/lit/ - Literature

King of /sffg/.

Simple as.

So, when will you stop killing /sffg/?

Anyone was able to rehabilitate after reading Bakker and enjoy other fantasy? Ever since I got Bakked.com other books feel like pigslop after ambrosia

>>19927362
>>19927363
Kill yourself, you samefagging faggot. Bakker is a shit writer.

All the "King Bakker" spam comes from one schizo false flagger/shitposter. Ignore, hide, do not engage, and carry on.

>>19927391
Does it really matter when all that spam is slowly killing /sffg/?

>>19927395
the general's been murdered by bakkerspammers for over a year anon

It's 2022 and I'm still not reading Bakker.

>>19927395
They don’t care. They come from Reddit and Discord.

>>19927384
Take meds.

>>19927405

I want to know more about Eärnur

>>19927370
Last thread was unironically good and the thread had over 80 unique IPs. You sound resentful.

Cope, sweetie.

>>19927409
>He actually edited.
Why are you killing /sffg/.

>>19927420
I accept your defeat.

Why don’t they make them like this anymore? I don’t like the new covers… also, what’s the best Discworld book?

For me, it's Coithus Saubon, the biggest chad in Three Seas.

>Moogy seething once again because he didn't get to be OP.

>>19927397
Why haven’t mods done anything about it?

>>19927424
>Equal Rites
Cringe as fuck

>>19927384
>>19927370
>>19927395
>>19927397
>>19927407
>>19927429
You're unironically the ones shitting up the general. Grow up.

>>19927419
How do I filter any meta discussion?
Anything with the words: "mod", "mods", "sffg" and so forth? Do I need an extension for this?

Latest version of the Chart-Maker's chart.

>>19927422
So, you got no reason for doing this?

>>19927442
And it’s still shit.

rangeban americans to save /sffg/, nay, to save the entire 4chan

>>19927447
Nah, just the bakkerfags.

>>19927442
Although not perfect, this might unironically be the single best chart we've ever made.

>>19927442
Why is Reverend Insanity in 5D?

Why do you protect him when he does this?

>>19927419
This desu.

>>19927461
Because the chart is nothing but a shitpost.

Bakkerbros?

>>19927464
Not my problem.

>>19927461
Because it's shit?
>>19927469
You mad?

moogy has a small penis and Muramasa is objectively bad. Reverend Insanity is also exclusively for homosexuals.

>>19927464
I don't care about Bakker the person, only Bakker the writer. He wrote a masterpiece that lives on it's own.

>>19927362
>Ask moogy
Is this why he's shitting up the thread now?

Grow up, moggy shitter. You irredeemable incel.

>>19927432
It's all the same person.

How bearable is this?

real general
bakkerchads migrate
>>19906403

>>19927488
The Hobbit is a great read. Why would it not be bearable?

>>19927496
All the songs were written to turn your son gay.

>>19927362
>The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus appendices, sometimes published in three volumes.

>>19927477
>You mad?
About stating facts?

>>19927501
I hope that you'll never have a son, or a daughter for that matter

>>19927496
Isn't it a Children's book?

>>19927505
Anon, this entire genre is for children

>>19927505
No, that would be Bakker’s novels.

>>19927505
I read children’s lit all the time, even Christmas Carol is one of my favourite reads from last year. Just enjoy art.

>>19927503
The fact that Reverend Insanity is shit?

>>19927504
>being this mad about tolkien's agenda

give me the most juvenile, most cliched male self insert power fantasy novel where the Male Protagonist has the most stereotypical Teen Romance with the most generic Love interest ever

>>19927504
He won't. He's an incel.

>>19927518
You ask this every thread and it’s starting to become tired. What laughs do you gain from posting it?

>>19927510
No, that the chart is shit.

>>19927519
We know you are. Stop quoting yourself to facilitate shitposting.

>>19927521
no I don't
what the fuck are you talking about

>>19927518
Stormlight Archive.

>>19927518
Stormlight Archive

>>19927525
it has a consistent perspective on a male MC?

