There is a surprising lack of games inspired by books.
>>743182240Theres loads thoughAlso comics count as books
>>743182240And the other way around.
>>743182240Maybe its for the best
>>743182240Those books are NOT in order. What the fuck is wrong with you?
Megaten
>>743182240There is nothing surprising about that.
>>743182240I really liked Season of Storms, and the Epilogue was a really nice touch
Tower of Fools is betterfite me
>>743182348Name one that's actually good. The Baldur's Gate novel was hilariously bad, the author clearly never played the game. I imagine others are the same
The medium is the message
>>743182240>The Bitcher: The Dildo of Destiny Has Two EndsIndeed.
>>743182240>SEASON OFOSTORMSwhat?
/V/ BOOK CLUB!What novel are you reading right now? What nostalgic classic are you thinking about revisiting to see if it holds up?What’s a weird book only you read that you never get to talk about?
>>743182240Because most of those books would probably be considered misogynistic by modern game studios' DEI teams, since they were written in the last century. Kek.
>>743184245I haven’t read them but I think consensus is the halo books are pretty good>>743186107I just started Ulysses
>>743186107Daughter of the Morning StarI love the Longmire series, yet at the same time I wish there was a final book and definitive ending. The author is still alive and regularly pumping out books, so it's not too bad I guess.I will forever believe that Hell is Empty was supposed to be the last book until the publisher kept asking for more. The whole novel is Longmire all on his own, with no other characters to bounce off of, fighting his way through a blizzard up a mountain. If I remember correctly, it was the first time he really got put through the ringer in the series, so it was still believable at this point. And then the final scene on the porch, where his deputy and daughter are asking him to finally dial it back, and reference some of the big moments from the previous books, it really feels like a final send off. Very easy to headcanon that after that, the rest of his time as sheriff is pretty mundane and not novel-worthy. It really was the perfect ending in my opinion
>>743186107Not reading per say, but I want to get back at reading Hyperion. I just travel a lot these days and I don't have the time
>>743186839Shit, forgot to mention why him being alone is important. The whole novel is pretty much a character-study, and really goes into Walt's mind, with the focus being his strong will and refusal to give up. Something like that, seven books in, is a pretty damn good finale
Currently reading Echopraxia. Wouldn't trust any studio - even at their long forgotten prime - to adapt Peter Watts into a game.
>>743186851Surely travelling is the perfect time to read
>>743182240>Crossroads of RavensI have not read this one. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
>>743186107I binged all the chapters for pic rel and I'm liking it a lot.
>>743182240Ys games are based on Adol’s adventures, which were meticulously chronicled in one hundred volumes of personal travelogue. So far there have been at least 10 Ys games and that means we’ll be getting 90 more. For example, the Felghana Archives tell of his exploits in Felghana in Ys III. you play these games based on these factual accounts, and you really feel like you are him experiencing these events.
>>743186107How to Blow Up a PipelineThe author turns out to be a tankie who whines about the ecological consequences when Ukraine actually blows up Russian pipelines, ignoring it's something he advocated for.
>>743188256I mean its fucking war bro lmao
>>743186107Finishing up on the Brontë family with Anne, and will continue my path of essential classics of Western literature like Portrait of Dorian Gray, Dracula, The Song of the Nibelungs>muh high school readsI was reading Dubrovsky, War & Peace, Crime and Punishment, Fathers and Sons in high school, calma calma
For me it was Scary Stories on PS1
>>743182240are the books as lame and gay as the games? the witcher 2 was an 8/10 at most and 3 and 1 are actually bad
>>743184245Given the shit that wizards did to the IP later, I’m willing to bet that it was a deliberate assassination.
>>743182240the few games that are based on books prove that books and vidya are different mediums and shouldn't mix
>bookslop
>>743182240Games like BG3 and DOS2 completely eclipse books as a mediumIt's books but literally better in every aspect
>>743188895Yeah they’re nothing special and Ciri is a huge whore
>>743182240Making a game based on a book is kind of dumb. Making games partially inspired by different fantasy worlds or characters can be based.
>>743186107Been reading Conan stories after reading a few others from REH. Really, really like Conan. It's like the best parts of his other stories with none of the stuff that I didn't care for.
>>743186107The heart of the Naga, apparently its praised to be Korea's Lord of the Rings so far I'm enjoying it, that project endless game is set in the same universe.
Which developer, /v/ ?
>>743182240I was surprised how bad the actual books were were
>>743186107I only read facts
>>743187493He actually was once commissioned to write the plot for a game, but I guess it never got off the ground.https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=11581
>>743186107I've got that book, although the copy I got barely survived a single read. I thought it was poetic that the cheap binding started falling apart before I was even finished with it. Genuinely a good read.>>743182240I'm still waiting for a game based on the Deltora series.
>>743182240>hear about The Witcher books>never read one>see them for the first time in this thread>they're all kiddie-length
>>743186107honestly...been a while since I actually read a bookhemingway, old man and the sea - re-readany cool books that came out within the couple years that are actually good that pretentious bitches love? Picking up women at bars and cafes all day since it's summer and college/uni girls are on break, practicing on my shyness, trying to be more sociable - I think I'm making progressfound this cool fucking underground... not even club, literally fucking asylum ruins where they play some demonic sounding rave shit with goth bitches everywhere though I'm a little too shy for them but I'm gonna shoot my shots anyway
>>743186107Currently reading Les Miserables. Almost at the end. I like it for the most part, but the segments where Hugo goes on and on about French history bored the hell out of me, even though I know they were necessary for context.
>>743182240I bought this collection a couple of months ago in a yard sale, i still haven't read them. Are they worth it? Haven't played the games, I only picked them because they were mad cheap (10 bucks for the whole collection) and had heard of the game and series.
>>743186107I am reading The Picture of Dorian Gray.
>>743182240If you mean like, based on books, it's cause it's not easy to find a team of game developers who are all dedicated fans of a book series, unless it's something really popular like harry potter or lord of the rings.As for games simply inspired by books, I'm sure there are plenty.>>743186107Reading Harry Potter for the first time.Don't have nostalgia for anything, I started reading very late in life.>Weird bookUhhh the prince of nothing series, only on /lit/ do I ever see it get brought up (I read it before knowing it had any fans on /lit/)
>>743186107im unironically reading infinite jest
>>743191448>I'm still waiting for a game based on the Deltora series.This already exists
>>743184245the tarkov novels were pretty good, can’t buy them anymore though
>>743186107Reading the debut novel of some dickhead from /lit/, was tricked into buying it thinking it was by a real writer. Anyway, it's okay. Not gonna name it because he doesn't deserve the publicity for his duplicitous ways.
House of Leaves. It's a pretty good horror story and I liked the layered narration of the footnotes but I've gotten somewhat annoyed by the sections of mostly blank pages. I understand what it's trying to do thematically but I feel this particular execution is somewhat lazier compared to what earlier chapters did.
>>743182240I wanted a Golden Compass game until I saw the movie and TV shows. Fucking monkey's paw man.
>>743188821Hmm, i'm intrigued
>>743195629I quite enjoyed Prince of Nothing. It feels like it was written by a sex pest but it does feel nice to have a fantasy series that wrestles with more engaging and extreme ideas of Good and Evil.
>>743186107>What novel are you reading right now?Currently reading Warriors since I love cats so muchAlso been reading Watership Down. Really enjoying the journey
>>743195738>DS
>>743196356Now that's a blast from the pastI gradually fell out of love during Power of Three, though I am unsure if it was me not liking the new protagonists or the writing quality objectively going down. If you're up to speed to that arc, is it worth it to have a re-read of the whole series?
