/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.12322234]

New Years Edition
>what are you planning to read for the new year?
>which authors made it to your do not read list for 2019?
>book you expect (hopefully) will be released in 2019?

Monthly Reading for January:???????????????

Fantasy:
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General:
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Flowchart:
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SCIENCE FICTION
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General:
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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

Previously:
>>12300038
>>12284550
>>12252453

[Anonymous No.12322262]

first for hipster WMDs
what's everyone's favorite SFF involving chemical weapons?

[Anonymous No.12322268]

>>12322262
sleep tight goaty

[Anonymous No.12322844]

[Anonymous No.12322855]

>Monthly Reading for January:???????????????

For what purpose?

[Anonymous No.12322860]

>>12322855
its A Scanner Darkly:
Strawpoll: https://www.strawpoll.me/17124554

[Anonymous No.12322872]

is nightlord any good?

[Anonymous No.12322887]

>>12322872
it's not on this list
>http://greatsfandf.com/master-list/master-list.php
so no

[Anonymous No.12322919]

>>12322860
Why does this general always vote for popular books that a lot of people have already read? Doesn't that defeat the point? We should be voting for the less known books that would be new to everyone, would be way more fun.

[Anonymous No.12322934]

>12285113
Welp I tried but only got through the first two stories and half of the third bcos of Christmas and some lame excuses.
>Did you like the book?
Yes. I liked that they were short stories that were economical without any modern day bloating and that the prose was descriptive and tonal without getting purple. I'll give it 4 start out of 5 on GR
>What's your favourite story?
I thought the first was a little basic but the second and third expanded on the themes a lot.
>Do you like the dying earth setting or is it just a meme?
'sgood
>How would you avoid my boy Chun the Unavoidable?
by not finishing the book I've managed to avoid him so far
>Are you going to read the rest of the Dying Earth stories?
I'm going to finish this book and I might sample part of the next to see how Vance develops his writing. I have a large to-read pile waiting tho

[Anonymous No.12322951]

>>12322934
>without any of the modern day bloating
this. all of his stories are somehow better than these 1000 page tomes coming out in the last 20 years while only being like 25 pages.

[Anonymous No.12322998]

What version should i buy? Both $3.
I like paperbacks more because they are cute but hardbacks are last more.
Hm...

[Anonymous No.12323004]

I have three chapters left in City of Light and I am already upset this ending clearly won't be conclusive. I almost want to pick up on where I dropped Malazan because you fucks don't stop talking about it but I don't want to start reading books 3-4 times longer on average than what I am already reading, plus I've forgotten a lot of what happened in the first four books.
I am aiming for 60 books read this year. I went for 50 last year and ended up with 65, although goodreads counts short stories and so on.
Thanks for reading my blog I have no one else!!

[Anonymous No.12323010]

>>12322998
cover of right sucks

[Anonymous No.12323024]

>>12323010
Dunno i like it.

[Anonymous No.12323109]

>>12323024
HELP!

[Anonymous No.12323154]

>>12322872
Only the first book.
The authors got full of himself and thought his shit doesn't stink

[Anonymous No.12323170]

>>12323109
>reading ggk and tad Williams
Absolute shit tastes.

[Anonymous No.12323175]

>>12323004
>Thanks for reading my blog
No problem.

[Anonymous No.12323246]

>>12323109
Sailing to Sarantium is goat

[Anonymous No.12323356]

What is the best order to read Brandon Sanderson? I borrowed Elantris and Mistborn trilogy from a friend.

[Anonymous No.12323371]

>>12323356
Not reading him at all.

[Anonymous No.12323388]

Anyone here read skyward by Sanderson?
How is it? Is it Reckoners teir YA?

[Anonymous No.12323410]

>>12322998
Left book has better cover, and hardbacks are for literary weebs who like reading uncomfortably.

[Anonymous No.12323412]

>>12323356
Don't start with Elantris, it was his first book to come out, start with something a bit better he published later.
His best is Stormlight, but they're pretty long books, so you could start with Mistborn.

[Anonymous No.12323420]

>>12323412
Thanks amigo

[Anonymous No.12323438]

>>12323420
dont listen to >>12323412 , elantris is great and it's my first sanderson novel

[Anonymous No.12323442]

Hey guys.

Looking for something light in fantasy, almost like Potter books. Quite exhausted from Metro series.

[Anonymous No.12323446]

>>12323442
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

[Anonymous No.12323456]

>>12323438
Oh it is good, I just think his other Cosmere setting books are better.
In addition, I prefer his Cosmere books to the others.

>>12323442
Discworld
Senlin Ascends

[Anonymous No.12323469]

>anything sanderson
>good

[Anonymous No.12323484]

>>12323456
>>12323420
>>12323356
Read the emperor's soul first. It's a short story. If you like that, read elantris then warbreaker. Then try his mistborn series. Then move onto stormlight.

[Anonymous No.12323497]

Starting out the new year by reading Poppy War. If I find the stamina I'll pick up some more of the Malazan books, the second one wasn't terrible.

Marlon James's book comes out in February. I like his other stuff, and I like the idea of African fantasy. We'll see where it goes.
Anyone know any other African fantasy I should try?

[Anonymous No.12323730]

What books combine space sci-fi with horror? I love both but rarely see them together.

[Anonymous No.12323799]

>>12323730
The novelizations for the Alien series. The Alien 3 novel is actually pretty great

[Anonymous No.12323802]

>>12323730
Blindsight

[Anonymous No.12323839]

>>12323497
Mia Couto writes borderline fantasy(more like magic realism)

I heard The Famished Road might be good

[Anonymous No.12323845]

>>12323388
Sanderfag a hack

[Anonymous No.12323847]

>>12323799
I actually have the first on my shelf, not read it yet tho.
>>12323802
Will buy this next and think of you babe! Thanks anons.

[Anonymous No.12323854]

>>12323109
>Lord of Emperors

This the worst book title I've heard in a long while

[Anonymous No.12323866]

>>12323854
http://www.fantasyliterature.com/library/fantasytitlegenerator.html

[Anonymous No.12323876]

>>12323866
These are unironically better than most fantasy titles

[Anonymous No.12323882]

>>12323876
Red Memory > Ways of Atlas > The Baker King > rest

[Anonymous No.12323885]

What are some good horror science fiction?

[Anonymous No.12323895]

>>12323882
Baker King sounds like something out of Discworld. And The Mistake's Warprize sounds like a Hornblower or Aubrey/Maturin book

[Anonymous No.12323903]

>>12323895
Baker King sounds like it could be a madcap comedy or a gritty revolution story. You're right about Mistake's Warprize, it would be a great nautical novel name but confuse fantasy shelves.

