/lit/ - Literature

What are some of your guilty pleasures /sffg/?
Books or series you love, despite knowing they might be shit.

>>20312858
anything litrpg adjacent
specially if it's horny
I've been reading this shit for years but I keep finding myself needing to go back to it every now and then

Just caught up to Peculiar Soul on RR, seems decent for now. The author obviously put a lot of effort into this work and the worldbuilding, using epigraphs at the beginning of each chapter and photoshoping actual WW1 propaganda posters/newspapers to add some flavor. I'm honestly impressed.

>>20312858
Pic-related, mostly. It's a charming enough LitRPG isekai thing, but female author and protagonist which leads to some different approaches that I don't always agree with (for some reason we get basically a blow-by-blow of every day and four books in, she's only been in the world for 18 days or some such, it just feels like too much is happening at once, also just way too many fucking characters), and I know a lot of people here would kind of hate it, but I found it entertaining just because the protagonist herself is kind of just fun to read about.

>>20312858
Legacy of the Force/Fate of the Jedi. They sucked, but Ben and Vestara were qt and I wanted another decade of books about them having to work together. Fuck the Mouse.

>>20312858
GOT but just because I was always cooming to the thought of raping Cathleen Stark and cucking Edward.

Just finished chapter 10 of Lies of Locke Lamora. I wasn't ready for this. I thought I was going to be reading Leverage with wizards.

>>20312858
I have no "guilty pleasures" because I'm not a sissy.
Everything I enjoy I enjoy guilt free.

>>20312915
Based

Who will read and critique my lore that I'm building as a procastrination to avoid starting the writing process because I know it'll expand into several books that will never be good enough to me?

>>20312858
all the Halo novels. The only military scifi I give a shit about.

>>20312982
/wg/ is that way >>20309103

>>20312982
/tg/ has a general for that I think.

I need suggestions for comfy generic fantasy in the same vein as Wheel of Time and Earthsea. I've read a bunch of serious books lately and I'm in the mood for quests, swords, exploration, magic, all that shit.

>>20312858
The webnovel The Beginning After the End. I'm sure that 90% of the anons here wouldn't make it past the first 50 chapters. It's full of power fantasy cringe but unironically gets good after like 250 chapters, which is a crazy investment for new readers.

>>20312990
Thankyou
>>20312992
And thankyou

Walder Frey did nothing wrong

>>20312995
Rogues of Merth

>>20312984
To be fair the Eric Nylund books, Fall of Reach, First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx are genuinely good. Joe Staten's (the lead writer on the original Halo trilogy) Contact Harvest and Shadow of Intent are also pretty good, but the rest of the Halo books, especially the 343 era ones are really bad

>>20312984
What other military sf have you read and not liked?

>>20312995
Blacktongue Thief, the fantasy world is relatively bleak/grimdark (for hummanity), the narrator copes using his dry humor. Gets dragged into a quest way out of his league, assigned to him by his guild which is basically that world's CIA.

>>20313084
>the fantasy world is relatively bleak/grimdark
Whoa how original.

Recommend me good military sf. This series is my only experience with the genre.

>>20313059
Bran ate Jojen.

>>20312938
It's a very funny, enjoyable book, but do skip the other two. The second is only decent, the third jumps the shark so hard I thought it was written by a ghost writer. The author supposedly had a lot of shit happen to him over the years that most likely influenced the quality, but it's just bad.

>>20312858
Azarinth Healer webnovel. It's incredibly trashy, despite writing few thousand of pages throught the years the author still haven't improved enough, the writing itself is clunky as fuck. But it's one of the more popular LitRPGs for a reason, it's insanely juicy progression popcorn. Too bad the author had a breakdown recently, which somewhat influenced his decision to end AH in the close future, we are on the last arc. But I think it will be a just ending to the series, one the first great LitRPGs, I had weeks when all I could do in life was wait for 5 PM to read another chapter of it, the highlight of the most depressing weeks of my life.

>>20313152

>>20313164
>perhaps
It's fact.

Daario is Benjen

>>20313142
It's good, trust me. It's used more for tongue in cheek humor rather than
>muh gritty Grimdark and suffering porn

>>20312834
Bastion vibes

Okay guys, I ask for recommendations for good fantasy erotica, as I've noticed that despite hundreds of different book charts existing in the linked megaupload folder, not a single one concern Erotic Fantasy or even modern Erotica. Normal Fantasy with strong erotic themes and scenes, pure erotica, harem novels, if it's good, mention it. At the moment I'm reading 'Good Intentions' (picrel), and I must say I'm suprised how damn good it is, I haven't seen something so hot and titilating in a while. I heard something about Kushel Dart being a good erotica, so that's going onto the list, so if you happened to read it, please give your rating for that. As there is no chart for Fantasy Erotica, I intend to do one myself at some point.

I repeat, I ask for FANTASY/SCI-FI EROTICA recommendations, mainly Fantasy, but Sci-fi too if it's good. I mainly intend to read books for men, but if there's good gay fantasy, either for females or males, I'm might try it as well, want to experience the breath of the genre.

Any of you lads read this?

>>20313223
Nobody here reads that cringe shit you fucking loser

>>20312858
This Forgotten Realms novel, but only this one. The rest of the series ranged from genuinely bad to absolutely godawful, and the only thing that saved them from being flat out unreadable were the chapters that followed the Archmage.

>>20313235
The only thing cringe here is your comment. If anyone wants to anwer, they will. I can read 100 erotica books and post review of every single one on this general if I feel like it, your bitching won't change a thing

>>20313214
>38hrs long book
Fuck that shit.

>>20313159
>>20312858
seconded on azarinth healer. its flawed but at the same time very enjoyable.

>>20313231
Yes, read it

>>20313159
>>20313265
How can you enjoy word salad and word minimum novels without feeling that they're wasting your time?

>>20313278
>How can you enjoy word salad and word minimum novels without feeling that they're wasting your time?
They aren't bad. You know, you can eat your favourite dish done improperly, it's not as good as it could be, but it's your favourite dish so your going to eat it anyway. It doesn't need to be perfect if it particularly well scratches the itch a few things can. I am not wasting time if I am satisfied. I wish it was better than popcorn, and the author did attempt some things, mostly in that cynical way people who read too much grimdark do, but it was something. Frankly speaking, at its worst AH is still better than typical chinese webnovel at its average.

>>20312834
So, /sffg/ like or hate the Lightbringer series? I just finished the books and despite being young adult fantasy shit, i found the themes of faith, agnosticism and religion very interesting ,sadly in the final book Weeks resolves everything with a Deus ex machina and the good gods showing up and saving the day making the actions of the protagonists seem minor, the author could have been more subtle in the resolution. I liked anyway, better than Sanderson.

>>20313272
Is it good then? I've never seen it mentioned anywhere, it's flown under my radar for years

is there a place I can check to see if a book has cuck content?
Genuinely asking, not memeing
so far I've just been using Goodreads' review section to see if anyone mentions how much they hated getting blindsided by cuck shit before I read a book.

>>20313324
it was awful, the fact that it wasn't his brother down there but just some schizo illusion seems like some really bad retconning seeing as we literally got some POV chapters from him. The rest of the series is just bad. It's a good reminder for me to never read anything Brent Weeks writes ever again.

>>20313410
>>20313324
Damn, you guys validate my decision to not read further than the third book. I heard it went downhill and didn't touch it anymore, if there were retcons like that then it would be retroactively awful.

I decided to try Heretic Spellblade. It's better than I expected it to be considering the genre. The anime characters threw me off at first but they grew on me and also I really dig the setting.

>>20313159
>the third jumps the shark so hard I thought it was written by a ghost writer.
Can't be that bad, the first book has already had several chapters dedicated to jumping sharks.

>>20313148
linda nagata, the red

>>20313410
In the prison case, it was suspicious that they happened right after Gavin lost the same colors, anyway the series is full of retarded twists, but I kinda accepted that this is the norm with YA shit.

>>20310867
Perhaps now you can understand why I like RI so much and constantly recommend it.
Even if you don't like it, compared to THE REST of the chinkshit it's a breath of fresh air.
And unlike you, I read like a dozen of those awful shitty stories first before ever learning about it, so it seemed even better by contrast.
>LOTM
Yeah, that's pretty good too, though it has various issues it's easily one of the best chink webnovels ever written and has an extremely novel setting for people exhausted to death by ancient chinese fantasy settings.

I've also been reading The Path Toward Heaven, 156 chapters in so far, and I can say it's potentially really good. It has a huge issue of not giving enough clues to the central mystery to actually speculate or really care about it, but several of the side characters have plotlines that are fairly interesting. The translation quality is also very good and the writing flows smoothly.
The main catch however is that the MC is one of those "so stupidly overpowered it's not even a joke" types, though it's not as bad since he gives literally zero fucks and mostly just observes other people around him and occasionally provides advice.

