/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.11483294]

Falling for It Edition
>how many sffg memes did you fall for?
>what was the last meme you fell for?
>how do you counter memes after you fell for them?

FANTASY
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SCIENCE FICTION
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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SF&F author listing with ratings and summaries:
>http://greatsfandf.com/authors-full-list.php

Previous Threads:
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>>11464580
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[Anonymous No.11483319]

>Cyberpunk
>Steampunk
>Diesalpunk
>Biopunk
>Nanopunk
>Solarpunk
>Stonepunk
>Clockpunk
>Decopunk
>Rococopunk
>Nowpunk
>Splatterpunk
>Atompunk

[Anonymous No.11483323]

>>11483294
I fell for the "Worm is good" meme. I dropped it at 24%, and those hours aren't coming back.
That said I plan to fall for the "cosmere is vast" meme (less hours than malazan I guess)

[Anonymous No.11483332]

>>11483319
you forgot "Crystalpunk"

[Anonymous No.11483340]

>>11483319
>Nowpunk
What

[Anonymous No.11483354]

>>11483294
>how do you counter memes after you fell for them?
I raise my index and middle finger and yell "Kai!"

[Anonymous No.11483363]

I think we need to talk about The Wizard Knight.

[Anonymous No.11483371]

>>11483323
What didn't you like about Worm? I like it, but it's so niche there's hardly any criticism of it I could find that isn't the usual: needs editing, poor pacing, and it's too dark.

[Anonymous No.11483389]

>>11483371
Not him, but Worm is very poorly written, even by schlock standards.

Probably only worth reading if you're a hopeless /co/mrade with Batman underwear.

[Anonymous No.11483391]

>>11483371
>needs editing, poor pacing
Mostly these, and the fact that there are lots of unlikable characters (and simply too many). Why should I care about them? When I realized the author would randomly switch to MINOR characters to follow them I just didn't care anymore.

[Anonymous No.11483403]

book of the new sun

[Anonymous No.11483412]

>>11483403
this applies to all 3

[Anonymous No.11483422]

>what was the last meme you fell for?

"litRPG books are good/readable/not made out of asbestos"

The highlight was googling a suggested title only to find the author's blog, where they were flipping out about how a woman at a gym had been "fat shaming" him (and IIRC this was equal to the persecution black people face) by talking to him about his workout and fantasizing about murdering her for this, when it was extremely obvious she had been hitting on him.

[Anonymous No.11483423]

>>11483363
I ordered it when I was deployed last year, the glorious Army postal service fucking lost it, haven't managed to work myself up into reordering it.

[Anonymous No.11483426]

>>11483403
Is it actually good or just a meme?

[Anonymous No.11483431]

>>11483422
Link?

[Anonymous No.11483442]

>>11483422
>when it was extremely obvious she had been hitting on him.
Fuck that's embarrasing

[Anonymous No.11483481]

>>11483294
is he any good, /sffg/?
my friends keep shilling him with the excuse he is one of the best fantasy writers the world has ever known.
while i do appreciate their persistence i dont think i will like it much. i am more interested in the world magic and mysteries revolving around it than in hairy manlet feet, fat bearded midgets and pointy eared pale homosexuals. this is also one of the reasons my friends keep getting into arguments with me as i prefer harry potter over lotr. i always point out to them that harry potter was the piece of art that made rowling into the worlds best known and best selling author. if tolkien is supposedly this good (or even better) then why, including every literary work he has ever done, did he fail to reach even half of what she has with harry potter. and also to mention that rowling is a female so we get a different perspective than we would get in almost every dull book written in the last two millenia
i dont know if i should even bother as i have already seen the movies and must say i wasnt very impressed

[Anonymous No.11483487]

How did Niven get away with such shitty writing in Ringworld yet still have it acclaimed as a classic? It reads like a porno - so much contrived fucking, and the human characters feel so weird and stilted that I just can't relate to them. And then there's the weird lapses and jumps in writing (oh, I won't explain the action, I'll leave you confused for two pages and then have the characters explain what happened!)

[Anonymous No.11483488]

>>11483389
>Worm is very poorly written, even by schlock standards.
I disagree, but what makes you say that?

>>11483391
Yeah, it really annoying later on when the fights drag on for several arcs and take even longer because he has to do a bonus chapter for his patreon and said chapter has fucking nothing to do with the immediate conflict, but it gives you important details about the world and the rest of the story won't make sense if you skip it once it reaches the point where it becomes relevant a billion words later. Same thing with the characters when you have one guy briefly mentioned early on and then you're struggling to remember them/their power when they finally become relevant (for that arc). But I'm mostly indifferent to whether a character's likeable or not for stories so that didn't bother me.

[Anonymous No.11483496]

>>11483481

[Anonymous No.11483497]

>>11483481
The number one thing that Tolkien has going for him, IMO, is inexhaustibility. If you are interested in the mysteries of a constructed world, he's a pretty good bet. If you just say that and in reality you want to read a video-game/tabletop RPG inspired proto-litRPG so you can "discover" what combos the author punches in to make the good guy beat the bad guy you won't look him.

[Anonymous No.11483507]

>>11483496
>yugi-oh
only serious answers, please

[Anonymous No.11483509]

>>11483487
>such shitty writing in Ringworld
That's nothing compared to the sequels, by the third book I was ready to end it all.

[Anonymous No.11483522]

>>11483507
your shitty bait deserves less than Jinzo

[Anonymous No.11483537]

>>11483522
>shitty bait
only person baiting here is you, faggot

[Anonymous No.11483543]

>>11483481
Very tempting bait. I wrote out half a response and even did research on book sales statistics before I decided that I didn't want to bite.

[Anonymous No.11483565]

>>11483537
>Potter prune
>lol how come uncle Toke didn't successful like her
G i [[[wonder]]]

[Anonymous No.11483583]

>>11483426
It's extremely good. Honestly I hate how much it's memed here because now people can't take it seriously

[Anonymous No.11483597]

>>11483583
I read the first book a while ago and never saw what was amazing about it that makes these threads ride its dick so much.

[Anonymous No.11483622]

>>11483487
I tried Ringworld and stopped at maybe halfway through. I don't mind dated science and tech (I like retrofuturism) but this book was all Ideas without characters or prose.

>>11483294
I sampled Malazan because of all the posts but I quickly realized it wasn't for me.

I will read some Gene Wolfe in the future. I think there's a better chance I'll like him but from what I know about his themes and such, I have doubts that he'll become a favorite.