[Anonymous No.12323912]

I have a strange question. I read on kindle, lots. And the font question has been bugging me since a little bit. Some books I loved and remember them with their font (it's silly I know), and others I try to read and the font just bugs me and I can't settle one one.
As in, should Futura be used for sci-fi? Should I stick with the lovely Bookerly, or switch to classic Baskerville? I even read a whole book with Condensed-thingy and enjoyed it...
I don't know and it bugs me that the form takes precedence over the content lately in my brain.
Help

[Anonymous No.12323929]

>>12323912
You're autistic

[Anonymous No.12323938]

>>12323929
I figured yeah ._.

[Anonymous No.12323963]

>>12323912
Switch to audiobooks.

[Anonymous No.12323997]

>>12323963
No I need to take my time to visualize stuff and I love listening to music as I read

[Anonymous No.12324250]

Recently won a random book contest and included was a copy of Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon. I never would have given it a chance if it hadn't shown up on my doorstep for free but I'm now on page 60 and I'm surprisingly into it. Anyone else given the dark hunter series a try?

[Anonymous No.12324284]

>>12323004
He’s going to be doing another book for that series sometime this year.

[Anonymous No.12324298]

>>12322234
>book you expect (hopefully) will be released in 2019?

anything by Watts
anything by Bakker
anything by Greg Egan
Ted Chiang's new collection
Waldo Rabbit 4

[Anonymous No.12324317]

>>12322934
Well to be fair, the first was the only one in the reading challenge, but I agree with you on all of your points. I really am enjoying Vances prose. By not trying to write in an artful, stupid way, the characters are easier to understand and the world is painted in a much more clear way imo. I'm in the middle of the second book right now, REALLY liking it myself.

[Anonymous No.12324324]

>>12322234

Why are people pushing this mediocre chart so hard?

[Anonymous No.12324347]

>>12323356
Seconding Emperor’s Soul first but skip Elantris, it blows. Read Warbreaker as your second and last Sanderson read.

[Anonymous No.12324351]

>>12322234
> book you expect (hopefully) will be released in 2019?
1. New Abercrombie novel
2. New Kay novel
3. New Williams novel
4. New Lynch novel
5. New Dickinson novel
6. New Stephenson novel
7. New Simmons novel
8. New Mcdonald novel

[Anonymous No.12324365]

>>12324351

>New Lynch novel

I hope it's goods. I don't think he could take making another shit book considering the amount of apprehension he has about releasing this one.

[Anonymous No.12324457]

The Wild Cards series edited by George RR Martin. (Alt History w/Supers) 26 novels. Enjoy

[Anonymous No.12324461]

What are some books with a similar feel to a David Lynch film/show? BotNS kind of has it but obviously a very different setting.

[Anonymous No.12324508]

>>12324461
Books from Jacek Dukai

[Anonymous No.12324526]

Is there any kind of year-long reading challenge I can do if I want to get back into reading more? I know I can give myself any challenge I want but I'm curious what's already out there.

[Anonymous No.12324556]

Just read Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. Thought they were decent. Enjoyed some of the Pilgrim's stories more than others. Sometimes the writing was a little corny, like Simmons was writing a screenplay of a B movie. And the plot got a little confusing towards the end. But he kept my interest. A lot of the themes (ie human overreliance on tech for connectivity) are still fresh.

First sci-fi I've read in a while, except for Wolfe's Fifth Head of Cerberus.

[Anonymous No.12324557]

>>12324526
You could read the books in the selected charts in the OP one by one.

[Anonymous No.12324585]

>>12324526
Shoot for 12, one each month, if you're just getting back into reading. If you're a faster reader, try 18, which is 1.5 each month, or 24, two each month. If you need something solid, Goodreads has a challenge thing. You type in the amount of books you plan to read and it keeps track.

>>12324556
I liked Hyperion quite a bit in the beginning, with the Pilgrim's story being the best of the bunch, but unfortunately the longer the book went on, the less I enjoyed it. The final story I just couldn't get myself into at all. I've been thinking about trying out Fall of Hyperion for a while, but I'm worried it'll be just as unenjoyable as the latter bits of Hyperion.

[Anonymous No.12324591]

>>12324556
I tried read reading it twice but the writing is so dense and verbose for an ESL like me. I can't imagine what anything looks like and I stumble over every sentence...

[Anonymous No.12324615]

Visiting /sffg/ again, did anyone here read new Black company book? Was Soulcatcher in it? I hope original Soulcatcher poster is still here.

[Anonymous No.12324671]

>>12324526
>>12324585
>shoot for 12.
Remember that if you read 3.5% book per day you will easily reach that.

[Anonymous No.12324720]

>pulp writers cranked out an absurd number of books per year with few to no errors, on typewriters, without the ability to easily edit
>90% of webnovels and online serial fiction more generally have a distractingly obvious error within the first couple of paragraphs even though the pace is less hectic and you can look for squiggly green lines in Microsoft Word
What the fuck?

[Anonymous No.12324759]

>>12324720
Editors were the true pulp heroes.

[Anonymous No.12324781]

>>12324759
Publishers wouldn't accept manuscripts, and thus editors wouldn't see them, if they had more than the occasional error.

[Anonymous No.12324825]

>>12324585
RE: reading Fall of Hyperion, I'd say it it all depends on how interested you are in seeing the story arcs concluded.

[Anonymous No.12324985]

>>12324781
A lot of the pulp mags were shoestring operations, sometimes with editors writing a bunch of the stories that showed up.

[Anonymous No.12324996]

>>12324781
Only the smallest of the small time publishing houses actually accept unsolicited manuscripts. Every major publishing house requires submissions to be through agents, pretty much the only way to get around that is by direct recommendation from an editor or another author at the publishing house. Even then nobody submits whole manuscripts to agents, you submit a cover letter with your pitch and MAYBE you submit the first few pages of your manuscript IF the guy asks for it in his submissions guidelines. Agents are busy, they don't have time to read every wannabe author's magnum opus. Once you prove you're worth his time, THEN he sits down and reads it, and you can bet your ass he's going to workshop the hell out of whatever you give him before he puts it in front of a publisher.

By the time any publishing house acquisitions editor sees your manuscript it's gone through several rounds of editing and revision and is polished to a mirror shine. It is probably the best writing you've ever done. They will then proceed to tear it apart in front of you like a dog worrying an elaborate turkey dinner.

Welcome to publishing.

[Anonymous No.12325001]

>>12324996
This is not describing 1928 at all.

