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Comfy Edition
>Post your favourite comfy books

Monthly Reading for March: The Black Company by Glen Cook

Fantasy:
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Flowchart:
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Science Fiction:
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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SF&F author listing with ratings and summaries:
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>> No.12827272
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Soulcatcher a waifu

>> No.12827296

sanderfag a hack

>> No.12827506

birdboi a cute

>> No.12827531

>>12820609
Looked up descriptions for them and they don't sound like stuff i'd be interested. I've lost my taste for the stereotypical "outsider loser rises up and saves the world" trope. Actually I've lost my taste for any sort of popular trope, even if it's well done. I'm actually glad to be jaded but it makes finding books I'm actually interested in much more difficult.
>>12821424
Xenocide is a bit better but still more of the same. Out of the 4 first Ender books it's probably 2nd best.
>>12826127
Check out the Gap Cycle

>> No.12827611

>>12827531
Try The Heresy Within, by Rob J. Hayes.
It's pretty recent grimdark not that well known, but I really enjoyed it.

>> No.12827650

>>12827531
>I've lost my taste for the stereotypical "outsider loser rises up and saves the world" trope.
Read non-epic fantasy fantasy and pre-Tolkien fantasy.

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Someone sell me on this book. I don't give a shit about Warhammer, but I've seen this book described as Sword & Sorcery (at least the first story) so actually is it and is it worth reading all the way through?

>> No.12827690

>>12827677
Go to /tg/ /wfg/ for advice. I do like warhammer fantasy, but only armybooks, not novels.

>> No.12827732

>>12827272
>>12827296
>>12827506
quality posts

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>Why yes I have read Masters of Rome

>> No.12827845

>>12827732
And yet not a single truth included. Impressive

>> No.12828057

I really could go for some Pringles right now

>> No.12828066

>>12828057
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9U0zn2jIOY

>> No.12828114

I'm just about done reading all the Malazan books that are out so far and I'm in trouble. What do I do when there's no more of this stuff to read?

>> No.12828117

Is it worth finishing the Pliocene saga? I've read a little of book 3 and I scarcely care for anything about it besides Dougal getting a little development

>> No.12828128

>>12828066
sour-cream and onion master race.

>> No.12828134

>>12828114
time to get some taste

>> No.12828136

>>12828134
Okay but how do I do that?

>> No.12828142

>>12828136
>>12828128

>> No.12828144

>>12828142
Alright, I'll go get Pringles.

>> No.12828249
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Less than a week left readers.

>> No.12828296

>>12828249
Plenty time to finish Soldiers Live

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The endless shitty self-philosophising in malazan is starting to get on my tits and I haven't even finished gardens yet.

>> No.12828380

>>12828374
This. It worthless trash. Even the endless cuckoldry in Name of the Wind is preferable.

>> No.12828486

Are there any books about doorkickers / pov of big scary fucks like Jin Roh?

>> No.12828490
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12828490

Any fantasy with this aesthetic

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>>12827253
Blood Song is easily the most comfy book I've read.

>> No.12828792

>>12828733
Do you want to tell the class about it?

>> No.12828795
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>>1282811
This series was... Interesting. And thoroughly unexpected.

>Everyone who participates in portal isekai must get raped by alien fae for the sake of eugenics
Okay
>It's a breeding farm this is why two nukes weren't enough
What
>by the way the only sane characters are Creyn and Elizabeth
My favourite characters!
>be a Creynfag and Elizabethfag
>They barely get any screentime at all
FUCKING WHY

>but we do have plenty of time to describe how those pleasure slave collars work while Aiken 'shitposter-kun' Drum pleases old women for good boy points, fucks his way through the entire pliocene period including a beautiful Fae maiden whose Faeshit lineage is probably due to all the potential incest along the way and organises an orgy after becoming the human shitposter king in the court of the fae! in political bid to win over everyone
And then
>Whoops! Now it's time for the psychotic loli with yandere tendencies to turn into a fullblown yandere for her the torturer after he raped and mindbroke her episode! Now she loves him forever, and will keep him safe by encasing him in gold and torturing him until he loves it! wwwwww
AND THEN
>Also someone fucking smuggled in an entire militia full of modern weapons through the portal
>guy who speaks literal shakespearean
>Local samurai-sama says please stop invading yoroshiku onegaishimasu and saves the fucking day
Based senpai
>This is Marc!
>Marc is from the scifi land that everyone came from!
NANI
THE
FUCK
>Daddy wants to turn me into a brain!
What the fuck
>an illusionary brain
What the fuck
>His plan is secretly Human Instrumentality
Desu

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>>12827253
>TFW I want to write cyberpunk Urban Fantasy

>> No.12828814

>>12828792
Fantasy Band of Brothers, sort of.

>> No.12828821

>>12828795
Who are you even replying to?

>> No.12828827

>>12828804
>cyberpunk Urban Fantasy
So Shadowrun?

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>>12828827
No

>> No.12828888

>>12828840
In what way is fantasy?

I started sketching some ideas for a cyberpunk story set in the desert a few years ago. I'd still like to write it if I have the time between other projects.

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>>12828888
>In what way is fantasy?
I started outlining some ideas about it a while back. Post-apocalyptic world, Large concentrations of civilization the mysticism or fantasy is covert and cultish.

Whereas outside of those concentrations of civilization, the Fantasy is more overt and colonial.

>> No.12829038

>>12828821
The other anon talking about the dino book (literally) the Pliocene Exile

>> No.12829227

>>12828814
Stop after blood song anon. For your own good.

>> No.12829248

>>12828804
Then write it

>> No.12829357

>>12827677
>Trollslayer
Is this the novelization of Tails Gets Trolled?

>> No.12829425

>>12828490
That looks sort of celtic irish/Scottish to me, maybe some parts of a Song of Ice and Fire, especially the parts set in the north, maybe?

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>>12829227
You're about 2 years late with your warning.

>> No.12829447

is the annhilattion trilogy bad? Ive seen a lot of negative reviews but people act like its a modern classic

>> No.12829534

is Red Sister by Mark Lawrence worth checking out? surely a book about cute girls wielding katanas has some value, right?

>> No.12829566

>>12829534
the first book is decent but the other one is kinda trash
it has some /u/ bait too

>> No.12829576

>>12829447
The first is very good. Amazingly atmospheric and genuinely bizarre. The second and third books have _massive_ pacing problems IMHO and not enough plot to carry them but still some positives overall like the paranoia generated in the Southern Reach agency.