>>20313468
>I decided to try Heretic Spellblade. It's better than I expected it to be considering the genre. The anime characters threw me off at first but they grew on me and also I really dig the setting.
Man, you serious? I read that some time ago and it's the worst erotic/harem novel I've read, it's so bad it doesnt even have the decency of having real sex scenes, just a few lines or fade to black. Character are barely characters at all, the writing is shit. Seriously, try other books, like 'Incubus Inc' or other books from the author of it. Optionally try 'The Big Waste'. Or even 'The Wild Wastes' (no connectiong to the last one), it's also harem but much better. Everything is better than that 'Heretic Spellblade' shit.

>>20313231
I dropped it some time in book 2 or 3. It's successful as a language exercise and some time maybe I'll go back to it for that but to me it was empty otherwise.

>>20313324
It started good, without the flaws of the author's first series but then the jade gates closed and it imploded midway through. Dropped.

New anthology from DMR just dropped. Talk about BASED.

>>20313223
>good gay fantasy

Is this still /cultivationwebnovelsgeneral/? I would recommend Dumb Husky And His White Cat Shizun, but if you're reading it DESPITE of the teacher-fucking rather than FOR the teacher-fucking, there's probably too much filler for it to be worthwhile. The bird ladies and Rufeng Sect arcs should have been cut.

>>20312858
I like saccharine weepy feel-good wholesome shit and I will slay all edgelords with their own poopy katanas

>>20313765
she cute

>>20313765
The Eddings were convicted of child abuse for keeping their four-year-old adopted son in a dog cage in the basement and beating him. Both were sentenced to a year in jail. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure Ce'Nedra introduced primed the West to love redhead tsunderes.

>>20313808
yeah everybody knows but at least they werent pedos like Marion Zimmer Bradley

>>20313223
I'm a fan of Wayne Barlowe's "Hell" novels "God's Demon" and "Heart of Hell", and each has gratuitous non-sequitur sex scenes that come seemingly out of nowhere. The first book has a particularly evil antagonist raping a type of hellbeast that isn't really a "person" and is more equivalent to bestiality, to show how depraved this particular individual is; it is not erotic. The second book has a rather surprising incidence of very cute very lewd yuri action between the two succubi who are the protagonist and her sidekick, and it's portrayed more positively

First Amber novel was quite disappointing. I disliked the 'shadow-world' portions immensely. Is it worth persisting? I'm assuming that the setting will shift to being more prominently Amber itself after this novel, but the prose was so pedestrian and dull I just don't know if it'll be worth it.

>>20313231
Of course. Beautiful series.

>>20312834
What are some actually good ACTION fantasy novels? I feel like every book is about muh character writing, muh goals, muh plotpoints. Do authors even remember how to write action scenes anymore?

>>20313870
NO
QUIT WHILE YOU'RE AHEAD, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
I READ THE WHOLE THING AND IT'S THE WORST SHIT I'VE EVER SUFFERED THROUGH I WOULD NOT WISH IT ON MY WORST ENEMY

>>20314013
I'm 300 chapters in
when does it get good

>>20314013

>>20313808
based

>>20312834
Requesting science fiction and fantasy literature of a similar kink to Vladimir Nabokov's most renown book.

>>20314018
The first page.

Mmm... Imouto incest...

>>20314018
Chapter 302.

>bunch of books arrived
>never have the drive to start them even though I'm excited to read them

>>20314366
Fear of commitment

Shera is a really terrible protagonist. All she cares about is murder and sleep. I also dislike how both perspectives have so much of their character hidden in the backstory that "fills out" over time. In Calder's case it sort of works because there's personal motivation stuff, in Shera's case there's key points that feel missing and I don't really care.

>>20312834
Invisible Planets - Ken Liu, translator and editor (2016)

Cultural context certainly is important. That was evident for almost all of these stories. I may have enjoyed them more otherwise. The focus tended to be on the theme, imagery, or style, rather than the characters, setting, or an idea.

(Chinese/English Year)

The Year of the Rat - Chen Qiufan (2009/2013)
College students are conscripted to fight against genetically engineered rats, who may be both far more and less than they seem, as is everything in their life.
Meh

The Fish of Lijiang - Chen Qiufan (2006/2011)
A man goes to rehab only to find everything has changed. All is artifice and deception. The text says it's based on the philosophy of Henri Bergson. The passage of time and power are stated to be inversely related.
Meh

The Flower of Shazui - Chen Qiufan (2012/2012)
A fugitive refugee becomes infatuated with the most famous prostitute. They're wary of each other's motives, but even so they will use each other for their own ends.
Ok

A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight - Xia Jia (2010/2012)
A town of "ghosts", one who isn't, and the calamity that befalls them.
Meh

Tongtong’s Summer - Xia Jia (2014/2014)
This is the the most realized telepresence story of the several I've read. It's very optimistic, but also sad.
Enjoyable

Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse - Xia Jia (2015/2016)
A 47 ton sentient dragon-horse robot awakens in disrepair to begins to travel across the Earth, which is in ruin. It's like a fairy tale, but not quite that.
Meh

The City of Silence - Ma Boyong (2005/2011)
A satire about extreme censorship. The State continually decreases the number of allowable words. Online, everything is monitored. Offline, everyone must wear a device that monitors all speech. The protagonist finds a secret offline club that evades these strictures. They're all fatalistic hedonists. How familiar.
Enjoyable

Invisible Planets - Hao Jingfang (2010/2013)
A series of short description of various planets and their inhabitants.
Ok

Folding Beijing - Hao Jingfang (2014/2015)
An allegorical story about injustice, inequality, and parental sacrifice in a rotational sleep society. It's very well-regarded, but everything about it put me off.
Meh

Call Girl - Tang Fei (2014/2013)
A misleading title and set-up. A teenage girl gives a middle-aged man an experience he'll never forgot. This too is not what it seems to mean.
Meh

Grave of the Fireflies - Cheng Jingbo (2005/2014)
Almost all the stars have been extinguished, which leads them to a world with a colossal robot whose interior stops the flow of time.
Meh

The Circle - Liu Cixin (2015/2014)
A chapter adapted from The Three-Body Problem. I didn't read it again. People can be arranged to form a computer.
Meh

Taking Care of God - Liu Cixin (2005/2012)
Billions of ancient humans come to Earth as their retirement plan and ask to be taken care of.
Meh

There are also three essays.

for over the past year, every month or two I order a half-dozen or so books off of amazon or whatever to add to my backlog or stuff into my closet to allow my mom to give something to me for my birthday or Christmas or whatever, and even though I average about a book a week I still wind up having a goodly stack of books in reserve in between now and the next gift-giving holiday
of course I'm running out of room on my shelves so now I'm going to have to get a new shelf

>>20314496
>more shelves
After a while I just started burning books after I finished reading them. It's not like I ever re-read anything. Going digital helped a lot as well.

Anything with a lot of epigraphs, sketches, or fake journal entries? I liked this aspect of The Way of Kings a lot and recently stumbled upon a webnovel that does this for every chapter with an epigraph and either 1.a fake newspaper clip 2.a fake propaganda poster or 3.a fake official document. It added a lot to the experience and made me enjoy the worldbuilding.

Anything with a lot of epigraphs, sketches, or fake journal entries? I liked this aspect of The Way of Kings a lot and recently stumbled upon a webnovel that does this for every chapter with an epigraph and either: 1. a fake newspaper clip 2. a fake propaganda poster or 3. a fake official document. It added a lot to the experience and made me enjoy the worldbuilding.

>>20314560
Try Fitzpatrick's War, I think.

Bros I'm getting filtered by Malazan...
Finished the first 4 chapters (Pale arc) and I'm just not particularly into any of the characters or the world

>>20313765
good taste

>>20312858
I wouldn’t say they’re shit or that I feel guilty reading them, but I enjoy having some easy paperback like pic related or the Forgotten Realms books on the weekend.

>>20314672
she cute

Is it worth it to join the Goodreads group? More helpful And less chaotic than this general ??

>>20313568
It's amazing how well fantasy erotica seems to have gotten its covers down. They're always "singular skimpy female who's almost certainly not the protagonist but is probably who the protagonist fucks first".

>>20313878
I'd say Will Wight writes good fights and action scenes, though they are VERY anime. Pic-related tends to have his best.

>>20314406
I found Shera sort of endearing, but she definitely doesn't really work as a protagonist herself. It's another reason I think the book split is a little dumb, it should've just been one series with alternative perspectives.

>>20312858
I like getting some YA books every once in a while and read them in a single day to recreate that childhood experience of getting up in the morning, picking up a Harry Potter to read, and finishing it before sundown.

>>20314827
I like Wight but House of Blades is really terribly written. Are the sequels actually decent?

>>20312858
Black Magician trilogy

>>20313682
Interesting, will put it on the list. I hope the version of the story I found is decent, a lot of mtl shit around.

>>20313853
Damn, it seems the author is one of the people behind Hellboy movie. BASED. Will check it out.