What is a good fantasy audiobook I can listen to while at work? It being on youtube would be preferred.
>>743182240they should make his other fantasy series into a video game desu
>>743196190Kellhus did nothing wrong
>>743197347he had retard kids with a prostitute, and his gay best friend went mad or something, i dont remember
>>743196946can't go wrong with discworld.All the older ones are on youtube by someone who keeps ban evading every time his channel gets nuked. It's also the only way to listen to them now, since the originals got delisted due to licensing and rerecorded.The quality can remind you that some of them were recorded in the 80s, but Nigel Planer is easily the narrator who gives the best deliveries for the lines discworld is known for. I'd say Tony Robinson was better if not for the fact he only did abridged versions.
>>743195738Oh shit, sweet. Was it any good?
>>743195701Good for you, it’s an extremely important novel. >>743186107I pretty much just listen to audiobooks. Currently, I’m listening to pic related so I can learn how to deal with my BPD sister.
>>743197974This actually give any good advice to mitigate negative behavior or is it just "You're fucked, here's how to cope"
>>743197462>someone who keeps ban evading every time his channel gets nukedCan you link that one? Just looking up discworld nigel Planer gets me are videos that look AI generated.
>>743186107Finished reading A Scanner Darkly. Best ending to a novel I've read in a long ass time. Personal, miserable, unjust, yet with a smidgen of hope that things may get better.
>>743197441>he had retard kids with a prostituteGood point, they aided nothing and one was even the cause of his downfall>his gay best friend went madI cant tell if u mean Akka, Proyas, or Cnaur
>>743198834Did your edition of the book have the dedication by Dick? That floored me when I read it, since heroin went through my generation in the 1990s.
>>743182240>books out of order>one upside downI hate whoever made this picture and I hope they get their testicles caught in an angle grinder.
>>743186107
>>743186107The Mistborn seriesIt's decent, Sanderson knows story structure better than 99% of fantasy writers but his prose is sophomoric. All in all a fun time to be had.
>>743198658Here's the first two in the series.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6nF0lGqmPAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdGLxnFxeI4That said, some people prefer to start with Guards! Guards! since that's where the series develops the tone it's generally known for. The first few books are more a parody of sword and sorcery than the rest of the series.As for the channel who normally hosts them, now I check personally, It seems he's been banned again so it may be a while before the majority of the series gets uploaded.
>>743186107literally that. After finishing The Testaments.ngl, i liked the book more, fuck that mess of Series by Hulu. They fucked up my girl Nicole
>>743186593>I haven’t read them butlollmao
>>743186107Neuromancer
>>743186107>What’s a weird book only you read that you never get to talk about?I know for a fact I'm not even the only person on /v/ who's read them, but the edge chronicles are wonderfully weird, and written by people who held high regard for the fortitude of children
>>743186107On a bit of a classic science fiction trip. Currently reading At the Mountains of Madness.
>>743199048Yep. I didn't catch they way he listed himself among the victims at first. It really wasn't a sci-fi novel.
>>743195869Hahaha. Behead All Satans?
>>743199130I’m reading the manga for this at the moment and it sucks I’m really close to dropping it>>743199284I’m guessing you don’t like them but doesn’t change the fact a lot of people say they’re good, so still answered anon’s question
>>743199132Sanderson is literally just Stephen King for fantasy readers.
>>743186107Here’s my threadly post where I desperately ask if anyone else read Spy Gear Adventures, because DAMMIT, I need to talk about this series with SOMEBODY.
>think stories and writing in video games are almost always not worth thinking about>get called an adhd brown zoomer tranny who could never handle a bookbooks are why i have standards for stories and writing in the first place though
>>743199824>enjoy reading books>hate reading in games Simple as.
>>743199621I don't agree. Stephen King is pretty hit or miss with story structure. Sanderson may well be the best at this. He's writing style is INCREDIBLY dry like Stephen King but unlike King his writing is also transparent which helps tremendously in his case since it becomes easier to ignore the repetitive nature of his writing. Note I said "easier." Motherfucker is like 8 "squirms" and "flushes" per minute. I see why he is legendary among women readers.
>>743184245I read the novelization of MGS and it didn't suck
>>743199824The only time I see criticizing a story be met with that kind of behavior is Disco Elysium.
>>743182348This is true. Are the mass effect books good? I know deception or whatever it's called is non canon
>>743182240A Series of Unfortunate Events got a few vidya, but I'm pretty sure they've only ever covered the first three books.
>>743182240The Witcher books are complete dogshit and the only reason the series is known is because of the games.
Why does everyone who writes children’s books with comic art look exactly like this?
Would it even be possible to create an ASOIAF game? Like what would you even do in it.It's crazy, the biggest piece of current day medieval fantasy media ever, shadowed only by LOTR itself, has literally no good games, let alone any quantity of games that isn't some like mobile thing.
>>743200154There was one book that I swear was part of this series that I read at a friend’s house around 2011, where it was mostly a loredump with a few pictures, but it ended with a black-and-white pulp comic throwback that had a sequence where the narration boxes are listing a league of villains who are meeting to discuss how to screw with the Baudelaire children, and one of them is denoted as the “villainous hypnotist, THE SWIRL!”, and he had a tight-lipped smile and a bowler hat. I’ve never been able to find it since and I could be conflating a different series with this one because I never read either.
>>743200385Total War
>>743200441Was it the Unauthorized Autobiography of Lemony Snicket?
>>743182240fuck off steve ogg
>>743182240Play Deus Ex
>>743200496I’d have to read it to be sure. Got an archive.org link?
>>743184245I liked the metro book. It came free with the game too
>>743199398Vgh, immaculate taste anon.
>>743182348The Heavenly Sword novel was better than the game it was based on.
>>743186107>What’s a weird book only you read that you never get to talk about?Pic related, it's brilliant.
>>743200612I've got two. Take your pickhttps://archive.org/details/unauthorizedauto0000snichttps://archive.org/details/lemonysnicketuna00snic/
>>743200154these keep popping up in the back of my head, is there a decent reason to read them as a grown ass man>if you have whimsy in your sovlbesides that
>>743200846>>743200612My apologies. Looking more closely I realize both of those suck ass and barely show anything in the book. Here is a slightly less shitty (but still very shitty) version that has all the pages in awful qualityhttps://www.scribd.com/document/344668099/Lemony-Snicket-Unauthorized-Autobiography
I got the impression that Skulduggery Pleasant was /v/‘s favorite middle-grade series, but maybe we can put it to a vote. Reply to this post with your favorite middle-grade book series, no repeats, and we’ll cap off this thread with a strawpoll that we might be able to carry over into a storytime thread depending on the subject matter.
>>743200963They're quick reads and are designed to increase your vocabulary and teach how to make the best with absolute dogshit conditions. I also found them extremely funny when I went back and reread them.
>>743201089Probably The Old Kingdom series.Tim Curry doing the audiobook doubtless helped
>>743201004Yeah, I didn’t see it. I must have the wrong book series. Thanks for your help anyway.
>>743191448It got two games AND an anime series, actually. That said, I don't think the games were released in NA. The anime was neat at least.
>>743182240Something about paperback books triggers me. I either buy hardcover or just pirate the epub.
>>743201357The problem with hardcover is that the sleeves are fucking annoying, so you’re just paying extra for a book with no decal.
>>743201089I got the box set of the first 9 books a few years back (only read up to 6 shortly after high school) and mostly loved them. It's definitely one of the series I wish got a decently budgeted cartoon.My biggest complaint is that they killed off too many of the cool characters and left a lot of the shittier ones hanging around for far too long. The glitchy Reflection was one of my favorite plot points, but felt like things got too nuts too quickly in Kingdom of the Wicked.
