/lit/ - Literature

sanderfag a hack

Some anon or another here.
There are now 20 entries in the monthly reading.
How many of them have you read? Not only during the monthly reading.
https://www.strawpoll.me/18679249
How do you feel about the choices overall?
https://www.strawpoll.me/18679276

By published date in chronological order
1913
1924
1931
1946
1950
1953
1956
1961
1966
1967
1972
1972
1974
1977
1984
1988
1993
1999
2002
2015

Decades
00s: 0
10s: 1
20s: 1
30s: 1
40s: 1
50s: 3
60s: 3
70s: 4
80s: 2
90s: 2
00s: 1
10s: 1

Genre
SF 11
Fantasy 9 (3 horror)
Non-English/Translated: 3 (1 Polish, 2 Russian)

Observations
At least from each decade of the 20th century, except 1900-1909
Half are from the 50s-70s.
Is this representative of /sffg/?
I don't know, but doesn't seem so to me.
The Fantasy choices in particular overall don't seem to be representive, but ought they be?
I can't say I know what the purpose of the monthly book ought to be.
What do you think the purpose is and what do you think it ought to be?
Are there any issues you'd want to see addressed?

>>13864016
that rage of dragons shit any good?

Personal Thoughts

>World Set Free, The - H. G. Wells
I don't like his works.

>Shadow Over Innsmouth, The - H. P. Lovecraft
I don't like Lovecraft.

>Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke
Despite not liking this overall, especially the ending, I also watched the miniseries. Didn't like that overall. Don't like Clarke much overall.

>Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
Dick is rather hit or miss for me, but I really liked this one.

>Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
I've looked at many of his works, but I just can't do it.

>The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
I've looked at a good number of "golden age" works and I've found most simply not to my taste.

>Roadside Picnic - Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Arkady
Looked at because of this thread and didn't care.

>Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
There may be a pattern of dislike for me of f&sf that has been deemed worthy by literary critics.

>Sword in the Storm - David Gemmell
I'm reminded that I have different standards for fantasy vs sf.
There may be a greater variety of sf that I'm willing to accept.

>Night in the Lonesome October, A - Roger Zelazny
I've tried to like Zelazny, but wasn't able to do so.

>The Dying Earth - Jack Vance
I don't know why, but I don't like Vance.

>Scanner Darkly, A - Philip K. Dick
It's okay and so is the movie. Seems to be considered high tier of his works but I don't think so.

>Fifth Head of Cerberus, The
Wolfe simply isn't for me.

>The Black Company - Cook, Glen
I've looked at a lot of Glenn Cook. Currently I may read Dread Empire and Dark War, but my inital assesment may be wrong. This is not for me.

>We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
I may have a bias against Russian novels as I don't think I've ever wanted to read one. I have Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Russian F&SF I'll have to look at.

>There Are Doors - Gene Wolfe
Maybe I'll find a Wolfe I want to read, but this isn't it.

>Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
Still not something I want to read.

>The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins
I've seen this mentioned a few times. It's the only novel from this century so far. My initial assessment is that I'd like it in theory but not in practice.

>Babel-17 Empire Star - Samuel R. Delany
May still yet read sometime.

>Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
Chiang does good work and I enjoy reading him.

Overall:
4 read, 2 liked, 1 okay, 1 meh
Read during monthly: 0
For me to be actively engaged it'd have to be a book that I'd be excited to read or have already read and enjoyed a lot.
I'd prefer the former as I'd have to refresh my memory of what I've already read to discuss much.
That being said, it is nice to have more people reading what one enjoys.
A novel from the 2000s would be a good choice as there hasn't been one yet. An anthology isn't a novel.
I'll probably make at least few posts about the anthology when it's "time" to do so.

>>13864918
To be seen if this image will result in the thread being deleted.

>>13864948
one can only hope

>>13864948
nope. nudity in the context of visual arts is a-ok on blue boards.

>>13864918
Is martin ever going to release winds of Winter? Has the release date been postponed again? I was beginning to read a game of thrones, but if I will have to wait so long that I would have to reread the series anyway, why should I bother?

Anyone ever read John Braine?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vodi

An insanely well-read friend is pushing this shit hard on me. I don't think for any particular reason other than that he thinks John Braine shouldn't be forgotten and it's a charming "weird" story.

>brane
holy fuck i almost stopped reading revelation space right then and there. what a retarded word

>>13865009
Physicists are really fucking bad at naming things.

>>13865009
How often do words trigger you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane

>>13865027
it happens occasionally. i know it's a real thing because it was such a retarded word i googled it the second i saw it

>>13865000
>insanely well-read
doubt

>friend
doubt intensifies

That's a bad reason and it's basically saying it's a bad book.

>>13865031
What do you think about the word "membrane"?
What other words don't you like?

>>13865043
it's nice, something about it seems right to me. like it's the proper word for what it represents.
idk nothing springs to mind right now. more often i encounter words i actively like than i do ones i dislike. another word i like is antediluvian. before the deluge. or 'jovian', of jupiter. pretty cool words. ever hear the word "corpolite". that's pretty good too.

Books about lone wanderers exploring century or millennia old ruins?

>>13865034
..What is a bad reason? That it's a charming book or that the author should be better known? Or both?

>>13865027
>p-branes
Lmao. Fuckin p-branes, my brane is massive

>>13865073
Start writing one

>>13865076
I used to talk to a guy who claimed he only read unpopular works because they needed to have their "spirit" saved and continue to live on in others and there was no point to read anything popular because there was no value doing so relative to his worthy cause. Reminded me of that silliness. I think he may have also been rather autistic.

>>13865027
>>13865082
>p-brane
>d-brane
>>13865025
you were right

>>13865096
>Ah fuck, some asshole just kicked me in my left d-brane

For once I finished the book more than 20 seconds before the discussion thread. Quite enjoyable read.

>>13864987
Just read 1 book per year and it should be out by then.

