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[Anonymous No.14408970]

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[Anonymous No.14409096]

sanderfag a hack

[Anonymous No.14409106]

>>14408911
NK Jemisin's Broken Earth series was recommended to me by /sffg/ when it first dropped. A whole bunch of us read the first book and thought it was great. Then the second book was great, the third book kinda average. Then a huge bunch of retarded /pol/ posters dropped in after the Trump election. And every time a Hugo came by, /pol/fag tourists would come in for two days shit on Jemisin, then get bored because the threads are fucking dead and then leave. Now we're on the rebound where some people like it.

Then there's newfags like you who never even noticed that Broken Earth opinion rating of this thread is like a waveform. You can literally use it to estimate the composition of the thread.

[Anonymous No.14409126]

>>14409106
>A whole bunch of us read the first book and thought it was great
Lmao stop making shit up. Literally one anon (who I'm guessing is you) kept shilling her shitty books and those of us who bothered to try Broken Earth were too busy laughing at both her writing and Jemisin herself for her retarded comments. You also aren't helping your case being being one of those obnoxious fucking faggots that cry "waaaaah muh /poll/ boogeyman" every time a group of people disagree with you. This isn't reddit, you're not going to get some circlejerk here.

[Anonymous No.14409137]

>>14409106
What makes the series good for you? When people describe the plot it sounds really bad so I haven't tried it yet.

[Anonymous No.14409164]

>>14409126
>lmao
Nice job fitting in, retard.

[Anonymous No.14409174]

>>14409106
Yeah because every race-baiting, trans issues book was praised here before Trump; fuck off.

[Anonymous No.14409175]

How is the heir to the empire trilogy? A friend keeps shilling it to me and says it's good, even if I don't care about SW.

[Anonymous No.14409178]

>>14409164
>muh drumpf
>muh /pol/
Pot, meet kettle.

[Anonymous No.14409213]

Somebody..... dune freedom bear............. p-please......

[Anonymous No.14409216]

>>14409106
Please link the threads where she was discussed as great and recommended to others, because I guarantee they do not exist in the archives.

[Anonymous No.14409236]

How would you go about writing a female Guts? I don't just want to copy and paste the same backstory but I still want her to be a brooding pile of misery who eventually starts lightening up.

[Anonymous No.14409255]

>>14409236
Have her be an edgy character who is unlikeable because she is edgy and focuses on the dark stuff that happened to her. Then she slowly starts opening up to others and the focus shifts from her past to her present and she gets likeable. Also, never fully reveal the dark stuff, just allude to it and give brief snippets, because it's always worse stuff in the reader's imagination.

[Anonymous No.14409299]

>>14409255
If you do this correctly you get a Guts, if you do this wrong you get a Snape.

[Anonymous No.14409625]

Milfs!

[Anonymous No.14409647]

>>14409625

[Anonymous No.14409747]

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdF_pedZpXbbJMtaOzgsckqxm6I_Yot2ozXdLeULXv-fI2dJA/viewform?usp=sf_link

/sffg/ top picks

votes closing on the 26th because some anon said so

[Anonymous No.14409751]

>>14408906
>How is /an/ to post on regularly?
I left years ago (at least four) when they became too uptight, and got offended for everything. They banned me for some comment I made about something, can't remember what. It used to be fun because you could see plants from all over the world, and joke about animals (e.g. Me frying leopard gecko's tail in Photoshop, because the tails were full of nutrients). After the ban I never went back, and sometime between then and now the chan archives backup were damaged, and we lost years of shitposting, including my shoops.

Also the board is slow, it used to be slower than lit, but we have become sanic fast recently.

[Anonymous No.14409758]

>>14409213
Sorry, I only have the red rising, Sanderson, Malazan and Lightbringer freedom bears.
Never saved the rest.

[Anonymous No.14409767]

>>14408970
>>14409236

Any fantasy books with a girl like this as the main female lead / romantic interest?

I have a massive hard-on for tall, strong, fearless amazonian beauties.

[Anonymous No.14409805]

>>14409174
If the trans shit wasn't obvious, nobody gave a shit.

>>14409126
Nice try newfag. It was shilled and loved because of the gri approval, mommyfags and loli head pats. You don't know shit.
Also
>and Jemisin herself for her retarded comments
it's recently that you pol fags instead of reading a book, look at an author's social media account, then come in here to post tidbits that push your agenda. You fags don't even read, you ask people in this thread to give you key points of a book so you can pretend as if you know shit, then do more reading of the author's presence online (watching and reading interviews) so as you can shit on a book you never read.
kys

[Anonymous No.14409813]

>>14409216
>newfag that doesn't even want to do the work to ensure his pretense is believable
Sad!

[Anonymous No.14409844]

>>14409767
Sadly not that I can think of, which is why I'm just writing my own. I remember one but it was one of those erotica fantasy stories with a lot of sex. I want an actual story with a woman like that as the main love interest.

[Anonymous No.14409885]

>>14408970
What book is that pic from OP

[Anonymous No.14409898]

Anyone have that Dune reading guide on which books to read and avoid? Thought I had it but dont. I dont want to read the sons books but one of the reading methods was to read 4 of Franks books finishing with God Emperor but forgot the other two to read between.

[Anonymous No.14409964]

>>14409625
I wish more books got porn games.

[Anonymous No.14410026]

>>14408970
Dresden files is best urban fantasy. You can't prove me wrong. Inb4 all urban fantasy is shit.

[Anonymous No.14410104]

>>14409805
Don't you have a book to avoid writing Rothfuss?

[Anonymous No.14410130]

i just finished reading the wheel of time and my life feels empty now. what great fantasy epic can I read next? I aready read lord of the rings and game of thrones. looking for something just as epic in scope.

[Anonymous No.14410150]

OP, you pic is absolute shit

[Anonymous No.14410190]

>>14409647
>The Lady
>MILF

I guess, technically, but she never had a child. Wasn't it implied that she's a virgin and marriage with the Dominator was basically political?

[Anonymous No.14410286]

More books like the Bas-Lag trilogy?

[Anonymous No.14410292]

Feels like everything in The Darkness That Comes Before is going over my head. All these names and factions and I still have no clue what the plot is about except that some Consult dude wants war (with who I don't know) and there's maybe a second apocalypse coming, whatever that is.

[Anonymous No.14410331]

>>14409236
Lots of rape and mind break

[Anonymous No.14410368]

>>14409647
Ah, I see you are a man of culture of well.

>>14410190
Lady did have a child with Croaker, and two adopted girls later on you should read the rest of the BC books. She was a virgin yes, Dominator never banged her forgot why but I think he was into her sister Soulcatcher and other virgins he would sleep with and kill in Port of Shadows book. Its implied heavily anyway. Their marriage was indeed political. Lady was a means to an end. Partly why she was so enamored with Croaker and his lewd fanfiction he wrote of her when she employed the black company.

[Anonymous No.14410379]

>>14408970
Someone needs to write a female fantasy self insert mommy porn novel about femdom, like a femdom fifty shades of gray, and then have some movies be made.
Because femdom needs to become ubiquitous and it doesn't seem to come as naturally to girls.

[Anonymous No.14410481]

>>14408970
>>14409236
>>14409625
>>14409844
>no books with women like this as MC or side characters

>>14409647
>there will never be another Lady or BC book

Whats the best method of suicide bros?

[Anonymous No.14410485]

>>14409625
Milfs are overrated. Rec me some books with gilfs.

[Anonymous No.14410489]

>>14410481
>Whats the best method of suicide bros?
masturbating to death.

[Anonymous No.14410533]

What's the word on Baru Cormorant? Going by the synopsis, it seems like a thoroughly pozzed novel but /lit/ seems to talk about it all the time.

[Anonymous No.14410587]

>>14410533
tried to read it a couple of months ago. within the first page (and i do mean the actual first page) you meet a girl who has two fathers and within 10 pages you get to read this 12 year old girl's argument with a representative of the evil colonialist empire where she thoroughly btfos him and he's impressed by her smarts. i dropped it before hitting page 50.
i'd say it's absolutely cringe and the plot or characters aren't interesting enough to keep you reading.

of course other people's mileage may vary, so you should at least read what someone who liked the book has to say. do keep in mind i dropped it very early on, so it might be less hamfisted later on. but i doubt it.

