What has /v/ been reading lately? Sci-fi & fantasy? Literary fiction? History and investigative journalism? Warhammer and Conan adaptations? Occult Persian Sufism? Old EGM issues?
americans can't read lol
reading is for brown turdworlders who cant afford a computer
>>750894753americans love reading door dash menus!
>>750894621My wife is a cuck queen, and I was into a girl with a husband, so I was reading The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. It's interesting at how accurate the feelings are in that book. It's a level of obsession I could never express. I started reading Letters to Milena by Kafka also. This is the perfect book for a drama fan. It's probably the most personal thing I've ever read.I wanted to reread A Series of Unfortunate Events, but I can't imagine rereading a kids book series would do anything for me. I want to read more Russian literature after getting with a Russian woman.
>>750894621With The Old Breed.
>>750894621slopus heresy
>>750894851Oh, I also started reading the Confessions of Saint Augestine. Probably Gods strongest gooner.
>>750894813youre an addict
Chinese webnovels. Got into them after romantasy slop co-opted the fantasy genre to become tasteless porn for women.
>>750894851>I want to read more Russian literature after getting with a Russian woman.Ever read Anna Karenina?
>>750894621the only reading i do these days is isekai slop or academic papersno in betweeni do want to get back to reading romance of the three kingdoms though so i can better appreciate dynasty warriors and other chinese video games
>>750894621I watched gankutsuou and then felt like I should actually read the count of monte cristo at least once, just finished that last week it was very good.
I found a series called The Kept Man of the Princess Knight and it's easily in my top 3 light novels.
there's a whole ass board for that>>>/lit/
>>750895224they are too smart and they will laugh at us
>>750895224everyone already knows what /lit/ reads, i'm more interested in what other boards are into
>>750895278as a long time 4channeler, /v/ is on average more intelligent than most other boardsa frightening thought for sure
>>750895020I have the usuals in my backlog>Dostoefsky (?)>Tolstoy>NabokovI started with White Nights but thought it was too depressing. So I started going through a bunch of Nobakov. So far I've read>Enchantress>Lolita>Laughter in the Dark
>>750894621A lot of Zelazny, Wolfe, and Lem short stories.I've got a couple longer series from author's I haven't read yet to pick between so I keep procrastinating with short stuff by author's I know I enjoy.
The Stormlight archives and series in general. They really should make a game with this stuff, it would be cool
>>750895224Every board is a pretentious wanker about their own topic
I've been reading Dungeon Crawler Carl and Lord of the Mysteries.1 is a flavor of the month series that is getting a lot of attention again because it had another book in its series release. Very modern, very ridiculous, very entertaining.The other is a fairly serious Chinese web-novel that I picked up on recommendation while a Russian web-novel I like stacks up some extra chapters for me to binge at a later date. The first chapter was so horrendous I dropped it instantly, but I picked it back up later cause I was told it gets better (and it did, just 1 chapter later).
>>750895158man in the iron mask is my favorite booki love dumas
>>750895479I couldn't stomach Dungeon Crawler. It's so LOLRANDUM that I can't read it without cringing. The concept was fun though. After the obnoxious cat made its 4th feet joke, I just closed the book.>>750895405Oh, also, I'm reading the Parker series. I was reading Bond, but Parker is way more my style.
>>750895479LotM is quite fun. It suffers from being a webnovel at times but I appreciate how well it's written and (for the most part) planned out. It reminds me a bit of Trash of the Count's Family in terms of quality.
>>750894621Just finished pic related.I know /v/ hates Sanderson but ive been enjoying it so far. It has some boring parts every Shallan chapter but the hype moments are great.
I know western fiction is in a rut right now, but is there anything you've read that doesn't feel toothless? Every book I've tried either has horrible pacing and no actual stakes. Like they are scared to write something where something bad plausibly happens to their characters without it feeling forced.
>>750895587>After the obnoxious cat made its 4th feet joke, I just closed the bookDon't worry, the feet jokes don't stop.Later on, there's also a black chick (with a crab for a lower body) that has tits about as big as a person each.It's absolutely absurd beyond measure, but ties it all together in a way that I enjoy.
>>750895760i need to get into ian brandon sanderson's work, i have a friend who keeps talking about themi picked up isles of the emberdark but have yet to start it
I'm in a book club, I'm the only man who goes and I can't stand the books they read, but I keep reading the books and going because it's the only social activity I get in my life since I have no actual friends and have not for the last 20 yearsevery once in a while the girls do read a good book though, Klara and the sun was peak
>>750895405> White Nights That’s proto-incel shit
>>750896056The first Mistborn trilogy is his best work. Id start there.If you dont like Mistborn i doubt you'll enjoy anything else he has writen
>>750894621I've been reading a lot of Warhammer
>>750894621Haruki Murakami and A Wizard of Earthsea.
>>750894621>Jung: A Very Short IntroductionAlmost done with that one>The Cassowary's RevengeReally good book about gender relations in tribal Papua New Guinea, only a hundred pages in or so but very good. >Esotericism in Western Culture: Counter-Normativity and Rejected KnowledgeJust got this one, super excited to start reading it. Hanegraaf's other book on Western esotericism was very enlightening.
Children of Blood and Bone and Rainbows End.
>>750894851> was into a girl with a husband, You shouldn’t try to fuck someone else’s wife.
>>750894621Finished Book 5 of Wings of Fire.
>>750894621Been smoking on these offerings
>>750896174i'll check it out, thanks.
>>750896475Camp of the saint was funnier than i expected.
>>750894621Currently reading Illiad. Kind of reminds me of pikmin meets fire emblem.
>>750896608I like it but there is this kind of political wish fulfillment fantasy in it where there exists individuals that represent an entire ideology,sub culture, etc and that’s a writing device I’ve never been a fan of. I’m more into character study, absurdism(the book has plenty of it which is good), horror, etcThe next book I’m going to buy is DiscWorld and I’m also picking up Justine by De Sade.
>>750895760I tried reading this and it's really mid
>>750894621i recently read the dune series, books 1 through 6i stopped on book 7 because i couldnt tolerate the jewish sympathy bullshit
>>750896125I looked up book clubs in my ghetto country area and all I found was a couple doing sone entrepenuer scam. I hope you get book club pussy.>>750895760I second that Mistborn's really good. I tried re-reading, and it's just not as fun without the mystery aspect. Very video game-y and gets fucking anime by the very end. And that's a good thing.>>750894621The Altered Carbon trilogy that no one's fully read past the famous (and best) first book and then his fantasy trilogy after. The fantasy trilogy features copious amounts of gay sex and horrible people suffering. It's really just set piece after set piece strung together of horrible things happening and grimdark shit popular of that 2010's era. It also directly continues off of the scifi stuff. It's really cynical and all of the advanced tech turns into the magic featured in the fantasy which is fun to follow with hints and clues. It's mild background horror finding out how far in the future the series gets for things to turn out like this. The actual plot is ass though, but it's barely about that. It's self aware of the major plot being ass and the MC wanting nothing to do with it, but that doesn't help. Like always the barbarian is the best chad in the entire series. 6 books all having a brooding edgy angsty mood sure is a trip.
