/lit/ - Literature

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There was a book about a mage or something that was chad as fuck and would fuck all kinds of women in a castle. As for the plot I forgot but it was a normal fantasy book not the /litrpg/ harem trash on the other thread. Cover of the book was of a castle, by some water I think.

Anyone know the book? It was not an older book. I think its also part of a trilogy.

Catanon, show yourself! You must answer for your crimes!

This is the single most cucked book that only a woman could ever aspire to write. This book is, in a way, an outstanding piece that was ahead of its time by decades. Impressive, really. It is everything I hate about modern literature, all disguised within a seemingly harmless cover. Please, take a minute to look at the cover. A strong man and a hot cat, completely destitute of gear, in an apparently desolate place, having no one else but each other. It speaks of a bonding between two different species that must find common ground in hopes of survival.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The man in the cover is not a strong character at all. He is, in fact, a slave. But not only a slave, for that would be a circumstance outside his control and he could not be faulted for it; thus, not content, the author also made him into a cuck. The ultimate cuck, if you will. I won't spoiler shit because I hope nobody ever read this garbage again, and if they do it is because they wish to do so with full knowledge of what's inside.

>>14450444
Nothing could be further from the truth. The man in the cover is not a strong character at all. He is, in fact, a slave. But not only a slave, for that would be a circumstance outside his control and he could not be faulted for it; thus, not content, the author also made him into a cuck. The ultimate cuck, if you will. I won't spoiler shit because I hope nobody ever read this garbage again, and if they do it is because they wish to do so with full knowledge of what's inside.

The main character is the cat lady there. She is a scholar and a map-maker. In one of her map-making journeys she meets another cat merchant and proceeds to fall in love with him. This merchant is the owner of the human on the cover. In a way or another, the human ends up teaching the cat lady his human language because she asked him to. 17 years later the cat-lady is married with three kids and the human is always willing to please his masters. One day the cat-lady gets screwed by her church for telling truths, after which the husband abandons her to her fate, upon which the cucklord is all to ready to make sure she is alright. He kisses her and gives her an erotic massage, ending up with an erection that prods her on the behind. The cat-lady, seeing that her little piggy is getting out of line, is quick to slash him with her claws, almost killing him on the spot, had he not stepped back. He gets upset, but not for too long, and is in no time groveling at her feet and making sure she is pleased in hopes of one day uttering the words "my wife's son". Of course this doesn't happen.

The church comes for her, killing some people. One of those was the human's daughter, that he had with another slave. We now have a character with nothing to lose. He is a slave, the woman he loves despises him as nothing more than an animal, and his daughter is dead. What does he do? Why, grovel, of course. Maybe he'll get that sweet pussy if he keeps doing it.

The book finally picks up at about 80%, when the male decides to (finally) escape. The reason: a number of human female slaves were pregnant from the usual cat-dickings, so, being a good cuck, his instincts to protect the offspring of other males kicks in. He meets some humans that aren't slaves who get pissed when they find out people are being enslaved. Unfortunately, the author thinks it's her job to cuck us one more time, and when we think the cat fucks are about to get their comeuppance, some other stupid humans get in the way because it's "wrong to interfere" with other species.

At the end of the book, the human male is still hung up on the cat-pussy that he'll never have, while she forgave the merchant that abandoned her to her fate. Conclusion:
Number of dickings had by cats: 0
Number of dickings had by humans: lots and lots

>>14450435
I just wanted to find a fun festive picture, that one was the first one I came across so I used it. Also this entire site is anime, deal with it.

>>14450424
First for
>sanderhack a fag
>reddit had invaded this general as evidenced by our top 20 list
>birdboi is gone
>fuck jews and niggers
>Wolfe = the best
>Strugatskies >>>> Lem
>Old good new bad
>When does the next cradle book come out?

>>14450463
You forgot
>NK Jemisin

>>14450468
Also
>milf pusey

I know Sanderson is a meme in this general but does anybody even care about his Stormlight Archive series anymore?

>>14450444
>>14450448
I'm not sure what you're upset about. Did you want to self-insert as the filthy manimal crouched bestially on the cover? The book isn't about him, it's about a pert young catwoman, full of life and sass, desired by all catmen. She indulges in the pleasures of flesh, erotically described by our friend Cynthia, and transitions from soft pawed temptress to lovable housecatwife.
>Number of dickings had by cats: 0
This is, of course, entirely wrong. Unless you need the, ah, dickers to be human for some odd reason.
This cuck business you're fixated on is just bizarre. Randy slaves can't be cucked by the mistress of the house.
I appreciate the review :3
Though I'm sorry you didn't like it.
What do you think I should read?

>>14450441
You're description is just too vague. Perhaps The King of Ys?

>>14450444
>>14450448
There's only a minute between these posts.
This is probably one anon having a discussion with himself. At the very least it was pre-typed because it's not possible to read the post and and have typed all that in a minute. This is from the last thread and more. I pity this poster.

>>14450378
>Name one good female character, there is none
*Blocks your path*
>>14450471
the best pusey

>>14450448
That reminds me
>>14450545
This I might describe as cuckoldry? The guy can't refuse all the wives foisted upon him. Some turn gay. They control his life. Oh and his daughter insists on being his next wife. When he refuses she shacks up with the evil guy and then kills everyone.
Hard for me to read.
>>14450552
Are you perhaps blind? It's a two part post. Some of it is repeated for some reason.

>>14450545
I looked that up, not the book. I think the MC is in charge of things and trying to prepare for some conflict approaching the castle. He was or is now infamous for his power but I can be wildly wrong. He was licing elsewhere alone but is now involved in things again.

>>14450448
Let's have a checklist

>strong female character
Check
>feminist undertones
Ctrl F: "wife", check
>female character wanted by every single named male
Check
>cuck male
Check
>human females bred by inhuman males
Check. Am I forgetting anything?

This, catanon, or rather, cuckanon, is a shifter novel. Please, never post this garbage here again, thanks.