[Anonymous No.11483644]

>>11483597
I'm two books in and feel similar. The prose is really nice especially by sffg standards but besides the nods to the esoteric, i haven't been overly impressed thus far. I've heard it all comes full circle in a sense so I plan to keep reading, for the love of Gene's craft if nothing else.

[Anonymous No.11483738]

>>11483644
Trust in the Gene, anon.

[Anonymous No.11483754]

>>11483622
>from what I know about his themes and such, I have doubts that he'll become a favorite
got a problem with gnosticism?
>>11483738
thank you i will. I do feel there's something more to it as I read, but in terms of actual plot its a little sparse. I'm taking a break before book 3 so i can finish the second book in Wolfhound Empire, hopefully i won't forget too much.

[Anonymous No.11483826]

reading Old Man's War, it is pretty good desu

[Anonymous No.11483879]

>>11483294
>last meme you fell for
i read sandermemes way of kings
>how do you counter memes after you fell for them
reading the next book in the series apparently

>>11483754
book of the new sun is super good. you probably wont even realize it until you finish it and read it a second time and realize all the shit you missed.

[Anonymous No.11483885]

I just finished reading this yesterday, what are everyone's thoughts on it? It was not what I thought it was going to end up being but I found myself enjoying it by the end.

[Anonymous No.11483886]

what the fuck was that one self published book that came out earlier this year with the knight covered in blood on the front and lovecraftian horror behind it? it was all black and red. someone post it for godsake.

[Anonymous No.11483899]

>>11483886
this?

[Anonymous No.11483914]

>>11483899
Is this even remotely good? I kinda want to read an amateur fantasy book

[Anonymous No.11484029]

>>11483899
yes that was it.
did anyone read it?

[Anonymous No.11484072]

>>11483914
>>11484029
hopefully someone has, I just saved the cover cause it looks cool. Personally I wouldn't spend good money on professional art like this without the book being decent, but there are plenty of delusional people out there so its anyone's guess.

[Thiskillsthedarkelf No.11484124]

>>11483899
Uploads when, here's hoping it's some school shooter to bes self insert fantasy.

[Anonymous No.11484144]

>>11483754
>second book in Wolfhound Empire,
There is a part 2? I thought it was a stamdalone. Do the angels get fucked?

[Anonymous No.11484185]

"Vampire, nosferatu, creature of the night - whatever you call him - Jules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in at a whopping four hundred and fifty pounds, swelled up on the sweet, rich blood of people who consume the fattiest diet in the world, Jules is thankful he can't see his reflection in a mirror. When he turns into a bat, he can't get his big ol' butt off the ground." "What's worse, after more than a century of being undead, he's watched his neighborhood truly go to hell - and now, a new vampire is looking to drive him out altogether. See, Jules had always been an equal opportunity kind of vampire. And while he would admit that the blood of a black woman is sweeter than the blood of a white man, Jules never drank more than his fair share of either. Enter Malice X. Young, cocky, and black, Malice warns Jules that his days of feasting on sisters and brothers are over. He tells Jules he'd better confine himself to white victims - or else face the consequences. And then, just to prove he isn't kidding, Malice burns Jules's house to the ground." With the help of Maureen, the morbidly obese, stripper-vampire who made him, and Doodlebug, an undead cross-dresser who (literally) flies in from the coast - Jules must find a way to contend with the hurdles that life throws at him ... without getting a stake through the heart. It's enough to give a man the blues.

[Anonymous No.11484186]

>>11483754
I don't have anything against gnosticism. (Does the demiurge make an appearance?) But I know BotNS an unreliable narrator story. Figuring It Out might be fun for some people but a multivolume puzzle (which is what I hear Malazan is too) isn't a draw for me. Will I even care about the characters? Aside from the plot twists when you find out What Really Happened, is the narrative interesting by itself? I've heard maybe not on both counts.

>>11483885
I read Stranger in a Strange Land a long ass time ago. I enjoyed the hippydippy feels back then when I was an optimist about humanity and the world. I'm not sure what I'd think about it now that I've achieved supervillain-mind and think it would be great if humanity was destroyed.

[Anonymous No.11484187]

>>11484144
Wolfhound Empire is a collection of three separate novels. I have read Wolfhound Century (before starting BotNS), I'm currently reading Truth and Fear (really generic name), and I've yet to start Radiant State. I don't believe there are any others. plz no spoilers, i kind of like it
>>11484072
I think that knight is supposed to be some mentally tortured woman(female) who feels the tentacles of that thing behind her psychically caressing her brain throughout the novel. Pretty sure someone mentioned that in the thread i saved the pic from. Not sure whether that increases or decreases the chances of a Columbine.

[Anonymous No.11484197]

Shit the second tag in >>11484187 was meant for (You) >>11484124

[Anonymous No.11484289]

>>11484186
I can only give you my current take on BotNS as I'm only halfway through. I cared more during the Shadow of the Torturer than I do now. Severian and Thecla are the most interesting to me, and aspects of the world are very up my alley such as alzabos.
Both volumes take dips in terms of vagueness (or perhaps barrier of entry) being thick and causing you to question things like pacing, but the second more-so. I've also read that the four volumes are essentially one novel, hence the abrupt conclusions that can make you wonder if you somehow are wasting your time.
I am sticking around for the things mentioned, including what I've read here, but also because Gene is legitimately really good at writing. I'm not a prose connoisseur but I have to admit that BotNS has me looking at prose differently, with more scrutiny and a yearning for it to be more captivating.
So far the Book of the Neew Sun feels like the equivalent of reading Dark Souls, with a similar barrier of entry but core of...something---that might take a bit of gitting gud to truly appreciate, or at the very least, understand.

[Anonymous No.11484291]

>>11483431
http://daultonbooks.com/blog/fat-profiling-and-the-deconstruction-of-white-male-privilege/

christ I forgot about the illustrations.

[Anonymous No.11484293]

>>11484185
absolutely disgusting

[Anonymous No.11484348]

~3 days left!

Downloads: https://b-ok.xyz/s/?q=the+stars+my+destination

[Anonymous No.11484356]

Give me an epic journey.

[Anonymous No.11484361]

>>11483294
>how many sffg memes did you fall for?
I get most of my recommendations from this thread but I'm very careful not to be memed. The last meme I fell for was Neuromancer, about two years ago.