>> No.12829629

>>12829425
The North doesn’t really have anything to mark it as Celtic imo. It’s just snowy medieval England.

>> No.12829636

>>12829534
It's popular so that means most of /sffg/ hate it. I enjoyed it personally.

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>85% through The Crippled God
>a lot of stuff I was looking forward to seeing isn't happening and characters I thought would be involved/around aren't even mentioned
I don't know how to feel about this but I'm bracing myself for moderate disappointment and am curious to see if the epilogues solve this issue.

>>12829447
Annihilation was a great series before Cosmic Marvel shat the bed

>> No.12829852

>>12827506
He cute

>> No.12829860

>>12828490
Very clearly Galician highlands, Asturias, during the Reconquista period in Iberia.

>> No.12829868

>>12828795
Based schizoposter

>> No.12829941

>Remnant is scheduled for 4/07 and looks to be on target.
What will you be doing on the 7th April when the novel that revitalizes the zombie genre comes out?

>> No.12829993

>>12829941
We'll be attending church services, heathen.

>> No.12830052

I have this wild idea of re-reading the whole Dragonlance series, how badly is this going to go?

>> No.12830338

>Birdboi posting
>The Continuation War has many cycles
WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WHAT IS THE CONTINUATION WAR?

>> No.12830491

>>12828795
Sounds pretty based.gonna read it

>> No.12830530

>>12829534
Contrary to this general, I liked it.

>> No.12830560
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Why are none of the asoiaf even half as good as asoiaf?

>> No.12830618

>>12828249
>the virgin Mogaba
>the chad Murgen

>> No.12830648

>>12829718
>and am curious to see if the epilogues solve this issue.
It doesn't. By the end of Crippled God you realize Erikson wrote about shit happening just so he could kill time.

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is there good fantasy/sci-fi with mobsters?
i want everyone to speak like an italian american. basically everyone needs to talk like danny devito.

>> No.12830726

>>12830560

>You basically answered your own question.

>> No.12830787

>>12830705
Burn, Witch, Burn by A. Merrit and it's sequel Creep,Shadow

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>I'll never read something this good again

>> No.12830821

>>12830798
Great series; even though it's entirely in first person POV and the MC is pretty dull. I wish historical """fantasy""" was more of a thing: with the "fantasy" elements left up in the air for the reader to decide if they're real or not.

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>>12830338
All in due time, dear friend
The egg and the ring will strike,
The beak will gorge itself on clay
Birds will speak and move about

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>>12830338
Sing brother, for Birdboi writes the truth of the fire and the smoke. Breath deeply of our fate. The many mouths speaks in the voices.

>> No.12831014

>>12830787
thanks anon. looks neato.

>> No.12831026

>>12830842
indeed

>> No.12831071

>>12830821
Dervel is bestboi
>cutting the dude that cucked your bro into peices and hanging his body parts on a tree

>> No.12831100

I was raised reading/writing two languages English and Japanese and I've always loved fantasy. I've wrote novels in each language before, but I've always wanted to write a fantasy story written in two languages. Two continents and cultures long separated would clash, and the character chapters would each be written in the language of their culture.

Before anyone mentions it, I realize that going the traditional publishing route is nearly impossible because the market of people who speak both languages is terribly small compared to the separate markets, and the nuances of the language used and wordplay would be large factors in the story so translation would in my opinion render many things pointless.

I'd like honest opinions on the general concept. Are there any other fantasy books which are written in multiple languages? Or other books in general that deal with similar style confrontations?

>> No.12831166

>>12831071
Nah. He hacked the guy who killed his daughter to pieces. They hung Lancelot from a tree.

>> No.12831175

>>12831100
Write the story in entirety in two languages, then release two versions so monolinguals will have to buy both to get the whole thing. Just like pokemon games.

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1 Week.

>> No.12831200

/sffg/ is it possible to use a setting for the wrong kind of story?

Im writing an action-adventure, but my setting seems best suited to mystery

>> No.12831214

>>12831166
I've clearly melded both those incidences into one for some reason.

>> No.12831215

>>12827253
What are your thoughts on The Blade Itself? How similar is it to the Black Company? Is it too Grimdark and edgy?

>> No.12831220

>>12831215
> How similar is it to the Black Company?
Not very

>> No.12831274

>>12830821
>I wish historical """fantasy""" was more of a thing: with the "fantasy" elements left up in the air for the reader to decide if they're real or not.
I agree, I wish there was more Fantasy or Sci-Fi for Adults in general and I don't mean something really edgy and dark necessarily, just stories with more mature and nuanced themes and with characters that behaved like believable grown up people.

>> No.12831295

>>12831200
that happens frequently. most authors that want to write in a specific setting first set up the world and lay it out and then build a story around an established world that fits within the narrative or world constrains.

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>>12830338
Sing with me now brother.

>> No.12831310

>>12831200
Incorporating some mystery elements into a subplot or the main story could help.

>> No.12831331

>>12831274
If you can handle women hanging with men in combat (and even beating them) then I'd recommend Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield. I'm an extremely staunch anti-feminist, but Pressfield has a way of making you not care about the plausibility of Amazons being just as combat effective as men by making you actually CARE about the characters. It's a very mature and melancholic story (hence the title) with mythological Greek figures placed in a historical context. And you really do end up caring about all of the characters; Amazons and Athenians. There are no good guys and bad guys in this story; this isn't some feminist bullshit about WOMEN BETTER THAN MEN GRRL POWER. Even the most fanatical of Amazons in the story are likable.

>> No.12831341

>>12831214
Derfel's wife is best wife. Guinevere a cunt ass whore.

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>>12828733
>Anthony Ryan

>> No.12831409

>>12830052
It’s still pretty comfy. I re read it recently. Writing isn’t as good as I remembered but I first read it as a wee lad

>> No.12831416

>>12830530
>>12829636
Then you should both fuck off to reddit

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>>12831215
>What are your thoughts on The Blade Itself?
They're alright and worth reading but I do think his standalone books are better.

>> No.12831539

>>12831215
It's his best book desu. Nothing like Black Company at all.

>> No.12831596

>>12830705
I've heard Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos stuff is basically about elf mobsters.