>>20312999
true, I'm caught up and can tell the increase in quality once the war arc kicks in, unfortunately you need to slog through like 4 volumes before you get there, they're not bad but still very generic power fantasy, you can tell the author came a long way.
I honestly would've never picked it up had I not liked the art of its webtoon adaptation

Anyone one else feel like you should read bad shit in addition to good shit?
I dont mean guilty pleasures, but stuff you know isnt any good and you dont enjoy that much
I feel like reading actual trash makes you enjoy and appreciate the good shit even more

>>20315090
nah, I see no point in reading something if I'm not enjoying it, it's just a waste of time

>>20314546
Why was this removed

>>20313223
>'Good Intentions' (picrel), and I must say I'm suprised how damn good it is
I felt the exact same way when I read these, although the last books falter a bit, they're still surprisingly decent for what I was expecting to be a bottom of the barrel pure wish fulfillment guilty pleasure series
Closest and best thing I can think of would be Tsun-Tsun TzimTzum. I'd say it's a bit lighter in the erotic scenes, but still has some pretty decent romantic and sexual developments in it. Maybe a bit heavier on the story side than Good Intentions, but still pretty good in that aspect too.
Be aware that the first book is the weakest one though, it's not bad per se, but it may feel a bit generic and just not too exciting overall, specially with how the main character acts at first (I promise he gets much better). I really enjoyed the following volumes much better though and I'd encourage people to give the series a chance since I've grown really fond of it and I've been having a bit of a hard time finding something similar to fill in the longing for more of it.
On that note, the author has two other similar series going on (Shadow Rogue and Lost Reavers) that I've heard some praise about around here but I haven't touched them yet.

>>20315090
>>20315099
and to add to this, I don't think you necessarily need to read outright bad stuff to appreciate the good more, I think even among the good novels there are comparative levels of enjoyment you can rank in a hierarchy, when a great novel comes along you can instantly tell you're taking more pleasure reading it than what you were previously enjoying.

Give me something to read. i don't want to read Hard scifi novels that are 700 pages long please. than you.

Is there a better alternative to goodreads? I just hate how inflated their scores always are, they're the imdb of literature

>>20315100

I would encourage you to forward your commentary to.

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>>20315105
A bunch of really good (and some pretty funny) short stories

>>20315100
Thanks anon, this series definitely goes on the list, I actually heard some good things about this one ebfore, but wasn't sure if it's worth checking out. Now I'll definitely read it. Other series by the author also look interesting.

>>20314560
mistborn era 2 by brando sando has lots of broadsheets

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>>20314560

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>>20315245
Read that one, enjoyable, although nothing amazing.

Thoughts?

>>20315264
sounds cute

>>20315256

>>20315100
> Why was this removed
nvm I'm retarded, thought the janny was going too far on his (kinda based) crusade

I should get back to reading this

Has anyone read this? My friend recommends it to me saying its the best shit, but I asked around my friends that are mostly female and active at the campus and they say the book is riddled with misogyny?

>>20313148

Just a basic smattering:

Hammer's Slammers for PMC ground pounders

Starship Troopers for Heinlein arguing as hard as you possibly can about how morally fulfilling the military can be

Honor Harrington or The Lost Fleet series for naval battles in space

>>20315269
All images and posts should pertain to literature, no fan pictures or fiction allowed. So sayith the trannies.

>>20313084
>Grimdark but author uses dry humour
Nothing i hate more than this shit

>>20315057
The war arc is shit lol, it doesn't really get good imo until like volume 7 or 8. I got into it through the webtoon as well. I'd recomend you catch up if you haven't yet, the more current arc are a million times better than anything from volumes 1-6.

>>20315343
Honor Harrington sucks. The Expanse is straight up better as naval battles in space, and I don't mean "le scientific accuracy" at all. HH is just boring as shit.

>>20315423
Just read Horatio Hornblower and make pew pew laser noises in your head instead of reading Honor Harrington imo

>>20315430
This desu

Malazan, Stormlight or WoT?

>>20314318
I'm on 306 and still waiting

>>20314649
read it a couple weeks ago. I'm in Deadhouse Gates right now.
I thought it got better when it shifted to darujhistan (the rest of the book), but you might not if you're completely bored now.
the other characters are introduced at least

the other 9 books are (significantly) longer, so maybe finish gardens at least if you don't completely hate it

The Wandering Inn Volume 8 is over, the last chapter has dropped, this time not in parts but divided into three. 68.300 words, more than any of you would write in your entire lives. Pirateaba is an absolute monster.

never going to read it

>>20315446
>Malazan, Stormlight or WoT?
Malazan

>>20315495
I'm like 1/3rd through the first book and really enjoying it so far
Has the author talked about how much story is left? Do they take long breaks between books or something?

>>20315394
come on war arc was really great, the retainer fights were pretty stressing to read through, especially Uto, I do like the relictombs, highbloods and the new best girl but I still think war arc is the point where it gets good.

>>20315495
>>20315528
is this worth reading? it's in my backlog but I'm hesitant because main character is a girl, not saying this in an incel-ish way

>>20315528
>Has the author talked about how much story is left? Do they take long breaks between books or something?
You are reading books or volumes? Because starting from book 3 the volumes get cut, because they are too big. Book 6 has just been released and it covers the events up to Volume 4 finale. As for the breaks, the author takes one month of break every volume, with additional one week per month while writing. So they are basically writing constantly, Pirateaba may very much be the most prolific fiction writer living on Earth at this moment, and I write that without a any sort of irony. Top 10, at the very least.
Just remember that the first three volume (4 books) are only the beginning, a prologue of sort that sets things up, and the stroy starts picking up in Volume 4 (Books 5 and 6). Volume 5 is where TWI proper begins, and it's one of the best Fantasy stories you'll ever experience.
Most people find the beginning the least enjoyable, so if you are enjoying it already, then your enjoyment will unironically increase exponentially.

>>20315580
I'm only at the second volume but it's grown on me a lot, specially the characters, I'm basically falling in love with every other one and just generally caring about them and their little adventures and ambitions.
The litrpg elements are there, but there's not a lot of autism tied to it like with a lot of other books in the genre. I often forget it's litrpg and not a traditional comfy fantasy book. It's handled quite well I'd say.
The story is mostly localized in a couple places for now, but every now and then they mention places and give hints about the world in general and mysteries, and after hearing people praising the worldbuilding in the next volumes, I'm really lookimg forward to that.
It has its corny moments, specially at the very beginning, but it's already gotten better even at the point I'm at.
Overall, really fun read so far.

what's a good & free epub reader for Windows?

>>20315580
>is this worth reading? it's in my backlog but I'm hesitant because main character is a girl, not saying this in an incel-ish way
Erin, the main character, is not a typical protagonist, period. She's an Innkeeper, but it doesn't mean she doesn't do stuff, the opposite really. You don't need to worry about the character being written weird, characters are TWI's biggest strength. TWI, for me, is one of the best Fantasy stories ever written. If you wanna know more, look picrel of my earlier write-up on it.

>>20315632
>>20315636
Thanks lads, I'll read it next

>>20315633
>what's a good & free epub reader for Windows?
I used epub reader and coolreader, now I am using solely Calibre, it's perfect.

>>20315646
thank you fren

>>20315018
Ah fuck, the decent human translation for Dumb Husky got deleted after it was licensed. I can’t in good conscience recommend reading the MTL.

It’s a shame, Dumb Husky’s overall plot and concepts (the reason that the protagonist died and woke up in the past/the reason that events of this life are happening differently, the techniques the protagonist developed in his past life being used against him, what an absolute madlad shizun actually is, the villain’s ultimate goal) are great, and I’d love to discuss them with /sffg/. Maybe in a few years when the licensed translation is done.

>>20315622
I think I got some weird ebook copy from IRC, it's like 7k pages and has up to volume 4 I think? I'm guessing after that I have to read it from the authors page?
Currently at around chapter 2.30smth
By the way, I really appreciate your enthusiasm for the books, anon

>chinkshit hours
Come on now

Is there any good Japanese scifi/fantasy books (NOT manga)?

>>20315689
sus

>>20315663
>I think I got some weird ebook copy from IRC, it's like 7k pages and has up to volume 4 I think? I'm guessing after that I have to read it from the authors page?
>Currently at around chapter 2.30smth
>By the way, I really appreciate your enthusiasm for the books, anon
I think I know which copy you talk about, it's up to Volume 4 iirc. You can start reading from the author's website straight away, but I recommend doing ctrl + "+", because font is a bit small.
And yeah, I talk about TWI a lot because many people here are prejudiced agaisnt webnovels (I get some of that, most of everything is trash), and TWI being so long might seem like it's some trashy story, while the opposite is true. I just want people to experience the story themselves so that they can understand what a treasure they are missing on, one of the best fantasy stories there is, this hidden gem that way too few people know about, despite it being the most successful webnovel on Patreon.

>>20315696
Vampire Hunter D? idk I haven't read it but I liked the movie.

Damn, maybe it's time to read Wandering Inn, all my webnovel shit I'm caught up on or it's in hiatus

>>20315700
The Vampire Hunter D novels are dogshit compared to the adaptations.

>>20315718
The Wondering Inn is more than 20 million words try taking a break from serials and marathon a few well known book series.

