RIP the mega editionNote: there is no such thing as a "banned" author and the one anon who insists otherwise is a schizo.>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffgPrevious:>>25524523>Thread question:What are some of your favorite antagonists, and why did you like them so much?
Stop making these threads.
As a gentle reminder. the following "author" is banned from /sffg/. Please keep this in mind while formulating your posts.>Ty Johnson
Beloved authors:Poul AndersonLord DunsanyRobert Howard Tanith LeeGeorge MacDonaldPatricia McKillipMervyn PeakeDarrell Schweitzer J.R.R. TolkienJack VanceCatherynne Valante
>>25530940>Tanith LeeSell me on her.
Recommendations:Habitable IslandHard to be a God
What are your favorite post-apocalyptic novels? I've read the Book of the New Sun series, the Dark Tower Series, and pic-related.
>>25530995Normalfags sure do like to fetishize post-apocalyptic settings.
>>25530896or the mega could just be collateral damage in an attempt to achieve this.
>>25531003You have it backwards. Post-apocalyptic settings are redpilled because they show the inevitable fate of the industrial society.
>>25531011Redpilled has become normalized.
>>25530940>Darrell Schweitzer>Catherynne ValanteWho?
>>25530989Based. I bought these at HMV some time ago. I still haven't started The Inhabited Island though.
>>25530995>>25531003>post-apocalypticQuite an oxymoron by the way.
>>25531051It isn't.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction
>>25531070Post-catastrophe is a better term.
>>25531077That's true.
>>25530989>I have conversed with fruiting fungi, ridden the air currents with poly-eyed gliders. I have met one being made up of many, and a whole society who shared a single subconscious. Once, I discussed the cosmic order with an entity who could perceive the past, present, and future simultaneously. And it has heartened me to learn that despite all their diverse forms and philosophies, their vast array of experiences and divergent anatomies and scale, they all shared one thing in common – every single one was inferior to me.
It is time to give me your weird fantasy recommendations.
>>25530926>>25531097*taps post*
>>25531097Kane, by Karl Wagner.
>>25531097Pic related is a weird recommendation indeed.
>>25531106I do not know of a Mr. Johnson.>>25531107I'll throw it into the backlog. Thanks.
>>25531097
reading
Post a picture of the current page you're reading and what you think of it.
>>25531257...is for FAGS
>>25531262Not right now.
>>25531262So thas it? What? We some kinda... pagespammers?
>>25531262I am finishing the third Lyonesse book and really enjoying it. I'm sad because I am running out of Jack Vance novels.
>>25531262Here ya go, faggot.
>>25531167This piqued my interest but there are no e-downloads. Dude barely has anything on Annas. What the fug now I'm upset.>>25531262Bek Rowe recently returned from a trip with Truls Rohk to acquire the third key and gave it to Walker before a conversation regarding Bek's origin.
>>25531343>Lisbon>Portuguese Guinea Hey... THAT'S JUST A HISTORY BOOK! YOU FUCK! YOU LOON!!
>>25531347>Jerle Shannara How are you finding the Shannara books? I was obsessed with them when I was a teenager but no one I've ever talked to about them here has ever had anything good or worthwhile to say about any of them.
>>25531292>I am running out of Jack Vance novels.You have read all of them? Even the non-SFFH ones?
>>25531262Better written than Elric, and very entertaining as expected from Moorcock.
>>25531347>This piqued my interest but there are no e-downloads. Dude barely has anything on Annas. What the fug now I'm upset.Time to do your part and upload the ebook yourself!
>>25531097What's so "weird" about it? Tell me NOW!
>>25531357I read all of them as a teen or young'un and followed along for a while, dropped off during the Genesis series. A lot of people say the first book was a copy/imitation of LotR and I honestly don't remember specific details about it to that extent. I reread the last Heritage book (Scions of Shannara) from the second series and am now rereading this third series. They've been great fantasy; characters have thought put into them and the world holds onto a level of mystique. I'm sure there's another series like "Voyage of the Jerle Shannara" where a band of typical fantasy characters go adventuring, to find and fight an AI enemy within its stronghold but I haven't found it yet.
>>25531343>20% marginBitch, you read like this?
>>25531408That's just the way the book is formatted on that page nigga, calm down.
>>25531381>A lot of people say the first book was a copy/imitation of LotR and I honestly don't remember specific details about it to that extent.Let's see:Shea = FrodoFlick = Sam at first, then Merry and PippinAllanon = GandalfShady Vale = The ShireWarlock Lord = Dark LordSkull Bearers = Dark RidersDevouring Ancient Oak = Devouring Ancient WillowOld Man of the River = Tom BombadilElfstones = Galadriel's LightMist Wraith = Barrow WightBorder Legion = RangersBalinor = Aragorn and BalinWalled city Tyrsis, ruled by madman under control of warlock lord = Minas Tirith, ruled by madman under control of warlock lordGiant insect in ruined city = ShelobGnomes = OrcsFlick disguised as gnome = Sam disguised as OrcOrl Fane = GollumDragon's Teeth = Misty MountainsAllanon's battle with Skull Bearer = Gandalf's battle with BalrogComany = FellowshipEllseidil = ElendilDurin = DurinBuckhannah = BrandybuckEventine = EvendimAnd so, if Tolkien is too much for you you can always read Brooks.
>>25531421Hello, Mr. Obvious!
>>25531440Hello! Glad to have provided the details you needed.
>>25531412Overwrite that shit, nigga. Sheeeeit.
>>25531448A great writer, Mr. Venter is not, I'll admit that much.
>>25531262>Inb4 not fantasyIt is fantastical to me.And no I'm not gay, though sometimes I wish I was.
>>25531408I'm nearly blind as a bat, leave me alone.
>>25531478>I'm not gay, though sometimes I wish I wasShould we tell him?
>>25531421>Elfstones = Galadriel's LightTolkien invented magical elven trinkets?>Border Legion = RangersTolkien invented militiamen?>Giant insect in ruined cityTolkien invented megafauna?>Flick disguised as gnome = Sam disguised as OrcTolkien invented disguises?>Dragon's Teeth = Misty MountainsTolkien invented geological constructs?>Comany = FellowshipTolkien invented adventuring groups?
>>25531890Anon, he's just toe-ing the culturally acceptable line. The only thing he's ever known about Shannara is that old reviewers panned it as a blatant LOTR ripoff and he regurgitates this opinion every single time Shannara is ever brought up, he does this in every thread. You're arguing with a literal NPC.
