/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.15565687]

horror edition

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What was the last horror book that you read? FICTION ONLY

[Anonymous No.15565767]

>>15565687
first for fuck E William Brown

[Anonymous No.15565791]

>>15565767
based

[Anonymous No.15565935]

>>15537017
Legend of Randidly Ghosthound is the closest you'll get for western xianxia. Since it is western (apocalypse gamelit not!) xianxia.

Somehow manages to not be as shit as it sounds. I'd even call it good, but expect people to shit on that since, well
>Royal Road

[Anonymous No.15566263]

Alright. No screwing around, which one of these genuinely scared and moved you? So that I may get it. I got scared of Rudolf Rocker(poltical theorist) when he wrote about primitive man and how he saw ghosts and spirits. And throughout my night reading session I felt as if I was being watched. I wanna fell that again.

[Anonymous No.15566294]

Asked in the previous thread just before it died so am asking here again.

Is the way of kings as bad as everyone here says? A relative bought me the book quite a while ago and I have been dreading it. For what it is worth I read the first 3 wot books and really did not like them. Thing is, I do not really have any other casual series to read. I am reading Dune and Gene Wolfe but that is not something you can read after a long day to just relax a little and idk. Could anyone here recommend me something more casual but also not garbage?

Also, to those who have read Shadowmarch and MST - how well do the two compare?

[Anonymous No.15566308]

>>15566294
>brandon "foot fetish" sanderson
To be desu it's probably even worse than people say it is.

[Anonymous No.15566338]

Anybody here read the Galaxy's Edge series? How is it? I'm aware of the (blatant) Star Wars/not Star Wars nature of the books, I'm more concerned with whether they are actually good

[Anonymous No.15566348]

>>15565687
Right now I"m reading Hyperion.

[Anonymous No.15566465]

>>15566263
Colour out of Space. Something about the trees swaying without a breeze really got under my skin

[Anonymous No.15566517]

>>15565687
I finished The House With A Clock In Its Walls a month ago. Now I'm reading picrel

[Anonymous No.15566576]

>>15566263
its not on there, but the willows by algernon blackwood is one of the best short stories ive ever read
highly recommend this book. it has various acclaimed horror stories

[Anonymous No.15566908]

I too nominate choice of magic to be shilled.
It was entertaining, but not as fun as the Beginning after the end.

[Anonymous No.15567296]

>horror books
lmao wtf? niggas be writing like "AAAAAH A MONSTER IS LOOKING AT ME THROUGH MY WINDOW AAAAHHHH HELP ME"

[Anonymous No.15567338]

>>15567296

[Anonymous No.15567390]

>>15567296
stop that. its deeper than that. sometimes the monster is unknowable

[Anonymous No.15567485]

>>15565687
fevre dream if it counts as horror. This book is full of spiders if it doesn't

[Anonymous No.15567848]

>>15566338
Star wars wasn't good, why do you expect a knock off to be good?

[Anonymous No.15567961]

>>15565767
How can sffg be so based?
Fuck E William Brown for shafting us.

[Anonymous No.15568247]

>>15567961
Why get so mad at a shitty smut writer? Did he stop writing your fap material to concentrate on his PG13 combat loli?

[Anonymous No.15568250]

this just came in to today. I didn't expect it to be so long. /lit/core has yet to fail me so far though.

[Anonymous No.15568282]

>>15568250
love that book, i have a weird fixation on regular human beings coming into contact with unfathomably old or more powerful things and it's chock full of that

i loved how old the world seemed, even the first chapter.

[Anonymous No.15568310]

>>15568247
That's the rub. He isn't putting out the pg13 loli. He is draining his paypigs as much as possible before releasing the book.

[Anonymous No.15568358]

>>15568247
I liked him for his autism magical engineering.

First time magic interested me so much.

[Anonymous No.15568378]

>>15565687
How come Fantasy novels also expand into series with 14 books, 1000 pages? Are there any one off fantasy novels that don't fucking take a life time to read?

[Anonymous No.15568387]

Is aeos a tranny?

[Anonymous No.15568392]

>>15568378
yes

[Anonymous No.15568425]

Any novel that actually portrays the future like it's going to be instead of what they want it to be?
No aliens will not be the same as us and no aliens will not be huge ants or something.
And no it's not like soldiers will be needed when drones can fight 100x more efficiently.
That's so uncreative.