>>19927521
Anon, you know how bakkerfags spam the same shit over and over again. Why even bother asking?

>>19927477
>Because it's shit?
But it doesn't.

>>19927557
Holy shit, it unironically reads like shit fan fiction. Even worse than Sanderson.

>>19927570
never read anything translated from chinese to english

>>19927557
Kek

That is really really bad.

>>19927557
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

>>19927427
Many such cases.

>>19927570

The perils of trying to translate Chinese

>>19927579
>>19927572
Thank you, I will literally never read it now.

>>19927527
there is no real MC and not all of them are men. Everyone's the hero of their own little story which connect together in a wider plot.

>>19927380
Dune books

>>19927586
oh, so it uhh has females then, i dunno man that sounds kinda shit

>>19927424
>what’s the best Discworld book

Small Gods

>>19927518
Iron Prince

>>19927527
Yes. It has 3 main characters. Two Males and One Female.

>>19927590
I think you might just want Conan the barbarian then. Big strong dude in a loincloth who is also smarter than average. Fights monsters, saves damsels, fucks bitches and gives no fucks. Always comes out on top no matter what.

>>19927505
>>19927506
What exactly is it that separates children's fantasy from adult fantasy? Cynicism? An unhealthy focus on the genitals?
It's rather interesting how sci fi doesn't seem to have this problem.

>>19927518
The Iliad

>>19927662
nothing

>>19927662
Intense battles, pitch black lore, highly intellectual themes that dovetail into real world philosophy, poignant character psychology, and just a hint of Lovecraftian horror.

>>19927666
the devil has spoken
fantasy is for children

>>19927669
>gore
>grimdark
>schizo characters
>spoops
40k it is
*chef's kiss*

>>19927698
Already reading this.

>>19927700
>Terrifying and astonishing
What did he mean by this?

>>19927595
>artistic rendering of Feuerbach’s view of God
Meh.

>>19927518

Oh yeah, time for some absolute Biblio

>>19927557
Jesus Christ.

>>19927933
Gandalf the White.

>>19927557
>Because it's shit?
>But it doesn't.
be honest, what third world backwater shithole are you from?

>>19927971
>what third world backwater shithole
America

>>19927971
>third world backwater shithole
Earth?

Some recommendations for the war tomorrow?

>>19928037
Bakker

The Greek god Priapus is distinguished by his massive phallus and permanent erection.

Hail Bakker, Hail Priapus.

>>19928077
dubs of truth, Bakker rules supreme

should add romance into this gen
sffrg

>>19928066
This, but unironically.

>>19928100
It's already implicit.

>>19928114
not really
also
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2247

>>19928110
I was already non-ironic

>>19928123
I understand. But I wanted to give further emphasis to my post.
>>19928122
There's plenty romance in fantasy.

romance = pozzed
rape = based and non-pozzed

I don't write the rules

>>19928122
any of those worth reading?

>Says he will stop posting on /sffg/
>2 threads later
>Can't cope and whines like a little bitch

Why are you like this, moogy?

>>19928142
if you have a straight phallus, yes

>>19928142
are you a middle age women?

>>19928214
I uh.. could be?

thought the typos in the 2nd series was a meme but i'm on TJE reread and the typos, especially in the chapter where sorweel is in the umbilicus and is examined by kellhus are ridiculous, and stuff like the wrong there being used make me wonder how it even got there

Last thread was nice, a rare 80 IP thread too

>>19928235
Excuse me, do we have a problem?

>>19928235
Here you go.
>>19928269
Kek

>>19928235
>the wrong there being used
Complete and utter madness!

>>19927572
I heard these novels are mostly translated by ESLs and MTL.

>>19928251
Last thread was shit.

>>19928315
Translations are shit 100% of the time. Even well received chinkshit like Remembrance of Earth's Past reads like complete ass in English.

>>19928251
Yeah, last thread was great.

>>19928339
I was there, it very much wasn't.

>>19928339
yeah, sad what americans did to these threads

>>19928339
I agree.

Would you recommend the Dresden Files series to someone who is normally iffy about urban fantasy?