>>25531381Yeah I read the Heritage series when I was a kid and don't remember it being much like LotR other than generic fantasy set pieces.Terry Brooks was very accessible in the pre ~ early consumer internet period because his stuff was comfortably on the Best Seller rack and had good cover art. If you weren't hooked up with giant sff nerds it was an easy place to go after Tolkien and Lewis.
>>25531890The Tolkien dick-rider is another Bakkerfag persona. Ignore it.
>>25532010Wow, that's a blast from the past. I always used to see his stuff when I worked at a library in high school. Never got around to reading any though.
>>25532038Brooks was one of, if not the first Fantasy author to appear on the (((New York Times))) Bestseller list.
>baynefag still seething about popular authors like tolkienmental illness
>>25532035Lots of actually deranged people dickride Tolkien though
>>25532085Learning elvish was what the autists did before easy access to HRT.
>>25532064this nigger thought learning Klingon made him an ubermensch
Who are the best literary rogues? The kind of guy who isn't above stabbing someone in their sleep if necessary.
Guys, I finished the Sun Eater.What to do next?
>>25532139What did you like/not like about it?
>>25532156Not liked the struggle porn in the first book, almost dropped, glad I didn't.Really liked the worldbuilding and characters.
>>25529189Previous thread anon, thanks. I'm pretty familiar with the setting from playing it pre-clan invasion etc.
>>25532161I'd say the 40k books are of a similar quality. Try Ciphas Cain.
>>25532161Book 4 was way worse in that regard, so I'm surprised you didn't mention it.Have you read Dune? There's a number of similarities to Sun Eater, though I only read the first one.
>>25532173>Book 4 was way worse in that regard, so I'm surprised you didn't mention it.Yeah but by that point I was really engaged in the story so it didn't bother me that much, I knew there was a point to it and trusted the author.I haven't read Dune but watched the movies so I would not be interested in starting.
>>25530893i recently finished the egghead republic by arno schmidt. it's about a post-ww3 journalist who travels through a walled-in zone to reach an artificial island where selected artists and scientists live in a utopia(?). the form it takes is that of an annotated report, translated from (future) english into german (which, in turn, is translated by the (real) translator back into (past) english); see: forward(!). our protagonist, a pseudoschmidt, enounters the stuff of fantasy in the zone and that of science fiction on the island. it was very pleasurable, though i'm highly biased towards schmidt. it's a good way to into schmidt as well, i think. have (you) read it, do (you) like it?>RIP the mega edition though i saved most of what i would have wanted, this is unfortunate. is it just the result of people sending in false reports?
>>25532035Hello, baynetranny
>>25532255>>25530404
>>25532138Kugel in Eyes of the Overworld. Best in sff by a huge margin. One of the best in general Western lit.
>>25532337
>>25532329thank youand thank you to the anon who collected all of the charts together in ordered folders and hosted it all for the time you did. i used the mega extensively over the years.
>>25532139try PrimaterreI haven't read it but it is in my to-read list
>>25532362You're welcome.
>>25530893The six ways I've tried helping anons find books to read.1. The charts mega 2. The Goodreads group (monthly books, reviewer list, access to others)3. Writing about 100s of books4. Direct recs here5. Providing various external resources (websites, lists, etc)6. playlists of sff booktubersMen https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy0vG28c3YUro1sRRyq9USVc6egcDPUp_Womenhttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy0vG28c3YUrbjU3MHufqoQDz0Zdj5i0Y
>>25532340Great rec but I've read Cugel too. Anyone else?
>>25530995Vurt
>>25531262Second attempt at this book. I like it a lot more this time and will keep going
>>25532527JSAMN is one of those ones I find I liked a lot more as a physical book. I wonder where I put my copy, actually.
>>25532540I would but I just bought three more physical books and I honestly have nowhere to put them because I am a hoarder
>>25530964She's super fuckin horny. Sometimes it's toxic horny, sometimes it's horny with a side of post-nut clarity. Has a decent handle on male psychology. Not my favorite, but worth reading. Maybe start with Birthgrave.
I've posted my thoughts here on the 9 of the currently 26 novels + 1 collection of The Saga of Recluce. I don't believe there's sufficent reason for me to continue doing so. All else remains unchanged.
>>25531478That book sucked ass. Meyer cannot, or is too lazy to, write from the male perspective. It peaked during the dinner scene, which was basically a copy of the original scene in Twilight. It's just Edwina acting like a man, trying to seduce Beau as a man might, while Beau acts submissive and dainty like a woman, presumably because the author was lazy and just copy pasted the whole thing. It's a shame because it could have been a fun little book, if only she'd had any interest in writing it beyond a cashing a paycheck.
>>25532139Find some kind of mind altering drug to erase it from your memory.
Worth a read or Jeetslop?
>>25532161>struggle pornWas ist?
So what was in the mega that got it v&?
>>25532738Take a wild fucking guess.
>>25532750Cute!!
>>25532738Even the uploader doesn't know for sure. He said it may be related to plausible NSFW images.
>>25531365the Corum character annoyed me a bit, I'll have to re-read. just ordered the Hawkmoon books.
Brooks is for Americans. Tolkien is for normal people.
>>25532982Read Von Bek too. It's even better than his other fantasy series.
>>25532989yeah, I've read that. Are the Cornelius books any good? Next year I'm planning on focusing on re-reading a lot of stuff including a bunch of SFF.
>>25532993>Are the Cornelius books any good?Yes. They're a lot of fun. I also recommend The Dancers at the End of Time.Did you read his more ambitious fantasy books like The Golden Barge, Gloriana or the Between the Wars series?
>>25532999nah, I've got Elric in the Fantasy Masterworks series, then the Gollancz collections: Elric: Moonbeam Roads, Von Bek, Corum x2, The War Amongst the Angels, The Nomad in Time, The Eternal Champion
>>25533007>The Nomad in TimeI have that one too. Based eBay.
>>25533014it was cool, loved the airships.
1/5/spit
>>25532687Worth reading. Only Zelazny worth reading honestly.
