/lit/ - Literature

Alright lets get the out of the way
Sanderfag a hack
Soulcatcher a waifu
Conan a chad
Kvothe a cuck

why do i

>>12808295
Yeah you spend a lot less time with writing what exactly is happening or what emotion is happening due to the use of parentheticals to convey it.

Added an image of a part from the first scene because pasting it doesn't work very well.

about to start book of new sun, goodbye cruel world

This shit crazy bruh

>>12808446
>>>/tv/

>>12808446
you suck
stop sucking

Watts I know you read these threads; give us the finale to Blindopraxia you fucking hack

What authors are known to browse this general?

>>12808660
me

>>12808385
Does anyone here recommend Eric Frank Russell? Looks like some prime potential dino material. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17853661-wasp

>>12808660
I’m R Scott Bakker but I’ll deny this if it’s ever mentioned.

>>12808660
Tolkien here

So has Birdboi given up? What happened to him?

>>12808660
Mainstream authors? Probably none, they'd rather go to reddit. I know for certain a few relatively well known self published authors occasionally come here.

Post your yearly readings so far.
I'm around 60% through The Crippled God and I want more laughing jaghut.flav

>>12809146
Will you be reading any of the side novellas or Esselmont once you're finished? The Karsa series will be out later this year

>>12809146
My new good reads, I’ve only got three on there, currently reading.

Hey guys, I wanted to ask if you guys had any recommendations of quality Sci-Fi and Fantasy books.

I'm trying my hand in writing (haha like almost everyone on this fucking board) and I'm trying to get inspiration for my stories.

I'm working on about 6 at once (5 Sci-Fi, 1 Fantasy) and I wanted to know if you guys had any really good ones I could use to spark my creativity.

The main authors I read are Asimov, Heinlein, Weir, Douglas Adams, and Terry Pratchett.

I'm very picky on books, but I wanna expand my reference pool by asking people here for any quality authors/series I could dip my feet into.

Anyone here read pic related? It's an isekai into demon body. Pretty fun

>>12809158
Have you read all the classics?, I guess you’re looking for obscurity?, hmm, So it Goes

>>12809177
its being mentioned here and there in the general.
i personally liked it. though the latter ones get a bit dry in my opinion. overall pretty good.

>>12809177
>be horny demon 17 year old
>don’t fuck anything for 3 whole books

>>12809190
Yeah i feel it drags on a little in the later books
>>12809191
Probably hard to find something that fits 20 inch demon dick

>>12808660
Definitely: William D Arand and Daniel Schinhofen because they mention 4chen in their works Arand also made a post detailing all the information I was raging about.

Maybe: E William Brown, and a few other self published authors.

>>12809203
>Probably hard to find something that fits 20 inch demon dick
he gets the ability to transform into a human in like the first book.

>>12809156
>meme account with meme name

>>12809177
Yea. We read it.

>>12809206
And it took all the concentration he had.

>>12809205
>William D Arand
how did that guy even get so big. he seemingly sprang out of nowhere in 2017 and is basically the poster child for self publishing.
when i googled a bit the only thing that i could find was a post about him reading a book and then he got inspired to write one himself and then fucking did it.
i mean i can understand why people like him. he pumps out a book every month and its a full sized novel to boot. seems to give his fans what he wants and someone mentioned mailing him which resulted in some conversation over several mails.
we need more guys like him.
granted im not into the whole harem thing and he seems to be obsessed with it but at-least he is actually sticking to his gimmick. dude likes harems and writes harem novels.

imagine if big time writers actually acted like this.

>>12809249
I think he also listens to his fans. Some of the books aren't so harem crazy. He chills a little.

>>12809146
Mine so far.
https://pastebin.com/LaF4KBTQ

>>12809249
Are his books decent/fun? And by decent/fun I mean actually decent/fun, not "it tickles my peepee and therefore it is good".

>>12809578
under his name his books are pg-13 basically under randi darren he does erotica.
ive only read wild wastes and super sales on super heroes but i liked them a lot.
im waiting until series are done though to read the rest in one go. apparently he only does trilogies so i dont wanna read something only to have to wait for the next book.
i dunno why but i could not put them down at all. super sales really sucked me in because of the setting and the characters.

>>12809578
They are entertaining. You know they are bad, but you can't stop reading, and when you finish the book you want more. It hooks you. And it's not 900 pages long (maybe the entire trilogy, but not book one).

>>12809628
>>12809585
>>12809249
>>12809205
How can you have an apocalypse zombie harem?
Is he getting into necrophilia?

>>12809658
don't be stupid. its obviously going to be humans or monster girls and the apocalypse is gonna be the setting the story is written in.

>>12809177
I thought it was pretty shitty.

>>12809232
Wasn't he pretty good at it by the end? I think he even slept like that.

>>12809228
>every single arand book
Read one, read them all. I'd choose Fostering Faust just because it's the most depraved of them all and it would make it quicker since there would be no reason to read the rest after that.

>>12809670
Why can't it be a qt rotter?
I'm sure down there will always be extra wet... due to the liquefaction.

>>12809578
I unironically enjoy Wild Wastes. It knows what it is and doesn't try to be anything more. Also it helps that the protagonist's main wife is hot female orc who actively wants him to impregnate as many things as possible which is a major fetish for me.

>>12809672
It just takes one slip up, and that qt gril riding your dick is literally impaled and her vagina cleaved in half.
He was also a self hating demon. He wanted to go back home.