>>20315572
Maybe I'm being too harsh on it, I just remember parts where Arthur and Tess's IQ drop to room temp and they make a ton of idiot and rash decisions. Alacrya Namek is what redeemed the story for me

>>20315718
>>20315735
>The Wandering Inn Wiki The Wandering Inn is an ongoing Fantasy-LitRPG Webnovel written by pirateaba since July 27, 2016. The webnovel currently has over 32,000 pages and over 9.3 million words (and counting).
how is this even possible, the guy started writing like 6 years ago

>>20315308
I read it and its really supreme, the prose is sublime and the world is complex, the philosophy intelligent and the vibes grim, I advice you to drop out of college and read it, do not befriend non-men because their opinions are pozzed and non-supreme.

>>20315735
I've gotten burnt out multiple times trying to binge 1-2 mill word series/web serials, so that might be a problem. Pretty sure Wandering Inn is only around 10 million words at most btw

>>20312858
Elric
love that man

>>20315745
some people just enjoy what they do

>>20315632
Based Deedlit enjoyer

>>20315745
In a way, it started even earlier, as for over two years Pirateaba was making one drawing a day, no matter what, to hone their willpower. Their schedule is iron-clad, never missed, no matter whether they fill like like writing, are sick or have problems, they write. Nothing can stop them. As Pirate started writing TWI, it was normal at first, 3-5k words per chapter, but it started steadily growing as Pirate'd grown more sure of what they are doing and they found their 'voice'. The reallt big chapters started with volumes 4-5, Pirate no longer restrained themselves and confidently started writing exactly the way they wanted.

Don't be mistaken, it takes a lot out of them, Pirate talked a lot about being utterly exhausted and sometimes even writing out of muscle memory as words blurred in their eyes, but the chapter always arrives. And the funny thing is, Pirate always claims that if they chapter was bad, they would not publish and rewrite, but to date it has happened only once in V5, I think. Pirate even has exercises and a hand massager to help with the hand exhaustion from writing so much. Writing is Pirate's one thing to do in life, they plot and think about the story 24/7, their schedule is commited to writing, even if it's only around 25 hours of actual writing per week.

>>20315757
I've had this issue, I think it's a problem with trying to binge a lot of serialized media though. It's kind of like trying to binge a sitcom that ran for 11 seasons or a comic book that ran for 15 years. It's not really made with binge consumption in mind so you're bound to get burnt out if you try consuming it that way.

>>20315807
What's a good chapter/arc to decide to continue or drop. I vague remember reading the first chapter and being put off by the prose and dialogue.

>>20315807
>>20315823
Seconding what anon asked.
I hate to be a shit but I wanted to try amateur audiobooks and TWI is huge and intimidating.

>>20312858
There's this series called Empire From The Ashes, I've read it like 4 times. It is abject garbage but it's got all these insane battles between moon-sized battleships and it just gives me inner 13 year old the biggest boner. The same guy also did some pretty trashkino Bolo books.

Why are SF and fantasy always lumped together? They are not similar except that they are both fantastical

>>20315823
>What's a good chapter/arc to decide to continue or drop. I vague remember reading the first chapter and being put off by the prose and dialogue.
Volume 3 Esthelm arc. I personally didn't like it a first, but a lot of people claim it's the best of the early TWI. So if you still want to drop it by then, then you probably should. Optionally, if you don't want to read up to Volume 3, then probably just the entire first volume. After the first finale you should more or less know what's all about, although it's still not even one fifth of TWI's potential by that time, as it gets much better. You just need to remember that the author was still finding their voice at first, so writing-wise, the first volume might be the worst, but Pirateaba improved leaps and bounds as they kept writing, so it only keeps getting better as you read.

>>20315858
Shiller of absolute majesty

>>20315831
I'm about halfway through volume 2 and only just now started to really enjoy it. Frankly that's more effort to get invested into a story than I could recommend the average person siffer through in good faith. Mainly I think the reason TWI is so long, atleast for the first 2 volumes is because so much of the story is occupied by slice of life style character interactions that don't really advance the plot. If you're okay with that I'd say give it a try but don't expect the usual Tolkien style travelogue fantasy that makes up so much modern fantasy stories. Remember this is a serialized work so it's not as tightly paced as a normal novel would be.

>>20315858
Thanks for the response, looks like I now have something to read when I catch up on Particular Soul. Cheers

>>20315858
Thanks for the response, looks like I now have something to read when I catch up on Perculiar Soul. Cheers

For my birthday my friend gave me a first edition of urth of the new Sun signed by the man himself

>>20315090
You don't need to eat shit to maintain an appreciation for good food

>>20315696
Next week is Japanese week.
As per the post I made in the last thread, here's a list someone made of translated sff. For Japanese only, look in the relevant GR thread or wait until next week.


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RyMOXmi1Zd4yvuTVHQcw5gka8YLZ1In42GJn6Rhh12E/edit

>>20315927
Jealous, hapoy birthday anon. I'm thinking about getting the folio editions of BotNS for myself but some anon said they go on sale every so often so I'm waiting for that.

>>20315090
No but you should read different stuff. Get out of your comfort zone, expand your horizons and all that.

>>20315495
All those words and it's all trash.

>>20316085
Cope.

>>20316086
With what?

>>20316087
Deez nuts.

>>20315632
God, imagine her getting pierced by a strong black cock...

So I was thinking about the part in Claw where Apu-Punchau is resurrected. After finishing Urth I feel I understand most of what happened but I'm not sure who it was that the Cumean contacted telepathically to revive/summon Apu-Punchau Severian the obvious choice is yet another Severian but it could also be Tzadkiel, an undine, another hierodule/hierarch, or something Wolfe just didn't bother to tell us about. What do you guys think?

>>20315286
feels good seeing someone repost a pic I brought to the general

>>20314897
It depends what you like from Wight. If it's great characterisation, not really, Simon remains a block of wood to the end, but the fights get more creative and the plot gets a bit more interesting.

>>20315100
>Mike Truk
That has to be a pseudonym and what a weird pull.

>>20316300
Maybe he took it from "Fighting Baseball."

>>20316366
I know, that's what I meant by the weird pull.

>>20316388
It's just too good of a name to not be used by someone eventually.

>>20316448
I await the books written by noted author Bobson Dugnutt.

>>20312858
Why would I read as a guilty pleasure? Reading is an active process where you must engage your brain to enjoy it, and if I'm actively using my brain, I'm going to need to something that's at least somewhat intellectually stimulating on some level. If I just want to turn my brain off for consuming, I'll just watch a show or a movie and have more imaginative people than me provide visuals, music, performances and everything else.

>>20315446
Malazan is definitely the least terrible out of all that garbage, but it's not good either.

>>20313568
I saw this pop up recently, is it okay? Is it some wild Wastes knock off? I see a lot of people are doing Darren/ Arand knock off these days.

The Guilty Party of low utter trash quality, but high yields are Eric Vall, Logan Jacobs, and Dante King.

>>20316849
Do those three just write from templates or what? They put out frankly absurd amounts and it's not like it's copy-pasted or all the exact same stuff, but it just keeps coming out.

>>20316859
The writing is usually abysmal, but their coomers eat it up. I mean these people actively read Chinese machine translated webnovels, so the discontinuity and utter confusion doesn't bother them one bit.

What usually happens is that they get a prompt (like guy is transport to a forest and has to teach girls to survive), then they write in a bunch of utter nonsense and coomer activity and posts to their website and gets all the shekels. (I literally read one where the guy was listing off a how to from a youtube vid, it just felt so lifeless).

>>20316922
I've read, like, one from each of them and it was... Just banal. Protagonist isn't really a character, the girls are mainly described by what they look like and a single personality trait if that, any other concerns of plot are largely just filler. Dante King was SLIGHTLY better because it felt like the plot at least sort of mattered but it was still mostly just filler.

>>20313223
Good intentions is good if you like being cucked

>>20316936
>Dante King was SLIGHTLY better because it felt like the plot at least sort of mattered but it was still mostly just filler.
Yes, King was better than the other two with an actual plot (kinda), but his characters came across as YA shits.
The Harry Potter Knockoff of his I read (Creation Mage), the protag had this feud with a random, and it was so bad that the other guy tried to kill him, then all of a sudden, they are the best of friends. The personality just did a 180 switch.

>>20316956
I read... Aether Mage I think it was from him, Building Harem Town from Eric Vall and... Survive the Monsters and Breed from Logan Jacobs. Utterly forgettable, the last two, I'm half-sure both had protagonists named Jake or Jack or something, and I don't even remember the girls or their names besides "there was a Russian girl in one". Aether Mage was just... Yeah, it felt like horny, poorly-characterised YA that had gratuitous sex scenes. There was at least an attempt at writing a story there, but it wasn't a good one.

>>20316849
>I saw this pop up recently, is it okay? Is it some wild Wastes knock off? I see a lot of people are doing Darren/ Arand knock off these days.
>The Guilty Party of low utter trash quality, but high yields are Eric Vall, Logan Jacobs, and Dante King.
The Big Waste is somewhat amateurishly written, but I the sex scenes and female character aren't bad, at least to me. I actually like it more than The Wild Wastes,which is much more popular, but to me cheapens sex too much and makes it grotesque, especially at the end. I read only one book from Arand, and it was decent when it comes to erotic stuff.

