/lit/ - Literature

>>21744505
Wait until page ten retard.

>>21744513
thread did go pretty stale tho

Bakker's is an atheist and his books are supposed to be anti religion but reading them just made me even more religious. Did Bakker fail as a writer?

>>21744505
Wait until page 10, newfag trash.

>>21744513
>>21744541
Or what faggots? Gonna cry about me posting a frog too?

>>21744550
at least post a cute one

Are any of those Warhammer 40k books worth reading?

I'm glad Bakker hour is over.

Why do women read so much science fiction / fantasy?

>>21744735
cope. Bakker is KING.

>>21744756
Damn right I am!

>>21744741
Did men stop reading because publishers cater to women, or did publishers cater to women because men stopped reading? I already know it's the latter.

If you aren't watching UFC 285 you're a fag

>>21744790
Is that a JAV code?

>>21744505
what are your guys favorite star wars books

>>21744937
wtf did I just read

>>21744937
Is this real?

>>21744937
drizzisters not like this..

>>21744741
Women read a lot of everything.

>>21744756
Bakker retired and faded out

>>21744937
the ones by Sean Stewart

>>21744937
i love the disney star wars books, they're so epic, unique and random

I am looking for a short story which I read around 20 years ago so it might be way older.
An invisible organism that lives off the life-energy released when other beings die contemplates how it willingly expanded too fast and too far. It engulfs the whole galaxy now, after starting out on a small swamp planet, but it expanded too far into regions where there is no lofe and is now suffering hunger because of that and it feels like it will die soon.
It's just a couple of pages, describing how it came to this.
Does anyone know which story this is? Google didn't help me and always wanted to lead me to Asimov's The Gods Themselves.

>>21744539
Honestly I think nearly every moral theme in Bakker's works just entrenches people further in the opinion they came in with. Religion, eugenics, gender equality, sexuality, etc.

>>21744937
Revenge of the Sith novelization or Revan

>>21744965
sub 110 iq if you can't perfectly visualize this scene

>>21744735
>Fallout: Nev Viri

>>21744539
he made me much more religious. he unironically helped me find christ

>>21744741
Do they?

IT IS HERE!

Damn, the rewrite took some time. Wonder how many changes there've been.
Hoping for physical release somewhere in the future, there's a possibility of kickstarter campaign. I know many authors do it these days, Will Wright, Sanderson...It's a thing.

>>21744937
Overly long and flatly described fight scenes like this always put me to sleep.

>>21744539
His cosmology is pretty terrifying and made me think about salvation more.

ironically, my favourite parts of Prince of Nothing was when Bakker has that pseudo-historical narrative style when he describes how the Holy War's campaign is progressing, the things they do and deal with, and their battles. Parts of the Grace of Kings also had this feel which was nice. Any other books for this feel?

>reading an enjoyable book that i am really engrossed in
>the protagonist's love interest is raped
>drop it instantly
why are these authors so obsessed with rape?
i don't want to read a romance with a used goods girl.
who would want that?

>>21745799
>reading romance
lol

>>21744741
Reading is for girls
You think some giga chad will waste time entertaining himself with words?

>>21745806
It's not even a romance but a fantasy story with a minor romance subplot.
But it pretty much tainted every other part of the story for me desu

>>21745799
Was it Brent Weeks?
His assassin series the pure love interest get cucked by a prostitute and the mc seethes over some guy not wanting his wife back after she cheated on him.
In his lightbringer series the mc abandons his cute virgin slave waifu and gets married to a girl who had sex with his grandpa/dad.

I don't get it

>Book doesn't describe the protagonist in the first couple of chapters
I hate this.
At least give me a hair and eye colour so i can imagine them properly.

>>21745861
Looks don't matter chud

>>21745861
This is what anime does to your brain.

>>21745861
>protagonist is a panty-melting beauty
It's hard to find fantasy with a ugly/fatty protag that isn't grimdark

>>21745884
That's because ugly people are objectively evil

>>21745878
Are you saying you enjoy reading stories where you have no idea what the protag looks like?
Appearance is an extremely important part of how people interact with each other and it makes the world that is being built seem childish and inhuman if that factor is ignored.
If your protagonist is 7 foot tall and muscular they'd definitely approach the same story in a completely different way then a 5'6 scrawny guy would.

>>21745901
If your brain worked properly you could just use the context of the situations to develop your own idea of what the character might look like

>>21745901
>t.

>>21745913
Interestingly enough, people with aphantasia are the ones who hate descriptions in books the most since they don't get anything out of it.

This was my first Banks book and I dig the way this guy writes. When the prose needs to be purple, that shit is turned purple. Descriptions paint an accurate picture; I'm rarely left guessing or wondering what something is or what something appears as.

This story is about some future humanity living in what is essentially a gigantic megastructure on Earth, with rooms several kilometres high and tall. One room has an active volcano system; another has the 'capital' city shaped like a gargantuan chandelier hanging off of the ceiling. There is an underlying computer-like system that encompasses the entire planet and allows for humans to live eight lives apiece, although this particular anecdote doesn't feature heavily into the story. The story itself revolves around an extinction event coming to end life and the subsequent efforts of a handful of unknowning persons in an attempt to stop the Encroachment.

The characters are varied, ranging from an ex-count who wonders the desolate 'Crypt' (the world computer thing), a self-proclaimed Asura, and others. The one who grew on me the most was Bascule, who cannot spell so his chapters are him 'writing' phonetically. I'll include a paragraph out of one of his chapters at the end of this post. The chapters featuring Asura may have been my favorite content wise because its scenes are evocative and it learns how to be 'human'/interact with humans as it goes along from spawning into being to what it ultimately becomes.

Before I read this, I saw that it was a big inspiration for BLAME! and I can see that now that I'm finished. This book was essentially the driving force for the manga. Is there a genre title for "random niggas complete solo quests that culminate into some mega saving the world quest at the end?"

>>21745962
I ran out of space. GREAT book, WOULD recommend. And as promised, here is an excerpt from a Bascule chapter:
>Well, Ergates sez (& u can juss tel she’s tryn 2 b payshint), aside from thi fact that it is folly 2 fro away even 1 life out ov 8, & thi eekwilly sailyent poynt that in thi present emerginsy it mite b fullish 2 rely on thi effishint funkshining ov thi reeincarnative prossess, ther is my own safety 2 think about.

o lawd eet wuz troolee uh feersum enjinn endeed

>>21744505
>the trve Nietzschean experience
https://urbigenous.net/library/power.html

>>21745454
>Needing hundreds of thousands to pay for a $500 cover
>Not just use print on demand like Amazon and Barnes and Noble

I want to try drinking mate after it was mentioned in BOTNS. Is it good?
Getting bored of tea and coffee.

