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Sander Brandenson

Fuck E William Brown
Fuck Pay Pigs
Fuck Pay Walls
Fuck Delays
Fuck Incommunicado
Fuck you
FUCK YOU
I WANT DANIEL BLACK YOU FUCKER

Cool OP image, can we please have more like this and less of the generic moe anime shit? This reminds me of concept art threads on /tg/ back in the good old days.

>>18508849
Give me some SFF sex book recommendations that are written for men.

Finally found a use for these.

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>>18508902
Have any of you ever hollowed out a book to hide stuff in?

>>18509059
I have nothing to hide.

>>18509066
Yeah, me neither... Don't know why I even brought it up...

>>18508902

grimACE

>want to get into to ringworld because I’ve heard it was comfy series
>41 books
Where do I start? Guards gets recommended a lot and so does Wee Free Men. Just want something light hearted but I also want to know which books best explain the overarching lore.

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Friendly Reminder

>>18508840
>Discord
https://discord.com/invite/KWPCM7m

>Book Club Selection
Black Stone Heart
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50336223-black-stone-heart

> A broken man, Khraen awakens alone and lost. His stone heart has been shattered, littered across the world. With each piece, he regains some small shard of the man he once was.
> He follows the trail, fragment by fragment, remembering his terrible past.
> There was a woman.
> There was a sword.
> There was an end to sorrow.
> Khraen walks the obsidian path.

WTF HAPPENED TO THE SIMAS SKIN SPY FROM THE END OF TWP

>>18509389
>has to cop out of using all of the big 3 and slot in some literal who woman
HeinleinCHADS win again.

>>18509389
Both Howard and Lovecraft were closeted weirdos

>>18509515
Lovecraft was an incel who lost his virginity to a jew.

>>18509388
Micahel R. Fletcher is a grimdark homogay.

Books with a male MC and romance?
please recommend me books

>>18509566
>he thinks fiction is for straight males
Haha...

>>18509586
one must still try even in the face of impossible odds...
otherwise all is lost

>>18509566
black company series

forever war

>>18509592
The Forever War is the GOAT military SF.

>>18508840
The Witness For The Dead, The Goblin Emperor #2 - Katherine Addison (2021)
Although this is the second in this world, they have only two things in common, a character and the setting. There aren't really any notable goblins in this one, it's almost all elves all the time. There's very little that distinguishes elves from humans in this setting, though the only races presented are elves and goblins, of which there are less difference between them than you may assume.
The protagonist is a melancholy gay elf in a steampunk setting that includes magic. He is a witness for the dead, which means he communes with the dead with the hope of bringing them solace, which can lessen the chance of them rising as a ghoul. This often leads him to investigate the circumstances of troubled deaths, not to bring anyone to justice, but to allow the dead to literally rest in peace.
Though the book is relatively short it has multiple plotlines from a single continuous perspective that isn't separated by chapters. There are slight gaps of continuity separated by a line which serves as the closest semblance of chapter breaks.
While the plot is about resolving the circumstances of deaths, that's only what happens and isn't what the book is about. This is a naturalistic character study detailing his daily life as a disgraced priest who found some redemption but who isn't yet ready to move on with his life, assuming he'd even know how to, let alone want to.
I found it to be a comfortable read, though it wasn't notable in any way for better or worse. I would read more from this setting if there was more. Almost none of this issues I had with the first book are present.
Rating: 3.5/5

>>18509592
https://www.goodreads.com/series/54284-the-chronicles-of-the-black-company
do I just read the main entries?

>>18509681
Just the first 2-3 books in order of original publication if you want the sleeping with the tsundere villain story.

>>18509656
It's one of my favs and the love story in it really got to me too. I never read the sequel though, any idea if it's good? I know it was written much later.

>>18509700
alright, thanks

>>18509700
The direct sequel is terrible. Pretend it doesn't exist.

>>18509706
>direct sequel
so.. there's an indirect sequel that isn't terrible?

>>18509711
The second book just takes the core concepts of the original book and is set in a different universe. It's passable.

>>18509674
Based. Haven't read it yet, but Goblin Emperor was excellent so I'm looking forward to reading this one. Didn't read your comment because I don't want spoilers tho.

>>18508902
Wow you are a bad boy.

>>18509858
>no backucks or animetrannies
This pace is based.

>>18509858
Fuck off we do not want you to post anything related to girls, much less a pic

>>18508840
Any good cosmic horror sci-fi novels?

>>18510080
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55278507-shards-of-earth

>>18510084
Thank you!

>>18509519
>incel
>lost his virginity
Does not compute.

>>18510128
He was a white supremacist. He was so desperate for ass that he married a jew.