>>13864918
>hhhmmmmnNNRNRRRRRRRRGH CUNNNNYYYYYYYYYY

>>13865073
Here's a short story I personally rather liked about this:
Omnilingual - H. Beam Piper, The Golden Age of Science Fiction vol 9

This one doesn't get to that until later: Fossil Game - Tom Purdom, Supermen anthology (has nothing to do with superheroes)

This is somewhat like that, but it's more like living ruins:
Warlord of Kor - Terry Carr, The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Vol. 12

Can be found elsewhere, such as Gutenberg, since they are public domain. These were just matters of convenience for me.

Probably others I'm not remembering at the moment.

It would be nice to have a book about it, but I wonder if it could be sustained well for an entire book. I don't know.

>>13865073
All xianxia involves exploring ancient domains

>>13865303
Actually, none of these are are "lone wanderers". Oh well. I may have been thinking wrong in general about what you meant.

"Stories of your life." I hate how authors name their books. It all feels so gimmicky and tailored to attract attention.

>>13865405
Marketing, rather than authors, tends to decide covers and names.

>>13865405
ikr. fuck those authors for trying to make money and live from writing.

>>13865405
A standard for naming a collection is : Most popular story and others.

>>13865443
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE NOBILITY OF POVERTY?

>>13864940
your taste and opinions are terrible. please leave this board tyia

>>13865025
reminder that physicists discovered a gravitational phenomenon that resulted in an all- consuming gap in the fabric of spacetime and called it a "black hole"

reminder that physicists discovered the universe was created by the seed of reality erupting violently and they called this event the "big bang"

reminder that phyiscists discovered a wide class of particles with identical structures but slightly different properties, and they decided to say that the particles came in many different "flavours"

reminder that physicists once detected a single particle of cosmic radiation with as much kinetic energy as a baseball moving a 9mph. they guy who found it while looking through the printouts circled it and wrote OMG!! so they decided to call it the "oh my god" particle

reminder that physicists tried doing this again when they were looking for the higgs boson by nicknaming it the "god damn particle" but they were forced to censor it resulting in the "god particle"

reminder that the average physicist is so autistic he cant communicate any physics concept without a lagrangian or strictly approved terminology and becomes violently angry if you try to explain it any other way

>>13865463
No doubt you'd be simply aghast and require smelling salts if only you knew the true depth of my terrible opinions and taste.

>>13864940
>this whole post

>>13865478
Functionality over aesthetics has its place.

>>13865547
Don't engage the autism.

You anons have any books you recommended to friends and they didnt like them?

>>13864966
>in the context of visual arts is a-ok on blue boards
Lol so new. You think because an art hoe takes a selfie, throws on some filters and call it art that it's acceptable? You think you can watch your doujin at work and tell him it's art?
Fucking humanities graduates.

>>13865405
My favourite name of a short story collection is Wolfe's 'The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories'. Really gets the point across.

Are there any fantasy books that center around laying siege to castles and really get detailed about the battle scenes and tactics? Like no cut to black moments, but going through the siege and conflict every step of the way?

>>13865737
I recommended Tanith Lee. They hated her.

>>13865741
>this whole post

>>13864937
Rage of Dragons is a solid 7/10.

>>13865561
when it is function, yes. That last one has pointlessly left even above-average people radically ignorant of the discipline of modern physics. These things can be understood by the common man if explained right, but they won't be because the elitists of the scientific community shout down any attempt at elucidation in a fit of autistic rage

>>13864937
>
Rage of Dragons is a solid 7/10, which is amazing considering it's a first time author. Real excited to see what he does with the rest of the series.

posting again - ive read all the books shown, where should i go from here?

>>13865770
>where should i go from here?
End yourself.

>>13865770
malazan

>>13865752
Can someone read this and recommend me a book about a fantasy that has really detailed sieges and castle warfare?

>>13864937
Assuming you mean https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41952489-the-rage-of-dragons

I don't know. I just read the first few pages and it seems entirely different from the description on goodreads which seems to be a persecuted people trying to settle a new land and attacking the natives. The goodreads description makes it seem almost like a LitRPG description.

I'll probably look at it more sometime eventually.

>>13865789
red knight and first druss book

>>13865762
>>13865757
and
>>13865789
>>13865752

What is going on here?
Also the siege stuff was discussed in the previous thread, look there.

>>13865789
>>13865752
Why are you so autistic. Calm the fuck down and stop spamming.

> I just read the first few pages and it seems entirely different from the description on goodreads which seems to be a persecuted people trying to settle a new land and attacking the natives

That's the prologue, then it skips ~100 years into the future.

>>13865800
that's only a prologue, some big timeskip almost immediately.

>>13865770
Where is the night angel trilogy?

>>13865809
Fuck off faggot, it's two posts.

>>13865758
How is that any different than anything else of advanced study?

>>13865817
Lightbringer was a bit of a chore to get through, especially the back end of book 3 and all of book 4, not really sure I want to read another story of his. I'll finish Lightbringer cause it's one more book, but I've heard nothing but it being worse than LB in terms of story, character, setting, lore, etc.

>>13865805
>red knight
thanks brother

>>13865770
You might like some from my read pile that I enjoyed.

>>13865800
>we wuz dragons n shiet

i totally forgot about glokta's daughter not being his lel

>>13865836
thanks

>>13865843
Sorry, I don't have the slightest /pol/ sympathies.

>>13865819
6 minutes apart. If you didn't get any (you)s you would have posted again.
Calm your autistic ass down. And you are an autistic spreg, seeing as you want battle siege in detail. Someone will answer you, just control your chromosome.

>>13865856
You're sounding a-lot more autistic than me, lmao.

>>13865789
fuck fantasy and read this

>>13865850
Don't believe him.
He's not to be trusted.
That's just his chart of his favorite books that he tries to get anybody and everybody to read regardless of the context.
Almost all of those are almost entirely unrelated to what you have shown in your image.

>>13865865
thanks brother

>>13865869
>Almost all of those are almost entirely unrelated to what you have shown in your image.
this lmao

>>13865861
>l-lmao you've seen through me more than I expected
>y-you the autist

>>13865869
it's also a list of the most generic and well known books of the genre, but i thank him nonetheless for the effort.

>>13865770
Did you post about The Rage of Dragons? I see it on your bookshelf.