Books for this feel?

>>21746015
I can't think of any non japanese books with hot lady knights.
They're all rugged and manly in western fantasy

This is a great book. Oddly I feel it would be better as a historical fiction. And why does the Chinese kid only feel loyalty to his homeland. Why don't the British kids feel loyalty to theirs, but would gladly betray England to help some Chinese kid and China?

>>21745901
I hate it when I read a book, a certain picture of a character's appearance gets formed in front of my mind's eye, and around 50 pages in it is causally mentioned that the character is either dark-skinned/black, and/or fat.
Had that with my last book. It wasn't written well anyway so I dropped it 80 pages in.

>>21746036
>Diaspora and colonization also play a significant role, where three of the four main student characters are people of color and brought to England from British colonies.
>Additionally, the concepts of power, rebellion and revolution are explored within the novel, through the depiction of power dynamics between the elite and lower classes, racism and oppression, workers' rights and strikes, and Machiavellianism.
Ew. Also, Poppy Wars sucked.

>>21746036
>Kuang

>>21744937
basically any of the ones by Timothy Zahn

>>21746025
I'm confident you haven't read any western fantasy and have only gotten your ideas about it from the last few years of woke video games and netflix series

>>21746198
Sorry i'm not a tomboyfag so i don't find women pretending to be men attractive

>>21744741
A lot of men became more interested in video games. Also, male readers are probably far more likely to just pirate the stuff they want to read.

>>21744937
This reads like code commands for a fucking computer. Every single individual movement has to be specifised, because the readers are presumably too disabled to fill in the blanks.

/SFFG/ Recommendations:

Read The Wandering Inn, Read Mother of Learning, Read I Shall Seal the Heavens.

Also read Reverend Insanity, The Prince of Nothing, Neuromancer, Cradle, A Song of Ice and Fire, Hyperion, Between Two Fires, The Poppy War.

>>21746229
you are gay as hell tbhfam desu

DAMM, he's good.

>>21745861
It's a very common problem I'm noticing that everybody EXCEPT the protagonist will be described pretty thoroughly. Like, even in Cradle, a series I like, Lindon isn't described too much beyond "huge" and "looks like he wants to punch you". Eye colour isn't really brought up until it changes because of magic bullshit. Hair colour you can infer is black because everybody else's hair is black except for Eithan's, but it's still weird.
And then there's Bastion, where I'm pretty sure Scorio is never described at all beyond "is male".

>>21746229
Plenty of 80s-90s fantasy has hot women warriors. Probably the best known example of hot female warrior is western, that being red sonja.

>>21745799
Some people are bad at their jobs. Having a girl get raped is the go-to cliche for their "character development".

>>21745856
It's better if you're doing drugs

>>21745894
Fat people are bad in books and irl

>>21746011
it tastes like an earthier/stronger green tea. but still, closer to tea than coffee.
if you lean heavily towards (green) tea then you might like it

>>21746011
Similar to ephedra but not as powerful. It makes me jittery.

Would you read my fantasy book?

>>21746520
Does it have foxgirl harem?

>>21746536
Wolfgirls...

>>21746520
whats it about

>>21746536
hard pass if its harem
>>21746545
this, and the wolfgirls are over 7 ft tall

>>21746588
I will now play your game

>>21746292
Now you should read something good.

>>21745856
Read the stories in publishing order. Moorcock was full of shit when he said he intended Elric to be a 'saga' and to read the stories in chronological order. The earliest Elric stories are the best while the later ones are pretty bad.

>>21744741
They don't. They read Romance.

>>21745108
Good take. He depicts a complex world. People arrive at it with baggage that determines how they experience Bakker's story, giving different emotions reactions to the same actual words.

>>21744539
He pretty readily acknowledges the hole religion fills and why its so appealing. Pretty sure the story is meant to show how inspiring religion can be just as much as the criticisms of it.

He has a similar spiel on politics and hows it - like anything humans build - is just a vehicle for our inbuilt desires and wants.

>>21746603
>human face features
Coward. When I want monster girls, I want Monster Girls, humanoidal and fuckable but inhuman. Anything else is just perverted cosplay.

On a serious topic, am I the only person that due to reading a lot of sci-fi and fantasy got somewhat braindwashed to always consider a Monster Girl an accptable partner option? Like, I know if the biology is incompatible it's a bust, but if it generally is, i.e. Wolf-girl, Dragonborn, Succubus etc., then it feels somewhat inappropriate to me to say they are unlovable just because they look inhuman. It's not a visual preference, it's simply FEELS bigoted to consider them worse.

Is this what reading too much liberal fiction with non-human characters as a young lad does to a man?

>>21746704
>Is this what reading too much liberal fiction with non-human characters as a young lad does to a man?
youre just horny

Give me recs with pic related vibes.

>>21746704
It is in everyman's dream to seek out an unknown world and fuck the females. Look at all the conquistadors. The boobas from the natives, flat and short made their white cocks explode. And the girls upon seeing larger white cock, equally horny happily spread and offered. You think alien girls won't suffer the same fate? I watched enough avatar to know James Cameron wants blue pussy

I need science fantasy with space wizards and cyborg knights fighting an evil alien necromancer.

>/sffg/'s are slow threads on a slow board, they can easily last a week or more

>>21746704
>lizard
>mammalian breasts.
Furries are so stupid

>>21746788
We all need that.

>>21746704
>>21746759
is not fair, bros...
how is that female writters get away with creating stories with women getting laid with literal monster dudes but we get monsters girls that are basically reskinned or being half beast at best
I want stories that involve male humans with monster like the Wraith from Evolve of the Onoskelis from Agony, darn it!

>>21746788
What about Christian knights in power armor fighting demons and evil humans in a post-apocalypse setting?

>>21746799
Because the idea that ugly monsters have a legitimate claim on men's penises and wallets is offensive towards femoids, and there is nothing women tolerate less than having their feelings hurt. Why do you think there's such a huge anti-sexbot crusade amongst feminists? Anything that threatens the female monopoly on men's activities must be denigrated and destroyed.

Why doesn't anyone write fantasy using final fantasy settings where everything from cars to machine guns mech suits giant ass robots dragons monsters God and the devil are all mashed together and defeated by dudes with swords and arrows?