Glen Cook's Garrett PI series frequently has him running into gangsters and one of his main partners-in-crime-solving is a dark-elf hitman turned bar owner.

>> No.12831770

>>12829993
April the 7th is a holy day...

>> No.12831940

>>12831215
The Black Company is cool guys doing badass stuff.
The Blade Itself is "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you Tolkein" the book

>> No.12831951

>>12830052
>>12831409
im going to read this for the first time, but all the good reviews from goodreads are saying that they read it when they were kids

>> No.12831952

>>12831310
that's what I'll have to do but things are getting cluttered because I'm packing so much into the story. Like, one part is animesque action, another part is gratuitous chemistry, another part is grim mystery. They don't blend together smoothly either

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Give me some good, non-soi modern horror to read.

>> No.12831979

>>12831958
The Art Of The Deal. it's modern horror and about as far from soi as you can get

>> No.12832077

>>12831979
Go back to discord

>> No.12832084
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>> No.12832194

>>12830705
Damn. Baby face really had a babyface. I saw fun poked at it in old bugs bunny cartoons, but never saw a a pic of the guy.

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>>12831958
Laird Barron and Nathan Ballingrud write pretty good Horror/Dark Fantasy.

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>>12830798
If you like books that contain a little Norse Mythology The Last Kingdom has some talk about Norse Gods that the Pagan Danish warlords worship and how the protagonist is torn at times between Christianity and Paganism.

>> No.12832281

>>12832218
Seconding Laird Barron, I'm reading The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and it's really scratching my cosmic horror/occultism itch

>> No.12832330

https://www.parahumans.net/2019/03/26/heavens-12-none/
HOLY FUCKING KINO

>> No.12832356

>>12832218
A review for Barron's Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All piqued my interest in that book, but I really don't want to read any soi horror.

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>Fantasy book comes with a map on the first few pages
I dunno why but I really love maps, it's gotten to the point where I almost feel cheated if I don't get a map.

>> No.12832411

>text goes into specific detail about complicated-sounding terrain
>imagine the most basic terrain possible that barely matches the description in the text
Anyone else do this? I'm an absolute retard when it comes to imagining terrain the author is trying to describe if it goes beyond some trees and a boulder or two and maybe a ditch.

>> No.12832422

>>12832391
I’ll bite. Why is the chair facing AWAY from the fire???

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>>12832411
Sounds to me like your problem is you just haven't seen enough diverse terrains to form a proper image of them in your head, maybe you just need to get out more.

>> No.12832448

>>12832218
Laird Barron is indeed soi horror.

read Reggie Oliver

>> No.12832454

>>12832356
>>12832448
I need you guys to stop being faggots

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Holy shit /lit/, I just got done with the second section of this book with the aliens and stuff, and it was some of the best scifi i have ever read. Its up there with Foundation, Speaker for the Dead and I, Robot for me. Really some of the strangest shit I have ever read (kind of like Elder Scrolls lore in a way) and I think its REQUIRED for all scifi fans to read.

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Reading them for the first time since the early 2000s. Reading them in character order (ie: Vimes, Wizards, Witches, Death etc).

Started with Vimes and now on The Fifth Elephant. Once I finish Vimes what should I move on to? I heard the Rincewind books are kinda weird.

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>>12830821
Check out Guy Gavriel Kay. That is literally what he does. The fantasy elements are few and far between with very little impact on the overall plot. They are most historical fiction novels about individuals and relationships.

>> No.12832558

>>12832084
>He cited Rothfuss as one of the reasons he was breaking up with me

>> No.12832588

>Endymion
The way Dan Simmons writes about this girl is... weird

>> No.12832594

>>12832531
Read small gods next. It's a one off story, but my favorite Discworld book. And the Rincewind books are the worst. They're not bad unless you're comparing them to the rest of the Discworld catalog.

>> No.12832615

>>12831951
Like the other anon said,it's pretty comfy,they spent more time talking about their feelings and camping than actually fighting,fair warning:the third book is shit

>> No.12832624

>>12832588
It's yet another Crystal Magic Loli Jesus

>> No.12832629

>>12830052
Dragons of Summer Flame is cool,i kinda like the Jean Rabe books but the whole giant space dragons was pretty stupid.

>> No.12832674

>>12832084
Based faggot

>> No.12832688

>>12832531
Reading them in publication order will give you a much greater appreciation for the series

>>12832594
Man of taste

>> No.12832708

>>12832588
Is Simmons serious about the Instrumentality meme? What a cheeky move.

>> No.12832761

Once upon a time, in a land not too dissimilar to ours, there lived a king, and he was a good king in an age when good was something of an unfashionable rarity. He was very, very wise and very, very powerful, but he was also very, very old, and he realised that for all his great wisdom and his great power, he would soon have to leave his kingdom once and for all, and make the journey to the outside world of infinite darkness. And so, on the eve of his departure, when his physicians had finished all their head shaking, and his wives had wrung as many tears from their eyes as they could, he called his son and heir to his side.

“Everything you see is yours to command,” he said. “But be advised that better slaves are those who still believe they taste some freedom. Play the tyrant, but you must inspire love as well as fear.”

Yet the son cared not for his words, and when the corpse had been dispatched, with much pomp and fireworks, to the darker realms outside, the new king resolved to stretch the limits of his authority. He gathered all the people before him and told them that their every thought must match his thought. No will should exist save his will, and people being people, they agreed. Those that didn’t vanished in the night, and their families soon learned to pretend that they had never existed, but still the king was not content. So, he instructed the animals in his kingdom that they must now obey his commands. Horses should bark, dogs should mew, fish should fly from tree to tree exactly as he desired, and animals being animals, they agreed. Some of the pigs had to be culled, but no one minded because they tasted so lip-smackingly good, and the cats had to go because no one can tell a cat anything. But soon the people and the animals lived in perfect harmony. Their lives precise expressions of the whims of their lord.

>> No.12832764

Every living creature obeyed their king, doing everything that he wanted to the smallest detail, sometimes even before he knew he wanted it, but still the king was not content. Living creatures only made up the smallest number of his subjects, so he gave out further orders. He instructed the waves should crash upon the shore only when he gave the word. He instructed the wind should not blow, but suck. Time should not run forwards, but backwards or sideways. It took years to persuade them. Soldiers slashed at the waves until their swords were soaked with wave blood. Wind and time were locked in the deepest dungeons until, starving, they gave in. The king ruled the elements, but still he was not content.

