/lit/ - Literature

first for sanderfag a hack

second for litrpg a shit

Rejoice or despair! Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang is the monthly reading for September. GRRM and Rothfuss BTFO.

>>13763750
It’s like a video gaym but real mate

>>13763750
how can anything be real if our eyes arent real?

>>13763680
Faggot gatefag from reddit. The other thread hasn't reached bump limit. You just want to post your rebbit charts and wikipedia links.

>>13763812
As I have stated previously, I am open to having a constructive discussion about charts.
Your post is ironic given how I removed the charts containing books beloved by reddit and left the charts/added a list that has almost nothing to do with reddit's taste.
Anyways, feel free to keep posting your pointless 2-sentence long insults, I am just gonna ignore you. This was the last (you) I am giving to a bonobo such a you who would rather bloat the thread with pointless tribalism instead of giving a single argument.

>>13763829

Sir kindly asking you to drop that tripfag

Why are there no new memes? The last one was probably birdboi, and it was forced as fuck.

Anyone read something interesting with vampires lately?

>>13763680
Anons i think it's time to get rid of these old as fuck recommendation charts. They are so well known that they are basically reddit tier.

>>13764120
>read
Yes. The Vampire Crusader series and Ann Rice's Prince Lestat.

>Interesting
Not really.

>>13764148
>The Vampire Crusader series
Badly written by your admission.

>Ann Rice's Prince Lestat
Way too metrosexual. I need something more visceral, more Eastern European.

>>13764173
>I need something more visceral, more Eastern European.
Me too. Bram Stocker's Dracula may be for you.

Where does one start with Charles Williams? 'Descent Into Hell'?

>>13764209
>Bram Stocker's Dracula
I went through all the classics so to speak. As well as VtMB, Wraith and Werewolf supplements.
The last vampire books that I enjoyed were Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2448.Highbrow_Fantasy_Books
holy garbage this list is disgusting
Well, no matter how much the powertripping anon screeches, I can be sure this general will remain better than the baseline

>>13764266
Any good vampire books that there is no sex involved?

>>13764295
An Unattractive Vampire by Jim McDoniel. Absolutely no sex.

>>13764308
>An Unattractive Vampire
Thanks but i prefer my vampires with no comedy.

>>13764337
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas.
Rather bleak and serious work. And there is no sexing up.

>>13764372
Damn anon! You are a walking vampire encyclopedia! Don't tell me you also know a good novel that combines vampires and sci-fi??

>>13764392
Blindopraxia, don't be silly

>>13763680
Just finished the Ainulindale (Silmarillion) by Tolkien, and holy shit, this is god-tier writing. The most beautiful piece of literature I've ever had the pleasure of reading.

>>13764396
Tried reading Blindsight but the writing style and the story didn't manage to captivate me.

>>13764403
Yeah, yeah. Welcome to the club. The problem is finding something good that was written TODAY.

Uncrowned doesn’t come out today..... it’s on the 26th...

>>13764392
Nothing that I would recommend. While there was quite a few attempts at trying to place vampires in the future, most of those fell short either by offering some mundane explanation for their existence (a genetic quirk, as in >>13764396's Blindopraxia, a viral infection or even more exotic explanations) or making them some sort of supped up zombies. In both cases the end result is taking away from their mystique, making them far less interesting.
You could try Children of the Night by Dan Simmons. It has the problems I outlined above but it's well written.

>>13764457
I agree. In fact most of sci-fi is about viruses, AI, and using spaceships like 18th century ships to travel from one place to another to do completely mundane things.

>>13764392
>>13764457
Oh and I forgot. Lifeforce. Space(ish) vampires galore. But be warned, it has vampire titties.

>>13764489
I wouldn't go that far. There is a lot of interesting stuff out there, both new and old. You just have to be willing to put the time and effort into finding those hidden gems.

>>13763863
It's harder to filter if he does.

>>13764531
>I wouldn't go that far. There is a lot of interesting stuff out there, both new and old. You just have to be willing to put the time and effort into finding those hidden gems.
The gems are few, that's why they are priceless. Most current sci-fi is shit: shitty romances and completely ordinary affairs but in the future, or in a spaceship, or with AI, or with dna engineering. Few books have something novel to contribute.

>>13764651
>The gems are few
The gems were always few and far between. The dross that you have to sift through has changed.

E William Brown is a hack. He hasn't updated his blog since February, and that was to tell people where to go to give him money because patreon hurt his feelings.
He is looking to release a book once a year near December. So he can get patreon money. Fuck him. I lost interest in Daniel Black.

>>13764699
Isn't that the series where the main character transforms his dick into a horse cock? asking for a friend

>>13756005
Probably

>>13764709
If you want to take stuff out of context, then yes.

>>13764699
It's almost like you're saying that you don't like his Naruto fanfics.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24957858-time-braid

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25266901-indomitable

>>13764723
Who is reading that shit?

>>13764733
(You)

>>13764724
Good, I'll put it on the read list.

>>13764733
Elizier Yudkowski, apparently

>>13764754
The fat jew who writes 'Arry Potter fan fiction?

>>13764767
ye

>>13764796
Egads.

>>13764531
Lifeforce is fucking cool

SEPTEMBER 26TH
WHO WILL WIN THE TOURNAMENT
WILL WE LEARN HOW A BUNCH OF JADES COULD KILL A SAGE

>>13764925
NTR BOOK CONFIRMED

Reading about a city right now.
Good stuff, good stuff.

>>13764898
The titties are out of this world.

>>13764925
They poisoned the shit out of him. And they were low golds.

>>13764925
FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON CRADLE VOLUME 8.

>>13765102
>they were low golds
Eh? I must have missed that. I thought there were no golds on the valleys.

>>13765102
What type of poison did a bunch of Jades (at best) have access to that could harm a Sage?
>they were lowgolds
Wrong. Nobody is above Jade in SV.