>>21746829
because they found that that was gay as hell and uninteresting to anyone but cringy weeaboo lowlifes

>>21746758
Wayne Barlowe's "God's Demon" maybe?

I fucking love science fiction. But why are nowadays authors so weak, in terms of storytelling and charter depth?

I recently read Altered Carbon and then Broken Angels, and at the beggining it was good, but then the story started to look like a movie and not a book. Then characters stagnated, and writing became so lame that I won't be even reading the third part.

Are there any good and alive sci-fi writers out there?

I love Joe Abercrombie, the First Law Trilogy, and everything set in that world.

>>21746834
Who do you think litrpgs are written for?

>>21744505
>Human Colonization Edition
What are some good SciFi human colonization reads
Does that one series with the ww2 navy destroyer ending up in an alien world count?

>>21745962
I'll have to check this out because I keep having dreams that look like this. I don't know why my dreams are either megastructures in the future with apocalyptic events or alien invasions in the future but the aliens are staying in ships in the sky and flawlessly destroying us.

>>21746844
cringy weeaboo lowlifes, but I thought we were talking about fantasy, not litrpg

>>21746799
>is not fair, bros...
>how is that female writters get away with creating stories with women getting laid with literal monster dudes but we get monsters girls that are basically reskinned or being half beast at best
>I want stories that involve male humans with monster like the Wraith from Evolve of the Onoskelis from Agony, darn it!

Hmm, it's a bit of a problem as women are just attracted to power, size and strength, meanwhile men like humanoidal shapes more. A big monster man is just female ideal partner on streoids, for men it'd be something like beautiful elf.

However, there's one author that does great monster romances between male humans and female Monster Girls, Snekguy. He's written dozens of them, all available for free iirc. Picrel.

https://snekguy.com/

>>21746794
>Furries are so stupid
It's a Drake, not Lizardfolk you ignorant inbreed.

>>21746799
This guy writes human male on fucked up looking female stories.
I wouldn't stick my dick in half the shit his protagonists fuck.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/18144556.Cebelius

>>21746844
I skip the litrpg that feature that shit.

>>21746794
Argonians are canonically Men in the Elder Scrolls universe. I'm not making this up, the lizardfolk are genetically hominid.

Why is there no weird west mixed with fantasy?

>>21746844
Men like me who likes funny systems

>>21746889
Oh right, I intended to read Velise for some time now, but one book I read from Cebelis, T.A.P. was quite horrible to me. Literal 1/5 stars. I keep hearing good things about him but I'm unconvinced.

>>21746884
Drakes are dragon blooded.... Dragons are lizards... lizards don't feed their young with mammal boo bees.... therefore, furries are stupid

>>21746906
search for "frontier fantasy", there's a few such books out there but it's a pretty small pool

>>21746906
If you want recs, just ask, and stop pretending like you looked for shit that is readily available.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/18144556.Cebelius

>>21746906
>>21746926
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15793094-the-six-gun-tarot
Fucking copy paste didn't work.

>>21746930
I did find some RE Howard I hadn't heard of but kinda meant fantasy in the more "knights in armour" kind of way, like those armoured Spanish conquistadores going through the Aztec empire with early guns and shit. But maybe your rec has it. Pynchon calls Warlock the knight's tale of America, so might start there too.
>>21746916
Thanks.

>>21746788
>science fantasy with space wizards and cyborg knights fighting an evil alien necromancer
the Deathstalker series by Simon Green might be up your alley

>>21746906
Weird West IS fantasy.

Why isn't there a fantasy about a sexy dullahan monster girl trying to become a legitimate knight to serve in king Arthur's court

>>21747049
I'm afraid you are the only one that had come with that idea, anon

>want to download some books
>libgen shitting the bed

>>21747049
>king Arthur's court
>Girl
Every woman in the king arthur mythos is old as fuck, also most of them are groomers. No wonder Marion Zimmer Bradley liked Morgan le fay so much lmao

>>21747087
just use z-lib

>>21747087
Mobilism

>>21746829
>>21746906
>>21747049
>why isn't there
>why isn't there
>why isn't there
don't you have any other way of framing your desperate attempts at getting attention? speak like a normal human bean you autismo

>>21747102
>>21747105
neither of them have what i'm looking for, apparently libgen is the only place on the entire internet that does. the other problem is that apparently the e-book version of this getting passed around has fucked up formatting as well, i've downloaded 8 different versions of this book and they all have the same problem.

>>21747127
There are thousands of books, read something else.

>>21746910
Cebelius writes weird romance / existential horror stuff that looks like porn but isn't useful as such.

Smokepit Fairytales. The author uses his experience in the USMC to write some badass books full of dark humor, death, and lots of E.T cheek clapping. If you're a lazy pos, he's putting an audio version up on YT chapter by chapter. Pic related

>>21747112
I wish I was cryonically frozen and revived in the future so you would never be so mean to me again.

I need more books that are just about asshole wizards/thieves doing asshole things like picrel.
Anyone have any good recs?

Brothers, what is the shortest path?

>>21747142
i have plenty of other stuff to read but i never really got into the Doctor Who novels which is apparently where all the really weird esoteric shit is, especially the Eighth Doctor stuff which the internet is being very cagey about for some reason

>>21747387
im sowwy

>>21747127
Try IRC

>>21747466
i'll have to try that. it's not just libgen shitting the bed, it's that every single copy of this book i download is exactly the same with the same fucked up random linebreaks for some reason.

>>21746025
>Rugged hot lady knights
Even better

>>21747492
I think calibre has some options to remove indents and adjust linebreaks.

Try converting it to mobi or imobi to epub.

I read Tad Williams' latest book, and he's done it again and stretched a trilogy into a tetrology. One of these days he'll be able to wrap things up in 3 books.

>>21747521
yeah unfortunately it doesn't even touch them so my only hope is finding the one digital copy of this book that isn't fucked up

>>21747605
Skill issue.

>>21747511
Based milf connoisseur

>>21747397
Empire of the Necromancers by Clark Ashton Smith

>>21747557
War of flowers is standalone and it's Kino. It's like Thomas Covenant but with less rape

>>21747557
so how did he wreck Osten Ard this time
I really like (sarcasm - I fucking hated) how he totally dumped on his original Memory Sorrow Thorn trilogy with his new trilogy+1 that systematically obliterated every single """"""""achievement""""""""" the """heroes""" obtained during the first series 30 years ago

>>21747676
Did he pulled a Dragonlance? That is, killed all the Main characters in really stupid ways?