>>13865887
See
>>13865762

>>13865303
>>13865362
Thanks

i wonder how the fuck many books i've read that either have a sword on the cover or the word sword in the title

>>13865869
>>13865876
Well then he won't read it, idgaf. I'm too busy actually reading to be memeing with you "do you even read" fags.
>he asks for books
>you give him some of your 3.5 star books that you enjoyed
>don't believe him, even though he told you upfront it's books he read and enjoyed which might translate to you not liking it, but at least you got some material to browse
>just don't touch them and here is my non recommendations instead
>have this nothing in it's place

>>13865770
Malazan, Black Company and Prince of Nothing should all be right up your alley.

>>13865925
and abercrombie for good measure

>>13865770
Some actual recommendations:
The Dragon's Path
The Sum of All Me
The Magicians
Recluce Saga
Majipoor
The Emperor's Blades
City of Dreams and Nightmare

>>13865925
Right on. I've read book 1 of Malazan and not sure if I want to get into another huge epic quite yet, I just recently finished WoT and that took way longer than it should have. I'll check out Prince of Nothing though, haven't heard of that.

>>13865931
Middle row, third shelf - The First Law trilogy. They're great! I've heard less-than-stellar things about the other books he's written though.

>>13865931
Abercrombie is red, blue, yellow books.

>>13865770
>where should i go from here?

back to r/books of course

>>13865941
>The Sum of All Me
Whoops.
The Sum of All Men

>>13865947
>I've heard less-than-stellar things about the other books he's written though.
the standalones and even the short story book are all actually better imo. fuck the YA thing tho.

>>13865941
Killer list, thanks!

>>13865941
>Majipoor
Unless you want a juggling instructional book, don't bother with this.

>>13865960
He's already read Malazan.
That's what you should have actually meant, not this.

>>13865886
>it's also a list of the most generic and well known books of the genre
Oh, so you want obscure shit?

>>13865972
Nah, you're just getting memed on.
Clearly that isn't what your list is.

>>13865968
No, I meant what I actually said. I want to find the anon who recommended that fucking juggling book. Fucke silverberg.

>>13865986
Oh I misunderstood.
You mean literal juggling, which is what is on the cover.
My mistake.
I thought you meant that a person would need to juggle an instructional book on what it's about at the time time. I entirely misunderstood.
That's rather silly of then.
Silverberg is one of my favorite novelists and short stories writers personally.

>>13866004
>Silverberg is one of my favorite novelists and short stories writers personally
So it was probably you who shilled it to me a few years ago.....

>>13866004
>>13865986
I preferred the Lord Prestimion trilogy to the Lord Valentine trilogy anyway.

>>13866030
No, it wasn't.
I just recently came back to these threads a few months ago after an absence of some years.

What was me was recent discussion about Silverberg in a recent thread.

>>13866030
I will tell you to read Dying Inside by Silverberg though. What a great time that was.

>>13865770
Made this 4+ years ago

>>13865822
I can't say because the only other thing I've studied to the same level of detail is food, and all that information is out in the open and not intentionally obscured by obnoxious elitists. Arguably there is a large amount of obfuscation, but it's on the level of individual recipes rather than global knowledge. Anyone can learn anything they want about food science as long as they can find resources on the subject. Any difficulty of knowledge transfer is the student's fault, not the teacher's

>>13865770
Here is another.

>>13865770
There are a lot of charts in the mega in the OP for you to look at.

>>13866070
>>13866075
Yes, do post every chart you've ever done so that it can be definitely known which are yours.

>>13866086
Just those three.
Want me to post the 3x3 superior self published chart? With no smut or litrpg shit?

>>13866075
>not-asia
every time fuck

>>13866104
>With no smut or litrpg shit?
Both have smut and litrpg and both have ones that aren't even self-published.

>>13865770
It's a good thing you posted it again since it didn't get much response the first time.

There are 100s of novels that I've looked and may read eventually. I really need to actually read some but it seems I may be addicted to sampling.

Can anyone recommend some comfy fantasy? In particular, I'm looking for something in the vein of the Riyria Revelations/Chronicles. I'm looking for some banter and adventure.

>>13866132
it didn't, and it was 2 posts before the last thread archived.

>>13866173
14 posts and 4 hours+ before it was archived you mean. Look for yourself.

>>13866158
Gentlemen Bastards.

>>13866187
And yet it got what, 2 replies that were shitposts? Meanwhile in this thread it got a solid dozen, and from it I've added another dozen or so books/series to my to be read list. Not sure why you have to be so butthurt that I posted the same picture in two threads. How insecure are you?

>>13866198
I was being sincere and then I was sincerely corrected you.

>>13866204
Right on. I can never tell with this fucking site. So many people are dicks just to be dicks.

>>13866198
I hope you read the wind up girl, and if you like OP's pic, the girl with the Dragon tattoo and black jewels trilogy

>>13866214
Different anon.
Personally, I think Bacigalupi should stick to short works, but that isn't where the money is. It's a shame that I don't really like his novels.

>the girl with the Dragon tattoo
>OP pic
How is that related in any way?

>>13866210
like me
nigger

>>13864918
I'm somewhat surprised there hasn't been much discussion about the OP's edition.

>>13866230
Girl with the Dragon tattoo
Let the right one in
The black jewels trilogy
Lolita

>>13866242
Not relevant to the thread and not relevant to the OP mostly.

>>13865770
Finish Malazan

>>13864918
What a beautiful painting.

I own a beastery of tolkiens middle earth, and the illustrations are strikingly familiar.

>>13865073
Vampire hunter D

>>13865854
Are you a tranny?

/sffg/ are you ever struck by the sheer inanity of it all? I'm momentarily free from my desires, my fears, my emotions, and it all just seems hollow as fuck

Anyone got any recommendations for shorter works ala the stainless steel rat books?
My pace of reading just utterly died when all the sports started up again at the end of summer. I know some sword and sorcery is fairly short but I've only ever really touched the genre via modern tributes to it.

>>13866158
It's not banter but Modesitt's two big works (Imager and Recluce) are both comfy

>>13866516
chronicles of amber
elric
not really outside the box recs or anything

>>13866529
I might go back to amber, I read the first one, really enjoyed it and then decided to carry on with the series after reading some other stuff.

