Astrophage and killing them by discharging the power, you would prolong the Sun's life significantly by interrupting the exponential cascade of energy-consuming-and-breeding Astrophage>I don't think there's any way to capture them prior to getting to the sunthere isn't, because you can't outshine the sunso it's not a permanent solutionbut if the incoming rate of "hungry" Astrophage is minimal, then there's plenty of time to figure out a permanent solution
>>25493349I didn't even think about it as relatable, I liked the larger meditation of humans, their purpose and their trajectory.>>25493587I'm pretty sure a couple are repeated towards the end.
>>25493724pure slop like this doesn't deserve the science-fiction label
>>25494118To.each their own perspective and interpretation.
>>25493864Kobo for new readers or used Kindle for value. Stay away from Android e-ink devices because the battery life is awful and chinks never do integration work. My 11yo Paperwhite's battery still lasts about 1.5-2 weeks, which passes for excellent on Android.
>>25491435To be fair, they never outright said she was the town bicycle. That was a sort of adult implication and projection a lot of women readers did. However, in the sense of the children's world, it just meant that she had begun to stop "believing" in Narnia and so was more focused on worldly matters. Either way, it's funny seeing roasties seethe about that ending to this day lol
>>25494096I'm that guy.
>>25494258>a sort ofIt was massive projection that you could only get from these literally demonic feministsThe only line that i can remember was one of the kids complaining "Susan was into stockings and boys and stuff" which is just a child's view of growing up and doesn't signal anything negative at all.
>>25494261FUCK YOUUUU
>>25494102learn2skim the boring parts, it might save your life one day.
>>25494374I'm conflicted. This is terrible advice, but you're giving it to a terrible poster.
I really might have to start making a rule that any series with more than 3 or 4 books max is a Do Not Read. The book I'm reading right now isn't even close to bad so far. But so much of the way the story slowly trudges towards something is so indicative of the clear fact that the series is literally 7 (or is it 8, I cant even remember) 600-800 page books. Don't know what to do about this problem. Because I don't want to just give up on books from acclaimed series based on something that just seems so arbitrary, but I'm really losing my patience here
hey guys I just wrote a book ripping off a way older book from hundreds of years ago with the same antiquated views on human nature and the big questions except this time..... it's set in.... SPACE! oooh
GTA 6 will erase the shitty paper and pencil book industry.
>>25493724gr8 b8 m8
>>25494413Just drop it, man. Stop letting sunk cost fallacy kick your ass.
>>25494413Honestly it is mainly for profit. They keep the stories undefined just to publish more and more stuff. I dont like it either, as an example, I wish to read Glen Cook's The Black Company, I've read the first 10 pages of the first book and I didnt like the prose although the plot interests me. I will not go until the end of the series, some anon here in another thread said it was better to read the first three books and one spinoff and that was enough. That is what I am going to do.
>>25494474Name names.
hey guys I just wrote a post ripping off a recent post from an hour ago with the same antiquated style of posting cliches and the generic statements except this time..... it's written as... META! oooh
>>25494402Being able to skim is actually a useful ability
>>25494617Useful for trying to minmax studying for a test and pretending you're learning.
>>25494102drop it>>25494374kys>>25494413Any good writer can be interesting for 3 books, but after that after that you're inviting them into your proverbial living room.>I don't want to just give up on books from acclaimed seriesSave that kind of energy for the Greeks. If a sf book hasn't been able to entertain you in 300 pages, it's not gonna work out.
>>254944134 max generally. it allows for one book in the same "universe," but that's different from the other 3. standalone or trilogy should be the standard. i'm surprised their aren't more duologies. i'd also rather have 1 or 2 books run long than several books be long.
>>25494617Only if you're getting paid or graded.>but it's funOk cool, but never tell anyone you read it. The point you stop skimming is effectively the point you dropped the book.
While we're here, do you guys know of a private alternative to Goodreads? Or at least something run by someone unrelated to Bezos.I just want to manage my own lists. I don't care about the social media aspect of it as long as I can sort books by genre and see their covers.
>>25494637*the point you start skimming
>>25494641The main alternative is storygraph.https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/yevolemThe import has problems but it doesn't really matter to me for my non-usage.
>>25494637seems like a very cucked mindset. you don't respect your own time, you just worry someone will find out you "didn't really read the book" as if anyone gives a shit you skimmed a chapter or two in a thousand page fantasy book.
>>25494648Other than that there's Calibre, though that's more for ebook management. I also have spreadsheets. I have a different use case, so I don't really know of a fully featured offline solution that isn't about ebook management.
>>25494649nta You aren't respecting your own time if you're reading something you feel the need to skim.
>>25494641Bezos hasn't been the CEO for a few years now.
>>25494648Yev, does this support importing?