>>14450534
I think it was pretty obvious what I wanted. For fuck's sake. The entire conversation which springed from the lengthy discussion of catgirls and your recommendation was based on that premise, look: >>14443611. But what I really wanted was what the cover promised me and I pointed out here: >>14450444
>A strong man and a hot cat, completely destitute of gear, in an apparently desolate place, having no one else but each other. It speaks of a bonding between two different species that must find common ground in hopes of survival.
>The book isn't about him, it's about a pert young catwoman, full of life and sass, desired by all catmen. She indulges in the pleasures of flesh, erotically described by our friend Cynthia, and transitions from soft pawed temptress to lovable housecatwife.
And that's exactly what's wrong with this book! So you do get it!
>What do you think I should read?
I don't know man, I'm out. But if you like some cuck books, I know a few:
>The trysmoon saga
>Alternate places, PS Power
>Good Intentions

>>14450552
You must be some kind of genius. Did my repeated paragraph give me out? Or perhaps my post last thread indicating that I'd wait for the new thread to post?

>>14450564
>>14450576
I can't be fooled that easily. You've been posting that image since at least 2016 if not earlier.

>>14450592
What are you talking about? Are you okay m8?

>>14450614
No, anyone reading a book based on the CATS Broadway play is not ok to me.

>>14450504
No, Shallan ruined any interest I had in the series.

>>14450629
It's not my fault! I was memed into it! I thought it was actually good!

>>14450592
>You've been posting that image since at least 2016 if not earlier.
Probably, yeah. What's that got to do with anything?
>>14450576
>>strong female character
>Check
>>feminist undertones
>Ctrl F: "wife", check
>>female character wanted by every single named male
>Check
>>cuck male
>Check
>>human females bred by inhuman males
>Check. Am I forgetting anything?
Uhm, anon. I hate to break this to you, but that's a list of things women like. Cynthia is a woman's name.
>shifter novel
What's that?
>your recommendation was based on that premise
The catgirl gets "Penised" though. I found it rather, uh, stimulating personally. :/
>And that's exactly what's wrong with this book! So you do get it!
so... it is a self insert thing? you don't like it because you don't want to empathize with the MC?
>I don't know man, I'm out.
>But if you like some cuck books
I don't think so? Uh, maybe I'll try one of those?
I meant more like a book you liked.

What the fuck is going on here?

>>14450673
Actual book discussion? I know that's kinda weird here of all places.

>>14450683
>Actual book discussion
I just see some screeching about cucks and cats but okay.

>>14450673
Standard 4chan antics

>>14450715
Oops, misclicked wrong image.


Try this instead. It's about catgirls.
1962

>>14450441
>>14450545
>>14450574
>>14450574
I found the book. My descriptions was not the best.

https://www.amazon.com/Spellmonger-Book-1/dp/1522975039/

>>14450734
That's included in one of the charts that chartanon posts in most threads.

>>14450727
Thanks anon. I don't know this one and I'm always looking for more (though I don't read as many as I'd like). Hopefully anon will like it too. :3

>>14450666
>Uhm, anon. I hate to break this to you, but that's a list of things women like. Cynthia is a woman's name.
You absolute maniac. The whole point was to post about a good book!
>so... it is a self insert thing? you don't like it because you don't want to empathize with the MC?
Why would I ever want to read a book about cucking? The whole point of books IS to empathize with characters! If I have no attachment to the characters or the plot, what the fuck am I reading it for? self-inserting has nothing to do with it. If all I wanted was a story, I'd ask a relative to talk to me about their boring day. And guess what, cucking _is not_ exciting. Besides, once I figured out the whole premise was, it became easy to guess the flow of the story. I knew that the male (which is a central character of the story, mostly by the end) would be fucked every step of the way and then I already knew how everything was going to end.
>The catgirl gets "Penised" though. I found it rather, uh, stimulating personally. :/
I thought it was implicit in the post that the dick was supposed to be human. Perhaps I was wrong.

Shifter novels are the modern-day equivalent of this shit you recommended. It's basically a romance book disguised as fantasy (usually urban fantasy) or sci-fi where the female lead hits all those checkmarks I cited. Think Twilight.

>>14450745
Interesting, im usually not in these threads.

>>14450378
the lady
berelain
that's all i've got

>>14450787
It's also in the mega in the OP

>>14450763
>>14450727
Rant about this next

>>14450835
I hope I won't have to.

>>14450727
Ooh, it's on Gutenburg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2509 :3

>>14450504
I do. it's still my favorite of his, and I'd like to at least see where he's going with it.

I'm going to fucking suffer for that desire, though, because I get the feeling Dalinar's arc is over, and I do not give a FUCK about Shallan and Adolin.

Actually Adolin is a chad so I do like him but he comes packaged with Shallan now.

>>14450871
not me

>>14450913
Pardon?

>>14450504
>but does anybody even care about his Stormlight Archive series anymore?
I resolved not to care about long series until they're almost done unless they're by an author I love

>>14450504
No. I read it because I had too much free time. Now that I'm working (oh, neet life, why hast thou abandoned me so), I doubt that'll happen.

>>14450562

Best game

Jewess dominatrix supremacy

>>14450972
I'm writing a book where the heroine rapes a guy out of frustration and anger.

Did anyone actually read Ice? I got halfway through and yeeted it. I suppose there's some great revelation or twist at the end about the girl but the main character is so undeveloped outside of his sadistic tendencies that I can't understand him at all. It's like reading this happened then this happened, next this thing happened.

The plot jumping about in time was only mildly interesting and really just distracted from any investment I had built up in the story.

I'm guessing you lot picked it because it's called ice and its Christmas time.

Which books were you forced to put down /sffg/? Why?

I want to read some of them next year.