>>19928448
I wouldn't recommend urban fantasy shit to my worst enemy.

sex is so boring, almost as boring as female protagonists
wish writers would stop trying to put them in

>>19928489
The Xanth novels directly led to my formative sexual thoughts and fantasies. No wonder I'm so fucked up.

Bakker sure loves the word "riven"

>>19928558
Riven thine anal cavity with mine curved phallus.

>>19928275
So this is the power of Banker"Chad's"...

>>19928674
Oh no no no phoneposter, you got too cocky.

>tfw I started writing a fantasy set in an Ice Age world

What would make you want/not want to read it /sffg/?

>>19928679
The phoneposting just shows he has enough of a life to go out.

reminder that Hyperion Cantos is the GOAT.

>>19927464
Death of the author. The books are good to read, I don't care what his blog says about drumpf

>>19928699
>want to read it
if it was good
>not want to read it
if it wasn't good

>>19928699
Ice/Frozen aesthetics are kino. What's the plot though?

>>19927557
>snowy white
>pressing it with force
OH NONONONONO... CHINKSHIT BROS.....

>>19928332
honestly I could tidy them up, I'm a native english speaker with great command of the language, wouldn't even need to look at the chinese. Just give me the machine/badly translated original and I could make it more poetic and make more sense, I would do it for like 10 dollars a chapter how do I get in on this?

>>19928500
that series is one of the few that actually deserves the criticism it gets for sexism etc

>>19928727
only the first two books, the Endymion books deserve to be burned

>>19927479
I got turned off of Bakker because before I even knew he had a fantasy series I read Neuropath, which was almost comically bad. I was shocked that he made it to the ABD stage of a philosophy doctorate, because the portions of that book where that kind of thing should have shone through felt like the product of an undergrad at best, big fan of Rick and Morty at worst.
Has anyone here read both his fantasy books and Neuropath? Can you promise me that the latter is not representative of his usual quality? Maybe 2008 was just an off year for him?

>>19927502
>I do not really think that I am frightfully important. I wrote the Trilogy as a personal satisfaction, driven to it by the scarcity of literature of the sort that I wanted to read
Uh oh, someone tell Tolkien he is incorrectly categorizing his own work!

>>19928808
his fantasy books are better and very different, neuropath was him trying to write a "normie" book, I liked neuropath though

>>19928773
>how do I get in on this?
https://forum.novelupdates.com/forums/translators-corner.1026/

>>19928753
Black sheep of ruling pyromancer family goes on quest to restore the source of their power before their enemies find out so his banishment is lifted

>>19928132
is that a moenghus wojak

New to this place
Quick rundown on this Bakker person?

>>19929061
closet homosexual, lots of phallic imagery, some graphic buttsex.

>>19929061

>>19929061
>>19927472

>>19929061
The Second Apocalypse (Bakker's Magnum Opus) is a tremendously refreshing well-written masterpiece. I couldn't give you enough adjectives to make it justice.
He also happens to be one of the best contemporary fantasy authors. Arguably the best living one, in my humble opinion.
Just ignore the memes, people get out of control when Bakker is mentioned. On both sides, I might add. Still worth checking out for yourself, regardless.

>>19929061
You be the judge. Although you will never truly understand what's going on here until you read him.

>>19929061
Ironic shitposting campaign to make people read bad novels because LMAO ISN'T THAT FUNNY?"

>>19929205
Nice false flag.

>>19929210
Nice try. Look at the constant flood of Bakker shitposting. There's only one reason for it.

>>19927424
>what’s the best Discworld book?
Night Watch

Either feet of clay or pyramids as 2nd best

Bakker living rent-free in a thousand thousand haters minds.

>>19927442
>Abercrombie and Goodkind anywhere above omega tier
>harry potter and the black company are somehow of comparable quality
Jesus this is bad

>>19929305
All according to plan.

>>19929313
We debated the reason for Harry Potter to be so high. To be fair, they are great children's books. We took that into consideration.

>>19929305
>thousand thousand
That's called a million, retard.