>>13765134
>What type of poison did a bunch of Jades (at best) have access to that could harm a Sage?
They did have some nice stuff that they found on the caverns and such. They could also have traded with the outside. We don't know which iron body the sage had, and it is my understanding that most people don't have poison resistance, even those on high advancement levels.

>>13765125
No golds in the valley but the four great schools that sit on the mountain tops are run by low gold elders, like the little child elder

>>13765159
Jades don't have access to anything that would harm a Sage. Sacred Valley doesn't have relations with the "outside"; the only person that could possibly even be aware of the outside is Elder Whisper and maaaaybe some of the top clan elders. You're also forgetting that the body is completed reforged with Soulfire upon transition to the Lord level. No common basic bitch poison is going to harm a SAGE.

>>13765194
Name a name. Lowgolds don't exist in SV. SV is purposely suppressed.

>>13765213
>Sacred Valley doesn't have relations with the "outside"
Isn't it mentioned on the first book that some stuff were brought from the outside? I remember that.

>>13765230
Yes the four great schools or whatever handle contact with the outside. It’s part of how they maintain their position.

>>13764925
>cripple-chan will never find love now that lindon is out of sacred valley
What now, bros?

>>13765287
Ship her with Lindon’s sister

>>13765317
What? That's absurd. Girls can't procreate with girls.

>>13765329
But they shipped avatar korra and that other bitch.

I only read a few pages then skimmed and did some keyword searches.
These are not full reviews and may not be representative or accurate.
With every prologue I read I believe more strongly that most prologues just shouldn't be used.
There's no apparent reason to me why most of these couldn't be published by an actual publisher.
The image of this post are the self-published novels described.

Estimated chance I'd enjoy reading it all
4 = Good (61-100%)
3 = Decent (40-60%)
2 = Mediocre (21-39%)
1 = Bad (0-20%)

Total: 16
(1) = 1
(2) = 6
(3) = 5
(4) = 4

Total: 16
Not actually self-published: 4
They're all some sort of Fantasy.

(1) Andrew Seiple - Threadbare
>>13756005

(2) Graham Austin-King - Faithless
Boy sold into slavery to work the mines for the priests of the Forgefather.
>fifteen year old boy..."Bit old for the priest's taste wouldn't you say?"
>You can pass through three miles of natural caves and tunnels and suddenly reach stairs like these, or one of the bridges further down.
>What do you mean there was a soulwraith?

(2) John Bierce - Into the Labyrinth
I couldn't help but unfavorably compare this to other magic school works I've read.
Author's note: contact me on reddit!
I've included this to antagonize those overly concerned with tribalism.
>Mages weren't ever born in Emblin, and yet Hugh had been.
>First, visualize the spellforms, the invisible geometric diagrams you were supposed to envision to cast a spell
>The teacher made Hugh try six more times in front of the class before she finally gave up

(2) Alec Hutson - The Crimson Queen
Based on the cover I thought this was a Forgotten Realms book since it looks so similar.
Boy from a fishing village is swept up in adventure.
>"I have no master", murmured the Undying One. Then his thin mouth quirked slightly. "And who said I was a man?"
>Fourteen books...he'd finished each one two-dozen times...there were no other books in the village...he would be surprised if anyone else could read
>an eye bigger than a wagon wheel had slid open in the blackness and found him, flensed his soul open like with a boning knife and peered into his depths...He had seen a Deep One. And it had seen him.

(2) Rob J. Hayes - The Heresy Within
Orginally self-published then published by Ragnarok Publications.
>The Arbiter took a deep breath. "NOW I CLEANSE THESE UNHOLY BODIES." His voice rang out with unnatural. "BY FIRE BE CLEANSED!"
>If the huge tits were cowed by her stare, they didn't show it
>putting it up the serving girl's ample arse
>"wouldn't it be nice ta bend her over an' shove it up her arse so hard she screams?"
>"You were raping the the daughter while we were killing the father?"
>He kissed her cunt before sticking his cock in
>He raped boys and girls alike and slit their throats after to bathe in their blood as to keep himself young.
>petite girl with big brown eyes, and long blonde hair that flowed down to her arse...didn't look old enough to bleed...dress was transparent...tiny budding breasts

(2) Rob J. Hayes - Where Loyalties Lie
>"It may be you're missing the point behind pirating. We're looking to take what ain't ours and what can be sold for a profit. Ain't no profit in taking lives, far as I can see. They don't tend to be worth much after the taking."
>"No," she said in her honeyed voice..."If any of your crew so much as touches me, I will kill them and ten more."
>"The Kraken's Maw is something far more dangerous. It's the one and only gateway to the court of Rin."
>"Have you finally managed to grow a cock that would have matched your sister's balls?"
>"That fucking piece of shit pretend fucking pirate cunt running off to suck on their black fucking cock leaving us to fucking die. Fuck!"
>eyes unfocused and blood leaking down over her face...he thrust his cock up her arse...if [his daughter] wasn't strong enough to stop the man from fucking her, then she deserved it

(2) Cameron Johnston - The Traitor God
Not self-published
https://hippogriff.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/interview-with-cameron-johnston/
>I would definitely have considered self-publishing if The Traitor God had not been snapped up by a publisher.
Writing in 1st person seems to go wrong and badly much more easily.
>He launched himself forward, jaw clamping down on my crotch. Shitshitshitshit...nobody had tried to bite my cock off before!
>This town was already dooomed and I wasn't going down with it. Heroism could get a man killed.
>fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
>The streets were dead; not just quiet, actually dead. Corpses of cats and dogs and chick and swine lay evisecerated and drained of blood, piles of feather and bone marking where the god had plucked birds from the sky.
> I had bathed in the blood of gods, and my power was growing.