[Anonymous No.14410593]

>>14410368
is the black company map THE worst fantasy map in existence? love the books btw, not trying to throw shade on them

[Anonymous No.14410648]

>>14410593
whats wrong with it

[Anonymous No.14410663]

>>14409106
I wish I was around when The Broken Earth was still discussed, because I liked it. And I always found it funny how much teeth gritting and fist clenching there was. Shit, actually the exact descriptors are escaping me now. But I'm pretty sure it was teeth grinding and fsit clenching. Every time any character got even slightly annoyed, they would do the same thing. It was ridiculously repetitive. But the plot was still cool regardless.

I can imagine why /pol/shits hate it though. What with all the blacks, and a tranny.

[Anonymous No.14410734]

Has anyone done an inverse LoTR? Where modernity is good and rural life isn't romanticized

[Anonymous No.14410736]

>>14408970
That isn't Christmas themed. You have failed.

[Anonymous No.14410741]

>>14410734
The Last Ringbearer.

[Anonymous No.14410804]

>>14410736

[Anonymous No.14410848]

>>14410593
It's not like that's the entire world or anything, just geography pertinent to the story.

[Anonymous No.14410851]

>>14410648
it's two almost featureless rectangles man

[Anonymous No.14410855]

>>14410804
why did this make it hotter

[Anonymous No.14410856]

>>14410663
>What with all the blacks, and a trann
As a poltard I can safely say I hate it because it's preachy, pandering garbage that speaks down to me from a pedestal. It's also very shittily written. Fuck that noise.
Iain Banks's The Culture is a good example of a well written series whose politics I find very repulsive. I like it because in spite of being politically very different from me, Banks managed to not write in that infuriating way where his politics is hard universal truth and everyone else is just a bad person for not having the obviously correct politics.
So kindly fuck off out of here with your shilling and your strawmanning, thank you.

[Anonymous No.14410861]

>>14410368
Jesus, I totally forgot about the nameless kid.

[Anonymous No.14410866]

Does anyone else want BOTN-era Soulcatcher to dominate them

[Anonymous No.14410871]

>>14410856
>"As a poltard"
>Ends the post by insinuating there's a conspiracy to manipulate /lit/ users to buy the book
Checks out. You're another schizo. And I almost took your post seriously.

[Anonymous No.14410872]

>>14410851
i guess you could say the drawing is bad, but alot of the details of the locations of their travel are pretty well described in the books

[Anonymous No.14410874]

>>14410866
Was her shtick ever actually explained? Were the voices from all the people she's killed, is she possessed by them or just crazy?

[Anonymous No.14410878]

>>14409898
Dune>Dune Messiah>Children of Dune>God Emperor

[Anonymous No.14410881]

>>14410871
Her books are shit and she's incredibly overrated. These threads invariably start with "sanderfag a hack". But sure, we should cut her some slack because she was born to a baboon.

[Anonymous No.14410882]

>>14410856
reading the way people on the internet talk about politics truly depresses me. sure, i disagree with a lot of what's being said but the worst part about it for me is the catty, gossipy way people discuss their political opponents.
you'll see people make a normal post discussing the book and then end it by saying "yeah and fuck those trannies/virgins/libtards/wingnuts who disagree with me just because they're retarded"
it's fucking sad. amazing that people on this board, or all boards, completely dehumanize their political opponets like this.
>>14410871
>Ends the post by insinuating there's a conspiracy to manipulate /lit/ users to buy the book
how the fuck did you arrive at this interpretation? how the fuck anon? did you extrapolate all this based on the usage of the word "shilling"?

[Anonymous No.14410894]

>>14410874
I dunno because as soon as I hit that part of that book I forgot to keep reading it. Frankly I just couldn't handle how human the Taken became. I know that was part of the point, but it started to feel like fanfiction.

[Anonymous No.14410915]

>>14410872
yeah, sure, the details are based on the descriptions in the books and the drawfag doesn't have much to go on but that doesn't mean the maps aren't ugly. it just means he has an excuse for them being ugly. but a more creative drawfag or the author himself could have come up with better maps.

it's like if i told you it takes a week's walk north from rome to reach florence and it takes a week's walk south to reach napoli. if you were the retarded black company drawfag you'd draw a rectangular plain with rome at the center and the other two cities at opposite ends. but if you were a decent drawfag you'd ask for more details to help you with your drawing, or invent some terrain to spice your map up.

[Anonymous No.14410927]

>>14410894
>mfw that scene when they offer tea to the Limper and he casually accepts

[Anonymous No.14410933]

I started reading The Black Company and got about a quarter of the way through before feeling burnt out on fantasy and falling off. I took a break and read Dune which was a nice change of pace, should I go back to TBC or start on Dune Messiah?

[Anonymous No.14410938]

>>14410933
Neither, read The Broken Earth!

[Anonymous No.14410940]

>>14410881
Ok. I never said she should be cut any slack. I just think the criticism that the book is preachy is just plain wrong. But I'm not going to bother arguing with a schizo who sees shills everywhere he posts. Do you also believe you're being gangstalked?

>>14410882
>did you extrapolate all this based on the usage of the word "shilling"?
Yes. How can one possibly call me a "shill" for merely saying I liked the book? The only way the word makes sense in this context, is if you think I and the other anon are the same, or working together to build up a narrative. Stating you liked a book does not warrant a "shill" label. So I'm trying to make sense of what was said.

[Anonymous No.14410943]

>>14410933
i'd say stick with dune. both series become a bit of a slog so stick with the most recent one you've enjoyed. hopefully the intertia will keep you reading.
personally i dropped dune after dune messiah and based on what i've read on the internet about the series since then, i regret it.

[Anonymous No.14410946]

>>14410940
okay so if i call you a faggot, does that mean you'll go on a tangent saying i wrongfully accused you of enjoying anal sex with men and having aids?
that would be a pretty extreme response, no?

[Anonymous No.14410958]

>>14410872
Wish I had this map when reading. Do you have maps for Dread Empire or Instrumentalities of the Night by Cook?

[Anonymous No.14410967]

>>14410946
Depends on the context. Here, the post I was replying to was creating a narrative. And other anons were denouncing him. So I replied to him, and saw the same kind of denouncing.

It would be like if someone else was being called gay, you talk to that guy, and then everyone starts calling you gay too.

[Anonymous No.14410975]

>>14410967
>It would be like if someone else was being called gay, you talk to that guy, and then everyone starts calling you gay too.
this is actually how it worked in high school if i remember right

[Anonymous No.14410978]

>>14410878
based, thanks, that was the order I was trying to remember, god emperor was good but you had to read some crappy other book first

[Anonymous No.14410990]

>>14410958

[Anonymous No.14410995]

>>14410874
She and Croaker banged right? At least a few times when she held him captive correct?

[Anonymous No.14411000]

>>14410990
kek, I guess the world building in the books are shit

[Anonymous No.14411005]

Give me some obscure cyberpunk from the 80s. Not the big names like Gibson, Sterling or Swanwick. Somebody less known, who tried to follow that new trend for those strange things called computers, cyberspace and having metal things in your body. Something authentic from that era

[Anonymous No.14411009]

The more I read, the more I realize "prose" is a complete meme. I honestly don't give a fuck how basic or repetitive the book is written, so long as it's able to adequately convey its intent and ideas.
The meaning of the words are far more important than how it's stated.

[Anonymous No.14411024]

>>14411009
Sometimes prose can get in the way and make the book too much trouble to read. I've had this problem with certain older fantasy works I've attempted to read.

[Anonymous No.14411026]

>>14411000
idk i haven't read those books you mentioned
black company has pretty sparse but workable world building, since it's supposed to be from the point of view of a military force passing through. the maps are horrendous though

[Anonymous No.14411045]

Not exactly a cozy christmas read, but it does feature snow in abundance.

