/lit/ - Literature

>>21059406
I hold Worth the Candle in respect, but I'm unable to determine whether this post is an actual shilling or troll hit piece against it. The fact Anon used meme cover from Korean translation points towards the second option.

If someone wants an actual recommendation: If you are positive towards rationalism and have at least heard of Slate Star Codex, if autistic writing and bizarre rabid holes of actually thinking about ideas doesn't sound off-putting, if the author taking his trauma and irreconciled conflict with the world and turning it into a big webnovel sounds interesting...read Worth The Candle.

The enjoyment derived from Worth The Candle is proportional with how much autistic or schizoid you are. If you are neither at all, don't read it.

>>20319604
Fuck I forgot few.

This Used to be About Dungeons - The same author as Worth the Candle, but about a time of dungeon delvers becoming a team. A comfy story about few people becoming a team, rather than an actual delving story, but that's in the title. Similar world-building to Worthe the Candle.

Paranoid Mage - A middle-aged architect and widower suddenly learns he's a mage, and an authoritarian magic government tries to catch him. The man starts learning about his spatial magic while running away, being as paranoid as possible to avoid detection. A recent big success on Royalroad, very popular. I don't think it's amazing, but it's a decent read.

Blue Core - The same author as Paranoid Mage, somewhat NSFW. LitRPG, a dungeon becomes self-aware and bonds with a fox girl, trying to defeats the rulers of evil dungeon by abusing the shit out of combining science and magic. You might not like it as it a bit haremy, but it's decent. Finished.

The Iron Teeth: A Goblin's Tale - Bandits raid a caravan which transported a goblin, one of the bandits take the goblin as a servant and teaches him. In time the goblin becomes a Hobgoblin and more or less strikes out on his own. As far as non-human protagonists go, this story is quite decent. The protagonist is something of an anti-hero, if not outright villain. Finished.
Honorable mentions:

Peculiar Soul - Haven't read personally, but a lot of people say good things about it.

Beware of Chicken - A parody of Xianxia, the protagonist gets beaten in a sect and decides to fitch the cultivation and defying the heavens to become a farmer. Very comfy and slice of life, one of the better webnovels.

Virtuous Sons: A Greco Roman Xianxia - A xianxia story, but in a greek setting. Cultiavators are Philosophers, Young Masters are Young Artisocrats. Aristotle and others are the biggest motherfuckers around. A something of a parody, the protagonists are a Young Aristocrat and an enslaved Roman Soldier.

The Calamity of a Reborn Witch - Haven't read, but supposedly good.

Forge of Destiny - A teenage thief girl passes a test to join a cultivation sect, very slice of life, although not the comfy kind. One of the better xianxias.

Sylver Seeker - An Archnecromancer Lich dies while defending his family and magic academy from some sort of madman, without explanation returns to 'life' unknown period of time later, with a silver needle being his phylactery of sorts. And the worst of all, the world is now governed by some sort of LitRPG system, which punishes him for not adhering to its rules. Decent story.

Super Minion - A very comfy superhero story about a runaway science experiment who pretends to be a human. No longer updated, probably will never be finished, but what's there is quite fun. One of the better webnovels, a shame the writer no longer works on it.