>>743201541I haven’t read past the first book, but my favorite plot point was the self-protecting book of secrets that stays closed by deadening any potential reader’s interest in it by an exponent every step they take closer towards it, therefore creating a Zeno’s Paradox scenario where they get so bored that it’s impossible for them not to turn around and walk away out of apathy before they open it.
>>743199591I haven't read them at all but the the fact that you parrot other opinions so strongly says a lot about your own opinion.
>>743201483I'm not a fan of most cover art, especially for fantasy and sci-fi novels. Too glossy and too vivid looking. I feel like covers are designed to catch your eye when you're browsing for books in a store, not optimized to look good long term on a bookshelf. I usually take the dust jacket off when reading it because yeah it's annoying, but I like the look of a hardcover with no art. And I usually keep a book in my bag, and I don't have to worry about messing up a hardcover. Also, hardcovers are more likely to use better quality, acid free paper that won't look super brown and smell weird after some years.
>>743201987I guess, I wasn’t thinking too deeply about it I was just trying to contribute to anon’s question
>>743201089Idk man I just liked it
>>743201089
VOTE: What is /v/‘s favorite nostalgic book series?>https://strawpoll.com/xVg71oNOQyr
>>743202845Where's Icemark?
>>743202845>no Chronicles of Narnia>no Dragonlance>no Lord of the RingsNigger
Bump while I read Soul Music
>>743182321>comics count as books
Brandon SanderGOD saved epic fantasy. Kneel.
>>743202845Artemis Fowl was a fat load of nonsense a lot of the time but entertaining and probably staryed a general trend of interest if secret/fantasy world operating in modern society. It certainly suffered from an author not being as intelligent as the characters he's trying to write for.
>>743204771First few books are good but I genuinely prefer assuming they just lost and everyone died when that Storm got summoned.
>>743202845>No Temeraire That's a fat load of poppycock
>>743204891Yeah that series gets progressively worse with each book
>>743182240Fictionfag should be guillotined
>>743204815>It certainly suffered from an author not being as intelligent as the characters he's trying to write for.Oh, yeah, this. Speaking as an actual child genius, I loved Artemis when his books were still coming out, but, fuck, looking back, Eoin Colfer was just not smart enough to portray him correctly. Artemis was definitely sabotaged by his author.
>>743201180>fast reads and a little funnyperfect. weirdly i've read almost all of them (decades ago by now of course) but remember almost nothing except for some part of grim grotto where they're stuck in a cove or something and mushrooms are waxing and waning. that phrasing stuck, so the books would seem to have succeeded in their design at least a little bit
>>743202845>all that crap>only ever read Discworld
>>743186107>novelNothing. I have a reading burnout.>What’s a weird book only you read that you never get to talk about?Twisted Metal, its sequel Blood and Iron. No third book IIRC.
Did the third Kingkiller book come out yet? I doubt I'll even read it at this point, but the last time I ever heard of Rothfuss he was being a fat obnoxious attentionwhore at ttrpg events.
>>743186107Just finished Shadows of the Empire, currently started the Grand Moff Tarkin Book.Got the Mistborn trilogy and 2 gaunt's ghosts omnibus waiting when I'm done with those.
>>743204771many parts of W&T were hard to read, but the stuff with Dalinar was good
>>743205215Discworld was a great series. The Night's Watch and Industrial Revolution series were my favorite to read through. I still gotta play some of the PC games they got.
>>743204771>Hmm... so the main character of my story is both a warrior and a healer>And he seeks to protect the weak and the innocent and uphold some sense of honor and justice in the dark world he lives in>And he is the first to restore an ancient order of holy knights>And he gains holy power by taking and upholding various oaths>Hmm... what to name him...>Yes! I've got it! "Kaladin!">You've done it again, Brandon!
>>743211867>But what to name the wise old general, brother to the king?>Nothing comes to mind...>Fuck this, I don't want to do anything but play WoW, I just got out of the Night Elf noob region>Wait... I've got it!
>>743186107Giving it another go, because the first time I dropped it around a third way in.>What nostalgic classic are you thinking about revisiting to see if it holds up?I need to give The book of the new sun another try, because man did I bounce away from that one.
>>743186107House of leaves. Is there a way to read it? Around the 200 page, I saw a footnote that says more info on page 330 which is ahead of where I am. I decided not to skip to that part.
>>743199132based, I just finished book 2 of Mistborn era 2
>>743186107Brothers Karamazov. Halfway through. Love it so far. >revisitCount of Monte Cristo. >weird booksI read a lot of warhammer 40k books. I've never meet a single person irl who knows about 40k let alone its books.
>>743204771Sanderson just needs to come up with ideas and let someone that isn't retarded do the actual writing
>decide to start reading again by starting off with simple easy entertaining books to get me into the habit>5 slough house books later I'm reading nothing by bottom of the barrel totally not YA fiction instead of anything actually useful or non fiction:(
>>743186107Just listened to an audiobook of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and it's straight up anime plot but written in the 1860s
>>743214168No literature is useful (unless you're actually planning on applying it). Reading about the fall of rome isn't somehow more productive than reading fairy talesKeep going, when you feel the want for more intellectual works, you'd have built a good reading habit ready for it
>>743214451Do black people really fun of other black people for reading?https://youtu.be/7Kv_z6H0bmA
>>743214451>No literature is usefulI read the bible and it rewired my brain to see everything in metaphors.
>>743182240Mushoku tensei mogs every dogshit western book in this thread
>>743214168Why not both? Read a chapter of fiction and a chapter of non-fiction a day, unless you don't have time.
>>743186107Currently reading Between Two Fires since I ran out of dark fantasy books/comics to read.Pretty good so far, the way it describes fights between angels and demons is kino.
>>743186107i'm reading thisthe ottoman empire truly was a plague upon this earth
>>743204771This prose is like nails scraping over my eyes
>>743216369
>>743216547Eww
>>743216547This is Erikson though. This is also written poorly on purpose because the novels are "written" by Avas, who himself is a talentless hack.
>>743186107>What novel are you reading right now?Kawabata's Snow Country>What nostalgic classic are you thinking about revisiting to see if it holds up?Don Quixote (read most of it around 8th grade)>>What’s a weird book only you read that you never get to talk about?Muerte por agua (Death by water) by Julieta Campos. Set in 1949 in some unnamed tropical island, its composed of thirteen narrative sequences in which the narrator provides no guidance for the reader. Voices intrude deliberately, without stage directions or preambles. The characters hear the dripping of a tap and the constant rain. Characters reflect about time a lot.
>>743217284Why does Don Quixote get so much praise? I read half of the first book, and it reads like LLM-generated story with how random it is.
>>743207132Nope.In fact he’s got so bad that his agent has publicly speculated that he’s incapable of writing more because he plagiarised the entire thing and hasn’t got anyone to steal the conclusion from.I can’t imagine how much of a cunt he had to be for them to snap that hard.
>>743190445does this have zebra cheetah girls or was that chasm city
>>743190445Relic
>>743186107Reading Flashman. Fun as fuck books. Also the author did tons of history research for accuracy. Fun adventures in history. Pic related
>>743218328Who would he have plagiarized?
>>743218328>you are plagiarizing everything from other books! fuck you man!kwab.
>>743186107Almost done rereading Return to the Whorl and by extension the Book of the Short Sun trilogy. Amazing series.