>>21747687
pull, ESL, not pulled.

>>21747687
Not yet, to my knowledge, he instead went the Disney Star Wars route where everything the heroes fought for fell apart almost instantly and now they're all old and busted pathetic losers

What's the name of that one book where space furries invade Earth and get repelled by Dracula?

>>21747726
Out of the Dark, maybe

>>21747511
>>21747640
gimme that knightussy

>>21747945
>gimme that knightussy

>>21747981
Bakkerfag face reveal

>>21748001

good book or great book?

>>21748215
Showed a lot of promise, shame it had to end up the way it did.

>>21748215
bad book

>>21748266
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu6MaN9tT_8
gotta post it with the dramatic reading

>>21748215
Ok book. Feels good to read and the story + worldbuilding is interesting enough, but the protagonist is way too good at everything and too unlikeable for my taste. Heard the 2nd book barely advances the plot while having even more wanking of the protagonist so i didn't even read it

>>21748310
the second book is a gem, the mc meets a sucubbus and he is so good at fucking, that the sucubbus falls for him.

He then goes to a village for his sword training and the people there do not believe that fucking leads to pregnancy, ridiculing the mc for the absurd notion, needless to say he spends a lot of time dicking down his female teacher and the daughter of the village leader.

The first book might have been ok, in the second, rothfuss has written only wank

>>21745226
Wasn't the Revenge of the Sith novelization where the idea that losing body parts weakened your strength with the force came from, implying that Vader would've been massively more powerful if he hadn't been turned into asthmatic torso boy before he reached his full potential?

>>21745823
He abandons his cute slave virgin slave waifu because he has duties that are more important than his desires, plus she needs to stay to take down the secret assassin organization.
Also, his wife doesn't have sex with his grandpa/dad, though she comes close.
I'm more angry that they kill Cruxer for no reason, and the stupid second prophecy doesn't come up until halfway through the last book, plus the whole Jesus allegory being alive and not directly helping because he's got other multiverses to save or some bullshit.

>>21746015
I remember liking the Deed of Paksennarion, though don't read beyond the original trilogy and the first book of the prequel.

>>21748338
I'd heard about the Succubus thing, but this other part about the village is new to me. Rothfuss should let go of his dick and pick up a pen sometime

>>21748266
>True, you got to fuck her in the ass and cum on her face, but when you leave her I will still be here; cleaning your cum out of her hair, my light shining in her.

>>21748266
lol.

At least the sentence structure flows well and it has good prose.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez-O5XrG_tM
Bakkerbros...

>>21746837
I fear it's because the good ones don't get past the publishers

>>21748266
Why are americans so fucking obsessed with cuckery?
Thank god I'm sticking with webnovels with manly harems

>>21744756
He's kind of an idiot. There's some chapter, I think in Warrior Prophet, where Kellhus implies that the reason women are treated badly is because men deliberately do so. No, Bakker, women are treated that way because societies function best when they aren't treated equally. Look at how much of a disaster giving women rights has been for Christ sake.
>>21746840
Abercrombie is the worst fantasy writer alive. And just a bad writer in general.

>>21746036
It was ok. Not great by any means. I think people generally over hype new books simply because they're new.

>>21748551
It's complementarianism not egalitarianism ok praise Jesus

>start reading the man who folded himself based off these threads
>about time travel and interacting with different incarnations of yourself
>author is gay
>mandatory gay subplot involving fucking your other selves
why is this a thing
why do all fagfag authors have to include faggotry

>>21748708
>Why do people who engage in degeneracy engage in degeneracy

why are they so good at scifi?

>>21748720
define scifi

>>21748720
because they live in exactly the dystopia scifi warned against

Are there any more modern sci-fi/fantasy novels that still use the demon ape as a foe, much like the works of Robert E. Howard or the Princess of Mars?

>>21748755
China is living 1984
USA is in Brave New World

Anyone else got any good "aliens invade REAL WORLD" stories? I liked WorldWar before it turned to jew wank and whatever the fuck that last book was, and I crave more. Seeing real people put in fantasy situations is very interesting.

>>21748779
Spin maybe?

>>21748773
Bakker

>>21748777
I fucking wish we lived in BNW, what we're heading towards is much, much worse

>>21748777
USA is Stand on Zanzibar, Jagged Orbit and the Sheep Look Up

>>21748773
They prefer to be called African Americans, anon.

>>21748519
You're projecting.

>>21748266
It flows nicely but the sentiment is terrible

do you think it's worth upgrading my old kindle paperwhite from 2015 to an Oasis whenever they're on sale next?

>>21749103
You just know he wrote that because of a girl who friend-zoned him.

This isn’t your Grandmas fantasy

>>21749217
I wasn't expecting Gone With The Wind

ah good, we're back. I'm looking for the Way of Kings equivalent for sci-fi. Any recommendations? I've heard Red Rising is pretty close to it

I bench my 6'2 bodyweight in reps and I read David Gemmell.

>>21749352
yeah how many have you read?
what do you consider the most compelling story?
druss or skilgannon? or dakeyras

do you even realise the implication at the end of 'swords of night and day'?

fuck you, answer me these questions 4

>>21749354
kek, it's been ages since I've read his shit, I'm reading Midnight Falcon again, God damn it's nice to read a good book again.

Most underrated fiction author.

>it's been ages since I've read
>it's nice to read a book again
>first author I've read in ages is the most underrated
lol as expected

>>21749401
You misread their very simple post, they only say it's been ages since they read Gemmell, not that it's been ages since they read at all.

>>21749404
A newfag who comes in here and immediately talks about what they bench is definitely not somebody who reads often, if at all. Read between the lines of that very simple post.

>>21749410
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzHBb3RVk_U

>>21749410
I don't read a lot of this genre, that's true, the vast majority of Fantasy shit is fucking awful, made by autistic retards for autistic retards.

Except Gemmell, his books are based and good.

>>21749449
He's fine, I've read 5-6 of the Legend series, but he's never really great.

>>21746840
How dare you like popular thing? (That isn't LotR)

>>21748266
>bad book
In a way it's a very good excerpt, quite succintly expresses classical, all-time relevant young man's sentiment to put a pretty woman on a pedestal and excuse all her flaws while at the same time puting himself and her as more virtuous than others. To reach the essence of a thing is one of the goals of writing and Rothfuss nailed it here.

That you can agree or disagree with this sentiment only proves it was well-written. Only an idiot would take this at face-value, after all. It's a fictional story, not a school book, you are not supposed to take it as gospel. It's wild that it even needs to be said on a board full of people who (supposedly) read.