>>25532902To clarify, unless the guy who reported says why they did we won't know. I was giving them the benefit of the doubt that it was for cause, but I don't know that. It's entirely possible that they saw something controversial in the book charts and falsely reported it. For example the /pol/ book charts or the charts that suggest reading books for illicit reasons. There are a lot of suspect charts across several boards.I searched for similar situations and found quite a lot. Several of them posted that mega informed them specifically informed them of what New Zealand laws they broke. That wasn't the case here. The email I got says "reported and flagged" for illegal content. It doesn't claim there is any. I think it's more likely that since it's just a free account that it was terminated out of an abundance of caution for legal liability purposes. Why even have a human look at it? It doesn't matter for them. In mega's transparency report they say that the overwhelming number of reports are for the entire folder rather than any specific file and that they almost never reverse any decision. Apparently most never appeal the decision so mega assumes it must be correct. It says also that accounts are usually terminated within minutes of being reported. So, in terms of timing, I don't know.There's no basis to assume that this is who reported it, but they certainly have feelings on it.>>>/wsr/1576205Then there's this reaction:https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/224139085/#224140268Or recently the chart threads on /lit/. I really don't know and it's only speculation on my part. It's impossible to know what set off the person who reported it unless they personally state so.
Do you download/buy individual books or the omnibus editions? Personally I prefer the omnibus cuz they're easier to organize and less hassle to download
>>25533102I'm an omnibusfag, unless an omnibus contains a lot of extra shit I don't want.
>>25532581NTA, but I'm sold. Gonna check out Birthgrave.
recomend me a cyberpunk book you've read that isn't popular at all
>>25533247Gods Fare No Better by J. David Osborne
>>25533247I liked picrel. Sort of a mystery, more of a thriller, has a lot of cyberpunk stylings without going full neon + cybernetics.
>>25533277What's with the YA-coded cover? Is it YAshit, anon?
>>25532385>Primaterre>foid mcdropped
>>25533346Here's the author.Primaterre was doomed from the start, really.
>>25533102It seems like individual books usually get more and better rips. Sometimes omnibus has good direct to digital releases though. Depends on the author / publisher.
>>25533346>>25533359>women are LE BAD, especially my motherkek
new china mieville out today lads, anyone else on it?
>>25533247We only discuss popular books here.
>>25533400I'm not reading anything written by someone named "China."
>>25533386Why is it foidanon can't express anything she liked about these books?
>>25533400>1250 pagesNo.
>>25533445Why is it your mother is a whore? Is she white? White women are all whores.
>>25533471It's 40 dollaridoos, too.
>>25533247
One of the reasons why I read SF is because it reminds me of how good mainstream literature is.
>>25533511
Don't fall for the bait post you guys
>>25533247Creatures of Light and Darkness, by Zelazny.
>>25533546>>25533548
>>25533303It wasn't sold as one, didn't feel like one to me. The MCs aren't youths and there is plenty of swearing and some graphic violence. It's about a robot who lost his memory. The cover isn't great but I enjoyed the book. Don't read it if it turns you off.
>>25533212Night's Master is also excellent and the first in a longer series
>>25533609I'm a cover autist, don't mind me.
writer (straight male) >= writer (pre-90s gay faggot) > writer (paedophile) >>>>>>> writer (post-90s gay faggot) > writer (male trannoid AKA MTF) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> writer (female faggot) > writer (straight female) > writer (female trannoid AKA FTM)It's that simple.
>>25532681Meh it was fine, compared to the shit hill that the series would develop into.But it was a shameless cashcrab that she rushed once she saw the draft for midnight sun get leaked and fifty shades get its own alternate pov version.I don't recommend get into the fanfiction regarding these two.
>>25533800Yeah when I was 17 I heard from somebody that men should not read women literature because that may contaminate you with woman way of thinking.I never read a single book written by a woman after that.But as a kid I read all of Harry Potter and some Agatha Christie, hope it didn't contaminate me that much.
>Fucking kill yourself. No not metaphorically or rhetorically or figuratively or symbolically. KILL YOURSELFuh m very profound philosophy bakker-sama...
>>25533858Philosophy is for homosexuals and feminine men. The only good philosopher that I worth his salt is Diogenes.
>>25530940read the first gormenghast recently, not the easiest read but i persisted because peake was clearly a genius
Something annoying about the Raven Scholar is that the main characters were middle aged but behaved like precocious teenagers.
>>25533850Terrible advice. Is the ocean corrupted by a single bucket of sewage?Most female authors write foidslop though, so you're better off mostly avoiding if you're looking for genreslop. Whole other type of slop.
>>25533904You're right but it's probably only by accident. 9 out of 10 times tries to dunk on philosophy, it's just out of some gay ass sour grapes insecurity
>>25532138>Who are the best literary rogues?
>>25533932That's common in my experience for these sort of recent year books.
>>25532255What is this from?
>>25534056Use 4chan's built-in image search. The answer is only a few clicks away.
>>25534056dominion by shirow masamune
>>25531047I can forgive not knowing Valante, but how far has this general fallen when posters don't know Schweitzer
>>25534132Because the only time Schweitzer comes up is when he's being ritualposted.
>>25533953Yeah, that's a result of their nature. Even the most heterosexual of philosophers are, by the nature of their trade, fags, so it's on par that Diogenes is a bit of a butthurt faggot most of the time.Compared to the others, quite a stalion.
Fires of December on audiobookbay already.I thought it comes out much later.
Currently trying to decide whether to read 90s SF that's excessively too long, recent year Irish historical fantasy, 00s historical fiction set in 1700s Britain, or 80s renowned fantasy-ish.
>>25534222The kickstarter release was today. The retail release will be in December.
>>25534234Imagine paying a kickstarter for a multi-millionaire to do the job he was already going to do.
I don't feel like I'm making any progress in my reading unless I'm reading novels.
>>25534239What do you mean "making progress with your reading"?
>>25534237Imagine wanting to support tradpub over selfpub.
>>25534229>80s renowned fantasy-ishThat one.
>>25530893is there any chance of the mega coming back in some form?
>>25534237Kickstarter is just a silly way of distribution for him.
>>25534237Expect to see it more often since Sanderson of all people sold the highest-grossing kickstarter.
>>25534240Just an abstract concept of finishing series that feels like progress. Whether it's getting closer to completing their bibliography or reading a variety of authors. I don't get the same feeling when reading anthologies, collections, magazines, or anything else. I'm bothered by it because I want to read more of them, but I feel a compulsion that I should be reading novels instead.
>>25534241When self-publishing fags start hiring editors maybe I'll consider pirating their shit over tradpubs.I've actually bought selfpub before. I'm a fraud...
>>25534248It's being discussed more on another thread: >>25531258
>>25534252>Sanderson of all peopleMore like: if anyone would be able to do it for epic fantasy
>>25534263It was more that the highest-grossing kickstarter is an actual relevant on-topic "product" for this very general.
>>25533932Modern women have the mental capacity of teenagers.