>>14451242
three body problem
boring, flat characters, plot takes ages to get going. it's also poorly translated and ready really asian-y

>>14451242
First 3/4ths are fine. I stopped 1/4 into book 2. Read the amazon reviews and each book just gets worse and worse. Book 1 is some jaded kid fighting demons. Last part time skips to him as an adult with a couple other lame characters. Book 2 goes back to the past about some sand monkey muslim tribe no one cares about. Apparently the rest of the books continue with boring garbage characters no one cares about and turns the main characters into drooling retards.

>>14451352
Would anyone be interested in a space opera novel? Thinking about sharing with other /lit/ anons before I publish next year. If so, post a disposable email an I’ll send something along.

Are there any good fantasy novels where the protagonist is a superhuman being like Hercules or Gilgamesh?

>>14451447
Lord of Light.

>>14451242
>prince of nothing book 1
found out the series was incomplete
>the traitor baru cormorant
too cringe, couldn't stomach it
>rendezvous with rama
i just couldn't be arsed to care about what would happen after the book. i had a gut feeling that the sequels would be a hamfisted, poorly written and pointless.
>the foundation books two and three
this has never happened to me before. started out really digging it but midway into book 2 (or maybe 3) suddenly got a horrible feeling that i'm wasting my time with a book that will never get resolved so i dropped it. of course maybe i was wrong, who knows.
>the culture series
dropped it after the horrid "consider phlebas". everyone keeps telling me it gets better after that but after that abysmal book i just can't muster up the courage to keep reading.

>>14451486
Wow

>>14450424
WTF is this? Is the whole book him just trying to imitate mythological storytelling? There's a reason stories have evolved. Does it get better?

>>14451486
>prince of nothing book 1
>found out the series was incomplete
I thought it was a complete trilogy

>the traitor baru cormorant
>too cringe, couldn't stomach it
What made it too cringe? That was on my list.

>>14451516
>black lives matter WE WAZ KANGZ book
What did you expect

>>14451486
based

>>14451529
>I thought it was a complete trilogy
so people keep telling me, but i read about 100 pages of it, i got an idea of where the plot is heading and i looked it up on wikipedia after i read something on here that made me think twice. i don't think the trilogy is complete at all. the impression i got from reading the plot synposis on wikipedia was that the first trilogy resolved stage 1 of the plot, that was set up in book 1, the second trilogy deals with stage 2, and the third trilogy isn't even started. fuck that.
>>the traitor baru cormorant
>too cringe, couldn't stomach it
>What made it too cringe? That was on my list.
well, your experience might vary from mine, but i thought that the cringy american identity politics in that book were way too much. within the first page you meet baru and her "two dads" and 10 pages later you have brilliant 12 year old baru outsmarting a dumb greedy evil representative of the evil colonizer empire in some truly cringeworthy and hamfisted dialogue.
i dropped the book about 20 pages in so i'm not exactly the most objective reviewer, but i thought it was insufferable and that it would only get worse as the book goes on.

anything as kino as dhalgren lads?

>>14451595
>politics bs in books
hard from me fren I hate that kinda of shit

No memes. Is Mark Lawrence good? Im interested in his Broken Empire, Red Queens War, and Book of the Ancestor trilogies. In that order.

>no scifi or fantasy about a absolute mad lad C-H-A-D alpha male with a strong jaw line doing w/e the fuck he wants BTFO onions bois and beta orbiters taking their women and other fun adventures
why even read anything?

>>14451011
The voting is always rigged. The other vote had entirely different results

>>14451638
I'm someone who likes him and he's very variable, Broken Empire is pretty hated because of how comically edgy it is, it actually makes it hard to maintain interest. This does get explained somewhat by the finale of book 1 but the sequels are less gripping imo.
Red Queens War is an attempt to write a more mature work in the same fantasy world and it largely works even if the shift is from edginess to borderline grating pessimism/cowardice.
Red Sister is a move into more traditional fantasy albeit one set in a world with a scifi/dying earth background. I like it best out of what I've read from him.

He's a solid writer overall but one who has yet to produce a really great standout work imo.

>>14451649
Sounds like xianxia.

>>14451638
An absolute hack. The only reason he gets mentioned here is due to the recent reddit invasion.

>>14450424
So is this like cosy/comedy of manners Fantasy? Is it any good?

The title + cover intrigue me.

>>14451428
I'll read a bit
Anonymous1445198@outlook.com

>>14451638
Absolute gutter trash, similar to abercrombie if his IQ was 50 points lower

>>14451428
sure, I'll give it a shot. I like space opera like Revelation Space

wallable at web.de

>>14451820
think ive seen people here say its trash. Also looks like its written for women because every character seems to be a chick from the summary.

best house

Does Dan Simmons have any other good (whole) series besides the Hyperion Cantos? Just finished them and I'm enamored with the man's prose and world

>>14451595
There is no third trilogy. It was always meant to end the way it ended. What he threw out was a possibility for something like an expanded epilogue, and that isn’t going to happen now.

>>14452007
The Terror is a one-off but it's definitely worth reading. Drood is cool too.

>>14451831
>>14451880
Sent.

>>14452079
doesn't sound very convincing to be honest. i shan't be picking up this series any time soon

>>14452144
Ok keep being autistic. Orbit didn’t renew Bakker’s contract, so he can’t publish more even if he wanted to.

>>14452236
huh? i don't care about this behind the scenes drama lol. all i care about is whether the story is complete

>>14451694
decent answer to anon
>>14451835
>>14451807
low iq meme responses

>>14451775
>xianxia
from what I know, its 99% chinese and its all censored.no sex, no god slaying, etc. unless you have anything good to suggest that doesnt care what the ccp thinks?

Any books about wolfs?
Ok, not really about wolfs but i want something like a interaction between human and wolf, kinda like perrin in wheel of time.
The idea of sapient wolfs is so rad i really wish i didnt live in the tropical area so i could have one.

>>14452335
I've got these mutant fox things. Cats are better desu

>>14452335
>The idea of sapient wolfs is so rad
Oh wait, uh, here we go.