>>750894621Making your pokemon read pseud lit is abuse
>>750896475I’ve considered getting Camp of Saints but I feel like I’ll get put on a watchlist for buying it (still getting it though obviously)
>>750894621We Are Legion (We Are Bob)Book by Dennis E. TaylorI loathe it. I'm 43% of the way through and I'm debating dropping it entirely. Finished Jay Stratton's book, "Out of the Shadows" last week and it was alright, left me with more questions than answers as those types of books typically do.
>>750897401That sounds like the gist of what I hear about all of Sanderson’s output>>750897474BasedAlso that book I posted a little earlier Blind Date is written by a Jew and the book is just about what is a degenerate sex addict that fucked his mom. So it’s pretty much the Cody Schwab special.
>>750897648Frfr ongInfinite Jest is a pile of verbal diarrhea, absolutely nothing of substance in that piece of shit.It’s like some garbage written by a more self aware William S Burroughs.
>>750897671>cody schwab specialsupreme kek
My algorithm has been pushing this one non stop on me.Probably gonna read it next
>>750897648yeah they should be reading "i'm the evil lord of an intergalactic empire" instead
I've been listening to Trader's Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper by Nathan LowellThe author put out the whole series as an audiobook accessible from any podcast app.Optimistic and competent characters, nothing too high brow but it's good enough and reminds me of what could have been if society actually followed and respected its rules instead of individuals opportunistically breaking them for personal gain.Its about an 18years old guy signing up for a spaceship service as a steward because he got btfod by lawyers and lost his home on a corporate owned planet after his mothers death. Characters are generally competent and advancement is relatively easy, so he does. And earns money.
>>750896056>emberdarkMid mid mid mid if you're not already obsessed by his worldbuilding, ending is shitjust start with Mistborn era 1 then secret history and then you're free to pick anything, mostly, since you'll know the bare minimum to connect vague ass references
>>750898183i think my friend suggested emberdark because it's mostly self-containedthat or because he was reading it at the time lmao
>>750896676You are both genius and retarded
i just go to barnes and noble, pretend to read the latest foidslop novel, and drink a matcha while i wait for pussy to come to me. no luck yet
>>750894753ameriGODs invented serious literature
>>750898283Morning Glory Milking Farm broThe trick is to not read it but become the writer of that kind of slop.
>>750897671Sanderson older stuff is much better, in his recent books he has gotten very verbose, you could easily trim his books by half and lose nothing of value, even worse he fell hook, line and sinker for the trauma fad and his recent stuff is full of therapy speak straight from reddit
>>750896802Justine was sad. Juliette, on the other hand, was fun and sexy. Both written by De Sade, by the way.
>>750898007>"i'm the evil lord of an intergalactic empire"Real talk thoughDoes the evil lord fuck his mom and play 30 year old party games for japanese toddlers dough?
>>750897985IMHO if you didnt like Hunger Games you'll definitely not like this one. Its really YA and kind of revenge porny
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>>750898394I'll get both of them thanks for the suggestion.
I'm reading Dombey and Son. Every time I read Dickens I find myself smiling like a goof, he really was fantastic.
>>750896174>>750896479I'd agree with this, the Final Empire is his best book imo.
This book makes me want to kill myself (in a laudatory sense)
>>750897985Should've fucked the cunny angel wing Pink, sadly. It's pretty YA. Give it a go I guess but the strict POV really drags it down at times in the later books. I can respect it for not doing A B A B plot.
>>750898372>even worse he fell hook, line and sinker for the trauma fad and his recent stuff is full of therapy speak straight from redditMuh Trauma has become the gayest cliche in storytelling for the last 15 years. Every single indie horror darling pile of shit movie is just muh trauma manifest into some gay monster. I was just reading the memoirs of Sepp Allerberger and he was dodging bullets whilst watching men get fucking ground up underneath the tracks of tanks and there isn't 1 paragraph doing the "muh trauma" dump. So refreshing to not have to listen to that shit.
>>750898394>was fun and sexyMurder and torture is fun and sexy to you?
>>750898963Of course. Where do you think you are?
>>750898963>Murder and torture is fun and sexy to you?Depends on how mean spirited it is. If it's so mean spirited it's comical it becomes fun sexy and hilarious at the same time.
Currently reading Fahrenheit 451 and some moments hit pretty hard. It's fascinating to see how different dystopian stories present a variety of mankind's tendencies of self-destruction.Previously did The Fortress of the Pearl. I love how older fantasy stories create a sense of vastness and mystery, an illusion that there's a whole wide world out there and the character you follow is hardly above an average schmuck, whereas modern game stories seem to rigidly revolve around the player while the rest of the world is frozen in place. I guess it kinda comes with the format, but also think that there's a lot of untapped potential in that direction.
>>750894914AAAAAIIIEEEE, I STOLE A PEACH FROM A TREE, GOD-SAMA FORGIVE MEEEEEEEE
>>750896403Well I know that now
>>750900467>God, I keep wanting to fuck people. Why do you make me lustful with my eyes? Why did you create flesh so juicy?I geddit, man
I'm reading a 400 page book about a Magic card
For the past 5 years I've read nothing but ascendance of a bookworm, I just have it on my phone and if I'm waiting or on the train I' just start to read.It calms me down
How do readers cope with the fact that 97% of words in books are just pagefiller?
>>750894621Books on chemical structure
>>750894621I'm thinking of reading this next.
>>750901346Is it actually good or is it just something to consume while you are not doing anything better? I always get nervous about starting a long series because I know authors are encouraged to stretch things out when they are successful.I've watched the anime.
has anyone read this? I thought it was fucking KINO
>>750895760The series dies after that book, unfortunately.
>>750898609haha dumb hats
>>750900438Why did you post Amano art? Did you read Vampire Hunter D?
>>750894813that's anime
Last book I read was The Crow Road by Iain Banks. I have a weird relationship with Banks's books where it takes me ages to get through the first half but then something clicks and I devour the rest of the book in no time at all.
>>750894621I actually found a copy of Ulysses. Is it really as impenetrable as everyone says it is? I thought it was just a retelling of the Odyssey through a then contemporary lens.
>>750901346>5 yearsAnd here I thought I was the only one who takes forever to read a long series. I started it in 2019. Your post gave me peace of mind.I'm on book 26 by the way.>>750901648>Is it actually goodYes.
The poster below me has to read every volume of Perry Rhodan.
>>750894621I just got done with a week off of work. I was planning to read as much of "The Complete Fiction of HP Lovecraft" as I could. I didn't even pick it up.
>>750901759I liked it, the prose was stellar, but I can't help being a basic bitch that prefers scenario-driven sci-fi like Asimov over character-driven stories.
>>750902187Better get to it >>750902175
18th century french libertine novels, lately.I like it. It's fresh.
>>750902187>sniped by 11 secondsKEK
>>750902262>libertine novels,>they are just how the average /v/irgin would act if he wasn't afraid of the society
>>750901957That's his drawing of Elric of Melnibone. The Fortress of The Pearl is part of that series.
>>750902026I like both(and vidya)
>>750896802>DiscWorldWhich one?>Justine by De SadeHonestly don't bother, it's depressing trash.I suggest Restif de la Bretonne's Anti-Justine.
