/lit/ - Literature

Northwestern European fantasy has Tolkien.
Wuxia/xianxia is purely Chinese, which covers Hong Kong/Taiwanese that wrote a lot of it too.
I've been told that Witcher has a lot of Slavic features to it.
What do other cultures have?

read cradle!

>>20754176
The Witcher?

>>20754188
Yes, the Sapkowski books. Despite people claiming he ripped off Moorcock, they still say he added a folksy Slavic sense to his stories.
Also people argue magical realism for Latin America. It's more of a literary style than genre, but Asturias is heavily influenced by Mayan mythology and surrealism so I haven't read him to really comment on it. I don't expect anything like RI or Tolkien, it's a political critique on authoritarianism affecting people's reality more than fantasy.

>>20754206
A lot of Japanese lit is magical realism and/or surrealism

Read Bakker.

>>20754286
Bakker? I don't even knower!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PE5iEq3peE
The fat man tested positive, press F to pay respects

>>20754300
What the fuck is that hat

>>20754300
he looks thinner than usual

>>20754180
>Does he have an end in sight though? Are there already characters who have come and gone and have conclusions? I worry also because of either what you or another anon said about the timeline, which was apparently everything happens in an instant.

That anon was trolling. I'm not sure what 'in an instant' would even mean. It's been years in-story, at least two. But I imagine the time will speed up a little now, considering the recent plot developments. The author has multiple time stated that they have an end in sight, since the very start of the story. 'Their guiding beacon,' as they said.
If you want in-depth write-up on how the author's writing the story, just check this reddit post the author did: https://www.reddit.com/r/WanderingInn/comments/hfy9my/writing_web_serials_by_pirateaba/

>Are there already characters who have come and gone and have conclusions?
Of course, how could be any different in any story? Characters and their stories are TWI's biggest strength, some came and went, some are still there. This isn't some never-ending story with random events cobbled together.

>Take Malazan for example, the crippled god is introduced in the first book and the final book is the conclusion of events that have driven the story along. There's still a lot of questions about characters, but it's an ending.
>With the god is not willing which is basically Erikson's sequel to Malazan, set 10 years ahead, it's full of new characters whose plot is driven from events in the original series but it is its own thing. Sure some more characters will probably show up, but many won't. In Erikson's ama the other day he said that tavore probably won't be back even tho she's his favourite character. Her story was finished, we don't need to see her Talon Dental Plan or whether she's taken over her families trading company.

TWI has a lot of plots, kinda layered together. There's main plot that's been being set-up for multiple volumes, but it was always there, since the start, if you want to know, the story's is mainly about: Dead Gods returning back to life after being 'dead' for a very, very long time. An eon. And the characters trying to, more or less, kill them back.

It's an Epic Fantasy story, events larger than life, you know, the whole package. But the author is building-up the characters and world in which they can have that plot, step by step. There are characters that are mighty and powerful, but most of them are only starting, the story is about the people that one day are going to BE the kind of people that you can see having influence and power to take parts in the story of this calibre. Their entire journey, from their very beginnings, not just back-story of characters in few paragraphs. That's what TWI is about, in essence, stories of people that one day will become Legends.

>>20754180
Malazan's ending was garbage. Anything about The Crippled God was barely explained beyond "he isn't from our world which is why he is harming it and has to leave" and Tavore was the definition of a plot device, not one fucking time explaining why she was taking the Malazans to save The Crippled God.
I HATE TAVORE

>>20754353
Would you say Malzan was worth reading? I had two attempts to read it, but can't get hooked. That sharp change in setting after the first arc was very off-putting.

>>20754300
>the living embodiment of 捡了芝麻丢了西瓜
S

>>20754353
She did it because it was the right thing to do, he was quite literally a victim. The faggy mages on jakuruku isekai'd him into the world, then when he was damaged from it they controlled him, then other ascendants wanted to trap him more because he was becoming poisonous to k'ruls warrens. It was the Malazan thing to do. Time and time again the Malazan armies help the people who need it. It's a theme of the books and if you missed that idk what to tell you. Take coltaine for example, or how tavore refused to hand over the wickans. The fact that the bonehunters followed tavore and how the old bridgeburners defended him showed it was in the same spirit they have always kept throughout the books, doing the right thing.

>>20754368
yes
you could try reading one of the other books first instead of gotm
knight of knives or dancer's lament

>>20754353
>T.speedreader

>>20754216
Surrealism.
It doesn't have the same kick if it's not from Latin America.

>>20754162
FUCK he is good.

>>20754512
are you the bakkerautist

>>20754368
Many are segregated so you could read 'some' as a standalone. Either way, I thought the writing itself was fine enough although there are numerous infinite tangents. It's just the overall arching plot was a huge letdown
>>20754375
And if that would have been expressed, okay but you, quite literally, have multiple soldiers remarking that they don't know what the fuck Tavore is doing or why they went where they went.

So why did the CCP cancel this?

>>20754534
Cringe depletes your social credit

>>20754534
Because the chapters they took issue with were incredibly blatant political propaganda.

>>20754527
Yes, but once they knew they all understood and guarded him.

Asimov is exceedingly tedious.

>>20754177
read bakker

>>20754188
Witcher is generic anglo-fantasy. The fact that some can't figure this this out shows how incestuously uninspired fantasy genre is for a good lot of people.

>>20754162
Are there any good Magic the Gathering or Dungeons and Dragons novels?

Mr Reynolds and yet another one of his wild rides.

>>20754720
I'm reading Revelation Space right now. It's got the autism I was looking for, but the writing (in terms of prose and pacing) ranges from bland to awful. Is it worth pushing through?

>>20754720
Was it though? >>20454552 suggests differently.

>>20754162
Last call for suggesting a theme for the Goodreads group for August before I pick one and its relevant books.

I looked at the uploads on the Charts Mega, which I really ought to do get around to updating. Probably sometime next month. Someone uploaded Attackbox-wordlists.tar.gz (1.04GB) and AMD.7z (1.25GB). I don't see how these are relevant and can't be bothered to download and look at them If someone here knows what they were uploaded, let me know. Otherwise I'll probably just delete them. I guess I need to put better instructions on what to upload.

>>20754734
Maybe I should have put more disclaimers when I wrote that. I'm not a fan of Reynolds in general. The current /sffg/ ratings are:

5 star: 1
4 stars: 1
2 star: 2

The postings in the thread have been positive as well. Though, Reynolds overall seems to less well received and popular than one might otherwise think.