[Anonymous No.11484365]

>>11483481
Read 'Children of Hurin' first.
You could read 'Beren and Luthien'-
Then fall 'The Fall of Gondolin' later this summer.
They are all short under 400 pages (compared to lotr).

[Anonymous No.11484376]

>>11483899
it seems promising
Or Icarus.

[Anonymous No.11484416]

>>11484365
No the other anon but are the other history of middle earth books worth reading?

[Anonymous No.11484511]

>>11484416
None of the Middle Earth books are worth reading.

[Anonymous No.11484541]

>>11484511

[Anonymous No.11484558]

>>11484511
Ebic

[Anonymous No.11484564]

>>11483323
>read Worm
>think it's ok
>read up to date of Ward
>lost all interest
I hope it wasn't just me.

[Anonymous No.11484680]

>Translaters just change names of spells and people 900 chapters in

AHHH

[Anonymous No.11484699]

>>11484416
'History of Middle Earth' is almost completely pure lore
The soon to be three extended Silmarillion stories are Tolkien & Son's best tales. (Superior than the short chapters they're derived from in the Silmarillion/Lost Tales.)
You could read Book of Lost Tales, if you enjoy campfire storytelling with intentionally archaic structure and words. Although those stories aren't "canon", and it's much longer than the Silmarillion (they contain the same key stories, but told in a different way).
You can imagine that the Silmarillion shows what actually happens directly, and the Lost Tales is the Silmarillion passed down through several generations of oral tradition, like Homer's stories.

[Anonymous No.11484704]

I really liked the movie, should I read the books ?

[Anonymous No.11484723]

>>11484704
the books are better in my opinion. the movie was actually decent. went in expecting absolute garbage and was pleasantly surprised.

[Anonymous No.11484730]

>>11484723
Thanks my man, I'm a huge Stalker / Roadside Picnic fan and I'm desperately looking for something that recaptures the same feeling
Feel free to recommend other works

[Anonymous No.11484766]

>>11484704
I thought the movie was complete garbage, but I read the book first.
The book is about a loner that connects with nature more than other people; the movie is about some guilt ridden adulterer trying to redeem herself.

I haven't read the other two.

[Anonymous No.11484847]

>>11484680
title?

[Anonymous No.11484851]

>>11484847
looks like the other translators ignored it so nbd

[Anonymous No.11485037]

>>11484356
>tfw none can provide me epic journeys (fantasy)

[Anonymous No.11485066]

Weekly russian kino covers for u lads.

[Anonymous No.11485074]

>>11484291
First fucking paragraph of the blog
>So I got fat profiled today at the gym. That was awesome. Not really. Could have gone forever without that happening. Pissed me off, honestly, but I’m trying to move past it. It’s just that it’s kind of messing with me.

Was this written by a 13 year old girl? Oh no, it's a middle-aged balding man.

[Anonymous No.11485080]

>>11484766
To be fair, your average joe couldn't "relate" to super attractive A-list actor Natalie Portman playing an introverted girl who only loves staring at tidal pools and reminiscing about her husband seriously.

[Anonymous No.11485083]

>>11485066
US Way of Kings looks better.

[Anonymous No.11485103]

>>11485066

[Anonymous No.11485113]

How are the Witcher books? A friend of mine is selling them for cheap, are they any good?

[Anonymous No.11485117]

>>11485113
The first 2 or 3 are good and the short stories

[Anonymous No.11485120]

>>11484704
The first one is pretty good if you like having a lot of questions that never get answered. It's very different from the movie, so don't expect any explanation for the alien thing. That was film-only.

I got halfway through the second book before I had an aneurysm and started bleeding from the eyes.

>>11485113
I enjoyed them but they get less and less about Geralt the more you read, but still enjoyable if you liked the lore of the games.

[Anonymous No.11485125]

>>11485117
>>11485120
I have never played the games, but I read the short stories and enjoyed them, but I heard the books were less interesting. Will give them a try, thanks.

[Anonymous No.11485155]

>>11485125
The first couple are worth your time but it's up to you when you'd like to stop.

[Anonymous No.11485205]

>>11483442
nice Joe Abercrombie gif

[Anonymous No.11485244]

What happened with the anon who was going to read Baru to check if it's too offensively liberal?

[Anonymous No.11485261]

>>11485066
>Pushing Ice translated as The Ice of Stars

>>11485103
Now that's nice.

[Anonymous No.11485272]

sci fi with academy arc plz

[Anonymous No.11485274]

>>11484289
Why do the wolfe fags try so hard to convince you to read their book of choice when you already said you don't want to?

[Anonymous No.11485313]

>>11485080
>Natalie Portman
>super attractive
uuuhhh...

[Anonymous No.11485318]

>>11485313
Sorry to burst your bubble anon, but a lot of men outside of 4chan.org thanks she's attractive along with a lot of other actresses.

[Anonymous No.11485343]

>>11485318
I find Chloe mortez attractive, and bella thorne.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I never like Natalie Portman, hell I see people like that ugly cunt anna kendria or w/e. I think the reason people find them attractive is because they look like an everyday approachable girls on the street. Even with make up they aren't 10/10's, so they feel like they have a chance.

[Anonymous No.11485363]

>>11485313
She was a Grade A loli in Leon.

[Anonymous No.11485404]

>>11485313
>>11485343

Don't say you wouldn't dock your canoe in Natalie's port, man.

[Anonymous No.11485423]

Why does every MC need to have some sort of mortal enemy during his "training arc"?
I'm so fucking tired of it.

[Anonymous No.11485590]

>>11485274
A great question (well that's debatable) that I wish I could entertain, but seeing as I'm not a wolfefag---I was instead critical of his book (thus far as of concluding The Claw of the Conciliator) and its pacing---I find myself unable.

[Anonymous No.11485663]

>>11485423
It's the easiest way of creating drama, conflict, and adversity. There are other ways of doing it, but this way is easy and probably suits the YA crowd well enough.

[thiskillsthedarkelf No.11485690]

>spirit vessel no longer updating while author stalks Vietnam for waifu
>reverend insanity reduced to two chapters a day
>wizard world updates once a day and went to shit

What should I be reading, web novel wise guys?

>>11484187
>>11484197
I meant more like, bullied child awakens ancient evil then tortures people who closely resemble his tormentors irl.

A broken waifu is fine too.

[Anonymous No.11485724]

>>11485690
the human emperor got 300+ chp and it's one of those reincarnation with quality plot and some politics

also all of douluo dalu is fun to read
heavenly jewel change too if you dont mind harem

[Anonymous No.11485738]

Reading the galactic mage book; the sci fi part is shit but the fantasy of travelling to space with magic is kino.