>>743219375Someone he went to college with, allegedly.Personally I assume he wrote most while being an eternal student, and when he stopped the larp he completely ran out of material, but him stealing all of it and forgetting to steal an ending would be funny as fuck.
>>743199940Eh, I think the novelization kind of made Snake into more of a jerk. Like, any time the author had to fill in some space, he gave Snake some snark, or shit like pic related.
>>743196946Wheel of Time
>>743196946There was this indonesian channel normally showing just some religious streams that for some reason had awesome bootleg audiobooks of malazan 1-4 up, but deleted them now
>>743196946LotR read by Andy Serkis
>>743190445Mass effect blatantly ripped this off.
*Blocks you’re path*
>>743219317proving once again indian women are built for BBC. (big british cocks.)
>>743186107Read it when I was 9. Loved the series for 75% of my life.Finally getting ready for a re-read now that I'm 32.Go ahead, call me a pleb, I don't care. WoT is home to my heart.
>>743220309Why would anyone call you a pleb? WoT is excellent.
>>743219317just saying.
>>743186107Just finished Divine Comedy, already half-way through Paradise Lost. Going with either Infinite Jest or Don Quixote next. >>743186593>I just started UlyssesGood luck.
>>743186107Just got some new book on Assyria for poop readsKeep Herodotus in the car for whenever I need a book to kill time.I think Lies of Locke Lamora is the book I can reread the most and still enjoy.weird book? uh I guess this maybe
>>743197974>>743198287Mine became way more manageable after she got a boyfriend and started taking meds. Now if those meds are good for her brain long term, beats me.
>>743220541>>743220309
>>743199560thats what cyberpunk should be about - high tech, low living
>>743204771Mistborn 1-3 are good. He finished Wheel of Time okay.Everything else of his seems lame, and he clearly is taking the business side of writing more seriously than the artistic side.
>>743220296Hey, it's cheap trauma man.I regret reading as many of the Stormlight books as I did. I liked the plot, the world and I liked the characters but they are just trapped in complete development paralysis because they're all just a gijinka of different kinds mental issues. The only way their character arc changes is in the lamest way imaginable to dwell on their bullshit. I'm thankful I gave up on Rhythm of War before finishing it, and what I read about Winds of Truth is just comically juvenile.
>>743220541WoT is schlock of the highest order
>>743184245I read the novelization of planescape torment. Didn't expect it to be so good.
>>743221023I loved way of kings but after how the rest of the series turned out makes me think it was wholly on accident
>>743199132Mostborn doesn't even feel like a real book, it felt like it was literally just a textbook about technical specifications of theoretical best practices in writing fantasy novels, but with only the examples part
>>743199132>>743221697Reading the Mistborn trilogy felt like the literary equivalent of running on a treadmill. You're doing tons of work but getting nowhere, only you're ever so slowly gaining strength and endurance for it.
>>743186107>What novel are you reading right now?The Long Ships. It's pretty cool so far. Although the chapter I just read has one of the MC's friends getting cucked and then maybe also the MC too? Kinda weird.>What nostalgic classic are you thinking about revisiting to see if it holds up?I want to read Canticle of Leibowitz again. It might be my favorite book of all time but I've only read it the one time so I'd like to see if I still think so.>What’s a weird book only you read that you never get to talk about?I don't think it's that unknown but I've personally never seen it mentioned here, The Library at Mount Char. It's not an amazing book but is an interesting contemporary fantasy read with some cool moments here and there, good enough that I still remember it.
>>743221648The big problem stormlight has is that he focused so hard on trying to be realistic about mental trauma. It sounds fine on paper, but the problem was that the realistic part he focused on was the fact it just doesn’t go away, contrasting most books where people just get over it. It meant that characters just repeated the same arcs over and over again, oftentimes regressing, which lead to constant narrative blue balls since he’s not skilled enough to make an interesting point about the topic.The discord and reddit sycophants worming their way into influencing the books was just the last straw.
>>743186107Re-reading the darkness that comes before to read the warrior prophet. Bakker is 1000 times superior to any YA shitter in existence.
>>743204771I really liked the first couple stormlight books but holy shit was the most recent hard to get through. I think that one turned me off Sanderson for good.
>>743214168Read whatever you want to read and just have fun.Don't let /lit/ pseuds tell you you're "reading wrong"
Cant wait to read the new book from Dan abnett. There's a 70% chance that it will be good based on my experience.
>>743222076>comparing someone to YA authorsi think you might insult him by doing thatit's like comparing YA authors to litrpg authorsor litrpg authors to fanfiction writers
>>743182240This would be an amazing video game.
WHERE ARE THE GAMES
>>743189491>Ciri is a huge whoreThis could be good or bad, but I dare not speculate.
>>743199130Knowing the plot goes nowhere after 60 books has killed my motivation to keep reading.
>>743198287It's a bit of everything (the "you're fucked part" and the "here's how you can deal with being fucked" part). RIght now, I'm at the "how to deal" part, and it sounds pretty legit. It's also highlighted where I personally have made things worse due to my ignorance about how to deal with it, which is definitely useful. >>743220673Mine has had like 500 boyfriends, one of which I respected a lot until things between them collapsed. The latest model seems to be the one she might end up getting married to. Haven't gotten to know him much, though I think I ought to. After things fell through with the *last* dude she brought home, I kinda lost interest in trying to act supportive since it's exhausting to begin with. Also, I doubt your sister's meds will fuck her up in the long run unless she takes dangerous amounts of it for whatever reason. Pharmaceuticals have come a long way, and meds that have at least 30 years of data are not likely to suddenly cause some kind of unforeseen complication due to a huge series of factors that I don't think I need to bother spelling out.
>>743223003There’s the point and click ones with Eric Idle as Rincewind
>>743214929High quality degenerate isekai slop is still degenerate isekai slop.
>>743190445Mass Effect already didreapers = inhibitors ezo shit/synthetics war = andromeda collision
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>>743214929Redpill me on Mushoku Tensei. I'm looking for a new anime to watch and could use some suggestions.
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>>743204621Western comics are literally novels with how much text they have most of them.
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If Brandon Sanderson is so good, why didn't they make a Brandon Sanderson 2?
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>>743223881Robert Jordan is the original. Brandon Sanderson is the vastly inferior copy.
Malazan Book of the Fallen would make a great game!Just gotta secure about 3 billion in budget first.
>>743182240Books are so inefficient compare to videogames though. A videogame can contain many books, and tell a story far more efficiently than a book. Even with the best books the author has to do that annoying thing where they take you out of the scene for a few paragraphs (or chapters) of world building, whereas in a videogame they can just tack it onto a weapon's flavor text, or do that environmental storytelling thing (which videogames do far better than movies as it is). Not saying books don't deserve to exist, I'm just saying videogames have more axes/dimensions to both entertain and communicate.
>>743216835>poorly writtenAre you kidding me? It seemed lat first like it was on the verge of being "turkey reading"-tier, but holy shit-- that depiction of sex was some awesome fucking prose.
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>>743182240nigga what? Koei's entire business model is making games about the same chinese book. they've probably made like 50 games about that book alone.
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>>743224462About 90% of these came from memory. As always op is wrong and a faggot
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>>743182240about to get the expanse game. which is based on a book that was originally going to be a ttrpg so...
>>743200385It exists and it's the Crusader Kings total conversion mod(s)
Reading books isn't fun.