[Anonymous No.12325024]

>>12325001
This process has remained the same for a very long time. If anything it's only gotten easier to publish since technology has rendered this type of gate keeping increasingly absurd.

The idea that an editor wouldn't touch a manuscript because it has typos or minor errors is laughable. It could be the best manuscript ever written and he would still rip it apart and put it back together again. That's his job. Finding typos and mistakes is copy editor work, it is quite literally beneath his notice and pay grade.

[Anonymous No.12325160]

Is it feasible to be a successful sci-fi or fantasy author and still have my privacy? Would publishing under a pen name be enough?

I know I might not make it but even if I do I don't want strangers knowing who I am by name.

[Anonymous No.12325177]

>>12323997
Get graphic audio books then.

[Anonymous No.12325182]

>>12325160
Why?

[Anonymous No.12325201]

>>12324324
Should have made the thread if you didn't want op pushing that chart. You know what to do when the thread reaches 310 posts.

[Anonymous No.12325215]

>>12325024
That very long time is since paper prices stabilized after WWII, since Thor Power Tool vs Commissioner, and a lot of things have changed. Of course editors don't care about typos, unless it's a one-man show, but pulp editors were as hard-working as their authors, and this hurry-up-and-wait manuscript hell did not describe the situation.

[Anonymous No.12325222]

>>12325182
Being any kind of celebrity sounds like a nightmare. I'm a social, outgoing person but I have zero desire for outright fame.

[Anonymous No.12325245]

>>12325222
I think you're severely overestimating how famous most writers are.

[Anonymous No.12325252]

>>12323442
>Quite exhausted from Metro series.
How are these, by the way?
I like the premise.

[Anonymous No.12325259]

>>12323876
I would read the FUCK out of The Baker King

[Anonymous No.12325264]

Give me good self published books that aren't on this chart. I'm running out of high calorie junk books to read.

[Anonymous No.12325275]

>>12324284
I saw on his blog that he is planning another sequel. I feel jewed out of my time but oh well, I can't complain too much. I'm tired of books never having full conclusions anymore though, it's all ever-continuing.

>>12325264
I feel like I monkey paw'd this chart into existence. I am truly sorry, /sffg/. I was too lazy to ever make my own and thus we have this filth.

[Anonymous No.12325308]

>>12325259
Write it then. Make a book based on the title.
Cliche it to hell
>boy used to bake
>father dies
>has to become king
>doesn't have to hide from father anymore since he is in charge (father knew anyways)
>uses his power as king to better his craft
>city becomes known for bake goods
>god in disguise turns up
>turns out this is the god of bakers and the king and most of his people follow another god
>god gives ultimatum
>convert to me or suffer
>denies
>god has him bake his only son into multiple pastries and baked goodies
>king sacrifices daughter to other god to have a chance at revenge
>shenanigans ensue as king leaves to conquer the world through their stomachs and depose baker god so he can kill him

[Anonymous No.12325313]

>>12323912
I like Caecilia

[Anonymous No.12325335]

Is there anything good coming out this year?

[Anonymous No.12325350]

>>12325264
Are any of these legit good? Trysmoon looks interesting

[Anonymous No.12325354]

>>12325308
>>god has him bake his only son into multiple pastries and baked goodies

[Anonymous No.12325368]

>>12325350
personally i liked everything from arand/darren so far. but i think that is an acquired taste. demons of astlan is pretty good. everybody loves large chests can be fantastic if you can get past the litrpg stuff. waldo rabbit is also pretty fun. its basically standard fantasy but focused on situational comedy and piggybacking on typical fantasy tropes like for example the evil wizards vs the good wizards but whos good and evil changes from a given perspective. cant speak on the others. though ive heard good things about bobbyverse if you can get past the many points of view.
house of blades was also pretty good. havent read any of the tother though. unsouled and trysmoon are on my to read list though.

[Anonymous No.12325393]

>>12325335
The Winds of Winter

[Anonymous No.12325603]

>want to actually read a load this year
>pretty much read everything that I actually planned on reading at this point
well fuck

[Anonymous No.12325610]

>>12325603
>can't choose from all the books I want to read and instead end up just giving up and browse this shit place instead

[Anonymous No.12325638]

2019 will be the year, lads, I can fell it. Prepare for a Targaryen restoration. Long live the Dragon queen!

[Anonymous No.12325644]

>>12325160
You can but turning down con money is really fucking stupid, it's one of the best sources of promotion for smaller writers and income for successful ones.

Hell most writers these days are just self-published people so they don't even have jacket photos

[Anonymous No.12325717]

Should I read Harry Potter? My only interaction with it is a playstation game.

[Anonymous No.12325722]

>>12325638
>Prepare for a Targaryen restoration. Long live the Dragon queen!
Disgusting.

[Anonymous No.12325750]

>>12325638
>2019 will be the year, lads, I can fell it.
*laughs in High Valyrian*

[Anonymous No.12325756]

>>12325722
>>12325722
The Targaryen are the rightful rulers of the seven kingdom, deal with. Aegon VI and Dany should team together and restore the dynasty.

[Anonymous No.12325871]

>>12325717
>should I read a fucking high school fantasy book by a woman

Uhhhhhhhhh

[Anonymous No.12325890]

>>12325717
Get the Stephen Fry audiobooks and listen to them when doing something repetitive or when you're sick

[Anonymous No.12325893]

>>12325890
I don't do audiobooks.

[Anonymous No.12325925]

I made a quick Conan guide, since I haven't seen one here before. Hope it helps some folks.

>>12325638
I'm thinking 2020, honestly. Not that I'll read it anyway.

[Anonymous No.12325951]

i don't read that much sci-fi/fantasy. i want to read something weird and bizarre- something where the author used his full imagination, but at the same time, i don't want to be bogged down by make believe vocabulary or unrealistic self insert stories. what should i read

[Anonymous No.12325957]

>>12325951
Perdido Street Station

[Anonymous No.12326033]

>>12324324
Make your own chart bucko, then you can shill it.
Most don't bother.

[Anonymous No.12326060]

>>12325160
If writing about space elf lesbians embarrasses you then don't do it.

[Anonymous No.12326086]

>>12322234
>>12324324
>look up Ancient Ruins in Amazon
>"This is a dark fantasy lesbian romance, with a focus on the dark fantasy"

[Anonymous No.12326100]

>>12325644
Okay, can I at least get somewhat ripped and dress like early 80s Kurt Russell?

[Anonymous No.12326123]

>>12325951
>>12325957
Seconding Perdido Street Station. It's great.