[Anonymous No.11485754]

>>11485738
im trying to get through the 2nd book but the romance is too much

[Anonymous No.11485806]

>>11485690
I'm reading renegade immortal

[Anonymous No.11485808]

>>11485754
Probably because this guy can't write a believable female character to save his life.

[Anonymous No.11485826]

Books for this feel

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

[Anonymous No.11485839]

>the last meme I fell for
Blindsight
>How do you counter it?
Told people its bad. The end sort of saves it from beeing completely dog shit.

[Anonymous No.11485840]

>>11485404
No i wouldn't. I don't find her attractive. Her nudes/ sex scenes does nothing for me. I wouldn't touch her... I would touch bella thorne with her super loose std ridden vag though.

[Anonymous No.11485850]

>>11485808
i cant stand love from first sight shit, i see no reason for both of them to be together
normal romance is bad already, forced romance is worse

[Anonymous No.11485855]

>>11485839

[Anonymous No.11485856]

>>11485343
At the end of the day 90% of actresses have a large group of men who swoon over them. Even Ellen Page has people fawning over her despite being a 30 year old almost midget that looks like a boy with a forehead large and flat enough to fry eggs on while being a lesbian to top that all off.

[Anonymous No.11485857]

>>11485590

[Anonymous No.11485863]

>>11485690
>webnovels
Ban webnovels and litrpg

[Anonymous No.11485864]

>>11485826
sounds like you'd enjoy my boy "Marky" Mark Lawrence and his famous world renowned Broken Empire trilogy. When you finish reading about the charismatic Jorg, you'll be able to continue with Mark's many other novels like Prince of Fools!

[Anonymous No.11485865]

Do you know any bleak or oppressive sci fi? I want something about annihilating an entire galaxy by mistake, or an astronaut drifting alone in space for decades.

[Anonymous No.11485871]

>>11485826
>>>/mu/

[Anonymous No.11485873]

>>11485865
>an astronaut drifting alone in space for decades
Sounds like my diary, desu.

[Anonymous No.11485874]

>>11485826
Fucking nu male. Go back to angry metal guy.

[Anonymous No.11485884]

>>11485855
>if someone doesn't like something I like they must be trolling
>it is known that my tastes are objective and I speak for all
Please an hero by dancing from a tree using only your neck. Fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.11485887]

>>11485884
>Please an hero by dancing from a tree using only your neck
yikes

[Anonymous No.11485895]

>>11485855
I just did not liked it my man.

[Anonymous No.11485904]

>>11485887
Have to admit doing the air jig is funny.

[Anonymous No.11485916]

>>11485884
>Please an hero by dancing from a tree using only your neck
I am well read on many books by sandersan so i don't think it is a fault of mine that i can't understand your sentence

[Anonymous No.11485972]

>>11485272
lmao red rising

[Anonymous No.11486170]

>>11485856
somewhere, David Cage just became extremely angry and started berating somebody about how great Ellen Page is for no reason.

[Anonymous No.11486172]

what should i expect

[Anonymous No.11486176]

>>11486172
A great, original scifi story

[Anonymous No.11486180]

>>11486176
so far it's weird chinese propaganda shit but i believe you

[Anonymous No.11486186]

>>11485272
Starship Troopers, Poor Man's Fight, Old Man's War, Terms of Enlistment.

[Anonymous No.11486187]

First book, fun, second book turns into some muslim rape fantasy smut. How the hell does anyone get past this shite? Do the rest of the books get better?

[Anonymous No.11486192]

>>11486172
Tree loving

[Anonymous No.11486197]

>>11486180
What propaganda? You mean the cultural revolution stuff?

[Anonymous No.11486237]

>>11486197
uh yes i just got to the part after that i thought the whole story was going to be around that

[Anonymous No.11486314]

>>11486187
the first book took a massive nosedive in the last third

[Anonymous No.11486320]

>>11483294
Is this "science fiction and (implied) [science] fantasy" or is it just "science fiction" and "fantasy"?

[Anonymous No.11486322]

>>11486320
The latter

[Anonymous No.11486341]

>>11486237
Nah, its much much more than that

[Anonymous No.11486438]

>>11486320
Science Fantasy has zero overlap with the excellent Science Fiction and Fantasy titles we exclusively discuss here. Please take it to >>>/trash/

[Anonymous No.11486444]

I still don't get the obsession with multi volume, phone book sized, badly written fantasy that so many posters here share.

[Anonymous No.11486460]

>>11483294
Only one, Super Sales for Super Heroes. I counter it by telling everyone it's shit and there's literally no such thing as a litrpg that can be considered good.

[Anonymous No.11486465]

Can somebody recommend the top cyberpunk core?
Finally forced myself to give it a go.
Was disappointed with Do Androids Dream, but am enjoying Neuromancer

[Anonymous No.11486485]

>>11486320
its okay anon, i prefer science fantasy too

[Anonymous No.11486489]

>>11486187
The first book was good until he became an adult.
The 3rd book is the same as the second only from Muslim Man's wife's point of view.

[Anonymous No.11486594]

How come no one told me about Tolkien? I've been reading The Lord of the Rings, and it's really well-written. The world of Middle Earth is probably the most fleshed out fantasy universe I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.11486608]

>>11486594
you must be 18 or older to browse this site

[Anonymous No.11486618]

>>11486594
>he has to be told about Tolkien

[Anonymous No.11486624]

>>11483294
>how many sffg memes did you fall for?
like 5
>how do you counter memes after you fell for them?
I've already been jaded due to getting memed too many times, i ignore all suggestions unless they are recommended in list format with other books that i've personally read. Or i am already familiar with the authors work.

[Anonymous No.11486635]

>>11486465
Software by Rudy Rucker
Eclipse by John Shirley (get the original edition not the revised one)
Synners by Pat Cadigan
Vurt by Jeff Noon
The Mirrorshades anthology
The Burning Chrome anthology
True Names by Vernor Vinge (short story)

[Anonymous No.11486647]

>>11486635
Thanks for the recommends, anon
I'll start at the top

[Anonymous No.11486657]

>>11484348
What's with the lack of GRI?

[Anonymous No.11486705]

>>11486444
sadpanda code?

[Anonymous No.11486710]

>>11486594
>How come no one told me about Tolkien?
What did you mean by this?

