/lit/ - Literature

>>23235316
>think I hate romance
>read grandmaster of demonic cultivation
>fall in love with it
someone rec similar books pls.

>>22955395
I tried grandmaster of demonic cultivation and i didn't like the writing of the translation. Did I get filtered? It's too painful to read

>>22902007
grandmaster of demonic cultivation is better

>>22701165

Not him but literally all the famous BL novels by MXTX including grandmaster of demonic cultivation. Just Google the name you get the majority of those put on bookshelves in the west.

>>22703114

From what I’ve read of it, just typical amoral spirit summoning plus ‘whoa wacky I didn’t think to manipulate spirits THAT way what a rebel, that’s against THE RULES’. It was pretty confusing and I felt I missed a lot of context from not knowing how that shit would typically go down in other webnovels.

>>22701165
>Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: The Comics
It's a Manhwa adaptation of a a chinese novel of the same name. Technically, it's a danmei/yaoi novel set in a Xianxia world rather that a strictly Xianxia novel

I see it a lot and it seems to sell very well

>>21880497
here's some wuxia danmei
Heaven Official's Blessing
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

>>21866812
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. It's because they're so fucking cute together, I just can't fucking take it. I don't care what anybody else says.

Have you ever read a book that was so good it ruined the whole genre for you? I never liked romance, but after reading The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, I can't read any romance at all. All other romance just pales in comparison.

>>21719779
>>21717939
I'm an outlier, but let's see how I decided to read the last 50 books I've finished. This covers from Sep 2022 - Feb 27th 2023

Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3) - continuing series

By Blood We Live
Loosed Upon the World
Wastelands 2
Themed anthologies, whim, from the sff torrent/mega

Righteous Prey (Lucas Davenport, #32) - continuing series
Did You Read The News? - self-published book by a /sffg/ member that I was asked to read.

Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) - I saw it in the upcoming books by authors I've read before and was part of the 1 newly released book per month that I was doing last year.

Dracula - 1 of 4 themed books for the month and decided to just read it.

Orthogonal #1-3
The Clockwork Rocket
The Eternal Flam
The Arrows of Time
A continuation of reading Egan's releases

A Night in the Lonesome October - A /sffg/ member suggested that it.

Shadows of Self (Mistborn, #5) - In preparation for Lost Metal

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
Roadside Picnic
The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1)
Voted on by /sffg/

The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn, #6) - same as previous

Cosmic Powers - same as previous anthologies

The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7) - Thought I may as well and for monthly newly released book.

The Book of the New Sun
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch
Gene Wolfe's Book of Days
The Urth of the New Sun
Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
From the vote

The New Space Opera - same as previous anthology
City of Last Chances - Gave Tchaikovsky another try and needed a newly released book for the month.

A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
Solaris
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
Engine Summer
As part of December Gift Reads whim

Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
Caliban's War (The Expanse, #2)
Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, #3)
It's been a year since the series ended and it was time to try again.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 1
Aching God (Iconoclasts, #1)
/sffg/ vote

Tress of the Emerald Sea - Sanderson secret projects

Dark Angel (Letty Davenport #2) - continuing series

The Tyranny of Faith (Empire of the Wolf, #2) - I saw the first book in a list of new releases, which I read for the month, so I continued.

The Sword Defiant - One of the books I got an ARC from NetGalley and tried on a whim.

The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1) - Another NetGalley ARC that looked interesting.

Pushing Ice - A group read selected by the /sffg/ member who may be currently doing them.

Travel by Bullet (The Dispatcher, #3) - A NetGalley ARC continuation.

A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder
Snow Crash
/sffg/ vote

Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
Continuation

>>21676552
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel)

>>21534392
This is what happens when control of the nomination and voting process is ceded to others through non-participation. A few dedicated individuals really can have a great effect when there's low participation. That's also seen on slow boards and all too obvious in /sffg/. Who knows what next month's choices may be. Only you can prevent seeing that which you'd prefer not to see. I suppose to a lesser extent that goes for reporting as well. It's not anything that matters, but it's amusing to me to pretend otherwise for symbolic purposes.

Here's some previous posting about it under one of its names.
>>/lit/?task=search2&ghost=&search_text=grandmaster+demonic+cultivation

>>21532920
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi Vol. 1 - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (2016/2021)

What a surprising start to my reading two books per month that were nominated by and voted on by /sffg/ for me to read. This is a Chinese gay romance/danmei cultivation/xianxia written by a Chinese woman for Chinese women that has an official translation. I don't mind reading what I otherwise wouldn't from time to time, and that's certainly what this is. This is the first gay romance and first Asian cultivation novel that I've finished.