[Anonymous No.12326244]

>>12326086
All the women are raped first. That's why they became lesbians.
It was filthy elves women being used for days in all holes by war weary orcs

[Anonymous No.12326257]

>>12325957
>>12326123
i'm reading the first review on amazon
>It is a dystopian story jammed with a myriad of sentient life forms, plot lines, villains, filth, gore, weapons, sex, poverty, politics, organized crime, moral questions, and techno-babble.
by weird, i don't necessarily mean graphic. i mean like twilight zone weird.

[Anonymous No.12326266]

>>12325951
Lots of PKD's novels, check out Martian Time-Slip and The Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

[Anonymous No.12326324]

>>12325264
Man, those covers are straight awful.

[Anonymous No.12326331]

>>12326257
It's not just weird by being graphic. The main character is a magical researcher whose girlfriend is a political radical with a beetle for a head, and he's investigating a bug who spins silk with psychedelic properties.

[Anonymous No.12326341]

>>12326324
And thank God for that. Because it means if you self publish you have a good way to stand out.

[Anonymous No.12326726]

Anons what SF have you read recently and enjoyed? I'm trying to swear off Vidya and go back to my old hobbies

[Anonymous No.12326731]

>>12326257
DO NOT

[Anonymous No.12326733]

Every fucking time I start reading fantasy it's just tropes upon tropes, cliches upon cliches. I'm so fucking tired of this.

[Anonymous No.12326737]

>>12326324
>Awful
It could be much worse

[Anonymous No.12326752]

>>12326737
>that
>awful
that looks like weird 90-00 comic book cover
now picrelated is fucking awful.

[Anonymous No.12326753]

I haven't read anything in a while, but watching doctor who made me wonder if there are any good fantasy / scifi books like that? I enjoyed episodes written by moffat a lot, so anything similar would be great!

So far I have only read pretty generic fantasy books like Eragon and LotR

[Anonymous No.12326770]

>>12326753
there are doctor who novels you know. some even written or assisted by moffat.
there are a shitload of novels, audiobooks, -dramas and -plays.

[Anonymous No.12326776]

>>12326753
You'd probably like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

[Anonymous No.12326783]

>>12326752
I want to make so many assumptions about this author based on the cover but what is worse is who might buy such a thing...

[Anonymous No.12326816]

>>12326783
the worst part is people actually rate it decently.

[Anonymous No.12326844]

>>12322234
Wanna finish William Gibson's Neuromancer, and then see if I want to continue the Sprawl series or move on to some other cyberpunk classics.

[Anonymous No.12326849]

>>12326816
More proof that there is no value in using goodreads

[Anonymous No.12326887]

>>12326733
Then fuck off

[Anonymous No.12326921]

>>12325717
You can read the first book in a couple of hours, just do that and work it out for yourself

[Anonymous No.12327010]

>>12326783
>>12326752
tbhqon that cover and the title are both so shitty that it almost makes me curious about the content

[Anonymous No.12327038]

>>12326752
I bet both those ninjas have penises.... fucking Japan.

[Anonymous No.12327105]

I feel like an idiot because it's taken me so long to figure it out but since the big theme of this series is balance, the literal point of Egwene is to exemplify all the things wrong with a society that lacks that male/female balance.

No wonder she's so fucking annoying. She and her actions are intentionally ironic.

[Anonymous No.12327108]

>>12326726
I read and enjoyed that loli space marine book from E. William Brown, but I'm pretty sure my enjoyment of the book was a bug rather than a feature.

[Anonymous No.12327161]

>>12325717
"No!"

[Anonymous No.12327192]

>>12325717
It's a cultural touchstone for the younger generations, so a passing familiarity wouldn't go amiss. But if you have even the smallest amount of literary maturity, you may find them unreadable. They are books written for children, after all.

[Anonymous No.12327239]

>>12326733
Stop reading modern fantasy

[Anonymous No.12327251]

>>12326844
Based cyberpunkposter

[Anonymous No.12327293]

What's some good upbeat cyberpunk?

[Anonymous No.12327309]

>>12327293
Snow Crash

[Anonymous No.12327348]

>>12327309
Man, that really was a lot of fun. Neurononcer fans hate it because it didn't take itself seriously but I loved it.

[Anonymous No.12327449]

>>12323876
Okay, given that nothing food-related can happen on this general without me being invoked, I feel I have to weigh in on The Baker King

>Framed as the dubiously accurate autobiography of Bill Vonka – a baked good magnate whose reputation for eccentricity is shadowed only by his brilliance – the story follows him from his humble origins as a sheltered dentist's son, through an apprenticeship to a wicked witch beneath a gingerbread roof, trailing past a safari across the dark continent, and leading up to the contest that would make his name a legend.

[Anonymous No.12327471]

Poorfag here. Is there a website where I can download free books?

[Anonymous No.12327499]

>>12327471
You're a newfag as well it seems. Read the sticky.

[Anonymous No.12327594]

What are some good recent books that don't attempt to emulate older writing styles? For some reason my brain associates older writing styles with boredom and I don't know how to turn the association off

[Anonymous No.12327599]

>>12327471
Don't you have poor people things to do instead?

[Anonymous No.12327629]

what's the literary equivalent of Big Chungus?

[Anonymous No.12327655]

>>12327594
Red Rising.

[Anonymous No.12327691]

>>12327471
mobilism.org

[Anonymous No.12327819]

Is a Scanner Darkly actually worth reading? Was thinking I might rather read Earth Abides for the monthly reading and keep reading other books

[Anonymous No.12327829]

>>12327594
One way to turn it off might be to read sword and sorcery.

Much of it is pure blood-pumping (and blood-spilling) adventure.

[Anonymous No.12327950]

Sci-fi/space horror belated December review 4/5: Blindsight by Peter Watts
This one was a mixed bag. Good premise, science and concepts with decent moments of tension and horror offset by inconsistent writing and the MC's bizarre characterization. The breaks in the main plot to explore the MC's background read like an entirely different book, ultimately damaging the main story's pacing and missing an opportunity to world-build. Instead, the MC is given confusing and contradictory characterization, veering between an a noble 'every-man' or an edgy sociopath with mommy issues with little reconciliation between the two. Given the themes explored in the book it is possible that this is the author's intention, but I can't understand why or how it fits if so. While the science is nice and robust, the author leans heavily on the technobabble which made reading a slog in places. However, this is largely due to me being a brainlet, I'm sure smarter anons will have less trouble. I have mixed feelings about the last 20% of the book which had a fitting ending but was filled with vague writing, confusingly described action and character turnarounds which were hand-waved or lazily explained away in the last couple of pages of the book. Overall I'm not sure whether I want to read the sequel. Maybe if the author sorts out the characterization and there are more vampires I'll give it a shot.