(3) Will Wight - Unsouled
>>13756005

(3) M.D. Presley - The Woven Ring
An alternate world US Civil War. Female protagonist was a soldier for Newfield. Chapters alternate between past and present.
It felt really strange reading what little that I read. It was like the reading version of uncanny valley.
>Two weeks past his home state of Karlwych seceded from Newfield, the states Meskon, Rhea, and Mimas soon joining Karlwych to form their own country: the Covenant.
>President Ruhl did his best to ensure the matter was settled as he preached his peace between the two factions.
>Marta did not know if she had any forgiveness left within her, all her kindness burned away by the grand war.

(3) Craig Schaefer - Winter's Reach
Seems like roughly like Italy during Renaissance and/or the Papal States. Probably references to the Medici.
>You're twenty-three, well past your prime for marriage...People are starting to talk
>The Banco Marchetti has the contract for the papal alum mines...the market is as good as theirs.
>His gave way to sudden heat as warm lips pressed against his, hands stroking his shoulders and curling in his hair. He wrapped his arms around the woman's waist and pulled her close.

(3) Chris Wooding - The Ember Blade
Not self-published.
Standard coming-of-age heroic epic fantasy.
Very slow-paced and mostly about worldbuilding that has little to do with the plot.
The kind of novel that would be for hardcore fans of its main series, except it is the main book.
About a revolution against the imperial forces that conquered their lands decades ago.
In theory it's something I would like, but seems doubtful.
>Their act of defiance was to be the spark that would ignite the fire of rebellion in their people.
>'Find yourself a nice Ossian girl' ...'I know you love her, but it will pass. My sister's not for you.'
>He did as his ma told him, laying out bowls, spoons, and leather drinking jacks.

(3) Luke Matthews - Construct
I think "construct" is rather blah and should have just went with golem. Incon, Intelligent Construct, is even dumber.
Alternate titles: A Golem's Journey / A Golem's Second Life
>it bore an extra finger opposing its thumb than the three that adorned his. His own hand was worked metal of burnt orange, like armor of copper or bronze
>Searching for any memories that would help him discern where -- or what -- he was, he found only a yawning void. Even his own name eluded him.
>his body was a collection of metal plates plates in various hues of gold and orange and brown...some were stained green with age but he found almost no signs of rust

(4) J. Zachary Pike - Orconomics: A Satire
>>13756005

(4) Michael R. Fletcher - Beyond Redemption
Not self-published.
Author's note: This is a novel of manifest delusion.
I'll have to this think one over, but I certainly can understand how a large number of people could potentially like this.
>How could such a self-centered mudering bastard look so heroically perfect? Truly the gods were twisted.
>Belief defines reality...I believe I will be the Greatest Swordsman in the World
>Perception is reality...to a Gefahrgeist, this truth was everything

(4) Peter McLean - Priest of Bones
Not self-published.
The most likely of any of these that I'd actually read it all and enjoy it a lot.
>He was drunk, though, not booze drunk but rape drunk, power drunk, and I knew this time he wasn't going to take a telling. Not this time.
>Our regiment had gone from being three thousand paid, organized murderers to three thousand unpaid, disorganized murderers.
>The country is on its fucking knees. There's plague. There's famine. There's no fucking working. And we won this fucking war?

(4) Michael McClung - The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble's Braids
Female protagonist.
Almost makes me what to read it just to see how it'll go in this particular case, and I may yet.
>"If you bring me trouble, I'll have your balls."
>"Nice robe," he said with that silky voice of his, but I could tell his heart wasn't in it. I pulled my wrap tighter, and he chuckled.
>As always, when the tired come-ons had no effect, they turned to jeers and catcalls.

While I was posting this I realized that I was provided the old version of that rec chart and there was a newer version with one different book and with the removal of it saying it was the prototype version. So I guess I'll get that one book and post an addendum after a while.

>>13763680

Promising or bullshit?

>>13764925
I predict that northstrider is going to find dross and take him and then there will be some lindon/northstrider confrontation

>>13765709
>lindon/northstrider confrontation
That would just get lindon killed. I think maybe northstrider will suspect something, but no confrontation. I also don't think dross can be taken away. Maybe northstrider will try to reopen his program.

>>13765573
It won't be released for weeks.
Why ask now?
Some people have read the advanced reading copy, as shown on goodreads, but unlikely someone here just as a matter of numbers.

>>13765722
I thought dross could hop bodies at his leisure or be forcibly pulled out of a body

>>13765753
I don't think so. He is implanted into lindon's skull. Didn't they kind of merge on blackwater?

>>13765495
>>13765503
>>13765513
Your service is appreciated, anon.

>>13765503
(2) Jeff Salyards - Scourge of the Betrayer
Not self-published
A small-scope fantasy of a male scribe traveling with a mercenary company.
>"Record everything. No matter how contrary or nonsensical it might seem to you at the time...But you aren't to pollute it with poetry."
>"You got a mouth like a rasp and a cunt full of nettles."
>I was horrified to discover that I was becoming physically aroused myself, listening to them couple in the dark alongside me.
>I began to wonder how many men my mother must have lain with like this

>>13765855
You're welcome.
I'll be doing one more and that'll probably be all.

What are some books about Paladins?

>>13763680
>What is your favorite fictional city?
The only true city – Amber.

Any of you got Ringworld as pdf or mobi?

>>13766260
Yes, but that's extremely easily found. What's the problem?

>>13766270

I've only found a bad pdf

>>13766316
Try using #ebooks on irchighway on IRC next time.
https://mega.nz/#!XlNxDIgZ!WKGChJhYtATsaT7ekSQ1W0wM09Ba2OUMRvUcwiCunAQ

>>13765495
>(2) Rob J. Hayes - The Heresy Within
And that other chart anon went all holy about "no smut here". Thanks, will read this.

>>13765753
He can manifest a corporeal being within a very short radius of Lindon, which will likely improve as Dross progresses.