>>18509858
is that... a female?
oh no bros... I think I'm losing my mind...

this place is full of gaes

>>18510142
I'm not gay
recommend me a book with a male protag engaging in the sexual act of coitus with a female

>>18510084
Shards of Earth was a 9/10 for me. The Lovecraftian horror elements were really well done. More so than full-on Lovecraftian horror novels. Even the Essiel were pretty spoopy.

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>>18510146
Holy shit you are so fucking gay, stop

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>>18510204
name/sauce?

>>18510134
He wasn't a white supremacist, he understood the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon Race.

>>18510146
BotNS.

>>18510249
File Deleted. It says right in the photo.

Guys, the three body problem is really testing my patience. I'm going to try and finish it off, since I'm late in the book already. But I can't imagine it winning me over in the last third.

In the mean time can anyone tell me what I should read next? I'd like to have something I can begin immediately after the three body problem is done.
Sidenote: I'm still trying to get Dying Inside.

Here's my obligatory reading history: https://pastebin.com/0sxDLqBK I pastebinned this time, so as to keep the thread clean. Aren't I considerate?

>>18510414
>reading Chink shit

>>18509674
I thought the most interesting part of the Goblin Emperor was seeing serious political conflict in a medieval fantasy world that wasn't military, and skipped this one because it didn't look like that would return. Was I wrong to skip it? Just seemed like the conflicts were going to be totally different.

>>18508840
Does anyone know books similar to the Demonata series? For those unfamiliar, go and read the first book, it'll probably take like an hour and a half because it's a YA series.

NO MORE KEKOLDRY
I'M OUTLAWING
ANYONE THAT PRACTICES WILL HAVE THEIR WIVES FUCKED

>>18510743
>ANYONE THAT PRACTICES WILL HAVE THEIR WIVES FUCKED
Can I watch?

>>18510414
>In the mean time can anyone tell me what I should read next?
Read something short and focused like Dogs of War by Tchaikovsky.

>>18510769
Sounds schlocky.

>>18510783
It's actually surprisingly thought provoking.

>>18509566
>satisfying
botns
stardust
garret pi
>interesting
prince of nothing
gor
>lol
heinlein
piers anthony
>bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks
rhialto the marvelous
earthsea

>>18510789
do these contain cuckolding?
one can never be too safe

>>18510080
The Area X trilogy- Annihilation, Acceptance, Authority

>>18510757
>Can I watch?
B-bakker-chan, is that y-you?

>>18510414
Can you explain what's testing your patience? I understand 3BP can be a drag if it's not what you're expecting but I thought it was enough of a page turner. I also quite enjoyed the ending and the revaluation that came with it.

The Dark Forest was better in every possible way though. I finished that one faster than I've ever finished a novel before.

>>18510791
Heinlein was a giant lolbert with a cuckholding fetish, yes.

>>18510802
'Tis I, Bacuck. I will be the guiding hand that aligns your urethra with my wife's cervical opening.

>>18510632
What aspects about it did you like?

>>18509764
There aren't really spoilers.

>>18510463
There isn't really conflict and it's entirely different from the first book, which is what I wrote.

>>18510815
I agree with this anon.

Dark Forest is absolutely fucking fantastic, one of the best sci-fi novels I’ve ever read.

That said- I didn’t find 3BP to drag all that much. Sure there were a couple slower parts, but the book isn’t that long.

But yes IMO, it’s worth it to get to the end.

>>18510798
Thank you I'll add them to the list!

>>18510789
>stardust
which one?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16793.Stardust
or
https://www.goodreads.com/series/240098-neil-gaiman-and-charles-vess-stardust

>>18510134
>He was so desperate for ass
Sonia Greene was the one jumping his bones.

>>18510863
>Heinlein
>not an incest fetish
topkek my negro

>>18510931
I never saw the illustrated versions so can't comment on those. The book is a damn fine piece of work.
>fans of the movie asspained on goodreads
YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE

>>18510815
not the original 3bp poster but i had the same issues as he and the videogame part really put me off. now, just to see what the fuss was about i had to read some spoilers and understood that this is some form of testing program to attract qualified scientists but... i just don't care. it started off really great though.
Another point is that some of the things leading up to this seem too implausible. And even if it's explained somehow later on, it's just too implausible to keep me interested. That numbers part, you know? Explain that as hard sci fi. I'd have to take a huge fucking leap of suspension of disbelief to make it work in my brain.
Yeah... this and that i don't really care about any of the characters in the book.

>>18511002
oh, so they're both the same book but one just has pictures like jap light novels?

>>18510815
Well it's intriguing enough to keep me going so far. That's not the problem. But I simply don't understand a lot of what's happening. Maybe if I knew history then it would be different, but I don't. I have no idea about Chinese politics or communism. And they spend the first few chapters giving an account of people surviving the conflict. And while I did try my best to pay attention, I'm still not sure which political faction is doing what.