[Anonymous No.11486742]

>>11483885
About in the second half where they forgot about the plot and just started fucking, it made me kind of uncomfortable.
I unironically enjoyed Heinlein's soapboaxing, though (although a lot of it was weird like "9/10 times a woman gets raped it's her own fault"). Jubal Harshaw using lawyer skills to talk down to SWAT teams is a guilty pleasure. I just wish there was more of an external conflict.

[Anonymous No.11486749]

>>11483886
>>11483899
>lovecraftian horror
>TENTACLES LOL

[Anonymous No.11486751]

>>11486657
TSMD definitely has R

[Anonymous No.11486782]

>>11486172
Detailed descriptions of really weird and weirdly applied science that nonetheless sounds 100% plausible to a non-expert.
Humans with dumb edgelord misanthrope motivations.
VERY inappropriately emotionless prose (at least in translation). The book opens with one of the characters witnessing her professor father getting publicly humiliated and murdered for his beliefs during the Cultural Revolution. It's supposed to be a horrible sight (especially since this sort of thing happened IRL during that time) but it's described so matter-of-factly you might as well be reading a shampoo bottle.

[Anonymous No.11486786]

>>11486749
Don't forget the crazy cults and iNsaNITy

[Anonymous No.11486793]

The sun is a tree?

[Anonymous No.11486801]

>>11486657T
hat line is a little problematic. In most cases it is correct but I can't know in advance if a book contain GRI so on a few occasions including this book it have been incorrect. Might have to remove it.

[Anonymous No.11486811]

>>11486594
>How come no one told me about Tolkien?

[Anonymous No.11486867]

>>11486749
le budborn brainman

[Anonymous No.11486876]

>>11486594
Read Silmarillion
It's like LotR but just better

[Anonymous No.11486879]

>>11486801
A novel can't be good without GRI.

[Anonymous No.11486975]

>>11485916
are you serious? He talking about a gallows jig.

[Anonymous No.11486992]

>>11486594
>failing so hard at shilling

[Anonymous No.11487042]

Anyone read The War With No Name series (Mort(e), D'Arc) by Robert Repino? A relative got me the books because I love dogs and cats and she saw them in the Science Fiction/Fantasy section and decided to get them for me on a whim. I read the back covers and liked the insanity of the premise but since it seems relatively new and I had never heard of it before, I figured asking about it here might give me some insight.

She also got me the Iluminatus! trilogy but I'm not going to read that one just yet, but opinions on that would also be appreciated.

[Anonymous No.11487058]

>>11483294
I keep seeing Canticle for Leibowitz shilled on /lit/. How good is it?

[Anonymous No.11487059]

Oh boy!

[Anonymous No.11487071]

>>11487058
unironically bretty gud

[Anonymous No.11487078]

>>11487059
Illiad yaay, Odyssey zzzz

[Anonymous No.11487105]

>>11487071
thanks for the response desu.

[Anonymous No.11487110]

I'm currently reading Nietzsche and Gormenghast, but feel like something lighter for an upcoming trip. Can you guys recommend some easy, stereotypical fantasy? I find most of the modern stuff fairly unremarkable, so I may as well embrace the old school clichés instead. I tried reading "The Color of Magic" but was underwhelmed; is other Prachett stuff better? (I've read Good Omens too).

I just want some good ol' questing, man.

[Anonymous No.11487119]

Is Accelerando worth reading?

[Anonymous No.11487129]

>>11484704

The movie sucked dickhole. The book is one of the best things I've read. Disregard books 2+3.

[Anonymous No.11487140]

>>11487119
If you enjoy overwritten comedy catered to Reddit sensibilities and a middle aged guy thinking stuff like Twitter and Apple products are revolutionary, sure

[Anonymous No.11487263]

>>11487110
Try reading Guards! Guards!

[Anonymous No.11487408]

Goodreads is fucking awful, is there a website like it that doesn't have terrible layout, functionality, and community?

[Anonymous No.11487422]

>>11485343
>Chloe
>attractive

I agree with Bella though, she has always been hot.

[Anonymous No.11487426]

>>11487422
she was cute in Kickass 2

[Anonymous No.11487439]

>>11487426
what about Kickass 1?

[Anonymous No.11487479]

>>11487439
i refuse to comment on that

[Anonymous No.11487517]

>>11487408
Not that I know of.

[Anonymous No.11487568]

>>11487479
on to my tricks huh
LOL

[Anonymous No.11487647]

Here goes nothing.

[Anonymous No.11487669]

>>11487647
>4 blurbs
>all by literally who
They could not even get GRRM or Gaiman?

[Anonymous No.11487675]

>>11487647
>necro
>it's a zombie book
>thinking I will take anything Kevin Hearne says at face value after what he did to Iron Druid Chronicles

[Anonymous No.11487708]

Oh dear.

[Anonymous No.11487725]

I got a good handful of Discworld novels recently and I'm curious about how Pratchett's health effected the later books. I know this isn't a huge deal since Discworld doesn't really need a specific conclusion but I'm curious how noticeable a change it was or how good of a send off the last book ended up being (I think the last one was The Shepherds Crown).

[Anonymous No.11487920]

>>11484072
http://angusnicneven.com/
kek what the fuck is this

[Anonymous No.11487927]

>>11483294
how good is embers in the ashes? how good is the series as a whole?

[Anonymous No.11487933]

>>11483826
Ghost brigades is also pretty good desu

[Anonymous No.11487990]

>>11487675
>galactic mage book;
>thinking I will take anything Kevin Hearne says at face value after what he did to Iron Druid Chronicles
fuck, what did he do. I just downloaded like the last 4 audio books trying to get back into it.

[Anonymous No.11488000]

>>11487675
>thinking I will take anything Kevin Hearne says at face value after what he did to Iron Druid Chronicles
fuck, what did he do. I just downloaded like the last 4 audio books trying to get back into it.

[Anonymous No.11488007]

>>11487647
>female author
>hidden by initials
>female protagonist
>YA
Lower than trash

[Anonymous No.11488011]

>>11487669
only one I recognize is Wendig, and his Star Wars novels were complete trash

[Anonymous No.11488022]

>>11487647
>all those numale authors collecting feminism points
pathetic

[Anonymous No.11488027]

>>11488007
>YA

Do kids like reading about dykes with robot arms fisting nuns in alleyways?

[Anonymous No.11488032]

>>11488000
Alright, I answered my own question by looking at his twitter.

[Anonymous No.11488038]

>>11488027
>fisting nuns in alleyways
Seriously?