>>13765573
>endorsement from the kings of the wyld author
Don't read. It's probably shit like his book.

>>13765951
>>I was horrified to discover that I was becoming physically aroused myself, listening to them couple in the dark alongside me.
>>I began to wonder how many men my mother must have lain with like this
FUCK! I will have to read this too. I think the author is trying to do a modern version of the black company.

It is said of Muad'dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.

>>13766588
>I think the author is trying to do a modern version of the black company.
That's what it says they are trying to do, yes. I chose not to mention that.

Anyone read Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter? Other than the titles and ranks which are a cunt to remember it is so fucking generic, but its generic by a black guy so everyone is raving over it.

>>13766588
Gross, dude. Seek treatment.

>>13766614
I read the first chapter or so of it, was so generic I dropped it. Very surprised to see all the rave over it and wondered why.

>>13764952
Based.

Mercy > Yerin.

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

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


And so ends my "rating" of charts.

>>13764925
first for Orthos is based and should have been the MC

>>13764925
>imagine wasting space storing useless notcoffee water that makes you not need to sleep while wasting all the life potion that can heal people from the brink of death
What did Lindon mean by this?

>>13767212
He was busy getting bodied by Akura.

>>13767212
his IQ is 74

>it's a Severian breaks the flow of the narrative to go off on a random tangent about something
love it, it makes me feel like I'm reading Moby Dick at times. i've heard in the last book of the series there's apparently a lot of big battles but i really hope it doesn't go full LOTR or something where they have to band together to kill the big bad

>>13763680
Schizophrenic here who just finished Dune and now believe I am the Kwisatz Haderach AMA

>>13767395
That isn't how schizophrenia works.

>>13767764
Bet

Rec some good first contact novels please

>>13767808
Mote in God's Eye
Blindsight
Footfall
The Road Not Taken

>>13767808
First contact from the perspective of non-humans would be better,.

>>13768087
>>13767808
Excession

So I bought The Poppy War two days ago and I'm almost finished. This shit got grimdark quickly.

>>13767808
His Master's Voice - Lem

>>13768155
>grimdark
Gross.

>>13768228
>upbeatlight
Yikes!

Fàms someone explain to me the ending of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

>>13768292
It B Lyke HoW U WaNt It 2 BEEE LAIK

>>13768087
5th head of Cerberus

How is Red Leopard, Black Wolf?

>>13768697
Woke faggot bullshit garbage.

Has anyone ever read [popular meme author]?
I liked really their views on [something that triggers you].
What do you think about it?
I'm going to read [author that you would commit a hate crime against if it weren't so much effort] next.

>>13768703 >>>/pol/

>>13768711
>>13768715
>>>/lgbt/

>>13768703
Isn't he a Booker prize winner?

>>13768732
Charles Saunders is about the only black author worth reading.

/lit/, I have just been unable to find any good fantasy that had great worldbuilding and races with indepth culture and history.

I keep going back to Lord of the Rings because there has been nothing quite like it. And the list of good fantasy is just so small outside Tolkien
>Gene Wolfe
>Earthsea
>Michael Moorcock
>Poul Anderson
>A Song of Ice and Fire and Malazan (not really that great though)

I want a fantasy series where a lot of work has been put into charting the world's history, where the myriad cultures and races feel real, where the characters are not simply angsty teenagers throwing bitchfits so much.

>>13768783
>I want a fantasy series where a lot of work has been put into charting the world's history, where the myriad cultures and races feel real, where the characters are not simply angsty teenagers throwing bitchfits so much.
Malazan is ass, but if you haven't read it yet then it's probably what you're looking for.

>>13766601
Based

>>13767310
Don't worry, the battle scenes are great.

>>13768155
>So I bought The Poppy War
Cringe

>>13768697
GRI approved.

>>13769036
I have and I agree and I've mentioned it

Reminder: Fantasy needs more of pic related and less gay ass world-building and magic system bullshit.

>>13769136
Check out Saga of the Forgotten Warrior then.

>>13766368

Thank you!

>>13764266
>>13764277
>>13764422
>>13764455
>>13764699
>>13764733
>>13765111
>>13765722
>>13765855
>>13766588
>>13766622
>>13766788
>>13767266
>>13768155
>>13768711
Checked.

>>13769141
>less gay ass world-building and magic system bullshit.
Actually, it's more gay to have a half naked guy strutting around flexing his muscles everywhere. That's some homoerotic shit.

>>13763680
>havent read any fantasy except harrry potter
recommend me something with a good story.

>>13769522
Only if you're insecure with your sexuality which you seem to be.

>>13769548
Look at the charts. Unless if you have some theme in mind.

>>13769605
yeah well i want to read something that has a really good story (so that it gets me interested in more fantasy books).

>>13769614
Look at the charts.

>>13769614
Consider directing your gaze to the charts.

>>13769619
>lotr
boring
>issac asimov
boring
Sry I dont want to read that kind of stuff as I'm already reading some heavy philosophy books.

>>13769621
Look, m8, it's really hard to help someone if all they say is some general shit like that. Do you want something about vampires, magic schools, grimderp, GRI, space horror? Maybe you want to get away from traditional publishing (>>13765528)?

There's more in the charts than LOTR and Asimov.

>>13769637
Well if a non gamer asked me to recommend a game that is great and will get him interested in gaming, I would say GTA 5 instead of asking whether he wants to play platformers or roguelikes (things he doesnt understand the meaning of as he hasn't every played those kind of games).

>>13769647
Blindsight.

>>13769647
>recommend a game that is great and will get him interested in gaming, I would say GTA 5
christ, are you some normalfag straight from /v/? Lurk for at least two more years before posting.

>>13768697
Based as fuck.

>>13763680
What do you think is the average age of the posters in this general?