Next up: Diamond Dogs by Alastair Reynolds and freedom from this reading list

[Anonymous No.12327981]

>>12322234
new Elis out this year I think its called White so already sounds based

[Anonymous No.12328007]

>>12322262
Grunts

[Anonymous No.12328073]

>>12327471
lurk more, read the sticky faggot

[Anonymous No.12328120]

>>12327829
Nice try shill. But no dice.

[Anonymous No.12328125]

>>12327629
We know we had that meme here under a different name for years right? Look for "easy on the carrot bugs" in the archives.

[Anonymous No.12328137]

>>12328125
You know we had**

[Anonymous No.12328206]

>>12325335
>Is there anything good coming out this year?
Yes.

[Anonymous No.12328260]

To the anon that posted this. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ughjf
It starts like the old James bond / loaded weapon / naked gun 3 1/4 films. But it's a comedy. Thanks for the rec.

[Anonymous No.12328303]

>>12327348
What if I love both? Haven't read anything else by Stephenson though.

[Anonymous No.12328315]

>>12325756
>invaders from another continent
>rightful rulers
Please.

[Anonymous No.12328323]

>>12328315
It happens.

[Anonymous No.12328342]

>>12328323
You think Americans actually own America?
America is ruled and controlled by the lizaex

[Anonymous No.12328346]

>>12328342
I'm talking about the Philippines.

[Anonymous No.12328488]

Will 2019 be the year Doors of Stone comes out, bros?

[Anonymous No.12328520]

>>12328488
no

[Anonymous No.12328523]

>>12328342

[Anonymous No.12328530]

>>12327594
Go back to the source
Read original stuff not emulators
Or read new original stuff
>>12328120
those are legit good, whats wrong?

[Anonymous No.12328542]

>>12327819
I'd say it's Dicks 4th best work, it's good enough that I feel like rereading it for monthly reading.

[Anonymous No.12328607]

Is Midnight Tides a 'prequel'? At least, does it take place far earlier than the mainline events?

[Anonymous No.12328627]

>>12328520
:-(

[Anonymous No.12328730]

>>12328488
Is Kingkiller Chronocle worth reading, or is it a meme?

[Anonymous No.12328731]

>>12328542
What are your top 3?

[Anonymous No.12328780]

>>12328731
Ubik
3 Stigmata
Valis
Scanner Darkly
Flow my Tears

[Anonymous No.12328804]

>>12324324
It's just one person pushing his shitty chart.

>>12323912
I love my Kindle but yeah the sameness of the fonts really brings home how I wish I had the actual books instead.

[Anonymous No.12328855]

>>12325957
>Dude bird people
>dude bug people
>dude cactus people
Fuck off with this meme book.

[Anonymous No.12328857]

confirmed september another trilogy starting up

[Anonymous No.12328858]

>poobercrombie
yikes

[Anonymous No.12328861]

>>12327819
i didn't like it desu

[Anonymous No.12328863]

>>12328730
the first book isn't bad but the second is garbage
third book never ever so don't even bother

[Anonymous No.12328912]

>>12328730
The first book is the only one I've read. It isn't good. Prose is slightly above average but that doesn't mean shit when it comes to this genre and everything else is shitty.

[Anonymous No.12329143]

>>12328730
First book is a well polished turd. Second book is a regular turd. Third book something something constipation.

[Anonymous No.12329203]

>>12327950
Thanks mang. Nice writeup.

[Anonymous No.12329221]

Is there any contemporary Chinese fantasy above webnovel tier quality? It can even be a literal webnovel as long as it doesn't show (blatant padding, repetition, asspulls etc).

[Anonymous No.12329310]

>>12324250
>27 books
uhh

[Anonymous No.12329330]

>>12329221
something something legend of condor

[Anonymous No.12329348]

Cheating goodreads by finishing all the books I read 80% of last year to inflate my books read stats

[Anonymous No.12329358]

>>12328857
damn I wonder if this one will also be about how revenge is ultimately empty and pointless and how fantasy wouldn't work in the real world

[Anonymous No.12329364]

>>12329221
probably but it won't be translated for decades if so

[Anonymous No.12329397]

>>12329348
Then someone from sffg comes to battle you on a book, and from your responses you show that you didn't actually read the books.

[Anonymous No.12329435]

>>12329397
tfw having to reread two books I read 18 months ago because I have literally no memory of them

[Anonymous No.12329449]

any scifi novel like star citizen? where theres already an established world with humanity out there in the stars and the main character is just some guy in his own ship with special skills that makes him a main character

[Anonymous No.12329452]

Speaking of goodreads just went through my recs and there's so much self-published shit in there right now
I think amazon is juicing the recs for stuff that's on kindle unlimited lol
>>12329449
There's a bunch of CJ Cherryh books that fit this, just pick anything in Alliance–Union and you'll probably get a match

[Anonymous No.12329460]

>>12329449
the lensman series i my favorite space adventurer type stuff

[Anonymous No.12329477]

>>12328607
It does take place earlier, but not far earlier as I was somehow led to believe. The massive change in location and story is polarizing, but I enjoyed it quite a lot.

[Anonymous No.12329497]

>>12328857
yippee.....

[Anonymous No.12329540]

>>12329497
getting roasted over here

[Anonymous No.12329542]

>>12329497
wanna see what tortoise dick looks like?

https://twitter.com/JaydenPaynne/status/1079155865582792706

[Anonymous No.12329638]

>>12329452
>>12329460
ok thanks

[Anonymous No.12329832]

>>12325957
Period shit station is fucking garbage and I'll call everyone who recommends it a fucking faggot.
Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.12329859]

>>12328137
silence chungus

[Anonymous No.12329909]

>>12329832
What about it triggered you so much?

[Anonymous No.12329931]

How do you make a pulp hero that people will like? I don't want to just do not-Conan or "what if the Gray Mouser was a solo act?"

[Anonymous No.12329955]

>almost didn't download a book because I wasn't sure if I would like it and a bunch of goodreads reviews mentioned it being long
>380 pages
lmao how are they so bad at reviewing

[Anonymous No.12329963]

>>12329955
You do realize goodreads shows the page number? And so does Amazon?

[Anonymous No.12329973]

>>12329963
in pussy ass tiny font that only autists would notice lmao

[Anonymous No.12329995]

>>12329973
Which would make you an autist, since you noticed it. Good job Einstein.

[Anonymous No.12330002]

>>12329995
normal people noticing stuff after autists point it out is just science

[Anonymous No.12330005]

>>12329931
Write something different, basically. Think of real life people and their lives, write how they'd act in a fantasy world. Get beyond the tropes.