>>750898487nta but thats what i feared and expected.
>>750901759I read it last month. Genuinely amazing to me how concise sci fi writers used to be We had some amazing world building and character drama that still had action moments with their big escape at the end and it's all kept at under 300 pages and while part of a thematic series set in the same universe it's entirely self contained and the characters and planet don't come up again elsewhere so you can stop and leave right when you're done. Writers were a different breed back then
>>750901367by not reading self help or genre fiction
>>750902116It's hard but it's not the hardest book ever. There's a lot more going on than Homer parallels, those have more to do with the chapter structures than the plot or characters. A lot of people say the book opens up around chapter 4.Finnegans Wake on the other hand, now that book is impossible.
>>750902407Oh cool. I thought it might have been a subtitle or something.
I've been rereading Jack Vance. Right now, the Demon Princes books. The detective story in the foreground is good but I also like the background of the setting. Vance will drop premises for entire novels in a single line while Gersen is running around counterfeiting money or whatever. The Cadwal series is also especially good for that.
>>750902547yeah, readers demanding their NYT best seller sci fi and fantasy books being ~1000 pages wasn't the best thing for the genres. seems good for publishers, though.
>>750901759I have a collection of her short stories, but haven't gotten to it yet because her name phonetically means "the dyke" in my language.>>750898609Care to explain a bit? I'm intrigued.
>>750894621Mediocre fanfiction.I don't have any I'd recommend to you.
I started reading The Black Company. At times the life of a mercenary sounds comfy, then they remind you that no, this shit really fucking sucks. I read all of Croaker's dialogue in the voice of DeForest Kelley.
>>750902547To be fair, the masters of the craft whose works have endured for decades are necessarily going to be stronger than run of the mill schlock. There was plenty of disposable shit in the 60s it just doesn't get talked about anymore.
>>750894621Just digital gamebooks lately, which are more /tg/ or /v/ than /lit/.The last time I did some proper reading I think was The Moon of Skulls to see how Howard's writing was. That or Kafka's The Trial.If anyone has good Sword and Sorcery or Planetary Romance recs I'd love to hear them
>>750901759Yes, it's one of my favorite books ever. The part I most remember is when Estraven breaks Genly out of the prison camp and they travel back to Karhide as fugitives. Some really beautiful descriptions of the landscape and how they coped with the harsh environment. It's a shame what happened to Le Guin later in her career; Winter's King was not nearly as good. Everything in Earthsea after The Farthest Shore is just awful feminist didacticism
Just completed Hodgson's Night Land. I prefered his horror short stories.>>750902880I've read the first novel two weeks ago. It was interesting but it was frustrating at time because they are so many things no explained at all (probably explained later) so I had a hard time understand this world.
>>750902692And no respect for my fucking shelf space. I like owning physical books but these bitches are getting fat. >>750902919But even disposable pulpy shit was still safely around the 250 page mark.
>cant read for 2 days after jacking off>cant stop jacking off
>>750903130skill issue? i read and jack off every day
>>750894621I have just finished the guns of august, I have no idea what to read next, I feel like I've run out of historical books that I'm interested in that are easy to come by and I've become too annoyed with modern fantasy to read any more recent fiction
rate this opening, /v/
Does manga count?
Crime and Punishment, yet as soon as I learned that I was reading an inferior version and can't read Russian, I stopped. Raskolnikov's internal monologue is like the meat and potatoes of the book, I don't want a store-brand version of that.
>>750902880The first 3 books are genuinely my favorite of all time, I think the books of the south/glittering stone drag on a bit but the original trilogy is as close to perfect as you can get
>>750903392You should play the game once you're finished.
>>750894621I'm about 80 pages into this and I might drop it because I kind of hate the main character. They make it seem like there is going to be a timeskip at some point and I hope it picks up after that, if it doesn't I'm definitely not finishing it.
I am reading For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway>the mc's love interest got molested/raped in the past>she asks the mc to make all of it go away by having sexKek, literally something out of an eroge/doujinshi but I am enjoying it. The old lady is the best character for now.>>750903458Thanks for the recc, anon.
>>750901759>>750902547Alright damn new recc then for me.
>>750903270too long, my eyes were glazing over half way through the first paragraph.also this is /v/ so maybe /lit/ will say something different
>>750902921The protagonist is usually a detective and not a Conan/John Carter type, but recommend Vance's sci fi stuff >>750902660. Scratches the same kind of itch for me.
Knight of the seven kingdoms was funWesting game before thatCurrently Haverkamps medieval germany book and lotr fellowship to detox occasionally
>>750901759Is this a hard read for an ESL(C1)?
Currently reading Jude The Obscure because reading tragic stuff makes me feel better about myself lol. Spent the last few months reading ASOIAF and I had to drop it for now at A Feast For Crows, it feels like a major drop in quality. The first 3 books were decent and the way it is written makes it entertaining but I feel like the style it is told in makes it hard for the books to stand alone. Also it really irked me that most of the battles in the first 2 books were from tyrion's perspective fighting, which I found to be implausible and it really made him feel like a gary stu. I liked Second Apocalypse a lot better despite some issues I have with it.
>>750903460Severian is kind of a prick at first. You have to remember that he's a snotnosed teenager in the early sections, he's like 17 and part of the story is watching him get less like that.
forgive me i've been reading OP MC popcorn web novels>MC Simon is the bastard son of a seemingly unbeatable evil overlord who conquered the continent>suddenly Dad is mysteriously assassinated and Simon inherits the power of the Crimson Throne>turns out the secret to his unbeatableness was time travel. the "curse" of the crimson throne is that whoever inherits it will live out their reign until death exactly 100 times going back to the beginning each time, and then it traps their soul forever>now Simon has 100 tries to dodge the conspiracy that killed the previous overlord, stop the upcoming apocalypse, keep the empire from collapsing into civil war, and avoid the machinations of THE ELVESit's pretty fun
>>750903909Also I forget how far along 80 pages is but there is an Event a couple chapters in that puts him on a different path
>>750894621Lately I've been reading the Xeelee Omnibus and the Mushoku Tensei manga. Shit's so cash. I sort of went into the Xeelee book expecting a lot of misery porn and powerlevelfaggotry, but it's mostly just been stories about relatable people surviving a ton of neat, wacky sci-fi bullshit thrown their way. I look forward to getting the other books.>>750896469Superhyperbased. Thirst for Sunny Cunny.>>750897662I enjoyed the Bobiverse books, but I can't say it's easy to blame you for hating it. Some of the ideas are really cool, but the main character is such an emotional, impulsive retard that it gets frustrating.
>>750903270>With Fire and SwordMy nigga, The Deluge has to be one of my favorite books of all time. The Polish Commonwealth was so fucking cool.
>>750903370Crime and Punishment is the literary equivalent of having some faggot screeching in fermented potato at you in CSgo
>>750904261>Thirst for Sunny Cunny.Is there any fanart of her?