>>25534269When did they have mental capacity of adults?
>>25534255Editors aren't some magical fix-all.
>>25534241>implying this isn't just tradpub with a coat of paintI guarantee he worked with one of the big houses for distribution, editing, cover, and all the other shit that goes into the process.
>>25534270Never, but they've closed the gap because of education and modern men being feminized.
>>25534293Nope, it's all done in-house. Dragonsteel has more employees than you may think.https://www.linkedin.com/company/dragonsteel
>>25534252Samefag here. I didn't realize "Fires of December" was even a Sanderson book lol
Just finished Y'Ghatan in the Bonehunters and I don't see why it's so hyped compared to MoI or HoC's siege scenes but I have a few questions. First, why a fire elemental? What does that even mean? There's like one epigraph that mentions them a few chapters before shit kicks off but it's a weirdly basic concept to just jam into this setpiece out of nowhere. At first I imagine some Ragnaros nigga but it seemed more eldritch in inspiration.Second, did the Queen of Dreams just orchestrate a blood sacrifice with Leoman and Tavore? Was Tavore aware her side would be sacrificed too? This bitch seems more and more like an active detriment desu.
>>25534301Huh, I stand corrected then. Don't care for his works but good on him for sticking it to the publishing Jew.Kickstarter is still a bit of an odd choice for him, but he's paying kickstarter for marketing/pre-order hype I guess.
This dude is an actual anime character no joke
This archetype is less familar so I dont know quite how to explain it but this is the classic "Mastermind that pulls all the strings" anime character but I specifically said anime character and not villain because he occupied that classic sympathetic mastermind protagonist role, if you know Classroom of the Elite this character is borderline that exact archetype of main character.And somehow the most surprising thing is that im not mad about it, it takes alot of convenience bordering on contrivance, and it is very nearly ridiculous that a character is this smart and ahead if everything, but none of it has any obvious holes, it just relies heavily on a lot of chance that things will proceed as predictably as the mastermind expects.Nearly a Kellhus type character except if Kellhus actually explained how he got the information about the people that he mind reads. This could obviously go very very poorly writing wise, but this might be the first book in a while to convince me to read the sequel because of how crazy this is.
>>25533923Read Boy in Darkness if you haven't already. The novel written by his wife is also surprisingly decent.
>>25534333mastermind was a trope long before anime got popular
>>25534326>>25534333Everything Is Anime
>>25534346Don't bother, anon. It's no use.
>>25534333>>25534326I eagerly await your inevitable opsec failure.
>>25534351Well, he already has a bit. 5.9ghz for wifi is only used in North America.
>>25534358Closing in on his location as we speak. Over.
Anyone got any sff recs where the protagonist slowly degrades into a villain? Not enough tragic heroes in sff imho thoughbeit
>>25534370Does he have to stay the protagonist? It's more common to have them become the antagonist and lose their viewpoint.
>>25534374YES, I love it when they do that shit. Recs please :3
>>25534366You'll never find out. It's not only used in North America. He was just hoping that I'd correct him and say where I actually live.
Where do I go next with Dunsany after King of Elfland's Daughter? I've let my thoughts on it stew for a few weeks and I've decided that I enjoyed it.
Oh, well it ends here. Acknowledgments are after this page. I think that was about 5 days to get through 700 pages? I didnt read at all for one day.In some sense I'm annoyed I feel compelled to read the sequel, on the otherhand, I hope the fact that I even feel compelled means itll be worth it
>>25534326Anime draws a lot on old Western pop lit. Read Carmilla sometime.
>>25534370DuneRage of Dragons
>>25534305>why a fire elemental?I imagine it's just a natural phenomenon that can happen. Get enough fire and souls together and it becomes alove. Is it explained? No. But it's Malazan so what else is new>Was tavore awareNo what makes you think that? Tavore's a bit of a retard honestly. She's basically just a hard woman who can make the tough choises. And gets bailed out by the Malazan soldiers competence. As for the Queen of dreams, we dont know why she decided to rescue Leoman. Maybe he called in a favour. But she has nothing to do with the battle other than that rescue.
>>25531292Vance's library is huge, you sure about that?
>>25533471>>25533478broke with no attention span. i should have figured.
>>25534536If you pay for China books you're legit retarded.
>>25532738Nothing, a tranny had a meltdown about Bakker and reported the Mega as a form of petty vengeance.
>>25534537china's great and it's got very nice binding and a striking dust jacket
>>25533850>all of Harry Potter and some Agatha ChristieHP is masculine: Harry and the others sacrifice themselves to stop Voldemort for no reason other than that it's the right thing to do and someone has to do it. A woman would ask "what's in it for me and mine?" or have to be cajoled into doing it or has to have some personal petty motive trigger her emotions firstChristie is also masculine for similar reasons: Poirot upholds law, order and justice, and his eccentricities are played for laughs instead of being written as the "right way to behave".Foidslop always places emotions first, rule and rationale second, or not at all.
Shitting on pagetranny has become the only worthwhile aspect of these threads. Unbearably grim state of affairs.
>>25532169>I'm pretty familiar with the setting from playing it pre-clan invasion etcthen you ought to like the Camacho's Caballeros trilogyno Clans, just Snakes, set in the transition between Level 1 and Level 2 tech, and every page of it readable SFI have also heard good things about the Gray Death Legion novels, also written by an actual writer outside of Battletech: "William Keith Jr", better known in some circles as "H Jay Riker". these are the very first Battletech novels, all the way back in 1986, so obviously pre-Clan. but I didn't read them, so this is just hearsayI won't recommend any Dark Age novels if you're not a fan of that era.
Is the sci-fi hall of fame volumes 1,2A, and 2B good if I just want to vibecheck the genre
>>25534515>No what makes you think that?She made the deal with Leoman and had Tavore's ear through T'ambre. Both seemingly threw their armies into this meat grinder for no good reason. Plus there's been several side eye references to gods making blood sacrifices like the one reference to elementals before shit went down. It's weirder if the Queen of Dreams isn't involved in the slaughter desu. Even L'oric warns Leoman about her being a crazy bitch.
>>25534333>Nearly a Kellhus type character except if Kellhus actually explained how he got the information about the people that he mind readsImma be honest with you, leaving it mostly vague as in the case of Kellhus is definitely preferable to whatever this is. Just reads like a bunch of surface level deductions and then also some complete potshots at psychoanalysing that'd realistically have maybe a 1% chance of being correct>>25534346>>25534350Nah pagespammer said something correct for once. That genuinely does read like an anime
>>25534935For that period of time, sure.