And so because I don't have a grasp on anything, it feels like I'm just being blown along on the wind. The story constantly shifting perspectives, and times, and throwing scientific jargon at me constantly, while nothing makes sense. At around 60% through the book(bbout where I cam now), there's a chapter that I feel like is supposed to be this shocking revelation, but all I can think is "why are any of you doing this?" I don't get the motives. They start talking about their political factions again and I'm not understanding why being part of one faction is significantly different from another.

I mean, I do get SOME things. I'm not completely ignorant. And I think I'm piecing things together a little more this late in the book. But I still feel like I'm being strung along. The closest thing I can relate this book to, is the show Lost. And the bunker. and the numbers. Very intriguing, but dragged out, and I'm beginning to doubt the ending will be satisfying.

Also, the game sounds like it was written by someone who has never played a video game before.
And the secreted organizations are really bad at being secret. How they managed to stay hidden for so long is very unbelievable. They're all loosey-goosey with their secrets in a way that reminds me of how conspiracy nuts describe secret societies. Vaguely alluding to elites and celebrities being involved. Government agents blatantly trying to double cross you. Passing innocuous tests that put the MC into the heart of a conspiracy despite his loyalty not ever being tested.

Or another way to describe this book is like listening to Coast to Coast AM. I don't know if you're familiar with that show. It's an old radio show where they talk about mysteries, the supernatural, conspiracies, and anything that can't be explained. Half of the show involved talking to various guests. And half of the show involved taking calls from randos. So sometimes a scientist will come on and talk about space and satellites or whatever, and then they'd take calls, and the callers would start asking how the technology could possibly have come from aliens. And how it can help us communicate with aliens. And how the communist russia is already using the technology. And then start sharing his alien abduction story.

That's basically the entire book so far. Except dragged out for 9 hours in audiobook time.(over 14 hours in total)

>>18510991
I mean, that's definitely a thing with him too, but a simple incest fetish doesn't lead to sharing your wife and grandma with dudes you never met.

If Bakker through his work has taught me one thing, is that they're is not only pleasure in seeing your wife being taken by another man, but also strength. Cuckoldry is a state of being only accessible by an elite few.

>>18510882
Hard to explain the exact feeling the series exudes... Very good world-building of a dark universe that makes me just want to learn more and more about the lore behind it.

>>18510901
Man, I keep seeing people say Dark Forest is way better than TBP, which is enticing considering the fact that I actually liked TBP a lot. Unfortunately I have to finish a few books I've abandoned first. Can't just keep starting new books without finishing them.

>>18511326
well it would be hard for it not to be better. 3BP is basically a prologue, or should i say prolongue, cause all it does is hint at the big reveal which, like somosne mentioned, isn't that big deal once it is revealed. A better author woulda done with it at the start of the book and gotten on with the real plot faster. Oh well, gotta give the Dark Forest a shot now...

Never Forget: Shit's Fucked, Then You Die.

>>18509339
>want to get into to ringworld because I’ve heard it was comfy series
I tried a couple of months ago (with Guards Guards and Mort) and it wasnt for me. the humor is rather simple and gets old the same way Douglas Adams's humor in Hitchhiker gets old.

>>18509681
The Star Fisher series, beginning with The Shadow Line, is pretty kino too.

is it a good start to get into Gene Wolfe?

>>18512146
With Gene Wolf you might as well immediately go for his magnum opus.

I want a book about a large city that's full of magic with an oriental theming and I want it to be comfy and about adventures
Anything come to mind?
>>18512146
Hmm, it's the only book of his I've read and I liked it

>>18512152
Definitely. No reason not to.

>>18508840
At what stage do you guys start writing your stories? I've started near the end of the first "arc" where my character ends up being more serious with his kingship.

>>18512259
writing?

>>18512146
Yes, it’s great.

>>18508840
Where to start with post apocalyptic dystopia?

>>18512146
Yes, it’s great.

>>18508840
Where to start with post apocalyptic dystopia?

>>18510632
Based taste, and no, I’ve not found anything like it. Own all the books though :^)

>>18512259
With both my books I started writing at the beginning. I really ought to get back to writing soon, I've been thinking a lot about my story lately.

Does anybody know any books that does the academy setting well?
Stuff like Enders Game or Harry Potter
Either Fantasy or Sci-Fi is okay, but I do prefer Sci-fi
also male protag is a must, sorry, I have autism

>>18511022
Since you're reading with audiobook, I can see why your comprehension of the story went out the window. It doesn't really hold your hand, and all the technology is presented extremely matter-of-factly.

I knew nothing of Chinese politics before this, but you really didn't need to to understand the story. And assuming you went into the book knowing absolutely nothing, there's still quite a bit left to be revealed.

Has anyone got an SFF torrent in languages other than English?