>>13866497
That's called depression and or an existential crisis.

To the undying mercenaries bros.
Did the McGill creature fuck the female claver yet?

>>13866256
>sffg books about lolis is not relevant to the loli edition
Okay...

>There was immediately a large expanse of sparks flying out, whenever one of these sparks fell onto the ground, they would always turn tens of thousands of li of the desert into lava!

Imagine a battle of this level on the earth, it would be totally destroyed

/sffg/, how do I revive the spark of meaning in my life?

>>13866757
lolita's not sff and IIRC isn't the loli in let the right one in a boy?

>>13866761
to be fair, chinese fantasy has always been like this. Ever read Journey To The West? It feels like you're reading a looney toons parody of early 2000s shonen anime.

BASED

>>13864937
>>13865800
>4k ratings 500 reviews
That is not a good sign.
>260, 250, 200 likes
Definitely not good.
>The Rage of Dragons is an African inspired revenge fantasy novel.
Ah, now it makes sense.

>>13866242
>Girl with the Dragon tattoo
At the youngest point she wouldn't even be considered as such. Almost all the time she's much older and this is not SFF in any way at all.

>Let the right one in
Not a girl.

>The black jewels trilogy
I don't know about this, but you're probably being silly.

>Lolita
Not SFF at all.

>>13867219
What is the ideal ratio of ratings to review?

What is the fantasy equivalent of the Soul vs Soulless meme?

>>13867035
>/sffg/, how do I revive the spark of meaning in my life?

By doing meaningful activities and improving your health.

>>13867219
Charles Saunders is the only writer of African fantasy worth reading.

>>13867240
I just took a look around my read books here, and most seem to fall on the 3~4% range. For it to have 13% reviews/rate ratio, something is fishy. My guess is most readers are more interested about virtue signaling (thus the high review amounts) to get likes (lots of likes on the reviews) than in really reading good books.

>>13867261
I hope you realize that your idea would only be applicable to books that don't have many ratings.
Anything popular is going to always have a very low ratio.

>>13867274
4k ratings isn't many ratings.

>>13867276
Yes, I agree, which is why it's applicable.
I'm saying for it to have a high ratio, it can't be a popular book.

>>13867035
wow you complete faggot. Way to spoil let the right one in.
I guess being a depressed cunt who makes a bunch of excuses to not write and paid a therapist to tell you what you want to hear would be brainlet enough to drop a major fucking spoiler

>>13867286
You're the one who brought it up.

>>13867274
>>13867276
Sorry, I misunderstood. Yes, I compared with books with the same amount of ratings. The second place was with a book with just about 100 reads, but after that all seem to have fallen on the 2~4% ratio, up until ringworld that was the one I got with the most reads.

/sffg/, I'm bored out of my mind right now so at the risk of posting something off topic I want to play a game to break up the monotony.

Someone name an ingredient. Any ingredient will do but only post one of them at a time. I'll probably only do one dish but I'll try to incorporate as many ingredients as I can. Let's see where this shit goes.

>>13867243
LotR vs the hobbit maybe? Granted that's a movie adaptation so I'm not sure it counts as SFF

What books are you expecting between now and December 31st?

>>13867321
There hasn't been a good book in decades!
>seemingly average poster

>>13867307
Getting people to participate is difficult.

>>13867345
I've gotten people to participate in other generals. the problem is that those generals actually had people posting in them.

>>13867321
there's that sequel to children of blood and bone I'm looking forward to. Otherwise, not much.

Is ken liu ever going to finish the dandelion dynasty, or is he just going settle for mediocrity of translating chinese scifi novels?

>>13867321
UNCROWNED

I'm currently reading Hyperion.
The story about the Bikura and the cruciform was pretty interesting but Kassad's story is starting to bore me, are the rest better?

>>13867364
He's still doing short stories as well.
>>13855767

>>13867411
You really don't need to post about it at literally every possible opportunity.

>>13855113
Web novels are self published tho

>>13867307
Garlic

There is a piece of hypothetical technology that I'm wondering if it has shown up in any fiction. Since I haven't heard of it elsewhere, I will just call it a "paradox switch".

A paradox switch is a device that takes advantage of the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle to "steer fate" in a way. When a paradox switch is "primed", it erases some percentage of the "potential futures" where the paradox switch is "fired". This percentage varies based on the strength of the particular switch, and a paradox switch can't be fired unless it's primed.

>>13867623
I recently read a short story featuring similar to that, but the protagonist could do it at will. It wasn't technology.

>>13867510
Webnovels are blogs. You absolute cumbrain

>>13867516
since I guess this is the only suggestion I'm getting let's see what I can do

Savory Garlic Cronuts with dipping sauce

Ingredients:

>2 packages frozen croissant dough
>1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
>8 cloves garlic, whole
>1/4 cup grated parmesano reggiano
>1/4 cup minced parsley
>2 cloves garlic, grated
>1/4 cup chives, minced
>1/2 cup creme fraische
>2 tbsp dijon mustard
>oil for frying

Directions
>In a food processor, combine the butter, whole garlic, parmesan and parsley and pulse until smooth and thoroughly combined
>Roll out the croissant dough to 1/4" thick rectangle and spread the compound butter over half of it with a rubber spatula. Fold over the dough and then roll out and fold over again
>using ring molds cut the dough into donuts and reserve while you bring a pot of oil up to 350ºF
>Fry those fuckers like your life depends on it (it does)
>when golden brown on both sides and and puffed up, transfer to a wire rack to dry
>while they cool, mix the garlic paste, creme fraische, chives and mustard and then serve alongside the garlic cronuts as a dipping sauce.
>Bone Atrophy!

>>13867623
I'm not sure what you're describing anon. I thought the exploitability of the self-consistency principal was that you could have an object before you create it

>>13867307
Bully Stick.

>>13867754
The self consistency principle simply states that a time paradox occurring has a probability of 0. In other words, the kind of futures that try to produce time paradoxes are less likely to happen because some of them did create paradoxes and cancelled themselves out. If you have the ability to see the future, you will also seem uncannily lucky, because seeing any future you don't want will lead to you trying to change it, and changing it will result in a paradox, so you are more likely to see futures that you won't try to change.