>>743225291Wrong, child, these are your delusions speaking.Starship Repo, by legendary author Patrick Tomlinson, is a practically transcendent experience that one could even enjoy prison reading
>>743225478People are shitting on that book in goodreads althoughbeitfully
>>743223651Mushoku Tensei is just pedo novelist's take on Berserk world building with a self-insert Rudeus you are supposed to empathise for being a dickhead every opportunity instead of it playing that shit straight it reads like a pedo guilt-trying to emotionally guilt trip/manipulate you to their side about why they are the hero of the story through drama dumping. (its really just bunch of dogshit written by a hack who didn't understand Berserk nor fantasy in general, falls generally in the same tier as Eragon literary quality wise.)
>>743225291fun is a buzzword
>>743225649Starship Troopers series would be a better read in prison.
>>743225649>Goodreads
>>743225649Those people are a part of a sick cyberstlaking cult who have swattted his family at least sixty million times
>>743225871and they try to say "nooo the jews do not control media.">looks at real statistics:>why are you always lying...
Do you guys actually read books?
>>743226076I did before the woke started to get on every media trying to cancel everything that wasn't preaching to their choir about women's empowerment, gay rights and other nonsense bullshit.
>>743226076I enjoy scifi, fantasy and historical fiction, and all of those genres have been steadily gutted over the past ten years by publishers refusing to sign on anyone who doesn’t tick a box or have connections, with actual writing ability being seen as some quaint artefact they don’t seem to understand but have been told is helpful. The only authors worth reading are the ones that had their foot in the door before the purges started, and that’s assuming they’re actually still writing or haven’t been compromised.There are a few diamonds in the rough among self publishing, but they’re an absolute bastard to find given how much copycat litrpg shit infests most platforms.
>>743226076Do you think this thread is full of larpers?
>>743226076I want to, but reading is hard, the words keep jumping all over the pages...
>>743196946The hobbit audio drama from the 60s is pretty good. It’s abridged though, if that puts you off.
>>743209530Zomb’s Lair, a relatively accredited porter of obscure retro games, has a remaster of the 1995 one on his website that you can play on new hardware without emulation. Grab a walkthrough first, though.
>>743226076No. I have an OCD that makes it extremely difficult to read because I go back and re-read previous pages like 1,000 times.I’ve only read A Song of Ice and Fire.
>>743228089>Books by Fatfuck McTolkienripoff
>>743228159He ripped off the war of the roses, not Tolkien
I’ve been getting into Discworld because it’s one of the only series that can easily be said to have been an influence on Andrew Hussie, the creator of Homestuck (it’s especially obvious with his old comic Whistles), but I’m definitely not reading it for Pratchett specifically. I really like the games and the one movie I’ve seen, Hogfather.
>>743202845I liked Black Company by Glen Cook, Myth Series by Robert Asprin.
>>743228643>Myth Series by Robert Asprin.Does it have anything to do with the Myth games by Bungie studios?
>>743228907No. They are fantasy comedy books, mostly. Incidentally, Black Company has something to do with Myth series by Bungie, because they took the tone of the book (well, sort of) and concept of the Taken (Soulcatcher vs Soulblighter), style of writing and so on.
Why bother reading books when I could seek that exact knowledge in other media forms like movies, video games, or youtube shorts, the ones that are actually engaging, you know?
>>743229046Not really. Myth(game) is more apocalyptic, has several different races and the dream battles are really unique in nature. Black company is just barely passable fiction, the author really didn't know how to write the story after Dejagore. It is a drag and waste of time imho.
>>743229231That's why I put (sort of) in there. Still, style of influence is very clear to me.>dejagoreMaybe, I don't really care about last few books. But first book is kino, and I laugh when people complain about its style. I love that sort of first person narration. There are plenty of same old boring style of books that are opposite of Black Company in style, but not many that are like it.
>>743223729and pizza is a vegetable, right
>>743229230Have you ever read a book? Read a book that has a movie adaptation and then watch the movie. Book is always better than the movie.
>>743229401Shame there isn't a book series on the Myth games tho. Atleast a remaster of the first 2 games would be good.
>>743229557Well, Bungie is more interested in their live service slop, where they keep deleting content too, or something.
>>743229506i read some Dickens stuff back then and some classics like pride and prejudice. They bore me
>>743229230Books are also engaging when you can get past the threshold necessary for immersion. A recent example of film coming up short compared to literature is the new Lord of the Flies adaptation. It managed to do a few things right like manage to at least get the tone right, but it still falls short of the book's depiction of the descent into chaotic madness that the boys undergo, especially with the book's climax (when Simon meets the Lord of the Flies). It's one of those scenes that's incredibly difficult to capture effectively because it is hallucinatory. The way you capture the scene in your mind's eye will likely be significantly more moving than the way they did it in the mini-series.
>>743182240Books only IPs are just not popular enough to warrant contamination.
>>743229629Bungie doesn't exist anymore. 343 isn't bungie....
>>743222434>70% chance a book will be good.same as saying: its not going to be a good book 2/3rds of the time, trust me. I know as a XCom enjoyer, you might as well say "I love reading sludge that misses half the time."
>>743196564kek great pic
>>743229783Brother.... XCOM RNG is rigged... it's not true RNG...
>>743184245The Dragon Age books are far more interesting than the games. There's even a book where the Veilguard companions are written well.
>>743223987there's good world building and bad world building story-beat wise, Lord of the Rings is bad world building if the reasoning for it is to keep people interested in its story telling, a good story telling follows more closely to Robert E Howard style of exposure through action to the world around them, keeping it short and sweet, whatever you may discern from the world naturally as if you were there with the character, even passive activities tell more through dialogue between characters naturally than multiple strokes painted by an amateur artist.
>>743229782I was not talking about 343. And 343 actually did at least one good job by adding Halo games on PC via MCC, nu Bungie however has done nothing good.
>>743229847the RNG is true for old XCom for all units: always spray and pray or go heavy or suicide run if your merc has shit stats, might as well use their corpse to deal damage to your enemy.
>>743229868>when the writers of a novel make better characters than insufferable trash on bluesky.>male author.CHECKS THE FUCK OUT!
>>743220296I'm about half way through Mistborn. I'm enjoying it for what it is but it's definitely simple and straightforward. All I could think when I started reading it is how much better Age of Madness is and how it tackles revolution infinitely better realistically then Mistborn. If anyone is reading this and hasn't read The First Law series, pls consider reading them. By far my favorite fantasy series and seemingly lesser know or brought up when talking about GOAT fantasy series.
>>743230034Mistborn was a heist novel, not a revolution novel, its like saying Star Wars handled romance badly yet this one sci-fi romance movie did it better. weird way to critique a book by not understanding genre fiction.
>>743229230>he doesn't eat books in order to digest their critical themes and extract precious intellectual nutrition>he doesn't snort ground-up game discs/cartridges for a quick-fix of ultimately irrelevant whimsy while getting a secondary high on hand/eye coordination development>he doesn't drink melted-down vinyls in order to covert music into raw energy and feel it coursing through his veinsDo you even extract knowledge bro?
>>743230034The first law trilogy was alright but is filled to the brim with girlbosses. I dropped the books like a rock after reading the hogwash that is Best served cold. It was a dogshit book with convenient happenstances scattered everywhere to move the retarded plot.
>>743226076I used to read a lot throughout my childhood and my early 20s but not as much these days. Right now I'm plucking at a historical fiction/horror book which seems pretty good fo far but most of my progress has just been reading on the shitter.
>>743230168>doesn't just extract knowledge from the bible, sokrates, the myths, occult and plato instead.far ahead of you bro do you even delusion max your own shit-takes by imagining your opponents next move three steps ahead of you in a debate and read them like a flowchart ken-player?