>Are Patchface and Sweetrobin the true masterminds behind the Others and secretly controlling Westeros from the shadows? Tune in to our next A Song of Ice and Fire theory video on Youtube to find out!

>>18512337
Those types of videos are cancer; my wife is like flies to a piece of shit for the Harry Potter ones. The implausible theories were a fun staple of /got/ threads back in the day though. Daario=Euron is one I still subscribe to.

>>18510414
>the last third
The other 3BP posters are failing to remember just why the last third is so important. Have you even gotten to the recovered data tapes?

Prediction: The Winds of Winter will be split into two parts like Feast/Dance. The first part will be released in 2023. The second part will never be released.

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I got filtered hard from this series after finishing the first book. The setting was neat, but I just couldn't care about the majority of the characters. How do the later books compare to GotM?

What are some fantasy classics apart from the big names that offer a good image of writing style and pacing?
Ideally one with a good audiobok version somewhere for free

>>18512479
C.S. Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia”

>>18509059
I have a wood carving with a hidden compartment so I just hide stuff in there.

>>18509462
This is the only loose end that bothers me.

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>>18509296
Does it trouble you?

What's the bloodiest/edgiest novel?
Preferably one where you know the MC is going to get fucked.

Double bonus points if the protag is not edgy at all.

>>18513021
Kikokugai

>>18512787
Such as?

>>18512418
Uh, yes, it's called A Dream of Spring and has been for a long time.

>>18513021
Probably some erotica novel that focuses on guro and other extreme violent fetishes.

>>18513128
I don't think two books is enough to tie up all the loose ends he's got. The fat man knows it as well.

>>18512746
Okay, i can see where you're coming from, but how about something that isnt written for 10 year old children and sounds like something you'd read to them at bedtime? I already had a lot of that in the hobbit.

>>18513164
>how about something that isnt written for 10 year old children
It's not written for 10 year old children, it's written for 10 year old adults.

>>18513036
Why is it always the Japanese?

>>18513139
Yea, I could probably find some splatterpunk too.
But trying to find something edgy with an otherwise clean MC is kinda hard. Especially with Splatterpunk (or grimderp for that matter)

>>18513178
Yeah, doesn't the older girl become a slut and stop believing in Narnia in the end? And then she doesn't get to go there when they die?

>>18513192
the christian hospitality really bleeds through in the later books

>>18513188
Maybe some horror novel then where it's all about the MC suffering as much as possible.

>>18513036
Ah haha, they wrote Phantom and Saya no Uta too.

does horror count as fantasy?
apparitions, unknown entities, deities beyond our dimension

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>>18513205
You do sometimes see SFF expanded to SFFH.

>>18513197
No one has a right to go to heaven. It's only by God's mercy. You deserve the opposite.

>>18508840
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/22/1007341304/summer-sff-poll

>>18513021
The Library at Mount Char is brutal and intentionally edgy.

>>18513128
It's certainly a "dream," I'll give you that.

>>18513226
How very hateful and malicious of you.

>>18513036
For me it's Hanachirasu.

>>18513226
"Waaahhhh, you did a sin against me!" — God

>>18513160 It's enough if the proper measures are taken.
>>18513232 But who is the dreamer?

>>18513241
Yes, the sovereign of all creation has the right to punish his creatures when they disobey him. Cry more.

>>18513246
he created us
he literally has no ground to stand on for all is designed in his image

>>18513250
Since he created you he can do whatever he pleases with you.

>>18513246 Disobey him? Anything that is done is in accordance with his will. Man does not possess free will.

>>18513253
so he sinned

>>18513250
> this faggot thinks he can judge God
Self-inflated ego much?

>>18513260
I am but a slave of my design
no thought of mine is truly mine, and no action I take is of my own volition
for I have no power, and no agency over my own existence

>>18513254
I never said that anyone had free will. Disobedience refers to the performance of an unlawful act and does not require free will.
>>18513257
It is logically impossible for God to sin as he himself is the sole standard by which goodness is determined.

>>18513244
Have you read the sample chapters of Winds? They don't progress the story an inch, which considering how much he's got to get through is very concerning. He's shitting it because he knows he's completely fucked.

>>18513267
This. I'm not attracted to preteen girls and driven to committing serial murder rapes because of any fault of my own. It's all god's plan.

>>18513271 No, I haven't read them, and I don't think people should.

>>18513201
That sadly doesn't help a lot.
Tried looking a while ago, but horror's quite different from fantasy most of the time.

>Start reading Hyperion completely blind
>Expect a regular sci fi story
>The entire first part is Claude Lévi-Strauss' Tristes Tropiques with space retards
I love it.

>>18513275
And you'll be held accountable for it anyway. This is the role of the creature so you might as well accept it as there's nothing you can do about it.