>>14452362
ok.
But tell me something, the wolf isnt going to cuck the knight is it?

>>14452378
The wolf is a total bro. Dragon gets the girl though.

>>14452417
>Dragon gets the girl though
Tought the dragon was suposed to die at george's hand?

Anyone have a download link for the Death Dealer books by James Silke? Mainly the 3rd and 4th book but all four books would be nice. I am having trouble finding the last two.

>>14452441
The dragons call every knight George.
Technically the dragon is the MC.

>>14452335
Bonesetter. Probably not exactly what you are looking for, but the first book is readable.

>>14451820
I don't trust the author because she was the most blatant attempt to manufacture a new rowling after harry potter

>>14452296
>from what I know, its 99% chinese and its all censored.no sex, no god slaying, etc
My understanding as well. It's one of the reasons why I don't bother with it.

>>14450444
>>14450448
Samefag

Is there a fantasy horror book that doesnt suck? No modern/urban please

>>14452496
He was continuing his post... of course it's a samefag. low iq scum

>>14452509
Westermead by Scott Thomas or Zothique by Clark Ashton Smith.

Is there anyway to see shit on subcribestar like the pony place used to show patreon?
There is an author I want to see wtf they are doing, and I'm not paying 5 bucks to find out.

>>14452236
He didn't even query anyone, you fucking retard.

>>14452263
And I’m telling you it is.

>>14452535
>Zothique by Clark Ashton Smith
Could not find Zothique but the other one seems nice.

>>14452591
The stories in Zothique can be found on a website dedicated to the author here http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/
And here's a chronological list of the stories since they're listed alphabetically on the site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zothique

>>14452645
I was hoping to buy a physical copy or ebook since I read a lot on my kindle

>>14452645
>>14452707
I found these, its 5 different volumes but I am not sure if its all the Zothique related stuff or the stories from the eldritchdark link from >>14452645

https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Fantasies-Clark-Ashton-Smith-ebook/dp/B07H455DC3/

>>14452449
I didn't see them either when I looked before on IRC and elsewhere.

>>14452583
well i certainly won't believe you, but maybe some anon reading this exchange will

>>14452753
I'm not sure which volume(s) contain the Zothique stories but most earlier Smith stories are worth reading and the first volume of the Collected Fantasies would be a fine place to start. Alternatively, you could sample his work for a dollar with The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies on kindle. Zothique is just one setting/cycle and is a dying earth influenced supercontinent, Averoigne is a fantastic medieval France inspired province and the Hyperborea stories occur in a prehistoric lost continent influenced by Lovecraft and Howard. I just prioritized recommending the Zothique stories because they're the ones I enjoyed the most except for a handful of the Hyperborea ones.

>>14452864
>The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
I saw that one while browsing, Ill check that one out too.

It will not officially be the New Year until the final ~55,689 Chosen Americans have experienced in the last inhabited time zone.

about halfway through this, does it get any better? its boring as fuck

>>14453120
apart from the beauty and beast story all my fav ones are in the 2nd half

>>14451486
Can anyone comment on culture series, always had the idea that this series was based, but first book questionable. is it good and can i skip the first book?

>>14453208
if by based you mean fascist then lol
if by based you mean good then just read player of games, consider is a weaker entry even if it does worldbuild well

>>14453208
First book is definitely the weakest by far. It has pacing issues and literally shit / boring plot lines. I still think it's better to read it though as it does a lot of the world building the rest of the books are set in.

>>14453219
didn't know based could mean fascist lol.
>>14453236

and Ok, will do Cheers.

Any isekai books written by a westerner but that also isnt some /litrpg/ erotica trash? I just like the idea of isekai. If not then alternate history books are fine. There was one where rednecks go back in time to the civil war with their automatic rifles or something. And one with a navy vessel or a base I think goes back in time and create their own nation. I think one where all of earths military go and fight heaven and hell and kick their asses.

Forgot all the names though.

>>14453260
if by isekai you mean portal world rather than just into vidya then there's loads i.e. thomas covenant, merchant princes, outlander (if you like romance)
If it's time travelling confederates you want 80% chance Harry Turtledove wrote it

>>14453260
Many.

Tomas covenant,
some book by mark twain
Wizard Knight
The wizard of oz
Gor

>>14453260
Ascend Online
Awaken Online
Emerilia
The Divine Dungeon
Stork Tower

The Gam3 series started out well but the author seems to have had a mental episode and said he's not writing any more in the series as he thinks the existing books aren't good enough.

>>14453260
That's called portal fantasy.
There are a lot.
Look it up.

>>14453280
>online

>>14451352
hey i dropped this one too, but way earlier than you, it was about 100 pages into book 1.

>>14451242
blood of elves by andrzej sapkowski because it was dogshit

>>14452335
Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
ASOIAF obviously
Psychic connections between humans and wolves is a common trope in fantasy

>>14453260
>And one with a navy vessel or a base I think goes back in time and create their own nation. I think one where all of earths military go and fight heaven and hell and kick their asses.

Thats a book? Anyone know the names of these? They sound fun.

>>14453189
alright ill keep going, its a short book anyways

>>14451820
It’s feminist fantasy what do you think?

Is https://b-ok2.org/ legit? They seem to have everything. Has to be a catch. Do they put watermarks or adverts inserted into the middle of the books?

>>14453260
>>14453396
>And one with a navy vessel or a base I think goes back in time and create their own nation.

>>14453970
Sorry, spazzin out

>>14452335
I'm going to start writing a book about a wolf fucker in the morning. I can't decide how furry it should be between he fucks actual talking wolves or he fucks lycanthropes who're identical to humans when they aren't being wolves.

>>14453973
Based, thats the one. No luck on the other book?

>>14453975
Between 1 and 10 with 1 being a normal human and 10 being an actual wolf, you should aim for a 4 to 6 when transformed in wolf mode.

>>14453943
the catch is that you can only download a limited amount of books per day unless you are signed up and "donating". its a legit site though.
use libgen.io instead.