[Anonymous No.14411046]

>>14411009
yeah pretty much this. i have a limit on how much poor writing i'm willing to tolerate but in general i'm not particularly impressed by flowery or descriptive language either. yes, gormenghast was written well, no doubt, but i never cared about what happens in that book. i never thought to myself "wow this situation is shaping up to be whacky as hell, i can't wait to read the whimsical language the author will use to describe this scene"

that said, when a book manages to marry pretty prose to a compelling plot, that's when you have something truly special (the night land)

[Anonymous No.14411051]

>>14411045
Also, that should be
>apologies for lack of GI

[Anonymous No.14411061]

>>14411009
>The man stood at the precipice of the heavy, ancient oak drawbridge, looking down into a shadowy teal miasma of water and putrification; the still, stale moat of a castle that had withstood centuries of warfare, it's bed raised by meat and marrow. As the dying sun broke bronze over the castle wall, the creeping shadows hid the gulleys and crenellations of the surface, a thousand hideaways and ambush points sneering in the coming dark. The iron gate stood open, tempting any would be invader into its maw. The man advanced.
>A man went into a castle.
>/lit/ - "prose is a meme".
I fucking hate this place sometimes.

[Anonymous No.14411091]

>>14411061
False dichotomy. One has a lot of descriptors, the other doesn't even try to describe the castle. So that's pretty gay of you, anon.

[Anonymous No.14411094]

>>14411061
>heavy, ancient
>still, stale
>meat and marrow
>gulleys and crenellations
i'm supposed to be impressed by these, is that right?

[Anonymous No.14411098]

>>14411061
Both of those are bad

[Anonymous No.14411121]

>>14411091
>>14411094
>>14411098
I know this is sffg but Jesus Christ; it's no wonder we have a litrpg general now. Where the fuck are you people coming from?

[Anonymous No.14411122]

>>14410940
>I just think the criticism that the book is preachy is just plain wrong.
Different anon here. I disagree entirely. Those books were some of the preachiest I've ever read. Perhaps you can't see it because it was all normal for you? I think the use of second person greatly exacerbated that feeling for me.

[Anonymous No.14411126]

>>14411009
Listen here little baby. You're gonna get a lot of hurtful and degrading comments, but that ain't what I'm about. Let me just say, you are perfect the way you are. You hear me sugar? PERFECT. Don't ever change. You deserve anything and everything you want. Stay safe for me, baby girl.
>mfw thinking of you hurting

[Anonymous No.14411133]

>>14411009
>coming out as a retard on Christmas Eve
Well then.

[Anonymous No.14411139]

>>14411121
I don't even know what litrpg is. I heard the term a few times. It sounds like D&D shit to me. I don't like D&D stuff. I'm from /v/, btw.

[Anonymous No.14411145]

>>14411121
well, i'm willing to concede that i might have been unimpressed by your quote because it was out of context.
what book is it from? i'm willing to give it a chance

[Anonymous No.14411166]

>>14409625
Moms are based
>>14410485
The Rolling Stones has a redhead gilf as one of the main characters

[Anonymous No.14411170]

this shit's gay dude

[Anonymous No.14411172]

>>14409106
Dude, no one read jemesin's trash. You are trying so hard to push her but she is talentless and unintelligent. Read Gene Wolfe and Mervyn Peake for true writing, amazing worlds, and actual intelligence. Based as fuck too

[Anonymous No.14411202]

>>14410104
Can you (or anyone else) explain how anyone can enjoy "A wise man's fear" by Patrick Rothfuss?

Persuaded by a friend to read it, but I struggle.
Sadly it's not your average 80k word novel but closer to 400k. (It's a fucking nightmare.)

Been reading reviews on Amazon trying to figure out what's so great about it, but the 5 star reviews I checked so far, don't explain - just proclaim.

[Anonymous No.14411217]

Who here /comfypunk/?

>Witcher books 1 and 2
>Dunk & Egg tales
Anything else with this feel? The comfy adventures of heroes who deal with peasants and lords alike, making a living on the road.

[Anonymous No.14411225]

>>14409767
The Twilight Giants trilogy has a half-giant amazon princess as the love interest

[Anonymous No.14411226]

>>14411170
>this shit's gay dude
Gay in a good or a bad way?

[Anonymous No.14411361]

>>14410915
>>14411026
>>14410851
>>14410593
Are mapfags the most autistic fags?

[Anonymous No.14411365]

>>14410485
Trymoon saga

[Anonymous No.14411374]

>>14411361
Second only to powerlevel fags.
t. Mapfag

[Anonymous No.14411412]

>>14409175
The thrawn trilogy is good.

[Anonymous No.14411445]

>>14410587
It doesn't get less hamfisted.

[Anonymous No.14411463]

>>14411122
Agreed. Incredibly obvious preaching. And second person is very hard to pull off. So is first person, tho I think I read some other book by jemisin where I liked her first person pov. But it was a long time ago, would have to reread to be sure.

[Anonymous No.14411541]

What type things make you unable to stop yourself from questioning "if magic can do this, why can't it do this other thing?"

[Anonymous No.14411562]

>>14410995
They banged in the south. He popped the cherry and got her pregnant

[Anonymous No.14411569]

>>14411361
Mapfags should read reamde by Stephenson

[Anonymous No.14411579]

>>14411122
>I think the use of second person greatly exacerbated that feeling for me.
Maybe it was never preachy. Maybe it was entirely your perception due to the second person perspective?

[Anonymous No.14411581]

>>14411562
im talking about soulcatcher, not the lady

[Anonymous No.14411594]

>>14411579
I guess I'm trying to say that's part of what makes it preachy. Preachy being the way things are conveyed to me, the reader.

[Anonymous No.14411601]

>>14411594
That's all it take to make a book preachy? Simply talk to the reader?

[Anonymous No.14411632]

>>14411601
No, it's a combination of the method used to discourse with me directly and the
(conviction? extremity? having a hard time getting this down) of the ideas conveyed. Either by themselves wouldn't necessarily make me feel preached at.

[Anonymous No.14411650]

>>14411632
Uh huh. So because the book is written in second person, the pov character can never be admonished, scolded, mentored, or lectured in any way without being considered preachy.

[Anonymous No.14411663]

>>14411650
Look, there's no reason to be snippy. I honestly can't think of another book I've read in second person, so there's nothing I can draw a comparison with. Maybe I would find all books with second person povs preachy.

[Anonymous No.14411678]

>$8 for the lot at my local church

[Anonymous No.14411683]

So 2 years ago I bought my mother the complete (thus far) series of The Expanse.
She finished the latest book earlier this month.

I wanted to find her a new series, preferably with at least 3-4 entries. Scifi, fantasy, doesn't really matter, she likes both. If you guys have any ideas, I could definitely use the help.

[Anonymous No.14411686]

>>14411678
>cheap books, I'm sure they are good!
>sanderson
You overpaid by 8 dollars

[Anonymous No.14411691]

>>14411663
I'm snippy, because I suspect that you are externalizing your uncomfortable feelings, by laying the criticism on the book. Rather than reflecting internally, and coping with the feelings that the book elicited.

[Anonymous No.14411705]

>>14411683
My mother likes the Green Rider series by Kristen Britain. I think one of my aunts got her into it.

[Anonymous No.14411727]

>>14411691
I'm not sure what you mean. For what it's worth I did think the writing itself was decent. Not amazing, but decent. As far as feelings, that trilogy was one of the most revolting things I've had the displeasure of reading. Just so you know where I'm coming from.

[Anonymous No.14411733]

>>14411686
>Disliking Sanderson

Pic related, you an intellectual.

[Anonymous No.14411752]

>>14411678
Are you at least 20 years old? If you are, skip Steelheart and Firefight. The rest are alright.

[Anonymous No.14411771]

>>14411172
imagine repeating what you heard in an echo chamber ad infinitum

[Anonymous No.14411789]

>>14411727
What I mean is that to say the book is preachy, is to put blame on the book for how you feel. I'm thinking of my impression of the book, and I didn't get the preachy feel for it. So I don't know how the book could have given the feeling to you.