>>19929330
Bakker reference went over your head.

>>19929330
>>19929096
Like pottery.

>>19929330
Joke's on you unironically.

>>19929333
Bakker must know his fanbase well if he realizes they can't handle much larger numbers than a thousan.

>>19928275
I am now going to read bakker's drivel solely so I can know what to post to make reddit seethe

>>19929349
Weak comeback.
Try again, honey.

>>19929349
>Not understanding the historicity of languages.
Many such cases.

>>19928699
First thing you need to do is look up actual sources so unlike your picrel's painter you'll know that premodern wheat was tall as fuck

>>19929322
While the first one (let's be generous and say first 3) may not be as much trashfires as the later, they're still far from the best, or even good, children books. Hell, even Redwall is much better by dint of having cute animals.
If you adjust for genre, then you'd need to bump up stuff like Smellderson's final empire serie which is very competent YA. Sanderfag shitposting aside, if you *actually* think final empire is not a cut above the average YA you just haven't read YA. That shit is *awful*.
Anyway you shouldn't adjust for genre, this list is made for the retards who browse /sffg/, not the soccer mom browsing the nytimes "what to buy for your insufferable brats this christmas" rec list. Hopefully people in this godforsaken general read above children literature.

And finally, even adjusted for genre
>Harry Potter is as good as Solaris
is the most american take I'll ever read

>>19927518
Eragon

why do people pretend lord of the rings isn't written for children just like the hobbit?

New thread
>>19906403
>>19906403
>>19906403

What's the appeal of writing fantastic worlds? The best just borrow from the naturally developed aesthetics of religions and folklore. Fantastic worlds seem to me contrived.

>>19927424
Either Reaper Man or Mort

I started Memories of Ice today. Probably my favourite Malazan so far.

>>19929685
Not if they're properly planed.
>>19929718
It's fun until midnight tides. Enjoy.

>>19928854
I dig it, see you in /wg/ hell.

A bit disapointed with this prequel.
But I find interesting the idea vented by one the characters of using the abundance mathematical and historical data of a primitive human society in order to predict the future in a extremely complex galactic society.

>>19928824
Ok, I'll check them out. The 'normie' thing makes sense, because it felt very "airport novel" to me, just with strange pretensions of being more. If it was an intentional effort to write something with broader appeal than his other stuff, I could see the stuff I said being a consequence of that more than something inherent to his writing.

>>19929061
Failed academic that now makes children's fantasy to cope.

>>19929362
Did someone say wheat?

I’ve come to the conclusion that this genre is shit

Idk what to read next
I read the first 40 pages of AGOT last night and while it was good there's something about the writing which makes me feel uneasy
Not sure if it's the exposition or something else

>>19930443
It's always been shit. Tolkien is the only Fantasy author worth reading.

>>19930450
Tolkien is shit.

>>19930467
Exactly, Bakker makes Tolkien look like a children’s writer (which he was)

>>19930490
Tolkien rejected Dune, which tells you everything you need to know about how much of a puritan pseud he was.

>>19930490
Bakker is shit and doesn’t even come close to Tolkien.

>>19930490
>Bakker makes Tolkien look like a children’s writer (which he was)
Oh the irony

>>19927442
what a mess

>>19930535
A good one.

What are some scifi books similar to A Scanner Darkly
Preferably entertaining dialogue with eccentric characters and an undercurrent of paranoia
+ Heavy themes presented without pretension

honestly what is with this bakker fandom? im finishing the second book tonight, but its a chore. i dont like any of the characters except conphas. i hate akka and cnaiur is an impotent fag. im not sold on kellhus' psychoanalytical superpowers and while i can believe that idiot women might fall for it it just make every character seem dumb and gay. which they likely are, it seems... and i want to kill myself whenever i have to read anything about esmenet. so what is the attraction here? i dont get it

>>19930598
All the bakker spam comes from one schizo false flagger/shitposter who's been killing /sffg/ for months now.