>>743230168However, I can look at computers and see food, so I’ll just eat those for even more information
>>743230168I put them under my pillow so I can give the book to my fellow knowledge seeker after
>>743230246>he needs to actively extract knowledge from the physical works of man>he doesn't just filter-feed the secrets of the universe from the ambient neural network of all sentient life>he isn't absorbing the entire history of mankind through listening to the wind in the treesI pity your uncultured mind.
For me it's Red Rising. After the flop that was Starfield we need a proper space opera/sci-fi game.
>>743230414>I put them under my pillow so I can give the book to my fellow knowledge seeker afterGood for latent development in children, but ultimately minuscule in the grand scheme of education. I stuffed my daughter's pillow with the greatest works of philosophy known to man and beast and all she did was whine about it being uncomfortable, the ungrateful little cunt.
>>743230469why bother working through secrets and mysteries when you can just assume common averages being true through out universe/life, assume a cyclic reality with built in hierarchies and going through tautology to figure out in a boolean fashion what is what.
>>743230472I really hope exodus and expanse don’t shit the bed
>>743182240Genreslop isn't real literature.
>>743230472I've only read the first trilogy and ultimately enjoyed it, but I couldn't help thinking that the descriptions of some of the Golds were absolutely absurd. The main character is supposed to be this surgically-engineered gigachad and there are others running around that are described as being one or more feet taller than him and built like a brick shithouse? These people are basically 40k Space Marines at that point, and that's not even counting the ACTUAL 40k Space Marine caste.
>>743230550>he assumes the truth and interfaces with reality>he doesn't simply act in accordance to the primal urges of the only thing that is true in this world, his own biologyMankind is no more intelligent than a beast and the second we stop lying to ourselves is the second we ascend to a higher plane of consciousness.
>>743230472I'd love some kind of Revengence type game in that universe. 10/10 schlock, guy wrote it like he was making a 40k game and trying to keep it fresh for the whole length.
>>743230559Expanse will be shit but there will be plenty of shit eaters to eat that slop. Owlcat's writing is absolutely terrible.
>>743230578Only gay men care about what is or isn’t considered literature.
>>743230735stop being too delusional, mankind has restraint and ability to advance technology and further our goals through sheer willpower to be more lazy more proficiently. clearly a skill which requires more intelligence than what an animal has.
>>743230849>mankind has restraint and ability to advance technology and further our goals through sheer willpower to be more lazy more proficiently>he needs to advance through technology to further his goals>he hasn't already achieved his goals through the inherent superiority of his birthI bet you clad your magnificence in the brutish garb of the rest of your kin, you humanistic pleb.
>>743199398That series is still the most unique fantasy setting I've ever seen. You'd have to work really hard to reduce anything in there to its Tolkien or folklore inspiration and probably fail, and as soon as you try explaining one thing it leads into needing to explain ten others because the world is so well designed. Ten foot tall bird monsters control trade through a forest in eternal twilight where lightning bolts become a solid of variable mass that is collected by academic knights in flying pirate ships made around buoyant rocks to keep their university from floating off the edge of the world, and thats like one plot line.
>>743229504>Food analogy>Hurr durr muh book has pictures so it's worse than book with no picturesWow, great grugg logic
>>743186107I prefer fiction but when it comes to non-fiction I prefer spiritual / religious works and esoterica.
>>743186107Reading The Two Towers. Trying to rebuild my attention span for reading and I like the story but it just moves so fucking slowly, feels like Im getting nowhere. It doesnt help that the last thing I read before this was the Dunk and Egg novellas and they were so concise and satisfying its been a rough transition.
Not based directly on a book, but this game was made in the world of Raymond Feist’s Riftwar Saga. It was so good Feist made it canon. The sequels are mid though.
>>743199398Fuck I wish I finished those as a kid. When it switched to prequels about his dad I lost interest, but I'd like to go back and read them some time. Incredible illustrations.
>>743201184Like 10 years ago I dicked around in Unreal and made a VR thing based on one of the fights in that. Right hand was basically beat saber against asset store monsters and the left was a rhythm game where you'd ring the bells high and low. Was horrible. Might buy over 9000 Clod credits later, crap out a Witcher clone with bells on and pitch it to Garth, that setting deserves a game.
>>743186107Dune Messiah pg 102Toll The Hounds 13hrs in audiobookfriend lent me red risint but it reads juvenile pg 24
>>743230643I think thats why I liked it, its utterly absurd but takes itself just seriously enough. Gigachad Greco-Roman LARPers in power armor is awesome but it avoids wanking over it too much, but more importantly never falls into the temptation of poking fun at how ridiculous this all is. I think there was only one moment where the main character is like "What the fuck are we all doing here dressed like Greek gods stabbing each other?" but it was aimed at the situation and not the setting.
>have had pic related sitting in my library collecting dust since I was like 8 or 9 years oldDon't even think I attempted to read it once. Only got it because my friends played SC.
>>743191448>I'm still waiting for a game based on the Deltora series.since the author said deltora was inspired by videogames i imagine the closest to it is dragon quest
>>743231118Something I appreciate too is that even the relatively simplistic aspects are done well.Something like the Gooamgloazer in beyond the deepwoods is hardly original, but it’s executed incredibly. The sheer amount of effort it puts in just to fuck with a single individual for (at the time of writing) literally no reason apart from the fun of it is exactly the sort of thing a primordial terror would do. It completely lacks the pretentiousness of what most writers would add to such an old archetype, and it having such basic motivations makes it even more scary.
>>743231456I've heard a few people say that over many years of /vlit/ threads but I always liked that trilogy the best of the three. Still gotta read the steampunk-looking ones that came out after the first 9.
>>743229231Black Company is one of those series whose inspirations are much better than it. Another example would be Jack Vance's Dying Earth.
>>743222019>Immortal god decides to stop trying to wipe out all of humanity after seeing gay interracial coupleEpic
>>743232034Its really an incredible lesson in worldbuilding how everything is made from simple premises that are expanded to not just fit with the world but expand it. Like the guys who raised Twig could have just been reskinned dwarves, "Love choppin me wood, simple as" and the one human in town wants to leave on adventure because manual labor sucks. Instead they've got a reasonable psychosis about leaving the trails, because they live in a nightmare forest, and are fiercely collective because they're small in a nightmare forest, and our guy is ostracized because he cuts a corner and goes off the path in their baseball game, which isnt even against the rules but just such a cultural faux pas. Just incredible how everything in these books is how it is for a reason based entirely in world and not on general western fantasy. Even the goblins, which are probably the most generic element out of a thousand, have nuance. At least three subspecies I can remember, and even the big bruiser ones aren't always thugs, aren't always mercenary bad guys, and even the character of that is different in the scum London city versus out in the woods.
>>743232037Yeah in retrospect Im surprised I dropped them there, since the Sky Pirates were always the most interesting part of the story.>Still gotta read the steampunk-looking ones that came out after the first 9.shit it went further? I thought it was the 9 and then one more conslusion one, I gotta check wikipedia now.
>>743233049I think there was one more that tied up the lingering plotline of ecological collapse from the first 9, and then two or three fatter books set like 50 years later but I don't think I read them, and its been like 50 years since I read these anyway.