For example, say you and I walking, and a rabbit crosses our path. I might jump in fear, and you wouldn't. I say the rabbit "is threatening." You look at me like I'm fucking crazy, because it's just a rabbit, and it didn't even motion toward us. You explain as much, but I just reply, "there's just something about it's teeth. They're so big, and those legs are so powerful. That rabbit is definitely a threat."
I'm putting blame on a rabbit for my own fear. I'm externalizing.

[Anonymous No.14411796]

Is all the Sanderson hate some kind of elaborate reverse psychology? Because I'm considering reading his work, just to see what all the hate is about.

[Anonymous No.14411809]

>>14411796
It's a retarded autist, he has been posting that shit every thread for years, it dedicated autism.

[Anonymous No.14411821]

>>14411796
Yes, Branderson is actually bankrolling this threads whole existence. Don't tell the mods.

[Anonymous No.14411833]

>>14411796
I don't know, I like Sanderson. He's not perfect but his stuff is fun. There's plenty of consistent issues his writing has you can poke fun at him for (anime magic systems, bland female characters, etc) but it's still entertaining stuff. Like, /sffg/ books are already light reading as is, it's escapist entertainment that lasts a few hours, and it succeeds at being that.

[Anonymous No.14411834]

>>14411796
You should. Read Mistborn. And if a trilogy is too much of a commitment, read Elantris or Warbreaker. I've kind of grown tired of his act, but he's certainly written stuff that hits a mark.

[Anonymous No.14411838]

>>14411796
The Sanderson hate is a meme, I don't like the guy but I don't autisticly hate him. It's just one dedicated anon on some retarded crusade. Now the tranny from reddit who has been trying to stir shit in these threads by bringing up Queen Nog and her shitty books is something that's relatively new.

[Anonymous No.14411859]

started reading the name of the wind after seeing it recommended so much. great book. favorite part so far is self inserting when the protag shows up his academy peers/teachers

[Anonymous No.14411866]

>>14411789
The rabbit's presence frightened you though. It could just as easily be said that I was entirely nerveless and incapable of fear.
Maybe we're getting around to that second person thing again. Would you care to recommend any other books that made use of it? I'll read most anything SFF if I can find it easily for my ereader. Only thing I prefer to avoid is explicitly detailed sex scenes.

[Anonymous No.14411881]

>>14411859
>started reading the name of the wind after seeing it recommended so much
>after seeing it recommended so much
This is how I know this post is bait.

[Anonymous No.14411884]

>>14411866
I don't know any other second person books. I don't think you need more exposure in order to measure the preachiness of The Broken Earth. No more than you would need to see a lion before deciding the rabbit is no threat.

[Anonymous No.14411888]

>>14411834
>Elantris
I've never in my life read an ending that is at the same time obnoxiously foreshadowed but also manage to feel like a gigantic deus ex machina. And it's obvious that it's his first book, the writing is subpar and the characters are cliche as fuck. I cannot fathom how anyone could enjoy it as anything other than babby's first fantasy. Warbreaker is decent enough.

[Anonymous No.14411901]

>>14411888
At the time Elantris was written, just having and ending was a revolutionary act for fantasy.

[Anonymous No.14411904]

>>14411884
I'm kinda at a loss then, because it wasn't a mild "this is kinda preachy" feeling, it felt quite overbearing. Thanks for talking with me about it anyhow.

[Anonymous No.14411916]

>>14411796
he's just very popular, you could talk about sanderson literally everywhere, from facebook to reddit to even twitter coming here to talk about him is a little stupid.

[Anonymous No.14411917]

>>14411901
lmao
Still an extraordinarily shitty book however.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14411920]

>>14408970
Me on the left!

>>14410379
Thinking over my story, I have had to invent a region (and I picked NYC) that has created a type of droid that look like men. This is so all the most straight oriented women have a place to go. If anyone ITT wants to take a crack at writing it I have some further details

[Anonymous No.14411922]

Damn, mentioning Sanderson brought the (You)s. No wonder he's always mentioned. I didn't think 6 users were active at this time.

[Anonymous No.14411924]

>>14411888
>>14411834
Elantris is shit.

Mistborn is decent and Way of Kings is Sanderson trying to go down in history as good.

[Anonymous No.14411960]

>>14411922
they are all me

[Anonymous No.14412012]

Merry Christmas faggots.
Are all the burgers in bed yet?
I'm reading dead urban fantasy on Christmas.. joys

[Anonymous No.14412041]

>>14412012
What are you reading fren? Burgers are awake right now. Its 4pm afternoon for us.

[Anonymous No.14412051]

Just started reading powder mage.
Tell me Taniel doesn't get back together with Vlora. She seemed like a cunt so far.
I'm at the point where the confrontation at the barricades went south.

[Anonymous No.14412099]

>>14411796
just read way of kings

[Anonymous No.14412104]

>>14412041
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Night-Ghosts-Magic-Book-ebook/dp/B00KET4TR2
It's about some guy that is dying and can't get an erect to fuck the elf and legless assassin.

[Anonymous No.14412113]

>>14412012
>Are all the burgers in bed yet?
It's 7:23 on the east coast. What shithole are you from, that you can't even do simple time conversion to the US? Some slavic hell hole?

[Anonymous No.14412153]

>>14412104
I might.... give this a try.....

[Anonymous No.14412324]

Top 10 Selling Books of the Decade
1. Fifty Shades of Grey
2. Fifty Shades Darker
3. Fifty Shades Freed
4. The Hunger Games
5. The Help
6. The Girl on The Train
7. Gone Girl
8. The Fault in Our Stars
9. The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo
10. Divergent

The Hunger Games and Divergent define SFF now.

"decade’s top-selling books were tied to movie adaptations"
Without a movie to sell the books, the books don't sell. Seems even the Game of Thrones TV series wasn't enough. Has to be a movie.

"In 2010, nearly 80 percent of the top-selling titles were fiction, and by 2019 that percentage dropped to 32 percent."
Fiction is dead. The anons asking why anyone would read fiction weren't memeing.

"Overall 6.5 billion print books were sold over the past decade, compared to just 1.8 billion e-books. After a high point in 2013, e-books have continuously lost share to print books every year"
Ebooks are a failed technology it seems. How unfortunate, but it doesn't matter to me, I will use ebooks regardless.

" growth in audiobooks is another trend expected to continue well into the next decade"
Again, this can be seen even in this thread.

>downward trend in the average page count for leading titles over the past decade.
Will the novella become the dominant form?


Could I have a made a thread for this? Yes, but I didn't want to. You can if you want.

https://www.prweb.com/releases/fifty_shades_of_grey_was_the_best_selling_book_of_the_decade_in_the_u_s_the_npd_group_says/prweb16796783.htm

[Anonymous No.14412356]

>>14408970
Sage this libshit

[Anonymous No.14412400]

>>14412324
asoiaf would probably sell alot more if it was YA

[Anonymous No.14412489]

I got about three pages into Diaspora before I accepted that it was too hard for me plus I don't care too much about its early topics (creating new species through gene editing and so on).
I don't know what to read now. I just thought about how to keep my Kindle charged while I'm homeless, fuck.

[Anonymous No.14412495]

>>14411166
>turk 128
Thanks. Downloading as we speak.

[Anonymous No.14412513]

>>14411172
I read her Broken Earth trilogy.
It was not trash. It was nice to read something different from what i had read before.

>>14412324
They don't define SFF, they define "young adult" in shitty sff settings.

[Anonymous No.14412518]

>>14412051
He doesn’t

[Anonymous No.14412529]

ran out of shit to read so I bought the drizzt books. what am I in for?

[Anonymous No.14412538]

>>14412529
Fantasy tee-ball. Right on home plate, just the right height, frozen, sitting there to get whacked.