>>750894621I am currently reading Book of the new sun, I usually read a chapter once every other day before sleeping. The way Severian finds out a cute brown petite little sister coded tomboy girl companion who is also kinda crazy is fun, specially all the adventures they get into from the getgo. The part where they visit a lake garden that's full into dark fantasy aesthetic was great and the guy got a cute blonde softspoken girl to join him too made me wish I was him, the lucky bastard is now strooling around the city with two beautiful gals! Hope nothing happens to my hero and his upcoming duel ends up well.
>>750903792I glanced and it should be fine.It's no «The Pale King» by David Foster Wallace. Now THAT is unreadable by ESLs
>>750904672>to join him too made me wish I was himI get that every time the mc meets a cute girl in any media I enjoy.
>>750901367I skip the long description and just read the plot advacing actions and dialogues.
Finished The First Law, Glokta especially and the way he's written were peak. Wanted to read the rest of the series but apparently publishers in my country said fuck you. On the other hand they are now localising monogatari out of all things so I'm starting that
big red son is kino but I cant really get into infinite jest desu
>>750903460He is literally me.
>pick up a book and try to start reading>people start talking and distracting meThis is why I don't read.
>>750905118I finished the first law trilogy and I'll commend it for having a yuri slayer ending but I didn't exactly like the conclusion for all the characters, still a very fun read.
>>750905261Just kill them. It's that simple.
>>750905261I have a solution.
>>750905404I'll try.
>>750905261>Got to my favorite couch at the living room where my mother is laying silently watching her phone.>30 seconds into reading>She decides now is just the time to start watching facebook reels at full volume
>>750905483Enjoy the hemorroids, I guess?
>>750904704David Foster Wallace is unreadable even for people who are fluent. Infinite Jest is a war crime. Great book.
>>750905118Oh yeah I read that trilogy. Glokta genuinely was the best character 9 fingers I could take or leave.Had some high points I probably wouldn't revisit it but it's decent pulpy fun and I dropped it after the first trilogy. Didn't like it enough for a second
>>750904540Fanart? Oh yeah, totally. Sexy fanart? Get your shovel ready and start digging.
>>750894914YO AUGGIE ARE YOU STILL IN THERE WRITING YOUR GAY ASS BOOK
>>750894621>readingVNs>not a real-I don't give a shit
>>750898021https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/traders-tales-from-the-golden-age-of-the-solar-clipperIt's fun. Start from Quarter Share/chronolgically
>>750905324kek true, honestly Terez felt like the weakest part of the book with how she jumped from perfectly trained queen to absolute schizo and how she got away with it (for a while) so I didn't mind when it happened. I wonder, which conclusion did you dislike?
>>750895426Read the short stories from Ted Chiang and Christopher Coake. Coake is super depressing though.
>>750906261Honestly, from what I remember I disliked Luthar's conclusion the most. I understand that all the development in the 2nd book was supposed to be "thrown away" to make room for some of the twists and he is supposed to mostly be a chained loser by the end but it still didn't sit right with me, I genuinely preferred West as character even though he was cockblocked a lot. I agree, Terez was annoying.
>>750894621rereading book of the long sun by gene wolfemy favorite series of all time desu nemight do a reread of new sun afterwards.also reading the golden bough, but I kinda read it in jumps and spurts so after 2 months I'm only about halfway through it. and I WAS reading one hundred years of solitude and really loved it, but I got halfway through in three days, put it down, and haven't picked it back up since early october. gahwhy do I do that? I do it to video games too. I loved the first half. there was nothing objectionable to make me drop it. why can't I get the energy to finish it?
>>750906080not real
>>750902449GIRUGAMESH
>drab dark fantasy>lame selfhelp bullshit>author is based and redpilled therefore anons larp about reading his workIt's always the same bullshit
>>750906805>100 Years of SolitudeNaming everyone the same is one of those "I get it but you're being kind of a dick on purpose" things. Magical realism is an interesting genre if they play it straight.
>>750894621i only read the -for dummies- books because i am not very smart
>>750906957you have enough variety posted already but you refuse to acknowledge it
>>750895697I’m gona check out trash of the counts family
thoughts on proust?
>>750906989love me some good magical realism nano desu
>>750902778assuming you've never read anything by gaddis:this novel is cynical and bitter and full of hatred. this criticism was (unfairly) levied against his earlier work but here i see where the critics are coming to this conclusion. the novel (at least the first half) consists largely of dialogue between a miserable and wretched veteran husband wishing to elevate his station and his wife who cannot match his pace or desire and bears the brunt of his ire. the novel is autumnal both in setting (leaves decaying, heavy sunsets) and tone - everything is falling apart. the people are wicked or foolish or both and one desires if there's anything they desire outside of power. nonetheless gaddis has such a wondrous ear that it's hard to not read it
>>750907280https://xpressenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/Stories/Old-Man-With-Enormous-Wings.pdf
>>750903130Just jack off to what you're reading bro
Reading Crime and Punishment, most of the way through it.Pretty great so far, but Dostoevsky pisses me the fuck off with his retardedly long monologues his characters do. I would suck dick for just a few dialogues between two characters that doesn't boil down to one character ranting for 3 whole pages while the other character occasionally interjects with one single sentence that adds nothing to the ""conversation"".
>>750895760>>750896056>>750896174Never read Stormlight Archive but the first Mistborn book was pretty shit. It felt like some mishmash of anime but with marvel type of dialogues. The writing was too childish/naive/juvenile whatever you might call it for me to take it seriously
>>750901648It's solid, there are no plot holes, it's truly different>>750902118I'm way beyond 20 reread of the whole, maybe 30, including side materials and Q&A.How could you stop reading is beyond me, I'm part 5 vol 9 and I might just finish it before morning when I have to work.sry
>>750907270I read Letters to the Lady Upstairs and I thought it would be sexier but it's mostly him neurotically complaining about random shitHe kinda seems like an aspie
I read through the first novel of Twelve Kingdoms in Japanese to try and test myself a bit instead of playing my usual JRPG slop. Quite the struggle especially with all the Chinese mythological inspirations in it but I managed. Decently fun story but it kind of abruptly ends at what feels like it ought to be the two-thirds mark.I tried reading the second novel in the series but ran aground near the end because it isn't about Youko and it's a whole lot of absolutely nothing happening, just a bunch of palace attendant women sitting around drinking tea more or less.
>>750901759No, but i've read her other work and found it extremely overrated.
I read LitRPGs. They're one of the last subgenres that hasn't been overtaken (Completely) by women and trannies. Same for LNs in general.
>>750906957mad and insecure
I stopped reading, when my favorite fantasy author went woke. I always feared that would happen, because he had a blog, where he posted about how he played games like Fallout: New Vegas and later all of the different modern tv shows he watched.We really need to lock writers just in some kind of underground world, where they get everything they could possibly need, but are completely divorced from current media trends. He was corrupted and while every character he used to write had an interesting quirk like Logan Ninefingers, a Barbarian from the North, who has a Berserker split personality or Glokta (the Goat), who is a tortured wreck of a person, who found new purpose in the King's Inquisition and now he is the one applying what was done to him. These were interesting characters. He always started out with a funny quirk, but through the stories he wrote the characters became much deeper.But now he is just adding these girlboss characters, who are in these weird lesbian relationships, have no flaws, have literally superhuman strength, rent out an entire brothel, including all of the men, because they are that badass. Oh, but also the Industrial Revolution is now kicking off in our fantasy world and there are refugees everywhere and they are being discriminated against. Like what the fuck.