>>13769669
Around puberty given how popular William Brown is

>>13764031

Birdboi was fucking based. Fuck you.

>>13770073
I was one of the people forcing the meme, meaning I agree that he was based.
Doesn't change the fact that it was 2-3 people forcing the meme, and as soon as we got bored it disappeared.

>>13770092

It disapeard because one salty disobedient coomerslut started bullying birdboi.
You know how he is, all sensitive and accomodating...

Any sci-fi books where the protag fuck every aliens he mets?

>>13770585
Whatever Mass Effect is based on.

>>13770585
Probably many.

>>13770611
>>13770594
Great, any recommended one?? Thank you in advance!

>>13770677
Centauri Bliss by Skylar Grant has a good amount of fucking.
John Blake Chronicles is basically erotica in space.
Star Justice by MSE is kinda harem, maybe? I read only the first three books and it seemed like that was the direction he wanted to take, but didn't ever get to do it. Can't really recommend it.
Ringworld has some fucking, but I'm not sure how much. And only with humans and mostly humans.

>>13770899
Thank you anon!!

>>13765495
>I only read a few pages then skimmed and did some keyword searches.
stopped reading right there
stop spamming, retard

>>13768292
schizo ramblings

>>13770585
>no one posts undying mercenaries

>>13771518
He fucks aliens? I dropped too early to tell.

>>13771134
I am done though.

Not a book, but anyone interested in fucking weird ayys should check out Teraurge.

>>13772188
Good taste

Only urban fantasy I've read in the last, like, 10 years was Perdido Street Station (disliked it) and The Windup Girl (liked it).

Would love to find something with the scope of a Vollman novel and the literary quality to match.

>>13764925
FUCK OFF GIVE ME KILLERS AND KINGS

>>13766573
What books have a good maritime setting (but doesn't lean deep in recreating Empire time stuff)?

>>13772387
Don’t lie, nobody reads that

>>13772413
I want to see Calder's tentacle-fucking wife get her ass beat for all the shit she's caused is that so wrong?

>>13772419
What is that about fucking tentacles?

>>13772428
She worships the Elders, aka lovecraftian horrors but without all the pretentiousness, ergo, tentacle-fucker.

>>13772419
But she did nothing wrong?

>>13772448
>Wanting the Elders to be in charge
The Emperor's spirit is judging you, anon.

Thoughts on Street Cultivation?

>>13772499
>urban fantasy
>chinkshit
>self-published
>female author
How about you read it and let us know, mate?

>>13772703
I did read it, I thought it was actually pretty good, the litRPG shit was integrated in a way that didn't feel forced (no shit they'd quantify magical power especially when it's used as currency), the story doesn't spiral into godhood, the main characters feel relatable and lower-class without going full "woe is me", and the ending doesn't feel like it's just handed to the protagonist.

>>13772448
This, the Elders are clearly better at running this shit.

>>13772751
>litrpg
Thank you. Now I am certain I don't need to waste my time.

>>13764392
>sci fi
Space Vampires by Colin Wilson though it depends on your standard for 'good'.
The Strain by Guillemo del Toro though it's too zombie vampire for my taste. One of the best openings ever though.
>other
Fevre Dream by George RR Martin - even if you don't like ASOIF it's a good book, nothing like that series in any way.

>>13764392
out of the dark, david weber

>>13763680
>Monthly Reading for August: TBD

What happened?

>>13773485
>What happened?
The jews.

>>13764925
These have been a really fun read. Probably the best thing I’ve read this year

>>13773716
It's weird that a meme Cultivation novel feels refreshing considering how many are flooding the market. I dont even know what's being done differently here really, other than that maybe the main character isnt a total fuckass.

>>13773722
The characters are just genuinely enjoyable. Even Mercy the meme girl is fun enough.

>>13766606
I’m not sure he got what makes the Black Company so good, my waifu soul catcher

>>13767310
Yes, but also no.

>>13768783
People love to shit on him, but Sanderson goes all in on the world building. You are going to suffer through quite a bit of basically teenage angst through our most of the first and second books though.

Sell me on them.

>>13773965
If you don't read them you're a fag

>>13773965
I don't know what this is and I can't be bothered to find out.

>>13773965
You should read them as a history lesson if nothing else.

>>13773965
They're classics and therefore have to be read
They're also quite good

>>13773965
I'm reading them myself for the first time, just finished Second Foundation. Would recommend.

>>13763750
Based and qualitypilled

>>13763829
>Added charts
>Self published trash, fanfiction, and litrpg fapbait
Cringe

>>13766243
Based

There we go with the fantasy again.

>>13773928
We'll see how she is now that shes Underlord and not le clutz meme. Honestly I thought I'd hate Eithan more based on his intro but he ended up being a perfect foil to the main duo.
Also Orthos needs to come back as bestest boy.

>>13774344
Do you guys ever read real books or just Chinese anime stories?

>>13774491
Just whatever stories you hate most, so yeah, chinkshit.

Why the FUCK hasn't Baxter written a Raft 2 yet?

Why are audiobooks for the divine dungeon and ritualist taking so long?

Why are there so many philosophy threads purging lit threads?
/his/ was created to get rid of the philosophyfags that polluted this board.

I had to bump this general from page 8.

Conanchads are based.

>>13763680
Hey, I don't ever come into this thread because I think you're all a bunch of faggots. But that pic is really nice.

Read Dan Simmons

Can you guys recommend fantasy novels containing your favorite villains? Feel free to mention the particular villain

>>13774344
>Also Orthos needs to come back as bestest boy.
I bet he'll be sidelined in this book. I'll be surprised if he's mentioned twice.

How the fuck are you supposed to follow Malazan? So many fucking names to remember. It never spends more than a sentence or two introducing new characters so you're never sure if it's a new character and very few characters have a distinctive personality or way of speaking to help with the memory.