[Anonymous No.14412561]

>>14412529
>>14412538
>tfw when you own 100s of Forgotten Realms novels

[Anonymous No.14412611]

I've been keeping up my "write every day challenge" for four months now. I feel like I should have improved. Instead I just feel dead inside

[Anonymous No.14412634]

>>14412324
Men don't care. Neither the readers or the authors.

[Anonymous No.14412704]

>>14411881
oh i dont browse /lit/ normally. is that book considered bad here?

[Anonymous No.14412710]

>>14412324
>"Overall 6.5 billion print books were sold over the past decade, compared to just 1.8 billion e-books. After a high point in 2013, e-books have continuously lost share to print books every year"
>Ebooks are a failed technology it seems. How unfortunate, but it doesn't matter to me, I will use ebooks regardless.
this can probably be laid at the feet of turbo normies who like collecting books for their shelf to flex on their normie friends about how much of an avid reader they are.
>oh, i just like the feel of a book in my hand, i can't get into these ereaders
yeah sure thing buddy. you keep lugging those books around while i have 100+ free books that can fit into my jacket pocket

[Anonymous No.14412716]

>>14412704
It features women who don't sleep with the MC so of course the incels here hate it.

[Anonymous No.14412723]

>>14412716
if it's such a great series, why don't you finish it, rothfuss?

[Anonymous No.14412774]

>>14412716
What the actual fuck are you talking about? Women literally throw themselves at Kvothe. And there's that one part where he fucks some impossibly gorgeous sex hungry Fae and despite it being him having zero experience with girls he was the best she ever had. The only girl that won't fuck him is his actual love interest which is made even more hilarious by the fact that she's a literal whore and fucks everyone else.

[Anonymous No.14412779]

>>14412723
writing isn't easy anon. It's kind of like getting ripped, though the pain and the potential muscle injuries are mental rather than physical. On top of that powering through it every day won't get you any closer to where you need to be. You actually have to feel the writing come through you like a tangible force independent of you that you have no control over. If you don't, you'll write alright, but it will be complete and utter horrendous horseshit.

Take it from a writer who desperately wishes he had the freedom to kill himself without hurting his family anon. Writing isn't easy

[Anonymous No.14412782]

>>14412723
I think it's a pretty awful series but the reason this general hates on it is laughable.

[Anonymous No.14412783]

>>14412704
>name of the wind
So, no opinion on the second book? A wise man's fear.

[Anonymous No.14412788]

>>14412782
>the reason this general hates on it is laughable
>~the reason~
Which reason is that?

[Anonymous No.14412795]

>>14410481
>there will never be another Lady or BC book
We'll get A Pitiless Rain at some point. I just hope that one will take place as a proper epilogue for Lady and not a revisit to the books of the south.

[Anonymous No.14412805]

>>14412788
read>>14412716
he's just another faggot looking for an excuse to go on a rant against his pet peeve issue with 4chan. incels, trannies, sjws, poltards, etc., etc.
the most basic of basic bitch posters we have on this site.

[Anonymous No.14412809]

>>14412805
Incelanon is a diamond dozen shitposter and if that other anon thinks it was a serious post, he's a newfag.
Two brands of idiocy

[Anonymous No.14412813]

I need some help with worldbuilding.
I need to consume some material on mythology to get nice ideas i dont want to just copycat sucessful settings.
What are some MUST READ books on mythology?
I know that the odessy is already on my list.

[Anonymous No.14412830]

>>14412795
Croaker looks like that? Or is that supposed to be old Croaker? I was under the impression that at the start at least he was at least somewhat handsome.

[Anonymous No.14412869]

>>14412774
>unrealistic depiction of sex
NTA, but I think the author's summary of his life may explain that.

>black and white, odd angle photo - if you're a hobby photographer, you know what this means
I doubt Patrick had any sexual experience until he met his wife.
Which he did after he had financial success with book number one.
So unlikely to have been even remotely attractive as an aging student.

[Anonymous No.14412911]

>>14412830
I always thought he was handsome but I based it on self inserting and the art from the wiki, the ones featured on the Ladys page and the one you posted. His art is pretty much what I decided to use in my head.

[Anonymous No.14412914]

>>14412830
i don't think there is ever much description of him or any official art

[Anonymous No.14412963]

>>14412869
>that shirt

[Anonymous No.14413056]

>>14412830
The series takes place over about 40 years, right?

[Anonymous No.14413108]

>>14412963
Well duh, a cuck following a cuck.

[Anonymous No.14413134]

>>14408970
Where i can get books with such femdom shit like OP pic?

[Anonymous No.14413180]

>>14413134
Ask these people
>>14400760

[Anonymous No.14413191]

>>14413180
Ty

[Anonymous No.14413478]

>>14412795
>>14412830
>>14412911
>>14412914
>He’d been diminished by his wound but he was still a big man, four inches over six feet tall. He was about forty-five years old. His hair was an average, unnoteworthy brown. He’d begun to go bald in front. His eyes were hard, humorless, icy blue, narrow and deeply set. He had a ragged, greying beard surrounding a thin-lipped mouth that seldom smiled. His face bore scattered reminders of a childhood pox and more than a few memories of acne. He might have been moderately good-looking once. Time had been unkind. Even in repose his face looked hard and a little off center.
>He’d described himself as looking like a child molester waiting for a chance to strike. He wasn’t comfortable with his appearance.
from dreams of steel

[Anonymous No.14413538]

>>14413478
Sounds dreamy to me

[Anonymous No.14413631]

>>14409747
i need 2 more responses to finish the survey

[Anonymous No.14413667]

>>14413631
>sign in
hahaha no

[Anonymous No.14413802]

>>14412104
The book is narrated by Jeff Hayes, is it a litrpg? That's the only books he does.

[Anonymous No.14413824]

>>14413631
>sign in
Nice try china

[Anonymous No.14413880]

>>14413538
Sounds like you're looking for a daddy.

[Anonymous No.14413882]

>>14412324
absolutely horrendous taste

>"Overall 6.5 billion print books were sold over the past decade, compared to just 1.8 billion e-books. After a high point in 2013, e-books have continuously lost share to print books every year"
piracy. no one has, thankfully, done anything to protect e-books yet.

[Anonymous No.14413901]

>>14412324
>>14413882
Good Reads 2019 winners don't paint a better picture, either. I swear to god it's like only hipster lefties read these days. Or have significant enough voting block to make a difference with their shit taste.

[Anonymous No.14413961]

>>14413901
>these days
If you have not noticed Goodreads awards have been shit since day 1, accurately reflecting ratings on Goodreads in general. And you don't need theories about hipster lefties to account for it either, any polling of the general public will result in low brow trash winning and it always have. 400 years ago Cervantes wrote Don Quixote simply to bitch about peoples horrendous reading habits.

[Anonymous No.14414053]

>>14408970
So can somebody recommend science fiction or fantasy novels with that femdom aesthetic?

[Anonymous No.14414086]

>>14413631
Oy, pollfag, how many voters we got?

[Anonymous No.14414169]

Why don't I see people discussing the true fantasy kino series of the past few years?

[Anonymous No.14414181]

>>14411217

GRRM SLOP is not welcome here, stranger

[Anonymous No.14414240]

>>14412813
Read John Scheid, Paul Vernant and Jerome Baschet, all of them historians. Don't just copy a pantheon, read about the ancient's take on religion.

[Anonymous No.14414247]

>>14414181
most people here agree that grrm is a solid 7/10, edgelord.

[Anonymous No.14414273]

>>14414247
>7/10
No way José, more like a solid 6/10.

[Anonymous No.14414385]

>>14408970
God I wish that were me.

[Anonymous No.14414414]

>>14414247
If he'd finished his books at the quality level of the first three, then yes. Maybe if he'd finished them at all.

[Anonymous No.14414453]

>>14411683
The Chronicles of Amber or The Elric Saga.

[Anonymous No.14414464]

>>14410130
>200+ replies and not a single recommendation for me
youre all a bunch of useless faggots does anyone here even read?

[Anonymous No.14414472]

>>14414464
It's not as if (good) series like that are written that often.