>>12809684
>>12809684
>>every single arand book
Dungeon deposed isn't there for a reason. It's shit.

>>12809024
Name them, faggot. Goddam it.

>>12808660
There are obviously the anon authors, that come here asking for tips from time to time. I can only remember the rabbit fag Juho, though. I think there was another author whose book I was looking forward to, but I can remember what it was about.

>>12809718
Oh, right. There's otherlife as well. I guess they are just so shit I forgot they existed. I think maybe that makes his other books not shit by comparison.

>>12809721
Absolute aram used to lurk in here, and rave about his boner for all things gene wolfe and botns specifically.

What's the news about Michael Scott Earle? Last I heard he had a meeting with amazon, but I think that was last month. Radio Silence? Maybe he's given up?

>>12809738
Wtf is this general's obsession with Michael scott and e william brown .
They both write shit but ever so often you get people asking about them.

>>12809752
No obsession from my part. I only ever read one of his series and the others I tried were pretty bad. But I don't have a facebook to check his group and imagined someone here might have heard something. And I guess people might talk about him here because he did write a lot of series in parallel, so it is not surprising some people liked one or two of them. I don't know about brown, though.

>>12809752
e william brown is just because of one aonon who is obsessed that he takes so long to release books you can safely ignore that guy.
the mse thing is because its not resolved yet. theres still talks between amazon and him. theres a lot of things that dont make sense that point towards mse actually bing innocent.
also people want to read tamer. people really like tamer.

Remember to read Conan and Sword & Sorcery in general.

>>12809908
Why

>>12809935
Because it will make you a goddamned sexual tyrannosaurus like me.

>tfw you will never have a harem of bikini models and tigers

>>12809962
Too sticc

>>12810066
That's what the tigers are for.

This was the terrible book i've ever read

>giving greek street names and person names randomly out of nowhere in every sentence and that's actually called creating a world

this was like watching one of those shitty live action tv shows.

>>12809962
It is just me, or is the perspective all fuckey in that pic?

>>12809908
>>12809947
>>12809962
Incels please leave

>>12810142
>Incels please leave

>>12808741
Haven't read his other books but Wasp it's great

>>12808385
Can someone give me a rundown of some Peter Beagle's books?

>>12810303
>Beagle
His books sound kinda ruff.

>>12809738
A few threads back somebody posted this big rant from his private facebook group where he was complaining about how it's SO HARD to write fiction for men you guys and that his fans need to offer nothing but praise to him and to stop demanding things like "consistency" and "good writing" in his books.

>>12809752
Well for MSE, for me it's because he clearly let his success go to his head and did stupid stuff like trying to cheat Amazon and trying to trademark the words "dragon slayer", so it's like laughing while watching somebody repeatedly fuck up and self-own.

>>12808385
>>12808385
https://mega.nz/#!ssBwHCQS!ueKOKNGmHofeaAhvaLgu-4fNOt0Mw-zV7BocIWAVFDQ

>>12810346
Virus!

>>12810346
didnt you get the memo?
mega.nz is old and busted.
megaup is the new hotness.

>>12810327

>>12810460
>tfw just tried to download from mega.nz and my internet died
I'm sure it's a 'me' problem since my interjew does this quite often, but it stops working super fucking fast whenever I try to download from mega.nz.

>>12810515
Sounds like an isp issue. Change your dns and see how it goes.

>>12810550
Thank you, anon-san. I've had this problem for years and I knew it was my ISP, but had no idea what to do about it (there's only one ISP in my city so it's either them or nothing). I'm using these Quad9 DNS servers and they seem to be working. Currently downloading a movie from mega.nz and no interruptions yet. Any DNS servers you'd suggest that are fast, safe, private, etc,.?

>>12810638
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are googles dns servers.
you can safely use them. they are used world wide and only serve to resolve domain names.
if you are anti google however you can also use opendns servers its 208.69.38.205.
i personally use googledns in my pi-hole.
i have a dd-wrt router that uses my raspberry pie for adblocking and for ntopng for network traffic monitoring and logging. my router uses my raspberry pi as dns-server which in turn uses googles dns. its network wide adblocking i can only recommend getting a raspberry pi and installing pi-hole. its great. not only does it block adds, it also speeds up a shitload of websites since ad servers are blocked before the dns requests are even resolved.

>>12810660
Welp nevermind. Just had an interruption. Had to unplug everything and plug it back in as usual. Thanks for the suggestion anyways. I guess even switching DNS doesn't help. I'll stop shitting up the thread now with this crap.

lads nothing I read in fantasy has ever come close to Tolkien. is that just me or is he STILL the pinnacle of this genre?

>>12810712
Have you just been reading post-Tolkien epic fantasy? If so then there's your problem.

>>12810712
I suppose, but Tolkien feels different than most of his imitators to the point that I would say that he is his own thing. And other authors steer away from him on purpose.

Why are genre fans so allergic to literary criticism?

>>12810770
Why are you so allergic to not being ugly?
>REKT

http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
Someone posted this story a thread or two ago when I asked for short story recs. This was really, really enjoyable. Thank you.

>>12810715
Tried both Malazan and WoT. Hated both.

>>12810770
It misses the point of genre fiction

>>12810953
excellent and elegant

>>12810770
Because most literary criticism applied to genre fiction sounds something like: "It's banal and jejune because there are robots and jetpacks."

I managed to get William Gibson's Burning Chrome at my local book shop is the whole book worth checking or there's only few good stories?