I just about got to grips with most of the cast in Book 1, then Book 2 introduces a larger cast with only tiny number from book 1 re-occuring. I've heard it doesn't get much better as the series goes on, thinking of dropping it.

>>13775910
i gave up trying to remember all the characters, i just tried to focus on what was happening, the events.

>>13775416
You hitting the gym fatty?

Any good post-singularity sci-fi? I got done with the Quantum Thief a while ago and I miss getting my mind blown by new concepts.

>>13773928
I just read the first one since everyone was talking about it. Feels surreal, like an unholy hybrid of chinkshit and YA. On the one hand I feel soiled, on the other I can't help but admit they fit together pretty well. I'm already sick of the "doh ho ho, I wonder how he'll get out of the next wacky adventure?" scifi interludes. That whole part just came across as forced. Suriel and the rest are less mysterious and more shallow and uninteresting. Hopefully it'll get better, as I imagine eventually it'll become more relevant, at least it doesn't take up too much space.

>>13775910
Malazan is the ultimate brainlet adhd filter. We know how to get rid of attentionlet spergs.

>>13776460
There were a bunch of books recommended a few threads ago. Check the archives for singularity.

>>13776717

If a high number of readers can't remember your characters, it's because the shit writing isn't giving them any memorable traits

>>13770160
nobody bullied birdboi, he was simply much much more annoying than even the Sarah J Fatass spammer

>>13776786
Or maybe roasties are making kids in their 30s, thus giving them the likely chance of getting adhd. The characters didn't bother me when I was reading the series a few years back.
Now I only remember a few, still remember that sad pitiful fuck though. I think he was like us.

>>13776901
There's a difference between "It didn't bother me that I was unable to remember any characters" and "I was able to remember each character's entire personality and life history"

>>13775986
How horrible, to be put through something like that.

>>13776901
>Or maybe roasties are making kids in their 30s, thus giving them the likely chance of getting adhd
At least you will never ever be involved in such sordid buisness.

>>13777075
I don't want to breed. But older women pucci is the best.

or are saying that I will only breed sub 30 women?

>>13775416
My favourite Conan moment is when he notices he's being followed by some thieves while he's in a weapon shop, so he just picks up the anvil and overhead presses it three times before loudly saying it must be hollow since it feels so light. The thieves then fuck off.

>>13777290
How sad that he's being shilled here by a DYEL fatso.

>>13777435
Conan is obviously a lot more chad than most of his fans, although the fact he's consistently described as having shoulder length square cut hair is pretty suspect.

I just read pic related and the book two, I hardly ever read fantasy but this was highly recommended. The problem is the books were great but I feel that fantasy genre is for brainlets(or makes intelligent people into brainlets), I am a stem student and while I enjoyed this it didnt really introduce me to any new concepts and didnt make me think and imagine new things and possibilities, it was just swords, battles, some magic, it was good entertainment but after reading it I realize my mind has starved and withered (a little) by not being exposed to science for several days.

>>13777621
You want high intelligence fantasy? Pic related.
Brainlets can't fathom the hidden meanings.

Anyone got a link for A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie?

>>13775759
Haunted Lands Trilogy, some familiarity with the Forgotten Realms world helps. Most of the cast are technically villains

>>13777664
Why even make a list as crappy as this?

>>13777833
Because I have shit tastes.

>>13777777

>>13775759
Gerald Tarrant

>>13778042
Absolutely based hex

>>13777664
As far as charts go, this one is particularly bad because it pretends to be something that it isn't.
It's not quite a troll chart, but it is a "people wouldn't otherwise look at several of these, but if I include others that are more acceptable they may be tricked into looking at the others."

Several of these are also on your execrable self-published chart.

Should really be called, a "A Random Assortment of Stuff I Like"

>>13777693
Wait for it to actually come out rather than getting an ARC, Advance Reading Copy.

>>13778482
I wonder how many are actually written by chartfag?

>>13778482
>Several of these are also on your execrable self-published chart.
6 out of 30+

>Should really be called, a "A Random Assortment of Stuff I Like"
It is a chart of books I like, newfag. I used to post a wall of text that had my 3.5-4.5 star books listed. I just made it into a chart.

>>13778526
every single chart and marco meme in this general was made by me over the years.

>>13778552
They weren't.

>>13778526
Likely:
Wall of Text
Self-Published
Degenerate
lit selected fantasy

Possible:
a few others

>>13778596
forgot to add:
mature women with younger boys

>>13778600
>>13778596
I think maybe also the ones with the dumb SFFG watermark as well, but I forget.

In conclusion, after far too many posts, the majority of the charts and probably 90%+, if not 100%, of the charts that are regularly posted in here, mostly likely by him. No doubt he advances his personal taste more than any one else by far.

>>13778617
>>13778600
>>13778596
I did say I made every single chart

>>13776578
Read the second one, glad to see less space-bullshit, not glad to see the pattern of skimming over all sorts of potentially interesting settings to immediately jump right to the finish line. A xiaxia could make a thousand chapters out of each location, instead it's like reading a tourist's guide, sometimes LITERALLY. Or the "mysterious master" saving everyone. Will this endlessly repeat, each new book just another step on a treadmill and a new character tacked on at the front of the pack? I also don't like how every problem and solution is either offscreened, papered over, or ignored.

Currently, our main party is a bag of retarded rats sliding down a greased slope, inevitably progressing through no fault or design of their own. All the struggling that happens seems shallow and tacked on at best.

Still somewhat interesting, potential for improvement is still there, characters are vaguely amusing.

>>13778626
Hey. I just want to share the gems I read after the hundreds of trash.

>>13778626
Why don't you make your own charts then?

>>13778636
Your taste makes it clear that you have both chronic and acute dysgeusia.

>>13778643
Because I didn't want to.
I did this instead: >>13765495

>>13777435
Based Conan working the chunkies into a shoot.

