/lit/ - Literature

The other thread was technically started earlier. But I'm posting in this one, because it has better starting posts.

Anyway Beware of Chicken was pretty good. Color me shocked. It was good *despite* the isekai and cultivation stuff. I liked that he was a man outside of his element, but granted with great gifts, and he defied society conventions. However, that's just fucking GOKU.(no hate to Goku, I like Goku) They didn't need to make him a hockey playing, maple syrup drinking, poutine eating Canadian who got isekai'd into another realm. They could have just made him an eccentric guy. A powerful foreigner from across sea or some shit. The story would have been exactly the same, without the cringe real life reference.

The book has a lot of anime "humor" that doesn't really land. But it also has good humor that does. And it even got me to laugh aloud a couple times. It's my first Isekai(aside from Digimon back in the day. It pretty much confirmed everything I feared Isekai(and LitRPG) would be. Heavy leaning on tropes. Reveling in the tropes. Rolling around in the tropes like a pig in shit. I don't think I want more. But I'm not mad I read it either.

Okay you faggets. After all your years of shilling, I finally tried Beware of Chicken (after it got proofread and cleaned up in audio).
When Can I expect Volume two? This was so fucking good. I'm jonesing and really tempted to read the webnovel that I'm sure is filled with errors.

Xianxia/Cultivation/Gamelit Reviewfag back... again. Had a long car drive so I ended up finishing Beware of Chicken.

There's not a lot to say about this series that I haven't said about others. The main character Jin Roh is not actually Jin Roh, he's been body snatched by someone from Earth. There's no explanation for the true character, other than he knows how to farm and originated from Earth. From the very start of the book the MC is an unlikeable, body snatching psycho. Finding no moral issue with stealing a man's life before settling into it fully.

This is rarely touched upon unless the narrator needs to access Jin's memories to answer a question about his false past. He uses this ability to lie to the women he chooses to pursue. Within the first few chapters, the love interest (one of them) springs up. After two chapters, they are enraptured with each other and plan to be married. There is no depth to any of these characters, no soul or spirit; they are ALL caricatures that accomplish nothing.

The cultivation system is from the template - cultivators have a dantian, they take in qi. Only difference in this approach is that Jin Roh is indirectly nurturing spirit beasts - i.e his farm animals. A rooster named Big D, pigs named Peppa and Chunky. Every farm animal has a zoomer name and get up to secret animal antics when Jin isn't around. These segments are all poorly written and boring.

The author calls it 'parody' yet does nothing original with the genre. Building a harem around a farmer instead of a member of a sect, making animals into underlings instead of humans. What's worse is that people fucking love this garbage. I made the mistake of checking the author's patreon and he earns $14,000 a month for... drivel. It stuns me that books like this are considered the height of the genre.

This book was HIGHLY recommended to me. I feel like I should end friendships over it.

Final Score - 3/10

>Current Book:
Lord of Mysteries by 'Cuttlefish'
>Next Audio Book:
Heaven's Laws: Prodigies by Apollos Thorne

Previous Scores:
Cradle Series by Will Wight - 9/10
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Ave Xia Rem Y by Mat Haz - 8/10
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Forge of Destiny Vol. I by Yrsillar - 7/10
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A Thousand Li by Tao Wong - 7/10
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Virtuous Sons by Ya Boy - 6/10
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Bastion by Phil Tucker - 6/10
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Mother of Learning Act I & II - 6/10
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Reverend Insanity Vol. I by Gu Zhen Ren - 5/10
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Soulhome by Sarah Lin - 5/10
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Reincarnation: Threads by Michael Head - 3/10
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Last Ship in Suzhou by Lungs - 0/10 (Dropped)
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Mean Score of 5.4 (5.9 without the dropped score). Short post today, I was here in the last thread.

Definite Reads (5+ Recs):
> Worm by 'Wildbow'
> The Wandering Inn by 'Pirateaba'

Tentative Recommendations (2+ Recs):
> Soulship by Nathan Thompson
> Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe
> The World After the Fall by Sing-Shong
> The Second Coming of Gluttony by Ro Yu-jin