>>12810770
Why do critics think they have anything relevant to say?

im so fucking lonely
any books about a group of friends bonding and going around doing stuff together? i want to feel that
scifi or fantasy is fine

Where the fuck do I find The Bane of the Black Sword? Amazon and Book Depository don't have it.

>>12811249
Dude, just call your buds and go out or something or join an interest group and meet new people.

>>12810712
Moorcock and Zelazny come close, but LOTR and Silmarillion are the pinnacle of fantasy for sure.

>>12811290
>just call your buds
don't have one
>jioin an interest group and meet new people
just got back from one and somehow i manage to be the outsider in the group

you see, im that boring guy nobody wants to hang out with unless they need me for something

>>12811249
All the books by David Eddings, even though they're complete shit.

>>12811382
>you see, im that boring guy nobody wants to hang out with unless they need me for something
Then work on yourself and start going out of your comfort zone more and more. How old are you and where are you in life atm?

>>12811384
i have tried belgariad and i cant get into the book for some reason

>>12810712
Post-tolkien epic fantasy is 100% embarrassing American garbage.

>>12811284
>Where the fuck do I find The Bane of the Black Sword?
Come on nigga did you even try?
>https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Bane-of-the-Black-Sword-by-Michael-Moorcock/143183812369?epid=261223&hash=item21566b9711:g:5oUAAOSwLqRcld-D&frcectupt=true

>>12811478
>Ebay
Haven't tried there since I thought it wouldn't be of use, but thanks. The thing is that that Wolf and Bane can only be found used from what I've seen, which fucking blows.

>>12811382
>>12811249
Take whoremoans and guys will line up to fuck you. That should be something right?

>>12811484
eBay's quite good for hard-to-find second hand books, you just need to find the listings that state them as 'like new' or 'good' - those are usually in pretty good condition, and if they're not you can threaten the seller with a negative feedback and get it for free.

>>12811491
I'm gonna get that copy since it's like 14 bucks and has free shipping, which is quite a find I reckon, so thanks for that anon. Much obliged!

>>12810712
Amber and Latro in the Mist.

>>12811491
>you can threaten the seller with a negative feedback and get it for free.
The American way.

>>12811504
Greatest damn country on earth!

There needs to be more mindlflayer and drow romance...

>>12811433
i've been doing that, im in a much better position now than i was 2 years ago
it's a progress

>>12811699
That's good to hear, just keep at it and you'll make it. Anyway, are you in uni or what, how come you don't have no one?

>>12811606
Is there even a single one?

Also some more books featuring drow? I finished the first drizzt trilogy and I don't think I'll keep going.

>>12811824
>Is there even a single one?
Probably not. I think I will try to write a fapfic like that one day.

Still can't believe the Pringles-guy wrote a book

>>12811952
>a book
You know he wrote over 10 books and is respected in the community right?

>>12808814
omg i love your work

how do you come up with shit that dark bro, genuinely

>>12811952
Not only did he invent pringles, he wrote the best harem isekai just to dab on the japs.

>>12809146
I'll be starting Midnight Tides soon, comrade, once I'm done with The Last Wish.

What sort of crazy shit am I in for?

>>12811995
Is it BoTNS?

>>12808385
Where should one start with Alastair Reynolds?

>>12812019
The wizard knight.

>>12809752
The William Brown thing is one guy. He is mad because the author uses things people post on his blog to write the Daniel Black series. It's easy money. You give the fans what they want, and they do all the work.

>>12812183
>Daniel Black
Dropped that garbage during the cuck plot. Surprised people still read it when there are other books that do the premise better.

>>12812308
So if your wife had a gun put to her head, and was told to ride that dick like she loved it or she would die, and she did and was let go. Would you then divorce her for cucking you?

Also... the book starts with a cuck plot, are you saying you dropped it within the first page?

>>12809153
I don't plan on it. I may consider the first Karsa book when it releases.

>>12811998
Midnight Tides is FUCKING GREAT. It takes a while to build up but goddamn it is absolutely fantastic. Some of the best characters in the series, (e.g. Trull, Bugg, Tehol) and writing is spot on.

Just finished this. I'm now pretty sure the people who review books online don't actually read them. The premise is that the protagonist, Latro, wakes up every day to forget what had happened earlier, and has to rely on a diary he keeps with him to make sense of the things around him. The novel plays out differently though, and he acts as if for all intents and purposes had no such handicap. Plot wise, literally nothing happens, and none of the characters face any real risks. The writing is nice though (Wolfe is obviously more intelligent than your average genre writer) and if you're really into Greek history and mythology then the story might appeal to you. The best i can say of this novel is that it's as offensively horrible as Peace. That one was fucking atrocious.

>>12812378
>Would you then divorce her for cucking you
Yes.

>>12812390
>it's as offensively horrible
It's not as

>>12812378
If something like that happened I wouldn't divorce her because I got "cucked", I'd divorce her because she'd have too much emotional baggage and/or PTSD after that.

Does that actually happen in the books though? Because that really does just sound like the writer wanted a convoluted excuse for the wife to enjoy another man's cock without wanting to turn it into either actual cheating or rape.

>>12812390
Thanks, now fuck off back to outer /lit/

>>12812416
>>
>Does that actually happen in the books though? Because that really does just sound like the writer wanted a convoluted excuse for the wife to enjoy another man's cock without wanting to turn it into either actual cheating or rape.
Sometimes authors write about things they don't like too to point out why they are bad. The character is question was pretty ostracized afterwards, so I guess that was the objective.

