/lit/ - Literature

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I am not sure what makes you guys doubt me. Obviously nto all books are equal, some have 200 pages books for children, some are Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix or one of ASOIAF books. Book count is honestly a meaningless count on its own and not an objective metric of anything but experience. It's just that through most of my youth life I just read. Or played video games. I didn't go out a lot, and with a library in a city half an hour away I had everything I needed from life. Some books like Hobbit I read a few times, so I am not sure if it counts, once I even read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban over 10 times back to back in a three days days because I didn't have any other book.

By saying 'thousands' I didn't mean some numbers like 5k or anything like that, I slightly exaggerated, but I believe that the count should be something around 2k+ by now. I remember counting my book history list many years ago when I was around 14 years old with the librarian on the computer, I had 350+ by that time. Since then I read much more and eventually started to download stuff from the internet, vastly increasing my reading speed.

I am not an expert on books, I honestly didn't care about the 'writing' itself for most of my life, just going by the felling of whether I like something or not, but now I can tell if something is good or bad just by instinct, and it seems to correlate strongly with other experienced readers opinions. To be honest, reading webnovels was brutal at the start, especially the isekais, but english not being my native language helped immensely in not noticing bad writing. Yeah, I guess I got a bit corrupted by the webnovel writing, but I care for the story more, so it's a win in my eyes. I wouldn't have read many amazing webnovels otherwise.

Still, I am not as bad as MTL Xianxia crowd. They not only read chinese xianxia, but also read not trasnlated stuff through Machine Translation. I've never fallen so low and never fucking will. Those are true degenerates, the kind you see taking drugs on the street, wearing rags.

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At least in normal fantasies you have few female soldiers, or at least it's mentioned that they are in minority as they are women (sci-fi and fantasies where soldiers can use magic etc. are obviously an exception). In PGTE a normal soldier is just a person, at least human ones. PGTE has unironically the most insane gender norms I've ever seen in fantasy, where even 13 year old girls are conscripted as soldiers. En masse. In a country suffering population problems. Even feminists would balk at this.
But webnovels heavily fetishize women and like to shove as much female characters as possible, it's creepy as fuck.