>>14454014
oops. .is is the right domain.
libgen.is

>>14454018
thanks fren, ill get to it

>>14452441
This dragon is an isekai'd American

>>14453985
sounds like some hfy fanfic from /k/

>>14453975
He should fuck actual wolves, now it's deep and /lit/

>>14454163
Call it "Lays With Wolves".
I smell a movie deal.

>>14454183
Nailed it, my man. Phoning producer Shekelstein right now

Is there any romance in Worth the Candle?

>>14450980

post it

>>14454274
Yes, quite a lot, but it doesn't generally drive the plot.
Also, I really hope he fucks Amaryllis at some point

>>14454467
I take it there's no Fenn romance? I like her better.

>>14450424
What board do authors congregate on?

>>14453260
The wizard knight by old gene wolf.

Also if you're open to web novels I would recommend birth of the demon slaying sword on qidan. Main characters not entirely fleshed out but I've enjoyed it so far.

>Write 30 pages of a novel
>Start to think I hate it and made a bunch of mistakes or minor plot holes
>Feel like it's too much effort to edit and would rather just start over with a new story intsead

>>14454553
I don't want to spoil anything, but he literally dates Fenn

>>14454861
I can't even get past 15 pages without going back and constantly changing things. I'm never going to fucking finish.

>>14454915
>>14454467
Ah, that's nice to hear, I don't mind that kind of spoiler.

Just got a Kindle, don't know whether to start the Star Wars Thrawn novels or the Warhammer 40K Ciaphas Cain novels.

>>14455200
Warhammer

>>14455200
Can't the Kindle tell you?

What tier would you rate Warhammer fantasy novels? Just wondering if its worth my time.

>>14455200
I vote Ciaphas Cain.

>>14455200
Neither, read Vorkosigan instead

>>14455227
Gotrek and Felix and Brunner the Bounty Hunter are both good. They're not profound or anything but they're good.

>>14455227
Somewhere between irredeemable trash and enjoyable trash.

>>14454861
How complex a novel are you writing that a plot hole in the first 30 pages can wreck it?

Recommend me some newish (2010-2020) sc-fi or fantasy novels, preferably self-contained and full of vilolence.

>>14456024
The Blade Itself is a trilogy but it's a new fantasy book that's pretty good.

Interested on the norse sagas
Is there any book that compiles them? which one would you guys recommend.

>>14455227
Gotrek is fun, nothing else stood out
I liked one as a kid about a graverobber or something but I didn't get back into it when I tried it later on

>>14456024
Powder mage

>>14456384
prob best to just start with the eddas

>page 10
DED THRED

Anything else like it?

>>14457112
Everyone is busy celebrating New Years. Not all of us are NEETs.

>>14457255
Its squeal echopraxia or something. Ship of Fools is also good.

>>14457255
Overrated but /sffg/ loves it.

>>14457306
Why do you think it is overrated? It was a really nice first contact story with interesting characters. Not saying it is top notch literature but would make a great movie or miniseries.

>>14457399
Vampires.

>>14457406
I read it without knowing about Sarasti beforehand. Had I read it in a summary I would probably find it dumb and silly, but actual execution was pretty good.

>>14457425
Don't get me wrong, it's a good sci fi book. It's just completely blown out of proportion here, for reasons I don't understand. Maybe it's because modern sci fi is shit and this looks like pure gold in comparison.

Tried the Witcher Books, but they were pretty eh. Maybe it's because of the hype from the games or that cheap looking Netflix show but I really have to question those who claim the series is a "staple of fantasy". Some of the short stories were alright but that's about all the praise I can give it.

>>14450424
Currently reading the Field's series by Simon Winstanley. It's pretty good, I recommend it.

Blurb:
"The data couldn't lie: Mankind extinct in 64 years.
Archive’s conclusion was simple: Make time to escape.
Their solution was complex: 7 billion people must never know.
Their solution is failing.

The future lies with a child genius fascinated by time,
an officially retired space program,
an Arctic Circle anomaly,
and Field One."

Is there a genre for super kitchen sink fantasy? What is it called?

Note- this isn't specifically for fantasy or sci-fi. This is more for things where it's a bit like modern fantasy, but with both sci-fi and fantasy elements or worlds attached. It might be modern fantasy but having magic AND psychics AND nonhuman races AND aliens AND super heroes. The main character tends to be some kind of post-human like a vampire, who then can learn several other skills or combine their abilities together with other post-human augmentations in a kind of super kitchen sink, super hero pulp thing.

Is there is a name for this kind of thing? It's mostly something I've seen for webcomics but there might be some books written in the same "genre".

>>14457506
>Is there is a name for this kind of thing?
Yup; crap.

>>14456384
Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology

>>14457506
i was going to say science fantasy, but maybe you want litrpg

What are some good audio books?
I signed up for an audible free trial and got 2 credits left

What the fuck was this dude thinking?

>>14457764
I mean that's Neal "How Do Endings Work" Stephenson. You kinda picked your poison. Too bad he's great otherwise.

strawpall for the january book?

>>14457837
It's dead.

>>14457857
what is dead?

>>14451428
Scifi at sde23.neomailbox.ch

>>14457506
You can get fantasy AND elves AND sex slavery AND getting portalled all the way back in time from the future AND psychic powers AND dinosaurs AND yanderes AND people from a literal scifi novel inside this series. No vampires and no superheroes though.

>>14458180
Yanderes you say

>>14457836
is he like the stephen king of the sci fi genre?

>>14453189
My own favorites were in the 1st half though. Therefore, you're wrong.

>>14453638
.... God tier then?

>>14458201
Anyway, partway through the book one of the girls in the gigantic cast gets tortured and mindbroken by her captor and then becomes a massive fuck huge yandere for him. They're not biggest MC, though, due to the gigantic fuckhuge cast, so it ends about as well as you might imagine.

>>14458257
*through one of the books in the series, not book one

>>14458222
Stephen King is the Stephen King of the Sci Fi Genre.