>>19930626
I remember once how the OP picture had one small anime girl and the bakkerfag made a new general called wsffg after spazing for 50 posts about it

I'm a third into The darkness that comes before and I can barely understand what's going on. Too many names and places.
Have I been memed?

>>19930701
>Have I been memed?
Not really. Just filtered.

>>19927442
If you cleaned it up and organized it, like making all the books the same size and not using a white backgound and boring black text, it could look really nice

>>19930678
You forgot to mentioned how he would still come to sffg since wsffg was dead as fuck.

>>19927488
Beorn isn't in it for that long, only a chapter or two, if I remember, but he's still a really neat character and a very cozy part of the story

>>19928699
>want
Atlantis
>not want
no Atlantis

>>19927557
>two piles of garbage of rotten flesh
Chinkbros... I don't feel so good

>>19928699
>want
shit magic
>not want
blood magic
id like some fucking shit magic

>>19930778
Do you mean badly made magic? Like a magic system that's silly and bland or generic? Or do you mean shit-based magic? Like how the ndians do?

>>19928699
>want
Story primarily about surviving the elements
>not want
Shit that could be done in another setting that doesn't require it to be an ice age

>>19927557
Based Famg Yuan. This is the correct way to treat a woman. Western white knights will never understand

>>19930806
at first i thought this was an example of some shitty amateur fiction from /wg/ or something
then i realized it's actually an excerpt of one of the most heavily shilled "books" in /sffg/

>>19928699
Nice setting choice, I'd definitely take a look at the finer details
What would make me want to read past the first few pages is if you know how to introduce a plot's themes and don't write English like an alien
Almost everyone fails at one of these two things so good luck

>>19930806
>>19930826
Rofl! It's like the "english" instructions that come with any product I have ever ordered from china.

>>19930701
Yes. The series is shit.

>>19930851
>>19930701
filtered

>>19930863
I accept your defeat

>>19930811
shit-based magic. all that snow and ice, there would of course be some shamen picking up peoples shit for evil magical purposes. how do you even solve the problem of not falling prey to a shit shaman? you'd be wqlking around with frozen logs until you find somewhere safe to store it. you can put in some jew type tribe who provide a kind of shit bank, but they are of course the shiftiest peopleof all

>>19930826
Why would you think that? The writing is excelent. I have yet to encounter a more based mc in western novel.

>>19930893
see >>19930840

>>19930897
the translation is not great though it gets better later on when a better translator takes over. But that is not the point, there are some western works written in english with great prose that are completely dumb and irrelevant that are nowhere near the greatness of Fang Yuan and the world view that he has, or they are just plain cuckoldry and sjw progressivism.

>>19930934
>it gets better later on when a better translator takes over.
Holy fuck, they couldn't even have the guy start at the beginning? Super fucking cheap china is at it again.

>>19930834
>don't write English like an alien

Can you provide a specific example? I mostly read non-fiction and listen to fiction in audio form and it is very easy to get a hold of audiobooks depending on their age and popularity

>>19930263
Should have said corn

How GRI you think this will be? Book one was something else.

>>19927384
BASED

>>19927424
I'm going to read these next. I read the first few pages of color of magic. Looking forward to it. Book art is a problem across the entire genre.

>>19927488
one of the easiest books to read ever.

>>19931043
please no, corn father

What’s some SF/F you can recommend to someone who likes /tg/? I like the idea of magic/psionic systems

>>19931205
40k

>>19927447
>rangeban americans to save /sffg/, nay, to save the entire 4chan

>>19927362
Has anyone ever created a magic system centered around electricity? Obviously Star Wars but I don’t think a fantasy series has done it

What's a fantasy series based on earning glory in combat, raping and pillaging, etc
I don't want Conan

>>19931478
>rangeban americans to save manchildren's safe space
Kys

>>19931505
Oops, meant for >>19927447

>>19930817
based chad

>>19931484
Conan doesn't even have that much raping or pillaging, at least not by Conan.

>>19927362
Recommend me a series to read please, /sffg/. I enjoy LotR, Warhammer (fantasy/40k), WoT. I got two books into Sword of Truth before I dropped it. The Great Book of Amber was alright.