>>25494657well, the alternative is dropping the book entirely. but you have to ask yourself, how many great books have you missed out on because you were too much of a coward to skim the slow boring parts? very few books are a masterpiece through and through, they have ups and downs, especially these multi book epics. no one would blame you for fast-forwarding.
My dad always lies that he’s read every sci fi author and I don’t know why. He did used to read before he was diagnosed with “ADHD” (which I think he malingered to get dexies, since he’s an amphetamine addict). But I don’t see him read books anymore and he just puts new books on the shelf if he goes out shopping. He even lied that he’d read Philip K Dick because I said I’m a big fan, but he doesn’t remember any details from the books that aren’t in the movies.
>>25494648>>25494654Thanks Yev. It doesn't look private at all, but that'll do.>calibreAlready using it to manage my ebooks. I'm looking for a website so I won't have to DL ebooks I may never read. I have too many books bookmarked, it's a mess.
>>25494665>how many great books have you missed out on because you were too much of a coward to skim the slow boring parts?Zero because great books by definition have no slow / boring parts.>no one would blame you for fast-forwardingI blame you for gaslighting everyone into thinking you have an opinion on the book when you don't.
>>25494657nta but you're right I don't respect my time but at the same time do, thats part of my problem, everything is boring to me, so everything needs to be interesting to me, and everytime theres a slight of borigness, it impresses on me so negatively that the idea that there is nothing for me, forces me to sacrifice respect for my time, for the mere possibility of finding something interesting.
>>25494670 (Me)Wait a minute. It's cucked.
>>25494675Get checked for anhedonia. Sounds like you got it.
>>25494677can't say i'm surprised from a yev-endorsed site
>>25494668Yeah I have an uncle who likes to do that with popular fiction series. Not a crank addict afaik. He's one of those guys who likes to bait other people into doing research for him in online discussions too. Usually great in person, but online... Even for here he's pretty bad.
>>25494663Yes, you can export from Goodreads then import that to Storygraph.>>25494670There are probably privacy options to make it more private.>>25494695It exists. I don't endorse it. I've barely used it since the site was created. I have an account on several other book sites/apps. I don't endorse Goodreads either. It's just what was most convienent.
>>25494677>>25494695Why do you use this site?>>>/cm/>>>/lgbt/>>>/mlp/>>>/hm/>>>/y/
>>25494810yikes!
>>25494810Why do you always conflate hatred of hamfisted political pandering with hatred of some pet minority?
>>25494810/mlp/ was reactionary; /lgbt/ and /hm/ are newfag boards.
PKD was going to kill the screenwriter of the original BLADE RUNNER screenplay
>>25494641I like an offline version so I use Openreads. It is opensource as well.
>>25494819It isn't. You're upset that it exists and are pretending otherwise.
>>25494826He would have never tolerated Pedowood's bullshit.
>>25494826Kill seems like an exaggeration.
>>25494833It’s been retold but I heard he was going to jump on top of Jaffe.
>>25494737>There are probably privacy options to make it more privateI signed up for LibraryThing instead. It's partially owned by Amazon, which I'm not a fan of, but their privacy policy looked better.Also it's not a web 2.0 garbage dumpster of a website. It's boomer core (that means "good").>>25494828>OpenreadsHad a look at it and I can't even find someone as big as PKD. Maybe it's good if you want to add your books yourself, but it isn't quite what I'm looking for.>>25494826IIRC Scott told PKD he tried to read Androids but dropped it.
>>25494826>JAY COCKS MOAR LIEK GAY COCKS AMIRITE!?
>>25494842Whichever works best for you.
>>25494830>if you don't like my book you're racistNo I simply don't care and I don't feel the need to cram it into my life any more than /qst or /cgl, and your book sucks because you're a bad writer.
>>25494873Persecution complex much?
>>25493992>Récits du Vieux Royaume short storiesYou mean Janua Vera and le sentiment du fer?Janua Vera happens (and was published) before gagner la guerre. There’s a story with the gagner la guerre MC which kinda spoils some things about the character so if I were you I would read gagner la guerre first then Janua Vera and le sentiment du fer.