>>20313148
I love me some good generic military scifi
but I can't fucking remember the name of any of the titles, they kind of blur together

>>20313808
all these authors are eccentrics, you know

>>20315446
How about none?
>incoherent and meaningless story
>brando's shit writing past the book one
>wot is only good as fuel for misogynysts

>>20317060
>The Big Waste is somewhat amateurishly written, but I the sex scenes and female character aren't bad, at least to me.
>I actually like it more than The Wild Wastes,
What I liked about Wild Wastes was the character and his abilities, not the sex. I'm not reading to coom, it's just that a lot of these coomer books have great plots and story lines, Arand/Darren is one such author.

What is Big Wastes about? What sets the protag apart from other books? Is he powerful? have special abilities? I need something other than coom. I get enough coom from sad panda.

just finished The Sparrow. Overall I'd say I enjoyed it, maybe give it a 7/10. I genuinely enjoy religious lit and this book was very much more on the side of religious lit than it was sci-fi. all good themes: loss of faith, unknowability of God, road to Hell is paved with good intentions, etc etc. but man the supporting characters were borderline insufferable. Emilio, the main character, a Jesuit priest, was fine, but all the side characters he is with and their interactions felt completely fake. dinner table scenes where they are talking, when they are cooking, whatever you name it, it took me way out of the book. And the author's humor is not great. Now with all that said I am going to read Children of God, the sequel. Has anyone read it? Thoughts?

>>20313148
My only real foray into that genre was Terms of Enlistment, and its first couple sequels, by Marko Kloos. I'm familiar with military fantasy and fiction in general and a lot of cliches are the same. I enjoyed it, at any rate, and I was originally recommended it from this general.

I finished the Locked Tomb books over the weekend, i liked them. The overall style was enjoyable and i liked the book style of nothing goes on but then theres a big fight at the end

>>20317379
Oh the last one is out? I completely missed that.

>>20317395
The third one comes out in September, and i think a snippet was released a while back

>>20317227
>What I liked about Wild Wastes was the character and his abilities, not the sex. I'm not reading to coom, it's just that a lot of these coomer books have great plots and story lines, Arand/Darren is one such author.
>What is Big Wastes about? What sets the protag apart from other books? Is he powerful? have special abilities? I need something other than coom. I get enough coom from sad panda.
Well, to me 'special abilities' the protagonist in Wild Wasted had were just an excuse to make him special, there wasn't any real substance to it, so I just ignord it for coom. As for Big Waste, the protagonist is an excellent driver, who changed riding in tournaments to deliviring packages over post-apo wastelands, ala Mad Max. But other than his driving ability, he's a baseline human.

>>20317379
what a shitty naming scheme, why not harrow the tenth or eigth?

Pretty sad that few here read The Wandering Inn, today Volume 8 has finished, with the entire volume wordcount ending up at 2,725,101 words. A monumental achievement for Pirateaba, and the climax itself was so epic and intense that it would be enough for 2-3 average Epic Fantasy series. No other story would be able to set-up few volumes of events and characters, with their own arcs and journeys, just to engineer a climax that brings all of those plotlines and characters together in one grand finish, which can be said to end the first arc of the story. And to think we might be only halfway, or even 1/3 through the entire story. In a decade or more people will be mentioning TWI as one of the great Fantasy of this generation, if not of genre as a whole. Now a month of break, and then Volume 9 starts. I hope even a few people here will be able to look past their prejucide against webnovels and experience this amazing story themselves and not miss out on a story like none other.

>>20317379
Book one was fun. Book two was good when it was about John and the Lycators, but ass any time they weren’t onscreen—Harrow is a shit POV.

>>20317563
You mean Gideon

>>20317563
Gideon was the PoV of the entire book. The "Harrow" parts were Gideon narrating in second person.

>>20317566
>>20317585
Ugh fuck I had blocked that out. Fine, Harrow is a shit character to follow around.

>>20317512
>the protagonist is an excellent driver, who changed riding in tournaments to deliviring packages over post-apo wastelands, ala Mad Max. But other than his driving ability, he's a baseline human.
Yea. That isn't for me. I read books for the fantastical, or people using magic is novel ways. I never liked mad max, and never liked car animes or movies, so this book is a big bust for me. If he augmented his car from scraps found in the wasteland, or used his powers to develop a magic fuel I would have jumped for it.
Thanks for the help though.

>>20315446
Malazan has literary aspirations, which may or may not be a good thing depending on your tastes. The other two are zoomershit and boomershit respectively.

wtf is going on in here? People are actually reading books for a story? I thought we were all coomer?

>>20317712
I only read books for the story. If I'm in dire need of porn I default to fanfiction or porn text games.

What am I in for, bros?

>>20316922
You can't say coomer

>>20316849
>>20316859

I don't think Eric Vall and Logan Jacobs are individuals.

>>20317712
The only reason I read stories, is so that once I'm invested in the characters, I can lie down, and rub one out while fantasizing about the characters

>>20317712
I need an emotional connection

Just finished The dreamquest of unknown Kadath. It's probably the best Lovecraft story by far. He should have written more fantasy instead of horror.

>>20317828
Kadath is hands down the best Lovecraft story. I like his horror well enough, but the vividness of Kadath is absolutely outstanding.

>>20317828
Based opinion, I really enjoyed Kadath.
It's interesting how it seems to undercut other Lovecraft stories by being about transcending dreams/the supernatural world in favor of reality, rather than the other way round.

is there a chart for essential sf books?

>>20317886
>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs)

>>20317809
Post bobs.

>>20317552
you're shilling it a little too hard desu. but i do plan to read it, i'm just reading another busy with other series right now.

for me it's

>>20313148
old man's war
seafort saga

jolenta wanted to ride his cock on the boat

>>20317797
I don't recommend anything by Vall or King. Eric Vall is a heckin' woman resperterino, i had to drop one of his books when his protagonist stated, completely seriously "THERE'S NOTHING I HATE MORE THAN MEN WHO OBJECTIFY WOMEN."
Dante King is kind of the opposite end of the spectrum, his female character are brainless sex objects.
For good, or should i say "good", coomlit, i recommend Bruce Sentar and Cebelius. Sentar is hit or miss, but Cebelius' T.A.P series is legitimately entertaining.

>>20313148
For a while, Undying Mercenaries was a thing here. The series faded around book 10 or 12 but it was a good run and I still read it. If you like the style try his Star Force series, too. The author's secret sauce is interesting side characters with their own agenda, which variously overlaps with or conflicts with the MC. I like it. Don't know if you will.

Thoughts on the bear and the maiden fair?

>4 hours left in infinite realm 3
Too bad, like many self pub authors, this nigger updates inconsistently so I have no idea when volume 4 will be out. I know I could read it on RR but fuck that

>>20317552
I stopped reading because it became epic
I began reading because it was a cool little story about running an Inn in a weird world
Once it moved away from that I could get what it was offering from much better paced real novels instead

>>20318173
>Cebelius
I liked Celestine Chronicles. There was definitely some cringe, but that guy captures the existential horror of empowered womyn like his cat's name is Arby's.

>>20317379
>trilogy about retarded lesbians
hard pass

>>20317743
you're never getting the time back

Almost finished Worldwar: in the Balance

>>20318502
the fins?

>>20318564
Lizard aliens. So close.

>>20318502
Based, I’m currently reading the first book in his Great War trilogy

>>20318619
whats the alt-history for this one?

>>20318623
That's its neither fantasy nor science fiction.

>>20318625
what a twist

>>20318483
What if they were retarded loli lesbians with big milkers?

>>20318631
sigh, I guess I wasn't planning on doing anything for the next hour anyway

Where are the cultivation pics on the recommendation mega?

fuck you arrogant assholes, specially you weedfag

sf/f recs where the protagonist pretends to join the "evil guys" or has to infiltrate an organization? Doesn't matter if it's first person or third. Open to anything, including webnovels, I don't care

>>20319116
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32195178-so-you-want-to-be-a-villain
this book series is exactly what you're looking for

>>20319143
Already read it and liked it.

>>20319116
The first Mistborn book has a lot of that.

>>20319170
Mistborn has been sitting on my TBR for years, guess it's time to read it. Thanks

There are no villains in Mistborn

>>20319188
Hope you like it, I enjoyed the Infiltration parts the most.

>>20319116
>sf/f recs where the protagonist pretends to join the "evil guys" or has to infiltrate an organization? Doesn't matter if it's first person or third. Open to anything, including webnovels, I don't care
'Worm,' Definitely. It's also one of the better webnovels on the internet.

>>20319257
Already read that too. I'm a sucker for hidden identity reveals/Fake Defector troupe and the drama that comes from it.

>>20319272
>Already read that too. I'm a sucker for hidden identity reveals/Fake Defector troupe and the drama that comes from it.
Me too desu, do you have any recommendations of your own?