[Anonymous No.11488039]

>>11488027
Kids born in 2000? Sure
It's progressive and empowering, fuck nuns!

[Anonymous No.11488045]

>it's a Perrin chapter

[Anonymous No.11488049]

>>11487920
nice find, lots of cool imagery and music. makes me want to read it after seeing the dedication he put into the site

[Anonymous No.11488078]

>>11488027
Preteen girls in my time read about a rapist vampire, and apparently that was okay.

[Anonymous No.11488113]

Whoever recommended Meddling Kids, you are approved to suggest books to me in the future. I'm nearly halfway and finally getting hooked. I wish I had the author's way of descriptions and metaphors.

[Anonymous No.11488152]

>>11488045
>it's a shallan chapter

[Anonymous No.11488171]

>>11487647
Just looking at the cover makes want to not even read one sentence of that book.

[Anonymous No.11488174]

>>11486444
For porn. And for those shlubs who like porn with plot, they will list stuff they read here.

Honestly, I could use the porn with plot stuff. I need to beat my meat.

[Anonymous No.11488187]

Got this on sale, any good?

[Anonymous No.11488208]

>>11488187
>buys book
>instead of reading it ask /lit/ if it is good
...

[Anonymous No.11488214]

>Trying to do a jumpscare in prose

[Anonymous No.11488240]

>>11487675
>thinking I will take anything Kevin Hearne says at face value after what he did to Iron Druid Chronicles
what, the fact that he wrote them at all? it's been shit since day one.

[Anonymous No.11488303]

Cum loudly has some competition.

[Anonymous No.11488320]

>>11488208
book was cheap and on sale, one of the few I didn't already have/read, I have a backlog of stuff I'm currently reading and haven't gotten to yet, have I satisfied your particular brand of autism now?

[Anonymous No.11488324]

>>11488303
>steampunk
>mass effect
yikes

[Anonymous No.11488349]

>>11488303
I bought ME, haven't read it. Now I never will, thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.11488360]

>>11488303
>dat pic

[Anonymous No.11488384]

>>11487408
there's librarything

>>11488113
this looks like it might be good. i'll add it to my list

>>11488078
in my day, incest in the attic was a teen sensation

>>11488349
why would you buy a mass effect andromeda book. why.

[Anonymous No.11488473]

>>11488027
I would have loved reading about that 12 years ago.

[Anonymous No.11488583]

>>11488187
Ok. MC pulls a lot of shit out of his ass. Also he just comes off as a whiny preachy bitch after awhile. I dropped the series after the second book.

[Anonymous No.11488598]

>>11485690
have you seen the vietnam waifu? shes cute

[Anonymous No.11488614]

A colonization story, wasn't bad at all. Strongly influenced by James Blish's The Seedling Stars. No gay stuff, although the protagonist (who's the golden manbaby on the cover) spends quite a bit of time thinking about his missing penis. Seriously.

Like most dinosaur standalones, the end of the story is crammed a bit awkwardly onto the regulation ~200 pages. Still, worth a read if you see it, plus it's got the meme cover.

[Anonymous No.11488757]

>>11487042
Pls respond

[Anonymous No.11488964]

Just finished The Forever War a few days ago. Damn good. Although I'm shocked it had a happy ending. Anyway, I know I'm going to read A Separate War and I've been contemplating reading Forever Free. I see its recommended by /ssfg/ but I wanted to hear some actual thoughts.

[Anonymous No.11488986]

>>11488964
it's sffg not ssfg

[Anonymous No.11488994]

>>11486749
yes, and? what the fucks your problem?

[Anonymous No.11489026]

>>11488986
Glad you care enough to correct my typo.

[Anonymous No.11489078]

>>11488964
Don't read forever free it will ruin the forever war for you with it's bullshit

[Anonymous No.11489105]

>>11487647
Is this for the new Battlefield game?

[Anonymous No.11489128]

>>11489078
Yeah. That's what I've heard elsewhere too. Reminds me of how much I wanted to read the sequels to pic related only to discover that they took the few bad parts of the first one and amp'd them up.

[Anonymous No.11489242]

>>11487920
>http://angusnicneven.com/
It may not say anything about his writing skills but that is a pretty dope website. Things like this are a rare find these days.

[Anonymous No.11489243]

>>11488078
>>11488384
And in the 1800s romance novels where a guy essentially kidnaps some random woman and keeps her in a cage to turn her into the perfect waifu were all the rage.

[Anonymous No.11489253]

To the anon who recommended the dark Lord's handbook, the gri was only at the end, and in the way of "by the way incest". I didn't enjoy that. I need more degeneracy.

[Anonymous No.11489301]

>>11489253
like full on momma fucking?

[Anonymous No.11489309]

>>11488113
>1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in the Zoinx River Valley in Oregon) are all grown up and haven't seen each other since their fateful, final case in 1977.
>zoinx
>meddling kids
This is a scooby doo spoof isn't it?

[Anonymous No.11489314]

>>11488303
>basedabean development
Don't let pol see this

[Anonymous No.11489328]

Fucking kino

Why did no one tell me the Dune books got even better? Children of Dune kinda sucked cock though

About to start Heretics now

[Anonymous No.11489331]

>>11489301
If you have some examples sure. I like when sons bend their momma over a table, raise her shift, and go to town on those wet walls

[Anonymous No.11489335]

>>11489026
we dont do typo in this board

[Anonymous No.11489360]

>>11489328
Literally

[Anonymous No.11489420]

this first wheel of time book is basically the beginning of fellowship of the ring. right down to the scary people in all black cloaks looking for them in taverns. tell me this series isnt going to be just lord of the rings drawn out over 15 700+ page books? i dont know if i can handle anymore dark lords and chosen ones.

[Anonymous No.11489427]

>>11489242
When I posted it I thought this website was a small fraction of the size that it is. This amazing. I am having a really fun time exploring the depths of this website.

[Anonymous No.11489435]

>>11489331
e. rex

[Anonymous No.11489443]

>>11489331
"Dance with the Devil" by Immortal Technique

[Anonymous No.11489450]

>>11488614
>missing penis
Should this be classified as Proto-Cuck?
Thanks for the review actually. I've been meaning to pick up some old school sf including Jack Williamson but I might start with his The Humanoids first.

>>11487042
The Illumnatus trilogy was pretty wild. The Schroedinger's Cat trilogy was great too.

>>11489420
Even WoT fans will tell you that >several< books in the series are terrible.