>>14458257
Any books with yanderes that actually get a decent amount of focus?

>>14457876
Sent. Enjoy

Why are the Elric of Melniboné novels not available on Kindle?

PKD is Twilight Zone in literature format. I'm reading The Cosmic Puppets now and am almost finished.
>finished the decade with the Dick

>>14457255
I recently reread it and enjoyed it all. Finished it much faster too.

>>14458411
Moorcock's an anarchist, he probably doesn't want them on amazon

>>14458457
>>14458411
also it looks like they are there just recollected as:
>Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories, Elric: The Fortress of the Pearl, Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress, Elric: The Revenge of the Rose, Elric: Stormbringer!, and Elric: The Moonbeam Roads.

>>14458466
Those are graphic novel adaptations, are they not?

>>14458391
The only one I remember is Angel Mage but it's arguably Nix's weakest book due to the pacing (nothing happens for the first half and absolutely everyting happens in the second half)

Are there any good books with magic where the mc has more of a support build like healing/crafting/illusion or something similar and has to think if he fights?

>>14458565
Imager's probably my best rec for this, it's a hyper specific magic based around being able to remove/move small objects you can see and being able to create some small things.
First series is a cop story about a guy coming into his power, going to magic school and then solving political intrigue.
Second series (which fits what you want the most) is set in the past and is the guy who eventually founds said school figuring out how to use his powers to the fullest.
He starts off nearly killing himself to make coins and buy the third or fourth book in the sequence he's training troops on how to use the power in war.

Others that kinda fit:
Discworld-Rincewind novels
A company of strangers (not that good as a series but the mc is basically a D&D wizard who only has utility spells so it fits perfectly)
Spellslinger (kinda aimed towards YA but it's about a guy with incredibly limited magic in a world where magic is tied to your hometown working out how to use what little he has after being exiled)

im sure there's other stuff but I can't think of it right now

>>14458411
They are available on #ebooks though

>>14458620
Brandon Sanderson is basically L.E. Modesitt is basically except much more successful.

>>14458634
Sanderson would never dare to include at least 5 different descriptions of having a meal in a pub in each of his books
(Honestly if Sanderson had a quirk like Modesitt's massive overuse of onomatopoeia I'd probably like him more)

>>14458494
not from what I can see, are you confused by Alan Moore being listed as an author because he wrote the foreword or something?

>>14458652
Modesitt is as autistic as Sanderson but absolutely dead boring

All I see is this book, which isn't available for purchase, and a bunch of Elric comics.

>>14450787
:3

>>14458655
All I see is this book, which isn't available for purchase, and a bunch of Elric comics.

>>14458707
Is this supposed to be one of those ironic things? Because I've read a lot of those and 95% of that chart is absolute garbage. I still can't get the utter garbage that was Trysmoon out of my mouth.

>>14458242
Try again

>>14458707
Unsouled is the ONLY good book here

>>14458710
huh it's avaliable in the uk

>>14458757
If I use a vpn to buy it by setting my location to the UK would I get in trouble?

>>14458772
dunno just pirate it dude and buy a physical copy if you care that much about spending money on it

>>14458777
Pirated books always have weird formatting. I like Kindle because I can make the text big.

>>14458772
>>14458786
https://mega.nz/#!xDpnzKKK!_Ur1fG3nYb7vifQVJqydxuqjGCsB0RD6-kAV4diET2k

>>14458786
That's why you get the retail copy off mobilism (or bibliotik or all the other places) it's the same as what you buy

>>14458823
Wow, thanks!

I am an uncultured pleb when it comes to Fantasy. What is wrong with Sanderson, specifically the Stormlight Archives? Shallan's chapters are insanely boring, not because she is necessarily a bad character, but because Kaladin, Dalinar and the rest are so much more interesting than her she is fucking boring in comparison. Is she the reason people here aren't a fan?

>>14458888
What you said, but also because his stories are literally just low quality shonen battle manga. If you want to read a shonen battle manga by all means, but there's plenty out there that are significantly better than anything Sanderson writes.

Any books where its from the POV of the bad guys instead and the villain is the MC? Or the MC dies after you think the books is around him but the real MC is actually a side character you thought unimportant? I just want something different.

>>14458948
Soon I Will Be Invincible is a superhero book from the perspective of an evil Mad Scientist character. It's pretty good.

>resolved to make sure I finish off all my partially read books this year
>already struggling to bring myself to even finish off one of them
And I'm starting with the books I liked!

Is Peter Clines good? His Threshold trilogy seems interesting. 14, The Fold, and Dead Moon

>see book
>check genre
>feminist fantasy

>>14458948
You already posted this request, which lead me to read the first three books of the Prince of Nothing series.

What are some interesting ways that god-like alien intelligences have been utilized in books?

>>14459046
what is baru cormorant?

I just finished the first Black Company book and I’m not sure whether to read Port of Shadows or Shadows Linger next

>>14459046
Isn't it awesome? I find it perfect they decided to start shelving the trash appropriately. I wished they did that to all of them.

>>14459290
publication order. shadows linger. I still havent read port so no idea what its about

>>14457431
I thought it was great. Probably by comparison, as you mentioned. There just isn't enough good first contact books out there.

>>14459290
Read the main books in proper order.

The Black Company
Shadows Linger
The White Rose
The Silver Spike
Shadow Games
Dreams of Steel
Bleak Seasons
She Is the Darkness
Water Sleeps
Soldiers Live

Then read Port of Shadows last. Its a prequel but there are some theories about the plot that could spoil the main books.

>>14450444
>>14450448
So why are they cats and why is it called godsfire?

>>14458901
Give me a shounen that is better than stormlight archive and I'll read both and compare

>>14459507
idk anything about mangos but you might want to read codex alera, that's in the same vein, and pretty fun too.

>>14459507
Jigokuraku

Is b-ok.org or .xyz down for anyone else? Wont load and if it does for .xyz it cant search for anything.