>>750894621Top Secret/Majic by Stanton T. Friedman
>>750912407>last paragraphthis just sounds like a typical all-trans D&D session
>>750896174I only read the Skyward series, I assume it's at least somewhat different from the Stormlight. It has really cool dogfights.
>>750912694It wouldn't surprise me, if he was also a big fan of Critical Role
>>750912407thats what you get for reading glorified popcorn flicks
It's never coming...
Cute thread. Too bad I want to kill myself.
>>750912407The Devils was good though. Girl Glokta was pretty cringe and meh of a character.
Reading Deadeye Dick right now, it's really funny. Kurt knew how to write amusing books.
>>750913772Read Ivan illych and Infinite Jest first. If you still want to an hero after those, then you have my blessing
>>750908991>including side materialsI thought those were all included in the volume releases anyway. That's how it is for my ebook ones at least.>How could you stop reading is beyond meDepression and terrible living situation, mostly.
>>750894621Paradise Lost. It's really really good. I love the preface where Milton rants about how rhyming poetry is barbaric and simplistic lmao Also Infinite Jest.
>>750894621I think I'll try reading the king in yellow
>>750894621SS tier>ulyssesS tier>GRC tier>IJhe can't write, he can't think, there's no discernible talent
>>750912407Read Gene Wolfe.
>>750907314Thanks. It sounds quite depressing but I'll purchase it nonetheless. Is it worth reading the original english version, or will the author's prose suffer too much from translation?
>>750894621I've been reading more than ever before lately. I hate a lot of contemporary fiction but when you find a panel or a prize with taste that matches yours, then finding good new books isn't so bad. Especially if you ditch genre fiction and stick with historical/philosophical/psychological literature, which cuts out all the bloated lore and gets right to the meat of things.Read a good deal of actual history and philosophy this year too. But mostly read a bunch of classic novels/poetry since I'm fucking fed up with horror/sci fi/fantasy becoming infested with predictable tropes. One good paragraph by Faulkner, Tolstoy or Morrison contains more insight than some entire books, especially mass-produced self help junk or infantilizing corny adventure stories with the same fucking plot arcs and morals over and over.
>>750914108Yeah I agree that Joyce and Pynchon are leagues beyond DFW, it seems to be a common sentiment that his book is the weakest of the so-called Meme Trilogy.
i read the screwtape letters the other week
>>750914996The space trilogy is his best fiction.
Amerifat here. The last book I read was in college 10 years ago if you can't that.
Don't read this it makes mustard gas and kills you (mentally)
>>750914195hard to say but gaddis is not nearly as punny or keen on wordplay as someone like joyce. i think you'd be fine in translation but do your due diligence and see what the people say about your options
Who /pagebound/ here?
I like to read japanese light novels. Most of them are trashy I admit, but I like how simple they write. They don't add all this fluff like most English authors. I hated reading growing up because the introductions were like literally pages of describing the breeze through the trees and light breaking yonder and shit. What really ticks me off is when human Jap->Eng translators will ruin a light novel by adding fluff on purpose. Literally in the preface they will explain "we added a bunch of descriptive paragraphs all over the place because we felt the original was too dull." Like fuck off, I want to know how the plot progresses, not what color underwear the protag is wearing.
>>750916681i dont care about the breeze but the panties colour is very important to me and my immersion
>>750894621>Ulysses>Gravity's Rainbow>Infinite JestI haven't read any of these (I hardly read lol). Are they any good?Also why are they looking at me with disgust?
>>750917159they're subject to an ancient shitposting tradition on /lit/ and elsewhere but they really are three great novels. you probably listed them in descending order of quality, but you should read them in the reverse order (i.e. start with Infinite Jest)
>>750894621I'm in the middle of the Eisenhorn omnibus, but it's not really indicative of my general taste. Early this year I had medical circumstances that prevented me from doing involved things, so I just got it as a big timesink paperback that wouldn't be too complicated for an addled brain.
>walk into barnes and noble>see thisWhat are you buying, /v/?
One of the best standalone fantasy novels I've ever read desu
>>750915541>if you can't that
just finished book 4 of dungeon crawler carlneed to get back to reading malazan
>>750917342thisall three of those books are easy to meme on since they have such unique, fucked up writing styles. but they are all good and get their messages across in neat ways. not exactly beginner-friendly or light-reading, though.
>>750918078malazan was great, shits all over most 21st century fantasy, and im including muh elden ring lore essay videos>>750917762never heard of this one, QRD/redpill me on it? looks cool
>>750917420ulysses, lolita and dunces are all fucking greatmight also pick up spengler as i've been putting him off for years
>>750918176Any recs if I liked Malazan? Only read the first book so far but I really enjoyed it.
>>750916681I've been having a lovely old time reading through the Monogatari series. It's quite a level improved from the anime I must say.
Finished this the other day. Enjoyed it, especially the sequence that starts a little after halfway through which is 100+ pages of payoff after payoff, but the rest of it after that was a bit of a letdown, don't think things had quite enough time to congeal, felt a bit sloppy. Also didn't care for the proto-Whedon voice that infected just about every character.Next read: The Sorrows of Young Werther
>>750901346kinda similar, kuma kuma kuma bear is the only book i read at night because it helps me relax and get to sleep
>>750917420Call of the Crocodile. The one true 4chan /lit/ book
>>750903460The entire series is kindof a mindfuck, the main character isn't the main character he drowns in the prologue and the next part of the story is someone else entirely who inherited his memories
>>750918832after 20 years, /lit/ has yet to produce a single decent booklol what is wrong with them?
>>750901491Is this good?
>>750894621I am reading Dungeon Crawler Carl. A book series I would have never started reading if it weren't suggested to me by a friend. Its bizarre, funny, dark at times, occasionally emotional, and has solid pacing. My favorite character so far is Mordecai, the bird who is only occasionally a bird.
Cultivation slop but without the chink autism is surprisingly enjoyable.
>>750918665The second books is pretty weak but the third is quite good. Shame that Scott Lynch has decided to be a lazy faggot and will never release the fourth one.
>>750918612Which one are you on now? I recently started 偽物語(下), reading speed's a bit slow but I'm enjoying them a lot, makes me better appreciate how SHAFT was able to adapt such a dialogue-heavy text. Some of the stuff they cut I wish there was room for, but when rararagi goes on another extended diatribe about some obscure showa era IP then yeah that I can understand.
>>750918570A lot of Erikson fans also like Bakker, try Prince of Nothing trilogy (it's a little edgy but the philosophical dilemmas and apocalyptic prophesizing are very well done)
>>750918917Yeah but the /lit/ annotated Moby Dick is phenomenal.
>>750907270In Search of Lost Time is really good and volume 2 (Within a Budding Grove) is the prototype to harem anime.
>>750919007>Dungeon Crawler CarlI'm so tired of people mentioning this garbage.