>Warning: This novel contains graphic violence, inventive sex, unconventional opinions and a protagonist who has no interest in being normal. Read at your own risk.

jfc I can already tell the author is an insufferable piece of shit who thinks he's an 'enemy of the system bro because my ideas are /dangerous/' without realising he's literally a propagandist for them; I bet when he says the books contains 'unconventional opinions' it's shit like equality of outcome for all genders, so fucking clueless I hate these people

>>12812626
It's usually just about sex. Most people put that on the blurb because the amazon has a bunch of soccer moms who spend all their days reading romance novels and some times they spun on these books outside their circles and leave a bad review. So some authors put that in to prevent that.

>>12808399
And Birdboi our God

>>12812389
Anticipating another fantastic Erikson climax then. This guy writes battles like no other. That Memories of Ice ending.

What are some tropes in scifi and fantasy that you love ?

>>12813067
Superintelligent AI
Cosmic horror

>>12813067
no john YOU are the bad guys.

Anyone has a link to download Thrall (Daniel Black 4)? Can't find it on libgen.

>>12813121
>Superintelligent AI
I can't think of many instances where that was used very well, the only one that comes to mind is Neuromancer and that was more like a footnote at the end.

>Cosmic horror
The same with this one, I only really know it being used in HP lovecraft stories (although he uses it heavily in his stories).

Are there other books that use these two tropes in particular, I'd love to read more stories with these tropes in them.

>>12811052
As I said: there's your problem. Epic fantasy is the capeshit of fantasy. When it's bad it's REALLY bad and most of it is bad.

>>12813154
I can't think of too many with the two used in concert but The Spiral Wars is good for AI and for cosmic horror I enjoyed the Laundry Files series for a bit pulpier stuff, and for the more sublime, I really liked Solaris and The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All by Laird Barron

>>12811125
>is the whole book worth checking
Kinda,Johnny Mnemonic,The Gernsback Continuum,New Rose Hotel and Burning Chrome are great,the other ones are good too but you can skip them.

>>12810770
Average literary critic when reviewing fantasy:
>There's monsters this story and that's ridiculous because monsters aren't real; unless we're talking about the monsters known as WHITE MEN. Fuck capitalism.

>>12811606
>>12811824
Starlight and Shadows by Elaine Cunningham is about a female Drow who falls in love with a human berserker/Rashemen

>>12813264
I'll have a look at those, an anon suggested Vurt to me a while back and I really enjoyed that one.

>>12813322
>forgotten realms
Nice. Did you like it?

I kind of want to read it for the kino cover alone. Too late for the monthly reading, but should I take a crack at it anyway if I enjoyed Martin, Sanderson, and Erikson?

>>12813626
>Martin
maybe
>Sanderson
probably not
>Erikson
don't know

First book is good for Soulcatcher waifu, rest gets worse.

>>12811998
I'm in the middle of Reaper's Gale myself and thus far Midnight Tides has been my favorite book in the series.

>>12813626
I read it. I really didn't like the writing style, made it hard to get through. I was constantly wondering if I was missing details, they were being left out, or were currently being introduced.

I'm not sure I liked Black Company. I doubt I'd read anything else in the series, in any case.

>>12813623
>Did you like it?
I liked the first two,the third one was written like 7 years after the second and it is a little sloppy though most people i know liked the third one so it may be just me,overall is a good trilogy,

>>12813626
Erikson was literally inspired to write Malazan because of Black Company.

>>12808660
Gene Wolfe

Been reading books by Ed McDonald called Blackwing and Ravencry. Surprisingly good.

>>12813626
Started Black Company in order to finish the first book it until end of the month.
I'm now on book 4 because I was pretty captivated by it and couldn't get enough of it.
The writing style was feeling quite strange at the beginning but I got used to it very fast and enjoyed it a lot.
It doesn't linger on useless stuff and doesn't switch between a million protagonists which I find boring very often.
It is very good. Lady a cute.

What's a good Conan story to start with? Not necessarily chronological in when it was written or what time in Conan's life it takes place in, but a good story that'll hook me into reading the rest.

black company sucked. why did you faggots make me read it?

>>12814044
I found I had enough when they got to the India nation, it was around the part where that dude who's name I cant remember took over from Lady.

>>12814044
Also Lady a shit

>>12808660
ya boy C.S.Lewis checking in

>>12814058
The Tower of the Elephant

Why did everyone who read Malazan say Toll the Hounds would be a slog? It was a little at first getting back into Darujihstan & Black Coral but after about 30% in and it's really picking up. Didn't Erikson's father pass away while he was writing it? It does seem more bleak than the previous entries

>>12808660
mostly dead authors

hate myself lads

>>12815111
Sudoku

>>12812071
His short story collection is pretty boss, and most of the stories tie into different universes he has created, so you get a sampler which you can use to decide on your next purchase.

>>12815111
Same lad
It might get better though and no one knows what they're doing so don't feel alone

>>12808385
Whats my boy sandy been up to lately? Wheres the next mistborn/Stormlight?

>>12811781
im in uni, i'll probably graduate in may
it's a long story, not the right place to talk about


>>12811249
>only one rec >>12811384

finished black man by richard morgan, found it to be pretty mediocre. the kovacs books were better, if you've read them then don't bother with this.

>2 days until next expanse book

feelsgoodman, Duarte did nothing wrong

>>12812071
Revelation space series is bretty great, then read his short stories, take a hard pass on blue remembered earth series, it's total shit

this is your fault /sffg/.
you made harem novels popular and this is the fucking result.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhm_l4pgCtM

>>12815651
>356 days until it's released in non-trade size
The pain.