Anyone reading Gideon the Ninth? For the first third I was like kill me but now I'm actually having a blast, a little past halfway through.

>>13867035
Hell yea, JttW / the version released as Monkey in the west changed my life. Come to think of it, I didn't at all 'get' anime & such all my life until the period after I read that, and now I hold the same spiritual reverence for Dragon Ball and the sudden strange turn to SF in Z that I feel for all creation stories and mythologies. I think.

>>13864936
>At least from each decade of the 20th century, except 1900-1909
we should read Wizard of Oz some month so that it crosses off this decade.

>>13864918
nice painting reminds me of angel's egg

Anyone read any of K. J. Parker's series? I enjoyed Academic Exercises immensely and want to start one of his novels, but he seems to have quite an output.

>>13865094
He was based and artpilled

Sorry, Needs more naked, fit white (conan's preference) women

>>13867683
Do you know what the word "publish" means, you festering rectal wart?

>>13867321
the brian mclellan one I suppose

>>13868364
Based.

Riftwar worth getting into or can I just read Magician as stand alone?

>>13868551
You can read the first trilogy as a stand alone, but it's rough. By his own admission, Feist was a complete amateur at the time and the story structure is fairly rough. I like it though, despite its flaws. It has some really interesting scenes and ideas. I really enjoyed the whole Ashen Shugar storyline.

>>13868403
>webnovel fag is trying to put legitimacy to his chinkshit novels and is getting mad no one is buying this shit

>>13868542
She looks like a green snake Rasta.

Why would anyone actually enjoy Prince/King/Emperor of Thorns?

>>13868788
I don't know what any of that means and I don't wanna know. Shut up.

>>13868809
>why do you guys actually read instead of shitpost?

>>13868824
The "woman" looks like a green skinned, snake woman, with rasta hair.
You dyel faggot.

>>13864937
it's pretty much a training/tournament anime

>>13868909
Nice try, bugman.

>>13868364
You do realise that Conan isn't white, right? And he has a "white meat fetish", right? He goes about looking for thick white women to save so they would be grateful and pass him the pucci.

>>13868913
>everyone is a bugman that I don't agree with

>>13868917
>You do realise that Conan isn't white, right?
Yes he is, you daffy faggot.

>>13868924
See
>>13868913

>>13868925
>being this deluded
I will spare you your dreams, bit I'm sure another anon will decimate your reality. Go and read conan quick before he is lost to you forever.

>>13868930
See
>>13868913

>>13868925
Conan is a cross bread mutt lmao, the white people in the stories are the civilized people of the central kingdoms.

>>13868165
i read the engineer trilogy. it was good

>>13869100
See
>>13868913

>>13868917

Conan is white. He is a cimmerian isnt he? Cimmerians are a Indo-Aryan Scythian tribe and thats where he is based on.

Turns out being naked and fucking outside all day makes you tanned.

Not everyone is as pale as you, you fucking sojaman
Have sex outside

Hi friends!! Have you read the guide to evil yet??? LOL!

>>13865752
>>13865789
for laying siege to cities rather than castles, the engineer trilogy has some autistically detailed stuff

>>13868165
yeah i love them. as noted the engineer trilogy is pretty great, but the standalones sharps and the folding knife are even better imo

>>13869174

Idk looks gay

>>13869153
indo-aryan mean indian, iranian or romani, and the scythians were in modern day iran.

if /pol/tards want to be taken seriously, the least they can do is do their retard homework, or is that too difficult for you? do you need help writing things down on your circle of paper?

>>13869348

Scythians lived in modern day ukraine sweety.
The greeks called the Scythians their brothers.
The Persians attacked and were slaughtered on the steppes of modern Russia.
The scythians crossed the caucasus mountains and descended upon the Assyrian niniveh and raised it to the ground.

They split off in Sarmatians (Poles, R1A) and a lot of other groups (krauts R1B, ukrainians, russians) when they were driven west into central Europe and/or were subjugated by the Huns.
Indo aryan means Indo Aryan. There are white blue eyed folk found in the Indian subcontinent, whites in iran (aryan) - mainly persians, there are whites in Afghanistan. Though these are mainly R1b and western europe is mainly R1A

But please, lets keep the sojaboy domination outside this fine general. Conan is a white man that only fucks white women, and there is nothing you can do about it.

>>13869387
Holy fucking REKT.

>>13869249
It's actually really good, expect for the Drow arc.

>>13869387
>Scythian, also called Scyth, Saka, and Sacae, member of a nomadic people, originally of Iranian stock, known from as early as the 9th century BCE who migrated westward from Central Asia to southern Russia and Ukraine in the 8th and 7th centuries BCE.
>source: encyclopedia brittanica

next time do your homework mongoloid

>>13868165
The Scavenger trilogy is one of my favorites

>>13869467

Point being? Iran (Aryan) is a originally white country, and it still is at large swathes.
Or you are saying Persians are negros?

>>13869596
you are making claims, you're not citing sources, and you're imagining binaries that dont exist. post some goddamn evidence that your ridiculous bullshit is valid or shut the fuck up, fuck off, never bother this general with your retardation again

>>13868809
eh, I did. would never re-read, but it was an enjoyable read lying on a beach for a week with a paloma or margarita in hand

>>13869617

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/eaat4457

Cimmerians. The Y chromosome haplogroup variation in 17 of 18 males was limited to two major haplogroup lineages within the macrohaplogroup “R” (table S3). The Srubnaya-Alakulskaya individuals carried the Y haplogroup R1a (Modern Eastern Europe dominant paternal lineage), which showed a major expansion during the Bronze. The Iron Age nomads mostly carried the R1b Y haplogroup (Western Europe dominant paternal lineage)

Paper also shows genetic continuity between these tribes and modern europeans.

tl:dr Conan is white

Do apologize to everyone in this thread but this sojacuck had to be dealt with

>>13869689
I wanna fuck the green thing in the middle.