I've been reading through the old Star Wars EU since deciding the new stuff is never going to recover from the damage done to it.Michael Stackpole is overrated, and New Jedi Order is underrated so far.>>750901759I'll put it on my reading list. Not many female Sci-Fi authors out there.
>>750894621I've been readying through the Dresden Files while I'm at work. He's a little reddit but the books are fun and I like that he layers on more shit the further you get into them
>>750894621My reading comprehension has been downgraded to below that of 80-year-old grannies (as in I literally lost two grannies). Gemini actually helped me discover TMS, but my doc refused. It's ogre.
Last thing I read was Blood Meridian.
i can't wait until i can feed my favorite books into chat gpt and it turns them into FPS hentai games where I can rape the characters
>>750919015Pretty sure the use of “slop” still implies it’s shit
>>750919443and I'm sure you're so cool for reading infinite jest and dostoyevsky I'm gonna stick to my fiction and fantasyslop
>>750919561I can't take any EU book tierlist that puts Zahn at the top seriously. Whenever I read his shit it seems like its meant for autistic teenagers who think superficial things are deep.
>>750916681Yeah my goodreads is 100% light novels. I'm starting to run out of good shit so I'm branching into VN's as well. Do you mind posting your top favorites? I'll put mine down:>The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria>Torture Princess: Fremd Torturchen>The Kept Man of the Princess KnightI've tried Monogatari and bounced off after the first chapter.
>>750919040Ah a fellow JP reader? >I'm enjoying them a lotThey're fun reads, aren't they? Nisio really likes to play around with meta aspects like word positioning and spelling. The broader story is also more cohesive because you're reading them in release order instead of anime order.I know I'm in the minority saying this but I can't stand the adaptation - and I watched them first. I think Shaft's overall visual representation never leaves the realm of distracting, meaningless, awkward, and simply bizarre. That's of course ignoring the various cut content like you mentioned.I finished 傾物語 a couple days ago. Was probably the best volume yet. Here are some thrilling excerpts that I took the time to record:>忍は、偉そうにふんぞり返った。反り返ったことにより、ぺったんこな胸が、さらにぺったんこに見える。>エロに寛容な幼女というのは、需要はあるだろうか?>と、忍はワンピースを下ろす。それによって膝頭は隠れてしまうー隠れてしまうと、確かにあれはあれでよいものだったと思ってしまう。いや、でも幼女のかさぶたに萌えるとか、人として相当アウトな気もする。>はっ。何が古典の名作じゃ。どうせ規制が緩いこの時代のロリなエロ本とかを買うだけじゃろうが>テロロリスト>この近さで見ると、改めてこの幼女の唇は魅力的だなぁ、この唇でふしだらなことを想像するのは犯罪にあたるのだろうかと真剣に思いつつ>十歳とか、全然結婚するじゃろ>幼女といえば鎖骨とあばらだよな。>幼女がワンピースをがばっとめくって、その中身を見せている挿絵を?>僕は背後から、そんな八九寺のスカートを全力でまくった。
>>750919706You should read My Confession. Its heavier on the Mexican-American War but its still fantastic.
>>750894621One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz and a manga I started yesterday called Shangri-La Frontier
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Thinking about trying pic related. I heard it's /r9k/ literally me core while still being deep o algo.
>>750919837Zahn is certainly overrated. I put the Thrawn trilogy up at the top mostly because it SAVED Star Wars. On its own merits it's probably mid to low A tier. I won't budge on Vision of the Future, though, that shit is top of the line SW.Also bear in mind this is an outdated list. I'm 3/4's the way through New Jedi Order now. It's funny how many fans pissed and shit themselves over this series for killing Chewbacca when Disney killed Solo and Luke the first fucking chance they got lmao
>>750918832>Call of the Crocodile F. Gardner is a white supremacist, buddhist, anti-christian tranny chaser who writes novels that are bad on purpose. I can't tell where the irony starts nor ends with this schizo.
Anyone else backing it?
>>750894621>one rule: discuss video gamesanyway i've been reading Influence by robert cialdinii don't get it
>>750919906heh, excellent selections. I haven't been saving individual excerpts but I do mine while reading, have a number of colorful flashcards. e.g.:標語 ー わたしのクラスでは、『ロリコンに優しく』が今月の標語ですから>Nisio really likes to play around with meta aspects like word positioning and spellingI catch at least some of those but can't help but feel that I'm overlooking some others - before starting gatari I had only read a bunch of graded readers and some less challenging LNs. Though I don't think it's quite as bad as I initially thought it would be, especially given how many he explains in-text.Find your dislike of the adaptation curious - to me the visuals were a perfect accompaniment, punchy, light-hearted, mildly stimulating but not so much so as to be a distraction from the dialogue. And that's leaving out all the fanservice. Different strokes I suppose
What's the appeal of litrpgs? Navigating menus and stats is already a chore in videogames and that's when it actaully matters.
>>750919818addicted cattle
I've been trying so hard to get back into reading and just half way through I get so critical of it and drop it. Which isn't inherently bad, I learned years ago not much is gained trudging through bad books.But fuck me has this put me in a rut of wanting to read, nothing like what I'm imaging, trying to write, fuck I can't write I need more books to learn how to write, this book looks interesting, yeah I'm done.
>>750921000As far as LNs go I suppose they're more involved reads but yeah, they're definitely not difficult to understand enough to appreciate. Here's another random pun I thought was the absolute height of literature:>皮肉を言うとは骨のある奴めI think Araragi believes himself to be a better wordsmith and tsukkomi than he actually is, though.
>>750921051>Navigating menus and stats is already a chore in videogamesThat's why you don't have to do it in books.
>>750894621Just some LNs. It's been years since I last read non-weeb books, I think the last one was Stardust by Gaiman.
>>750921492You don't learn to write through reading. You learn to write by writing.
>>750921940I agree but at the same time I'm reaching diminishing returns with my prose due to hitting the same basic bitch walls on plot structure, character development, and all the fundamentals. Like a retard who learned how to shred some sick solos but can't even do the basic chords
>>750894621I am actually working on a story of my own set in my autismal bipunk setting.It is about an orphan street urchin boy and a genetically engineered feral catgirl that become childhood frens.
>>750922536I will search for Chud's Cool Story in about a year and if I don't find any results, I will be forced to track you down.
>>750921860Right, that one's not so hard to understand>I think Araragi believes himself to be a better wordsmith and tsukkomi than he actually is, though.He's got at least some awareness, if I recall correctly especially with crab that's often the point of the joke
>>750914108Quoting Bloom makes you The Faggot
>>750922692>looks into the history of the guy that got shot>it was totally justifiedEVERY SINGLE TIME
>>750894621Just wrapped up a reread of Neuromancer, diving into Ubik by the goat PKD
>>750922827I'an'I thought that book made no fucking sense.
>>750922827The Valis trilogy is fantastic.
>>750922605Dunno if I can meet your time table lel. I have not yet come up with a name for the story. I don't really even know how it ends yet. The draft storyline I have built up has mostly emerged from the character dynamics, development points and key scenes I am stringing together. Writing isn't my usual creative outlet so I am still kind of figuring shit out. I usually draw stuff instead.
>>750920447I'm not sure how it SAVED (in all caps lol) Star Wars, Star Wars is currently a dumpster fire on Disney's watch.