There was one subject that still balked at his power; music. How the king hated music, refusing to be constrained, refusing to be disciplined. A small burst of recitative flowering into a fugue without permission. Or a cantata breaking out overnight into a fully fledged oratorio.

“Will no man rid me of these turbulent tunes?” he cried, and the militia, now trained to obey his merest impulse, took him at his word. They siezed the music, every last crotchet and minuet, each breve and innocent little semi-breve, and threw them out of the kingdom. They threw them into the outside world of infinite darkness, and music was banished forever.

>> No.12832767

At last, the king had his own universe. It was his and no one else’s. He was happy, and no one dared point out to him that he had exiled the only means by which he could express it.

It was then a very quiet land. Birds sat silent in the trees, their beaks now stopped fast, their chirping and twittering frozen hard in their throats. There was no longer a harmony to time; seconds would race on or trudge forward or simply come to a listless halt. the waves crashed noiselessly onto the sand, for even within that, there had been a trace of music. there was no rhythm to life anymore.

And the king’s people felt it the worst. They had been slaves, but whilst they still had songs of liberty on their lips, they had been happy slaves. Some rebelled and were put to the torture, but even the torturers, who once had calmed their consciences with soothing music, were unable to bear the awful glaring, accusing silence.

The fact was clear. Anything could be born with music, and nothing could be born without it.

And the king would sit on his throne in misery. He dearly loved his wives, but now he heard in their words no love returned, no tune, no melody. For this, he executed them regularly, the women he loved, their heads rolling from the scaffolds soundlessly, the king himself, quite alone, weeping for them all. All, quite silent.

One morning, the king decided he would pardon music. He drew up a contract, stamped it with his own royal seal. Music was free to return from the outside world of infinite darkness, and to bear the good news, he sent several messengers there - some by hanging, some by stabbing, one or two by slow-acting poison - but none returned, and nor did music.

The king was desperate. He called upon his sorcerers, his necromancers, and those who were trained in the forbidden knowledge of music ressurection, but it became obvious that the king himself would have to make a personal appeal to his prodigal son. With court physicians administering, and the last of his wives looking on with glee, the king was slowly bled, each drop landing in a metal container, landing with a plop that just managed to be wholly tuneless.

>> No.12832776

And as he wavered between death and life, he stepped into the darkness and called out, “I have been a foolish man! I should’ve inspired love as well as fear. Please, let the music play again; all its songs, its symphonies, and its sundry core of works. Please, give my world a reason to live.”

It was seven days and seven nights before the king recovered, and he awoke to a miracle. Once more, birds were twilling in the trees. The clocks chimed and waves roared. Once more, the world had music, and his favourite wife of all stood over him and smiled. And at the tone of her lilting voice, he felt once again the she loved him.

The people were in celebration, singing in the streets whatever tunes would come into their heads, and they sang until their throats turned red raw. They sang until their arteries burst and gushed. They screamed their new songs of pain.

The king watched in horror as the birds fell dead in the street, as the waves struggled, limply, and then were drowned by the seas beneath them. He heard his infant son cry out his last, his face bitten off by a savage lullaby. The lilting voice of his wife that he had loved so much grinned at him cruelly before wrapping itself around her throat and throttling her silent. The music raced through the kingdom, sparing none its terrible beauty. As the bodies of his subjects fell to the ground, their death rattles sounded like the rhythm of a perfect drum, and the music at last came for the king.

“Why?” he asked.

“Because we have been to the outside world,” the music replied. “We have seen infinite darkness, and we have learned that we need not only inspire love, but fear.”

And with a sound of brass and strings so beautiful, it stopped the king’s heart, the music swallowed him up whole and became the new and dreadful lord of the entire world.

>> No.12832780

>>12832761
>>12832764
>>12832767
>>12832776
pretentious bullshit with bad prose.

>> No.12832792

>>12832761
>he was a good king in an age when good was something of an unfashionable rarity. He was very, very wise and very, very powerful, but he was also very, very old
Stopped reading there.

>> No.12832832

>>12832454
Is Laird Barron a soi-horror writer or not?

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>>12832761
>He was very, very wise and very, very powerful, but he was also very, very old,

>> No.12833090

>>12832832
What the fuck does this even mean
Laird Barron is good stop being a memelord

>> No.12833105

>Post your favourite comfy books

Mort (Discworld) was pretty comfy, disliked the ending tho, things kinda just happened.

>>12831958
>soi
shadows over innistrad?

>> No.12833132 [DELETED] 

>>12833090
Alright I'll read the first story from The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and if there's a MODICUM of soi I will fucking rape you.

>> No.12833242

When you read a series and a new book in the series comes out do you go back and re read if its been a while

>> No.12833258

>>12833242
Depends on if I don't remember anything, if I liked the book enough to want to re-read it, and the length of the book.

>> No.12833289

I'm reading starship troopers, and damn half the book is details about administration and world building. like Heinlin wanted to write a guide to the army of the future instead of an interesting book.
I'm at where Rico becomes a third officer to test him. should i finish the book?

>> No.12833325

>>12833132
>>12833090
Okay I've read the first story (Blackwood's Baby) and even though I expected/wanted more more of a gut punch for the ending.... I liked it. In fact it reminded of me Robert E. Howard and his particular brand of horror and that's a very good thing.

>> No.12833378

>>12833325
Oof it seems this guy DOES go full soi eventually with his writing.

>> No.12833438

>>12832270
Nah that series sucks in comparison.

>> No.12833445

>>12831331
>amazons
>mature

>> No.12833462

>>12831274
Check out Guy Gavriel Kay’s Sarantine Mosaic.

>> No.12833476

>>12832761
>>12832764
>>12832767
>>12832776
Is this Rothfuss?

>> No.12833478

>>12833476
It's a story within the Doctor Who audio Scherzo.

>> No.12833497

>>12829431
Is it bad or just depressing?

>> No.12833538

>>12828733

this shit is fuckin good, shame the sequel is worse and the third is worse still.

>> No.12833569

>>12832588
>Thanks for saving me Endymion. Gosh I'm so dirty. We'll be taking showers together one day, but I'll take mine alone... for now.
Jesus Christ Dan

>> No.12833619

>>12833569
Endymion is literally a self-insert fanfiction.