>>13869689
Holy fucking REKT again. Also Conan isn't a historical Cimmerian either way; Howard either simply liked the name or maybe thought it was obscure enough at the time to use. But yes he's still white. He's described as being white in the stories. Hell in The Vale of Lost Women the entire fucking point of the story is that Conan is white and he wants to save a white woman who's been imprisoned by blacks because they're the same race.

>>13869703

Man"s got a thing for Grottan Gelflings and there is nothing wrong with that.

>>13869707

Howard"s the man. Whats the best Conan story?

>>13869723
>Howard"s the man. Whats the best Conan story?
The Scarlet Citadel is probably my favorite, but The Tower of the Elephant might be the absolute best. Rogues in the House is also great (Conan straight up murders an innocent man in that one).

>>13869756

Saved. Thnx

>the conan anon was pol in disguise all the time
>he probably pushed lovecraft and other authors who talked low about "blacks" too
I'm not surprised.

>>13869783
>>>/lgbt/

Can this be considered Sci-fi?
(post apocalyptic wasteland survival)

>>13868783
>He doesn't know

>>13869707
Conan is black Irish, like Howard himself. He did fuck some Indian bitches tho. And probably some black bitches when he was in Africa.

>>13869783
>rent free

>>13869723
Beyond the Black River I think, or whichever one it is that Conan is mostly an ancillary character

>>13869783
>comparing REH to Lovecraft in the context of racism
Dilate, have sex and go back to /pol/. Lovecraft was proper redpilled while REH was basically a SJW of his time.

>>13868809
Because they were original and well written.

>>13869795
>>>/pol/
How the fuck do you not realize that if you frequent /pol/ other boards don't want you? You can't just direct anyone who mentions niggers in a sentence that doesn't make fun of them to /lgbt/. You are pests on mankind, literally every bit as bad as tumblr, and you keep diverting the discussion every fucking time.

>>13869931
>Because they were original and well written.
lol you cheeky cunt.

>>13869942
>So triggered by /ourguy/ Jorg he has to post about it in every single thread

>>13869966
Seethe.

>>13869969
>Tfw you realize all these posts are just Mark Lawrence trying to distance himself from us because redditors buy more books

>>13869987
Cringe.

>>13868809
i like those kinds of settings.

>>13869992
Shut up Mark. Go write me another Jalan story.

>>13869937

Dilate

>>13870089
See how you are unable to even think of a proper response? That's your brains on /pol/.

>>13870103
See
>>13869969
And
>>13869992

>>13870120
Plague But could you do it in /pol/ instead?

I wish bugmen would stop shitting up this general.

>>13870178
They already got banned from r/aznmasculinity, they have nowhere left to go

>>13870178
>>13870197
We are literally being invaded by the autist board who keep derailing the conversation everytime someones mentions jews or some shit

>>13865941
The emperors blades is a sucky book, it has some cool ideas but after 3 books its just a fucking fart of nothing.

I just read a story I would describe as The Mist meets The Terror (season 1) meets Samurai Jack. I enjoyed it even though it drags a bit in the middle and could have been trimmed down overall. Also it ends with a samurai (who is also half viking) having sex with a smoking hot black chick on a pirate ship.

>>13865770
The Painted Man needs to be in the top row. So much rape (some of it incest), so much fucking rape in a single book. The main character is also such a giant edgelord. I don't usually drop books but I stopped reading that one. Wish I could delete it from my memory, I fucking hated it.

>>13870266
Mandatory Fuck Adare post.

It only takes a single dedicated person to continually completely derail a series of slow threads.

>>13870325
...so then why would you recommend that?

>>13866075
>>13866070
>let the right one in
>black jewels
in both


>>13866070
>the painted man
>>13870325
>talks rape and incest
Same person? It's possible.
Ever more the trolling is confirmed?

>>13866214
>>13866242
>>13867286
Being a hypocrite because of where it is in the chart

>>13870502
what in the fuck are you even trying to say?

>tfw there are people in this thread who unironically deny that John Carter was trans

>>13866242
>Let the right one in
>The black jewels trilogy
Are in both of these charts
>>13866070
>>13866075
It likely both are chartanon as a result.
Chartanon is an idiot.

>>13867286
We then move on then to this post, where chartanon complains about the spoilering Let the right one in. However, we see that this chart >>13866075 that chartanon has provided the same information, thus proving this anon to be a hypocrite.

Also in this chart we see it talk about Gay, Rape, Incest (GRI), a mainstay of chartanon's talking points.
We then move on to this post by chartanon:
>>13870325
Where there is talk a about rape and incest. This has been discussed about this book in previous threads, probably by chartanon as well. However, we also see the Painted Man recommended in this chart >>13866070 as pointed out by this anon>>13870475

This is not the only seeming contradiction in charts by chartanon either. Perhaps chartanon's taste has changed over time.

>>13870325
I didn't read any after the first book based on the first 30 pages of book 2 and reviews from multiple sources but 3/4 of book 1 was really good. It's this disillusioned kid who realizes his father isn't as amazing as he thought so he runs away. Then he becomes edgy in a good way and learns how to face fuck demons. But then the author goes full retard and there's a time skip and the next time you see the mc he's an old bald autsitic freak covered in tattoos and the rape girl is really annoying. I have no idea how you take a such a promising start and nosedive with it.

>>13870599
The rape girl was so toxic to the entire series.
The father should have raped her till she liked it.

Also chartanon
>>13865206
>>13865836
>>13867411

>>13870643
The father didn't rape her it was a gang of bandits and then 5 seconds after meeting the mc she asks him to fuck her or something weird.

Any "capitalist" sci-fi?
Something with politics and heavy conflicts for resources, is what I mean.

>>13870876
https://www.amazon.com/Powers-Earth-Aristillus-Book-ebook/dp/B005JPPMS6

Science Fiction has a moral imperative to address climate change.

>>13864936
Monthly reading anon here, nice data you've compiled. I'll put some of it in the pastebin.

>Is this representative of /sffg/?
I feel like the age distribution is typical for /sffg/, as there's generally some skepticism in regards to newer works. The fact that there's more sci-fi than fantasy is somewhat atypical. I think it is because of the format, fantasy books have a tendency to be doorstoppers which I actively discourage.