[Anonymous No.12330102]

>>12327105
Have you seen how her story ends? It btfo's your theory, Jordan was genuinely shocked that no one liked most of his female characters.

[Anonymous No.12330105]

>>12325756
Women have no legal right to the throne, it passes to the Baratheons.

[Anonymous No.12330122]

what would humans have to do to move around stealthily in a modern city invaded by creatures with flight, scent and perfect night vision?

im at a loss of where they could travel

[Anonymous No.12330124]

>>12329909
The way too extended droning of the author about his city for example. Yes I understand he constructed the city as some sort of character that is ever present with the story, but it doesn't excuse the part where he has two minor side-characters lay out some completely uneventful plumbing in the city for more than 15 pages right before the final fight with the bad guys.
I use this as the prime example for what irks me with the book. It is way too long and takes constant detours for irrelevant stuff while adding characters, places and events constantly.

Another part that left me quite mad was the ending where our MC, just after sacrificing a completely innocent person to the mind-rape vampires mind you, feels moral obligation to drop the complete development of the device which the whole premise of the book was about. I mean what was he expecting what bird-dudes crime was? Tax evasion?That really triggered me.
Apart from that I found the alien/creature designs really meh. The bug people with just a bug as head and completely humanoid bodies feel comically bad. The rest isn't much to behold either. Basic daemons, big spider that weaves fate or whatever and Vodyanoy which are straight up ripped from slav myth, name and all.
Its a complete shitshow and I don't understand where all the praise comes from.

[Anonymous No.12330129]

>>12330122
sewer

[Anonymous No.12330141]

>>12330122
teleportation

[Anonymous No.12330189]

>>12330129
i considered that, but I was hoping to show the above-ground areas as well to show the landscape having been altered.

maybe I can say that the sewers are safest, but the humans have to go above ground to gather food/water, and to move between sewer tunnels that aren't direct connected to each other

[Anonymous No.12330237]

>he replies to another post but not to me
ok faggot

[Anonymous No.12330263]

>>12330189
Sewers and subway?

[Anonymous No.12330335]

>>12330263
the subways are actually a plot point. soon after the invasion, the subways became no-go zones due an unknown threat, but rumors arise of underground human settlements in the tunnels that are prospering, giving the characters a reason to investigate cautiously

[Anonymous No.12330340]

>>12330122
if they had perfect night vision they'd be pretty shit at seeing in the day

Just mask smells by spraying shit everywhere and you could move at will

[Anonymous No.12330440]

>>12328120
Dab on them dinopostes fellow zoomer,now let's go post some epic memes on /v/

[Anonymous No.12330472]

>>12330122
How big are they? Buildings might be safe, even skyscrapers, if they can't move around inside. So might overgrown parks, emulating how small animals hide from birds in the undergrowth. How hard are they to kill/why exactly are they dangerous? Do they sleep? Eat? Can their movements be monitored and predicted? Can they intercept radio transmissions? How many are there? Where do they come from? Why are they in the city? Can you bait them into traps or just out of the area? Why are the people there? Can they just leave?

[Anonymous No.12330865]

has this been done?

>animal house, but at Hogwarts

[Anonymous No.12330975]

I tried Reddit. It didn't work well for me. Pic related

[Anonymous No.12330987]

>>12330975
try not being an asshole

[Anonymous No.12331021]

>>12330975
Why would you censor your name, Mr. Wednesday words?

https://www.reddit.com/user/Wednesday_words

[Anonymous No.12331035]

>>12331021

Shrug. As you can see, I don't use it much.

[Anonymous No.12331069]

>>12322234
>Lucifer's Hammer
My nigga

[Anonymous No.12331076]

Can someone post some of the older charts for this general? There is a book that I can't remember.

[Anonymous No.12331144]

>>12330975
cringe

[Anonymous No.12331205]

>>12330975
>Imagine if that lazy, fat bastard Rothfuss was as forthcoming
I'm at a loss at what I should think about that potential situation. Are you implying that it would be a good or bad thing?

[Anonymous No.12331343]

Do you think a story based on early D&D would be good? (Group of low-powered adventurers trying to steal valuable shit from holes in the ground filled with terrifying monsters)

[Anonymous No.12331361]

>>12331343
No. Especially not if you have to ask, since it means you have no confidence or talent to pull it off. Same for every other idea you might have.

[Anonymous No.12331379]

>>12331361
>talent
Kek

[Anonymous No.12331527]

>>12330975
Despite you being a faggot, I have to say I really loath that constant dick sucking of an author for reasons other than stuff related to his books.

[Anonymous No.12331569]

>>12331527
you hate people liking someone for doing a good deed?

[Anonymous No.12331710]

>tfw you have dozens of possible stories in mind but the only one with characters you care about is a shitty homestuck ripoff

[Anonymous No.12331782]

>>12330335
Have you read metro 2033? Read that before you go where I think you are going.

[Anonymous No.12331804]

I really feel like descriptions of places are lost on me. My imagination isn't as good as what this picture conveys.

[Anonymous No.12331819]

>>12330105
*Young Griff looks at you* Aegon VI be a true Targ or a Black, a dragon still a dragon.

[Anonymous No.12331867]

wait, where's monthly reading anon? did we have a winner?

[Anonymous No.12331884]

>>12331867
Yes, Hawkwood's Voyage won. Get to reading, don't wanna be left behind do you?

[Anonymous No.12331893]

>>12331804
That looks incredible generic though?

[Anonymous No.12331913]

>>12331893
I've quite literally never seen a place like that before, so no, it doesn't.

[Anonymous No.12331925]

I read pretty much just philosophy and sci-fi for the better part of the past year and now can't get back into standard literature without wanting some sort of "edge" to it

so what Gibson should I read, Spook Country, or Mona Lisa Overdrive?

[Anonymous No.12332228]

>>12329931
Don't do this:
>>12330005
for several reasons
1. pulp heroes aren't real people acting in a fantasy world, they're ideals; how believable they are can be debatable, but they generally max out certain frontier virtues (bravery, cunning, passion) while being limited mainly by forces much, much stronger than them.
2. genre writers aren't real people and have no clue how to portray them. Think Gaimanprotag. Pathetic.
3. nobody gets beyond tropes, it's like counting past numbers: you can say "bajillion" and it's technically not a number but you're not saying anything

Not-Conan is actually a fantastic place to start. Or not-Robin Hood. Or not-Audie Murphy. You can't write these characters without them writhing and twisting under your pen into new and unexpected forms. You take these ideals, these paragons of whatever virtue, and add aspects of people you respect who possess them. Create villains in the same way (when they're not forces of nature). Above all make them competent and make them consistent.