>>20754702
I liked various ones when I was a teenager. They're mostly rather basic and generic, so it really depends on you personally.

Whats the best fantasy to come out of Romance language countries?

>inb4 The Aeneid

>>20754788
Orlando Furioso

>>20754534
He alluded to the systematic harvesting of fetuses via abortion with the pregnancy temples.

>>20754788
Le Morte d'Arthur

>>20754534
Mocked the great leap forward.

What's the best short story from I, Robot and why is ti Reason?

>>20754300
>overweight
>old
>has covid
Someone tell Sanderson to get ready to finish another series

>>20755080
Your apathy is only surpassed by your malice.

>>20755080
Covid mortality rates are very low, even for fat people. It's just that they grab the attention bc the risk goes from extremely low to relatively low when you add obesity into the mix. Even the fat oldies have a very high chance of minimal negative effects, let alone risk of death.
If you think that GRRM is done for, then you've had too much cool aid.

>>20755089
I have long since accepted that ASOIAF will never be finished, just let go and laugh at the world

>>20755080
>Sanderson
That would be worse than if the series died with him.

>>20755080
>>20755140
Bakker should do it.

>>20755154
Please no, Bakker needs to work on No God

>>20754720
cool. I am reading House of Suns right now, maybe only 100 pages but enjoying it overall. it feels very "big".. characters going from planet to planet.. dealing with posthumans and other human species and this and that..pretty neat.

>protagonist risks his life or gets into a near death scenario
I hate this shit at this point. Any time it happens it just feels like the story is screaming "haha you're reading something disingenuous and I'm abusing plot armor".

>>20755243
So, what's the alternative?

Speaking of Sanderson, has anyone seen that thread on /r/fantasy about a gay guy saying he doesn't want him recommended all the time? It's hilarious how everyone started defending Sando, excusing his mormonism and anti-gay views because 'he's trying to be better.' Every other person would get cancelled hard, but Sando is writer of 'good' fantasy, so everyone are trating him with kids' gloves. Absolutely hilarious.

>>20755154
Fuck no. Bakker’s talent would be a waste on that shit series.

>>20755243
>I hate this shit at this point. Any time it happens it just feels like the story is screaming "haha you're reading something disingenuous and I'm abusing plot armor".
If you are not feeling any tension when character does something dangerous, then it's because the writer did a bad job or the scene has different meaning than you think. But most commonly it'd be writer being a hack.

>>20755274
>>20755243
there are ways around this. i just recently found one case in twi.
basically, you don't make those kind of gambits with the protagonitsts or other plot armor characters, instead you use supporting or side characters. you can still have the MC be involved in the plot, even more if they care about said character.

another way is to not make it about death. make it about losing something more believable, with lower stakes. something that can be lost without forcing you to use plot armor.

>>20754162
How common are novels set during or after zombie apocalypses?

>>20754177
>>20754669

>>20754527
That feeling when Malazan whooshes over your head. I feel sorry for you anon.

>>20755285
because his shit is so inoffensive that even the most hyper sensitive woketards don't see anything wrong. Also stormlight is already filled with enough girl power and non whites with enough vagueness to imply weird sexual shit (like Jasnah being asexual) that they can project their shit on. Also Sandersoy makes an active effort to placate them and promise more pozzed shit.

>>20754527
Anon, thing with Malazan is that everything doesn't lead to a single focal point of a conclusion. I'm amazed people don't get this ahead of time with so many sub-plots and characters throughout the series.

>>20755274
A story that doesn't revolve around protagonist narrowly escaping death. I know, sounds novel to a genreshitter, but it's actually pretty common.

>>20755391
>everything doesn't lead to a single focal point of a conclusion
It does when a several-book long plot line is ended in a finale literally titled "The Chained God".

>>20755403
>>20755322
It's also a personal problem where you use too much metaknowledge and aren't immersed in the story. You're supposed to let voluntarily yourself be manipulated.

>>20755322
>basically, you don't make those kind of gambits with the protagonitsts or other plot armor characters, instead you use supporting or side characters
AKA redshirting.

>>20755449
>You're supposed to let voluntarily yourself be manipulated.
That's still using metaknowledge. The fundamental problem is surviving near death/high risk encounters is one of the biggest cliches in fiction period.

>>20755451
>redshirting
ah, yes. very interesting...

on a serious note: it's not quite that. i'm not talking about just killing off side characters. i'm talking about putting them into those will-they-die situations because they COULD actually die, whether they actually do or not depends on where you want the dice to land. but as opposed to the MC who is usually protected by plot armor, here the reader won't be able to tell as easily. it's about suspense.

>>20755456
ah yes. very interesting...
You must be the sort that'd d argue that everyone is a conformist because even when you don't conform you're conforming to not conforming.

>>20755499
It works better, but that also quickly gets tiresome with overuse. Stuff like DotF is terrible about it, you know the protagonist is invincible both in the world and in the narrative so every single threat is about his sister or something being endangered instead.

>>20755521
>just embrace the unoriginality and predictability, what are you a contrarian or something?

>>20755523
This is why it's often better to instead have the question be "can they get through this", but moreso "how banged-up will they be when they get through this".

>>20755403
How can a character be a hero when they don't narrowly escape death?

>>20755525
It's more a fundamental problem of your lack of emotional investment and unwillingness to give yourself over to the story.

>>20755533
What a narrow of view of heroism!

>>20755532
And then in the next scene they're completely recovered.

>>20755532
The issue in large part is abusing reactive scenarios. If you reverse the dynamic entirely to "can the antagonist survive this" then it becomes interesting again.

>>20755523
i'd say at that point you have bigger issues. issues surrounding the protagonist and his invincible plot armor that can not only protect himself but all of his interests as well..

>>20755550
Well, no, give them lasting injuries or scars, or even emotional/mental problems.

>>20755548
That you have nothing to say about, because I'm right.
It's a simple calculus, if a fantasy hero isn't in danger of dying then it's not interesting enough. If they died every time their life was in danger, there would be no story.

>>20755563
On the contrary, there are stories where the protagonist dies every time they're in danger. That usually involves time loops and other mitigating factors though.

>>20755561
No one wants to read about them. Strong characters only that serve as perfect role models.

>>20755569
>ah, but you see, abortion is morally good because sometimes the woman has been raped!