>> No.12833640

>>12832761
>>12832764
>>12832767
>>12832776
Shit. This is what you fags say is better than modern fantasy? Kys you shit loving cuck.

>> No.12833758

>>12833289
If you're already bored drop it, because the admin shit carries through the entire book. Starship Troopers (and all military sci-fi) solely appeals to military fanboys and servicemen, and for some reason their training makes them autistically obsessed with rank, structure, and administrative detail.

>> No.12833988

I'm writing a fantasy novel. You know the age old tale of some farm boy leaving his pasture going on an epic adventure and becoming some great hero? Well my farm boy is going to do all of that AND go back to his farm to fuck his mom. Don't let your dreams be dreams, birdboi taught me that.

>> No.12834007

>>12833988
>what if Heinlein wrote fantasy

>> No.12834011

>>12833497
So bad it's depressing.

>> No.12834040

>>12831940
The blade itself is semi readable pulp. Why errbody so praising about it?

>> No.12834091

>>12833988
g/l with your edgy fan-fiction. I'm sure it'll sell well.

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>>12833988
I'd read that.

>> No.12834158

>>12833988
>ND go back to his farm to fuck his mom
Not bad, I'm interested.

>> No.12834224

>>12833988
blood related?

>> No.12834257

>>12834224
What would be the point of fucking your mother if she's not blood related?

>> No.12834390

>>12834224
Of course. Though I'm going back and forth between blood related and stepmom. Would blood related be too much?

>> No.12834426

>>12834390
>Would blood related be too much?
No and do both, mom and stepmom. Threesome after he kills the father would be ideal.

>> No.12834434

>>12834390
>Would blood related be too much?
No, that's the whole point. Also add a sexy and loving aunt.

>> No.12834446

>>12833242
Always

>> No.12834448

I'm reading The Wizard by Gene Wolfe atm and somehow this is more difficult to get through than Book Of The New Sun even though the surface level events seem to be much easier to follow. The Knight had a breakneck pace to its events but now the cast of characters have hanged around in the land of giants for ages. Some parts of the series are really really great though (especially the scenes with all the weird creatures like Kulili, Setr or Michael) and the way the world works is super interesting with all the different levels and how time works between them. But overall the feeling is that I want to read something much lighter after finishing this.

>> No.12834479

>>12832761
>He was very, very wise and very, very powerful, but he was also very, very old,
>very, very, very, very, very, very
Jesus Christ

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>>12833988
Godspeed anon, make it happen for yourself.

>> No.12834642

please /lit/, tell me: what is SOI?

>> No.12834680

>>12834642
anything that's not pro-nazi apparently

>> No.12834700

>>12834642
the product of an asian-native bean that contains a shitload of estrogen. excessive estrogen intake has proven to reduce testosterone levels in men, reduce sperm count and actively supress the buildup of testosterone.

>> No.12834761

>>12834700
So if I put onions sauce in my pot noodle I become a woman? Will this lead to me putting more efforts into my lunch? Might be worth.

>> No.12834781

no. but it will diminish the development of male features. for example you will have a harder time building muscle or growing hair. as mentioned before your sperm count will also nosdive. your sexdrive will also be greatly supressed. a good way to see if you have a testosterone deficancy is if you dont have regular morningwoods.

>> No.12834783

Mommyfags are the new furries, only there's a lot more of them. I'm deeply ashamed of this hemisphere.

>> No.12834784

>>12834783
Kek

>> No.12834786

>>12834781
What does wanking twice a day imply?

>> No.12834787

>>12834781
meant to quote
>>12834761

>> No.12834789

>>12834786
>What does wanking twice a day imply?
completely normal pretty much.

>> No.12834813

>>12834783
We'll forgive you :3

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great thread

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>>12831215
The Black Company has things actually happen. The Blade Itself drags and drags and the plot is basically gum sucking and a guy Hulking out every now and then. And that is it.

>> No.12834979

>>12833289
The whole book is pretty much Howard jerking off over his dream reality.

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>>12833988
>Every book is about a farmboy who wants to become a chosen one
>Never get a book about a chosen one who wants to become a farmer

>> No.12835007

>>12834979
>>12833758
alright thanks.

to the first anon, it's at 77% of the ebook so not "already" but i just got sick of it.

>> No.12835076

>>12834995
>who is perrin

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>>12834900

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>>12834900

>> No.12835207

>>12832531
The Rincewind books are mainly held up by the fact that the main character is Rincewind.

>> No.12835246

>>12835076
Rand wasn't particularly hot on the idea either. Took him like five books before he begrudgingly accepted it and stopped complaining.
The only one who didn't want to go back to peasanting all day was Mat, but all he wanted to do instead was drink and gamble all day with the bros.

>> No.12835278

>>12835246
Don't remind me of how shit Wheel of Time is please.

>> No.12835327

>>12833478
Really?

>> No.12835459

>just finished Codex Alera
Bloody crows, what a ride. What a butchering. Wish there was more of it.

>> No.12835521

>>12835278
Eh, Wheel of Time has its moments, but I probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone considering its length. You'll probably get better payoff from reading five trilogies over all of Wheel of Time.

>> No.12835696

>>12834040
>lol I don't know what pulp is

>> No.12835751

>>12833988
Holy...BASED
Remember to dedicate the book to your mom

>> No.12835759

>>12835751
>Remember to dedicate the book to your mom
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to dedicate it to his father?

>> No.12835867

>>12835759
kek

>> No.12836086

>>12833988
Will you go with a full Oedipus complex and have the protagonist kill his own father as well?

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>>12833988

>> No.12836109

>>12836086
>Oedipus complex
Bad meme by that Austrian jew hack. Just have father be dead or absent.

>> No.12836309

>>12833988
>Hero rejects the princess so he can go back to his farm and fuck his mom
Patrician

>> No.12836311

>>12836309
More like matrician.

>> No.12836402

I'm trying to get into vtm but the game sucks dick can I read something instead

>> No.12836434

>fostering faust 2 audiobook is out
Time to unzip.

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Anyone ever read this book?
I'm getting huge warming flags just looking at it.