>>18513205
>>18513205
There's some overlap, but as a genre fantasy is generally very different from horror.
The tropes and cliches are very different, in horror transgression is very much expected while in fantasy it can get you cancelled by some idiots on twitter.
Horror authors who later go on to write fantasy novels also tend to be very different from the norm.

>>18513289
>The tropes and cliches are very different, in horror transgression is very much expected while in fantasy it can get you cancelled by some idiots on twitter.
Horror literature is pozzed too if you didn't know.

>>18510888
>There aren't really spoilers.
I don't believe you

>>18513275
Thank you for preventing the birth of the worst human ever to have lived, as according to HIS plan.

>>18513295
Depends on what you define a spoiler. If you mean "literally anything" as in, not going in completely blind, then sure.

>>18513277
I thought Arya's chapter was pretty good, but then I read it a long time ago and the show has since ruined her character for me.

>>18513301
Andrei Chikatilo just prevented the birth of the next Adolf Hitler. Based.

>>18513257
he can not have sinned, for he can not, could not, be judged

>>18513319
is god above good and evil?
is he above out mortal morality?
would it be wrong to say he is either or neither good nor evil?

>>18513294
That's an extremely recent development then.

what releases are you waiting for/looking forward to?

>>18513348
Assume everything you're allowed to read is.

>>18513367
Everything that I'll ever read has already been released long ago. Every author worth reading is already dead.

>>18513302
I don't have to explain myself to you nigger

>>18513381
Nor do you have to explain yourself to yourself.

>>18513390
okay food for thought

>>18513367
The only thing I look forward to anymore is the next instalment of my anime light novels.

How do you feel if a book contains cuckoldry but it doesn't involve the main character, but another important character you're supposed to feel sympathetic towards? Personally it's not enough to ruin a book for me but I still hate it.

>>18513482
If it doesn't happen to my self-insert, it's literally a waste of time.

>>18513370
KJV is pozzed af

>>18513482
I always took cuckolding as a trust/betrayal thing when I read it in books as a teenager, I didn't see it as a fetish thing.

>>18513367
Mostly books from authors that /sffg/ doesn't read or thinks are shit. I'm trying to find stuff to read but I think this place is tapped out as far as recommendations go. All that's left for me to try are Robin Hobb's books and Scott Bakker, and I'm not inclined to read either one.

>>18513955
I'm not asking about a fetish. I just mean content in the book in which the character's woman fucks another man, for any reason at all.

>>18513160
His books are massive. Two 1000+ page books is more than enough to finish his story, he just has to stop faffing around adding new characters and shit. Maybe resort to a time skip if he has to. The real travesty was what a waste of time Feast/Dance was, it introduced more shit than it resolved.

>>18513965
>for any reason at all.
Rape also counts of course. If their wife gets raped then they have been cucked.

>>18513965
It depends on how much narrative focus the cuckolded character gets. If they get a lot of focus, I'd prefer that they don't act pathetic about it. By that I mean moping and lamenting over being a cuckold. I find that kind of maudlin attitude in characters exasperating regardless of what they're moping about. It's fine if we're not subjected to it and it mostly happens in the background, but if I'm forced into close narrative proximity with this person I'd prefer they have a dynamic, attractive personality.

>>18513970
Let's agree to disagree. We'll see what happens. I think he's too deep in the shit and there would still be a ton of subplots left unresolved. Why did he keep piling on so many new characters?

Any sci-fi/fantasy set on the inside of a hollow sphere? Yeah, the physics doesn't really work out without some weirdness at the poles, but I'm willing to forgive if it's interesting.

I'm a scientist.

>>18514052
If you’re a scientist then I’m a feminist

>>18514059
If you're a feminist then I'm a woman.

>>18514066
If you're a woman, then I'm gay.

>>18512294
sufficiently advanced magic- andrew rowe
magic academy. Author made the MC a literal fag though. Book 1 is subtle enough but 2 starts to go heavy on the lbghtq+=. Never got around to book 3.
arinthian line- sever bronny. More like a basic coming of age but I remember it has some school parts. both hard YA

If you're writing some kind of urban fantasy then I have to ask: how is your veil/masquerade upheld? Why don't people know about all the ghosts, werewolves, and vampires bumping around in the night?

>>18514339
Because they're retarded teenagers like in Buffy.

>>18510863
Iirc he only became weird and way into nudism and harems after he had a stroke

What am I getting into for pic rel. What would you compare it to? Can I read the first three books and be satisfied, or do I have to read all the books?

>>18514223
Word around the office is you have a fat cock. I've got a fat cock, too. Maybe we should rub our fat cocks together some time. Maybe a little oil. Two fat cocks. Together. Oil.

>>18514379
I would compare it to Tolkien at his best.

Any zombie novels that are any good?