>>25492118Colors of Chaos - The Saga of Recluce #9 - L.E. Modesitt (1998)Colors of Chaos covers the entirety of the events in The Magic Engineer, and somewhat afterwards, from the Chaos perspective. The only overlapping scenes are those in which Cerryl was present. At 250,000+ words this is the longest book in the series, which makes up for the previous book being the second shortest at ~145,000 words. That's quite long and there are valid complaints about how much is accomplished during that time, but I didn't mind. I like it being a very immersive and vicarious experience of a life. For me it didn't feel bloated at all.The story picks up right after the end of The White Order. Cerryl is a fully initiated mage now, though of course he's still doing various jobs. Over the course of the book Cerryl is a gate guard, patrol mage, assassin, investigator, city commander, and leader of the Chaos mages. I had thought there be more about he became known as the Great, but only his intentions are described in detail. The implementation is left to imagination at the end.Cerryl is a Chaos/White mage, but what that means really becomes much more nuanced here. He tends towards Gray, as he has to for this story to work. Chaos is entropy, growth, individualism, energy, passion, and creative destruction. That's why Cerryl has a completely different ethos than the Order protagonists. For him, Chaos bound by Order is the highest good, for unrestrained Chaos destroys all. In D&D terms, Cerryl is very much Lawful Neutral for most of the book. That means he follows of the laws of Fairhaven, which are extraordinarily harsh against lawbreakers. Seemingly almost every crime is punished either by a life sentence of hard labor or immediate execution. The rationale is that everywhere else is far worse and the only way to preserve civilization is to oppress everyone for their own good. Therefore it is a noble and just pursuit for Fairhaven to take over the entire continent through war so their lives may be improved.Almost of Cerryl's character development comes from gaining enough power to where survival isn't what he has to spend all his effort towards. He comes to believe that there surely must be a better way than literally invading other regions to take their resources and spread the Fairhaven way. To that end Cerryl educates himself, mostly on how trade affects diplomatic relations, and in a general sense to see how he could reform Fairhaven to benefit all of Candor.There's also a character who has the same prophecy power as Ryba and tells of all the doom to come in the far future. Everything he says is correct as it's already happened in previous books. Unlike Ryba his prophecy isn't recorded for posterity. The characters believe him, which brings up the question of whether anything can or even should be done about it. After all, the future had already been written before the past has occurred, in a meta sense, if not actual.Rating: 4.5/5
>>25494887>You mean Janua Vera and le sentiment du fer?I didn't look up the name, I just read the blurb that mentioned some short stories set in the same universe.>I would read gagner la guerre first then Janua Vera and le sentiment du fer.Thanks, will do.
I was digging through a pile of books the other day and found a bunch of Discworld books I don't remember buying, from Color of Magic up to Guards! Guards!.I read Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic and really enjoyed them for what they were, silly people doing silly things in a silly fantasy world satirizing fantasy media, but after looking around on the internet and seeing people say stuff like "the first books of the series are total shit, the series really hits it's stride when it stops being a parody and starts making the plots about BITING and TOPICAL (for the 80s/90s) social commentary!" makes me...really not want to continue reading them in all honesty.Even as satire I want the world to stay somewhat unique, not have everything be some stupid tongue-in-cheek wink wink nudge nudge analogue for real world shit, I feel like it cheapens it to the point it feels tacky.
>>25494959Many such cases. It's a bigly problem. They're calling it the worst cultural change ever.
>>25494826I had no idea Taliesin's dad wrote the Bladerunner adaptation. What level weeb am I?
>>25494679Damn.
>>25494641If you don't mind something local only and that is not only for books then check this one out https://github.com/FuzzyGrim/Yamtrack
>>25494826Makes sense. Bladerunner is overrated shit that appeals to literal bottom of the barrel retards.
>>25494991D&D isn’t weeb
>>25494996You will be forgotten like tears in the rain.
>>25493928Radix
>>25493928In this post Mr. Baynefriend shows off some of his ritualpost books, past and present.
>>25494563Read the first three Black Company books then consider it done. I loved the first three and then dnf the 4th book.
>>25494413Acclaimed isn't the same as good, sadly. Especially for modern books.
I'm only 2 and a half hours into the audiobook of The Demon Star, but I'm struggling to maintain interest. The problem is that it has a similar vibe to two other stories I've read recently. Where you have someone who is part of an order that has ties to the way government functions. Though their order is kind of special, because of the powers they have. And this order works on behalf of the king to enact justices. But unfortunately, the order itself is corrupt, and not only that, there are people within the order who are good, but happen to be at odds with the king's rule. And the two main characters is a person who is high in the order, and then someone who works under them as an apprentice.I literally just dropped a book with a similar premise, only to pick this one up. So I'm struggling to give it the level of patience it probably deserves. But I just to a part that reveals the main character as gay.(Or at least, bisexual) And that really took a lot of the wind out my sails. Normally I wouldn't mind a gay or bisexual protagonist. The Tainted Cup did it. And I liked that book. But I don't know... I'm just not in the mood for that shit right now.The book is laying the groundwork for a conspiracy where the main character is caught in the middle. It might be good. Or it might just be another 16 hour world building slop that goes nowhere. I don't even know why I'm posting.
>>25495021He does D&D now?
>>25495077Why did you choose it as your current book?
>>25495077>It might be good.It's not. You should drop it.
>>25495086Anon rated it a 5/5 a couple weeks ago. https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25451910#p25453048
>>25495090Have you read it? Or are you just talking shit.
>>25493928The self-published author: Brandon Sanderson.
>>25495083The main thing he does now is critical role and its spin offs, and I think it’s his main source of income.