[Anonymous No.15568461]

How do I write a good story? Serious question

[Anonymous No.15568521]

>>15568461
Make sure to be a good writer, the story is secondary. Probably.

[Anonymous No.15568533]

>>15567296
>Aeondead

[Anonymous No.15568543]

>>15568521
How do I become a good writer?

[Anonymous No.15568557]

I finally made it to book 9.

[Anonymous No.15568701]

>>15568425
>Is there a hard sci fi book that fits my exact speculations on how the future will look
Sure there is, once you write it.

[Anonymous No.15568715]

>>15568543
There's no wax on, wax off for writing, you learn by doing it.

[Anonymous No.15568726]

>>15567296
Clearly special ed class is out early, because horror stories aren't about the monster you dimwitted lice crusted ballsack, they are about the fear and terror we face when we helpless and hopeless to guide ourselves. The monster is just a physical embodiment of that fear. It's a little hard to write about sitting alone at night being afraid you'll always be alone and unloved for the rest of your life and you'll die and noone will care.

[Anonymous No.15568738]

>>15568726
This dude gets it.

[Anonymous No.15568744]

I'm looking for dark fantasy recommendations. I like Berserk and Goblin Slayer, but I'm a grown man so I'm looking to read real books.

[Anonymous No.15568758]

The difference between good horror and bad horror is the same as the difference between American horror movies and Japanese horror movies.
>inb4 weeb
In American horror movies you have the same slightly loud music, silence, false scare and then BOOMING MUSIC AND GORE!!!!

vs

Japanese horror where you see the scary thing and even if you escape, it is still following you, you don't have access to a year 2137 railgun and unlimited bullets for your 40 machine guns.

You want to write fear, not "The big scary monster punched the huge boobie girl in the tummy and her butthole exploded!!"

[Anonymous No.15568775]

>>15567961
Lol what body type is that? Snailman?

[Anonymous No.15568791]

/sffg/, I don't know what to do anymore. Everything is awful, my passion never came back, I'm getting worse and worse and worse at cooking as the epidemic goes on and I don't even want to learn things anymore

[Anonymous No.15568793]

>>15568791
You thought about therapy?

[Anonymous No.15568805]

>>15568758
>The big scary monster punched the huge boobie girl in the tummy and her butthole exploded
>Implying you wouldn't watch a campy action-horror movie full of scenes like that.

[Anonymous No.15568817]

I'm of the opinion that it is genuinely impossible for a novel to be "scary," unsettling and disturbing sure, but without being able to control fundamental aspects to good (and bad) horror like sounds, visual cues, and most importantly pacing you can never truly achieve something that will make it hard for some people to sleep.
The genre and medium just don't mix that well.

[Anonymous No.15568822]

>>15568793
I've been in therapy on and off since I was 8. I've been seeing my current therapist for a year now

[Anonymous No.15568844]

>>15568744
Joe Abercrombie the blade itself

[Anonymous No.15568851]

>>15568822
Well I'm not your therapist but it sounds to me like a textbook depressive episode. I know for me there's no magic cure but forcing myself to be healthy (eat right, excercise, etc.) and socialize when I don't want to can make things easier. That and reminding myself that I won't always feel like this can make things just a bit more bearable.

[Anonymous No.15568873]

>>15568844
I'll check it out. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.15568883]

>>15568378
The man you're looking for is named Guy Gavriel Kay.

[Anonymous No.15568886]

What do you guys think about stromlight archive?

[Anonymous No.15568898]

>>15568822
Maybe its time to stop therapy. It clearly isn't working.

[Anonymous No.15568908]

>>15568805
4chan has a age gate, you have to be at least 18 to use it, come back in 8 years lil dude.

[Anonymous No.15568920]

>>15568822
Have you tried having a big wank and a nap?
>>15568817
You are wrong and I can tell you are American. You need your big scary blasting music jumpscares, right?