[Anonymous No.14414479]

>>14411005
Brunner

[Anonymous No.14414482]

>>14410130
The Elric Saga and The Chronicles of Amber come to mind.

[Anonymous No.14414484]

>>14414472
>Wheel of Time
>good
Pick one.

>>14414464
Try Malazan. If you like animu & manga, anything by Sanderhack.

[Anonymous No.14414488]

>>14414464
>great fantasy epic
If you've read LotR you've read all great fantasy epics there are bud.

[Anonymous No.14414501]

>>14414464
Thomas Covenant but Gap Series is better.

[Anonymous No.14414509]

>>14414169
Really enjoying that series. Each book has been just as good as the last. I really never expected to like it as much as I do. Very pleasantly surprised.

[Anonymous No.14414543]

When will Scott Lynch's publisher release the next Gentleman Bastards instalment? Republic of Thieves released seven years ago...

[Anonymous No.14414547]

>>14414169
this was enjoyable yet when i finished there was no desire to buy the remaining books

[Anonymous No.14414551]

>>14414484
I loved the malazan series. I'm on my third re read. I like the side books alot too

[Anonymous No.14414577]

>>14414551
how much time do you spend reading? reading this series +side books three times is probably a two year project for me.
no way could i dedicated that sort of time to reading a single series with so much out there that i haven't read

[Anonymous No.14414759]

>>14414577
My job allows me read a bunch.
Got any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.14414762]

>>14414169
It's great! It has good character arcs.

[Anonymous No.14414767]

>>14414759
cool. suggestions for a long fantasy series? black company and chronicles of amber.

[Anonymous No.14414778]

>>14414762
>>14414169
is this series complete?

[Anonymous No.14414827]

>>14414767
Black company was good
I'll check out chronicals of amber

[Anonymous No.14414829]

>>14414778
>NOVEMBER 3, 2019 THE STATE OF BOOK FOUR
>It is with a sense of boundless disappointment that I must announce a delay to the release of the final volume in the Books of Babel tetralogy. Book Four, originally slated for release in 2020, has been pushed into 2021. This is my fault.
>I asked Orbit to extend my deadline to May of 2020 to give me time to finish the final entry in the series. They graciously agreed. The original schedule for writing the book was a bit ambitious given my writing speed and expanding family. I’ve suffered some setbacks with the draft, including the deletion of a hundred pages or so. But rest assured, I continue to diligently labor upon the effort. My wife and I are increasing the number of days that our daughter, Maddie, is in daycare to make the next six months as productive as possible.
> I realize that a minority of readers are somewhat cynical about publication delays. The postponement of certain high-profile series have left such readers feeling victimized by the people who endeavored to entertain them. To them I would say, I have logged your complaints, and I hope that you understand I am both financially, contractually, and personally motivated to finish the series. It will be done.
>[...] I’m working to complete the dream that commenced almost a decade ago. It is a vision I mean to finish.

Not yet.

[Anonymous No.14414839]

>>14414829
well, i'll make a note of this series then, and maybe revisit it when book four is out.

[Anonymous No.14414850]

>>14414839
In my opinion, it's good enough to read now. It's the sort of story you don't want to end, as most of the satisfaction comes from spending time with the characters.

[Anonymous No.14414872]

>>14414850
sorry m8. it certainly speaks well about the series that you're so enthusiastic in shilling it (and i love character based stories), but i just don't want to take the chance that a series might be unfinished or that i have to wait an unknown amount of time for the last book.

[Anonymous No.14414945]

>>14412324
8/10 women authors
10/10 female lead
The 2 male authors wrote a romance and a female protagonist.
The present and future is female.

[Anonymous No.14414955]

>>14414945
women read more than men

[Anonymous No.14414971]

>>14414955
Probably also pirate less

[Anonymous No.14415075]

>>14414829
I didn't care for the series but nice of the author to actually communicate with the readerbase.

[Anonymous No.14415091]

>>14412813
>some material on mythology to get nice ideas
Why not read about actual mythology as a source of inspiration?
(And I don't mean the boring monoteistic Abraham copycat religions.)

Hinduism, shintoism, sikhism are examples of pretty colorful religions useful as a source of inspiration to a fantasy world. They are also tested to be "believable" by a billion or so people.
Unless you write whacky-fantasy you may want to avoid Scientology and stuff based on alien teutons.

[Anonymous No.14415105]

>>14412813
Read Campbell

[Anonymous No.14415111]

>>14415091
there are all kinds of native american stuff as well that most people have never heard of

[Anonymous No.14415120]

Any good vampire books that are not urban fantasy?

[Anonymous No.14415145]

>>14415120
Some VtM clan novels.

[Anonymous No.14415359]

i'm watching the witcher show whilst everyone else is having a nap after xmas dinner and it's really reminding me of all the flaws in Sapkowski's writing lol
outside of maybe three of the short stories I think there's a genuine case to be made that the videogames told better stories with the world and characters

[Anonymous No.14415372]

Anyone have download links for the Death Dealer books by James Silke? The ones with the Frank Frazetta art on the covers. Mobilsm only has the first 2 books. Not the last two.

[Anonymous No.14415380]

>>14413901
Atwood's new book sucks
Ninth House is fantastic albeit probably the 4th best book out of the ones they had up in voting round 1
It's alright for late King but there's better out there

Honestly Recursion's the weakest genre fic entry on there and that's male author lol.

[Anonymous No.14415425]

>>14415372
Use a different site or just edit the cover with the image you want. Both are easy.

[Anonymous No.14415437]

>>14415145
why would you make this post and avoid naming any titles? what was going through your head? are you just lonely and hoping that someone would reply to you asking for more information?
here's your (you). which books in particular were you talking about?

[Anonymous No.14415454]

>>14415437
What mental gymnastics are you undergoing here? People say clan novels are a fun read if you're into the lore, so choose the one that sounds interesting to you, assuming you're the anon in question, and give it a shot.

[Anonymous No.14415458]

>>14415425
What, I know I can do that, im just specifying the book I am talking about since multiple people used the name before. I just needed the 3rd and 4th book, I cant find it anywhere regardless of the cover it has.

[Anonymous No.14415496]

>>14415454
what the fuck are you talking about, mental gymnasics? are you sure you know what this phrase means? is english your second language? i'm asking the poster to be more specific and name the actuall well written titles.
if you're the guy who made the post i replied to, are you saying ALL clan novels are well written and i should just choose the ones that deal with a clan i'm interested in?

[Anonymous No.14415522]

>>14415359
are the books worth reading at all? if they're worth it i would prefer reading them before seeing the show

[Anonymous No.14415525]

>>14415496
I am that poster and your whole post about how I'm lonely and shit is the very definition of mental gymanstics, so I ask you again, what the fuck? No, I never said they're WELL WRITTEN, i sad they were A FUN READ. But to answer your question, start with the first entry and keep reading if you end up digging it. It is 13 volumes/7 books long.

[Anonymous No.14415532]

>Sanderson finally realizing he doesn't have infinite time to finish Cosmere
lol
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2019/

I may reread Ring. I don't know.

[Anonymous No.14415540]

Does /lit/ have any feelings on this book? It scratched that damsel in distress itch for me not a lot of fantasy can for me anymore

[Anonymous No.14415547]

>>14415540
redditcore

[Anonymous No.14415550]

>>14415532
>13 mistborn
>10 stormlight
does he really need to do this

[Anonymous No.14415558]

>>14415550
Stormlight was always going to be 10 books, his 'epic' series.
I don't like how he added the new Mistborn and can't even finish Book 4 in a timely manner.

[Anonymous No.14415559]

>>14415525
okay, i'm sorry for bullying you, clearly english isn't your first language
just to clarify why i was upset, when you use the word "some", it implies that only certain books of the clan novel series is worth reading, but not all. so that's why i asked you to say which books from that series were worth reading.
but if you say they're all fun reads, i might go for them.

does it matter in any way that the old world of darkness is defunct now and that people might not be familiar with world of darkness lore?