>>12815972
I would actually consider playing a Star Justice game instead of whatever these 3DCG porn dudes will produce ironically.

>>12816030
i was literally thinking that this was gonna be just like star justice.
it just came out of fucking nowhere.
i mean its not really that hard to see more of this happening. summertime saga makes like 50k a month. https://www.patreon.com/summertimesaga

>>12815972
>Hold their hands
OVER THE FUCKING LINE

>>12816042
I think it will still take a while before you get low profile authors working together with amateur game devs to make patreon-funded game adaptions of harem novels, but I like the idea. Maybe it will happen if amazon never lets Earle back on.

>>12815668
>Revelation space
Gets worse with every book until the last is absolute dogshit. The first two are cool though the story doesn't conclude. The guy shot himself in the food with his autistic drive to make everything fit in one universe which meant that the ending was garbage that came out of nowhere and had no relation to the rest of the series.

>>12815972
>Studio FOW
Don't they make mostly cuckshit?

>>12816119
I guess you feel cucked whenever someone other than you has sex with a female?

>>12816126
i just keep hearing it in conjunction with that name frequently i never actually seen any of their porn.

>>12816113
The last one is fine. Dogshit is what I would call the Hyperion Endymion quality drop.

>>12808970
He got bullied by one salty tranny, but actually 99% of the board is definately pro-birdboi and I hope to see some of his work soon.

What's everyone reading?
You have to be doing something because you aren't discussing books.

>>12811249
Dragonlance chronicles trilogy

>>12811249
Soldiers of Avarice. Nice beginning, but that's all I can say about it since I am not into group of friends that much and haven't finished it yet.

>>12817398
Masturbating.

>>12810114
You didn't even like the fight between the Arab and the giant retard vampire wrestler?

>>12817398
RIP in peace Banks.

What do I read if I want something like Susanna Clarke?

Help me out lads.

>>12817398
Just finished Dying Earth and im wondering if i should read the rest. I liked the first book and the writing style was new to me

>>12817802
>Just finished Dying Earth and im wondering if i should read the rest

Yes, you should.

>>12811125
You've got the book, just read the entire thing and judge for yourself. My personal favourite is Winter Market

>>12817398
The Queen of Swords by Michael MoorCock

>>12812071
- House of Suns is my favourite
- Pushing Ice
- Revelation space (start with Revelation Space, then Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap, Chasm City)

What is releasing next week monday on amazon?

What is releasing next week monday on amazon?

>>12818221
Shit book

>>12817693
Nice, i'm on Surface Detail right now.

>>12814058
I enjoyed Xuthal in the Dusk, Rogues in the House, The Black Circle and Pool of the Black ones.

>>12810770
sometimes the critics are idiots, for example a few weeks back in a Q and A for a newspaper the person being questioned said they disliked LotR despite saying it had good scholarship behind it because it was a 'waste' and 'pointless', now the same argument could be applied to any work of fiction now couldn't it? However such things are said about fantasy/sci fi and romance, etc again and again- why single those genres out over say literary fiction?

>>12808660
that bunny dude from a few months back got an eboook out,
>>12817398
The Derlium Brief, by Charles Stross 100 pages left, its been sort of a slog,i don't recall the first Laundry Book being this annoying

>>12809158
The Faction Paradox series was consistently good, maybe try there but skip the first one: Book of War, start with Warlords of Utopia or The City of the Saved

>want to read something like Asoiaf
>the fantasy pickings are shit
>can't read Historical fiction because I know what happens
Help

>>12819238
You're almost at the end and the next one is really good

>>12810770
I don't think they're allergic to academic criticism so much as how idiots use it to boil down sub-genres into one or two 'works of merit' using criteria totally sideways to their purpose.

Like, it's cool that Dracula is the best written vampire novel in a technical sense, but that's not why anyone wants to read it, and it's a terrible starting point for the genre.

>>12819455
Are you familiar with my man Scott Bakker

it was the first fantasy series to hook me since ASOIAF, and man oh man what a ride

>>12819623
Seconding Bakker, but only if you enjoy infinite suffering.

>>12809146
>fifth head of cerberus
>watership down
>the eyes of the overworld
>the black company
watership down and eyes of the overworld were by far the best but black company wasnt too bad either

>>12819632
based, bakker is the king of /sffg/

>>12819623
Is that the gay shit with dick eating demons?

>>12819455
This series literally feels like the author read the first Asoiaf book, and then went out and wrote her own version before G.R.R could finish his. It focuses on the struggle of the fading ‘Wolfblade’ family, currently lead by a decadent Louis XVI type, to maintain control over their kingdom while other great families (Eaglespike, Foxtalon) try to overthrow it. The main character is the last Wolfblade princess, a naive young girl, who purchases a dwarf (little person, not bearded) slave who teaches her how to be good at statecraft. By the time the last book rolls around, the girl is in her fifties and we’re focused on her kids as they enact her long-plan to secure the throne. There’s also a background plot involving Gods and a half-elf, which is a little more high-fantasy than G.R.R ever goes, but it’s unique enough to carry on its own. As a series it’s 7.5/10, but as a Game Of Thrones clone, it’s 9/10.

>>12820115
>Jennifer

>>12810303
The Last Unicorn is pretty charming but bittersweet, try not to judge the book by its cover its much better than some Neil Gaiman fairy tale book.