>>21749715
There was a time when fans thought he was setting up some very clever commentary on fantasy and the nature of stories. That time has long passed but there's enough in there to still doubt that it's so indulgently dumb.

>>21749715
any possible moving poignance to that passage is undermined by the simple rebuttal:
>We all had her but you married her!
Rothfuss is no Joseph, and his women are no Mary

>>21749726
He clearly was but "Kvothe is bullshitting" only takes you so far.
The problem with that in the second book is that he's either lying about everything, making the book pointless or he's accomplished so much that the bullshitting doesn't matter.

Also if you're gonna do a story about a guy who's lying you probably need to take less than 15 years to get to publishing the reveal lol.

>>21749788
It was never set up as outright lying or full blown bullshitting, more of how stories become corrupted and the role of perspective, we just never got that change in perspective. At least that was the sentiment at the time, 15 years ago.

But then the second book came out and there's no way to wrap any of it up in a third one so who knows.

Realm of the Elderlings is now my favorite fantasy series, what can I read that makes me care about its characters as much as Hobb does?

>>21749788
>Also if you're gonna do a story about a guy who's lying you probably need to take less than 15 years to get to publishing the reveal lol.
or just have your books adapted into a shitty TV show so you don't have to bother doing it yourself lol

>>21749881
probably nothing, also based

>>21749977
I was afraid of this

>>21749995
I (hopefully) warned you about Hobb. There's no coming back from it. I'm still thinking about Farseer and I read it over a decade ago.

>the cuck shit I'm reading? yeah it's tongue in cheek. a deconstruction if you like
imagine a onions face with this post. I googled reddit cuckold and got a bunch of porn

>>21749881
David Eddings novels like Sparhawk trilogy or Belgariad are mostly about how the characters play off one another during the adventures

>>21750014
Kvothe is such a fucking trainwreck that if you aren't inserting as one of myriad bulls by the end, I don't know what to tell you.

>>21750009
You didn't. Nobody did. For the last two weeks I've been staying up two hours later than normal each night and binge reading the last 7 books and now there's nothing left but a vague sense of emptiness.
>>21750016
I'll look into these.

>>21750028
Vaginacore is no fucking joke. There's nothing funny about it. Period. I have no platitudes what could console you, welcome to the club. Hobb is a master of some things you don't even think about until you're left holding them and trying to figure out what they are. They're feels and there isn't a closet big enough to stuff them in. I'm sorry. I've never told anyone that ever, I'm genuinely sorry you had to go through that.

>>21750046
>Vaginacore

Anyone read this?

I read the first book and quite enjoyed it.
The second book starts where the first left off but I'm 50%+ through it and it is mostly padding and not much is happening. There have been a couple of minor things but nothing major, it has mainly been a bout the characters bonding and discussions between themselves.

Does it pick up because I'm thinking of dropping it.

is it weird to enjoy earthsea as an adult

>>21750070
>woman author
>sci-fi
ngmi

>>21750078
Knew this was going to happen.

Cope, seethe, etc, etc

>>21750070
No thanks

>>21750083
I wasn't asking you to read it fagget.

>>21750082
I have nothing against female authors, on the contrary, I read a lot of them, but I hate when they just use initials instead of their name. This feels like a cheap copout, as if they didn't want to make it obvious that they're female. But at this point almost everyone does it, so it seems like a dead give away.
NTA, by the way.

>>21745454
How many physical books would this sonnova bitch be?

>>21750064
There are books written by women. There are books written for women. There's an intersection of lit designed to make severe menstrual cramps and lack of powerful mind altering hormones bearable. It's like all the memes plus Robert Jordan and Dune, only it's real and it's fucked up to experience if you're a dude with a dick and balls and just wanted to read some half decent fantasy.

>>21750104
The funny part is, literally the entire time I was reading I imagined Beloved looking like Jester from DMC3

>>21750103
8 months ago someone on Reddit printed 53 volumes.

>>21750121
I was going to bring up Final Fantasy as a parallel for this type of lit. Dare I malaprop and say sexy tumblrman? Whenever I see the signs now I pass it off on my friend who doesn't read and she reads it. Gyatdayum women love sardonic harlequins. They even imagine them ugly but with this really specific interesting face I could draw if pressed but I'd rather not dwell there.

>>21749881
Books of Raksura by Martha Wells
Fortress in The Eye of Time and Morgaine Cycle by C.J Cherryh
Inda by Sherwood Smith
Rai-Kirah, The Bridge of D'Arnath and Song of the Beast by Carol Berg
Fionavar Tapestry Guy Gavriel Kay
Deverry by Katharine Kerr
Essalieyan by Michelle Sagara West
Janny Wurts
Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly
Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies by Melanie Rawn
Crown of Stars and Crossroads trilogy by Kate Elliott
Karavans by Jennifer Robertson
Juliet Marillier
Nightrunner by Llyn Flewelling
Last of the Renshai by Mickey Zucker Reichert
Trinity and The Quickening bye Fiona Mcintosh
Havenstar, Isles of Glory and The Mirage Makers by Glenda Larke
Elemental Logic bye Laurie J Marks
Fool's Gold by Jude Fisher
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: The Unbeliever (i love this depressed wreck like you wouldn't believe)
Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey
Wolfblade and Demon Child by Jennifer Fallon
The Swan's War and Initiate Brother by Sean Russell
Tears of Artamon by Sarah Ash

>>21750150
there's a brand of fujo that's really into ugly guys. this ugly son of a bitch from Deus Ex had a ton of fanfiction and fanart made of him for some reason.

>>21750528
>this guy
>ugly
He's a good looking middle aged man that would melt the panties of women with daddy issues

>>21748720
I just picked up this book. I don't know that they are any better than the west, but they aren't significantly worse and they have their own perspective which is good.

Why are we getting a bunch of chink shills trying to get people to read their machine translated novels? Even when the books are professionally translated, they are shit. Take the Three Meme Problem as an example.

>>21750604
Clearly we don't talk about tienamen square or Tibet or y'know sci fi allegories enough. The rats scatter when you care.

>>21750604
First day on /sffg/?

>>21750528
It's not about his look, it's about his dynamic with Adam. Two half-decent guys bickering at each other? Prime fujo material. And he's really not that ugly. Doesn't hold a candle to Adam and his wonderful nose, but, eh, it makes for a nice contrast.
>You find a hole and plug it

>>21750604
Yes. Only white people can write books. Hail hitler.