>>25495099I did read it.(spoilers)https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25466794#p25470941
>>25495143Oh ok I always think of him as the Hellsing and video game guy.
>>25495168I don't open malware sites. Nice try glowie.
Given that picrel has no novels (yet), and Warhammer 40k seems overwhelming given the number of books, is there any other literature sagas characterised by its over-the-topness in worldbuilding, fraction wars, and 'there is always a bigger fish' mentality?Just want something to obsess over with
>>25495236Forgot the picrel part
>>25495236xianxia
>>25495245gesundheit
>>25492507Lynch is doing anything to avoid continuing the Gentlemen Bastards...
>>25493505>>25493429Thanks, but I’ve read both. It’s funny, When it comes to mid century noir detective novels it seems like I discover a new hidden gem of an author every time I care to look, but it seems like I’ve completely mined out mid century sci fi
>>25493378Little Fuzzy
Do not watch a decent show while you're reading a slow/boring book that has potential.Worst mistake ever. You'll start comparing them, and how much the latter is worth investing any time into, over the former. Usually this problem never arises, because TV is typically so bad that books have no competition.
>>25495413This is why you're a LARPer.
>>25495413The Book Industry is bigger than the Television and Movie industry by the way retard
>>25495414What's he larping?
>>25492507Such potential in the setup, but the execution left me soft as a bowl of porridgeOnce he about-faced on the initial premise and cast, the heist aspect was inherently neutered because he busted his proverbial nut too early. All the characters most exciting heists happened off screen in his past, and the mysteries they unveiled by the end of the book were trite, irrelevent, and ultimately kind of just a brief hill for the MC to climb to be proclaimed Pirate Ki- I mean Hoka- I mean King o Thieves n such2/5, I can't decide if his editor should've stopped shaking him to death sooner or simply continued until he looped back around to writing something less urine stained
>>25494889your """reviews""" are SHITFUCK OFF
>>25494118>I'm pretty sure a couple are repeated towards the end.No, they aren't you dense know-it-all moron.
>>25494889>>25495460At this point, I'm convinced this is just samefagging.
>>25495455based the book is genuine shit
>>25495455Feels like you are judging the book by what you expected it to be instead of what it actually is. I guess it's fine, I also do that all the time, but I'm trying to catch when it happens to avoid preconceptions.
>>25495472So am I, me.
>>25495495You're right, I expected it to be goodAre you missing the multiple parts of my post where I pointed out exactly how the author undermined the strength of his own heist novel, the lack of meaningful resolution to questions that he spent hundreds of pages architecting the crux of the novel around?Its not like I simply proposed that he wrote characters inconsitent to how I prefer them, or set them in the wrong time period or cityhe fundamentally misjudged the conveyance of meaning in his book from page 1 to end. Thats death for any author, and he's lucky that in pieces, the book can still be partially enjoyable. It does not set an elegant transition into the clearly hoped for sequel, and it comes down to a typical hollywood style clusterfuck of wanting to maintain a fast pacing, while maintaining dramatic impact. Otherwise known as wanting to have your cake and eat it toIt stutters and bucks like a nervous horse in a ball pit, and just for the sake of novelty at some points
>>25495239What happened to this game? Are there some under the radar releases in Spanish? Has anybody played this game? /tg/ never talks about it.
Defenestrate, tar-and-feather, castrate and gut pagespammer/bakkerspammer alive and then burn the corpse to cinders.
>>25495554there is a bakkerspammer?
>>25495566They're the same person
Just finished Claw of the Conciliator. I have no idea what's going on. What do you MEAN the climax of the book is a ten pages long play where I don't understand shit. What do you MEAN Jonas (literally WHO?? What happened to Dorcas and the Gang) is a ten thousand year old (????) cyborg. What do you MEAN Jolenta was the Waitress who made a deal with the devilish Dr. Talos, no wait, that was actually obvious and I saw it coming.BUT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE GUY FROM THE WHOREHOUSE IN BOOK ONE WAS THE AUTARCH ALL ALONG????????
>>25495627You've been Pringle'd
>>25495627>>25495631UHHHHMMMM... SWEATY!? LOOK AT THE OP "BANNED AUTHORS" LIST!?!? WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW??????
>>25495627Sounds about right. Sword is better, and reveals some. Urth (#4) is basically one long explicit reveal but still left me with a feeling of "WTF was that?"They're close in form to moderate difficulty literary fiction, for good or ill.
>>25495657>Urth (#4)What happened to Citadel of the Autarch, did you just skip that one? LMAO
>>25495635Gomenasai OP-dono.... I have brought shame upon your thread>>25495657Can't wait to read the rest. I'm mindfucked, but it's good. None of it makes any sense, but it's all fucking awesome. Questions on my mind: 1.) Are the Autarch and Vodalus actually fighting, is it some kind of game meant to break the stasis of the world?2.)Why is there a black hole in the sun (one of the passages implied that's why the sun is dying I think) and how is the New Sun going to help with that?3.)What the hell is up with the Conciliator4.)Who are the giantesses that live in the sea, is Baldander a small one? They seem to serve some kind of chaoskampf-like sea dragon figure.5.)Is Severian going to eat more dead people and add them to his unconscious? (WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE ATE THECLA AND SHE HAUNTS HIM NOW)I'll read and find out.