[Anonymous No.12332232]

Every time I start reading something I grow to hate it within 48 hours.

I think I need to stop reading until my seasonal depression wears off

[Anonymous No.12332242]

>>12330122
They build big wind-powered strandbeests and let them roam the streets until the aliens are used to them and know they've got no nutritional value. They douse the things in pungent scents and let them get used to it. Then they use them as cover, though they're wind-powered so they don't always have the best route.

[Anonymous No.12332246]

>>12332232
Try not watching porn.

[Anonymous No.12332252]

>>12331569
praising him as an author for being an e-celeb is hateworthy

[Anonymous No.12332259]

You dirty, no-good, rotten, disgusting pieces of refuse have got me picking Malazan back up again. This will easily take up my first few months of the year, FUCK.

[Anonymous No.12332263]

>>12332232
>tfw entire bookshelf of variety
>not a single one can hold my attention

I feel Ive got this itch that was scratched years ago by Bolano and Baudrillard but lately...nothing

[Anonymous No.12332291]

>>12322234
Science fiction recommendations for someone who's not an experienced reader?

I've read a good handful of the Halo novels. I liked some of those a lot, but I'm sure that's considered light reading.

[Anonymous No.12332317]

>>12332291
Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro

[Anonymous No.12332330]

>>12332246
I'm not fapping frequently either. reduced sex drive. It's real depression

[Anonymous No.12332437]

Quick! Rec me a short scifi read, post a PDF etc. etc.

[Anonymous No.12332499]

>>12332437
The Dragon Masters

[Anonymous No.12332549]

>>12332499
Thanks bro

[Anonymous No.12332552]

>>12332549
np, it's a blast, my favorite work of Vance so far

[Anonymous No.12332588]

>>12332552
Sweet! :)

i like Vance as well, read the entire Dying Earth stuff

[Anonymous No.12332701]

>>12331782
i haven't read it. i suspect i am going where you think I am, but this story isn't what you think it is

[Anonymous No.12332795]

>>12332437
Roog by PKD

[Anonymous No.12332811]

>>12330124
They should've killed Lin honestly, and I agree with what happened with yag. Such a rushed ending.

[Anonymous No.12332979]

>>12332291

Try some Heinlein, if you want something much simpler he wrote "juveniles" like Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. If you want something more military try Starship Troopers.

A newer series that delivers pretty well is Spiral Wars, starting with Renegade. Good naval and marine combat.

[Anonymous No.12333171]

>>12324351
Wasn't a new one just confirmed for, iirc, June?

[Anonymous No.12333257]

>>12322919
But what if they suck?

[Anonymous No.12333301]

>>12322919
im the only person here with a good taste for both quality and accessibility and im never around for the polls

[Anonymous No.12333335]

Okay, am I the only one who thinks The Chandrian are the most unnecessary main villains of all time? They're honestly the worst part of the Kingkiller Chronicles as a whole.

Ambrose is a better villain than all of them put together

[Anonymous No.12333356]

>>12325756
A Lannister killed the king and then took the throne. The crown belongs on Jaime's head. Maybe now he'll be a decent enough man to wear it.

[Anonymous No.12333418]

>>12333333 just checking what the get was.

I went to my local bookstore to buy a scanner darkly and they didn't have it :(

[Anonymous No.12333578]

Web novels are /lit/ and if they are sci-fi or fantasy they belong on /sffg/, but because of the specifics of how payment works and such, they tend to be indefinitely ongoing serials and thus the word "novel" isn't totally accurate.

The webnovel is its own animal.

(This is distinct from a serial like Worm, which has a concrete beginning, middle, and end, and doesn't have thousands of chapters, and thus more closely resembles the serial fiction from before the Internet, which was closer to being a novel.)

[Anonymous No.12333635]

>>12331925
Finish the Neuromancer trilogy.

[Anonymous No.12333637]

>>12331076

[Anonymous No.12333695]

>>12333578

[Anonymous No.12333785]

>>12333637
>jemisin

[Anonymous No.12334014]

Ok well I ordered a used copy of A Scanner Darkly, since it'll take a while to get here so I can finish my other books, and i'll also be able to get that super sick cover from Vintage Books.

This will be my first dick novel

[Anonymous No.12334023]

>>12325957
idk why people keep recommending perdido street station when Mieville has written so much better stuff, e.g. Kraken, Embassytown, The City & the City, and Dial H.

[Anonymous No.12334031]

Hi, /sffg/. I have a question: What are some good funny science or fantasy books, hmm? I mean like comic (comedic), comedic, funny, humorous books. Satire, dark comedy, light comedy, etc and stuff like that. I was looking through this list on Wikipedia:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Comic_science_fiction_novels
However, I dunno really know what are some good ones on there. The ones I've heard are Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, but I've heard those are Reddit-tier books; also wondering about fantasy comedy books too.

[Anonymous No.12334183]

>>12334031
hard luck hank
stainless steel rat
waldo rabbit
the blue mage raised by dragons
the dark lords handbook
alan black books are pretty comedy based like for example larry goes to space.


hitchhikers guide is pretty good actually. the books reputation is ruined by the fanbase though like so many things.
id say try out waldo rabbit. its basically 90s style sword and sorcery fantasy but set up similar to a sitcom tv show where the jokes are based situations that are misunderstood or represented in a weird way.

[Anonymous No.12334283]

>>12334183
Thanks. I like situational humor a lot. It's more universal, easier to translate I believe.

[Anonymous No.12334399]

>>12334031
It's not like you're going to damage your precious self by reading "Reddit-tier books" if you can't even write proper English. Try them, go crazy. They're not that bad, they're just entry level and you're going to get called out if you act like they're the be-all-end-all of fiction.

[Anonymous No.12334415]

>>12334399
I can write proper English. I'm still learning, though. It's my fifth language.

[Anonymous No.12334423]

>>12330975
don't see what you did wrong here? has that guy got the receipts for all the "charity" work rothfuss was doing or is he taking him on his word

[Anonymous No.12334432]

>>12334415
That's all well and good but a bit beside the point. I want to bitch you into having fun and developing a taste that's not about "oh boy I wonder what those anonymous guys online think about this"
Try reading Pratcett and Snow Crash, they might not be for you, but at least you'll have a better Idea about what you like and what you don't

[Anonymous No.12334489]

>>12334031
Sewer, Gas & Electric by Matt Ruff

[Anonymous No.12334575]

>>12331913
Looks like dishonored 2 location.