I just realized I can't think of any decent book on magicians/wizards. Some would say Feist but he dropped the ball on that series

>>18513962
Recs-
Marko Kloos "Terms of Enlistment"
Starship Troopers except we're the Bugs

Walter Jon Williams "Dread Empire's Fall"
Space Opera

Joel Shephard "Renegade"
Space Opera on one ship ala Mass Effect

Christopher Rucchio "Empire of Silence"
Think Dune + 40k

All amazing, all excellent. I've read a shitton of sci fi these past few years, most of it's utter shit but these ones are real gems

>>18513962
/sffg/ has garbage recommendations though

>>18513962
What are those books?

Has anyone read Ted Chiang? It seems he have good stories.

>>18514379
>tolkien at his best
now there's a backhanded compliment

>>18512425
It's a set of new characters. And then ANOTHER one.

>book has 5+ sequels
I do not read that book.

>>18514899
Doesn't count for light novels. Wish I hadn't read The Dark Tower though.

Nearly finished with "The Sword of Destiny", the 2nd book of short stories in the witcher. Love this series so far, my favourite fantasy series.

>>18514899
Got filtered?

>>18514441
I'm screen capping this post and if these are shit I will shame you for it.

>>18508869
You do know the artist for this drew the last few OP pics rights? And this shit is anime shit. I swear, I feel like people are talking without knowing anything.

>>18508869
You do know the artist for this drew the last few OP pics rights? And this shit is anime shit. I swear, I feel like people are talking without knowing anything.

>>18515471
>>18515487
embarrassing

>>18515487
>Retard who thinks anime art is just “generic moe” is retarded.
In other news: Water is wet and the sky is blue.

>>18512322
One of the disconnects with audio is dealing with Chinese names. The narrator reads them well enough. It's just hard to follow when you can't see the text. The Chinese names aren't being registered as distinct in my mind. So I'm getting characters confused because the names are all a jumble in my head.

For example: they have Ye Wenjie and Ye Wenxue.(just looked it up on wiki) But in my head is it's more like 叶文洁 and 叶文雪. I can't "read" the sounds, if that makes sense.

I do understand the game: The Three-Body Problem. And none of the technical stuff so far has really thrown me off. It's simple stuff like a signal that decays the farther it reaches. That part I can grasp easily. I just can't wrap my head around the factions and their motives. And which character is working for who. Like the one woman wanted to serve her "lord", but then she gets killed. And I don't know why. Apparently she was part of a faction within the organization that wanted... something? But the other guy wanted something else, so he killed her. And then the old lady killed him because she was part of another faction. I just don't know at this point.

Again, I still have the last third to read, so maybe it will make sense as it continues on. But up to this point the book feels like the slow circling around a drain. Just observing the center from all different angles, taking its sweet time to get to the point.

I'm typing a lot for a book I'm not even finished with. And that's because I'm struggling to define the experience.

>>18514673
I like him quite a bit. Haven't read Exhalation yet. I'd recommend him to anyone that's into fantasy that's based in old historical assumptions about how the universe works.

>>18515065
Yes, bloated trash gets filtered from my reading list. 3 is pushing it.

>>18516095
That's a stupid rule, no offense. How is it different from reading 5 different books? Just because they are in a continuous storyline, what's the difference?

>>18516143
>How is it different from reading 5 different books?
Ah, yes, because I want to be stuck in the same universe for 3000+ pages. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I can't even bring myself to read anything this place recommends me anymore...
Someone told me to read The Name of the Wind, but let me guess, the MC is a cuck
how right am I?

>>18516205
>>18516205
What you call stuck, I call an extended trip to an interesting place.

>>18515447
I will say I read the first books in the "Terms of Enlistment Series" (its on Kindle Unlimited and I had a lot of time on my hands at the time) and they were alright. Kind of reminded me of Tom Clancy if he had grown up like 40 years later. My biggest complaint would be its definitely one of those series that will never ever end until it stops selling.

>>18516205
If you enjoy the universe and characters why wouldn't you want to spend more time with them?

>>18516216
you might as well just become a cuck or develop an NTR fetish since that's one extremely prevalent these days

>>18516233
Wait, is the MC of The Name of the Wind really a cuckold? did I almost get baited into reading cuckold fantasy again?

>>18516240
His love interest has sex with unicorns.

>>18516248
so she's into beastiality? or are the unicorns sentient, intelligent beings in this universe

>>18516228
I ordered the first book of Terms of Enlistment and I'm going to start with that one. I'm not a turbonerd elitist like a lot of people ITT but even I have standards.

>>18516255
does it change anything? if you fuck a dog that can talk you're still fucking a dog in the end

>>18516259
if it's a beast, then it's like using a dildo

>>18516265
Absolutely haram.

>>18516267
well?
are the unicorns talking, sentient, intelligent beings?

>>18516270
come on anon, don't leave me hanging...