This began as a serialized webnovel that after it ended it was revised and became a novel. As far as I know that isn't uncommon for webnovels that become novel series. Sometimes they're completely rewritten. I think that at least partially accounts for its quality of writing, the dialogue is especially horrendous, even after considering that it's been translated. I'm unable to comment on the original work, so I can't say whether the !!!s, ???s, and various phrases in ALL CAPS are appropriate or not, as stylistic standards in originally self-published works are much looser. There are interspersed illustrations. This has adaptations in various types of media.

The protagonist is a mass murdering flute playing grandmaster of demonic cultivation/necromancer with a kill count in the several thousands at least. Also, he's already died before the story begins. Thirteen years later a teenage male homosexual sacrifices his soul to summon an evil spirit to slaughter his own family, and so the protagonist takes residence in his new body. The protagonist decides to jokingly go along with the homosexuality to antagonize and disgust everyone. Since he doesn't have any powers from his former body, he's rather useless overall. Not entirely so, but enough to where it doesn't matter much. Most of the book is him being escorted by the man in love with him and their previous school life together. The assumedly mid-30s man doesn't mind that the man he fell in love with is in a teenager's body that's roughly the same age as when they first met.

In this first volume in there isn't much romance. The most that they do by the end of this is arguably cuddling, if it can be called that, since it's arguably coerced. The protagonist carries on with the "I'll do gay stuff to disgust him, oh no why isn't it working?" act the entire volume. It's difficult to believe that he's this dense about what's going on, but it's a common trope, so it's probably exactly what's happening. I don't know if this eventually becomes a "I'm not gay, I only love you" sort of thing, or something else, but clearly their relationship deepens in some way.

There wasn't much of anything for me to enjoy in this, which I suppose is to be expected. It didn't enrage me, make me regret my life decisions, or wail in anguish, so I can't it give it my lowest rating, not even rounded down. Some of my one star ratings don't mean that, but they almost all do.

Rating: 1.5/5

>>21496830
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

>>21478892
read Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

>>21472387
naruto fanfic. the grandmaster of demonic cultivation got to me, so I have to take an emotional break from it

>>21248417
>oh my god, are you from a parallel universe? 85% of all fanfiction is gay, and 95% of that has sex in it. You'll want the grandmaster of demonic cultivation/the untamed fanfic- the two MCs have a canonical breeding kink, and they made a vow to fuck every day. So the fanfiction is very horny.
I should be more precise, sorry. How big is the MALE reader base for gay smut? I know women are freaky and into this stuff.

But I will check out your recommendations, thanks.
Btw, I judged the size of reader base on male erotica I've seen, or rather strange lack of it everywhere. I never ventured into fanfiction or niche web stuff for it, so I'm ignorant of the size of those communities.

>>21248386
>how big is the reader base for gay smut?
>It appears to be abysmaly small from what I've seen.
oh my god, are you from a parallel universe? 85% of all fanfiction is gay, and 95% of that has sex in it. You'll want the grandmaster of demonic cultivation/the untamed fanfic- the two MCs have a canonical breeding kink, and they made a vow to fuck every day. So the fanfiction is very horny.

>>21217513
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation
Heaven Official's Blessing

>>21003990
Don't. Someone suggested checking out The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation and now I'm hyperfixated. It's not even that good. I mean, it's not bad, but it's a webnovel, and the translation isn't that good. I read the first book and a half, and now I've been reading nothing but time-travel fix-its for a week.

>>20968130
why does everyone have 18 different names? I'm 80 pages into Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation and the only one I don't get confused is Wei Wuxian, and that's only most of the time.

>>20569239
middle one, "grandmaster of demonic cultivation" is a pretty good fantasy with a gay protagonist.

>>20411292
I'm genuinely interested to hear what you think of Scum Villain after binging serious xianxia.

The first two volumes of Scum Villain have an official English translation (apparently available at my local library, what a world). You can also get the fan translation here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BFDueXsFfFb_ryYeyx-X8dMin9li_aCT (don't use this folder for Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation or for Heaven Official's Blessing, these aren't the best fan translations). The Scum Villain fan translation is by the same team as the official translation, but it's an earlier/rougher effort.

>>19391536
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. Anything by MXTX.

>>19230161
>endurance
>synecdoche new york
>sonic mania
>grandmaster of demonic cultivation