>>12817801
I have read nothing except faeshit for the entirety of the month and can safely tell you that literally nothing is like JSaMN.

JSaMN is like Austen's prose. Then there are two books that slightly resemble it like Lud-in-the-mist (You know how place names in JSaMN tend to be hyphenated like Lost-hope, Heart-break farm etc and some of the magical realism is about it) and Elfin Kingdoms (of which the first, second and seventh stories resemble JSaMN a bit in content and there are bits like when a horse breaks a leg that are pretty reminiscent of happenings within JSaMN).

As for magic that feels like magic The Book of Atrix Wolfe but it's not nearly as enjoyable as JSaMN.

>>12820115
Her Tide Lord books were good but I've never felt the slightest inclination whatsoever to get past the first chapter of Hythrun.

>>12820115
Not sure la

>>12820190
Most book covers are photos copied and pasted off google and scribbled over in photoshop. There's not a single cover artist who has ever read the book and it's particularly hilarious when the hair colour/eye colour of the character depicted on the cover doesn't even match the character in the novel.

>>12819455
ASOIAF is one of my favorite series. Here's my other favorite fantasy that aren't necessarily similar but still quality:
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
The Death Gate Cycle
Sanctuary has some of the political intrigue of GoT
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorm
Typing this out I realize I haven't really gotten into a multi-book Fantasy series in quite a while so I would like some recommendations as well. I read Sword of Truth and part of WoT but can't really recommend them. Also the Dark Elf Trilogy if you can get into D&D type stuff.

>>12820115
And the protagonist is a cute milf

>>12820483
Have you read Prince of Nothing or Locke Lamora?

I read The Anubis Gates and loved it. It was weird, fun and the visuals arising from the text were neat. Full disclosure though: I am a retarded faggot

>>12817802
I don't think you even meet Cugel the Clever in book one. The true boss of Dying Earth.

Why is this month such a slow month?
Nothing I wanted was released.

>>12820902
what are you waiting for

>>12817398
Gardens of The Moon. Just finished Black Leopard Red Wolf.

>>12808970
>>12816675
I am still here. It is just I have no reason to post. I continue to work on The Sweet Mist, but it will be a great deal of time before I am finished.

>>12821199
Good luck.

>>12821199
>The Sweet Mist
What is this?

>>12821233
a mist but taste sweet

>>12821189
>leopard wolf
How was it? Is it as GRI APPROVED as said in this general?

>>12821237
The Continuation War has many cycles.

>The invention of chemical warfare leading to the first world war
Signos, The Mouth of Mist (Three books material)
>The invention of audio recording devices leading to the fall of Vulkur colonialism.
Masgot, The Mouth of Wax (Three books material)
>The invention of anesthesia leading to the finding and subduing of the Susajahi.
Saigna, The Mouth of Water (Three books material)
>The invention of a television equivalent & mass media leading to the collapse of the Osini faith.
Orsan, The Mouth of Paper (Three books material)
>The invention of the digital computer leading to the ascension of a Tas Da Raken.
Gangret, The Mouth of Gold (Two books material)
>The previous two conclusion events leading to a second world war
Gangros, The Mouth of Steel (Two books material)
>The space race leading to the discovery and coveting of the Sumori Suhai.
Agrii, The Mouth of Oil (Two books Material)
>The invention of an internet equivalent leading to a global memetic plague.
Hagrurt, The Mouth of Glass (Three books material)
>The the conflict the historian is preparing for.
Sumori, The Mouth of Flesh (Four books material)


Signos, The Mouth of Mist has three books. The Sweet Mist, The Burning Mist, and The Screaming Mist.

just read Speaker For The Dead. God that was a load of shit compared to Ender's Game.

>>12821258
Are there anymore books with gay rape and incest? I just finished the night angel series by weeks, and using magic to rape your family and subjects was extra hot. More books like that?

Are audiobooks considered heretical on this board? I like to listen to them during my hour long drive int he morning. I listened to The Book of The New Sun and it was great, so I'm looking for more fantasy audiobooks.

just want to die lads

>>12821269
>The Continuation War has many cycles.
What is this level of autism?

Fantasy has Lord of the Rings.
Science-fiction has Dune.
Horror has _________

>>12821454
LotR read by Rob Inglis is great.

>>12821489
has no place in this thread
get out

>>12821489
Goosebumps?

>>12821489
hpl

>>12821489

>>12821496
Thanks, Anon. I read LotR a long time ago, but it would probably be entertaining to listen to it.

I don't know why, but there's something about blatant disrespect for intellectual property norms / well established names that's deeply hilarious.

Like naming your band the exact same thing as some other band and branding it the same way, or making a game and calling it "Chess 2".

I'm going to take the text of Hogg and publish it as "Harry Potter 8 by J.K. Rowling".

>>12821431
Try Bakker. Sounds right up your alley.

>>12820781
Tim Powers is pretty underrated I think. I'd recommend Last Call, Declare and The Drawing Of The Dark.

>>12817802
Worth a read, but I enjoyed them significantly less than the first book. The third book is basically a comedy.

is The Left Hand of God worth reading? premise sounds interesting, but the whole novel has a bit of a YA flavour that worries me.

>>12814058
Severian looks like Lil Slugger here what the fuck

>>12821953
Change God with Darkness and yes it is.

>>12820885
OH GOd yes, im at Cugel the clever and that motherfucker is ruthless, the way he cancelled his immediate death curse with the eternal boredom one was fucking hilarious

>>12821489
>Horror has _________
Stephen King :^)

>>12821489
Probably something like The Dunwich Horror or Call of Cthulhu, right?