Any ideas?

>>19927362
Did some guy win an award while pretending to be a woman? I'm trying to find the story but I can only find the recent one of the 3 spanish guys

>>19931741
I read first 6 books of Gotrek and Felix. I recommend it if you haven't read them already. (The whole series is 15 or so books). Cheesy, walks you around the Old World - so that's nice.

What are some WHF books you can recommend?

they're releasing an origins book for wheel of time apparently

https://www.tor.com/2022/02/15/book-announcements-origins-of-the-wheel-of-time-the-legends-and-mythologies-that-inspired-robert-jordan/?fbclid=IwAR1aeL6z_3XEwX5L3gwgk1y7RWyz1mcBIeYuOA2qlZez73Aeu6kxhsVrgEE

What is this globohomo woke shit. I thought you guys said bakker was based?!

>>19931812
This is what you get for listening to the trolls.

>>19931801
>origins and inspirations book that isn't written at all by the original author
Harriet must be running out of that amazon money already

>>19931812
Bakker is GRI

>>19931839
what?

>>19931070
Isn’t it the same story but from a different person’s perspective?

>>19931841
/sffg/ gay rape incest approved

>>19927362
Why do people here either hate or love Joe Abercrombie? I’ve never seen a moderate opinion on him

>>19932156
>I've never seen a moderate opinion
Welcome to 4chan.

>>19929071
wtf I love bakker now

What's even the point of comparing Bakker and Tolkien? They each have their merits, each with their own effects on the reader. Why insist on an arbitrary ranking of the two when their aims with writing are clearly different?

>>19932242
it's just shitposting americans
ignore

Is this chart correct? What is this shit "author says start here" business? Can't I just start with the first book? Also no way am I reading half of these, what is the bare minimum recommendation? Is this basically Sanderson before Sanderson?

>>19932269
They're children's books, you can start anywhere, hardcore Discworld fans huff their own farts, it doesn't have any resemblance to Bakker.

Did anon finish Soulship #1?
Did other anon start up Radix?
Did any of those anons get Sabriel yet and start reading?

>>19932491
>Did anon finish Soulship #1?
I'm reading this instead

>>19932242
They're compared because Bakker ripped off a huge amount of his lore almost 1:1 from tolkien. The only thing he really changed was to make it edgy.

>>19932564
Not my thing but I like that it ended at 3 books.

Are there any sci-fi books that are low-tech and focus instead on fictional ecology/organisms and their relations?

>>19927502
correct

>>19932577
Bakker didn't rip off anything from Tolkien, you're talking out of your ass, you didn't read Bakker, you probably didn't read any fantasy aside from your beloved gay englishman, seethe dilate and go watch your amazon show with niggers. Don't ever reply to me tranny.

>>19927362
Just got done reading this and was surprised at how dense it was for a PKD novel, haven’t read a lot of his stuff but what I have seen prior was mostly light pop sci fi that was pretty easy to read. I know this was his last book before his death which probably contributed to why it is written the way it is but are there any similar works anons could recommend?

I'm not sure how I made it 150 chapters into Reverend Insanity, but here we are. Some of the ideas are interesting but Fang Yuan is the biggest faggot of all time. If I have to read the author re-iterate how relying on yourself is instrumental for success, I'm going to kill myself. The translation is one of the worst I've ever read and I wonder if the author learned spotty English to do it himself. The amount of convenience that plays into his grand schemes causes me to roll my eyes every time.

Qing Shu and Bai Ning Bing had their epic showdown during the wolf tide. Good enough note to drop the series on. Definitely not worth it and the regular thread shill for the series should be put into an Uyghur concentration camp in China. Thanks for attending my review.

>>19932156
Abercrombie is king

>>19932639
I am so sorry you got filtered.

>>19932639
RI is shit.

Fuck bros, I'm enjoying the Silmarillion more than I expected I would considering how disastrous my first attempt at reading was.
I find the names and geography very confusing nonetheless.