>>25495664Lol I straight forgot about that one, they run together a bit and it's been a while.Citadel is where the main reveals happen, not sword. Sword is probably my favorite of the 5, though, which is why i remembered the name first.>>25495676Definitely keep reading if it's clicking with you. It's certainly a unique ride.
>>25495676>3.)What the hell is up with the ConciliatorBoy is this one a doozy
Chapter 12 right now and predicted everything would happen whene it get good?
>>25495732>I predicted everything!Ok, but how did it make you feel?>I don't understand the question.
>>25495357>wizard who may not be a wizard, surrounded by wizards during Wizard Spring Break>there's a murder>our suspicious wizard is on the case>only 52 pagesThe fuck. You can't sell me on such a silly premise and only write 52 pages.
>>25495787>doesn't understand the concept of a corporate cash grab >doesn't understand the concept of short fiction >doesn't understand much really and refuses to What are you going to do with you, let alone why should we have anything to do with you?;
>>25495802I understand that you're a mouth-breathing cunt, and that's plenty enough :-)
>>25495631David Pringle is based. I have all his guides to SF, fantasy and horror.>>25495787>what is a short story?
Threadly reminder to report and ignore newfag spammers like >>25495460 who purposely make off-topic inflammatory posts in bad faith and has attempted to prevent book discussion for four years running.>>21323327
>>25495810XD
Did anyone read The Bird That Drinks Tears? It finally got an English translation last year and it was hyped up as the Korean LotR. But does anyone have opinions on it?
>>254951683/5 makes it sound at least not bad.
are the sequels to Children of Time just as good? Local shop has all 3 hardbacks for 40$
>>25495732Already is
>>25492403I agree with 2>3>1. Isn't the 2nd arc 4 books with the 4th one to come in 2027? That's what's kept me from starting it.
>>25495732chapter 19 is when it really picks up, in my opinion. the initial parts are slow, but ultimately necessary to set up his character. second book is a lot better because it just jumps straight into the action.
>>25495455all real and true and I agree with. its also the fact that locke lamora is a retardedly ridiculous character that makes zero sense and the plot typically bends backwards for him
>>25495550>What happened to this game?Mostly inactiveAuthor is producing videogames (picrel is in development) and thrice a year visit the official discord and organizes Q&A>Are there some under the radar releases in Spanish?A microsite has been open since some years ago and new supplement, albeit uncommon, are posted there>https://www.animaproject.studio/eng/micrositeThere were news that 2ed was almost finished, but that was announced around 2024; no news of progression had popped up since then>Has anybody played this game? /tg/ never talks about it.You need three-digit iq to play this game, let alone enjoy it, so /tg/ isn't going to touch it even with a ten-foot poleWhich is a shame, cuz the game is neat, all crunchiness considered
That took me out of it for a second.
>>254957324th book unironically.
>>25496439Thanks for the info, fren. I'll definitely read the rulebook soon. I've only skimmed through.
Not giving up on this story, but the "This book is clearly part of a 7 book series so we have to drip feed information and developments at a snails pace" thing is really getting to me. Will probably take a break to read something else before continuing. I'm slowly realizing now too, that Chronicles of Amber actually has a similar problem, it just "feels" faster paced because its shorter
It's bad enough that the characters arent interesting or complex, and that things develop slowly. But its stuff like this that is really frustrating. Because its clearly contrivance everytime the story has the main character pointlessly rationalize not telling another character who could know more something, but at the same time you have to rationalize the contrivance by virtue of "AHH maybe they will not like what I say" Alain actually got over this fairly quickly, not by his own virtue, but because another character took his silence as admittance. But in this case with Liath, its just nonsense. He already knows and suspects you can do magic, and that you are the generic specially chosened one magicks special secret magic race person from every generic fantasy. He also demonstrated more knowledge of things related to your past than you did. Youve also already shown him that you can do some magic, and that you are knowledgeable about these sort of things. There is zero reason to blueball the reader here, of what Wolfhere might do with this information to help the story progress, other than either:1. The story truly cannot work if she tells him this, because it would either reveal too much for the reader that needs to be revealed in the 6th book of the series or because the story has to progress in a highly narrow way, either one is contrived2. Wolfhere is being set up not to be trusted, exactly as the story keeps telling. Which is uninteresting because....the story keeps telling us that.
>>25496915Any book that's over 600 pages that claims to be part of a X part cycle isn't worth reading.
Oh my god, how has it not killed itself yet.