[Anonymous No.14415570]

>>14415559
No, not being familiar with the lore isn't a problem and you'll be able to follow the novels just fine. And I know my initial post wasn't worded in the best of ways, so thanks for being constructive in that regard and hope you enjoy reading them

[Anonymous No.14415571]

>>14415522
short stories are decent, novels I didn't get into
If you want to read before the show you need to read the 2 short story collections because it's directly adapting stuff from them

[Anonymous No.14415572]

>>14415558
thats what i mean, are there any other authors who have created multiple massive series?

[Anonymous No.14415582]

>>14415522
Go for it.

[Anonymous No.14415585]

>>14415570
no problem man, sorry we got off on the wrong foot
vampire the masquerade bloodlines is actually my favorite vidya of all time so i've always loved the setting. but i never got into the novels or rulebooks because the amount of lore always seemed so overwhelming

[Anonymous No.14415589]

Reading children of dune for the first time. Noticed they're talking about a seitch called jacurutu, which is... very close to a continent called jacuruku in the malazan series. What the fuck else am I missing besides caladan? First time reading the series, dune references everywhere

[Anonymous No.14415590]

>>14415585
VtM: Bloodlines is my favorite game of all time, too. Nothing quite scratches that itch like that game did and I'm stoked for 2, even though a lot of people aren't. And I know how you feel, I experienced the same when trying to get into Warhammer 40k. It's just so fucking big.

[Anonymous No.14415605]

>>14415359
still can't get over him having the same ending to his series as lotr

[Anonymous No.14415643]

>>14415359
>>14415522
>>14415571
As a Slav, I thought the Witcher novels were irresistably comfy. There was a certain slavic je ne sais quois quality about them But I think your English translations are pretty cringe, so it's hard to say. They're certainly missing some of the "soul" of the books.

I enjoyed the whole series immensely. I was in college when the translation of the last book was supposed to be published and I skipped eating for a couple of days, just so I could afford the book on release, and then I spent a whole day reading it from first page to last.

That said, I'll agree that the first two books that just had Geralt adventuring were something special. But that comfy feel doesn't disappear after the first two novels. Even in the latter novels you have geralt teaming up and camping and shooting the shit with various one-off or two-off characters. You have him doing monster jobs at different points in the books, you have slice of life moments, you have self contained stories. The tonal shift between books one and two and the rest really isn't all that dramatic. And the political plot in the latter books isn't that bad at all.

And Sapkowski's writing definitely had some cringe moments. But fantasy isn't the best written genre in general, so i think that unless you're going off the english translation, you should be able to get over them. I think saying the games tell better stories is quite a stretch. At most I'd say they tell stories that are as equally engaging as Sapkowski's stories.

[Anonymous No.14415691]

>>14415590
it's like you're reading my mind. i was just thinking that the only reason i was able to get into 40k was because i had a lot of free time as a teenager, when i found it, and nowadays i could never devote that sort of time to get into a fictional world. it doesn't help that the white wolf wiki doesn't seem to be as comprehensive and complete as the lexicanum.

agreed on the sequel. i'm playing the original right now, about to raid the plaguebearer cult's house with a very underpowered ventrue.

i wouldn't say i'm stoked about vtmb2 but i'm curious to see what they come up with. i feel like even the cancerous sjws they have working on the game now will have enough respect not to fuck up its great legacy. and they have enough decent people who worked on the original on the team who can keep them in check

[Anonymous No.14415822]

Is wolfes wizard/knight series as corny as it sounds? I liked botns, but the idea of a kid being sucked into a video game or something sounds really dumb.

[Anonymous No.14415825]

>>14412561
Im missing one final book for my complete FR collection, over 200 books. Including the full set of Double Diamond Triangle Saga. Brotherhood of the Griffin seems to have only had one print run RIP

[Anonymous No.14415827]

>>14415822
>but the idea of a kid being sucked into a video game or something sounds really dumb.
Its classic portal fantasy not modern isekai. It has its ups and downs but its a well written series and i would absolutely classify it as comfy.

[Anonymous No.14415831]

>>14415822
It's the only good isekai harem novel. Wolfe wrote it just to dab on the japs.

[Anonymous No.14415846]

>>14412529
Read the Erevis Cale trilogies instead man. First short story is The Butler from the Halls of Stormweather short story collection. Then Twilight Falling > Dawn of Night > Midnight's Mask > Shadowbred > Shadowstorm > Shadowrealm.

[Anonymous No.14415853]

Merry Christ Maas, boys and femboys.
>>14415825
Mega that shit at some point, won't you?
>>14415558
>Sanderson finally realizing he doesn't have infinite time to finish Cosmere
Lol, no he fucking didn't.
>once Stormlight Four is fully revised and turned in, I’ll have two main projects demanding my attention. Wax and Wayne four is one of those, Skyward is the other. (I might need to get to Skyward Three before it, FYI, depending on how much Stormlight burns me out
Wax and Wayne 4 never ever.

[Anonymous No.14415859]

>>14415691
different anon here, you guys might want to give the clan quest mod a shot if you haven't already.

[Anonymous No.14415871]

>>14415540
Why the fuck are you spamming this book?
You wanna get banned?

[Anonymous No.14415878]

>>14415853
My collection is physical paperbacks mostly but there is a mostly complete torrent floating out there for the majority of the FR collection. I assume you meant putting the files up on a Mega if I had them.

[Anonymous No.14415885]

>>14415853
Why do slampiggie white womenz turn me on so?

[Anonymous No.14415886]

>>14415878
Yes, I greatly underestimated the extent of your autism.
I downloaded a torrent that's more or less complete but a lot of the books are .rtf files.

[Anonymous No.14415892]

>>14415540
Scroll up holy shit

[Anonymous No.14415896]

>>14415886
>but a lot of the books are .rtf files.
Convert to epub in calibre.

[Anonymous No.14415901]

>>14415886
I have all of them in .epub if you want me to upload them somewhere but you can also convert whatever you want in calibre too.

[Anonymous No.14415904]

>>14415896
It fucks with the formatting and the scans themselves haven't been sifted through very well, lots of typos. I guess it's too cheeky to expect retail digital copies of mediocre DnD fantasy, I guess.

[Anonymous No.14415912]

>>14415901
That would be great, or if you got them all in one place you could just tell me where.

[Anonymous No.14415986]

>>14415904
i keep hearing this but i've never seen severely screwed up formatting in any book i've reformatted using calibre.
i've had some issues with missing line breaks and unclear distinctions between character speech (formatting not making it obvious when one character's line ends and another one's begins)
nothing you couldn't get over

[Anonymous No.14415994]

>>14415986
it's the ocd cucks that have problems

[Anonymous No.14416012]

>>14415994
now that might be true

[Anonymous No.14416029]

How do you screenshot your goodreads "Year in Books" page?

[Anonymous No.14416045]

>>14415691
I'm doing a Tremere playthrough atm, currently bombing Sabbat's warehouse. I know there's no chance that Bloodlines 2 is gonna be half as great as the original, but I have a feeling that it will be able to capture some of the magic that game had, and that it's going to be very solid overall, and that's honestly all I want. It's the game I'm buying a new PC for, that and Sekiro.

>>14415859
Didn't play it, but doesn't really interest me. Might give it a shot after I'm done with my current playthrough, though.

[Anonymous No.14416052]

>>14416029
You prt screen it into paint and cut out the number.

[Anonymous No.14416081]

>>14416052
There's no way to screenshot the entire page, though? I mean yes, I could slowly screenshot my way down and edit all the images into one.

[Anonymous No.14416098]

>>14416081
You could zoom out and try.

[Anonymous No.14416117]

>>14416081
there's a firefox addon that screenshots the whole page

[Anonymous No.14416126]

>>14416117
Name?

[Anonymous No.14416145]

https://www.williamdarand.com
Apparently people are stealing self published author's covers to use as their own now.