In Tolkien, what do mortal sorcerers actually draw in to work their magic? Some don't have Rings of Power, so it's not borrowed from Sauron even if it is typically evil. I don't think we see the Blue Wizard Cults. Is it some development of the spirit or a connection to evil the way the elves (kinda) nurture a connection to Illuvatar through their own spiritual powers?
>>25534381The rest of Dunsany, of course.
>>25535282YOUR """"""RECOMMENDATIONS""""" ARE SHITSKEDADDLE
>>255349351 is better than the others. The stories in 2A and 2B are too old.
>1264 pagesDamn, he thicc
>read an interview of Jack Vance>vigorously denies being right wing and disdainfully refers to "some British fellow, evidently left-wing in his political opinions" who accused him of being right wing
>M-MUH... BIPARTISAN POWATICS!!!Jesus fucking CHRIST, SHUT THE FUCK UP!
>>25535498>And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.>One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?>Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.
>>25535511
>>25534541Looks like it's about the charts in general based on the ban in the other thread.
>politics>VanceYep it's a newfag.
>>25533386tradmoms are good because they stuck to their roles.
This is my last comment on the MEGA. It was much more my idiocy that got it taken down than anything else. Regardless of their intent, considering what I allowed without judgment in zboards in an attempt to capture a bygone age of board culture, I doomed it all. There was a 0% chance that once it was reported it would stay up, so it's amazing it did for as long as it did. The charts need more discretion as well.
In other words, my previous posts were just me coping.
Did you say the gamer word, anon?
Is any of Neil Gayman works worth a read?I stopped halfway through American Gods and I don't exactly remember why. Looking back I thought it was neat concept to have old gods walking about the modern world, and Sandman was nice, sometimes.
>>25535037>Just reads like a bunch of surface level deductions and then also some complete potshots at psychoanalysing that'd realistically have maybe a 1% chance of being correctI agree, it only works because it all happened to be right, which is almost contrived because it's obviously right because it was written to be, relies on a lot of luck and intuition pumping. But I'm so used to books not even bothering to try and justify the conclusions they jump to, that this is actually better than Kelhus to me even though its still cringe. I talked about Kelhus extensively and how he genuinely fundamentally destroys the capacity for any other character to be an actual full fledged complex human being because he "understands" without understanding. Its basically Ziani if he didn't explain his rationale, that would be even more stupid.My memory is hazy, but the first plot affecting time Kellhus does this that stood out to me is when he told that one prince or something that he wants to make his dad proud or something and convinced him to march to some battle early, a Bakker fan probably has a better memory of what Im talking about. But because of that, Kelhus essentially defined the character by virtue of what he said, not what the character is. We have no perspective of his relationship to his father, but even if we did, Kelhus' conclusion wouldn't necessarily make sense because humans are more complicated than that. The example I always use loosely is this: Two children can grow up with a father that loves rock n roll. The simpler child (no offense) will end up also liking rock and roll because their dad did, the other child will go own to develop their own taste from a range of influences and interactions despite the primary father influence.Explaining why both children didn't end up liking the same type of music is the difficult and complicated part of mapping out influences and effects. Kellhus would skil the hard part and appeal to the intuition of stupid people that "Ohhh of course it makes sense that X likes rock and roll! they heard their father listening to it all the time!" Because theyre retards content with a simplistic and shallow perspective of human beings wherein nothing needs to be understood, merely labelled for use. Kellhus does not understand, he finds a way to package human behaviour into a box slapped with a label to be directed towards something and used.Ziani is honestly barely better, but theres a tiny bit more depth when he explains the logic train of why he could expect somebody to act the way he predicts. Which if nothing else, is interesting. What else I wonder, will he reveal about a person with his magical anime deduction powers?
This is also why people who mistake my criticism for pedantism or things not being real are dumb. I'm literally tolerating a character that is absurd and makes zero sense whatsoever without just being an anime character. Its a very "base" level flaw of thinking for people to assume that because somebody is exceptional in one field of knowledge, that they should be capable or exceptional in another. Whenever people make that mistake of thinking, I think a little less of their judgement. Ziani being perfect at basically everything and able to master archery to the precision he did to pull off his scheme, and psychoanalyze everybody when its noted that he wasn't particularly social in his daily Mezentine life, is ridiculous. But sometimes you tolerate ridiculous to see where it goes. But it must pass a basic test of not being fundamentally senseless. Ridiculous things can technically happen every once in a while, senseless things have no basis.
>>25535953Stardust is legitimately great. Easily his strongest offering, though the movie may have ruined it for you. Neverwhere is painfully 90s but has its moments. Norse Mythology is a fun rendition of the Edda if you've never read it. Everything else I've either found boring or aged like milk. Except Coraline, which is so close to the movie you can really just watch the movie.
is this good?
>>25536171>The Knight and NiggasIs this hood?
>>25536173I'm suddenly wondering if BET is publishing books.
90 pages through Evil for Evil so far and the next book I read better not start of slow with multiple pages of somebody describing how they figured out how to Sew after not knowing how whatsoever.Is there a single writer that doesn't like to indulge in their on largely irrelevant knowledge and write pages of what is essentially slice of life before getting to the meat and potatoes? I know this will be the death of me once I get to ASOIAF.
>>25536209ASOIAF has like zero slice of life its just nonstop timeskips/pov cuts from plot point to plot point
thoughts?
>>25536215Aren't the last two books infamously bloated and made fun of for long descriptions of food
>>25536227They're bloated but it doesn't get crazier than a paragraph or two of food? Thinking of redwall or something?
>>25534350true
>>25536224I enjoyed it >>25517726
>>25536252Another great stand alone book to keep in my back pocket then...
>>25536274Stop hoarding books to read and READ, nigga.
>>25536014Bakker fan here, I think his prodding of that paticular prince was a much more sure thing because the prince in question was extremely thirsty for his long-lived fathers throne and would happily settle for a throne of his own valor.