>the purpose of the monthly book
I started doing monthly reading at a time when there were quite some bitching about the lack of discussion about books in the threads, with the goal of forcing some more discussion. I feel like it have been at least partially successful, especially when we read a more well known work that several people have likely already read.

>Are there any issues you'd want to see addressed?
While I've been positively surprised by the distribution of age and theme in the books selected I would like to see even more variety. This is the reason behind theme months, something we're not testing with September being short story month.

>>13870876
If you're into the more anarchistic parts of capitalism you might check out Heinlein, Moon is a Harsh Mistress and The Man Who Sold the Moon for example.

>>13871026
> I feel like it have been at least partially successful
I suppose. Maybe I should have had "how many did you read during the book's month" as well instead for the 2nd question.

Hasn't been that many votes, but there wouldn't even be that many overall anyway.

1-5 books seems to be in a strong lead.
Maybe I should have included the book names with the years, but I thought it may be too much and also I wanted people to have look at the link to see the names and maybe they they'd get some of the book as well. Unknown if it was the better decision.

>something we're not testing with September
Seems you accidentally included "not" there.

>>13870876
Depends on what you by "capitalism".
Heavy conflict for resources doesn't necessarily follow either.

Here we go with the fantasy again.

>>13871087
Did you get a temp ban from the deleted excessive lewds?
Why do you continue?

>>13871022
And it does.

>>13870876
Pro or anti capitalist?

>>13871100
>Did you get a temp ban from the deleted excessive lewds?
What? No of course not. I can't be here 24/7, I am a productive member of the society.

>Why do you continue?
Iz fun comrade. You should try it sometimes.
Make fun of the DYEL Conanfag or that passive-aggressive reddit reject.

>>13871075
>1-5 books seems to be in a strong lead
>tfw I am the single 16-19
I'm a little surprised the number is not higher actually. Not really because I think monthly reading is a raging success but because more than 5 of the books are undoubtedly classics, and several of them are often recommended in the thread.

>Seems you accidentally included "not" there.
I sure did. Or rather it should have been a "now".

>>13870800
I'm talking about the other rape girl...

>>13870876
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40450.Market_Forces

>>13871131
I think it may be too much of a commitment for a lot of people but we also don't know how many people tried to read the book then decided not to read it. So much always needs to be known.
I think also that the discussion is monthly probably discourages some. It may work better of a series of threads by itself, assuming could get enough posts, where it's just an ongoing monthly discussion. What may work best, but participation and number of people is always a problem, would be to have something where can separate it chapter or by chapter or some other arbitrary division, because of spoilers. 4chan's format isn't ideal for everything. Or some people may not want to "spam"/"derail" with extended discussion. Who knows.

I'm thinking about doing something with short stories, but It'd only be recommendations rather and than voting and reading together and then discussing because I'm not really that much for discussing what I've read personally.

>>13871169
>Faulkner has a side that outsiders cannot see: the side his wife is trying to salvage, that another woman–a porn star turned TV news reporter–is trying to exploit. Steeped in blood, eyed by common criminals looking for a shot at fame, Faulkner is living on borrowed time. Until he’s given one last shot at getting out alive. . .

YEAAAAAH BOY!

>>13871120
The only "productive member" you have is your penis from fapping to all the lewds you must have saved. Nothing wrong with that. It's just a matter of time and place. More so than even that is what you think of yourself for posting them here.

>>13871214
Oh no, no, no.
I am actually a productive member of the society. With the job, relationships and all the trimmings and extras (the good and the bad).
To quote FNM from their song "We Care a Lot" - it's a tough job but someone has to do it.

>>13871164
what other rape girl? I just remember the mc, her, and the jester kid. What other rape was there?

>>13868809
they enjoy anime

>>13871271
The daughter Arlen meets when he goes back to his hometown. The sister of the girl his father remarried to.

>>13871201
Agreed. The commitment of reading a whole book is why I encourage shorter books. All the other "solutions" would require more work than I'm interested in doing, I am doing it for free after all. If participation, measured in post-reading discussion, ever drops too low I will simply stop doing monthly reading. But currently I feel like we're doing fine. And I get to read books I probably would not otherwise read which is always a bonus.

>>13871301
>And I get to read books I probably would not otherwise read which is always a bonus
Sure, but there are so many books posted all the time, why privilege this single monthly book? It is because it's a vote or because it's monthly and therefore manageable for you whereas if you expanded to trying to read recs from the entire thread you wouldn't really read them because there are too many choices?

Having it as thread decoration so you have more books to read seems like justification enough to me.

>>13871245
Actually the lyrics are: "Oh, it's a dirty job but someones gotta do it"

>>13871341
There's always (my estimation) 3-6 people besides me that read the monthly book, which is quite nice when it comes to discussion or just reading others takes on the book. The fact that there's a vote seem to filter out the worst recommendations (together with lesser known ones, which is unfortunate).

Based Conan STILL triggering the bugmen.

I recently finished the Hyperion triology on audible. (Victor Bovine is a great narrator by the way.) The books dabbed too much into fantasy and the methaphorical in my oppinion. The underage love interest was also clear from the beginning, Simmons going so far as to incoporate a timeskip in the story to make it "legal". Nevertheless a great read if you don't mind the anticlimatic ending, I loved the depiction of a society that has spread to different solar systems, the net as gigantic information superhighway that connects all of humanity was an interesting concept aswell. Are there any other Sci-Fi works that "realistically" depict humanity as a multi planetar species? Hard sci-fi preferably. Sorry for my bad writing, I'm sick with the flu and have a headache.

>>13871349
Nice catch. Someone actually listens to FNM here.

>>13871400
You hitting the gym chubby cheeks?

>>13871400
>>/lit/thread/S13763680#p13778845

>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).

You really have been fighting the shadows you've created for quite a while.