[Anonymous No.11489457]

>>11489420
nah, first book actually ends on a much higher note than Fellowship of the Rings did, honestly the parallels don't even make it to the end of the first book before it becomes it's own thing

[Anonymous No.11489598]

any large scope stories that are tightly plotted and perfectly paced? preferably with many characters. I know about Malazan, LotR, GoT, b. sandman, and The Expanse.

[Anonymous No.11489719]

Why does every single xianxia story need to have their own cultivation system

[Anonymous No.11489746]

>>11489719
if you read enough xianxia you'll realize that all of it is the same

[Anonymous No.11489772]

>>11489746
Not >>11489719 and I've read enough to know they're all basically the same, but what's you favorite flavor?

[Anonymous No.11489853]

>>11489243
The Sheik is a great example of this. I bought it on a whim at a garage sale and I did not expect anything I found in it.

[Anonymous No.11489918]

>>11489772
am i getting memed or should i actually read martial god asura?

[Anonymous No.11489946]

Are the Warhammer books worth reading or are they really bad?

[Anonymous No.11489951]

>>11489946
No

[Anonymous No.11489960]

>>11489918
Those aren't mutually exclusive

[Anonymous No.11489969]

>>11489918
if you like rape and kill every arrogant young master then yes

[Anonymous No.11489970]

>>11489969
depends how frequent is the raping and who is it done to?

[thiskillsthedarkelf No.11489975]

>>11485724
>>11485806
I'm almost afraid to pick something up with less than a thousand chapters. The wait is just bullshit.

>>11488598
I have not, I don't look into the guys life that deeply.
Although every half Vietnamese chick I've met has given me wood so I can imagine she's kawaii.

>>11489719
They don't, they just use different names to describe basic concepts of chinese cultivation and doaism.

[Anonymous No.11489977]

>>11489970
if i remember right rape every 3 or 4 arc and kill arrogant yms every arc

[Anonymous No.11489985]

>>11489977
how long does an arc go on for?
i require frequent raping to happen or i will loose interest.

[Anonymous No.11489991]

>>11489772
the most easy to understand is lohp and the occupation system is pretty interesting

[Anonymous No.11489994]

>>11489985
i dont remember but it has sex every arc

[Anonymous No.11489998]

>>11489994
but rape.

[Anonymous No.11489999]

Is the Age of Misrule series any good? I am enchanted by the excellently over the top cover art.

[Anonymous No.11490003]

>>11489998
i stopped reading at 2200 or so it was so long i forgot

[Anonymous No.11490020]

I've exhausted Gene Wolfe's library. What do I read now?

[Anonymous No.11490264]

I wanted to share my overwhelming appreciation of Brandon Sanderson. I'm currently reading 'The Way of Kings' and am struck by how complex the characterisation is, how thorough the worldbuilding is, and how creative and natural his writing style is. I'd visited his site earlier where he has the bar charts showing his progress with his books and assumed he was a taste of the future- machines generating stories for us based on calculation and formulae. Could I have been more wrong?

I tried out the first book of the Mistborn series and was absorbed by Kelsier. Some of the fight scenes in that book were so imaginative and vividly described. And now I've finally got my bands on 'The Way of Kings' (previously I was mistakenly delivered two copies of part 2 so I delayed seeking out the first part as life is busy). Again, the characters as so fascinating, relatable, and complex. His writing is still original and demonstrating effortless creativity. And there's a certain comfort to knowing that you're enjoying the writing of a prolific writer who is good at what they do- there's more to seek and enjoy.

How does he do it? It's like he's cut out the whole 'oh, give me time as I live and seek inspiration for the next page' and has managed to observe and absorb so much about life, personality, writing and so much more and has managed to wrestle it into some kind of order so that he can draw on things at will as he churns out these fresh, satiating books that are so well balanced and... whole (in a wholesomely whole kind of way). It's awe inspiring. Putting pen to paper seems hard enough, but doing is so masterfully... I wouldnt't be surprised if someone told me that he's actually several centuries old, having devoted the last few to the study of story and writing.

What a gem. I'm writing this because Fantasy used to play a large role in helping me cope with loneliness and depression when I was younger and, over time, the repetitiveness of it and the new grimdark stuff just couldn't do it. I've finally found something that, once again, is giving me a bit of passion and comfort. Thank you so much, Mr Sanderson.

[Anonymous No.11490295]

What is the /lit/ equivalent?

[Anonymous No.11490349]

>>11490295
Sun of the new book

[Anonymous No.11490408]

>>11490295
the dark soles literature...

[Anonymous No.11490411]

>>11490020
Move on to real™ literature

[Anonymous No.11490438]

Finished the first Mistborn and enjoyed it. How do the sequels compare?

[Anonymous No.11490588]

>>11489360
I liked the butlerian jihad cycle. I just treated it as a good self-contained fanfic.

[Anonymous No.11490648]

Should I blow 4$ on this at my local shop?

[Anonymous No.11490780]

>>11490648
It has a good and interesting start but falls off somewhere in the middle of the book.
Ending is a bit meh too since there's a second book but at least it doesn't end with cliffhanger.

If you're interested in evolution it might be worth your time.

[Anonymous No.11490795]

>>11490264
A for effort

[Anonymous No.11490885]

>>11488598
post pic

[Anonymous No.11490901]

>>11489450
>Should this be classified as Proto-Cuck?
The protagonist does get cucked. I'm not a cuck connoisseur but it seems to me that the cuck aspect was pretty strong.

[Anonymous No.11490937]

>>11489946
depends on the author, The Caiaphas Cain books are really fun, and anything written by Dan Abnett is usually at least decent with some really good ones. Likewise anything written by C.S. Goto should be avoided like the fucking plague

[Anonymous No.11491020]

>>11490295
A dark fantasy book with disjointed world building and no actual plot? Not sure.

[Anonymous No.11491314]

>>11490295

[Anonymous No.11491409]

>>11491020
Sounds like bakker

[Anonymous No.11491635]

>>11489969
>>11489994
Is it gay rape or does he only rape female young masters?

[Anonymous No.11491730]

>>11491635
It's a chinese book, no gay rape allowed.
There's plenty with animal rape, there's at least two wn where antagonists get raped by their own animals.
I guess there's gay rape if raping with a dildo counts and they get raped so hard they explode afterwards.