>>18516270
No, they just have enchanted semen that has to be injected into young girls to activate their magical powers.

>>18516289
nvm, this is just my MLP fanfic, not Rothcuck.

>>18516240
yes

Let me ask you this then, pretenders
which one do you like more

your wife is gang raped by a band of bandits but is "faithful" to you otherwise
or
your wife betrays you and runs off with your enemy and no longer has feelings for you

>>18516258
I mean go for it, its like $4 on Amazon and it was a fine enough series for me to read like 5 of the 7 that are currently out. Just became clear at that point that it was one of those that just was never going to be allowed to conclude. Which doesn't always bother me, I love the Murderbot stuff, but Terms of Enlistment was just a little too boilerplate military Sci-fi for me to just keep reading it. I would have preferred if the aliens never showed up at all and it was just Tom Clancy in space for like 1-3 novels with an actual character arc.

>>18516318
Replace bandits with demons and you've got yourself a deal.

>>18516318
>your wife betrays you and runs off with your enemy and no longer has feelings for you

Easy. I would rather her not suffer and go off with someone else.

>>18516318
it's all about the emotional attachment you see
having your wife betray hurts more, and is therefore superior than gang rape, unless of course, that she runs off with the gang after being raped by them

>>18516318
>your wife is gang raped by a band of bandits but is "faithful" to you otherwise
Tolkien classic
>your wife betrays you and runs off with your enemy and no longer has feelings for you
Bakkuk original

>>18516318
I still think about my ex sometimes, I draw my emotions from that well
she wasn't raped and didn't run away, nothing like that, but that feeling of hollowness from losing a part of yourself, it really is quite intoxicating

>>18516323
Is Berserk the most effective cuck story of all time? You get the lust driven group rape followed by rape by someone the girl is romantically interested in, all right in front of the MC.

>>18516318
fuck you
and fuck this cuckold ntr fetish shit

>>18516352
I just cucked you mentally by making you reply to my post, let that sink in

>>18516318
the only way out of the cuckold cycle is to rape the rapist, rape them all, literally sodomize the entire lot
There's is no other option

>>18516369
No, you just have to get raped by the rapist. Then you had group sex.

>>18516377
no, you must rape them all to death

>>18516369
Break the fourth wall and rape the author

>>18516382
he'd tip you for giving him a good time

>people think rape is real when all you have to do to have sex with a woman is spread her legs
>try the same with a male and you literally can't because of a soft pp
>open vagina = aroused
>aroused = consent
>consent = social construct
Rape isn't real. It's the most fictional thing found in genre fiction.

>>18516392
oh yeah?
wait until my fucking dick rams into your prostate

>>18516392
Oh let them have their fun. Telling women rape isn’t real is like telling a child Santa isn’t real.

>>18516392
>bring out the rape victim
>if it fits you must acquit

>>18516400
like you have the balls, even if I spread my ass open right here you wouldn't dare put it in

Childhood mystery put to bed. I loved Singularity by the same author and I always wanted to read his most acclaimed book, but when I looked 5 or so years ago I couldn’t find an epub. Solid YA speculative fiction, if a bit derivative of Lord of the Flies.

is this general really run by gay cucks?

>>18516422
Yes, I am a Bakker fan, how could you tell?

no-god when
NO-GOD WHEN

>>18516318
I just want a light hearted romance subplot with no cheating, rape or brainwashing....
is it really to much to ask... to simply enjoy the company of another without conflict on the horizon?

>>18516329
You could go the Seven Samurai route and have her gangraped by bandits, develop stockholm syndrome, and become the bandits' personal whore.

>>18516443
Never because overlook won’t carry Bakker anymore.

>>18516462
Unless you want to read Japanese Light Novels? Yes.

>>18516462
speaking of brainwashing
that is another level
your wife being mindraped by demons and becoming an entire different being

>>18516462
just become gay

>>18516489
I can't tell if it's my mind playing trick on me
but somehow homosexual relationships always seemed "more pure"
breaking the bounds of the biological mind, love not for the necessity to reproduce, but simply a want of another's company.

>>18516512
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMJK7F3LH-I

>>18516512
It’s an aberration of the human spirit, compelled by something worse than procreation, pure meaningless lust.

>>18516512
>love not for the necessity to reproduce, but simply a want of another's company
fags crave nothing other than sex. their idea of love is warped and satanic (all about ego).

>>18516522
ascending above the lusts of one's lizard brain is not an aberration of the human spirit, in fact it could be argued that it is the human spirit

Anyone have any recommendations for something with a little girl protagonist?