>>13778643
More specifically, I don't think any one person's taste are particularly useful for most others in determining whether something is worthwhile to read. If I were to do a chart, it'd need to have the input of many people of similar tastes relative to a random selected person.

That being said, it's better than nothing which is why I did what I did with the mega in the OP and apparently why it's even there in the first place.

It would be nice if there were an option to selectively turn on IDs on a per thread basis, especially for long running generals to see if it's mostly just a couple people always talking to each in every thread that makes up the majority of posts.

>>13778748
Go back to pol, soc or int if you want that. Faggot

>>13778759
Rather defensive about being exposed aren't you?

>listen to audiobook
>preddy gud
>loved it so much got the second book as soon as it dropped
>didn't check but the author switched narrators
>new guy can't read properly or enunciate words, awkward pauses, repeats words, clears throat, gives the listener questioning tones as if to ask if what he is reading is correct
>doesn't edit out shit in post, just gives as is
>so bad that I actually dropped it and got the e book
I guess it's true what they say. A great narrator can make a mediocre book enjoyable, and a mediocre narrator can make a mediocre book absolute shit.

>>13778773
Of course. You will see that I post the chink novels, then post the Conan ones to combat the bugmen(which I posted in the first place).

>>13778845
Congrats on making all the worst posts in the general every time.

I only post about YA coming of age fantasy

>>13778869
Recommend me a good YA coming of age movie

>>13778869
Recommend me a good coming of age YA fantasy short story?

>>13779131
The Tower of the Elephant

>>13779043
>>>/tv/

>>13778834
Name of book?

CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:
For all of /lit/, the average post rate is only 3 posts per minute FOR THE ENTIRE BOARD.
Don't believe me? That's fine. Look at the archive statistics or even simply sort the board by "last reply".

>>13775646
From the collage this actually sounds like good shit

>>13779638
So? what does this prove?

>>13778506
my bad, didn't check the release date closely
where to torrent ebooks now though since ebook bike down

>>13780050
>>13766368

>>13780049
reasonable expectations of activity for anyone wanting conversation.

This is the 268th post in 65 hours, so on average there are 4 posts per hour. Riveting. Of course, that isn't actually how this works. It's usually more a bursts of activity sort of thing.

>>13779131
Dawn of Wonder jonathan renshaw

>>13780089
You're right.
Let's get this show on the road in true /sffgay fashion.
Can anyone recommend me some good novels with cute catgirls? No chinkshit or litrpg.

>>13779131
The Four Revelations of Cinial Jin

>>13777621
The one you posted looks absolutely retarded. Just read Gene Wolfe.

>>13780322
Looks retarded?? Have you actually read it? It was pretty good.

I miss being able to assume that there was a quality barrier in place for books. Self-published books - saturated with 5 star reviews despite the author having horrid prose - fill the Amazon and B&N websites. For a while, the brick and mortar stores (at least around me) were still free of them, but recently there has been a big influx of them into my local store. I don't know where to look for actually well-written books anymore. I know I'm autistic, but having well-polished prose is something I value highly, regardless of genre, and self-published stories usually have the bare minimum of effort put into them in that regard. I simply don't know where to look anymore.

>>13780213
You mean catboys?

>>13780507
Use audiobooks. Can't go wrong. If you don't want to, fuck off.

>>13780600
How dare you respond to me fag.

>>13780476
Yes, it looks retarded. The brooding cover image, the ridiculous quote, the name of the title and even the quite faggy name of the author. Everything looks retarded. If I had read the book and knew it to be retarded I would have said so instead of saying that it looks retarded. For all I know it might be good.

>>13780627
The picture you posted was a dude... So you obviously mean catboys, not catgirls.

>>13780760
If only there were some sort of commonly used idiom about judging books based on their covers.

>>13780948
I have not judged the book, just the cover

>>13781029
I was just joking, Anon-kun.

>>13780612
What does this mean? Many self-published authors have audiobooks, and they're low quality too because they use sites like ACX to pay randoms to read their books.

>>13763680
>>What do you think about urban fantasy?
Like American Gods, Supernatural, Percy Jackson, Grimm? Garbage.
>muh secret supernatural society
>muh, I was too lazy to worldbuild, so here is Fagfarts behind the curtain
>much let's steal mythology from all across the world and put all them on America, because 'murican only matters, and if there actually were gods, they'd probably hang in New York City

>>13780920
Begone butt pirate.

>>13778834
>reading audiobooks
Do you even belong in this general? How can you "listen" to a book and retain what was given?

>>13781092
Stop reading only American authors. I read urban fantasy with bases all over the world. Not just "everything in merica". Also, a true evil would be in a third world country subverting their religion for it's own. Less chances of the American alphabet agencies to find out.

Finally finished this. You can tell Gibson spent a lot of time rewriting the first half of the book, but the ending really shits itself with that Coda chapter. Thought the overall plot was actually ok (but hard to follow) but...
>why did Molly just fuck off
>what did the ninja star represent?
>what the hell is the purpose of this new Matrix? Seems lazy
>what was with the three figures at the end?

Personally. I could have done without this chapter. Maybe just a vague chapter of case in the hotel, but felt really lazy to wrap up the story so quick. That being said, still a good example of cyberpunk. Hard to believe it was written so long ago, really appreciated the world that was painted.

>>13781032
B-baka

>>13781219
I'm ADHD as fuck and can pretty much only consume books as audio while I'm doing something else. That said, probably because my mind is always all over the place, I've never had a problem retaining audiobooks and in fact retain them better than text because as long as I'm occupied with something else my mind rarely wanders. Also I'm an electrical engineer, so I'm inclined to believe my IQ plays some part in not only my sporadic attention span, but the ability to process so much information efficiently.

I understand that this isn't the case for everyone.