[Anonymous No.15568964]

>>15568851
honestly anon, depression isn't new to me but after 20 years of therapy I still have no goddamn idea what the hell is wrong with my brain chemistry. There's an ongoing debate between me and my psychiatrist about whether or not I'm bipolar and the crux of the debate is I have 99% of the symptoms of bipolar II with the only exception being that my life is actually better when I'm hypomanic. I disagree with her, but the only alternative explanation we've managed to come up with is that I spend so much of my time depressed that I mistake basic feelings of excitement for an altered state of mentality

>>15568898
Two nights ago I told my parents I have trouble believing that good things of any significance actually happen in the world. Today my therapist and I agreed that I'm in a better place than I've been in in years

[Anonymous No.15568976]

>>15568964
Again, have you tried having a big wank and a nap?

[Anonymous No.15568990]

>>15568976
yeah. doesn't work

[Anonymous No.15569002]

>>15568964
Yeah, shit sucks, I hope you figure things out anon.

>>15568976
>just try not being depressed
Absolute walnut.

[Anonymous No.15569109]

I would like to read fantasy epic like the LOTR but a little less verbose and shorter if possible, reading it left me completely exhausted and although I loved it can't see myself doing it again anytime soon. Do any of you have recommendations.

[Anonymous No.15569201]

>>15569109
Lyonesse scratched that itch for me. It's shorter, lighter and far less grand in scope but it's full of endearing characters and very readable.

[Anonymous No.15569237]

about a quarter of the way through this and nothing has happened other than the characters abandoning their personalities so everything can revolve around kellhus. which makes sense given his boring abilities but he's easily the worst character so it's ruining everything else. i can only hope cnaiur, the scarlet spires dude and the consult plots become more prominent because i can't take much more akka crying, lusting and deliberating over kellhus

[Anonymous No.15569278]

Excuse me? Is this thing on? I just wanted to tell everyone that Dresden Files is the best Urban Fantasy. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.15569381]

>>15568886
first book was super good. the second was alright as well. shallan is a shit character but kaladan is great

[Anonymous No.15569445]

>>15568378
China Mieville comes to mind.

[Anonymous No.15569537]

>>15568744
Read Gormenghast. If you can't stomach it, then you're not a grown man.

[Anonymous No.15569561]

>>15569201
Thanks mate, I will give it a read.

[Anonymous No.15569593]

>>15568378
i feel the same, we should make a list of short fantasy

The Knight
War of the Flowers
The Dispossessed, and I was told most other novels in the Hanish Cycle can be read as standalone just fine

and i can't think of anything else at the moment

[Anonymous No.15570111]

>>15568378
It's a cynical decision. Why sell one book or a trilogy when you can split it up and make more money? David Drake has said that back in the late 70s he was getting around 12k for a "big book" from Jim Baen, and from what I've heard through the grapevine that hasn't increased much in the intervening time.

[Anonymous No.15570146]

>tfw never ever will we get the outrigger novels of Mat and Mins wild and wacky Seachan adventures

feelsbadman

[Anonymous No.15570163]

>>15566263
>First two recs are Poe and Lovecraft

Aaaaand into the trash it goes.

[Anonymous No.15570173]

>>15566263
I read Haunted when I was like 10 and the sexual violence repulsed me

[JN !!vXXhA/qzhjm No.15570188]

>>15568425
The Hitchhiker's Guide

[Anonymous No.15570214]

>>15567848
This. Unironically fuck Star Wars. God I fucking hate Star Wars..

[Anonymous No.15570223]

>>15570214

[Anonymous No.15570229]

>>15568920
Name ONE horror novel that is legit scary. Go ahead, I can wait to laugh at you.

[Anonymous No.15570235]

>>15570214
Me too senpai

[Anonymous No.15570338]

>>15570223
>>15570235
I hated Star Wars before the prequels and new movies came out though.

[Anonymous No.15570343]

superior thread with less shitposting sperg links in the top, we are in here:

>>15570339

[Anonymous No.15570360]

>>15568557
was it worth it?

[Anonymous No.15570398]

>>15568817
>I'm of the opinion that it is genuinely impossible for a novel to be "scary,"
I think that's a big identity issue. Horror does not have to be scary, there I said it. I like horror for the visuals, not because it (sometimes) makes me jump at shadows.

[Anonymous No.15570517]

>>15566294
Never read The Way of Kings, but my first (and only) foray into Sanderson delivered some of the dullest, most mechanical writing and plotting I've ever seen. It was like reading a book written by a not very advanced AI.