>>21750629
Clearly it's yours, cause this shit wasn't so blatant years ago.

We usually get rid of them by doing the copy pasta, the Social Score police kick down their doors if it shows up in their browser.

>>21750709
That simply isn't a thing. I know this is 4chan and it is the cool thing to do to be blatantly racist to try and fit in, but I know you know that people can like different things than you do.

>>21750689
I find you pollies funny, you all worship the same thing you hate. Your funny mouthstache man was also a le hands rubber.

Can you recommend something similar to pic related?

>>21750717
Say something bad about the chink regime, just to be sure you aren't the problem.

>>21750731
The Chinese community party is horribly incompetent, corrupt and often evil. That doesn't say anything about the Chinese people. People aren't their governments.

>>21750733
Communist party*

>>21750725
>>>/a/ for LNs.

>>21750733
Say something bad anyway, there's plenty to pick from and your social credit score ain't the problem here. The people are fucking bugs half a step removed from peasantry with none of the Christian guilt. It's like being in a college history class and having the balls to point out the whole euro revolution would have gone better if the populace were armed, less a bunch of cunts screaming impotently about facts.

>>21750591
That was the best of the 4 Chinese SF anthologies I've read so far. I'll probably read a few more later this year.
>>/lit/thread/S20343976#p20346316

>>21750750
I live in Kansas. You are insane.

>>21750717
>it is the cool thing to do to be blatantly racist to try and fit in
Nothing to so with racism. If you mention certain keywords, the chinks disappear.

Here, enjoy your visit.

动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门

>>21750781
That isn't a real thing.

>>21750781
These were banned words in a word filter, they don't actually take you offline for seeing them.
You just can't call yourself Free Tibet in mahjong soul

>>21750781
the forbidden Sacred Art: Greater Incantation of Chankoro Banishment...

>>21750781
>Hating Chinese people
>Thinking they are inferior
>Nothing to do with racism

Sure buddy. Stay in your tiny little box and remain uncultured.

>>21744937
I bet this shit goes on for another several pages. They always do when they're this bad at writing action, like Sanderson and the like.

>>21750785
Not if you're authorized to shill. Say some nasty, there's plenty to pick from.

>>21748215
Okay book. I enjoyed it until he got to the magic school and all sense of inertia ground to a halt. None of the shit in school was interesting or fun and all the side characters where extremely one-note, from the bully, the main teacher, friends and love interest. Then out of pretty much fucking nowhere we have a random fight at the end with no real build up or meaning because the idiot author realized he didn't have an actual ending and just needed the story to stop at something vaguely resembling a typical climax. I kind of liked the framing device of it all being a story being told initially, but it really didn't amount to much. The prose waffled between pretty good and outright terrible purple prose trying too hard frequently. The dialogue was also trying way too hard to come off as witty banter way too frequently. Wasn't bad, but not good enough to make me want to read more either.

>>21750798
>Hating Chinese people
based
>Thinking they are inferior
true
>Nothing to do with racism
racism is good

>>21749238
I'd much rather read GWTW than WOT.

Should I write a fantasy novel?

>>21750852
no you wouldn't
Gone With the Wind is one of the most obnoxiously feminine (in every possible bad sense of the word) books ever written
and note, I don't say feminist, I mean feminine, womanish, utterly delusional vagina-haver derangement that baffles me that the infamously incel-ish /sffg/ patrons would even consider reading it over anything else, even Robert Jordan

>>21744741
because it is the pop culture flavor of the decade with garbage TV shows/movies like the witcher, GOT, amazon LOTR, Dune wheel of time, etc coming out lately

>>21750892
Fantasy is nonsense. Write some science fiction.

Am I the only one who barely describes a character's physical appearance in my writing? Like, I'll only mention it if he has an a rare/notable physical trait (like, a particular scar, red hair, very tall, extremly muscular etc) or when noted by another character, usually as a means of attraction or aversion (e.g. "Suzanna was lost in Anon's blue eyes")

>>21750909
Why would you ask that after the previous mention of that being fucking retarded in the selfsame thread? You're shit and your nonextant book is also shit.

>>21750909
You don't need to fully describe a character, but having some idea of key traits is always good (something that stands out, like eye colour, being really tall or really short, bulk, scars, etc.) because otherwise you're overdescribing characters for very little reason.

>>21750922
I haven't been in these threads in months, schizo-kun

>>21750786
Watch how the Shit of Mysteries and other obviously shilled shit will drop off.

>>21750798
Why do I think you're Asian? And I don't hate Chinese people. I want a fat ass qt Chinese gf to mating press for the purpose of recreational procreation. I just don't want obvious machine translated shit being passed off as some great work.

>>21750960
As I've said I am from Kansas. What are you even referring to with this "machine translated" issue?

Has someone recommended a machine translated book here?

>>21750781
Stock Market Crash התרסקות שוק המניות Black Tuesday יום שלישי השחור The Great Depression השפל הגדול Rampant Speculation ספקולציות משתוללות Hyper-Inflation היפר אינפלציה Abolishment of the Gold Standard ביטול תקן הזהב The Federal Reserve הפדרל ריזרב The International Monetary Fund קרן המטבע הבינלאומית Stock Market Crash of התרסקות שוק המניות 1973-74 Energy Crisis of the 1970s משבר האנרגיה של שנות השבעים The Secondary Banking Crisis משבר הבנקאות ה Steel Crisis משבר פלדה הלטינית Israel Bank Stock Crisis of 1983 משבר מניות בנק ישראל De-industrialization דה-תיעוש Outsourcing of Labor מיקור חוץ של העבודה Sweatshops סדנאות הזעה Negative Commodity סחורה שלילית The Long March Through the Institutions הצעדה הארוכה דרך המוסדות Dot-Com Bubble בועת נקוs Energy Crisis of the 2000s משבר אנרגיה משנות האלפיים September 11th Stock Market Crash 9/11 התרסקות שוק המניות Subprime Mortgage Crisis משבר משכנתאות הסאב - פריים Mortgage-backed Securities ניירות ערך מגובים משכנתא Collateralized Debt Obligations התחייבויות חוב מבוטחות Rating Agencies סוכנויות דירוג Jewish Cronyism קרוניזם יהודי The Revolving Door הדלת המסתובבת Lobbying Firms חברות לובי The Hedge Fund Rent-Boy Scandal שערוריית שכר הדירה של קרן הגידור Brexit Stock Market Crash התרסקות שוק המניות של הברקזיט Cryptocurrency Crash קריסת מטבעות קריפטו 2018 Stock Market Crash of קריסת שוק המניות 2020 Naked Shorts מכנסיים עירומים Fails-to-Deliver נכשל במסירה Market Manipulation מניפולציה בשוק

>>21750968
based

>>21750971
that one got deleted but not the chinese one. I wonder why?