>>20318913
Cultivation as in xianxia or high-powered wuxia. Strong enough to destroy planets by the end, preferably, I've read desolate era.

>>20319295
The only thing I can recommend off the top of my head is Red Rising and Murderbot, since I've already read 2/3 recs some other anons provided. I believe Priory of the Orange has this troupe but I haven't read it. I see this troupe a shit ton in YA stories targeted towards women but not in many "sffg" stories.

Not relevant but if you're a reader of webnovels I would recomend Perculiar Soul. Probably the best webnovel I've read in years.

>>20313231
I read Titus Groan and wasn't sure what to make of it, but it stuck in my mind enough that I'm sure I'll read Gormenghast now. It was an odd combination of ridiculous characters with serious and dark content that I'm still not sure if I like. That said I really enjoyed the prose and characterization, felt the need to read some passages aloud to myself. I'm worried about continuing because his mind was in pretty steep decline when he wrote the third book.

Also this is trivial but I hate the cover you're using. IDK if Peake drew this but it's much closer to his actual drawings, and is more representative of the story.

Why are catholic writers so prolific in fantasy? Even outside genre fiction they dominate over other christian denominations in what concern supernatural stories.

>>20319494
Tolkien got his buddies into it

I've been reading Dungeon Crawler Carl. I've been enjoying it a lot.
The basic premise is that Aliens take over earth. For resources, yes, but mostly in order to run a reality TV program/death game, the Dungeon Crawl. The protagonist gets drawn into it when he wanders into a dungeon entrance chasing his girlfriends cat, wearing nothing but his undies. This book uses LitRPG elements, but it does it in a way that both makes sense and actually enhances the story - because it's literally not real, it's all part of the show. Even the enemies within the dungeon are literally just other aliens that have been abducted and set loose.
Seeing as the protagonist has entered the dungeon alone and unarmed with only a cat when most contestants are armed and in groups, the producers decide to even the odds a bit by making it so the Cat can talk. Her name is Donut.
Part of the gimmick here is that winning a battle isn't the actual win condition, contestants can get viewers and Patrons, so winning in a way that the audience likes might attract a wealthy patron or even an intergalactic corporate sponsorship, and an alien death game is a lot easier to beat when your corporate sponsor gifts you their brand new patented design of a Pulse Rifle.
Now with the LitRPG elements you'd be right to expect characters to get classes. But in this case the classes are things like Monster Truck Driver, Former Child Actor or Compensated Anarchist.

Also, the entire game is explicitly rigged. It's not meant to be winnable, and the producers do things like make it completely impossible for the protagonist to ever find any pants. Why? Because the viewers think it's funny. Also, as the announcer AI says, "Pussies don't get prizes".

Anyone got up and coming webnovel recs? I've read/tried reading pretty much everything on this rec list by now. The list is almost 3 years old, surely there's a few good ones that have been created in that timespan. Anything works, just generally not a fan of shit like harem Isekai, XianXia/Cultivator shit, or mind-numbing Korean power fantasy. Doesn't have to be action focused, just anything worth mentioning.

>>20319604
I know you said you're not a fan, but which of the god tier is the most like cultivator novels

>>20319617
None of them really. Nothing in that tier has martial arts or any of the other bells and whistles you'd typically see in a cultivator novel.

>>20319654
Based husband

>>20319654
>Empire of Silence

>>20319604
>ok tier
>wandering inn
oh nononono....

>>20319116
Red Rising. Enslaved underclass with a resistance movement that gets the protagonist out from his underground life mining on Mars, plastic surgeries the shit out of him, and puts him into hogwarts-cum-hunger-games to compete with the teenage heirs to the ruling houses so he can take down the evil system from the inside.

>>20319725
man that sounds terrible

>>20319604
>Anyone got up and coming webnovel recs? I've read/tried reading pretty much everything on this rec list by now. The list is almost 3 years old, surely there's a few good ones that have been created in that timespan. Anything works, just generally not a fan of shit like harem Isekai, XianXia/Cultivator shit, or mind-numbing Korean power fantasy. Doesn't have to be action focused, just anything worth mentioning.
A Journey of Black and Red - An extremely climatic vampire story with a female lead, set in nineteenth century America. The language and writing is historically appropriate, which makes it even better.

Perfect Run - A superhero story in which a person with a power that allows to go back in time to his Savepoint attempts to achieve a Perfect Run, starting over and over to achieve the best possible results, while also trying to find his old love. Funny, witty and enjoyable. Finished.

Never Die Twice - The same author as Perfect Run, relatively short book a Necromancer trying to abolish death and achieve immortality, set in Norse mythology setting. It's LitRPG, if that's a problem, but the protagonist is not some youngster rising in power, but already powerful Arch necromancer.

Vaienquar The Dragon - The same author as the two previous, but it's a parody of Isekai LitRPG, following a story of a Dragon and Isekaied loser who becomes the Dragon's minion, focused on humor and hilarity. If you don't like unserious stories, don't read. Finished.

Erogamer - If you liked Worth the Candle and Methods of Rationality, then you'll likely like this as well, it's even rumoured to be written by Yudkovsky. It's an extremely erotic story about a young, unattractive woman who's very into Japanese Erogame games, who suddenly gets a System. The main selling point of the story is rationality and the fact that the protagonist getting a System is treated with the seriousness an event like that deserves. It might be the best written webnovel on the internet, and I say that without a hint of irony. It's really THAT good.

Dungeon Crawler Carl - An extremely interesting take on LitRPG, even though it's actually a Sci-Fi story about Earth being destroyed and turned into a reality show for aliens, where surviving humans fight for survival in a giant dungeon to amusement of the galactic audience. Good humor, an interesting story. It was mentioned earlier in this thread with more elaborated description.

>>20319770
I've read it, the first book is nothing like the rest. It's more of a prologue. The series pivots to a space opera/war story. Think Spartacus' revolt against Rome but in space

>>20319788
I hang out on Royal Road way too much, I recognize all of these

>>20319770
It's definitely pulpy trash, I'm not holding it up as an example of good literature but it is fun

>>20319725
>>20319770
>>20319793
You know guys, the first book starts like an interesting story, then turns into a variation of Hunger Games, but with greek superhumans, only to change into something different in the second book.. It does sound bad at first, but it's really good. I read three books so far (I thought there are only three, have to re-read to continue, kek) and it's one of the better stories out there. I had chills at times, so there's that.

>>20319803
>greek superhumans
Red Rising isn't really fantasy, it's sci fi imo. The Golds are just humans who have been genetically modified and raised to be the peak of what's hummanly possible in terms of physical strength and mental acuity.

Funnily enough I loved the edge and Hunger Games aspect of the first book. Morning Star is where the story peaks imo, I wasn't able to get into the continuation trilogy as much as the first, but I think they're objectively decent if not good books.

>>20319604
>unsong just ok
I remember having a blast with it desu
Didn't finish it though
Very interesting book

>>20319604
Fuck I forgot few.

This Used to be About Dungeons - The same author as Worth the Candle, but about a time of dungeon delvers becoming a team. A comfy story about few people becoming a team, rather than an actual delving story, but that's in the title. Similar world-building to Worthe the Candle.

Paranoid Mage - A middle-aged architect and widower suddenly learns he's a mage, and an authoritarian magic government tries to catch him. The man starts learning about his spatial magic while running away, being as paranoid as possible to avoid detection. A recent big success on Royalroad, very popular. I don't think it's amazing, but it's a decent read.

Blue Core - The same author as Paranoid Mage, somewhat NSFW. LitRPG, a dungeon becomes self-aware and bonds with a fox girl, trying to defeats the rulers of evil dungeon by abusing the shit out of combining science and magic. You might not like it as it a bit haremy, but it's decent. Finished.

The Iron Teeth: A Goblin's Tale - Bandits raid a caravan which transported a goblin, one of the bandits take the goblin as a servant and teaches him. In time the goblin becomes a Hobgoblin and more or less strikes out on his own. As far as non-human protagonists go, this story is quite decent. The protagonist is something of an anti-hero, if not outright villain. Finished.
Honorable mentions:

Peculiar Soul - Haven't read personally, but a lot of people say good things about it.

Beware of Chicken - A parody of Xianxia, the protagonist gets beaten in a sect and decides to fitch the cultivation and defying the heavens to become a farmer. Very comfy and slice of life, one of the better webnovels.

Virtuous Sons: A Greco Roman Xianxia - A xianxia story, but in a greek setting. Cultiavators are Philosophers, Young Masters are Young Artisocrats. Aristotle and others are the biggest motherfuckers around. A something of a parody, the protagonists are a Young Aristocrat and an enslaved Roman Soldier.

The Calamity of a Reborn Witch - Haven't read, but supposedly good.

Forge of Destiny - A teenage thief girl passes a test to join a cultivation sect, very slice of life, although not the comfy kind. One of the better xianxias.

Sylver Seeker - An Archnecromancer Lich dies while defending his family and magic academy from some sort of madman, without explanation returns to 'life' unknown period of time later, with a silver needle being his phylactery of sorts. And the worst of all, the world is now governed by some sort of LitRPG system, which punishes him for not adhering to its rules. Decent story.

