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Anyone got up and coming webnovel recs? I've read/tried reading pretty much everything on this rec list by now. The list is almost 3 years old, surely there's a few good ones that have been created in that timespan. Anything works, just generally not a fan of shit like harem Isekai, XianXia/Cultivator shit, or mind-numbing Korean power fantasy. Doesn't have to be action focused, just anything worth mentioning.

>>14421416
A large part of this is rational (notably MOL, PGTE, and WTC). You may also want to take a look at Alexander Wales' short stories as a gentle intro (The Last Christmas, A Bluer Shade of White).
If you liked Blindsight, you may want to take a look at Greg Egan as well.
On a similar note, personally, I believe the Strugatsky brothers to be quite rationalist.
The World of Null-A was a big influence to rationalfic as well.

God Tier:

Mother of Learning (great time to start reading, it is about to end)
A Practical Guide to Evil
Worth The Candle
Pact

Good tier:

Twisted cogs
Brennus
Unsong
Worm

You should check these out tier (mostly rationalfic, fanfic, and similar garbage that can be entertaining):
(Upper level)
The Games We play
The Gam3
Purple Day
A bluer shade of white
Harry Potter and the Methods of rationality
Twig
The Waves Arisen
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(Lower tier)
The Good Student
Re: trailer thrash
The Metropolitan Man
Metaworld Chronicles

Stay away tier:

The Wandering Inn
Star Child
Savage Divinity
The Zombie Knight Saga
How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis
Super Powereds

Best chinkshit has to offer tier:

The Novel's Extra
Release That Witch
Emperor's Domination
40 millenniums of cultivation

(pic related, but outdated)

Dear anons,
This is the web serial anon.
I have thought about the chart I had posted a while ago (4-5 months?) and realized that some of my ratings had been influenced by peer pressure (i.e I inflated the rating because of popularity and undersold some obscure ones). Additionally, I have read some stuff since. I can't be bothered to update the image right now, but here's the new list:

God Tier:

Mother of Learning (great time to start reading, it is about to end)
A Practical Guide to Evil
Worth The Candle
Pact

Good tier:

Twisted cogs
Brennus
Unsong
Worm

You should check these out tier (mostly rationalfic, fanfic, and similar garbage that can be entertaining):
(Upper level)
The Games We play
The Gam3
Purple Day
A bluer shade of white
Harry Potter and the Methods of rationality
Twig
The Waves Arisen
------
(Lower tier)
The Good Student
Re: trailer thrash
The Metropolitan Man
Metaworld Chronicles

Stay away tier:

The Wandering Inn
Star Child
Savage Divinity
The Zombie Knight Saga
How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis
Super Powereds

Best chinkshit has to offer tier:

The Novel's Extra
Release That Witch
Emperor's Domination
40 millenniums of cultivation

Hello, it is me, Patrick.

Hi friends!! Have you read the guide to evil yet??? LOL!

The image of this post are the web novels described.
I'm apparently not included in the target audience for these in the slightest.
Probably most for teens looking for an easily disgestible read that can be binged or read on a schedule and don't read much else.
These are so awful that I wanted to minimize the time I spent doing this, so no prose provided.
I probably shouldn't have even looked at them at all.
I'd much rather actually read the average post in the critique thread.
If you really feel the need, you'll just have to look at them yourself.
I think one of the defining traits of a typical web novel seems to focus on dialogue, regardless of how poorly written, above all else and sometimes to the exclusion of all else. Basically like comics/manga without the images or like a text message novel.
One would hope they'd improve after writing millions of words, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Web novels are the modern pulp in terms of quality, if not worse. Maybe penny dreadful or dime novel would be more accurate.
Don't take the ratings too seriously, because it ought to all be avoided.
I have severe doubts that anything on RoyalRoad would be worthwhile.
I had rated about half of them and then realized it was pointless because after a certain point they became indistinguisbaly bad.

4 = Kýrie eléēson
3 = Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani?
2 = mors mihi lucrum
1 = Komm, süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh


And so ends my "rating" of charts.

>>13757396
The webnovel chart anon is actually me and I think that that chart contains more garbage, but the garbage is of a higher quality.
>>13756763
>what did we think?
Contains good ideas, but the writing quality isn't the best. Hard To Be a God was better.
>what was up with that ending? Did Red's wish get granted?
Its kinda like The Crying of Lot 49, your second question is pointless IMO. There's a reason that it end where it ends. There are some interesting interpretations that you should google (the wish resulted in Soviet Union, etc.).
>>13756835
The best part is that the anon running the poll sometimes ignores 500-page book nominations as "too long", but this time 800-pages collection of shit (with a few good authors thrown in) was fine.
>>13756945
based
>>13757205
You should read his comic on social issues while you wait. A true masterpiece.
>>13757482
You are just insecure about being a slow reader.

You are all midwits too stupid to appreciate Randi Darren's transcendent art.
>>13723361
Good boy

Anyone knows a book set in 1542-1544 Japan where the protagonist has one arm and likes boats?

Daily reminder that you can only post about a book if you have read it.

Daily reminder that you are only allowed to have an opinion about a book if you have read it

Daily reminder to stop complaining about books you haven't read.
Also, fuck sword & sorcery