[Anonymous No.15570521]

>>15570338
Same here

[Anonymous No.15570614]

>>15566294
way of kings starts strongly but by the end it goes full anime
second book the interesting character is made bland and sidelined for teen romance love triangle bullshit

[Anonymous No.15570892]

sanderson is a hack

[Anonymous No.15570947]

>>15569381
Hello, reddit

[Anonymous No.15570971]

not for plebs

[Anonymous No.15570981]

>>15570971
why post it here then?

[Anonymous No.15570983]

>>15570614
>sidelined for teen romance love triangle bullshit
Why are you surprised? Sanderson writes YA novels. They always devolve into pointless plot lines and exaggerations because that's what sells well to that particular demographic. They want anime, love triangles and "plot twists".

[Anonymous No.15570991]

>>15570983
whats a YA novel? who are the YA demographic

[Anonymous No.15571016]

>>15570991
YA means young adult.
Typically that is a demographic of 13-24 or so. Usually that demographic is more women than men. The top end of that fluctuates though, might be only 18 or goes up to 30.

Heres a general little guide as to how to write YA.
https://www.dummies.com/careers/career-planning/changing-careers/writing-young-adult-fiction-for-dummies-cheat-sheet/

[Anonymous No.15571029]

>>15571016
for some reason i thought it had some to do with YASS slay queen shit

[Anonymous No.15571040]

>>15571029
Might as well but no. The link i sent you to has a lot of the general definitions for YA. Its not really a bad thing per se but most people hate YA novels and how its elements worm themselves into other types of novels. Sanderson is guilty of this too but he makes loads of Shekels so hes not gonna stop any time soon.

[Anonymous No.15571046]

i just finished the second malazan book might hold off a little while on the third unless you guys think its worth just plowing on

i was hoping to read something different maybe hyperion or dune? any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.15571062]

>>15571040
I've just taken after totally avoiding YA altogether. Maybe I'm wrong, but nothing I checked out prior to that decision actually interested me. Also way too much preaching.

[Anonymous No.15571182]

>>15569537
That's what I like to hear. I'll check it out. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.15571209]

>>15571029
You seem like the very demographic that should be reading YA and not posting on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.15571248]

>>15571209
and why's that?

[Anonymous No.15571392]

>>15568744
Ravens mark series by Ed McDonald. The writer is pathetic but the books are good.

[Anonymous No.15571422]

Literally all militaristic sci-fi is garbage.

[Anonymous No.15571556]

>>15571046

2nd is nice. Ignore the later editions its pretty garbage. Read Lovecraft instead.

[Anonymous No.15571707]

>>15570517
Nice soup of words you have there. I see you read the book "how to pretend you read a book and review books you never read before".

[Anonymous No.15571740]

Fuck Sanderson
Fuck star wars
Fuck e william brown
Fuck YA
Fuck rothfuss
Fuck chinknovels
Fuck literary faggots
Fuck litrpg
Fuck webnovels
Fuck world building
Fuck maps
Fuck "magic systems"
Fuck bible thumpers

[Anonymous No.15571756]

Name of the Wind would've just been better if it was Kvothe traveling around different towns and gypsie communities. Magic school wasn't bad but definitely stagnated a lot of things

[Anonymous No.15571768]

Jesus fuck. The girls have entered our clubhouse.
I've noticed in the last couple months that more female authors with shitty romance book covers are popping up in Amazon sff genre tab. So many girls standing by the river and a bunch of other shit. Is that why there was a decrease in GRI APPROVED? These cunts whined to Amazon?

[Anonymous No.15571800]

hi

[Anonymous No.15571819]

>>15571422
You just have shit taste.

[Anonymous No.15571830]

>>15571800
Someone ban evaded, I see.
You'll get this one banned too, fucking pol/thot poster.

[Anonymous No.15571887]

>>15571830
wat

[Anonymous No.15572353]

>>15571887
theirs a paranoid autist thats wrongly associating normal posts with pol tier posts

[Anonymous No.15572394]

Just finished this one ! how could he make the last third so good ?
i'm glad i didn't drop because i thought the edgy teen thing was gonna be annoying but it grew on me !
thanks lads ! i'm gonna finish this series !