I recently finished the Hyperion triology on audible. (Victor Bovine is a great narrator by the way.) The books dabbed too much into fantasy and the methaphorical in my oppinion. The underage love interest was also clear from the beginning, Simmons going so far as to incoporate a timeskip in the story to make it "legal". Nevertheless a great read if you don't mind the anticlimatic ending, I loved the depiction of a society that has spread to different solar systems, the net as gigantic information superhighway that connects all of humanity was an interesting concept aswell. Are there any other Sci-Fi works that "realistically" depict humanity as a multi planetar species? Hard sci-fi preferably. Sorry for my bad writing, I'm sick with the flu and have a headache.

>>13871420
whoever narrated silenus did a great job imo

>>13871423
Nice try, chinkshitter.

Any of you lads have "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" as a mobi or pdf?

>>13871477
No, but it would only take me a few seconds to get it. Why aren't you able to do so?

>>13871498

I am a retard and don't know the proper channels for mobi files.

>>13871513
I think it's more likely that you just want to be spoonfed.
I don't like Gaiman so I'm not doing to do so myself.
I've looked at a lot of Gaiman and the only work that I've liked is his short story, "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale".

There are many options for you to do so. Many of which are public, extremely simple, often posted about and even in the board sticky. Though personally I think the sticky is a disaster.

>>13871547
>I think it's more likely that you just want to be spoonfed.

I suppose that's true. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction?

>>13871565
>>/lit/thread/S13529127#p13538972

Personally I use IRC exclusively, but there are many others aside from what has been mentioned there.

I just type in what I want and then click on it and I have it. Requires a bit of set-up to do well which is more than most can do.

>>13871565
are you retarded? Just google "book name author free download mobilism pdf" or some shit. There are plenty of sites like vk and mobilisim that show up on google and actually have legit links if you dont feel like getting into fancier download methods

IRCHighway on IRC when properly set up with sbclient and dlfilter, which requires using the mIRC client, is far and away and the best option,

#ebooks
#audiobooks (I haven't used this channel because I don't listen to ebooks)
and I forgot the textbook channel.

>>13871631
It works well enough with using any non-web client and no other set up though.

Can also browse what's available, but that can be difficult because one of the servers has almost a million book files and there are several servers.

>>13864936
The one issue i want addressed is retards voting multiple times for the books they nominated. Some of the choices were just plainly absurd.

>>13871690
Unfortunately that remains an unsolved problem, even if it weren't anonymous.

There's no way to stop someone who is dedicated to doing so.
We simply have to be at the mercy of their whims.

>>13871690
>>13871724
An alternative way would be randomly pick from the nominations but then someone could flood the nominations so that they have a high chance of it being something they want.

Using tripcodes wouldn't help, and may even harm. Same with having pre-registration.

Having no security where anyone can vote as many times as they like would become simply a show of who cares to be sillier than the other person.

Anything with low voter count is especially susceptible. The only real defense is to have so many people voting that one person can't make much of difference.

Voting for the Hugo costs money.
It's always a trade-off between cost and security.

Last post on this matter.
The best that can probably be done on 4chan to mitigate ballot stuffing is to tie voting rights to contributions. That is to say, for those who want to vote to use a tripcode for their posts and be recognized as a high quality contributor. The nominations can be still be open to everyone.

Would this be practical? Seems rather unlikely.
Would it to be accepted as legitimate? Also seems unlikely.

At the worst, even if someone wanted to use several tripcodes at least they would have to provide quality content on all those tripcodes.

This thread ending soon it will be.
Next thread do better, you will.

When are the book 4 audiobooks for Everybody loves large chests and waldo rabbit coming out?

>>13872226
ask the author

>>13864936
After trying for around half a year to get one (1) book I liked nominated, I gave up on /sffg/ ever reading what I read. Let's just streamline the process further and only read the diamond dozen 'AAA' titles discussed throughout every single fucking thread at this point.

>>13872305
>being this mad

>>13872305
>diamond dozen
dime a dozen

>>13872305
It’s a doggy dog world out here anon.

>>13872331
It's a doggy dog world

>>13872554
>>13872541
>>13872331
>>13872305
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/most-misused-phrases-words-english-language-uk-revealed-to-be-pacific-a8098791.html

>>13872566
It's a meme you retarded newfag

>>13872570
Everything is a meme.

>>13872570
>I was only pretending

>>13872593
>>13872594
I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

>>13872566
I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

>>13872601
I lost like 10 iq points reading this.

>>13872570
>>13872601
>>13872607
That isn't a meme.
That's a copypasta.

>>/lit/thread/S1525911#p1528848
Sun Feb 6 17:51:40 2011 No.1528848
Its origin?

>>13872601
https://trailerpark.fandom.com/wiki/Rickyisms

Just got a copy of this... Just finished chapter 1, what am I in for?

>>13872782
10,000 pages of shrewish women and tugged braids.

In all seriousness it's garbage and I recommend that you drop it before you waste months reading the progressively longer (and progressively worse) later books in the series.

>>13872782
Book 1 is essentially the longest prologue you'll ever read. The series is flawed and definitely drags later on but it's highs are very high indeed and it contains some of the best world building and most memorable characters in fantasy.

>>13872809

The worst books in the series are substantially shorter than most of the other entries. Hell, Winter's Heart, the unarguably worst book in the series, is basically half the length of two of the best books in the series - Lord of Chaos and Memory of Light.

>>13872782
1-6 are a fantastic take on the Tolkien story. 7-11 (mainly 9-11) are a bit of a slog. 12-14 wrap up the story wonderfully. It has perhaps the best world building in all of fantasy, and some of the strongest and most memorable characters I've ever read. It's fairly wordy at points, but if you can get through the slog (9-11) it's a must read for sure.

>>13872823
>and most memorable characters in fantasy.
Maybe, but not in a fond way.

>litrpg story
>author spends a whole chapter detailing the options in char creation
>protag picks human mage

>>13870876
Snow Crash

>>13873720
Such is the joy of knowing all flavors exist and still choose vanilla.

>>13873720
this is based though

good/bad news /sffg/, my current obsession has finally crashed, meaning in a week or two I'm going to find another, and hopefully it will be writing (probably not though)

How should I steer myself back to writing?

>>13873720
>litrpg
>mc taking any class other than warrior

>>13873782
Does it matter?
You'll just cycle out of writing as well soon enough.
If you can't sustain it, is there much point?