>>743233172Yeah just checked and youre right, one more trilogy after the first 10. If I can ever finish LOTR I'll probably start those from the beginning, itd be a refreshing take on fantasy
>>743182240do you really think a company wants to pay a writer? think again and get ready for AI based game storylines
>>743186107>What novel are you reading right now?I'm about to finish The End of the Affair by Greene. It really puts into words a lot of the feelings one has when in an affair. The loser cheats. The winner has an affair, and then realises the pain of it all makes him feel like a loser.Also the Letters to Milena by Kafka. It's very fun reading something so personal. It's clear some of this is meant to be read only to her, but some letters like the one where he moans about Dostoyevsky are so autistic and funny.>What nostalgic classic are you thinking about revisiting to see if it holds up?None, but I read the first Lemony Snicket book a year ago and was surprised at how much I like it. Also looking at a bunch of kids books like Paddington, Spot, Funny Bones, etc. in preparation for having a kid.>What’s a weird book only you read that you never get to talk about?Nothing IG. Maybe the Surrender by Toni Bentley. It's a memoir about a ballet dancers love for anal.
>>743233358>>What nostalgic classic are you thinking about revisiting to see if it holds up?Oh, I changed my mind. I forgot I'm gonna reread some of the Redwall books.I've never played the Witcher games. I should probably read the books, then try the games.
>>743186107Mostly academic stuff and RPG sourcebooks right now, but pic related when it comes to fiction. Had it recomended to me due to occult societies and magical realism themes which are usually enjoyNot liking it very much so far though, it has a few interesting elements, but the prose is very meandring and rather untypical in a way I don't quite enjoy and the plot seems to be barely heading anywhere interesting
>>743233001Another detail I didn’t appreciate at the time is all the deliberate discontinuities in the timelines. There’s obvious ones like Deadbolt not realising his father was a slaver, but the ones that make the world feel alive are the slow changes that aren’t even remarked on, like how the hammerheads supplant the flatheads so thoroughly that nobody even questions it.Then you remember Twig describing the hammerheads as a bunch of thugs while the flatheads were loyal soldiers, and it makes perfect sense that the upheaval after the stone sickness would enable an ambitious brute like Tytugg to overhaul the status quo without having to read his backstory.
>>743199398>>743231118>>743232034>>743233001>>743234518wtf am I reading
>>743186107>What’s a weird book only you read that you never get to talk about?I have a huge soft spot for this one. Never met anyone else who have heard of it.The premise sounds like absolute pulpy slop and in a way I guess it is, but it's written in such a charming and engaging way that I just couldn't put it down>Whenever the stars are right the barrier between the worlds gets thin and, in certain spot, it becomes possible to open a way for Lovecraftian eldritch gods to enter our reality>Various occultists around the world track this and whenever such moment gets close, they flock to the area and try to discover the specific spot in which the ritual must be conducted this time>Some of them want to break down the barrier between worlds, while others are trying to stop this from happening>The book starts on 1st of October and follows a group of occultists (each of them based on characters and tropes from gothic fiction) who plot against each other, seek the ritual location and make preparations for the conjunction night that's supposed to happen on the 31st>The issue however is that none of them knows on which side anyone other than themselves is, so they have to carefully probe and spy on each other and try to not give out their allegiance>Also the whole thing is narrated from the perspective of their animal familiars Can't recommend it enough, it's fairly short, fast-paced and much less juvenile than it sounds
>>743200154Absolutely loved those as a kidWas massively positively surprised with how the TV series adaptation somehow managed to actually transfer the unique, quirky way in which they were written to the screen and not only introduced all the secret society stuff much earlier in the story, but actually developed it in a pretty decent and fitting way.
Right now, I’m going through the Top-Rated SCPs page and collecting every item article I haven’t read yet, then assigning them a weekly structure so I can read one a day. I’m going to read one more today and then one more for every day of the week. My current lineup is organized by number, but you can recommend I bump up one of them to a sooner day if you think it’s really hype:>MondaySCP-179 - Sauelsuesor>TuesdaySCP-1733 - Season Opener>WednesdaySCP-2998 - Anomalous Transmission, 2485 MHz>ThursdaySCP-3002 - Attempts To Assassinate Thought>FridaySCP-3930 - The Pattern Screamer>SaturdaySCP-7000 - The Loser>SundaySCP-8980 - Ergophobia: Without RegardsI’m also going to read SCP-000 on today or Sunday if I get the time.
>>743234960Exactly, like if you were to dive into the D&D world, Warhammer, Malazan, whatever, with no previous knowledge, you'd get the gist of any one thing pretty easily. With this I can't even explain why floating rocks are integral to the story without also explaining three biomes with their own unique rules, the caste system and a bat Fu Manchu.
>>743209530Discworld often gets labelled primarily as that one funny fantasy series, but most of them are genuinely really good, intelligently written novels with great plots, cool ideas and lots of diverse subjects they touch on. Even if you'd strip them off all the humour they would still be good books
Any good sci fi stuff that has a good audio book? Im going to be travelling for a while and need something to listen to. Already did the Expanse and three body problem series.
>>743186107In the last few months>Star Maker (complete)>Crash! (Incomplete)>A Crystal World (Complete)>Alfred Kubin's The Other Side (complete>Crocodile Street (complete)>Consider Phlebas / Look to Windward (complete)Gimme more to read.
>>743235851>Crash!The book about the car crash fetishists or the other one?
>>743235712I think the idea that it's for kids puts me off, even if some grim things happen and the world makes sense. I should give Discworld another chance.
>>743235924Fetish oneIt's really well written but holy shit
yea we sure want more more games made from booksbut we have less
>>743182240There are a lot of games based on books. You’re just too fucking young and simple to realize it. Look at the books you chose. Jesus dude. Simple as fuck.
>>743235115I read it a year or two ago, very comfy. Would possibly make a pretty good vidya too.
>>743235970>It's really well written but holy shitIt’s been a long time since I tried to stomach extreme fiction. I assumed that a book about car crash fetishism would keep most of the disgusting stuff at a distance because the main characters would be voyeurs, but I guess not. I’m glad my fetish is not that.
>>743236274I mean it's a direct satire on car fetishism / consumerism at the time. It's just incredible how detailed Ballard is with it.
>>743236259>Would possibly make a pretty good vidya tooI know that Cultist Simulator creators listed it as one of their top inspirations and I can definitely see why
>>743235938Definitely YA books, so don't expect like, high prose, but they're from a different time before the big movie adaptations of HP, Hunger Games and whatnot set the tone. That first one was like those old PG-13 adventure/horror movies that really pushed the rating, brought back the feeling of when I was actually lost in the woods at night in the dead of winter.
>>743236594How does it compare to Redwall, Lemony Snicket and that series about the Spiderwick Chronicles?
>>74319039440Kfags take offense at the existence of the Xeelee.
>>743182240>Season of Ostorms>AndrrzejAIslop pic though
>>743231670i'm a few chapters into the crippled godi liked toll the houndsstill going to read esslemont's orb scepter throne and assail after crippled god, his other books were okpeople keep recommending red rising to me, does it read that bad?
>>743235938I wouldn't call Discworld a kids book, it's suitable for kids, but it's not strictly for kids. Yeah, the books are very lightly written, keep throwing humour at you and don't really delve much into very dark or gritty stuff you associate more with dark fantasy, but the plots and ideas of the books are mostly genuinely good and when reading them (especially past the first few ones) you can certainly tell that Pratchett was a fairly intelligent and perceptive guy who had plenty to say about a very wide array of things, especially if you consider the times he wrote those in. That is, before dementia got him. He just preferred to keep it humoristic and witty rather than all serious, but even then, his books can build appropriate gravity when the plot demands it
>>743238394Nobody tell him.
>>743186107Currently reading the 40k novel Hive, it's pretty good but there's a lot of characters and terminology to get my head around for someone who wasn't super into 40k beforehandI've got the Neuromancer trilogy physically and I need to find the time to read it, but reading on my phone is so much more convenient that I'm struggling.
>>743238468Nta, but what specifically?Is it about the last few books possibly being ghostwritten? The usage of ass over arse and the goblins are quite compelling pieces of evidence.