[Anonymous No.11491746]

>>11490885

[Anonymous No.11491804]

>>11486635
Can any of them be considered hard sci-fi? Don't get me wrong I do love and enjoy the 80s aesthetics and wacky depictions of technology, but I'd be seriously interested in a more realistic approach on the genre.

[Anonymous No.11491967]

>Woman tells protag about her many prior partners
>He goes down on her

yup and closed

[Anonymous No.11491985]

>>11491967
Rothfuss? I'm just guessing in the dark here

[Anonymous No.11491993]

>>11491985
No was some shitty smut fantasy book

[Anonymous No.11492002]

Revelation Space, yea / nay? [no spoilerinos]

[Anonymous No.11492009]

>>11487927
bump

[Anonymous No.11492069]

>>11491985
now i remember why i hate that cuck

[Anonymous No.11492112]

>>11491967
Yeah but did he fuck her so hard she swore off other men completly like my boy Aegir would.

[Anonymous No.11492192]

>Moorcock ripoff
>AND
>furshit

Why the fuck's two people separately tried to make me read this garbage? Do I need better friends?

[Anonymous No.11492544]

>>11492192
>lagomorph
No wonder

[Anonymous No.11492597]

>>11484291
Dude...this has to be satire.

>Yeah,” she twittered all young and cheerful and shit. She repeated her question. “What are your fitness goals?”
“Well,” I didn’t say, “I want to get strong enough to break your happy little neck in a single, smooth combat move. I’d also like to be able to scoop your corpse off the floor in an easy motion and throw it up over the edge of a garbage truck.”

[Anonymous No.11492656]

Sorry, I'm a brainlet. Is the secret of the Inhumu that the more they feed on humans, the more like humans they become?

[Anonymous No.11492679]

>You are what you eat troup

disgusting

[Anonymous No.11492690]

>>11492679
>troup

[Anonymous No.11492907]

>>11483294
looking for good books with generation ships ir ringworlds etc. is this worth buying?

[Anonymous No.11492976]

>>11492907
Read Book of the Long Sun

[Anonymous No.11493020]

Is the Reckoners trilogy worth reading or is it YA shit?

[Anonymous No.11493057]

>>11492907
You might not like the ending, and I was a little irritated by the Mary Sue-y main character, but there's a solid good chunk of generation ship in that book.

Alastair Reynolds has done some generation ship stuff, namely a third of Chasm City, and the second and to extent the third book in the Poseidon's Children trilogy.

>>11493020
It's YA, not bad YA, but still YA. With some obnoxious characters.

[Anonymous No.11493092]

>>11493057
The Reckoners, like all of Sanderson's series, steadily drops in quality from the first book to the last.

[Anonymous No.11493266]

I think the Wolfe shilling here actually does him a disservice. Everyone loves to rhapsodize over the twists and big reveals as if its some M. Night Shyamalan bullshit and I think that attracts people looking for the wrong thing and leads to their subsequent disappointment. It's all about the little details and how he weaves things together, the themes, the concepts, etc. Just enjoy the book instead of waiting to be blown away. Yeah, you'll probably find out that some things weren't what you expected, or were connected in a way that at first wasn't obvious, but its not about hitting some big reveal. If you're a book or two in and not liking it, don't expect to instantly love it when you finish the series. He's not about cheap thrills.

[Anonymous No.11493300]

>>11485865
Road by Cormac McCarthy, while nothing special as far as sci-fi concepts go (being a pretty standard post-apocalyptic survival story), is pretty notable in how bleak it is. If you have any amount of empathy and want to feel something, I would give it a try. A Canticle for Leibowitz is another bleak story set in a different type of post-apocalyptic future that you may enjoy, especially if you enjoy sci-fi takes on religious themes.

[Anonymous No.11493317]

>>11489328
Most people maintain that the series only goes downhill after the first, and while I'll admit that it's hard to beat the first installment, I never stopped enjoying the books. I loved God Emperor.

[Anonymous No.11493328]

>>11490411
Unfortunately this is probably the best answer.

[Anonymous No.11493380]

>>11490411
my nigga have you read umberto eco?

[Anonymous No.11493499]

>>11493266
no one gives a fuck
fuck off

[Anonymous No.11493501]

You used to care about my books /sffg/

[Anonymous No.11493505]

>>11493501
who?

[Anonymous No.11493509]

>>11493501
I never did.

[Anonymous No.11493531]

>>11493501
>Canadians

[Anonymous No.11493587]

>>11485865
The Sparrow is pretty fucked up. I had to stop reading it because I was already depressed and it was making me feel worse. It's a good story and I want to finish it sometime.

[Anonymous No.11493771]

Books were the protagonist makes others toot that ass up?

[Anonymous No.11493807]

I just finished Starship Troopers /lit/, what did you and I think of it?

[Anonymous No.11493819]

>>11493807
You thought it was rad and now wish to spend time in pensive self-reflection.

[Anonymous No.11493840]

>>11493807
polygamist free love degeneracy
and the author would be a never trumper if he were still alive

[Anonymous No.11493841]

Last book I read was the last Harry Potter in 2007 when i was like 13. What is some entry level shit to get a pleb started?

[Anonymous No.11493848]

>>11493841
>13

Did you not do any of the required reading in highschool?

[Anonymous No.11493853]

finished ian m banks use of weapons. it was okay, then awesome edgy tier ending. average book, good ending.

[Anonymous No.11493877]

>>11493848
No. I asked people the major story points and concepts and used movies and shit as supplementary texts. I did pretty good.

[Anonymous No.11493885]

>>11493877
Buy a kindle, it makes people not used to books be able to read easier + the % tracker and time left in books motivates you to finish like achievements in video games/quests. Start with some modern sci-fi. I just finished Starship troopers and really dug it, not moving on to Dune. Work your way back to the classics or start reading the books you missed in high school since they are easy reads like to kill a mocking bird or of mice and men, Start on a roll and keep going and expand your mind.

[Anonymous No.11493887]

>>11493841
Fantasy
https://imgoat.com/uploads/0935e4cd59/105363.jpg
Sci-fi
https://imgoat.com/uploads/def184ad8f/124507.jpg

[Anonymous No.11493892]

>>11493840
And have a taste for Monster energy drinks

[Anonymous No.11493899]

>>11493892
don't fall for viral marketing campaigns

[Anonymous No.11494086]

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>>11494084
>>11494084
>>11494084

[Anonymous No.11494166]

>>11483363
Arrows: The Obsession

[Anonymous No.11494209]

to the anon reading galactic mage book 2: why do we hurt ourselves this way?