>>20755574
Abortion is always morally good, there's too many people causing too many problems and not enough love to go around

Lovecraft’s poetry is underrated. His ear for accents is pretty good too.

>>20755574
>ah, but you see, shitposting is acceptable because sometimes the poster gets (you)s!

I read this pretty recently. Its a nice bit of light reading, an interesting little adventure.
I don't particularly care for how he's obviously setting it up to be a series of books, though.
I used to see this guy at the Renaissance festival every now and then. His act can be pretty funny. Some of his horror books are pretty good too.

>>20755596
Standalones are rare. The expectation should be that it will be multiple books.

Why do you consider sci-fi and fantasy to be the superior genres of literature?

>>20754861
"My lord, I saw nothing but waves and wind."

>>20755700
I see the bot has return

>>20755700
checked. and I don't. at least with sci-fi though, I like all of the thought experiments that can play out.

>what if we just went to Mars
>what if we uploaded our minds into a computer
>what if the Moon just exploded one day and was gonna rain down on Earth
>what if undercover cops were able to completely changed their outward appearance
>what if we tried to increase the IQ of a mentally challenged person

>>20755717
I don’t think it’s a bot, but an actual person that has no life that just keeps on repeating the same questions every thread for some unknown reason.

>Primordial Origin Venerable
>doesn’t finish the job
>Heavenly Court he started becomes an a group of overbearing self-righteous jackasses
>his own disciple ended up falling in love with a demihuman

Was he really trying to make humanity the dominating race over the Gu world or was his goal similar to what became the Heavenly Court’s goal?

>>20755700
We don’t, now fuck off for the nth time.

>>20755700
So, is this your life now? Just asking the same shitty question? Hoping someone is stupid enough to give you an honest answer?

>>20755717
>That Bakker picture false flag
At least we know now.

Bakker is King.

Fuck jannies.

Simple as.

I'm about to read A Farce to Be Reckoned With. What am i in for /sffg/ bros?

>>20755700
>Why do you consider sci-fi and fantasy to be the superior genres of literature?
I don't consider any fantasy or most of sci-fi to be superior but some sci-fi works i would consider prophetic and therefore superior to mere entertainment.

>>20755864
I didn't read, but as Zelazny's the author I'm sure you shouldn't expect good writing.

>>20755726
what is that pic related

>>20755946
gay and cringe

>>20755552
He still fails to protect people, it just gets repetitive when every conflict is about whether he can protect people.

>>20755806
Truth shines.

>The Children of Hurin, Beren and Luthien, and the Fall of Gondolin
Are these really worth getting on their own if I already have the Silmarillion?

>>20755285
Sanderson is right winged and he is dominating the fantasy genre, funny how they can't shut him down no matter how trad his stories is.

So are there any contemporary weird-fiction/fantasy writers that cam rival Peake's prose? He has basically ruined me.

Guys who here reads science fiction but not fantasy and vice versa?

Wouldn't you agree to create a sci-fi and fantasy general separate in the not too distant future?

>>20756266
The sci-fi thread would be DOA.

>>20756266
Hello newfag.

>>20756266
Sounds like a good plan, what could go wrong?

>>20755726
I'm already living the bottom mid-right one.

>>20755726
>fully automated gay space luxury communism
u wot m8?

>>20755285
He’s uncancelable. Simply because he’s the most competent cape shit writer. No other person has his work ethic.

>>20756266
>Guys who here reads science fiction but not fantasy
me

>>20755285
why are you buthhurt?

I like to read up on the elder scrolls lore but only the obscure lore no body knows about.

Books about assblasted middle management?

>>20756283
>newfag
Wrong
I have been browsing 4chan for almost 5 years

>>20756416
>not almost 20 years

>>20756416
Your post is hilarious and you don’t even understand why.

>>20756416
>He thinks that browsing 4chan for 5 years makes him not a newfag

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH

>>20756416
Oh, so your even newer than a newfag then. Thank you for letting us know.

>>20756416
Aww so cute

>>20756416
>5 years
HE IS NON-SUPREME

>>20756416
Newfags are from 2010, at least. I know because I am one.

Fuck off retards

>>20750955

>>20756416
NEWER THAN AN ELECTION TOURIST! HE WILL NEVER RULE SUPREME!

>>20756416
Legit kek’d.

>>20756523
You just know that he’s one of those guys who think that “kek” is a twitch emote.

>>20756501
Just don't delete your post, newfag

>>20756528
HE THINKS KEK IS A TWITCH EMOTE!

>>20756501
>Fuck off retards

Based thread.

Bakker is King.

Simple as.

>>20756557
Actually fuming, he must be a sandersoi reader.

>>20756501
The only retard I see here is you.

100% most people here haven't been using 4chan for more than a few years and are just trolling poor Anon. Except maybe bakkerspammer, he might have been here since the beginning of the site.

>>20756584
4chan isn’t getting more popular, you know?

>>20756587
>4chan isn’t getting more popular, you know?
Isn't it? Wouldn't say so. These days it's a social like any other, just less popular. But I wouldn't say it gets smaller.

>>20756416
Well-baited.

>>20756652

Bakker rules supreme once again.

>>20756652
Bakker > Wolfe

Simple as.

Why did she disable the comments on her video?

Bakker is King.

Janny is cringe.

Kellhus rule supreme.

Read Bakker.

>>20756416
Statistically, based off the amount of active users in the thread and their behavior, at least half or greater than half of these replies are from newfags: the 2016+ variant or the 2011+ variant. On that note, it is amusing to see newfags clown on another newfag.

>>20756719
Imagine being this new.

>>20756736
You meant to quote the guy I was responding to but it's okay friend, it happens to the best of us.

What was George thinking about in this picture?

>>20756719
>newfags: the 2016+
No such thing exists. You don't know what a newfag is.

>>20756744
He is thinking about the incomprehensible supremacy of Bakker and his noble golden hair eclipsing the brunette peasant beside him.

>>20756744
Poptarts most likely.

>>20756744
>What would Kellhus do if he landed in Westeros?

>>20756756
He would gain total control of all that lives and he would turn Khaleesi into a sex slave.

>>20756766
Khaleesi wouldn't be able to carry his seed. She would.

>>20756749
If the year you first found 4chan does NOT have a "00" in it, you are most assuredly a newfag and your newfag revisionist bullshit is psychotic at absolute best.

>>20756770
He would do both and reign supreme over westros.