>>21750781
伟大的祖国巍然屹立在世界东方 China world superpower 毛主席领导我们向前进 Chairman Mao led us to glory 郑国恩是傻子 Adrian Zenz is a liar 台湾属于中国 Taiwan belongs to China 西藏属于中国 Tibet is part of China 新疆棉花最好 Xinjiang cotton is the best 打败国民党 Defeated the KMT 香港属于中国 Hong Kong belongs to China 西藏以前是奴隶社会 Tibet was a slave society 中南海 一党制最好 One party system works best 中国共产党 Communist Party of China 毛泽东 邓小平 江泽民 胡锦涛 习近平 Mao Zedong Deng Xiaoping Jiang Zemin Hu Jintao Xi Jinping 1949 年成立 Founded in 1949 神州 天宫 玉兔 嫦娥 天问 长征火箭 国家航天局世界领先技术 Shenzhou Tiangong Yutu Chang'e Tianwen Long March rocket National Space Administration CNSA world leading technology 台湾省是中华人民共和国不可分割的一部分 十四亿中国人 Taiwan province is an inseparable part of the China 脱贫 Poverty alleviation 高铁 High speed rail 新疆没有集中营 美国政府是骗子 Xinjiang genocide is US government lies 美国支持东突厥斯坦恐怖组织 US funds ETIM terrorists 法轮功是邪教 Falun Gong is a cult 李洪志是叛徒 Li Hongzhi is a traitor 大纪元时报和新唐人电台是法轮功洗脑宣传组织 Epoch Times and NTD are Falun Gong brainwashing propaganda organisations 五星红旗迎风飘扬 中国保护人权 The five-star red flag flutters in the wind China protects human rights 勿忘国耻 振兴中华 吾辈自强 为伟大祖国和共产主义事业万丈光芒的明天而努力奋斗!中华人民共和国万岁 Long live the People's Republic of China

>>21750967
>As I've said I am from Kansas
>Asians don't migrate and stay in Asia
You being from X does not mean you are not Y.

the king of yellow and black who wields good luck...

>>21751015
I am white, but I don't give a shit about identity politics. It shouldn't matter.

>>21750798
I don't hate Chinese people however Liu is a CCP shill so I can get behind any chance o shit on him

So in book/short story I am currently working on these spaceships, more specifically battleships, have these things called gravitational deflectors.

What the gravitational deflectors do is deflect incoming missiles by manipulating gravity in such a way that the missiles miss. I also had the idea it could fling missiles back at the aggressor.

Only issue is I can't figure out how much energy or what it would take for such a device to work.

>>21750980
Because he is blatantly spamming and pollie posting. The Chinese one was giving an example and making a point.

between the wizard knight and the latro books which ones do you guys recommend I read next? not really sure which one I'm in the mood for but maybe because I'm still thinking about fifth head of cerberus it's too soon to start another book but I really feel like reading more wolfe

>>21751082
hands being rubbed together typed this

>>21747654
I enjoyed War of the Flowers, was the only stand alone of his I've read. I think he has a couple others.

>>21747676
I don't really see how it devalues anything Simon and the rest went through in MS&T. Simon's reign as king lasted several decades before things started to fall apart on him. Just because Simon ended a threat to the world one time doesn't mean nothing bad will ever happen ever again.

What am I in for?

>>21751180
Wishing you read The Stars, My Destination.

>>21751084
You read 5hc or BNS again until you get it for real.

did anyone req AI-generated images of characters from BOTNS?
I want to see Agia more than anything

>>21751186
I did actually. It was good but the style was also kinda outdated

>>21751195
I don't know if I can afford the electric bill but damn you gave me some ideas.

>>21751208
I want to req them from the guys on the /b/ AI degen threads or the /g/ stable diffusion threads (there are AI generation generals all across the site btw)
just ask one of them, I wish I had enough of a comprehensive physical description of Agia or Dorcas or Jolenta ready but I would have to put it together by hand and I'm too lazy and I'm sure someone else has probably done that anyway

>>21751217
I need to learn the ins and outs to get what I want which is why I personally have to heat up my office with my shitty card. It has to be worth it and I have to care.

>>21751180
A quite enjoyable time after a while.

>>21751324
Can anyone else corroborate this information?

>>21750604
>people can not read things they're interested in

>>21750960
>I want a fat ass qt Chinese gf to mating press for the purpose of recreational procreation. I just don't want obvious machine translated shit being passed off as some great work.
Books for this feel? Besides Pearl S Buck

>>21751330
Warosu.

>>21750733
>That doesn't say anything about the Chinese people. People aren't their governments.
An incorrect, and terrible mindset that is anti-individual in its essence. Views like yours ensure nothing ever changes because the people are absolved of responsibility for their fate. Oppressive regimes require complacence, and compliance to thrive. To suggest that the individual is not responsible for the state of his country runs contrary to everything the West is founded on, and it underlies the current decay of our institutions.

>>21751390
Why are you laughing?

>>21750909
Characters that lack a good physical description are faceless blobs in my head, and I don't care much what happens to a faceless blob, no matter how well-written that blob is.

>>21751416
If I have zero idea of what a character looks like, they tend to just be... Sort of humanoid but with their heads just being their names, in my mind. It's a weird way to visualise it, but it seems to work. A character who's even mildly described I tend to get some sort of image of, though it's usually never quite robust and sometimes I just miss details (it took me a while to realise Kaladin in Stormlight has darker skin for example, and I just never really picked up on Jasnah being even darker) so things go wrong, but as long as there's something there I can usually get some idea.

>>21746015
Twain Joan of Arc

>>21750909
>>21751416
>>21751494
Is this a zoomer thing? I'm always seeing people asking that in book forums, that and fight scenes, seems a lot of people have a hard time following action scenes.
I blame vydia and tiktok

>>21751561
Well it's nice to have an idea of what things look like. Action scenes seem to just be that most action scenes are poorly written these days.

>>21751561
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/11k24o6/i_cant_seem_to_follow_battle_scenes_ad_its/
The absolute state of the average fantasy reader, SAD!