>>18516512
For me, it's not about being pure or anything like that
it's simply, depending on the setting, the act of rising above opposition for your love

>>18516533
Exactly. The pursuit of something more than a lustful union, love, and a family that begets more love, is something different altogether than the typically hedonistic unions of homosexuals, which lead in partner count, disease and domestic abuse.

t. faggots waiting to burn in hell

>>18516558
we'll burn together, anon
except I'll be having sex while your jerk your dick off in the flames of hell

Is this the best modern fantasy series?

>>18516558
If you post in or browse 4shit there's a 99% chance you're a degenerate worthy of eternal hellfire yourself

>>18516564
>female writer
lol

>>18509389
who cares about this sexual harassment bullshit

Raging homosapiens aren't allowed to post in this thread. All gays go to hell.

>>18509389
not to be a source onions but i cant find anything about clarke grooming the son of a canadian diplomat. Just the fact that he moved to sri lanka makes me believe he was a pedo though

I think I'm over sf and f for now
I'll come back when the coom meta aligns with my fetish again

Why is goodreads full of women.
Do men no read anymore, or am I simply developing a feminine taste in literature.

>>18513962
You're doing ti wrong then.

>>18516627
>Do men no read anymore
yes. true. men no read. big sad.

>>18516627
Genre fiction is an overwhelmingly feminine pursuit to the point that they overflow into the smelliest of nerd enclaves. Also there are more women than men in general. I know the Internet makes this hard to believe.

>>18508840
I met Brandon Sanderson at a book signing once. I had no idea who he was at the time because I was there for John Scalzi who was the "sideshow." I shook Brandon's hand, told him I haven't read any of your books but I might after today. Then went over to John and said "Hi and thank you for all the books!" They both sideways glance at each other. I got a kick out of it.

>>18515670
>I still have the last third to read, so maybe it will make sense as it continues on
It will. Honestly you know nothing until the end of that book.

The faction thing becomes meaningless.
Its just a way to introduce the TriSols.

>>18516703
Which are your favorite Scalzi books?

>>18516698
> genre fiction
You mean reading in general.

>>18516724
Fuck that's a hard pick. I can tell you which isn't my favorite so far. The Last Emperox was just MEH, which was sad.

>>18516732
Why?

>>18516732
Yes, it was unfortunate with what happened to it.

>>18516564
more or less yea

>>18513283
I remember as a kid at the library I would always see the cover with the edgy looking Shrike and generic ass description on the back cover. I always assumed it was just a lame boomer sci-fi book. Finally read it this year and realized that I would have actually loved it as a kid.

>>18514416
holy shit nigga I have the best fucking recc for that. Pic related. Hands down best book about magicians/wizards/sorcerors.

>>18516418
Interstellar Pig was great.

Any books with cleric, monk or otherwise divinely inclined MC?
Bakker need not apply

>>18516783
>Bakker need not apply
Why? Does cuckoldry make doubt your masculinity, fag? Or does he just use words that are too big for your brain?

>>18516783
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28765741-spiderlight
cleric main character

>>18516734
The first two books built up these interesting questions for this novel's universe and it seems like it was all going to tie them together in the end but it just ends with a flat note.

>>18513275
this is your mind on Backker, kids

>>18516793
I liked the bestiality cuck chapter.

>>18516793
Thanks I'm gonna read this, first chapter is nice but I hope I never have to read anything from Penthos' perspective ever again

>>18516886
Ok, I just have to ask. What are you talking about?

>>18516959
Jesus christ, stop taking the bait.

>>18516952
Nothing better than an all-powerful wizard simping for a virgin cleric who's married to her religion.

>>18516963
inordinately powerful beings getting tamed by pussy is right up my alley

>>18516961
Hey man, I usually don't read "bestiality cuck chapter" so I just got to ask the wtf about it.

>>18516981
There's no cuckshit in Spiderlight, only a retard who thinks he owns one of the members of the group because they had sex once.

>>18516981
And can't you see its bait?

>>18516564
pretty much.

>>18517043
Ma'am.

>>18517053
yes, anon, how dare I read a fantasy series.

>>18516627
Men no longer read as much. There was a study on that.

>>18509389
We aren't on Reddit. I don't care how many kids they touched.

>>18509389
Always forgot about that bitch Marion.

>>18517106
>Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series. While she is noted for her feminist perspective in her writing, her popularity has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations against her of child sexual abuse and rape by two of her children, Mark and Moira Greyland, and others, and for enabling her husband at the time (who was an admitted pedophile) to abuse and rape multiple unrelated children.

Are The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series any good?

>>18517120
No.

>>18517122
Well shit.

New thread
>>18517127

>>18516783
Incoming cliche answer: Try Curse of Chalion. The protagonists are sort of anti-Clerics. In the sense that they're not your conventional devotees. They sort of stumble into their divine roles and try to make the best of their position.

>>18516783

Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun has what your looking for.

>>18516205
That's just Sanderson.

>>18516564
>Girl protagonist
>Is this the best modern fantasy series?
Probably not.