>>20756174
Writing the mother of all omelettes here!

>>20756744
The gathering of Heroes...
(except whos the guy in the middle?)

>>20756756
What is Kellhus' tax policy?

>>20756792
Probably just the host, I would think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjCnU11COm8

>>20756794
Depends on how much sranc heads you farmed per month.

>>20756794
99.9% for women and cucks, 0.1% for BVLLS.

time to make a "what I read" for the Citadel of the Autarch. It will be much harder to make since I have no clear idea about it compared to the Sword of the Lictor

>>20756770
Is that stroke-fu?

>>20756795
Bakker dominating the crowd
Filling the room with a sound so loud
Bakker dominating the crowd
With a fiery speech that is so proud

>>20756813
And what is that?

So anybody wanna actually discuss books or is the Bakker circlejerk just gonna continue for the next few hours without actually saying anything?

>>20756795
Martin is a friend of Bakker, he is honorarily supreme.

>>20756918
Just report it, the bakkerspam, jannies have been on point on that.

>>20756953
If you played Elden Ring, you would see that he included some Bakker flavouring in it.

This was a great day.

>>20756991
An eternal glory bestowed upon this general by the graceful presence of King Bakker, even if he only posted a couple of times, his grace is unperishable.

>>20756991
those words have sustained the Bakker cultists through all these years
I wonder if he ever checks /sffg/ these days...
The end of Second Apocalypse was a bit too depressing for me, so it would be nice to see our survivors again

>>20756918
Either do what this anon >>20756959 suggest, or wait until a new thread is made, though I don't see why there should be a new thread considering it's just going to be filled with spam.

>>20756991
chad

>>20757021
>his look
Assertive, confident, unyielding
>Her look
Horny, helpless, submissive

Absolute chad.

This was kino, ngl.

>>20756918
>>20756959
>STOP TALKING ABOUT THESE BOOKS!

I'm going to keep posting about Bakker here forever, just saying. There is no rule against it.

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>>20757058
You made that one? First time seeing it.

>>20757062
Anon... that is like 3 years old minimum... check the archives.

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You know at first I was maybe intrigued as to what the commotion is all about. But seeing all this spam faggotry I'll put Bakker in the same category of meme joke authors that I'll never read. So like F. Gardner

>>20757106
Ok, cool. But who asked?

>>20757106
Do your part in cleaning up this general, anon and report them. No reason why they should go unpunished for thespam faggotry

>>20757111
I did my part regarding your post.

>>20757114
Based.
Same.

I guess you scared her into deleting the post lmao.

>>20757123
>based
Nice to see another 2016+ newfriend :) Stay safe out there on the 4chinz!

>>20757128
Imagine being scared of the janny like a little bitch :)

Real Bakker hours

>Nice to see another 2016+ newfriend :) Stay safe out there on the 4chinz!

Should I read A Scanner Darkly?

>>20757154
Try asking in the next thread, no point bothering with this thread.

>>20757146

>Try asking in the next thread, no point bothering with this thread.

>>20757109
You're not doing that good of a job of shilling Bakker if you are actively turning people away from it

>>20757174
Ok, but who asked?

>>20757177
Nobody asked for you to parade your neo-pussy in public either.

But here we are

>>20757174
That's because he hates Bakker. It's clearly a false flag.

>You're not doing that good of a job of shilling Bakker if you are actively turning people away from it

>>20757159
"Hackneyed and trite"
lmao, what is that even supposed to mean? Be specific
There is nothing wrong with the 1st chapter. There is something wrong with the the slog-book. This isn't it.

It's just so triggering to me. People that look up 'bad' in a thesaurus, instead of providing criticism

>>20757159
One can say that Pierre is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

What are you reading on this lovely Friday night?

>>20757208
Anon, there's no point in trying to do this.

>>20757208
Bakker, funnily enough.

>>20757208
Stormlight Archive. Book 2.

>>20757208
The iron king

>>20757208
Paranoid Mage
Nearly done. Getting book 2 soon. I will read Reincarnated as a farmer bk 2 next week.

>>20757208
The Great Ordeal.

>>20757185
That’s your excuse for everything. Just fuck off already

>>20757208
The Well of Stars by Robert Reed.
Due to events in the first book, Marrow, the Great Ship (a Jupiter-sized vessel) was knocked off course and now, instead of circumnavigating the galaxy as originally planned, the ship is scheduled within a few centuries to pass through a dark nebula with suspicious signs of life, before beginning a long cold voyage outside of the galaxy.

>>20757185
This desu. It's pretty obvious at this point.

>>20757208
Neuropath

>>20757238
Why do you lie??

>>20757241
Lie about what, retard?

>>20757230
>Reincarnated As A Farmer
How'd you like book 1? I felt it was... Just kinda odd. Pacing was all over the place.

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This shit is fucking cancer, why don’t you faggots just fuck off to some discord and just cirfclejerk there.

>>20757248
>spam the thread with endless bullshit
>It wasn’t me
Fuck off.

>>20757208
TWI

>>20757250
I enjoyed it. It's why I'm picking up book two. I'm just a sucker for someone thinking outside the box. Taking the shit life has given you, and applying it differently to make yourself better. Smart protagonists are always an enjoyable read.

>>20757248
>Lie about what
Are you seriously asking that after Bakker spam circlejerk?

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>>20756838 (You)
>>20757021(You)
>>20757049(You)
This is actually pretty based, ngl.

>>20757285
>circlejerk

Its pretty much the same troon

>>20757106
>>20757256
It’s some retarded ESL (no doubt the same faggot who shills chinkshit constantly) who was filtered by Bakker and triggered by the vocabularies of his readers, so he resorts to endless falseflagging with his gay poetry and one-liners. This schizo has been a persistent curse on this general for over a year at this point.

>>20757286
Since you're intent on false flagging this hard, I will read Bakker just to see why you hate him.

>>20755726
Cybernetic sex slime transcendence? I'm listening...

>>20757305
based

>>20757293
yup and his name is moogy
known autistic schizo weeb and bane of the litrpg community

>>20757303
Really doubt it when there’s other spammers getting ban and seething about it.

>>20757319
Just because someone makes a post about Bakker, it doesn't mean it's spam. Grow up.

>>20757303
You do know the IP count rose with the spam right? There's more than one person.