Super Minion - A very comfy superhero story about a runaway science experiment who pretends to be a human. No longer updated, probably will never be finished, but what's there is quite fun. One of the better webnovels, a shame the writer no longer works on it.

>>20319872
>Peculiar Soul
This is the one that inspired me to make the post, the story, quality, and effort the writer put into it was was too good to be on RR. I was hoping to find more hidden gems like this.

>The Calamity of a Reborn Witch
tried reading it, was not a fan, felt like bottom of the barrel YA

Most of the rest of these are on my Royal Road TBR or I've been aware of/heard about. Thanks for putting in the effort to make the list though.

The resolution between Ryun and Zach better be tolerable after all this buildup. How could it be anything but after three volumes? Honestly I'd rather read about Ryun's autism and sect leading than Zach's never ending training montages with his serial killing sociopathic shapeshifting waifu.

>>20319969
>The resolution between Ryun and Zach better be tolerable after all this buildup. How could it be anything but after three volumes? Honestly I'd rather read about Ryun's autism and sect leading than Zach's never ending training montages with his serial killing sociopathic shapeshifting waifu.
Zach was never popular, he only got a degree of being cool after he got his muder waifu. The story would be much better if the author made him more likeable, but honestly readers are always leaning towards edgy protagonists rather than heroic ones. Now we have muh 'reverse' situation where it's Zach who's mad and Ryun becoming normal, to a degree.
Infinity Realms is a good story, one of the better litrpg systems desu, but the author just wasn't up to the challenge of executing such an ambitious story.

It gets some good points for having a black protagonist though, I know many black people whine about a nigga never being anyone important in fantasy. Just allow a nigga to be a hero or knight ffs.

>>20320007
I keep meaning to read this, but genuinely the fact that the protagonist is named Zach is throwing me off because I've just read Defiance of the Fall, the protag of which is named Zac, and it'd feel weird to read two LitRPG series with similar-named protags so close together. I'd worry they'd blend together in my mind (not that Zac from DotF is much of a character, admittedly, he's just... There).

>>20319604
I liked this series, it's about a powerful mage who died a long time ago and then reincarnated 1 500 years later into the body of a 15 yo noble, the premise is quite generic and so are the power fantasy elements, but for some reason it's really enjoyable to binge through, the progression never halts and the civilization management aspect is also nice, I also find the world building to be well done
I think if someone is in the mood to read a power fantasy isekai then this is the most enjoyable series I can think of

>>20319494
Not just fantasy, but sci-fi too!

Can anyone who's read TWI tell me if the slice of life stuff is consistent the whole way through the story? I'm on volume 3 and while I like the larger political plot and the metaphysical stuff with the dead gods returning the principal main plot of Erin and co's slice of life hijinks simply isn't compelling enough for me to want to wade through it to get to the interesting stuff. Unless the story completely reinvents itself from volume 4 onwards I think I'm gonna drop it and move on to mother of learning or smth.

>>20320253
>Can anyone who's read TWI tell me if the slice of life stuff is consistent the whole way through the story? I'm on volume 3 and while I like the larger political plot and the metaphysical stuff with the dead gods returning the principal main plot of Erin and co's slice of life hijinks simply isn't compelling enough for me to want to wade through it to get to the interesting stuff. Unless the story completely reinvents itself from volume 4 onwards I think I'm gonna drop it and move on to mother of learning or smth.

The story absolutely reinvents itself later on, volume 4 is basically the end of the prologue. I personally didn't even like Erin before Volume 5. There is less slice of life, or rather the slice of life is different, more important to the story most of the time. The last volume 8 that has just been finished, caused a lot of whining in some people due to near lack of Slice-of-life elements, it had extreme focus on plot. If you already like TWI, then you will love the later volumes.
Trust me, Volume 3 is just the lower point in the series, starting from V4 the scope gets bigger and stakes larger, slowly changing TWI from Fantasy slice of life into Epic Fantasy. And it also gets massively better.

>>20319788
>rumoured to be written by Yudkovsky
>might be the best written webnovel on the internet
>I say that without a hint of irony
Do you really, now?

>>20320274
>Locked behind sign up wall on a site I've never used or even heard of

>>20320253
I've read through book 5 and I thought it was the worst so far. It is trying to tell a bigger story, though, so maybe you'll like it more.

>>20320253
I can't speak for TWI (on TBR) but I can't recomend Mother of Learning enough. It "starts slow", but I'm guessing it's lightspeed compared to TWI pacing. MoL is very plot focused due to the nature of the premise.

I didn't have any problems reading APGTE or MoL, but Worm felt like a slog, so TWI is staying on the TBR until I get into a binge-reading mood.

Is The Eagle's Flight any good? Also is anyone here a fan of Janny Wurts?

>>20320360
I heard the Eagle's Flight is good, even some prominent webnovel authors recommended it.

>>20319604
>Mother of Learning
>time traveller kino

>>20319116
math savant rises to the rank of imperial accountant in order to undermine the colonial empire that annexed her homeland. warfare by fiscal policy and all that shit. ending made me surprisingly emotional.

>>20320270
>slowly changing TWI from Fantasy slice of life into Epic Fantasy
What a stupid thing to do in a story about running an Inn
Should've just wrote something new

>>20320637
>What a stupid thing to do in a story about running an Inn
>Should've just wrote something new
It's not changing completely, just the proportions start to lean towards Epic Fantasy. And to say it's a story about running an Inn isn't quite describing what TWI is, the main character is an Inkeeper, but the Inn at some point become an important geopolitical center with relations to multiple city states and kingdoms. As for the slice of life, it's different in the later volumes than the earlier ones, in V2 you'd have an entire chapter dedicated to something slice of life about the Inn (still in a fantasy way and very compelling), but in later volumes the same chapter would also include part of some character's arc and include parts of other plots so that the final result is almost like a story in itself. To call it simple 'slice of life' would be a disservice to the story.

Why is it so hard to find a fantasy book for men? That have strength, honor, courage and comradeship as its core?

>>20320956
The Wizard Knight

Litlet here, why are there no charts on Asimov?

>>20320956
Because reading, writing and publishing have come to be heavily dominated by women and men are not considered the target demographic any longer outside a few niche holdouts like spy thrillers.

>>20319604
I liked Mother of Learning and Worth the Candle (so far).
I'm waiting for A Practical Guide to Evil to be picked up by podium/ atheon and proofread, and published in audiobook form.

Beware of chicken is coming out in audio soon, and I see paranoid mage is an ebook (so audiobook soon?).

>>20320956
Because postmodernist critical culture has censured and obliterated those values as mundane, bourgeois, and outdated.

>>20320956
Try historical fiction instead if you like those themes. I recently read Wolf of Wessex and I'd heartily recommend it.

>>20320956
warhammer 40k?

>>20318625
Gonna delete the post janny?

>>20318623
Confederate victory in the Civil War, WWI starts the same except the USA joins the central powers from the start and the CSA joins the entente

>>20313223
I remember reading this shit when it was on literotica lmao

*ruins your trilogy*

>>20321806
*reigns supreme*

>>20321806
Qrd on this series? I’ve been looking at lots of books in the mega and almost none of them appeal to me

>>20319443
Good cover, Peake always describes Titus as having a weird looking face. Anyway the second book is more focused than the first, and it separates out the dark parts and the comedic parts more strongly while also amplifying them. Dunno if that appeals to you. You can also take its ending as the ending of the series. The third book is weird but mostly coherent and has some good scenes but it doesn't hang together all that well and needed some more work to be truly finished.

Would you slide your fingers into a Myrish swamp?

>>20321806
I liked it.

>>20321816
An epic tale of abandoned child syndrome, depression and emotional torment.

you recommend discworld? if so, what series?

man i'm loving APGTE

>>20321964
Start with either Mort or Guards! Guards!

>>20321973
which one do you like better?

>>20321881
This goes beyond Martin, but why are so many fantasy writers incapable of writing good erotica? Not to mention scifi writers. Almost makes Branderson's sexless approach seem reasonable if the alternative is crud.

>>20322002
>This goes beyond Martin, but why are so many fantasy writers incapable of writing good erotica? Not to mention scifi writers. Almost makes Branderson's sexless approach seem reasonable if the alternative is crud.
People who write, especially those who write fantasy, tend to have the least sex. It's rare that someone actually has the capacity to write sex well because it's simply too outside of their experience. Actually, a lot of people write things they don't know about, like war etc. in a bad way, but that experience is not common enough to be pointed out by the readers, meanwhile sex is something almost anyone has.

>>20321999
Guards! Guards!
I also tend to like the City Watch books better than the Death books.

Anyone writing any /sffg/ kino?

>>20322021
Ask here instead. >>20318590

>>20312982
Hey I'm interested in that too

>>20320956
write it yourself

The Silver Key by Lovecraft is a small ode to the fantasy genre. Very interesting reading.

>>20322019
>“I also tend to like the City Watch books better than the Death books.”