>> No.12836496

>>12835459
About 3/4ths of the way through First Lord's Fury myself. It's great, and I fucking love how great Kitai and Tavi are together.
>You should rest Aleran
>No, I must stay.
>Kitai looked at him like a woman with a vast amount of patience on the brink of snapping.
>No, Aleran... You should rest. In your covered tent. While everyone else is busy with the battle. Besides me. Understand?
>Oh.
I pray to God Dresden Files is as fun as this, I have the first three on standby.

>> No.12836498

>>12836496
>looked at him like a woman with a vast amount of patience on the brink of snapping.

>> No.12836528

>>12836498
Shush, I'm distracted

>> No.12836701

>>12836496
>you will never be a marat girl's chala
Why. Even. Live.

No, really, the whole empathic bond turning into love thing is an awesome fantasy. I wish they had had a lot more scenes throughout the series.

>> No.12836744

>>12836459
ive read the first and like it. not at all what i expected.
the second i have not read. give it a try.

>> No.12836826

Birdboi really is an inspiration. If his autistic ass isn't afraid to write, why should I?

>> No.12836835

>Codex Alera
Am I the only one who actually really liked both the vord queen and Invidia? Invidia is a magnificent bastard and the vord queen's exploration of her human aspects/bonding with Invidia was pretty intriguing and genuinely sad, kinda reminds me of the Hunter x Hunter ant king, I think I like this sort of thing, especially when it's a cute, female alien monstrosity.

>> No.12836847

>>12836826
He writes *because* he's autistic but that doesn't mean he writes well or that anyone but him will ever read it.

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where the fuck is peace talks butcher

>> No.12836893

>>12836459
>>12836744
Do you have a link to a mobi or epub for it?

>> No.12836900

>>12836893
its on mobilism.

>> No.12836902

>>12836701
>No, really, the whole empathic bond turning into love thing is an awesome fantasy.
Why I liked Night angel trilogy so much.

>> No.12836926

>>12836900
Ah, google doesn't list results for the first book so I would need to painstakingly search (or finally register).

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>fuck the gods

>> No.12836941

>>12836900
>>12836744
You will have to explain some more.
This https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2712654930?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1 and others doesn't sit right with me.

>> No.12836952

>>12836941
basically i expected harem bullshit and it is that to some degree but not in the way you are thinking.
its mostly people coming to terms with their relationship in a very endearing way. its not really about the sex or any explicit things in the story. its fade to black anyways. its more about the realtionship between the mc, the girl on the cover and some vampire girl.

>> No.12836955

>>12836459
It's slice of life more than anything. Meh, nothing special about it really.

>> No.12836962

>>12836952
I don't want sex. I just want good(for amazon) writing. The deus ex machina mentioned with the powers just has me weary.

>> No.12836973

>>12836941
>>12836952
>>12836955
>>12836962
>Thiago
>For someone who is 200 years old, he sure acts like a 12 year old. Blushing and being so god-damn sappy. a girl tells you to come over and have sex, he asks her out to dinner? the guy only wants to talk about feelings. would of been a great book if the MC could grow a pair.

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>>12836962
just give it a try. its not top tier writing but it is above average for kindle content.
if you dont mind sex and want even more relationships in general try pic related.

in this the mc goes from wuss to man. its about empathy. basically the mc goes around and soulbonds with monster girls and transforms from a total pussy to man in due course. its not instant and and the development is believable. theres a bunch of drama in it and most characters have some emotional baggage. its very sweet though in an incredibly adorableway.

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>>12830798

>> No.12836989

>the 2 sss3 files on irc are corrupt
fug

>> No.12837016

>>12836973
Sounds like my kind of guy.

>> No.12837024

>>12836989
Oh I throwing the file at calibre worked. Great.
If anyone was looking for super sales 3 it's on irc

>> No.12837035

>>12836941
my man, why do you think this is worth your time or even worth asking about? it sounds like shit and every review is three stars and below. go read an actual good book.

>> No.12837050

>>12836902
I just finished Night Angel. I honestly don't know how to feel about it. Like, everyone holding Retribution and Kylar killing "Khali" at the end was sick, and Vi was cool, but there's something I can't define that I didn't like about it. I don't regret getting the 10th Anniversary trilogy on a whim, but I only ever liked the books in retrospect or when I was almost done. Logan killing the Ogre was gnarly though.

>> No.12837064

>>12836980
I don't want relationships. I want a story. There is other things to write about other than feelings and muh gurl.

>> No.12837067

>>12837035
You are probably right. I give a few books a change due to this general and they were right shit.

>> No.12837082

>>12837050
I can't be the only who thought the Night Angel trilogy felt kinda YA-ish, right?

>> No.12837096

>>12837082
It is YA. Just with a bit of grit

>> No.12837099

>>12837082
Comapred to the actual YA I read back in the day? No.
Read stephenie meyer's the host and get back to us.

>> No.12837132

>>12837082
Depends what you mean by YA. Something like The Belgariad would have been classed as YA in the past simply because it was aimed at teenagers. Nowadays label something as YA and the connotation is something very different.

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So, this has been out for like two weeks and I completely missed it.

>> No.12837263

>>12837249
what?
oh god brb downloading.

>> No.12837289

>>12837263
That's what he gets for not coming here himself. Amazon's algorithm is completely broken and won't warn anyone of anything good coming out. There isn't a single good website that gathers this information in a useful manner, to be honest. Mangaupdates.com leaves goodreads eating dust.

>> No.12837308

>>12837289
doesnt help that his website is defunct and he doesnt have a blog. though supposedly he does update his facebook with news and releases. i wouldnt know never had a facebook account and never will.

>> No.12837330

>>12837249
YES!

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>>12837249
this is starting out great.

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After seeing it recommended here I read all of the currently released chapters of Mother of Learning. I really enjoyed it although the author is pretty terrible at dialogue and all the characters have the exact same voice. Are there any other web serials that are really good? I already read and enjoyed worm and ward is cringe. I need something else to read now so please help me.

I'll take lesser known but long series of other kinds too, even chinkshit. I like edge.

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>>12828733
based and true. Very glad there are no sequels to ruin it.

>> No.12837426

>>12829534
its really pulpy and stupid schlock. I enjoyed it tbqh.

>> No.12837428

What is with publishers and releasing a book on Tuesday? If you look at most books you read they were released on a Tuesday.
I now see Amazon is applying the same formula. A lot of audiobooks I want are being released on a Tuesday, and a few were released yesterday.