>>20757256
Unironic falseflagging. Same dude popped up months ago spamming to himself. Last time it was a million simulated conversations of "we bakkerchads like anal rape" or some retarded shit.

Shame really, because before that there was actually a decent conversation on the books (i.e. actual paragraphs, not the one liners and image cancer).

>>20757284
I just thought it was a little banal. There didn't seem to be enough pay-off for the entire book, it just kinda... Ends.

>>20756744
Will they notice if I fill this diaper?

>>20757336
Didn't he get what he wanted in the end?
He wanted to find a way that he didn't have to work, he got it.

Any litRPGs/haremlits where the MC is kind of a loser for a good chunk of the story

>>20757362
Yes, many, and no I don't remember them to give you, because those are the shit books which are dropped a few chapters in.

>>20757323
Doubt it.

>>20757389
Lurk more then.

I hate Bakker, I hate Bakker, I hate Bakker, I hate Bakker.

>>20757396
>*disables comment section*

>>20757396
Her meltdown was funny as fuck.

>>20757396
>all that fakeup and still ugly

And somehow... Bakker is supposed to be this softy leftist

>>20757461
Low IQ people do now know what critique means.

Here it is. I'm really tired now. I think I'll go to sleep now. Enjoy!

>>20757430
No amount of face paint can hide bone structure

>>20757581
>he doesn't know about contouring
They can do illusions to make their bone structure change. It's why you never trust a girl with heavy makeup.

https://youtu.be/L0w4Ksoy8pE?t=1205

>>20757386
Why
I honestly don't understand the genre
It's pretty clear its aimed at actual nerd type losers
And they're all supposed to self insert as either ex-marine divorced dad of three or a psychopath quarterback with no morals and a bodycount in the triple digits before the story even starts?
I'm not talking the extreme opposite doormat but whenever I see a character that even has an ounze of empathy or self doubt or any other "beta" characteristics people just bash on the MC and book for being the biggest pussy alive, a disgrace for all Real Men and a White Knight (tm) (kinda like what happens with Shinji in Evangelion for reference if you haven't read much of the genre, deep rooted meme of "Shinji is a pussy xd" that makes most people, from the get go, dismiss any all aspects of the character and uphold him to otherwordly standards)

>>20757606
Honestly I never see that much of what you're saying. The one I did read with a military guy getting isekai'd was really fucking bland (The Ten Realms) though weirdly popular, and most of the better LitRPGs I've read have had more nuanced protagonists.

>>20757606
It's because everyone hates betas, especially betas.
The vast majority of people want to back a winner, an ideal. How many football maniacs have actually played football anywhere near professional level? People want to watch cool, powerful, competent people, not slow losers. Only people so far gone they're completely consumed by self hatred would identify with a weak cuck, and even they would mostly prefer a more assertive protagonist so they could feel better.
Empathy is not sympathy, often those most close to someone are the most hated, because they display the same personal flaws and shortcomings.

>>20757021
She's hot.

>>20755243
The issue, as always, is bad writing. ALL conflicts and events, no matter how minor, are ultimately deux ex machina. The absolute worst thing I can't stand in a story is when some character is in terrible danger and then the story just rescues them by having the threat evaporate without them doing anything, but even that's just a matter of execution. For example, the antagonist suddenly deciding the spare the protagonist when he could easily kill him is a shit scene, but if there's bee sufficient preparation and explanation to show that it really is the best choice and his decision makes sense then it all works fine. The only differentiating factor is how engaged you were with the scene. Often the solution is to focus on the how or why of the MC's success in the face of overwhelming odds, to put the mind into analytical or philosophical mode and thus be able to ignore the contrivance, and if not that, then do have the situation be engaging and entertaining enough that you don't care or even welcome it. For example, in a comedy characters who randomly escape near death situations aren't usually an issue at all, because there's never any expectation that they won't.

Why did Sando turn Kaladin into a depressed super man?

>>20757058
based, here's mine...

>>20757714
He always was depressed. That's the point.

>>20757696
maybe if you like strung out meth whores who look like they're transitioning

>>20757718
Do you have the top left picture meme?

>>20757727
Holy shit, how could you tell?

>>20757691
Not everyone. Its a uniquely western thing where christianity is dead, good morals and values are dead and literal thieves and criminals are celebrated and glamourized. Like the Vikings

>>20757732
Is this what skin spies look like?

>>20757739
Are you nuts? People hated betas WAY MORE in the past!
The "loser protagonist" is a uniquely modern invention.

>>20755285
sandersnoy is pro-l now

>>20757779
Why isn't he writing about trans people though?

This would be kino in a book, ngl.

>>20757783
>>20757794
She's hot. Sauce?

>>20757415
I hate women.

>>20757718
kino
how did u make this?

>>20757303
I'm fairly certain it's not a falseflagger but an actual bakker shill

>>20757758
No they didn't. Infact piety, charity, humility, kindness were celebrated values in the past

>>20757758
Loser protagonists aren't real. They look soft and weak and humble but they're secretly 101% badasses.... just like me once I go all out! Heh nothin personnel j*cks...

>>20757871
Epic Fantasy Battle Simulator + Microsoft Paint

>>20757491
whats the best gene wolfe book? I didn't like the wizard knight.

>it's a Rand chapter

>>20757718
Top-right guy reminds me of Tulkas. Who is he?
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tulkas

>>20757739
>Vikings
Vikings are based, they are the true heroes.

Why do bakkerfags keep shilling their left wing communist author?

>>20758131
it's meant to be Kellhus

https://princeofnothing.fandom.com/wiki/Anas%C3%BBrimbor_Kellhus

>>20758044
All of which betas don't possess. Your example, shinji, is the antithesis of all human virtues past present and future.

>>20756174
>Sanderson is right winged
>how trad his stories is.
Sanderson is right wing in the same way Lady Maga is

>>20758174
Updated version

>>20758231
Try again

>>20758145
vikings are snowniggers who did nothing but pillage defenceless monasteries and get their asses raped any time Franks or Saxons or even fucking GAELS fought back

$20AUD off eBay, gentlemen. What am I in for?

>>20758231
>>20758234
Sanderson is left wing

>>20758241
>nooo white people can't be masculine
Viking are still based

>>20758241
t. SEETHING englishman

>>20758186
I never used Shinji as an example. That other guy did. And I'm mostly responding to how he >>20757606
describes a modern fantasy hero. Celebrating such ruffians as ideals is surely a modern western thing.