>>19932798
Develop taste and try reading something with more substance. I know it's based when someone is mean to people in a book. He squeezed a girl's tit, and calls people fags or retards. Wow super evil and edgy, definitely worth all the cliche bullshit and Gary Stu writing. Let me levy a guess and say that the Flower Wine Monk's truest legacy can only be earned by destroying his people and his village?

You really expect mother fuckers to read 2000 chapters of this tripe when the first 150 are so pointless as to be insulting?

>>19927380
I started The shadow of the torturer and I've been enjoying it. Some anon also recommend Gormenghast. Truth shines.

>2000 years of STEM autism in isolation
Why didn't Dunyain progress beyond sharp pointy sticks? Why didn't they meet Sranc horde with plasmaguns and AI sentry bots?

>>19932824
The stories from the First and Second age are kino as fuck

>>19929301
I second Night Watch, but it only gives that holy-fucking-epic feel if you've read most of the City Watch novels that preceded it and witnessed Vimes's past exploits and character progression.. All of those are great nonetheless and fairly quick reads.

>>19929705
Eh, I thought those were the weakest of the Death books. Soul Music, Hogfather and Thief of Time though were all godly. But yeah the Death arc is pretty solid in general.

>>19927424
The Witches storyline books are entirely skippable and rather bland, don't bother with them.

This is absolutely mind numbing. The dialogue is trash and the pacing is some of the worst I've ever encountered. This book contains more text than The Fall of Hyperion.

>>19932943
what did you expect from chinese author?

>>19932838
>I know it's based when someone is mean to people in a book. He squeezed a girl's tit
You barely even scratched the surface,

>he calls people fags and retards
What?

>>19932958
That's the second book in a trilogy. The first one isn't nearly as bad.

>be pushy anon
>want to lend friend a book that I really love
>friend never reads it
>moves out and throws it away
Feels bad
Last time I'm ever recommending anything to anyone

>>19933113
Normies are like that. They ask for a recommendation then will never, ever, ever read anything you recommend. I had some friends who wanted to watch a movie for Halloween, so I made some suggestions. Nothing super weird, Slither, The Thing, Jeepers Creepers.
Instead they watched two entire seasons back to back of American Horror Story then played Animal Crossing for 5 hours.

>>19933113
Recommending a books is faggotry, lending them even worse cause you graft material tokens atop the expectations. You're basically gaslighting your friend into reading something he may not have the slightest interest in.

>>19933223
>they watched two entire seasons back to back of American Horror Story then played Animal Crossing for 5 hours.
based friends having fun instead of your
"classics"

>>19932269
>Can't I just start with the first book
You can, it's just not recommended because it's comparatively not very good.
Discworld is comprised of independent series and one-off books. It's recommended that you read any given serie in order since, well, they follow each other, but aside from that you can pick and choose.
I usually recommend Pyramid (5th or 7th in publishing order iirc) which is a one-off. It's a good distillation of what make discworld discworld so you'll quickly see if you want more.

>>19932943
My favorite part was when the droplet attack begins and it just goes on and on and on. And on. And still on. Even though it's literally the same thing happening every time. Dude just list all 2000 ships in an appendix and let's fucking move on.

The third book also has some pacing issues, but it's nowhere near as bad as TDF.

>>19933246
Do you even know what American Horror Story is? I tuned out when we got to the episode about a sentient gimp suit created by a guys latent homosexuality.
They watched it for NINE HOURS.

Fuck the sandersoi
Fuck him like a toy
Fuck the sandertoi
His tight ass destroy

>83 IPs

Seethe moogy shitter.

>bakkercucks when i tell them the truth that berserk is a far greater accomplishment than bakker could ever create, and also that bakker stole basically its entire plot

>>19932639
It gets good around chapter 300. This is just the prologue, these novels typically last for 4000 chapters. If you want something with non edgy mc then read lord of the mysteries.

Imagine reading Bakker and being against Kellhus. Especially when the Dunyain are the only interesting characters in the entire Bakkerverse.