[Anonymous No.12334620]

>>12334575
It looks generic because everything even remotely steampunk related including Dishonored was modeled after PSS

[Anonymous No.12334628]

>>12334620
laughing_bruce_sterling.vacuumtube

[Anonymous No.12334632]

I've realized I really like stories about two or more people who stick together more or less because they don't belong anywhere else, or at least have that in common, who become closer because they get each other in a way most people don't.

Any recommended /sffg/?

Especially pulpy and weird shit.

[Anonymous No.12334639]

>>12334632
City at the End of Time

[Anonymous No.12334706]

>>12334632
cry havoc.
its a sort of lovestory. guy is saved by demon hunters as a kid and trained to be one.
girl is brought up as a demon slave and has to live in a society where everyone fucks each other over all the while being tormented by demons. they meet and a lot of things happen with the two.
the other one i can recommend is old mans war kinda. scalzi is a shithead but old mans war is pretty good. book 1 and 3 are the ones you gotta read and you can safely ignore the rest. book 2 maybe if you want but thats just a retelling from a different perspective of the first book. 4 is a retelling of the 3rd in form of a diary from a little teenage girl. 5 and 6 have a different cast.

[Anonymous No.12334733]

>>12323388
I liked it a lot
Its definitely YA but the characters are written with enough extra depth to have them still be enjoyable.
Its nothing groundbreaking, but the execution was quite good.

[Anonymous No.12334804]

>>12334706
>heroine is not a virgin
no thanks

[Anonymous No.12334813]

>>12334804
funny thing. she actually avoids being a demon sex slave by purposefully damaging her face with a bruise on " selection day"

[Anonymous No.12334815]

>>12333301
>good taste
>hasn't read masters of Rome

[Anonymous No.12334829]

>>12331867
I'm not dead, just lazy. A Scanner Darkly won, praise the Dick.

[Anonymous No.12334900]

>>12334632
BotNS

[Anonymous No.12334972]

just found this
https://www.goodreads.com/series/40807-foreigner
looks really good, anyone read this?

[Anonymous No.12334996]

>>12334972
I keep meaning to read it but
>19 fucking books
I'm already having trouble finishing The Gap cycle because each book is like twice the length of the last one

[Anonymous No.12335223]

>>12334972
I sampled some Cherryh and even her standalone novels seem too long for me. I guess I should give one a go to see if any of the characters or plots hook me in.

[Anonymous No.12335389]

>>12334632
Nation - Terry Pratchett, it's a great book. I recommend it.

[Anonymous No.12335522]

whats the best murakami book that isn't kafka on the shore.

[Anonymous No.12335527]

>>12335522
Depends on who you ask. My favorite is Norwegian Wood, it isn't /sffg/ though.

[Anonymous No.12335752]

>>12332701
i think i know what you think i know that i think it is, and you should think carefully about that.

[Anonymous No.12335761]

>>12334031
the gone-away world by nick harkaway
KJ parker's stuff

[Anonymous No.12335778]

>>12334804
>>12334632
You're looking for self insert books aren't you... You want to imagine being the guys while some virgin girl "gets you" and wants to be in a relationship.

[Anonymous No.12335779]

Damn, Childhood's End is good. I regret putting it off for so long. It does more in its first 20 pages than the entirety of the first Three Body Problem book.

[Anonymous No.12335790]

new thread desu

[Anonymous No.12335797]

>>12335778
that's not me, i just don't like glorified sluts as the main girl

[Anonymous No.12335800]

>>12335790
Ask >>12324324 to make the thread, before another chart appears in the OP and he throws a hissy fit.

[Anonymous No.12335804]

>>12335797
>having had sex before makes someone a slut
Calm down incel.

[Anonymous No.12335808]

>>12335797
You aren't one of those bible thumpers are you. You're sounding like a bible thumper.

[Anonymous No.12335817]

>>12335797
So I guess if she is a virgin, has sex with you, and yall eventually break up, she is now a glorified slut? Even though you were the only person she had sex with, and the person who took her maiden head?

[Anonymous No.12335824]

>>12335804
it does if you do it before marriage

>>12335817
i wouldn't do it before marriage, but yes

[Anonymous No.12335951]

On pace to read 121 books this year :)

>>12334972
It's good but very timeskippy at the beginning so it's awkward to get into

[Anonymous No.12336136]

>>12323912
Read Abercrombie with a ragged-looking serif font, then read Anathem with a clean non-serif font. It added to the experience in both cases. Can't remember the exact font names though - Libre Sans Serif perhaps.

Won't buy an ereader that doesn't let me use free fonts ever.

t. You're not alone.

[Anonymous No.12336180]

>light rain outside
>cold temps
>fresh sheets on bed neatly made
>candle lit on bedside table
>comfy PJ's mom bought me for Christmas on

Yep, it's sci-fi time!

[Anonymous No.12336204]

>>12335522
Underground's not fiction but is quite effective.

My favourite fiction is Wind up Bird Chronicle but his short stories are also good, Hard Boiled Wonderland is also well thought of but I've never read it.

I don't actually like Norwegian Wood or Kafka much

[Anonymous No.12336290]

>>12334972
The big timeskip at the beginning is also kind of a genre shift, so it's pretty rocky.
The series is mostly politics that break out into the occasional firefight. It's not as dry as Cyteen, perhaps midway between that and The Pride of Chanur.
Cherryh is still writing them at a rate of 1 per year I think. Haven't read the last sixish because I always start from the beginning and have read the first 3 a billion times by this point.

[Anonymous No.12336379]

>>12336180
>lighting candles in 2019
I hope you enjoy your house fire when you fall asleep and knock the candle to the floor

[Anonymous No.12336387]

>>12336379
Why would I keep the candle going on before I fall asleep. That's just stupid.

[Anonymous No.12336565]

>>12336387
>you choose when you sleep
>you don't just fall asleep while reading due to exhaustion from a long day's work.

[Anonymous No.12336577]

Where is the new thread chart bigot?
If I have to make it again it will be double the charts.

[Anonymous No.12336598]

>>12336565
That doesn't happen to me though. When I feel tired I stop reading and fully lay down. I don't fucking instantly pass out when reading like you suggest.

[Anonymous No.12336623]

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[Anonymous No.12336629]

>>12336598
Read Atlas Shrugged next time, you will.

[Anonymous No.12336660]

>>12336629
Read my lips. Never. Happens. Nor will it ever happen. Also:
>living in a house with carpet
>flailing your limbs in your sleep like a fool

[Anonymous No.12336789]

>>12328730
Wait until pt 3 is out, then ask again.

Also specify if you liked Harry Potter.