>>25536291Yeah but thats simple and boring for the reasons I said, and besides what Kellhus did was literal magical mind reading, he cheated like a motherfucker. Your response has made me realize though that I am uncharacteristically giving the Engineer Trilogy a pass, everything about Ziani is truly ridiculous, and the goodreads reviews mentioning and bringing up how sort of empty the book and Ziani trying to make the point that Love can destroy everything blah blah blah, while Ziani's love is still intuition pumping "I just love her so much that I have no choice but to destroy a bunch of civilizations" then theres also the fact that what Valen's does for love is about as ridiculous too. Your point isn't made simply because you said "1+1 = 11" theres actually an entire theory behind why 1+1 = 2. Now whether you refer to the mathematical theory, or the scientific theory, or the sociological is a different question, but you can't just say "I'm doing it for love" as Ziani masterfully explains like an AI that "You love her because your chromosomes dictate that you need X personality type" which is basically what Ziani does.But the thing is, either the books are self aware of this fact or theyre lampshading hard, because Ziani also notes himself how ridiculous his motivations ultimately are, as he goes on to rationalize that he has no choice. Very messy character actually if you assume that he won't ultimately end uo sufficiently explained, but thats calls into question another problem: I hate series that "lazily" pose a question or a problem to be answered in the next book to bait you. Ziani should have had some semblance of actual personhood and weight to his love by the end of the first book even if you wanted to keep a mystery behind the true nature of that love. The closest the book gets is the poetry stuff I guess.Well I've already committed at this point, might aswell read to the end of the 2nd book
>>25536042>Stardust is legitimately great. Easily his strongest offering, though the movie may have ruined it for you. Neverwhere is painfully 90s but has its moments. Norse Mythology is a fun rendition of the Edda if you've never read it.this>>25535953>I stopped halfway through American Gods and I don't exactly remember whyso pick it up againit's also very 90s, and it's clear Gaiman never met an actual chud, because his attempt at depicting a chud is absolutely laughablebut I liked it a lot> I thought it was neat concept to have old gods walking about the modern worldcommon trope in urban fantasywhat made AG stand out is that the gods were dogshit poor lmao
>>25536333Kellhus is basically a superhero. He can enter a trance that slows time to a crawl and calculate pretty much any sequence of events to a point sometimes years into the future. He can discern someone's innermost thoughts and feelings by studying the subtle movements of the muscles in their face as he speaks with them. I think the books do a good enough job of showing Kellhus gathering information about people, studying them, developing theories of mind et cetera, that I can suspend my disbelief and accept that a giga-brain like him can brainwash people. Would it be better or worse if the Dunyain were magicians who specialised in mind altering spells instead?
>>25536399>Would it be better or worse if the Dunyain were magicians who specialised in mind altering spells instead?They effectively are, they just aren't loud about their magic. Also seriously explain not only how Kellhus could have known about the Prince's insecurity regarding his father without interacting with him personally enough even once, but also how he could deduce specifically how it uniquely affected him.
>>25536354>it's clear Gaiman never met an actual chud, because his attempt at depicting a chud is absolutely laughableYeah he low key fucked up a generation of men because he has no idea how insanely easy life is as Neil Gaiman.
>>25536354can you fit some more buzzwords into this post, my new and young friend?
>>25536442it's a simple word comprising only 4 letters that quickly gets across the stereotype in mind, why shouldn't I use it? fuck off>>25536436what does an "easy life" have to do with anything being discussed here?
>>25536465>"the" stereotypepsychotic AND new to the website D:
>>25536465It sounds like you've never read Gaiman and don't know what half those buzzwords mean.
>>25536479>half>wordsI used exactly one buzzword: "chud"which other words did you think were "buzzwords"?>>25536475>"the"ESL, ignored
>>25536507>doesn't understand emphasis of a wordYour newfag buzzword didn't save you, queer.
Anyone know where to pirate Pierce Brown's ...I don't know what it is (webcomic?) The Book of Lorn?
>>25535830>not using lists compiled by trustworthy critics
>>25536171Yes. Leiber is criminally underrated as a fantasist.
>>25536863>>25532419See 5, for a certain definition of "trustworthy", which is often personal.
>>25532419>2. The Goodreads group (monthly books, reviewer list, access to others)>3. Writing about 100s of books>6. playlists of sff booktubers
Just finished between two fires. The author writes like a retard at times but it was an enjoyable story
>>25536863The only list I trust is the one is recommended by the strange people I meet in my dreams.
>>25536997Based
>>25536512>>25536442>>25536475Why are you calling him a gigachad?
>>25537183why are you underage on an 18+ website?
>>25537205Why are you calling me a gigachad?
>>25537233No, I'm calling you a nigger.Nigger.
>>25537274Why are you calling me a gigachad again?
The quineThe trineIt rhymesNigger times
>>25537183>>25537233>>25537277Now click your heels three times and go back to Africa, nigger.
>>25537308Why do you keep calling me a gigachad?
has there ever been a science fiction story that explored how society would function if everyone suddenly became mentally retarded all at once?
>>25537471what about a story where each brand of mental illness (depression, schizophrenia, bipolar, etc.) lives mostly within their own colonies?
>>25537471Futurama S3E7 - The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
>>25535953I liked his short story collection Fragile Things.
>>25537471they made a movie about it one score years ago
>>25537471Only thing i know with a premise like that is Idiocracy, but that's a movie.
>>25537471Pump Six (the story, not the whole collection)
>>25537474The Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K. Dick.
>>25537533yeah but he didn't ask for it
>>25537547It's the best we have, anon.
>>25537551i agree but i don't believe anon was actually interested in it :x
https://www.ign.com/articles/brandon-sanderson-exclusive-interview-mistborn-movie-wheel-of-timeDo you ever see yourself slowing down at some point?Sanderson: The great tragedy of art, I have found, is that there's never time – and never will be time – to do all the things you want to do.have you given any thought as to what a video game adaptation of any of your books could look like?Video games, even the smaller indie games, are huge investments these days. We're very excited for the first Mistborn movie...How many years away do you think it actually is Sanderson: I would imagine this is still many years off. do you have any sympathies with George R. R. Martin potentially not being able to finish Game of ThronesSanderson: George R. R. Martin is one of the greats of our genre, and in my every interaction with him, he's treated me with kindness – even when I was a nobody. He truly is the great patriarch of the fantasy genre, and has done a great deal of work fostering new talent, helping the community, and offering advice and support when needed. Would you ever consider finishing it, as you did with Wheel of Time?Sanderson: Respectfully, I'm the wrong person to do this – and I think most fans of both of our works would agree. My entire career is, in a way, a response to A Song of Ice and Fire. And do you think Martin owes anyone the final books?George doesn't owe people books...I can't promise the end of the Stormlight Archive...I am as guilty as anyone of, now and then, making light of the fact that we don't have a conclusion to Game of Thrones. However, I live in a glass house, as I have a book (The Rithmatist) that I've promised fans a sequel to for as long as people have been waiting for George's next volume.