>>750897985It's enjoyable turn-off-your-brain slop. I read the entire first series while sick with a fever and it was good for that purpose. It's like Code Geass where the pacing and setpieces distract you from the fact that the plot is utter juvenile nonsense.
>>750894621I'm a pleb and basically only read manga.
>>750894621I’ve been thinking of writing my novel. It’s about a young man in a fictional south-east Asian country in the early 1900’s who is returning home after studying abroad for 10 years after his father dies and he has to take over the estate. His father was a wealthy man and a minor noble and had a harem of concubines. One of them was a girl given to his father as a gift when she was just 14. Because of their close age at the time, the MC and the girl quickly became very good friend and he had a sort of crush on her but he started to resent her and his father when he hid inside a close and watched his father have sex with her. Shortly afterwards he was sent away to study in the west. Now he’s back and struggling to reconcile his feelings for her as he inherits his father’s properties, and by extension, his harem and she is now his. A tale of sexuality and childhood trauma with some political intrigue in the background as we also follow the concubines and how their hierarchy is threatened as their new “owner” arrives. Please rate.
>>750922949Ubik?Simple, its Jory>>750922956Incredibly high tier taste
>>750919134>Yeah but the /lit/ annotated Moby Dick is phenomenal.link?
>>750923147A lot of potential for Freudian psychology, puts me in mind of the book Good Earth.I would read your idea.
I'm struggling to find something new to read, so I'm just in the rabbit hole of malfoid fanfiction.
>>750923357>fotm coomshit Do you read real books?
>>750923357>I'm struggling to find something new to readYou read every book ever already?
>>750923503Yeah, they were mostly shit.
>>750923431>coomshitYou are actually retarded.>>750923503Obviously I haven't. I don't have anything that particularly stands out at the moment on my radar that isn't waiting on new entries is all.
>>750923591Read this so you can tell me if it's good or not.
>>750923019It got George off his fat ass to make the prequels, as well as a resurgence of literature for the franchise.
>>750923591Last complete book read?
still in a spook mood, books for this feel? not 'lita again
>>750923808Eh..alright. I don't know if I'd go as far as say saved but sure, I didn't dislike the prequels except the first one anyway.
Infinite Jest is the only good book ever written
>>750924356Ever read The Brothers Karamazov?
>>750924356Eschaton sports/4X civil strategy/visual novel hybrid when
>>750923230he come to townhttps://litter.catbox.moe/mgsk75ediyefqvvs
Two or so years ago I started reading the works of Robert E. Howard.So glad I did.
>>750924703wait fuck i copied it wronghttps://litter.catbox.moe/mgsk75ediyefqvvs.pdf
>>750924772His suicide is so tragic...
>>750924826Indeed.
>>750924313That's funny because Phantom Menace is my favorite of the three. The sound design in it is like a gift from god, and I'm a big SFX nerd. Also it gave us Maul and Duel of the Fates as well.Revenge of the Sith is like The Room to me. It's laughably bad, but it has enough memorable lines and moments to make it fun to rewatch.Attack of the Clones is really the only one I can't stand. I hate pretty much everything about that movie, with the exception of the seismic charge. I would genuinely rather watch any of the sequels than Clones.
>>750924356I tried reading DFW's essay on tennis and the nigga was straight snorting his own bottled farts.
>>750924774>14. NiggerAh, this is going to be a swell read.
>>750895158https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRnv0GYNG-4kino
Read Silver John. It's wild to see some genuine Americana used in writingThe novels are long out of print sadly but the short stories have been collected and republished recently so you can still snap those up. If you ever wanted to see a man who in the artists vision is Johnny Cash as a Vietnam veteran rambling around Appalachia dealing with haints, demons, ghosts, and other beings of folklore a lot of current shit has tried to bite off of (looking at you Old Gods of Appalachia) give it a gander. Halloween has passed but November is still a dreary month fitting for some supernatural fiction
Has anyone read Dungeon Crawler Carl? I do not understand how this slop became so popular, but I see it everywhere. I gave it a shot because I don't mind Lit RPG, but the dropped that shit by the second book and each book becomes more and more Leddit incarnate. The story also have zero to do with the dungeon itself, it's gotten so convulsed and retarded. As an elderly 38 year old, I use Facebook and the DCC community are the cringiest fucking LOLSORANDOMxD! fanbase since Rick and Morty.
>>750925147It is a genuine work of art. There is some deeply insightful and interesting interpretation and 'traditional' footnotes but there are also a bunch of gay jokes and slurs. It is a really unique reading experience and I think it elevates the experience of reading Moby Dick significantly.
>>750925218>>750895158>born too late to rescue a greek princess from slavery and fall in love with her>born too early to rescue an alien princess from slavery and fall in love with her
>>750924910Can't argue about the sound and music, Duel of the Fates was really good. There are flaws in all of them, including RotS but the first one is dragged by young Anakin's acting and everything involving the gungans feels like a forced kind of silliness. Like Lucas was telling himself "this will sell so many toys, make them more ridiculous, make the big fat one shake his lips and spit everywhere, make the tall lanky one talk like a retard, more toys to sell!".AotC is connective tissue but if prequel movies have to exist I think it would've been better to just start it there and add an extra in-between movie, adult Anakin all the way through, set up some backstory commentary along the way to explain why Shmi is in a sand-people rape camp. It loses Qui-Gon and Maul, which is the only really bad loss with the change, though Maul being brought back over and over later on is silly anyway.
I'm on chapter 1530-so of Reverend Insanity.
>>750925248Ive read a chapter of the webtoon after a high recommendation. I didn't like Carl or the Cat or the writing or the premise.Just considered giving it another go but I've never seen a piece of media absolutely radiating with Reddit Energy, and it's just like that the entire time?I just want to find a good book to sit down and be consumed by. Last book I read was KKC book 2
>>750913775The Devils was the book that convinced me that the first law was a fluke.Nothing in The Devils is interesting because of how paint by numbers it is. It's Suicide Squad with classic monsters from the plot, to the dialogue, to the inter team dynamics and it's all so predictable.Oh the team is split up and find themselves on opposite sides of a minor conflict. Oh wait it's a bitter divorce. Oh wait it's solved by the two of them banging.The Shattered Sea he wrote seems like it's the exact same story just Suicide Squad with vikings instead.Joe American Eagle got stumbled his way into three good books and that's it.
>>750925794Try The Black Tongue Thief or The Sad Tale Of The Brothers Grossbert.Both very good stand alone fantasy road trip stories.
>>750925589I like to believe Jar Jar didn't come from greed, but from George's sincere desire to appeal to children, as well as his own kids.
>>750903954My favorite part is how he keeps running into his father's jokes. I just imagine him dying of laughter when one manages to kill Simon.
>>750926071>The Sad Tale Of The Brothers Grossbert.Holy shit I can't believe I got to see someone else actually reference this book in the wild. I picked it up randomly off the shelf at a young age and it was probably my first introduction to truly bastardous main characters. It's been too long to give a sincere recommendations but there's some stuff in that book that has really stuck with me so seeing someone talk about it is sort of wild
>>750926409I got to have that moment when I found the quest based on them in Witcher 3.Picked it randomly off the shelf in my favourite book store because what a fucking cover.I'll find myself chuckling every time i think of them mentioning Gyptland just because they are illiterate and retarded.