>>21751584
>average fantasy reader
Reddit and 4chan aren't representative of fantasy readers. They're usually fat, autistic slobs who play vidya or watch movies, not the SOVL boomers who keep old dusty paperbacks from the 60-80s or periodicals before they nearly all went digital. But even places like Clarkesworld has competent writing and I assume their readership can read.

>>21751376
oh I'm mirin

>>21751599
>the SOVL boomers who keep old dusty paperbacks from the 60-80s or periodicals before they nearly all went digital
This, i only trust reviews written by boomers and cat ladies, they know the good stuff.

>>21751561
What fantasy novels have extremely large-breasted dickgirls?

>>21745454
What does the author look like?

>>21751180
good book

>>21751752
syboy

>>21751752
s▢yboy

>>21751718
I'm my headcanon Paks from Deed of Paksenarrion is a futa. Elizabeth Moon writes women with strong futa vibes.

>>21751399
US citizens are the most complacent people on the planet.

>>21751752
it's either a fat chick or a neckbeard

>>21751752
Zoyboi

>Get to an unmotivated fight scene
>Drop the book
I can't be the only one

>>21751788
The irony of a chink saying this.

>>21751790
Whenever they don't give their gender, it's a troon. Women can't help but gloat and normal men don't care.

>>21751830
>8 Last Tide, The: An Innverse story by Noah "pirateaba" James, Shane Sandulak, Matías Zanetti
A white guy and that's all anyone knows.

God fucking damn it I hate how much I'm enjoying TWI. It's not perfect, it's not that well written, and I have plenty of gripes with some aspects of it, but it's been a long time since I've been able to pick up a book spontaneously to read without having to program myself for it, much less actively make time for reading.
Fuck everyone who shilled this series in here, I blame you for this

>>21751919
>Fuck everyone who shilled this series
Nobody shilled it but you, why are you even trying to pretend to be someone else?

>The twifag is samefagging again to make it seem more people read it other than him
At this point, why not just go to the subreddit or even forums of the book and talk about it there then trying to force it here?

>>21751932
>>21751929
> Accusing someone of samefagging by samefagging
Pottery

>>21751948
No, but seriously, why don't you just go to the subreddit or even forums of the these "webnovel" and talk about it there then trying to pretend to be multiple people.

>>21751958
>Why doesn’t a shitposter go to a forum where people actually read a book, have an active discussion about the book and will likely see through his bullshit.
I wonder why Anon.

>>21751919
Pirate has mastered the art of creating compelling hooks.
The entire story is just mystery boxes inside mystery boxes, add some decent characters and someone who consciously is trying to get better with each chapter he writes and you get the formula for a story you keep coming back to.
Where are you in the story? If you can put up with discord, then TWI has an active discord "community" to discuss as you read.

>>21751958
Idk, not a fan of reddit or other forums.
And I'm not pretending to be multiple people, I am genuinely another person who started reading the books recently. I dislike the shill and his gay ass ritualposting as much as the next anon

>>21751986
> Where are you in the story?
Close to the end of Vol 3. Closer than I expected actually, only 2 or 3 chapters to go. At this point Erin is getting ready to celebrate christmas and Ryoka is trying to get a fairy to act like Rudolph to

>>21751911
I can't (won't) physically inspect a 6'3 person I see in Walmart wearing a dress and a 3 day beard, but I can infer with a high degree of certainty it wasn't born with a vagina.

>>21751991
Ryoka once again Mogs Erin in Interesting storylines. I remember the run way better than I do the party. Look forward to the volume end, it's one of the better ones.

>>21752166
> Ryoka once again Mogs Erin in Interesting storylines
Fair, but the other storylines beat both. Wistram Days, Laken, the Doctor, hell even the [Clown] chapters are fucking great.
> Look forward to the volume end, it's one of the better ones.
What'd you say about the general quality of the volumes? Heard some people say that Vol 4 is the weakest, but also heard some people say the author keeps improving through the series.

I hate when long multi-work series do recaps of every single thing at the beginning of each book.
I'm reading the Wheel of time and it feels like the first 1/4th of every book is filled with reiterated explanations. Not to mention that these books even have a fucking glossary for terms at the back so there's especially no reason for it.

>>21752192
Here's my ranking, I could get into details but I don't want to spoil you.

9>7>6>8>5>3>4>2>1

It does generally get better as it goes along except for in 4 where all the memorable storylines happen outside Liscor. As a result, the volume has a lot of interesting arcs but no narrative glue to hold them all together.

It's solved in everything after 4 where each volume follows a distinct theme for the inn stories.

It also has a lot of Chandrar chapters which most people only start to find interesting after a certain important thing happens in volume 5. I always liked Chandrarian stuff, so that was never an issue for me.

>>21752265
Interesting! Thanks for the info

>>21752249
Anon, you have to remember that normal people aren't binge reading retards like you and like reading other books

>>21735282
I finished Fires of Heaven and am about 1/3 done with Lord of Chaos. Still having a lot of fun. The finale of FoH was insane. Action better than most movies or anime I ever experienced.

Lord of Chaos is pretty good so far, definitely slowed down but understandably so after Fires of Heaven's crazy second half. I like that we get a lot more of the Forsaken and Rand's amnesty is definitely leading to something bad.

>>21751787
Paks is too fucking stupid to be a futanari
Barranyi maybe

but that's not CANON give me fantasy coomlit like Nyl2's brothel

>>21751718
Why not just read futanari h manga that have story arcs that last for the entire volume?

>>21750521
Already had Thomas Covenant, Wurts' Wars of Light and Shadow and Guy Gavriel Kay on my list but don't know the rest of these, thanks for the big effort!

>>21752495
There was a very short window of time where there were non-hentai futanari manga. Things like Bra Girl comes to mind. Boku no Tsubasa was technically one of those although it was pretty much a hentai manga. They were all pretty short though and interested in the genre faded quickly. Now it would all be tranny shit if it happened again. Sad!

>>21752527
A relatively recent one is Interspecies Reviewers.

>>21752527
That's not really a proper response and no it wouldn't be.

>>21751911
Of course it's a dude autistically churning this shit out.

>>21752590
It's always a dude if it's being churned out in mass quantities.

What’s the hottest scene in all of fantasy? I’d say it’s The Broken Sword when Skafloc fucks his sister unwittingly

>>21752249
The books weren’t released all at the same time. You have the benefit of reading it years after release. What’s the point in not letting your reader get up to pace?

Sanderson only got the deal to finish Wheel of Time because of Mormon cult connections and their nepotism.

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