[Anonymous No.14416169]

>>14416145
Hardly surprising, though a scummy practice nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.14416213]

>>14416126
>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fireshot/?src=collection&collection_id=9f2c006c-9bb3-4d7b-880e-e45021de5901

[Anonymous No.14416238]

>>14415091
>Why not read about actual mythology as a source of inspiration?
But thats exactly what i mean, i want to read the myths of old.
I mean if i want to read some christian myth i can go to the bible, islam i can go to their book whose name i forgot, but when its shit like greek, nordic mythology and etc i have no idea what i should read.

[Anonymous No.14416250]

>>14416238
Then ask not here, but google best books on mythologies you give a shit about and START RESEARCHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.14416259]

>>14416250
I am doing that anon calm down its just that the books that i find may not be the best so i ask here since you guys are obviously cultured people.

[Anonymous No.14416274]

>>14416259
And what if they're not the best? Don't just rely on one, read as many as you can, as people normally do when doing serious research, and you're gonna be good.

[Anonymous No.14416282]

>>14416274
That's the plan, but sometimes there are books that are not well known, but that are very good, surely we agree on that?

[Anonymous No.14416290]

Wowee. Not everything as it doesn't count
>Blindsight reread
>nearly all of PKD's short stories
Lots of xianxia though.
>90/60 books

[Anonymous No.14416292]

>>14416282
Usually the most famous ones are good enough, but I get what you're getting at. Try asking people that have taken courses on the subject or look them up on the internet and see if they have the list of recommended literature for public display.

[Anonymous No.14416443]

Are there books about traveling merchants?
Nothing really about grand adventures or anything just really Some dude or a family of merchants traveling from place to place and making deals.

[Anonymous No.14416461]

>>14416443
The Dagger and the Coin
But it has grand adventures.

[Anonymous No.14416462]

>>14416443
there is a anime but there is a wolfgirl who cucks you

[Anonymous No.14416470]

>>14416461
Having a look.
>>14416462
Spice and Wolf? Tt was meh in my opinion. Don't remember any cucking. They had a fight once or something and split briefly but it got resolved quickly.

[Anonymous No.14416473]

>>14416443
>>14416462

Spice and Wold

[Anonymous No.14416485]

>>14416470
/a/ made a meme out of obstinately arguing that she slept with the wolf she had to prostrate herself in front of.

[Anonymous No.14416502]

>>14416485
A exaggerates everything.
To them a women talking to a guy working at a cash register in the grocery store when checking out is cucking.

[Anonymous No.14416504]

>>14416485
Yeah, she had to get on her knees... to pay respect
She absolutely didnt lick that knot no way

[Anonymous No.14416515]

>>14416502
Yeah but this specifically is them misrepresenting events specifically to provoke argument. I doubt there's any sincere belief involved.

Exhibit A:>>14416504

[Anonymous No.14416516]

>>14416502
>To them a women talking to a guy working at a cash register in the grocery store when checking out is cucking.
And its not?
If your woman finds a random more interesting than you something wrong is not right

[Anonymous No.14416527]

>>14416485
/a/ is stupid and has no clue about the medium

[Anonymous No.14416582]

I remember a b ook of fantasy that was edgy, it was about a boy in search of vengeance and he commanded a mercenary company i believe?
Anyone knows the name?

[Anonymous No.14416604]

>>14416582
Prince of Trash

[Anonymous No.14416607]

>>14415558
I liked a lot of early Sanderson but second mistborn is cringy midgrade junk. If he wants to write for younger people why crap on his solid previous series? I'd prefer he develop that magical chalk drawing thing he had going on.

[Anonymous No.14416614]

>>14416604
please anon tell me it seems rad

[Anonymous No.14416615]

>>14416607
YA is where the money is.

[Anonymous No.14416625]

>fdom
>jemisin
>fucking buttercunt
This thread sucks.

[Anonymous No.14416629]

>>14416614
No. It's really bad, don't read it.

[Anonymous No.14416633]

>>14416629
Why is it bad?
Give me a good reason not just
>book bad

[Anonymous No.14416635]

>>14415822
No, it's not corny. It sometimes plays as corny because it's narrated by a young boy. The ending is just tremendous, if you're a close reader.

[Anonymous No.14416647]

>>14416633
It's so edgy and pretentious it breaks through the so-bad-it's-good parody barrier onto the other side of plain insufferable cringe.

[Anonymous No.14416654]

>>14416647
Why is it edgy and pretentious?
Do you really expect me to take your statements at face value?

[Anonymous No.14416689]

Someone name a pornstar with this exact body type

[Anonymous No.14416690]

>>14416292
I've had courses and ended up with a bunch of primary text collections. I just looked for them so I could give the titles to anon, but no luck sorry. I did find one of my textbooks, but it wasn't as wild as the Sumerian stuff. https://books.google.com/books/about/Classical_Mythology.html?id=S81XAAAAYAAJ

[Anonymous No.14416705]

>>14412813
Tolkien wrote loads of essays and stuff on these sorts of subjects and his son has published a lot of them

[Anonymous No.14416725]

Maybe im better off going to /tg/ for this but im wondering if anyone has any ranking of warhammer 40k books so i dont have to search through all the shit ones. I have read the horus heresy up to the burning of prospero. Some of which were very good and some awful

[Anonymous No.14416728]

>>14416654
A main character who, in his early teens, is a master swordsman with a loyal band of crack commandos, who butchers and burns down a small town, while not forgetting to rape the mayors daughters, without failing to demean one of them even further by calling her fat. A protagonist who, at the tender age of 13, goes to a brothel and has such amazing sex with a whore, that the experienced mistress of pleasures is in awe of his technique and stamina and is satisfied as never before in her profession of plowing fields of cock.
These are things that happen in the book. Do you really wish to spend time with such a tome?
I mean, if you yourself are at the developmental age of 13 years old you might like it.

[Anonymous No.14416743]

>>14416728
God damn this is my kind of cringeness.
I might like it after all, but i am not a 13yo.

[Anonymous No.14416746]

[Anonymous No.14416784]

>>14409898

[Anonymous No.14416796]

>>14416081
>>14416029
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webpage-screenshot-entire/akgpcdalpfphjmfifkmfbpdmgdmeeaeo

[Anonymous No.14416802]

>>14416743
But I think the main reason why I hate Prince of Thorns so much is shame.
As in, what kind of cro-magnon reads this drivel? Me. I did. Two books of it. The book 2 ass-pull was the last straw.

[Anonymous No.14416849]

>>14416802
Thats okay since i like anime, you get used to this shit.
Just adapt your expectations.

[Anonymous No.14416899]

Anyone here read the wind from faerie?
Is it any good?

[Anonymous No.14416911]

>>14416604
>prince of trash
Can confirm Hes a total faggot

[Anonymous No.14416925]

>>14416911
whats the name of the book i like asshole protags

[Anonymous No.14416936]

>>14416925
prince of thorns

[Anonymous No.14416953]

>>14416936
based, rape only happes once or does he rape people again?

[Anonymous No.14416963]

>book literal fucking self fullfillement trash
>4 stars on GR
i see

[Anonymous No.14417038]

Just posting to say I can't make the thread again.

[Anonymous No.14417147]

Are there any good neon/cyberpunk/cozy-dystopian aesthetic novels you guys would recommend? Something that evokes the same atmosphere as pic related.

[Anonymous No.14417156]

>>14416728
Sounds like you're describing Kingkiller Vol. 2

[Anonymous No.14417188]

>>14417038
>what is every book released in the last 20 years

[Anonymous No.14417338]

>>14416290
>one other person read your book

[Anonymous No.14417358]

Is there anything like a Star Wars reading guide? Or is it best to just read Thrawn and that's it? Or just not read any SW stuff and stick to Dune?

[Anonymous No.14417368]

NEW THREAD
>>14417359
>>14417359
>>14417359
NEW THREAD

[Anonymous No.14417408]

>>14416899
>wind from faerie
Wind coming from Faerie?
Read pic related instead.

[Anonymous No.14417508]

>>14417358
Assuming you're not joking Dune has very little in common with Star Wars aside from the superficial stuff lifted for Tattooine.