>>13781235
That was more or less my experience as well. The beginning made a lot of sense and the novel peaked during the heist at the research center and dragged from there. Then they ended up spending about 60% of the book on that rastafarian space station and it lost me in places. The prose was a little esoteric by modern standards and it probably wasn't helped that I read it all in one sitting.

Very interesting take considering the level of technology at the time

>>13763680
Are there any good books set in a post apocalyptic setting? Like Fallout new vegas/ fallout 3.

>>13781284
Yeah, the rasta shit really just dragged me into the dirt. Kind of tabled it for a week until the turing police showed up then felt like it got more interesting again. I enjoyed the fact that Wintermute was crazy, but I don't understand why Neuromancer tried to stop the merger still. Hardwired to do so?

As a 25 year old zoomer now though, I really was fascinated by the perception of technology represented in this book. I've posted about it before, but I think that's why I enjoy older science fiction. It's a TRUE look on how society felt about the changes in technology. I just don't think you can capture that w/ nonfiction, because good science fiction is a product of the culture and times. I see a few reviews claim that it seems dated, but I definitely disagree. It's the nuances of AI that really bring it to life for me. Fascinating book, really. Just found out that maybe he was setting up more books in this Sprawl universe, but otherwise I'm pretty pleased with this one. I found it interesting that surveillance wasn't a central theme of the book, on the topic of historical relevance. I don't know of any current works of SF, but if I had to write something like that, I'm sure that'd be a major topic. I'm too brainlet to imagine the future of technology however

>>13781219
I prefer reading to listening, but I've never had retention issues with audiobooks. Then again whenever I was a subject in a memory or processing related study back in university—quite often bc you got nice rewards for it—I was some sort of freakish outlier. So I'm not sure my experience w/ audiobooks really aligns with the average listener's. The only stuff I'd absolutely avoid in audio form regardless of narrator is nonfiction where one would normally refer back to previous pages or make meaningful use of diagrams.

>>13781235
Wow the new cover looks ugly

>>13781235
1. She's a free spirit (and kind of a fuck up)
2. Case's past and hope for a new future
3. The Sequels Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive are about this
4. Neuromancer, Linda, and the Flatliner live in cyberspace now

I am looking for the masterpiece of fantasy literature.
Fuck off with your Peakes and Crowleys, they are known to me.

Where is the new Daniel Black for 2019?
Where is William D Arand for September?
Where is the new cradle?
Where is the new waldo rabbit.

>>13780213
The Ballad of Lost C'Mell by Cordwainer Smith
>>13781714
good post

>>13781969
Grow up and have sex.

Why is it so hard to find good sci-fi compared to good fantasy?

>>13781999
try finding some other genre except sci fi/ fantasy,

>>13781979
I just reread Ulysses for the 48th time and will proceed to read the latest William Arrand book.
Also, I read Camus, so all the chicks fight for the chance to have sex with me

Any recommendations for someone who has gone through most of Tanith Lee's works?

>>13781963
Tolkien lmao

>>13781963
Lord Dunsany

Is it a bad idea to write a 300,000 word science fiction epic that will probably require sequels as my first major project after only short stories and articles?

>>13782096
The answer is most likely yes, but don't let anyone tell you want to do. Because at the end of the day, if you aren't enjoying what you are writing, it will almost always turn out shit.

Just understand it's a totally different beast. Longest thing I've written was around 250,000 and it takes quite a bit of determination to stay on track. Any break from writing longer than maybe three days will completely obliterate your character consistency unless you take religious notes, and since epics are constantly jumping between characters and scenes, you're pretty much always fumbling to remember how you wrote a particular thing when you return to it like 100k words later. My biggest piece of advice is simply stay focused.

>>13782076
You are trend-chasing midwit looking for comfort an enjoyment, rather than truth and artistic merit. Fucking normie.
>>13782088
Based, already read everything the guy wrote.

>>13782118
Based, thanks man. I'm already about 80k in but ended up taking a few months to re-read and rework. How long did your project take you if you don't mind me asking?

>>13782121
>You are trend-chasing midwit looking for comfort an enjoyment, rather than truth and artistic merit.
Actually, that is basically everyone that have written fantasy post Tolkien.

>>13778633
Finished the third one, yep it's a repeating pattern. I have no hope of a reversal, and it's getting pretty bland and predictable. We've now settled firmly into bland, but palatable, mediocrity. It's a smooth and easy read, not hard to consume or digest, like a baloney sandwich. I figure I'll read the rest just out of momentum and then forget about it.

>>13782134
Took me a little over six months. My writing pace is pretty relaxed and I average between 1,000 - 1,500 words a day since I'm unfortunately employed and only have so much spare time.

>>13782135
>implying Mieville, Wolfe, Moorcock and literally dozens of others don't exist.

>>13782155
That's actually pretty damn fast desu. I'd say I average 200w/d, but that's largely because other commitments mean I can only write maybe twice or three times a week.

Is the Liveship Traders trilogy any good? Descriptions of Hobb's other series put me off but this one sounds interesting.

>>13782200
Only if you are a sheltered white woman

>>13782121
I guess you've probably read Jack Vance too.

Susanne Clarke, although she hasn't written much.
Tanith Lee's a good writer.

Ernest Bramah is a pre-Tolkien legend.
Italo Calvino.

>>13782213
If you have the time and inclination, I'd be interested to hear you elaborate on that.

>>13780213
The Lani People by J.F. Bone

NEW THREAD
>>13782286
>>13782286
>>13782286

>>13782096
>>13782134
The main problem is you may improve after writing so that much that by the time you finish you may have to redo it all to keep a consistent level of quality.

>>13782302
Yeah that's literally what happened when I took a couple of months to rework. My old stuff was laughable by comparison

>>13782294
Can't even get the month right. Incompetent threadfag

>>13781235
Gibson can't really finish a book. In about half of them something comes from the internet and saves the day in two pages.