Just read "Car Sinister" by Gene Wolfe. Laughed multiple times.
>>25497040https://voca.ro/12yCsS9K0d6d
>>25497101
>>25497101Based vocaroochad bullying spammertranny into an early grave.
>>25497101Kek
>>25497101I appreciate the commitment to the bit. But just like I'm not reading his long posts, I'm not listening to your 2 minutes and 40 seconds vocaroo.
>>25497120Didn't ask, tranny. Commit suicide. Now.
>>25497120Kill. Yourself. Buy a shotgun and some solid slug shells and blow your fucking brains out.Do it now.
>>25497120riled up the newfag so much he replied twice lel
>>25497131Spammerbitch, I...
>>25497122>>25497129>>25497131>the attacker is also a lolcow
>>25497133Bakkerfag/pagespammer is a newfag and likely the one pissing himself as he normally does
>Pagespammer talking to himself We all know it's (You) posting all this shit, schizophrenic.
Stop making these threads goddamn it.
pagespammer really runs this general huh?
>>25497040This nigger has NO LIFE
>>25497040i'm new here. why are people overreacting to this post?
>>25497159We're sick of his shit
>>25497159>i'm new hereWe know.
>>25497159Oh look, /wyt/ thread anon is here.
>>25497152Reading and thinking about the things you read means "no life" now?
>>25497203When you do it day-in-day-out every single day for years, yes.
Why do we have people actively defending bakkerpagespammertranny nowadays?
>>25497040Why can't you just read the entire book and THEN come here to discuss it? Why does it have to be EVERY SINGLE PAGE? What the fuck is wrong with you?
>>25497219He hasn't posted nearly every single page in weeks possibly even months to be frank.
>>25497226Quit defending him.
>>25497226He went less than a week to be frank.
>>25497040>a bunch of words cause meltyCam on anons, we are on /lit/.
>>25497215>"people"
I don't typically read modern fantasy but I like the premise of this one. Is it any good?
>>25497742Are you aware that it's progression fantasy and what that means?
>>25497751What does it mean? Is it like a litrpg?
>>25497742Very LGBTQ+ coded cover.
>>25497753litrpg is progression fantasy, but not all progression fantasy is litrpg
Aw shit I 'member when everyone couldn't stop talking about the """Bechdel test.""" What a throwback.
I'm about halfway through and boy, is it boring.Some dude gets forced into VR. He can't get out until he beats the game. He's got X days until his real body dies of starvation. Pain experienced in the game gets a 1.05 multiplier (who cares). Dying makes you lose experience points and more importantly, it makes you experience a lengthy death sequence where you're crushed and then cooked alive on a pile of screaming corpses. It's supposedly horrific, but it doesn't stop the MC from doing stupid shit.How can we care about characters dying when said characters, despite what they say, don't act like they do themselves? Oh and by the way, getting hurt or dying in-game doesn't do shit to your real body, so the stakes are extremely low.Let's talk about the MC. "Duke." I don't care about Duke. Dinniman doesn't take the time to properly establish him before throwing Duke's family drama in our face. He's drip feeding that shit, too. If you can't give the reader a reason to care about a character for who he is, giving him "family problems" won't make me care more. It's like a drunk in a bar going off about his bitch of a wife. I don't care, and I want nothing to do with you.There are about 80 chapters in this book. I'm at chapter 40. Chapter 34 is the only one that gave me SOMETHING actually interesting about Duke's character.The first third of the book is mostly characters going from point A to B with little to no hindrance. Wanna know when an antagonist actually shows up? Boy, I'm glad you asked! Chapter 25, so about 34% into the story. Jesus.1/2
>>25497889>>25464650Anon, I'm sorry, but the Amplification scene was garbage.To everyone else I won't go into details, but it's supposed to be a really, really fucked up torture scene. When Dinniman first teased it, it actually made me grin at how over the top and goofy it was going to be, but Dinniboy didn't stick the landing.It's like the man REALLY wanted to write something gory, but without the skills for doing so. So he backed out. I was actually dumbfounded at how poorly written it was:>I would love to say my rescue came in the nick of time. The toes, the soles of my feet, my fingers, the palms. All of that was terrible, the worst physical ordeal of my life. I’d just love to tell you how I was saved the worst of it just as that little shit Victus pulled away my loincloth and grasped my left testicle.>The chaos and ensuing destruction of Kinnegad did not happen in time to save my left testicle. Or my right one.>It did happen, however, when my absurdly-long zombie penis was halfway through being inexpertly sliced in half like a hotdog being sheared by a blunt spork.It's not the "quirky" tone that I dislike, it's Dinniman "reassuring" the readers by telling them the torture is almost over. He takes you out of the scene to baby you. And a few sentences later he goes:>I fear I have already described too much of this process.What the hell is even that? Fuck you, man. You can't tease a huge torture scene for several chapters and then go "eeerm, no that's too much, I can't say more!" He does describe it for a bit, but it's honestly very dry. It's actually amazing because what's happening to Duke IS fucked up, and we should be horrified for him. We should be disgusted. Instead it felt like I was reading a crime-scene report. Meh.I'll finish the book, but rest assured I won't recommend it to anyone.And to the DCC readers out there, here are two things you've read about in DCC that first appeared here:- The Beautiful Place- Dr. Metcalf (yeah, really)2/2
>>25497824I purpose a different test, woman speaking test. If a woman speaks in a novel, it fails the test.