>>25537636>>>/lit/grrm
>>25537636>My entire career is, in a way, a response to A Song of Ice and Fire. nigga what?
>>25537711It's true. Sanderson is a descendant of Tolkien while GRRM isn't. Thus, the literary lineages battle.
>>25537711>my entire career is a response to a bad fanfic of a jack vance novella This guy is the Maddox of fantasy.
>>25537732>Sanderson is a descendant of Tolkien>not Terry Brooks
>>25537736>a bad fanfic of a Michael Moorcock novellaFixed.
>>25537738Yes, and? That's like saying that a grandson isn't a descendant.
>>25537711Much of that interview read like generic corporate speak lol>>25537738Brooks was quickly doing his own thing and may have been the first fantasy author to hit the NYT Bestseller's which is what earned him a lot of critic-attention.
>>25537747>Much of that interview read like generic corporate speak lolSanderson has this sad Alex Jones thing going where he thinks if he kisses the Hollywood Jew's ass prominently enough they'll let him make movies.
>>25537758surprised it hasn't happened already with all of his mormon backing and he should not be acting so naive at his age
>>25537772I think he used up the Mormon influence bonus getting published / promoted in the first place and never had much sense for business or interpersonal relations.
>>25537809>had much sense for business or interpersonal relations.dude earlier in this SAME THREAD someone posted about how dragonsteel (brandon's personal company) is xboxhueghe is currently in the process of opening a small Dragonsteel shopping plaza in Utah which includes a bookstore, a work place for his employees, and a bunch of other shitdon't forget brandon sanderson is responsible for the highest-grossing kickstarter of all kickstartersdude is rolling in money and has that soft-hand naive outlook toward the real world
Thinking of stoppjng Engineer Trilogy early and just moving on to ASOIAF, I just have this weird feeling the story is not going to be worth it, that guy yesterday he responded to my excuse making of Ziani and why he's not as bad as Kellhus made me think about it more and about how much of the book I was making excuses in my head for. And I don't like making excuses for books, thats what kept me reading Sun Eater longer than I should have.But I'm also tired of giving up on books. I've ended 2 halfway through. And I still debate sometimes going back to Dandelion Dynasty just because of its reputation, even though my criticisms of it were valid. Sometimes I wonder if I'm just expecting too much from books. But that doesn't make sense because although out of the hundreds of TV shows I have ever watched, I can only personally consider 3 to have been well written. Even within those shows I have tolerated bad writing. The problem isn't merely bad writing, its the lack of a counterbalance of good writing to tolerate justifying the bad writing. So much of Howling Dark was just straight up garbage. Bad. Shallow, and fucking Stupid. I will never forget how much it just kept butchering the Ship of Theseus. Too many of these series rely on the basic intuition of near subhuman readers desire to merely occupy a distinct world regardless of whether it justifies itself and any depth. They just want some garbage to watch pass by, in written form. Hadrian's fake garbage shallow relationship drama where he gets with some random soldier girl in book 2, and we're left wondering in the beginning of the book and by the end, what the fuck he ever loved her for? It has all the "beats" of some shitty love story Kissing, Crying, Saying "I'm Sorry" after you betray their trust". Feeling Guilty. But none of it had any actual weight to it because their relationship lasts on page for like 30 combined pages, and then the aftermath is dedicated to like 5 pages towards the end, then immediately forgotten and replaced by his equally shitty relationship with whatever that red hair bitch's name is where the relationship is effectively forced by sheer proximity of being in eachothers space for extended periods, and the kind of retarded stakes that makes a character go "I don't want to see you hurt!" Fucking contrived. Atleast they have their gay alien civilization study to relate over, but that doesn't demand love, friendship at most. I can see the questions already "What would demand love then?" Thats not the point. I can think of a dozen depictions of stories where the characters are already in a relationship before the reader knows any of the characters and despite that the love expressed clearly has weight to it. Hadriand and Red Hair bitch just "love" because they fought together and helped eachother. That makes the relationship seem, like they were just slapped together because the main character needed a love interest as is par the course for the generic young hero story.
>>25537826>in UtahMormon jobs program.>highest-grossing kickstarter of all kickstartersShadowstats inflation adjusted that would be Pebble, or Eufy for highest number.
>>25537834>I just have this weird feeling the story is not going to be worth itSelf-fulfilling prophecy >I wonder if I'm just expecting too much from booksYes.>I'm also tired of giving up on booksStop reading entirely.
>>25537744
You ever read a book later in the series that makes you bump an earlier book up a star?
>>25537973No.
>>25537973No, but it sounds like you did, so spit it out.
>>25537921Makes no sense if the self fulfilling prophecy was right, every single book I read would be great, because I expected and wanted everyone of them to be.
>>25538060Apparently not based on your actual posts.
>>25538054No, I'm not done with it yet and don't want spoilers.
>>25537973Yes, I've done it both ways. Half-stars are hedges for that.
>>25538075dumbass
I must say though, this KJ parker fella sets up questions and mysteries pretty well. Got me wondering why the fuck Sulfur matters so much to a soot covered woman working in a beehive shaped building with a chimney (these are nearly the book's own words) but then again, that could just end up being a result of my ignorance of whatever is trying to be communicated there and when it gets to it, its not actually as interesting as it sounded. We'll see I guess, made me want to read the next chapter atleast.
>>25538164Tom Holt
>>25538164>DNF Bakker>DNF Terra Ignota>DNF Sun Eater>DNF Expanse>DNF More Cock who whoever the fuck>DNF engineer trilogyHow much longer will your list get?
The Hierarchy series was fineRed Rising suckedIs there anything else in the same vein I could try?
>>25538192You missed a few.
>>25538198What vein is that?
>>25538202A class based system with no maneuverability where the protag has to hide amongst the ranks of the higher classes, who all might as well be walking gods due to enhancement etc, with the aim of fucking the systemA serving of good ol' power fantasy would be a nice addon
>>25538206Isn't that just Dungeon Crawler Carl?
>>25538210Sort of. I found DCC very entertaining though, so more of that shit
>>25538206Give Sun Eater a try, its commentary on modified humans is brilliant and not juvenile at all too.
>>25538214Honestly I would just watch some 70s dystopia porn like Rollerball or Death Race 2000
>>25537834Nah ditch it. There's a lot of books that aren't worth it. I read maybe one in four of the books I pick up. Libraries are a blessing.
>>25538395ntaI drop 90%+ of what I try reading.