[Anonymous No.15572606]

>>15571768
That’s why Overlook didn’t renew Bakker’s contract.

[Anonymous No.15572693]

Looking for;
>Really dark fantasy, rape, incest, torture, stuff like that
and/or
>Dealing/Meeting with Old Gods

Fantasy or Sci-fi,
Any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.15572701]

>>15572693
>>Dealing/Meeting with Old Gods

malazan

[Anonymous No.15573179]

>>15571768
You sexist or something? Don't want women in your sffg, fucking up your stories with romance and love triangle shit?
What's that? You stopped reading publishing houses because they always have some love triangle and forced romance shit? Now the women found their way onto amazon to continue that bull fucking shit?

[Anonymous No.15573214]

do people enjoy illustrations and maps and other breaks from the text for visual alternatives? i'm writing a book but i like drawing too and i want people to really get integrated. for me personally i like seeing something just as much if not more than i do reading about it even if the text is very engaging and descriptive. would a fantasy book feel more real and alive to you if you could occasionally get the author's direct insight as to how a non-real thing, animal, person, or place looks?

[Anonymous No.15573218]

>>15571422
Like anything else, it's bad if it's written by a retard. Mil-scifi, unfortunately, is chock full of crayon eaters

[Anonymous No.15573224]

>>15572693
Literally two posts above yours

[Anonymous No.15573238]

>>15571422
mil scifi written by irl troops/ex-troops is utter dogshit
mil scifi written by random civillian authors can be good

[Anonymous No.15573284]

>>15573214
It really depends on what you show and how you go about it. I had maps be a distraction as well as a much needed guide of locations and I had images give more vividity to the world as well as completely break the immersion by not matching either my mental image or the "tone" of the part I was reading.
I'm not a writer nor an artist so i cant' say why those things happened and how to make then happen. I will say this however, even when the cases the books did benefit from images they would not be ruined by not having them. If you are not confidant about your artistic skills or ability to integrate your story with images don't do it.
Or just ignore me because I'm a retard who never wrote a story in his entire life.

[Anonymous No.15573726]

>>15573224
Which is it?
Rape-fiction, or Cthulhu-core?

[Anonymous No.15573854]

>>15568425
Boy are you going to love Blindsight. Probably Manifold Space also.

[Anonymous No.15573870]

>>15566338
Oh man, I tried reading that.
Didn't make it far. It had badly written mil sci-fi tropes out of it's jarhead worshiping ass.

[Anonymous No.15574009]

>>15573238
Nigga wat?!

[Anonymous No.15574032]

Bout to start Black Company, what am I in for

[Anonymous No.15574071]

>>15574009
based

[Anonymous No.15574073]

>>15574009
older drafted authors don't apply as much to the truism, I was thinking more modern
>>15574032
a suprising amount of waifu worship

[Anonymous No.15574185]

What books have that drafted feel for the upcoming WWIII?

[Anonymous No.15574228]

>>15574073
>older drafted authors don't apply as much to the truism, I was thinking more modern
You might be half right there. I don't think I've encountered an author that was kicking doors in Iraq/Afganistan, at least as far as US writers go.
Marko Kloos (Terms of Enlistment) served as some rank of NCO in Bundeswehr (do those guys even count as an actual army?).
T. C. McCarthy (The Subterrene War) is a former CIA analyst.
Peter Watts has never served bu he's a hardened Canadian criminal.
I am not sure how far back I should go. John Ringo used to be a paratrooper, for example.
I think the real issue here is that the vast majority of mil sci-fi is just plain awful.

[Anonymous No.15574256]

>>15574009
the war that book is about actually ends, i was so disappointed

[Anonymous No.15574378]

>>15574256
Sounds like the The NeverEnding Story.

[Anonymous No.15574507]

>>15574032
Choppy writing.

[Anonymous No.15574528]

>>15568425
Accelerando

[Anonymous No.15574720]

Any good books to take me out of my litrpg reading binge? Something not too far from that level of writing, it's been a while since I've read a "normal" book

[Anonymous No.15574837]

>>15574228
myke cole was some sort of military and he's the worst publisher pushed author going

[Anonymous No.15574921]

>>15574228
>pic
Her head looks like someone pasted it onto that suit in Paint.