>>25497894>- Dr. Metcalf (yeah, really)Probably his handler.
>>25497910No because that would still be making scifi about holes, which is what they want. You're writing a book about ontology and the nature of reality and holes have to be somehow considered in this discussion. Because the idea that men are ever not thinking about holes terrifies them.
Trying to explain why I struggle to read these.In theory they are good palate cleansers, short humourous action novellas in a setting that I usually like. Also I don't mind books written by women, some of my favourite are, have to mentions this because it seems a touching subject here.Anyway, something about how this is written displeases me and makes me struggle to follow the story, when I try to think about it, it may be because it's too fast paced and there is no proper exposition to the universe. I also don't like how the murderbot just easily hacks anything, it's just too convenient and it is an artifice to make the story progress in the way the author intends.I read the first 4, the 2nd was my favourite and I will probably stop now.
>>25498201>I read the first 4, the 2nd was my favourite and I will probably stop now.Took you 4 to figure that out? damn resilient
>>25498201There's no overarching plot tying things together. She makes intimations there is one, but she's really just stringing simps along like a bad Patreon game.The Apple TV show is unironically better.
>>25498207I thought the second one was decent, went into the third one expecting the same and gave another chance to the fourth one.
>>25498201I also read the first four. I started the fifth but stopped. The main story arc had completed with the fourth entry and I do have a million books in my backlog. Yes he kills everything all the time and is a l33t hackz0r but these were just window dressing. The main draw is his voice. I'll pick them back up again sometime
>>25497219I can blog on 4chan if I want to
>>25497742he has big boobies
>>254983754 u
>>25497742>Is it any good?Premise about the author: Phil Tucker wrote several harem fantasy books under the alias of Mike Truk, which I read all of them.So, when I heard he published his first non-harem smut, I jumped on it.Result: I dropped it at a little more than half book.The premise is the typical litrpg/progression book, has a generic story about fighting demon/devils, and the characters are reincarnations without memories of their previous lives that keep the fight on, until the day they win.Like all the manhwa, manhua, japanese isekai/reincarnation/cultivation and so on, the story begins with the mc getting unjustly (maybe?) abandoned and left to die, to him getting to fend for himself in an hostile/unknown place, and the usual lucky chance/encounter getting him to be redeemed (maybe?) in the eyes of the others.At that point, I dropped the book because I reached the point of intolerable boredom.1/2
>>25498476The characters are nothing special, especially the male ones are either bland or completely forgettable, apart from Leonis, who seems to be the only vaguely interesting male character up until that point; this was a surprise for me, since I liked the male characters much more than the female ones in his harem books.The MC is an empty slate, which make sense for the story, but feels less of a real person and more of a tool for the reader self inserting in the story.The other MCs in his previous books felt like actual people BECAUSE they had a past, family, experiences... this one has none of them.The author tries to make the female characters memorable, or even just likable, but it didn't work at all.Apart from the one the MC met while he tries to survive, nobody left me any emotion or thought about them.Maybe it's the powerlevel of the setting, but they feel less characterized than your typical Xianxia jade beauty Immortal that has lived trillion of years, at least until I dropped the book.Honestly, I suspect he didn't want to be associated with his smut works, so he reigned himself in a lot, but everything suffered from it: the "cultivation" system is bland as hell, the characterization is even worse, the story was not interesting and I was incredibly disappointed by this book.2/2
>>25494677However it does let you stop it from recommending LGBT books. Although that that seems to just make it spam 40k books as recommendations
>>25498374I'm hiring a hitman to track you down and kill you :^)
As a person with a learning disability, what series would you recommend to me?
>>25498834Tell him to hurry up, I don't wanna be alive on Monday.
>>25498497None of those spoilers were necessary
>>25497742I liked the whole series so far. Fast paced, engaging plot and world.
>>25498201The Murderbot with a Heart of Gold Diaries. Not what I was hoping for. Mid. Dropped after 1.
>>25498842How disabled are we talking? Can you remember character names and factions and basic themes like like corruption and coming of age?
Why are randos larping as me? Whatever I'm too tired for this shit
>>25498921Then go away and never come back.
