/lit/ - Literature

>>20412410
>>20412357
>no, goodreads is the best you can get, blame big publishers and jews

As much as I like blaming Jews for just about anything this seems the sort of thing we should be able to do on our own. Amazon even has an API that lets you scrape it's product data. You have to pretend to be doing it to sell referral links to shit and it does rate limit you but if you had ten or so accounts you could probably scrape all scifi/fanticy book amazon data in a few days.

You would get categories like
#18 in Steampunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
#103 in Epic Fantasy (Kindle Store)
#103 in Dystopian Science Fiction (Kindle Store)

Not all inclusive list but it would be a decent and easy start.

>>20389051
>Reposting from /trash/ of all places where an Anon is blogging Wings of fire for the scalies.
Re-reposting it from last thread because it was posted at the end of the thread.
Obvious spoilers ahead, so people planning on reading it or whatever: Don't read this post. I have rather enjoyed it blind.

So, I've given it a listen as I go through my work, got a little over 3 hours in to the first book.
First off, I'll say, I'm not too much a fan of the voice over they gave this. Little too "disney" for my tastes, considering the rather grim aspect to a lot of this.
I am, either way, debating just reading physical copies whenever I've got the chance as a result. It's not terrible, but it's enough that I feel like I'm missing some of the emotional impact.
It's up in the air, but I might not update this much if I do.

Going in to it at the start, I was a bit shocked, to be sure. There's a little bit of cheesiness to it, in terms of villainous monologues, which I think might've got me into a different expectation when it came down to it.
Sure, I expected gore, but damn, starting out with infanticide? That's rare as fuck.
Here I was assuming the egg'd survive, be raised alone by some unsuspecting group, and we'd have the hero's tale.
Instead, we had the BBEG chuck an egg off a cliff, killing one of the star-destined protagonists right off the gate, to which our group of legend-makers say "Shit, let's go capture a different kid then", and make do with a sudden replacement from a completely different tribe than their prophecy dictated.

That last part brings me to another observation some;
Every single adult dragon we meet, at least so far a good third the way through, is an asshole.
Your factions are murderous queens, kidnapping baby torturers, and oddly seductive murderous queens.
Might be the voice actor, but Scarlet got a rather poignant portrayal.
Still a massive asshole, but I at least enjoyed her 'screentime' so to speak.

So far, my favourite character's been Tsunami.
Definitely has a nice style to her, and I appreciate her retention of more 'dragony' character.

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