>>750925794It gets so, so much more Leddit the further it gets. I like the idea of a death show where each floor has a new gimmick, but that concept ends up just being window dressing after the first few books.
>>750925438>>750924774This feels like if House of Leaves was written by an actual schizophrenic. What a profound artifact.
>>750926071Doesn't Black Tongue Thief have a sequel? I read it and thought it was decent, but never read any sequel. Also, I was surprised it was written by the Between Two Fires guy. That's another great fantasy road trip book, except I think I would've liked it exponentially more if I knew French history.
>>750894851>I want to read more Russian literature after getting with a Russian womanRead Anton Chekhov. He's the chad choice
>>750926703It has a prequel which tells the raven knight's story in the Daughter's War. It's okay at best but absolutely doesn't scratch the itch that Black Tongue left me with in wanting to see more of the world. And the protagonist narration isn't nearly as gripping even if it's infinitely more serious.Hell the best part of the book is the opening four chapters about the juggernaut and doesn't come close to that high until maybe the discussion of the flayed man.BTF is one of my favourite books ever, and yes it does benefit from knowing the real history of the period, and I was shocked at him having other standalone books that were great.
I read fantasy almost exclusively. Has anyone use Chat GPT for recommendations? Almost everything it's suggested has been a slog for me.
It took me many tries, but I finally finished Hyperion Cantos and I understand the hype. I usually fucking loathe sci fi, but I liked the book way more than other "masterpieces" of the genre like Dune or Ender's Game. However, is the second book completely different? I enjoyed the Canterbury Tales shit with smaller stories, but I really didn't give a shit about the main storyline. My understanding is the second book is all about the war or whatever.
>>750894621Warhammer 40k books recentlyRead Kingmaker back in September, fucking loved it.Oath of Damnation about the Exorcists was cool but it didn't stand out as muchReading Path of Heaven now for more White Scars
>>750927161Hyperion ends with the yellow brick road. Just leave it alone anon.
I'm about to reach 100 books read for this year. I want to try to get more into philosophy and theology plus more classic literature next year.
>>750894621i recently started up Brave New World. So far really drawn me in, but not sure what to expect.Before that was Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea.Moby Dick was great, but a bit of an odd read.Old man and the sea was a slog for all 100 pages. awful book
>read book from early 1900's called Big Steel>learn the phrase "Darker than a nigger funeral in a thunderstorm"
>>750927267You'll find one of the greatest villain speeches and arguments ever written.Enjoy it anon, it's a book that shouldn't be forced on the young who will get nothing from it.
I wasn't sure how this would go considering it changes the formula of the first trilogy, but i've been really enjoying it. Cassius's part near the end was fucking kino
>>750922827>it's the finale>bladedancer struts in for her moment to shine>MC hypes it to all hell>she jobs so fucking hard a superior nipponese ninja has to save the dayPretty good heist book. Getting up to the orbital was pretty haunting. Funny that the color of a tv tuned to a dead channel makes no sense at all today.
>>750925248>>750925794I'm like three books in, I listen to it while training at the gym. I like how the pacing is quick and things happen.
>>750927372You aren't reading a book if you are listening to it.Now with that necessary distinction done. DDC has a great audiobook and 100% is the reason it blew up as big as it did even if the story itself is meh. I'm still annoyed at how obvious the first two books are just one book that was split almost at random.
>>750927161The second book can be thought of as the payoff for slogging through the first book. The third and fourth are where shit goes off the rails a bit.
>>750927161More or less yes. It follows the first book in a more straightforward manner, but I enjoyed how it followed different characters trying to navigate the chaotic events of the story while working towards their own goals, a wild ride to the end. The end itself is pretty lame however, and I've been talked against continuing on to following books to see if unresolved plot points, and there were several, get any meaningful conclusion.
>>750927340looking forward to it!>>750927161Book 2 is yeah more focused on the war and politicking. I think it's worth reading to wrap up the first book most of the first book anyway I was left with a lot of questions by the end of it since it forgets to explain a few things after that leave it up to your imagination, since books 3 and 4 still don't answer anything, add more questions and just plain suck
Has anyone read the Megami Tensei books? I'm real curious about them.
Reading Screwtape then I'm gonna go read a Sanderson so I can start to hate Sanderson.
>>750927909Its 80s Japanese horror shlock that goes off the rails by the third book.
>>750927994Might I suggest something like Warbreaker or Emperor's Soul for Sanderson. Warbreaker is a standalone novel. I can't remember how good the prose is but I really liked some of the characters and the magic is neat. Emperor's Soul is a novella and also explores some cool (but different) magic system. Mistborn, especially the first trilogy, starts of YA adjacent and the protagonist is complete and utter dogshit, so I wouldn't recommend starting there. The Way of Kings is a 10/10 book, but the most recent Stormlight books have gotten almost unreadably bad. The dude needs to get his old editor back instead of letting tranny Ledditors poison his mind.
>>750925794The Farseer books by Robin HobThe Expanse
I really like blindsight and the sequel book who's name I can't remember. I didn't usually like bleak books but it's so interesting
>>750928082Good shlock or shlock shlock?
>>750928651https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJNAI7uOR9EGood enough to spawn a niche franchise. But its longer sequel series is totally forgotten.
>>750894621/lit/fags in one image incredible
>>750929813Faulkner would blow the heads smooth off.
>>750929951As Burroughs would his, if he was dressed like his wife, which we know Faulkner had those proclivities
>>750929951I should read more Faulkner. Absalom Absalom was amazing >>750930503Wasn't as into Naked Lunch. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas felt like the better book in my opinion although I'm not sure if it's normal to compare them.
All the le serious literature that gets hyped up by /lit/ and pseuds (I repeat myself) is either liberal or Christian propaganda.
>>750896310qrd on jung?i watched this cartoon based on jung but didnt quite get itstill good thohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiADheWIQZI
>>750894621I read thisNow that the dust has settled I don't get the hype
some of my favorites>dune>ringworld>blindsight>the first 15 lives of harry august
>>750930503burroughs makes popcorn flicks
read eragon for the first time this year, very comfyjust started on book 2 last week, also good so far
>>750931450The dragon is the only character people remember from that series.
>>750931519she's fun
>>750894621gyarusaur...
>>750931450I still think the first book is pretty goodnot quality literature or anything but somehow manages to be almost alone in it's niche despite how cliched the idea sounds and it executes well enough on the "farmboy raises dragon, goes on adventure" thing that if that is what you're looking for it doesn't disappoint, and there's strangely few other options after the first book it starts going downhill, there's some good parts, I like his brother's sidestory from what I remember of it, but almost everything about the main plotline and the setting starts getting worse and worseiirc the second book was mostly fine to "only bad in hindsight" so if you're enjoying it it's not like you should stop reading, but don't get your hopes up about all the stuff it sets up paying off in the end.also I just learned he released a new book in 2023, what the fuck, I'll have to read it some time if only out of morbid curiosity.