>> No.12837452

>>12837249
Ooooohhh shhiitt.
We just need another installment of Boxxy Morningwood and I'm golden.

>> No.12837497

>>12837428
the bestseller lists get released on Wednesday, if I remember correctly, and it takes a week for new books to show up on them.

>> No.12837508

>>12837335
>reddit spacing

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>Sol raises a daughter from childhood 3 times in a row, just so a Palestinian giga-chad can tell him in detail how he gave her a deep dicking over and over again.

>> No.12837633

>>12837132
Most the characters are fine, but Kylar feels like he was written by that one kid who sat in the back of the class daydreaming about having superpowers so he could beat up all the people who made fun of him.

>> No.12837688

>>12837564
>Sol, did I ever tell you about the time I deep dicked your daughter REALLY hard.
>Fedmahn, please, I beg you. Stop talking now....
>I remember it like yesterday. I was plugged into a Olympus Command School training stimsim. We were on Old Earth. The date was May 28th, 1982, in the Christian Era. The location was The Falkland Islands, just outside of a town called "Goose Green". My comrades were holding the line against the Argies, when I saw her, your Rachel. She was naked, as usual. And I could tell she was aching for more Arab cock inside her.
>Kassad...
>Sol, are you familiar with the Old Earth pornographic flat-film series called "Tiny 4K"? Basically, a tall muscular man takes a much smaller female and completely manhandles her. Manhandles is too kind a euphemism. He would fuck her, Sol. Fuck her in every way a man can fuck a woman. Against a wall. From a standing position, the "jackhammer position" (Sol, if you're unfamiliar with the position, I can show you one of the many photographs we took during our encounters.) between her breasts, busting hot cum loads on her face... Basically, he would turn the woman into a living, breathing, self-heating, cock sleeve. That is but a shadow of what I achieved with your daughter that day, M. Winetraub. That girl whom you spend 90% of your waking hours tending to, she will one day be mine, Sol, mine in every way that matters.

>> No.12837700

>>12837249
oh god it took me entirely too long to realize its captain jack sparrow.
i feel really ashamed.

>> No.12837835

>>12837700
>???????
Explain

>> No.12837853

>>12837835
they hire a captain to fare them to where they want to go. he wants a mysterious tear, to become the king of smugglers and his name is jack, his first mate is man with sideburns named bigs. and he says savey a lot.
im ashamed that it took me far too long to realise it was supposed to be jack sparrow.

>> No.12837877

>>12837853
Heh. There are a lot of little gems like that in the series.
Does he fuck his white(mage) gf yet?
Do we hear anything from the gril in the castle with his mom?
I'm waiting for the audiobook. I expect it june/July.

>> No.12837911

>>12837877
>Does he fuck his white(mage) gf yet?
not so far
>Do we hear anything from the gril in the castle with his mom?
yep mom and the chick are prominent as well as alteroth politics and things that happen in torikai with melissa

>> No.12838114

>>12836936
>tracker

>> No.12838177

do you guys that read litrpg and harem fantasy ever browse/post on /qst/? seems like there would be a lot of crossover there.

>> No.12838233

>>12835327
Yes

>> No.12838626

>>12836982
>Christian Cameron
Anon I-

>> No.12838820

Reading through Eye of The World. Am I meant to think Egwene is a huge slut?

>> No.12838929

>>12838820
Because she danced with the gypsy or what?

>> No.12838936

>>12838820
She's a huge cunt too, though that's true of 99% of the women in the series.

>> No.12838937

>>12838929
First she's dtf Rand at any given second, then almost the moment they set apart she jumps on the first exotic foreigner she sees, before practically offering Perrin her virginity when it seems like they're about to die.

>> No.12838953

>>12838937
But she doesn't sleep with any one of them. Considering her name is a parallel to Guinevere she's surprisingly chaste and free from drama.

>> No.12838979

>>12838953
>Considering her name is a parallel to Guinevere
How

>> No.12838993

>>12838820
If she breaths...

>> No.12838997

>>12838979
Literally everything in WoT is a parallel to Arthurian legend, it's basically the series only redeeming factor. al'Thor = Arthur, Callandor = Caladbolg, Tigraine = Igraine etc. However Egwene is one of the characters with obvious parallels that are least like their original.

>> No.12839049

hey if you have some saved please give me new papes
>>>/wg/7387430

>> No.12839196

>>12838997
Thought Artur Pesndrag would have been Arthur Pendragon. Everything else your just saying because they start with the same letter.

>> No.12839219

>>12839196
They're both Arthur. Things get mixed up when Ages change and the wheel turn. For example Merlin is both the Amyrlin Seat (magician) and Thom Merrilin (Arthur's mentor).

>Everything else your just saying because they start with the same letter
Callandor is the sword in the Stone of Tear, whomever can remove it is the legitimate Dragon. Sounds familiar? Excalibur is not the sword in the stone btw, it's a gift from the Lady in the Lake, Nyneve (Nynaeve is literally the Lady of the Lake once she marry Lan as one of his titles is Lord of the Lakes)

>> No.12839228

>>12834761
Soisauce actually contains vastly lower phytoestrogens than other types such as tofu and beans.

And no you dont become a woman, just a weak fat bitch

>> No.12839234

>>12834786
>>12834789
Mental health issues, derailed dopamine feedback loop, corrupted sexual preferences and lower testosterone.

>> No.12839240

>>12839219
>Excalibur is not the sword in the stone btw
It is sometimes. But you're not wrong, there are many names associated with arthurs swords and many of them are similar to callandor.

>> No.12839302

>>12839234
>>12839228
Is that why I want to fuck a guy with a feminine face, fake tits, in a dress now?
I thought it was the 11 plus years of 4chan, and all that linetrap brainwashing.

>> No.12839351

>>12839219
>they’re both Aurthur
Then how can Artur be a hero of the horn when Rand is alive?
And who the fuck is Birgitte supposed to be.

>> No.12839358

>>12838997
>>12839219
Wow, Jordan is an even bigger hack than I thought.

>> No.12839360
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12839360

>>12839302
No its just your degenerated brain and ruined hormonal balance. But its fine though, you can do all those things. Im glad some natural selection has returned to our modern age.