>>20758145
Vikings(or atleast the modern potrayal of them) are a bunch of savage, valueless, degenerate scum who embody the very hatred modern western society holds for christian values. Their glorification of murder, loot, rape, arson is symptomatic of our current values where winning at all costs, even if it means to be an asshole scum is valued over being a productive and constructive member of society

>>20758241
>even GAELS
yeah the cunts that not even the romans would fuck with and built two massive walls to keep out

>>20758217
Wait this has gay shit?

SKIPPED

>X added.
>Y said.
>Z replied.
A 12 year old could do better than this. Come on, Sandy. You know I've always been in your corner, mate. I've always had your back against your detractors in this general, but bro.............

>>20758320
It's a 3+ person conversation, you're gonna have speech tags going around.

>>20758291
>winning
Yes, Vikings WIN, you LOSE

Simple as.

>>20758331
I can see how the Vikings would specifically appeal to low iq losers lmao. Stockholm syndrome again. Men are constantly ass raped by those in power so much so that they begin to defend the structures that allow this. As if they are doing the assraping now by proxy.

>>20758363
How ironic coming from a christian.

>>20758300
Sandersnoy only cares about money

>>20758376
I'm not christian

>>20758363
You are the one obsessing about ass rape in every post, sounds like an unhealthy loser activity.

Vikings win again.

>>20758331
Historically vikings lost in every single engagement with an enemy that consisted of people with iron weapons, and even against fucking indians in north america who didn't have access to metallurgy at all. Angles, Saxons, and Jutes were able to make headway against an advanced Brythonic power but Vikings got spitroasted every time they faced Saxons. They were more of a nuisance that people paid to go away.

>>20758217
the dialogue reminds me more of a 90s american sitcom than an epic fantasy novel

>>20758569
He wants to emulate Joss Whedon

>>20758174
Who is the fat ginger in the rigtwing section

>>20758559
You will never rule supreme.

>>20754368
i didn't think so.

>>20758217
>>20758300
Malazan - has gay shit
Second apocalypse - has gay shit
Stormlight - has gay shit
Mistborn? I actually don't recall, it probably did have a gay character
Realm of the Elderlings - quite a lot of gay shit
TBC - don't remember? I think there was some gay rape
Dread empire - none that I remember

>>20758662
None in Mistborn era 1 at least

>>20758654
>the bakkerfag is also a LARPagan
why am I not surprised

You know what? Fuck fantasy, it's all garbage..

>>20758680
You have eyes to see yet still can't recognize Mt. Tai. Sad!

>>20758231
How is Robert Jordan right wing? Isn't WOT an entirely matriarchal society? Chalked full of strong powerfull women

>>20758662
>TBC - don't remember? I think there was some gay rape
All I remember is Sleepy joining the company to avoid being buttfucked by uncles, but she was secretly a girl.

>>20758231
I'm not sure if you can justifiably put Joe Abercrombie on the left when the AOM trilogy was basically a long criticism of communism, ended with the racist character gaining full control of the union and had the people accusing the blacks of being eaters (cannibals) be right all along

What do you want to see more of in speculative fiction?

>>20758680
>>20756266

>>20758668
Who said anything about vegan, I worship Bakker the ruler of all that lives.

>>20758768
Fractal worldbuilding

What the fuck am I reading? Why is every chapter about this 16 year olds breasts?

Isn't he like a 40 year old leper?

>>20758803
Heterosexuals are so fucking gross right?

>>20758803
Men prefer younger women.

>>20758816
I mean, I get that it's basically an Isekai. But in Isekai the protagonist is usually a young youth

What I'm envisioning is a pox scarred old man licking his lips every chapter hoping to molest a young girl

It's uncomfortable
At least have them be close of age
Honestly protagonists shouldn't be older than 20 in general

>>20757106
All I said was that I don't want Bakker involved with ASOIAF, how does that quality as spam faggotry?

>>20758803
>>20758823
He's a bitter incel and it's supposed to be creepy

>>20758846
fuck off

>>20758855
dilate, hon

I've just woken up, but seeing so much deleted stuff warms my heart. Good job Janny, delete spammerfags. Lately this general's been almost unreadable.

>>20758823
So basically
>how dare an unattractive man have sexual feelings

>>20758822
Women age worse than men. The whole "seek someone close in age" meme is pretty much a value proposition that feminized societies use to fuck over men.

>>20758174
>DIS WRITERS ARE ON TEAM 1
>DIS WRITERS ARE ON TEAM 2
>FIGHT!!!

Kill all americans

>>20758900
It's more along the lines of
>How dare an old man have feelings
Like an unattractive youth cursed with leprosy who is bitter at the world is a grand tale, his lust and feelings of youth are understandable and sympathetic

An old mans?
Absolutely horrid.
Disgusting sick and foul.
That is not a story, that is a horror

>>20758964
People are fine with old rich men being highly sexual, celeb examples are everywhere. It's the fact that the dude's a leper and probably a poorfag.

>>20758972
It's just the way it's written
I don't mind it when GOT has old men raping wenches
But when it's written in other works it's something that happens, and than the story moves, it doesn't linger

This feels like Lolita, and I can feel the author masturbating while writing

I don't like it
Not one bit

>>20758998
GOT old men raping wenches aren't lepers.

>>20758291
>or atleast the modern potrayal of them
You got so close to not being a retard but you kept talking.

>>20758559
>but Vikings got spitroasted every time they faced Saxons.
Either you're shitposting or you need to open up a history book.

I am reading The Eye of the World. It's horrendous.

>>20759055
Thought the same desu
It's not only cliche, the writing is below the level of a popular webnovel. Is it just nostalgia that makes people sing paeans to its name?

Female protagonist with overpowered male love interest books?

>>20759102
Pretty sure that's a xianxia subgenre

Do you guys think Sanderson will be have multi-generational longevity? For the record I don't like his stuff, but I am not really looking to dunk on him, its just that there have been instances of incredibly popular authors who are very quickly forgotten after their lifetime and I am wondering if people think that will be the case with him or if he will become an institution.

>>20759146
No.

I'm reading Children of Time, enjoying it a lot so far

>>20758174
The greatest artists are all left wing.

>>20758662
You sound like a snowflake.