>>12822193
At the Mountains of Madness or Shadow over Innsmouth. But it's more than likely Dracula.

>>12821530
Eh. There's enough overlap between the the three genres.

>>12821258
I liked it a lot. You might find it kinda pretentious but it's great and Tracker(the Narrator) is GOAT.

>>12821258
Yes. The book is full of rape of all types, incest is more discussed than shown however.

>>12821199
Good luck birdboi. Let us review ur work youll get xp boost.

>>12821269
My god. Birdboi, ... youre either a mad loser or a genius. Please let me touch your cloaca

>>12814058
The Frost-Giant's Daughter
my favorite

Why do leftists hate Starship Troopers so much? Also wasn't Heinlein himself a liberal anyway? The I guess being a liberal in the 1900s is practically a world apart from majority of the absolute fucking retards that call themselves liberal today.

>>12822905
>Why do leftists hate Starship Troopers so much?
both the books and the movies were supposed to be satire.
people liked them for what they were and agreed with the philosophy and political agenda.
libs dont take kindly to that.

>>12822971
>both the books and the movies were supposed to be satire
Fuck off with this retrded meme already. Only the movie was because Verhoeven was a salty little. bitch and hated the source material and Heinlein. The books were played straight.

What do you guys think about self-published female authors? It's like the union of two of the most meme groups
>female authors
>self-published
And That's A Good Thing! It has the potential of being so bad it's good, or being just a overall gem in the mud. I confess I read very little books that fit this description, but being a self-published whore that I am and already having read everything by male-authors that is not a disgusting litrpg, I think I'm going into this next. From my limited experience in this niche, I can tell I am going to find a lot of shifter romance, particularly dragons and panthers, this last one tending to lick all over the main character's body for some reason.

Unfortunately, I confess I have a bias against female main characters, which is very limiting when trying to find something to read in this sphere, so I'll have to overcome that.
>self-published
>female authors
>female MC
Someone kill me now

>>12823371
Does she fuck the panther? Asking for a friend.

>>12823371
I feel like they will have love triangles, cuckoldry and other undesirable shit.

>>12823380
In this particular book, I don't know. Just got started. If your friend wants a """good""" panther-fucking book, read Incubus Caged. Read just the kindle preview, it's fine. After that, it's complete shit, don't bother.

>>12823386
Yes, that's why I don't like female protagonists. They tend to have that shit in all of them, if not at the beginning, then at the sequels. That's why I tend to search for male-protagonists ones. The authors tend to self-insert as the main female love interest, and that tends to keep them in a wholesome relationship throughout. Unfortunately, these books are very few, and I may be missing out in some good books that are not love-triangles/cuckshit that do have a female protagonist because of my misgivings on reading them.

>>12811249
I think you'd like Warlord chronicles, even if some parts would make you wistful

>Just finished book 4 of the black company
I dunno if I continue.
Too many characters who where supposed to be dead keep turning up again for me to really care anymore.
How much stuff do I miss if I read a few wiki pages and jump to Soldiers life?

>take a look at the fantasy subreddit because once in a blue moon I'd find something new to read
>one of the top posts is a "believe all women" post
nigga what the fuck?

>>12824111
>reddit
Need I say more?

William D Arand. I know you lurk in here. Can you do a version of Daniel Black? Using magic and resources to build things. I know you did something like that in your otherlife series, but I'm looking at a dedicated book.

>>12824443
Dungeon deposed
Also maybe his new farming zombie apocalypse series

>>12824453
I know dungeon deposed had elements of that but it could only happen in the dungeon or in its influence. I want something where the guy can go to the moon using magic kerbal space technology, and build a moon base.

Anyways thanks for the answer William. I'm a fan and I hope you continue to get better with every new book. Also thanks for the info on the remnant book.

>>12824490
>guy can go to the moon using magic kerbal space technology
im pretty sure theres a space opera on the agenda. im also pretty sure like ususal its all tied in to the multi-verse thing hes doing so there is probably gonna be magic and gods dicking around.

>>12824071
You could either stop now and pretend you didn't read book for, or just continue reading.
Just jumping to soldiers live is pretty retarded. Since the books only get worse after the third, the only reason to still be reading is interest in the story/ the characters. If so there's no point in skipping half the books. And if you're that turned off by the story, just stop.
Also I'm currently reading Soldiers Live and I think it'd be retarded to read this book without deeply knowing the story so far aka having read it.

>>12824111
>>take a look at the fantasy subreddit
Think I've spotted the issue here

>>12824111
>expecting reddit to not be full of lunatics

Reminder: Epic Fantasy is the capeshit of the fantasy genre and grimdark is Batman vs. Superman.

>>12824111
Another liberal dominated space is dominated by rapists and creeps?

>>12825107
Pol killed pepe.
I can't even post my favorite ferg without nazi name calling now.

>>12825122
ok

>>12825122
Poor little princess snowflake. :(

>>12825211
Fuck off retard /pol/ isn't allowed on /lit/

>>12825217
>Fuck off retard /pol/ isn't allowed on /lit/

>>12808660
I'd bet $50 on Charles Stross.

To the dude that recommended Wolfesblade yesterday, is this one of those series where are the dudes are dips hits and all the girls geniuses?

>>12821269
>>12821477
>>12822533
The level of autism of a man who wants to make The Wheel of Time look like a short novella.