>>19933498
Back to /a/ faggot

>>19933498
Not my problem
Don't care
Didn't ask

>>19933498
>Bersercucks when you tell them that the manga was only good as a glorified artbook of monsters and tiddies and the one time Miura tried to be deep and philosophical his ideas were so shitty that he had to retcon them out of manga, while Bakker's conception of God of Gods and Thousandfold Thought is one of the most unique and creative ideas in history of genre fiction
>also their face when you tell them that Miura died jerking off to idolmaster lolis and will never finish his shitty manga, while Bakker churned out 7 masterpieces of perfectly executed narrative and No-God is soon

>>19933652
This scene was pure KINO

I have just finished reading what is available for this and enjoyed it immensely. Writing, setting and characters are all solid, but what really sells it is the complete Inversion of the Harry Potter story. The Main Character has his YER A WIZARD moment, sees that the Wizarding world is fucked, and promptly drops everything and goes innawoods and spends the rest of the time dodging glow in the dark Wizstapo niggers.

>>19933692
>innawoods
soi chugging anprim moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZY2mRG5mzg
What are the best Conan stories?

>>19933719
>What are the best Conan stories?
The ones where he saves women like a Simp

>>19933714
sorry I don't speak american

>>19933735
He is a mommy's boy, he likes to impress women with his big muscles and help them around so he can get attention and approval from women.

>>19933740
>wizzarding innawoods escape from the glow in the dark niggers
sounds like a soi chugging anprim from america

>>19933735
>>19933741
For some reason, I think Conan elides your understanding.

>>19932156
I neither love nor hate him. His books aren't amazingly written, and are at their best they're like a pretty decent action-adventure film with some fun dialogue and characters. It's when they aspire to more that they stumble, along with the fact that he has a bad habit of repeating and remixing the same things over and over. This is probably why the standalones are his best work. The new trilogy was ok albeit predictable, until the final book which was absolute garbage, worse than any previous first law book. He's never going to measure up to the greats, but he tends to be better than most of the other current popular authors.

>>19933752
Conan is a known Simp, a total tool for women

>>19933764
>along with the fact that he has a bad habit of repeating and remixing the same things over and over
This is simply the result of being compiled serials, not independent novels. The old serials *had* to retread things, because there was absolutely no guarantee that anyone reading it was at all familiar with the series.
I've only read the stories written by Howard however, can't speak for anything else.

>>19933782
I wasn't talking about Conan, bro. Look at what I was replying to, post was about Abercrombie.

>>19933808
People here lack reading comprehension.

>>19933735
God, I hate zoomers like you.

>>19933280
I already started Color of Magic. If that's not correct this fuck this series.

>>19933828
>If that's not correct this fuck this series.
What?

>>19932577
Sounds about right. Fantasy authors always copy Tolkien.

>>19933840
If it's not correct to start with the first book, then fuck this series. I already started with color of magic.

>>19933855
Anon, please for the love of god, don't take people here seriously. Starting with the first book is how you read a series.

>>19932269
I need to reread his series again.

New thread
>>19933865

I'm really getting tired of every search result for a book or review I do, I get mother fucking smug zoomer Daniel Greene as the top result. I know it's my fault for being on youtube, but I'm not even subscribed to this faggot and he always pops up. His book takes are terrible. He is pretentious and condescending. He thinks he's big shit, he's literally in high school student or something. How is this the most popular booktubeer there is for all scifi/fantasy?

>>19933882
don't care
grow up and stop hating

>>19933893
Fuck off daniel

>>19933113
>friend I've known for a decade from 4chan visits
>load him up with ~10 ebooks I already had prepared
>dude already reads and we had similar interests so it's not out of the blue
>over a year and a half and the fucker still hasn't even touched the first book
I wish I could find a friend who was willing to try the books/games/shows I like.

>>19933498
>Miura died
>still put out a new chapter before Bakker and Togashi
Berserk was too damn good.

>>19933882
>How is this the most popular booktubeer there is for all scifi/fantasy?
because he has very basic and inoffensive opinions and most people like that. he also got amazon money to shill their Wheel of Time show and used it to pump his channel