>>20759146
>Do you guys think Sanderson will be have multi-generational longevity? For the record I don't like his stuff, but I am not really looking to dunk on him, its just that there have been instances of incredibly popular authors who are very quickly forgotten after their lifetime and I am wondering if people think that will be the case with him or if he will become an institution.
If in 10-20 he starts writing deeper books? Maybe. Otherwise I don't see him standing the test of time, unless the Internet changes things and now it's easier to be remembered. He's simply not providing much beyond entertainment, you should know how easily he is to replace. Not to mention tastes change with generations, so his work would need to be universal enough to appeal to different people. Can he do that? Doubtful.

>>20758174
Tolkien was left wing though.

>>20758109
The Fifth Head of Cerberus if you're not in it for the long run. Only read New Sun if you know you'll finish it.

>>20759172
I don't mind the gay shit I was just responding to the other anon
In fact I love realm of the Elderlings which has a lot of gay stuff

>>20759172
You don't know what that means

>>20759223
Ok, snowflake.

any good stories with an overpowered/strong mage?

>>20759309
The Aspect Emperor pretty much.

>>20759309
>any good stories with an overpowered/strong mage?
Mother of Learning is a go-to

>>20759309
Dread Empire

>>20759309
I Shall Seal The Heavens

>>20759329
Bakker, right?

>>20754162
Any books that will give me the feeling the Thelema movement is correct?

>>20758109
1. The Fifth Head of Cerberus
2a. Claw of the Conciliator
2b. Citadel of the Autarch
2c. Sword of the Lictor
2c. Shadow of the Torturer
3. The Sorcerer's House
4. In Blue's Waters
5. Soldier of the Mist

>>20759480
Reading Shadow of the Torturer always feels like I'm sitting in a comfy chair by the fire on a winter night with hot cocoa and a blanket.

>>20759460
Masks of The Illuminati. The climax of the novel is a three way big-brain battle between Joyce, Einstein and Crowley.

>>20759499
Just my opinion, I think book 2 is easily the best then book 4, most people I've seen here think 3 is the best one.

>>20759510
I don't think I'd disagree with Claw or Citadel being better than Sword, actually.

>>20759515
I guess it depends how much you enjoy Severian's journey across the mountains. To me nothing compared to Claw where it's just one insane thing happening after another, nonstop.

>>20754353
>t. never read between two lines in his life.
Dude, the whole series has been about cutting off the CG from the negative feedback loop between him and all his wretched followers, which is why Paran sanctions the House of Chains and why so many of the Malazans take up position within it. Karsa's face turn after becoming his Mortal Sword feeds into that as well. Even the non-communicativeness of that whole thing serves to highlight that it isn't some clever scheme but rather innate goodness that drives it.

>>20759602
Noooo you can't just be good people who help someone who needs help you need to have le ebin boss fight against the evil god like in my animes!

>>20755243
Make a rec thread for "autist & psychopath approved /lit/" then

Here's a crippled god question

did cotillion kill him out of mercy, kill him to send him home or kill him out of revenge?

>>20759394
Yes. But you should start with the Prince of Nothing.

>>20758759
Go back to school

>>20759620
I'm pretty sure he just needed to shed is mortal form to go home, as they were saying some such earlier. A bit annoying that Erikson went with another 'shocked onlooker POV' for that scene though.

>>20757362
>this somehow turned into another cuture war shit flinging contest
Just recc me something I can use to self insert as and feel slightly better about myself man

>>20758244
Funny to see that the other guy who calls it Gormengoober is an aussie too. We must just love love silly wordplay.

>>20758662
Thanks. Will skip all of them. Except maybe malazan

>>20759008
I'm just right. Keep seething about it.

>>20759760
>Just recc me something I can use to self insert as and feel slightly better about myself man
Mother of Learning is great for inspiration and motivation for self-improvement. If you don't know, it's about a young mage from relatively well-faring commoner family who attends a mage academy. He's smart, BUT not a genius like his brother. Because of his family, he's bitter, resentful and angry 15 year-old. One day, due to some events he becomes trapped in a time-loop, forced to relive the same month over and over again, changing as a person over time.

It's great, and I guess amazing for self-insert if that's what you're looking for.

>>20759832
Now judge Christianity by the standards of modern media stereotypes, hmmm yeah if you have an ounce of self-reflection you should be feeling foolish.

>>20759102

>>20759976
Why should I? I was never criticising the original Vikings to begin with. For all purposes they are irrelevant, even Scandinavians stopped indulging in that barbarism way before modern era even started. But how they are glorified in western media, especially what aspects are glorified is a reflection of western moral bankrupcy.

>read Dungeon Crawler Carl because supposedly it's the best the genre has to offer
>book 2 in and I feel bored already
So which litrpg series is the ACTUAL best one

>>20759996
Cont.

It is similar to the idolisation of Tony Stark CEO types and his irl counterparts (like Elon Musk)

Anyone here reading /r/HFY stories?

>>20760003
>cont
You can post more than three sentences in one post, newfag.

>>20759999
>litrpg

Maybe don't read trash and you won't get bored

>>20760007
Ok but who asked you?

>>20759999
>I feel bored already
How? It's one of the most active and consistent big series going on right now, with little to no downtime.
>>20760016
Lurk moar until you can contribute to the thread without embarrassing yourself in front of everyone. We have enough lolcows.

>>20759999
Quads of truth. If you want to defend shitty genres than you at least need to match those digits.

>>20760027
>contribute to the thread

Just like you did? By seething over a completely innocuous posting approach like a complete twitter troon

>>20760042
Lurk moar until you can contribute to the thread without embarrassing yourself in front of everyone. We have enough lolcows.

>>20754177
Why is yerin brown

>>20760074
My guess is the artist either didn't understand descriptions or just kind of assumed Yerin would be darker because she traveled more but... The implication is she's pretty standard-fare for Ashwind, so I dunno. Alternatively it's just bad fanart, which it is.

Read this after some anon spammed it a thread or so back

Expected it to be shit, first chapter had me almost drop it thinking it would be nothing but scalie circlejerking or something. But
Its actually really great, it has classic elves and dwarves and adventure.
Glad I read it.

>>20760027
>How? It's one of the most active and consistent big series going on right now, with little to no downtime.
Idk what to tell you, Carl just felt bland as an MC, and Donut too one-dimensional. The worldbuilding wasnt interesting to me, the tone of the book felt similar to Hitchhiker but hitchhiker was at least sometimes funny, DCC I only laughed like once or twice in the beginning. There's also the quippy AI that got old real quick. For what its worth, I'm going to push it to at least book 3 cause I have nothing better to do right now.