>>743182348Reading books based on video games should earn you an instant autism diagnosis.
>>743189204except writing
>>743212908I'm almost done with book 1 of era 1. Just started. Have done some of his other stuff like the Skyward series.
>>743212908>>743242014Also I wasn't aware there was a second book series for Mistborn. Good to know, since I'm enjoying it. Recommend any of his other stuff?
>>743242064Lol.Not him but NO!The third Mistborn trilogy may be written. The fourth (and overall meta-series finale) will not make it.
>>743182240Are you guys hyped for the Mistborn games and the almost certain Stormlight Archive games to follow?
>>743242064I've read some of the second era Mistborn series, and you should be aware that its basically an entirely different series technically set in on the same world as Mistborn. Emphasis on the "technically" because, without spoiling the ending to Era 1, the world of Era 1 might as well be an entirely different planet from Era 2 outside of a couple of Era 1 memberries.The world of Era 2 isn't grimdark, it isn't bleak, it is no longer a world a mists and ash, and (for the most part) there aren't any dark tyrants and evil gods. Instead, it's mostly a series of cowboy gunslinger mystery novels with the same magic system, but reworked so that everyone who has magic gets exactly one allomancy and one feruchemy. Less navigating the political and social realities of the slave-feudalism of tyranny-land and more wizard cowboys having a stand-off with Dirty Dan.
I'm pretty happy with my e-reader, got me reading more often like I used to 15 years ago.
>>743243156Is Sanderson even worth getting into? I don't really do fantasy too terribly much, but if it's psychedelic or whatever in some way I might enjoy it. My only experience learning is from a bunch of DND nerds spouting references.
>>743243156Sounds kinda neat. Thanks for the succinct synopsis. I do like spell-slinging westerns.>>743243453Depends really. I don't like Fantasy either. He has plenty of sci-fi stuff but his "fantasy" isn't wizards, dragons and dwarves. It is "what if X era but with some weird magic system." Weird magic system can be metal, light, etc based. If you're looking for an extremely competent story, decent character growth, and don't want the language to be overly verbose or flowery he's your guy. If you want an endless stream of stuff to read he's also your guy. If you want complex prose he isn't you guy. He's probably the best in the game for story structure though and with modern active writers that seems to be unfortunately increasingly rare. I usually trial authors by listening to an audiobook of their more popular works on my commute and if I find I like them I'll pick up some of their books.
>>743243453Provided you’re willing to stop reading anything written after words of radiance, he’s fine as a popcorn fantasy dispenser.The problem is that he completely fell off a cliff seemingly out of nowhere
>>743243356>I'm pretty happy with my e-reader, got me reading more often like I used to 15 years ago.Which one anon? I have a kobo libre color 2 and it is phenomenal and even better when "jailbroken" and KOReader is installed.
>>743242308Stormlight is a good example of an IP that could be great if someone else took the helm.Unfortunately, him having a front seat to Amazon raping wheel of time means he's probably never going to cede enough control for someone else to wrangle him.
>>743182240the last witcher book was nice to read. i wish they based withcer 4 on that and not ciri.
>gives you a mind control fetish as a kidt-thanks
>>743245776I miss the storytimes we used to have
>>743243778Honestly your phone's screen is probably just as easy on the eyes as an e-ink device and can be used in the dark, and you're already carrying it around so you can read a few pages waiting at the bank instead of scrolling shitposts and feel a lot better about yourself.
>>743186107Kane by Karl E. Wagner.It's a fantasy from like the 80s, a bit like Conan in some ways. I used to have one novel like 25 years ago that I enjoyed and recently whole series has been rereleased in 3 big volumes, so I pretty much just started it.
>>743246745I bring my laptop to the office and read when there's free time (almost all day) when I'm not working at home.
>>743247627Why are you a scalie?
>>743247934Halo books unironically.
>>743246745Yeah cause reading for 5 hours on a 6" phone sounds like a good time and a great use of battery. And no it isn't as nice. My Color 2 has a frontlight if I need it which I do typically leave on at like 9-11% in a dimly lit room but typically off in a well lit room. It is infinitely easier on the eyes than my AMOLED phone and most importantly I can read it while sitting outside (while my phone has to be at peak brightness to do this, which rapidly heats it and kills the battery). It is also significantly wider, nearly twice as wide, and can do the same high-contrast reading as well (black background/white text), only has to be charged once a week max, it is ultralight, has physical buttons for page forward/backward, great reflow functionality (of course so does my phone), has a great built-in dictionary (I use a physical dictionary though), great note-taking functionality (the stylus is surprisingly handy), supports color for illustrations (a bonus for comics/manga), and I genuinely just prefer single-function devices.My phone is for internet browsing, texting, music, and video. My reader is a reader. I don't want to be without battery on my phone because I wanted to read. I also don't want my reading interrupted by all of the little hebrew annoyances modern cellphones have. It was only 115 bucks so 2 hours of work. Worth it. And now I can carry around every book I want to read for the next year with me everywhere without having to worry about keeping track of my books or carrying around multiple backup batteries. I do however keep a 10W solar panel for when I read outside to help top it off occasionally (modded firmware to prevent constant bouncing of charge to capacity, only let it go to about 85% on solar) that cost me like 5 bucks and works wonders.
>>743243663>I usually trial authors by listening to an audiobook of their more popular works on my commute and if I find I like them I'll pick up some of their books.One of the problems with that tactic is that the best narrators can hard carry bad writing with their performances, so long as the core is something salvageable.
>>743250057>One of the problems with that tactic is that the best narrators can hard carry bad writing with their performancesTrue, there are some superb narrators out there but from my experience that is extremely uncommon. And in any case, so long as I enjoy my time, it was worth it. I've yet to come across my entry audiobook being enjoyable but subsequent books read on my reader to be an inferior experience. If anything it is the opposite since most narrators really struggle with borrowed words and weirdly French words which doesn't make much sense to me given how 60%+ of American English vocabulary is French. But you'll still hear an American narrator confidently say "NEW" vs "NO" everytime.
>>743248561Yeah, I picked up a clearance kindle paperwhite, maybe? A while back, loaded it up with hundreds of epubs and haven't had to carry around a book, or books, with me anymore, whether it be traveling or timewasting, or enjoyment.Only real issue I have with it, is Amazon is the main screen being an funnel to amazon purchases and no physical page buttons.I'd definitely go with kobo next time.Have you seen the color kindles in person to compare with kobo? I'm kinda interested for the very few times I read a comic or color manga.
>>743243778I got a pocketverse pro color. I kind of regret not getting the non-color one because the colors on it suck and supposedly the bw screens look better but not that big of a deal. I thought I'd have a problem with the 16gb size but so far so good.
>>743251313>Have you seen the color kindles in person to compare with kobo? I'm kinda interested for the very few times I read a comic or color manga.Yes, they are the exact same display too. Amazon has their contrast tuned a bit too high so it looks better in some scenarios. But you can unlock the dev menu in the Kobo and boost it to the exact same setting by searching "devmodeon" and then going to Settings > Device Information > Dev Mode > then play with color options on page 2Personally though I loaded in nicklemenu and koreader and manipulate the contrast that way. It is honestly shocking how good comics can look when you tweak contrast and do so in conjunction with a slightly warm low-light frontlight. Way better than my coworkers Kindle Color (same generation as my Libra Color). The biggest thing with viewing color content is you probably wanna do a full page refresh each time (settings in dev menu or koreader config) to give you the maximum contrast possible and color accuracy. That's what I do when I want to read color comics/manga.