>>14450424
What's a good series to steal stuff from for my low, generic fantasy game. Elric is a bit too high brow for me.

I'm looking for a gradual departure from civilization with a somewhat interesting overarching plot and plenty of engaging scenarios.

>>14459696
Conan

>>14458363
he's a horror writer that occasionally includes sci fi or fantasy elements

>>14459507
Hunter x hunter if you want anime
>>14459612
.cc does't load either
>>14459696
>Elric
>too high brow
fuck. I saw someone call Rothfuss highbrow once, on reddit. This shit is spreading. Sanderson next?
>>14457454
Literally told you this would happen, buddy

>>14458888
she's a bad character because she makes cringey pun based jokes that are supposed to be witty, but are just bad. everyone reacts like shes some super smart girl that no one can match wits with. she would be a fine character if you know, the writer was smart enough or had a sense of humor that wasnt bottom of the barrel 7th grade mormon jokes
the flashback chapters are awful as well
>>14458901
not true. most shonen is trash and has some truly cringey writing, even the best animes are really just being held up by their flashy visuals and fight scenes. evangelion is a good example. awful characters and writing

>>14459612
>>14459774
Doesn't matter. Tons of resources.

>>14458888
I like Sanderson overall and I think most of his hate is nonsense forced here by a few individuals when there're worse writers that the thread seems to like, but there's a lot to complain about with him.
The power scale in his story often slips to this point where there's over the top fantasy combat that rips you away from the actual narrative for nothing, thus the comparisons to shonen anime, since his characters will start screaming at each other while they throw around big magical sword swings. It's not inherently bad on its own, but it plays poorly with what I'd call a strength of his, which is more grounded consistent world building since it creates this awkward division in how much magic is supposed to be this structured science he likes it to be and how much it's supposed to be high mysticism in the setting.
His pacing his issues and you're often forced to drag yourself through long periods of transition to get into the meat of the story. He doesn't really understand how to build suspense, so you're not left anticipating, you're left tired, needing to move onto the next bit but unable to skip anything since he might try to slip something of note in slow chapters.
His worst offence is his awful dialogue though. He has some cool snips of heroic declarations, and then everything else is awful. He likes to include these witty characters who're witty because you're told they're sooooo witty, when they have nothing witty to say. They'll throw out some bit of a snark that reads like a teenager trying to bite back at his teacher and then everyone commends them, and you're left putting down the book so you can contemplate killing yourself for reading something so embarrassing.

But I mean, I do like him and I don't think you should stop. This just isn't a post meant to defend him so I'm not going into that.

>>14459815
>by a few individuals
In every time zone, at every time of the fucking day, there will be at least 2 or 3 anons that will bash Sanderson. It has been going on for years and years.

Explain this to me: why the fuck here? Why would you talk about Sanderon here of all fucking places? The one place where instead of actual encouragement and advice you will get spammed by negativity? Why not go to arrfantasy instead, and read one of the literally hundreds, if not thousands of threads?

>>14459827
Contrarians going to be contrarian to other contrarians. Such is the nature of Four Channels.

>>14459827
I don't talk about Sanderson here except now because an anon asked what's wrong with him, so I wrote a full post that's basically entirely bashing an author that I do like. I don't know what kind of assumption you're making when the clear opposite is on display.

I've seen single anons before carry on near ever present smear campaigns on other boards alone, two people is enough to keep a continual Sanderson hate train as it is. It's certainly not as if I don't see the reasons to dislike him, I outlined enough of them, or think that /sffg/ should think otherwise for some reason, it's just that there're countless shitty fantasy writers and the specific hatred for him around here is baffling by comparison when GRRM is evidently one of our favourites, more widely acknowledged, and has just as many problems. It's unnatural that Sanderson would be singled out.

>>14458391
Neuropath by R. Scott Bakker counts to some extend I would say.

>>14459814
other than libgen?

>>14459854
Yes.

Survery time

What e-reader do you use? How many ebooks do you have? How about physical? How many books (physical or digital) have you read so far?

>>14459857
I only know libgen and b-ok. What else is there? Torrent sites are very hit or miss unless the book is very popular.

>>14459863
>kindle oasis
>like 300
>like 100
>combined like 70 or so

>>14459864
They are constantly posted in these threads and are in the OP as well. Maybe eventually I'll do a better and more specific guide but in my experience people will make posts like this regardless of how much they are spoonfed anyway.

>>14459848
You are absolutely fucking delusional if you think it is two people. There are easily a dozen anons who hate him. Probably many more.
>GRRM is evidently one of our favourites
Jesus, lurk more, newfag. He is the same as Sanderson. He will get mentioned because of his popularity, but half the general dislikes him. Not to mention he is actually a substantially better writer than Sanderson - much more nature and doesn't suffer from all the Shounen tropes.

>>14459774
Sanderson is extremely high-brow, I only enjoy plebfeed like Robert Silverberg.

>>14459864
Torrent sites have fuckloads if you use the private ones, but if you don't have private then you just use mobilism, libgen and the IRC and you have 99% of everything.

>>14451011
dropped it too.
should've picked Jules verne you idiots

>>14459046
best book I've read all year was feminist fantasy

>>14460144
Sorry you didn't read any good books this year.

>>14451242
The only book I've ever dropped in disgust in recent memory is the first Mistborn book.

>>14459848
>GRRM is evidently one of our favourites

>>14459863
coolreader on android/calibre ereader on PC
~5000
~50
~1000

>>14459864
>What else is there?
The /lit/ sticky.

>>14457836
I thought Cryptonomicons ending was solid and snow crash wasn't markedly bad

>>14460190
Both of those pretty much stopped when Stephenson got tired of it, Cryptonomicon needed another half-chapter at least, but Anathem and System of the World both had excellent endings.

Seveneves would have had a good ending if not for that far-future epilogue.