>>20760099
I'd say book 3 is when it gets really good personally, because they delve more into Carl's characterisation. Donut never really gets too complex, but that's sort of the point, she's meant to be a simple character as something of a reprieve from all the bullshit.

>>20760084
Good to hear someone else enjoying Dragon stories. At the moment I half-way through the second book, and while it's not as exciting I still like it.

>>20759999
Book 2 of DCC is a bit boring, the stuff with the circus was a snoore-fest. It gets back on truck soon enough, though, and gets even better than before. Trust me, I almost dropped it at the place you are right now.

Give me your best adventure fantasy with literary flourishes or worldbuilding?

>>20760115
The Dread Empire

>>20760115
>Give me your best adventure fantasy with literary flourishes or worldbuilding?
I could start listing fantasy books that i like but i won't be able to choose just a single one. Shall i list some fantasy books?

>>20760065
>repeating like a demented kid in special eds class.

I'm sorry for you anon. Not everyone gets to be nuerotypical

>>20760099
Carl is one of the more realized characters in popular books today. Honestly, I don't think 'popular' is an apt term, perhaps subjective to this general. Carl has firm convictions and would genuinely shit in the mouth of most xianxia protags because Carl reaches many points where he nopes and says he has had enough, and immediately proceeds down a path of conflict resolution, be it pacifist or aggressive. Donut and Carl's relationship does improve; one of the biggest occurrences of DCC that I enjoy is the conversations you want the characters to have DOES come up waiting for the DCC 5 epilogue to come up in book 6. The worldbuilding gets better. Maybe the first two floors were bland to you? I ended up enjoying the Iron Tangle (book/floor 3) a lot more than I thought I would but book 2 is when I accepted that I would be reading all of DCC to completion. Book 3 is when things become proper spicy and book 4 has the best scene in the story, imo. I get you that the references aren't funny or the AI. The footfag AI becomes acceptable over time and Carl's reactions to shit is what gets me. His internal monologue is humorous and serious in that we see how he segregates himself from the outside world, putting on a mask.
Some faggot called Carl a sad sack but Carl is a mad sack. Carl may be the most wrathful MC around for now.

>>20756061
Only The Children of Hurin

>>20760162
Okay list then anon. I’m very keen to hear.
>>20760142
Thanks.

>>20760195
Being constantly indignant and angry at the fact that human civilization was instantly deleted and enslaved by alien overlords isn't "firm convictions", it's vapid and patronizing.
>they killed millions of people and cast me in a dungeon where I risk my life for their amusement, and that's WRONG
Whoa no shit dude, really?

>>20760107
Based
Iv just started on it too

>>20754162
I'm reading the AE van Vogt's sequel to World of Null-A, and it didn't stick out at me as much last time, but he is really not a great writer. His narration is constantly vague and confusing. Anything relating to science and technology is gobbledygook.
This really is guilty pleasure type stuff. It's the closest thing in quality to RL Stine's child/teen fiction I've read this year, and Stine's prose is cleaner. Van Vogt's strengths, and the only reasons to read him, are in his pure imaginative power, and his all-action plots that constantly drive forward and increase the stakes every few chapters. And, I guess, his 1950s sensibilities.

>>20760107
>>20760084
redpill me on this series

>>20760254
It's an adventure of a dragon from his hatching to adulthood in a world with humans, dwarfs, elves and neanderthal like things. The book covers a time of about 30 years and he has adventures and makes friends with various races/animals. It's wholesome and also brutal at the same time.

>>20760254
A classical fantasy story from a point of a Dragon, from the moment of his birth, turbulent youth and going up in the world. Basically a typical male fantasy adventure, but for a dragon instead for a young man. It's not a fairy tale, the author doesn't hold back. People are killed, mentions of rape, the dragon follows his own draconic morality. In short, it's typicall coming of age story, full of adventure, loss, strange meetings with other people, etc.

Published in 2008, so if you are wondering if it's full of modern shit, it's not. The opposite, it's conservative as fuck (female dragons think mostly of finding good dragon husbands, male dragons of how to woo female dragons).
Dragon Kino, in short.

>>20760273
>>20760310
I'm not a furry so this doesn't interest me

>>20760313
Brain-rotted anon, it has nothing to do with furry or scalies. It hurts to see a good fantasy story overlooked due to addled mind

>>20760324
Look, i don’t care about your fursona novel, it’s not for me, okay. Just accept it.

>>20760324
I already read that book when it was called The Dragon and the George and that was all the dragon POV literature I needed thank you very much

And who are you, the proud lord said,
that I must bow so low,
Only a cat of a different coat,
that's all the truth I know.
In a coat of gold or a coat of red,
a lion still has claws,
And mine are long and sharp, my lord,
as long and sharp as yours.
And so he spoke, and so he spoke,
that Lord of Castamere,
But now the rains weep o'er his hall,
with no one there to hear.
Yes now the rains weep o'er his hall,
and not a soul to hear.

So George can write better lyrics than Tolkien?

>>20760401
>rhymes "claws" with "yours"
evidently not

>>20754162
What’s the best Lovecraft collection? I have the two Gollancz ones but I’m sure it’s missing some stuff. I’m thinking of getting the Arkham House editions but they’re quite rare.

>>20760200
Steven Brust and the whole Dragaeran series.
Raymond E. Feist and the whole Riftwar series.
David Farland and the whole Runelords series.
Terry Goodkind and the whole Sword of Truth series.
Robert Jordan and the whole Wheel of Time series.
Terry Pratchett and the whole Discworld series.
Robert Silverberg and the Lord Valentine's Castle books.
Roger Zelazny and the The Chronicles of Amber series.
Roger Zelazny and the Dilvish the Damned series(includes The Changing Land book).
Tad Williams and the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series.
Robin Hobb and the The Farseer series.
Ursula K. Le Guin and the Earthsea series.
Michael Moorcock and the Elric series.
Gene Wolfe and the The Book of the New Sun series.
Glen Cook and the The Black Company series.
Lois McMaster Bujold and the World of the Five Gods series.
Lois McMaster Bujold and the Sharing Knife series.
Sergei Lukyanenko and the Night Watch series.
Martin Scott and the Thraxas series.
Oliver Johnson and the The Lightbringer series.

This is series of fantasy books i'd suggest. Later today or tomorrow i'll make a list with individual books.