>>20322002
Thinking that sex scenes are automatically supposed to be erotica is your problem.

>>20322067
Sup George

>>20320563
Wasn't that a webnovel to begin with?

>>20322054
kek

Why do web novel authors always take down their stories and self-publish on Amazon?

What are some comfy fantasy books with decent amounts of slice of life in them

>>20322143
Beware of Chicken.

>>20321966
What volume are you on?

>>20322142
So you can pirate the epub on ZLib the next day

With the practical guide to sorcery novel. Does this cunt throw everything away to save her father who set her up to take the fall in the first place? I don't have the time or patience for idiotic or very cliched novels right now.

>>20322189
Read it and find out.

>>20322170
towards what looks to be the climax of book 4
just thought the drow backstory was neat. a lot of interesting developments in general.

Anyone here read Katalepsis? I heard it starts out good but then the author gets lost in the sauce and it goes to shit

>>20322201
>Anyone here read Katalepsis?
Read the first arc then stop since I feel like the author of that story was just trying to imitate Worm by having big ass chapters, but mostly filler.

>>20322198
Glad to hear you enjoy it

>>20322193
The whole point of me finding out is that I DON'T WANT TO read and find out.

Make the new thread you lazy fucks

>>20322240
It’s not even page 10, yet.

>>20322240
Are you that desperate to shitpost?

>>20322240
>page 4
this isn't /v/

>>20322247
Pretty much this. We still got hours until the thread is archived or reaches page 10.

>>20322242
>>20322246
>>20322247
You retards make (You) farming so easy

>>20322257

Is dual cultivation just a meme or does it actually happen in any popular cultivation novels

>>20322290
Never heard of it.

>>20322290
>Dual Cultivation
QRD?

>>20322290
In Quantum Cultivation, the traveler from the other world has sex with an alien in front of his two students to teach them of dual cultivation.

>>20322315
Dual cultivation is an internal alchemy technique aka heterosexual sex.

>>20322290
Mana Master series features Dual Cultivation quite extensively.

>>20322290
Yeah can't remember which one, I think it's Martial World, where it's used by an antagonistic section of the sect
Plot revolves around making sure a girl they're friendly with isn't turned into a sex/cultivation doll
Also think Record of a Mortal's Journey at least alludes to it because there's a young looking old lady who never fucked and people want to fuck them because it'll boost their cultivation.
Castle of Black Iron does the cumming lowers your QI deal. Protag has never jacked off because of this. But that books weirdly horny, like a 13 year old wrote it.

i want recs on books that have post humans being cunts to normal humans
I've read illium and echopraxia, something along those lines

>>20322390
Ugh someone is going to recommend Red Rising

>>20322395
It's an okay series.

>>20322395
already read it, but that's what I'm asking for

>>20322413
The sequel series then.

>>20321177
Whoever made this apparently has no fucking clue what moralfags actually are

>>20322517
Sounds about right.

>>20322545
What's your word for the "if you kill him you'll be just like him" or "killing is always wrong, it just is ok?!!" characters, then? Because those and what he's describing, while both having absolute confidence in their own moral compass, are extremely different

>>20322547
>What's your word for the "if you kill him you'll be just like him" or "killing is always wrong, it just is ok?!!" characters, then?
Strawmen arguments.

>>20322559
>If you kill the a killer the number of killers in the world stays the same. So just let the serial killler run rampant ok?

>>20322559
There is a specific common shounen archetype that acts like that though, commonly called moralfags. Kenshiro by the way does exactly that and spares horrible villains giving them a chance for redemption (at least once anyway it's been a very fucking long time since I read that shit), unlike point 2 in the image. I rest my case

>>20322593
Good thing we’re talking about books and not manga then.

>>20322599
ogey, i accept your surrender

>>20322547
>>20322588
I have literally never seen this play out in any books or webnovels, and the few that do say this, is made abundantly clear that its satire

Reverend insanity is awful and I don’t know why anyone would recommend it.

>>20322648
I thought it was just one guy who's obsessed with it, other than that, everyone who read it here, hates it.

>>20322599
Fantasy and sci-if manga belong here
Cope

Fuck this shit I’m just going to make the new thread myself

>>20322673
We still got hors, christ, just wait until page 10

>>20322673
Why? Just keep using this one

>Reading webnovel
>Protagonist has the power to eat people's souls to gain power
>Joins a group of freedom fighters led by 2 sisters fighting fighting against occupying colonial powers
>Older sister hates his guts
>Protagonist lets her die when a mission goes south, eats her soul
>Fucks the brains out of the younger sister later

>>20322673
Anon, please get a life is trying to bait for (you) is what you want.

>>20322682
Name?

>>20322676
>>20322677
>muh page 10
It’ll get archived in less than an hour, are you really such a pussy that you care what the rest of the board thinks?

Any reason why fromsoft had t made books for blood borne and dark souls?

>>20322686
Peculiar Soul, it starts really slow but picks up around chapter 30 and only gets better from there. There's a lot of introspection and moralfag debate but I kinda liked it.

>>20322718
>Peculiar Soul
I saw the name a few months back, I'm surprised it got so big recently.

>>20322682
Sound good and pretty based.

>>20322673
We've gone well over 400 posts before.

>>20322720
It's top tier, on par with Mother of Learning, Worm, and APGTE
On my second reread and discovering little hints and clues the author placed early into the story was really enjoyable

>>20322733
Not this time :^)

>>20322745
>It's top tier, on par with Mother of Learning, Worm, and APGTE
Then maybe I should check it out. Without spoiling anything, what should I expect?

>>20322682
Webnovels really are the future of science fiction and fantasy.

Read it and weep faggots
>>20322768
>>20322768
>>20322768

>>20322773
You really couldn't wait a few more hours?

>>20322773
Anon, get a life, we still got a few more hours for this thread to reach page 10.

>>20322778
>>20322780
The salt mine just keeps on giving

>>20322756
Slow start, protagonist starts out like an empty slate but gets built up over the story. Alt-Earth with WW1 technology and superpowers that are inheritable when the current holder dies

>>20322794
Seems intriguing. I'm going to check it out.

>>20322788
You really are that pathetic to just shitpost.

>>20322803
Keep the tears coming fruitcake

>>20322773
>>20322803
You were right, OP made the first post and its shitpost.

>>20322290
Heaven's Laws has the main duo dual cultivate.

>>20322819
He's a phoneposter, did you expect anything else?

>generic ASoIaF newfag thinks making a new thread early on a japanese anime imageboard means he is superior to anyone else
Just like the typical arrogant noble's son in my chinese powerlevel webfictions!

>>20322845
Would explain why he wanted an early thread at least. Phoneposters are just shitty posters overall.

>>20322819
>>20322845
>>20322852
I’m going to make all the threads from now on just to make you incels seethe, get used to it sweaty

Just report the idiot phoneposter for spamming

Why does this general always attract lowlife shitters?

>>20322879
>announcing a report behind a spoiler
Kek the irony

>>20322891
Someone one said that they have no life, and I'm willing to believe it at this point.

>>20322773
Your gf said you were too quick too

>>20322891
Huh, didn’t know you were capable of introspection

>>20322891
Do you even know where you are?

>>20322861
Dude, the fuck is wrong with you?

>>20322682
Are webnovels the future? I feel as if they tailor to the reader more than published novels.

So janny deleted the new thread because he didn’t like the OP image
Just remember that you’ll never be a mod and you can’t ban me, faggot

New thread
>>20323088

>>20323009
most authors of webnovels tend to interact with their readers from chapter to chapter so it helps with pacing and progression, I do think they're becoming the better format for fantasy & sci-fi today, but they still need editors even on a small weekly scale

>>20323102
>I do think they're becoming the better format for fantasy & sci-fi today, but they still need editors even on a small weekly scale
That's to be expected though, considering they put up a schedule for new updates.

>>20323102
Eh, I can handle a few minor grammatical errors. As long as the story is good.

>>20323102
>I do think they're becoming the better format for fantasy & sci-fi today,
Glad to know someone else thinks the same way.

>>20323009
More enjoyable if you are a zoom zoom, also they tend to have more creative premises and worldbuilding. You never know what you're going to get in terms of quality, which adds to the fun/pain. Sometimes authors are obviously out of their depth, but then sometimes you get a well crafted and planned out story that varies far from what tradtionally gets published.

>>20323102
>I do think they're becoming the better format for fantasy & sci-fi today,
Same, some stories on royal road are worthy of being publish traditionally but never will.

>>20322682
>>20323009
The actual webnovel isn't actually this btw, it's just a misconstrued interpretation of events to make the protagonist seem like an unhinged psycho

>>20323102
I feel like most longer novels could benefit from a few editing passes.
I've read good novels ranging from: introducing a peerless beauty who was narrated that she's a vegetarian, cut to a hundred chapters later, and she is eating meat.
To just having the currency/barter system not make much sense over the course of the novel.

Another thread over 400 posts.

>>20323593
Too much fucking reading dude, I'm already not reading all these books I post about, now I can't even read the thread too, fuck this shit.