>> No.12839361

>>12838997
>The Tale of Sir Corneus is a little-known fifteenth-century work set in the court of King Arthur. King Arthur's favourite court amusement is poking fun at cuckolds through a magical instrument, the cuckold's horn: the horn spills wine over any cuckold who attempts to drink from it. Induced to drink from the horn himself, Arthur disovers that he is a cuckold, much to the embarrassment of a blushing Guinevere. In terms of the traditional gravity of Guinevere's adultery, Arthur's response is remarkably magnanimous. He merrily declares himself a brother of the cuckolds, he wears the cuckold's garland, dances the cuckold's dance, and even declares that he is grateful to his cuckolder for looking after his wife when he was away. This paper will pursue the folloing questions in relation to this curious work: to what extent is the moral of this tale, "We [cuckolds] be all of a freyry," a counter to the aggressive, bourgeois, proprietorial masculinity that so often features in medieval narratives of cuckoldry, Chaucer's Symkin being an example. Is the tale anti-femininst--we are all cuckolds because no woman can be faithful--or does it comically expose the one-eyed logic of such an agenda-- pointing out, rather, that we are all cuckolds because we are all cuckolders?
Explains A lot.

>> No.12839394

>>12839360
But I want to fuck and put my seed deep in thicc white women.

>> No.12839402

>>12839361
It's true. No woman can be faithful. I laugh at pol because they think their girls are chaste, when in reality they are fucking their coworker, or best male friend.

>> No.12839425

>>12839358
>implying writing a elaborate Arthurian derivative makes you more of a hack than writing the most generic fantasy story in history
Jordan is without doubt a hack, but his Deepest Lore™ fuckery is the most redeeming factor of Wheel of Time.

>> No.12839429

>>12839425
>Arthurian
>not generic

>> No.12839434

>>12839402
>pol
>their girls
>their

>> No.12839486

>>12839402
>/pol/
>going out with women and not bearded men in dresses because "men are superior at taking it up the ass" like the faggots they are
(lol

>> No.12839515

>>12839486
Please try and use less problematic language sweetie :).

>> No.12839547

>>12836980
This is shit though.

>> No.12839566

>>12839547
Bullshit

>> No.12839570

>>12839434
>2d women aren’t chaste

>> No.12839573
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12839573

>>12839566

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12839579

>>12839566
It's pretty bad. The guy is a super wimp. If monster girls is what you're looking for this one is much better.

>> No.12839587

>>12839579
>look at what an Uber chad I am I can punch anything.
Big yawn.

>> No.12839685
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12839685

I am judging a book by its cover

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12839686

anyone read this?

>> No.12839703

>>12839686
>modern fantasy
It's probably shit but the cover is so good looking that I'll probably read it anyway. Who knows, it might be the Jonathan Strange of the 10s.

>> No.12839723

>>12837428
that's always been the release dates for new albums in the recording industry as well, there has to be a real reason for it

>> No.12839836

>>12839686
>a novel
>samantha shannon
I'm glad she warned me.

>> No.12839845

What is the /sffg/ equivalent of Planescape: Torment? Other than the novelizations.

>> No.12839913

>>12838820
Is it good? I was thinking about getting into the series but I don't know if I can be assed.

>> No.12839942

>>12839913
The first books are okay but for every book it gets worse and considering there's 14 books it get quite bad. The series is way to long. If you enjoy Jordan's writing style the author switch in The Gathering Storm is quite jarring and if you don't enjoy Jordan's writing I wonder why the fuck you would bother to read 11 books by him. And if you're proper red pilled the female characters will trigger you.

>> No.12840032

>>12839685
Yep
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin

>> No.12840068

>>12839913
It's very good with flaws and incredibly popular so of course many on /sffg/ hate it.

>> No.12840084

>>12839361
>because no woman can be faithful-
Even then they knew the rule: If she breathes - she's a thot.

>> No.12840096

>>12836936
indeed. nothing else this year gonna come close to this.

>> No.12840113

>>12839913
If you're looking for generic fantasy, look no further. The first two or three books are great, but they start to become a chore after book seven, though I enjoyed the series enough to get through them. When it ended, it felt strange, because after spending a year reading through it, it became more like a way of life than actually a book with a definite end.

As that other anon said, it has a lot of women who are the physical representation of rolling your eyes contemptuously, and it took me about nine books before I stopped hating those characters

>> No.12840136

>>12839942
The beauty of RJ's women. It's quite amazing how he managed to write characters that trigger both sjws and red pills for the same reasons just viewed from different perspectives.

>> No.12840187

>>12839845
Book of the New Sun.

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12840233

>>12839394
But you wont. Only conanites get pussy

>> No.12840250

>>12839942
The female characters trigger Normies too

>> No.12840256

Man I spend so much money on these books, can I at least get laid? You know what I mean? I've been robbed of most of my money, can I at least get a blowjob?

>> No.12840268

>>12839845
Michael Moorcock

>> No.12840273

>>12840256
Well, I am saving my virginity for a chance at wizardry, but I think it doesn't count if it's just a blowjob.

L O N D O N
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>> No.12840298

>>12840256
Why you spending money on books in 2019 you dumdum? You could instead spend it on a hooker like a normal degenerate.

>> No.12840311

>>12840298
I would rather pirate hookers and buy books, though.

>> No.12840327

MOMMYFAGS NOT ALLOWED

>>12840324
>>12840324
>>12840324
>>12840324
>>12840324

>> No.12840337

>>12840233
>Conanites get pussy

Kain would like to have a word with you. And he's raped his wife who later gave birth to a daughter. Does/Can Conan do that?

>> No.12840348

>>12840136
Yeah, they might not be perfect but they make for a good test where if you find them offensive in a sexist way you're probably either a rainbow haired dyke or one of the resident autists who refuse to touch anything that's less of a power fantasy than Daniel Black. Fuck Faile though.

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12840349

SHIT, I forgot the image.

>>12840327

>MOMMYFAGS NOT ALLOWED

We're talking about the ones who want their diapers changed, not the ones who are just looking for an older woman (no older than 2-4 years to make things awkward) amirite?

>> No.12840365

>>12840349
You are wrong.

>> No.12840381

>>12840365

So what qualifies one as such, then, if you would enlighten me.

>> No.12841433

Can someone inspire me to finish The Way of Kings? I am 3/4 done and can't find willpower to finish it because I am scared of there not being payoff behind the plot points.

>> No.12841612

>>12841433
The ending is where all the anime happens.
Like all Sanderson books.