>>25538395>There's a lot of books that aren't worth itProblem is, I don't have enough books to look forward to reading and not disappointing to drop books like that. I will drop series' no matter what though, the concept if serial fantasy is almost manipulative and exploitative.Also I don't dislike Engineer Trilogy Book 2 per se...its just that I don't expect it to turn out good, deep, and complex. The similarities to Kellhus, though better done, triggered a red flag of understanding in how the characters are written. I almost see it perfectly now, its nearly the exact same as Second Apocalypse, characters determined so merely by their circumstances and upbringing, that some genius can predict everything they'll do and exploit them because they're nothing else. The difference is that Second Apocalypse was slightly more explicit about that. This is going to be another series where the motivations are so simple they almost aren't comprehensible "Why did you bring your army to an active invasion of your own enemy, to try and relieve that enemy from that invasion, therefore putting your country in conflict with the invading army that you can't beat?" Well the answer is "love" of course. See what I mean? Its so simple it might aswell not mean anything, and I say this while acknowledging that Valens and Veatriz' relationship is just barely better developed and understandable than Hadrian and...whats red hair conveniently competent tsundere's name again? Whatever.
Pagespammer is the greatest lolcow in /sffg/ history.
>>25538417>love is an incomprehensible motivationAh, emotions being inscrutable to you explains a lot.
This is what I'M reading right now.
>>25538423Somebody who actually reads in here and proves that they do by talking about it = lolcow no wonder the general is shit
>>25538439Kill yourself. Shoot yourself in the throat and bleed to death.
>>25538433I keep telling you guys he's an autistic psychopath.
Is there a SfF ebook sharing thread? I'm look for some ebook/pdf/whatever to read
>>25538683No, becuse they're so easily and readily available. There are bulk collections to.download though.
Finished The Blade Itself. I like the characters, but by the end it was a real slog. I don't think I'll be continuing with the trilogy for now.Shall I try some of the forbidden fruit next? BaKKKer? Where to start with him?
how many minutes do you read a chapter on average? I'm very slow, I read one chapter around 20 min or so or even more
>>25539225Depends on the chapter length, the book, what's happening... descriptions bore the fuck out of me and increase my urge to tab-out and check the Internet.
>>25539225Are you aware all chapters aren't using a set number of pages?
>>25539231>descriptions bore the fuck out of me and increase my urge to tab-out and check the InternetGr8 b8, m8.
Any good noblebright powerfantasies? I just want a plot about Biggus Dickus the boy scout paladin of light going around dealing with all sorts of dastardly schemers and vile rogues with complete sincerity and somehow his goodness always triumphs completely over the grimdarkness of everything else.
>>25539242Nah, for real though. It's just useless padding, it adds nothing to the story. I get it if the place is remarkable, like the hero was looking for this place the entire book and now here it is!! but most of the time it's just, here's a page worth of description for this hill where they stopped to have breakfast.
>>25539138Heh, just started this book, about 25% in.The only thing that bothers me is past tense, other than that seems good.
Okay, I've picked up The White Luck Warrior again after being away from the series for six months or so, long enough to almost forget the plot and characters and what they're doing, I'm about 83 pages in, the Not-So-Free People's Alliance is on the march against the forces of Not-Mordor, the Not-Fellowship is currently slogging through Not-Murkwood and are just about to get attacked by the pale white Not-Orcs. They recently escaped Not-Moria and fought Not-Orcs and Not-Trolls and narrowly escaped Not-Smaug but I honestly don't remember fuckall about what happened in Not-Moria (it was that boring) currently Not-Gandalf is trying to teach female Not-Frodo about the hidden powerful curse she carries. A whole lot of nothing has happened. Not-Aragorn just gutted a member of the Not-Fellowship (Not-Pippin I guess) for crying in his sleep (EDGY AS FUCK!) and they're currently headed for... The Not-So-Lonely Mountain for... the Sword (sorry, staff) of... Not-Shannara (I don't fucking remember) because supposedly its the only thing that can stop No-Sauron from returning and fucking up Middle Earth... Oops... *COUGH* "Ërwa" it's all VERY DEEP and DARK and TOTALLY ORIGINAL and the last half a dozen books have TOTALLY NOT been a complete and total waste of my fucking time.*YAWN* I... I can't wait to see what happens next.. I wonder what happened to Not-Conan of the Not-Mongols... *YAAAAWN* I don't... don't really remember what happened to him... I wonder what "What-if-Galadriel/Arowyn but insufferable prostitute" is doing too... *YAAAAAWNNN* I... I guess I'll just have to read on and... f-find out...
>>25539257spoiler: Nothing fucking happens.When I started, someone told it was supposed to be grimdark and everyone's a stupid idiot that dies, but really it's not even grim, none of the major characters die, nothing particularly fucked up happens to them either.
>>25539258KEK
>>25539261>Nothing fucking happens.Same thing happens in book 2
>>25539246>I'm not pretending to be retarded, I'm actually retardedAh, OK.
>>25539258So the book is a ripoff of a LotR ripoff. Man...
>>25539294That's why I read science fiction & fantasy, yes.
>>25539296It's "WHAT IF LOTR BUT... CANNIBALISM AND... KEKOLDRY... AND BDSM AND RAPE (GAY USUALLY) AND... WHAT IF PRETENTIOUS IN-UNIVERSE PHILOSOPHICAL MUSINGS AT BEGINNING OF EVERY CHAPTER LIKE DUNE!!!"
>>25515295>I've only requested a single self-published book on NetGalley. I won't do that again.After considering it over for too long, I just did that again and am reading it.
>>25539292Which is why I didn't continue. I knew that'd be the case, besides the characters arent well written anyway. NTA
>>25539261Can confirm, am currently five books in and nothing has still happened. I can only reasonably suspect nothing will continue to happen for the foreseeable future.
>>25539336Just spoil everything for me, what were those eaters about? Why is ferro so important? Why does Jezal or whatever his name is even need to come on the expedition?
>>25539345I wish I knew anon... I wish I knew.
>>25539345>Ferro>JezalVERY funny, smartass.
>as a reviewer of SF, here and elsewhere, I've been accused of pedantry, bias, logorrhea, bile, sophomoric obscurity, and some other things. These accusations are accurate.
>>25539353I dont get it? Stop playing with me please.
>Bakker explained in a Q/A: "A better way to think of the No-God is as a philosophical zombie (p-zombie)"Oh, he's a fucking redditor pseud. That explains everything honestly.
>>25539373Pretty sure he's done actual, live reddit AMAs so, yeah, obviously.
bakkerfag echo chamber hours
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