I read Solaris todayVery enjoyableEnding was just ok but very interesting ideas throughout, excellent material for my imagination
general question, but inspired by >>25498497how do you make an MC not>bland or completely forgettable?at least initiallyI mean, Bilbo and Frodo are British trust fundies, as are Bingley and Darcy,Paul Atreides, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are bog-standard scions of nobility with singular stated missions of defeating their hereditary enemies and securing their kingdoms,Case and Molly Millions are career criminalshow do you quickly make your MC "interesting"?
I think I'm turning into an REHfag, his stories are so cool, I didn't realize they had so much weird in them
General so bad anons are literally having to post threads about specific scifi titles outside of it.Grim.
Pulls from a recent used book sale. Maybe not all to /sffg/'s taste but I'm happy with them.
>>25499403(You)re never going to read all of those books
>>25499403why do you need deadtrees of common stuff like this?do you really love these novels so much that you want a paperback copy?I know you probably got them for like a dollar each, but at this point in our modern society, the living space they take up is more expensive
>>25499403That Brave New World cover is fucking nonsensical.
>>25499411I won't lie, I've read 5 of the 10 pictured but I give copies of books I enjoy away to friends fairly often. I've cycled through 4 or 5 copies of Brave New World that way, and have done the same with various collections of Lovecraft's works.Also at 2 bucks a book I can avoid feeling too bad over them sit on the shelf for an extended period, though I'm incredibly excited for The Drowned World.
>>25499421LIAR!
>>25499414Explained in my other reply but I give copies away to people quite frequently. I also transit daily and prefer physicals for reading + I don't feel too bad if they get damaged from being in my bag. A hardcover of some of these would be unwieldy.
>>25499425Drowned World, Perdido Street Station, Never Let Me Go, Cryptonomicon, and Altered Carbon are the ones that are new to me.
>>25499418It's a book that has suffered from shit covers more than most SF titles for sure.
>>25499403I thought about throwing my copy of the Necronomicon into the ritual but I figured it would seem performative since I never discuss the guy.
>>25499428>I give copies away to people quite frequently. I also transit daily and prefer physicals for readingfair enough
>>25492118Analog is one of the greatest magazines there is.dad started subscribing in the late 1930's
>>25499124I know whenever I come across my dead ex wife I'm shooting her ass into orbit
>>25499457I felt that way for a long timeNow I dont knowIt wouldnt be her, thoughAnd maybe thats better
>>25498201peak millennial slop
>>25499403start with the neal books
>>25499515Thanks for the recommendation! I've read Snow Crash but also have a copy of Diamond Age, which would you recommend next between that and Cryptonomicon?
>>25499534I really liked 2001, of you readn't it before, go for it.
>>25499568>readn'tcan't tell if this is retarded or genius
>>25499570The new Shakespeare
>>25499856Rather Joycean, even.>roadrun, past Barnes & Nobles, manymore book readn't afore
https://thepulp.net/yellowedperils/2026/08/28/will-murray-1953-2026/
>>25497101Good one, really captures his whininess.
>>25499856>>25499865Carroll>complete with incel paedo tendencies
>>25499499>be fucking 40 years old>boomers and gen x still play the fellow kids meme>still have to pay for itThe worst part is normal millennials outside SEA will never be published. It's all communist psychopaths with rich parents and their coolies.
>>25500158has SEA become the DEI capital or something? why would that be? and why SEA and not China?
>>25500158Irrational resentment caused by delusions
>>25500239>has SEA become the DEI capital or something?what>why SEA and not China?Because the whole region gives no fucks even if Japan and China are the only places a book is likely to pick up large Western distribution.>>25500347foid outed in 2 wordsamazing
>>25499430Kazuo Ishiguro (SIC?) is always fantastic. He's what Gene Wolfe wishes he could be (nobel prize included).Buried Giant is my favorite of his. My wife turned me onto him after she read one of his books in a college English class and then devoured his whole catalog (she doesn't usually go for sff).
>>25498201I enjoy them as pallete cleansers as you mentioned. There's a lot worse dumb fun millenialslop out there, far and away better than garbage like Schwab or Sanderson.
>>25500414>Because the whole region gives no fucks even if Japan and China are the only places a book is likely to pick up large Western distributionI honestly have no idea what you're talking aboutCould you please please explain it from the beginning?
>>25500516why are you replying if you don't understand anything in the post?
>>25500524because it's interesting and I want to know why>normal millennials outside SEA will never be publishedwhich implies that SEA millennials will, which sounds unbelievably strange to me
>>25500530>which implies that SEA millennials willbecause they are
>>25500560name five
>>25500562ask ai to spoonfeed you the appropriate reddit posts
>>25500572>can'tThought so.
I just finished City Of Last Chances and feel stupid as fuck. I just can't get behind a whole book of characters who are all essentially unlikeable who don't seem to accomplish anything and the status quo doesn't change much or at all. The world-building was incredible and super unique, though.
>>25500592a certain somebody could have told you the problems with that book