>>12808660
I sometimes like to larp as steven erikson every now and then.

>>12825287

Still reading a scanner darkly, what comes after the black company, anyone know?

>>12825268
He couldnt stand being 5 minutes in this /pol/-lite board. He takes antisemitism seriously, his family being holocaust survivors.

>>12821269
>The Continuation War
>The Mouth of Mist
>The Sweet Mist

Rate Birdboi's naming conventions.

>>12825355
Latro/10

>>12825352
>what comes after the black company
No, we'll vote to decide after we've finished Black Company.

>>12825375
The fuck does that mean?

>>12825287
No

>>12825428
Lurk moar fgt

>>12817398
I just finished blood song but i have no idea on what i should read next

>>12825571
Anything but the books 2 & 3

>>12825655
really? The first one was comfy but the ending kinda felt like it'd derail the whole comfy deus vult-feel so i didn't download them.

I'm mostly just looking for something comfy to listen to while i try to relax away from my shitty stressful life/try to sleep without hearing my tinnitus, got any tips anon?

>>12821269
This sounds like a fucking pile of autism, god damn.

>>12825696
Yeah the next books go in a completely different direction, introducing multiple Povs on different continents and shit.

>>12825843
absolutely disgusting, couldn't he just have written a book about what happened with the guy who caused the fall of the 7th order or something? I mean the setting and universe plus the way the characters are written makes the story basically write itself, but did he really have to fuck the best part about the first book up? dammit

Anybody read this? It’s on sale for $1 on amazon. The concept seems interesting but the author looks like a giant faggot

>>12825910
Somebody shilled it a few months ago.
It's science fantasy. They use magic to power their technology. It was meh in my opinion. They had to sort out a giant can of worms and survive it's opening. It's also politically correct for the current year. No rape of the protagonist, pandering to shit, etc.

>>12825960
>No rape of the protagonist
Is there a genre fiction book that shows the psychological effects of that properly and doesn't just use it as edgefuel?

>>12826127

>>12826127
Effects of rape and incest? Plenty.
It's covered in the night angel trilogy, although people wouldn't know because they dropped the series during book one and talked as if they knew shit.

>>12826202
>>12826188
I don't mean a book that just features it, but has a viewpoint character deal with it realistically. Somewhat like how The Lat Man on Earth Club portrays PTSD.

I can't stand it when an author uses rape and then treats it like a kinky sex scene or at best like a character was beaten up and is vaguely butthurt about it but has no other issues. Same with child abuse, It takes me completely out of a story when something severely bad happened or happens to a character and they just turn into cringe-y edgelords instead of suffering from post traumatic stress, anxiety, or neurosis.

This stuff isn't edgy or fun, but it's very interesting and if done right provides great fodder for a character arc. Also, slightly broken people are the most interesting and their struggles are more relatable to me.

Can you think of books that would fit?

>>12826300
> I don't mean a book that just features it, but has a viewpoint character deal with it realistically.
You just proved you've never read The Sparrow.

>>12826300
There were some books where people were raped and didn't want to be touched by anyone after.
I read a lot of books that dealt with the negatives from rape and other forms of sexual abuse. Can't specifically remember them though.
There was one where the guy's marriage was falling apart because the wife screamed if he laid a finger on her. She knew what was happening but couldn't control the screams. It's at the back of my mind but can't recall the name.

Was he incel?

Thread slave prepare yourself.
You time has soon come.

>>12826319
I didn't say Sparrow didn't feature that, I elaborated because you didn't say anything at all about the book and I hoped you would.

>>12826343
So you want to be spoonfed the plot of every book posted here and are unable to perform a simple google search yourself? Gotcha.

>>12825960
>politically correct for current year
Dropped. Glad I didn’t waste the dollar

>>12826356
Are you retarded?
I'm asking for specific suggestions, so naturally someone suggesting a book would say how their suggestion measures up against the request. It doesn't take a a detailed plot summary, a few sentences at most would suffice. That's common sense, a cover doesn't tell me anything. As far as I know you might have misclicked and meant to respond to someone who asked for your last read or whatever.
People come to a forum to read what people have to say.

>>12826329
Thanks, but dang, can you remember any titles?

>>12825960
>I tried reading this new SJW PROPAGANDA and the protagonist DIDN'T EVEN GET RAPED. Fucking dropped that shit immediately. Do not recommend, MAGAbros.

>>12826500
If the male protagonist doesn't dress up in women's clothing and the book doesn't feature at least half a dozen 10+ page long sex scenes from his POV, it's degenerate cultural marxist trash.
GAMERS RISE UP

>>12826500
I read the entire book. I'm just looking at how not a single penis came near to the protag's snatch through the entire book. I don't like books about lesbian. I need penises in my women.

Thread slave get to work you lazy cunt.

>>12826675
Then watch porn you slut whore

>>12826716
The shill said the science fantasy was good, it was not. It's after I read that I saw no penis entered our protag.

Why are we on page 6 already? Is lit being raided? How the fuck are we sonicing?

>>12826816
>320

Someone make a thread quick. We will be on page 10 in less than 30 mins.

>>12826820
Check outer lit, it's a bunch of /pol/esque

>>12826847
No it isn't.

>>12826847
threads*8
I waw gouing too mske the nre thread but i fallingf aseep someone eked please make it

THREAD KNAVE
APPLY THYSELF

>>12826930
Stop yelling! It's not like I get paid for this shit,

>>12827253
>>12827253
>>12827253
>>12827253
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