>>14460144
Please spoonfeed me the name of the book, I need recs

>>14460237
Tarnsman of Gor

>>14460237
I was mainly riffing on it being Jan 2nd but the book is Witches of Wenshar and it is good outside of a middle act that drags a little.

Are the Witcher books any good?

>>14460286
Fuck off, this is the 3rd time this question was brought up this week.
Its garbage and everyone who says otherwise is a newfag from reddit

>>14460287
Cool, thanks

>>14460286
For the 100th time they're alright in english translation, possibly good if you can read the polish or german versions.

>>14460273
Fucking yeah. Great fantasy books with good role models for the current generation.

>>14459507
Kimetsu no Yaiba is a good one. It's a period piece set around 1915, lots of contrast between modern and traditional technology, dress and beliefs.

>>14459901
>>14459827
There is something called the vocal minority. 12 out of 100 is still a minority. After the shit Sanderson pulled in oathbringer I stopped defending him, but for years, since there was only the first stormlight, there was a small amount of persons (less than five, you could have told them apart from posting styles and keywords and sentence structure) that would say Sanderson was shit or a hack, and they never even read the book they were bashing. We just ignored them and they took on a life of their own. With the never-ending YA books taking up cosmere books space, and the shit fest that was oathbringer, I can understand if people hate him now, but this hate was going on for years.

>>14460296
cope with your shit taste

>>14460273
Is that the one with plant fucking?

>>14460317
No, Gor is a utopian series.

>>14460347
Plants are required for a utopian story.

>>14460292
I enjoyed Kimetsu no Yaiba too. The best fantasy animu of all time, in my opinion, is Shinsekai Yori, though. The ending was Orwellian and incredibly well executed. It was like a much better version of NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy

>>14460379
just want to second shinsekai yori. god damn was that a haunting animu. one of those rare greats that you get like three or four of per decade. where everything works together perfectly. story, soundtrack, acting, art, animation. everything was wonderful. surprised i don't see it shilled more.

What can I read that has this aesthetic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g

>>14460421
the stand, anansi boys

Trying to remember a book where powered armor exists and the people who have it are basically evil god kings. A kid gets it somehow and that's the start of the story. Setting is possibly a ringworld or other artificial structure.

>>14460306
I read 85 books last year, how much did you read, non-reading shitposter kun?

>>14460562
Red Rising trilogy

Why didn't none of the self published fags you guys constantly shill release nothing this Christmas season?

>>14460645
from reading the posts here you'd think everyone reads book of the new sun non stop. and when they finish the series, they start over again

>>14459863
Nook Simple Touch
100s
1000s
idk I average 100 a year I guess

>>14460693
>a select few of readlet users speaks for the entire general

>>14460693
I've been posting for 5+ years and have never read anything by Gene Wolfe.

>>14459048
Tell me. What do you see?

>>14460645
59 that I put under literary fiction, 77 under speculative fiction. I also follow like 7 or 8 web novels. You see, just because someone reads actually worthwhile books instead of Shounen thrash, that doesn't mean that they read less. I have just trained myself to appreciate artistic complexity over mindless tropes, whiny chosen ones, and idiotic, cliche plots. And yes, sometimes I will read something simpler, like the aforementioned web novels, but even then, shit like Worth the Candle and Mother of Learning is infinitely less embarrassing than Sanderfag or Jordan.
Honestly, I have no idea how someone can feel *proud* (OH HEY LOOK I READ 85 BOOKS AND THATS MORE THAN MY ILLITERATE FRIENDS, SO IT MUST BE A LOT HAHA) after reading a book about that moronic walking copyright infringement called Vin.

>>14460728
There is a head on a pole behind you.

>>14460743
>I have just trained myself to appreciate artistic complexity over mindless tropes
suit yourself cunt, i love sanderson and grrm because they're fun and you can't stop me

>>14460743
Wow anon. You are so well read, and better than us. You even read literary fiction!
neck yourself

>>14460743

>>14460818
Enjoy your life of stagnation and mediocrity, reading books that are only fun so long as you never think about the plot holes and how ridiculous the characters are. Never put effort into improving yourself.

>>14460832
Cope
Imagine actually saying that shit on /lit/ of all places.

>>14460818
>>14460832
>>14460852
Samefagging hard

>>14460832
Also, imagine being the first to bring up your book count, and then getting upset that you are not as well-read as you thought and proceeding to imply that someone i arrogant. What an absolutely fucking disgusting person.

>>14460905
>Imagine actually saying that shit on /lit/ of all places
Are you lost friend?

>>14460693
Uhhhhh... I dont know what you are implying with the tone of your post, But that sounds quite based to me pal.

>>14450634
I have only read the second book. Is she even a bigger cunt in the third one?

>>14461048
Yes

>>14461066
Could you put it into few simple words? She didn't kill Kaladin or something like that, right?

>>14461076
Know it all cunt becomes an even bigger know it all cunt

>>14461108
So she has most pages in the book now?

i wish i was as good a writer as half the bad writers we talk about here

>>14461048
That and Sanderson ruins Kaladin by shoving him into a shitty love triangle with her. Also now she has two separate personalities, one is her "normal" self and the other is a complete edgelord. And in case you forget that she's a natural prodigy at literally everything don't worry because Sanderson will remind you in every other paragraph of her chapters.

>kvothe
>shallan
>two of the worst protagonists in two of the most overrated fantasy books of the past decade are both gingers
what does it all mean?

>>14461227
Fuck, what happened? Kaladin was the main hero, Shallan was fucking nobody in the first book. What made him change it?

All of you Sandercunts should just get a tripcode so I can filter you all.

>>14461227
>>14461242
>>14461108
But she's still shit in combat, right?

>>14461336
>>14461336
>>14461336

>>14461227
>That and Sanderson ruins Kaladin by shoving him into a shitty love triangle with her.
The love triangle ended in the same volume. Hopeful best girl Syl will win the Kaladin bowl.

What are the best barbarian hero books other than Robert E. Howard's works?