[Anonymous No.15574954]

>>15568378
Goblin Emperor was comfy, and Snakewood was a great stand alone not enough people talk about.

[Anonymous No.15575331]

>>15574720
Powder mage

[Anonymous No.15575338]

I'm listening to audio books at work and John Steakley's Armor and Vampire$ were perfect schlock that just clicked for me, though I really can't find more like them. Any good recommendations that isn't in literature map or in the "you might also like" section of goodreads? Because they only show me more books in the ganre but I can't find more books with the same "feel" as John, idk how else to say it.

[Anonymous No.15575369]

Are there any Science Fiction books where the MC's mind gets transferred into a woman's body, and he is conflicted on whether to suck dick or not?
Or anything like that?

[Anonymous No.15575449]

>>15575369
>hey guys, are there any Science Fiction books where the MC's mind gets transferred into a woman's body, sorry if this offends anyone but i thought it was a funny thing haha

>and he is conflicted on whether to suck dick or not? I just want to read it for a few laughs haha

>or anything like that? haha I'm just curious for laughs haha, I would like to read them
search for yourself, maricon!

[Anonymous No.15575556]

>>15575369
The man who folded himself has something kinda related
>>15575449
It's 2020 sweaty

[Anonymous No.15575719]

>>15571740
based

[Anonymous No.15576092]

>>15573214
Multimedia is cool and I wish more authors did it

[Anonymous No.15576097]

>>15574032
Comfy war stories. Moe. Glenn Cook is sffg's spirit grandpa.

[Anonymous No.15576183]

>>15565687
I need a good horror/sci-fi recommendation. I don't think i'm in the mood for something like Blindsight. I picked up "Ship of Fools" but haven't started it yet - maybe you guys have a better recommendation.

[Anonymous No.15576229]

>>15566294

They're decent but the first is the best one.

[Anonymous No.15576236]

Why has the quality of sci fi decreased so much since the 40-80s? have yet to find something modern in the genre I truly enjoy I truly enjoyed reading. I'm now starting the" assimov saga" because I'm once again forced into the classics by the lack of contemporary talent.

[Anonymous No.15576253]

Anyone got any recommendations for hardish scifi?

Stuff like pushing ice, the expanse, rendezvous with rama, started reading red mars but it's all just arabs and Rama 2 is shit

[Anonymous No.15576271]

Am I the only one that loves the Ringworld novels? They are absurdly comfy and you can avoid that "Rishathra" shit by avoiding Throne, it's not important to the plot really.

[Anonymous No.15576276]

>>15576271
I want to start then but everyone here shits on them constantly and I have other books to read.

[Anonymous No.15576292]

>>15576253
>Rama 2 is shit

It's Randevous but more. It's just as good as the first. You just hate it because it it has a black female protag that cucks two whites for genetic diversity.

It's all shit beyond that though.

[Anonymous No.15576303]

>>15576276
At least Ringworld and Ringworld Engineers. Engineers is the best of the bunch.

[Anonymous No.15576329]

>>15572693
>>Really dark fantasy, rape, incest, torture, stuff like that
Black Jewels Trilogy
But we both know you ain't gonna read.

[Anonymous No.15576351]

>>15576292
I haven't even got that far, it's just too much about the people, I want more focus on rama and the aliens and the interactions between humans and aliens not interactions between humans and humans, I can just read any other book for that

[Anonymous No.15576362]

>>15576292
No, it clearly shifted form a exploration and discovery epic to a 3 rate soap opera. The focus of the story shifted completely, the good and the bad became one dimension and absolute black and white.

[Anonymous No.15576368]

>>15576351
It gets to the aliens in Garden Of Rama and Rama Revealed. I feel you though, Garden is an absolute slog and I got so sick of Nicole's cuck shenanigans that I crapped out there.

[Anonymous No.15576380]

>>15576329
>female writer playing out her dominatrix fantasy

You right, I ain't gonna read

[Anonymous No.15576409]

>>15575556
Yes, 2020 is sweaty. So damn hot.

[Anonymous No.15576415]

>>15576183
The barrow by smiley

[Anonymous No.15576432]

>>15576380
Then stop asking for shit.

[Anonymous No.15576448]

>>15576432
not him but fuck mate you realize there are more than one book series with those characteristics right?

[Anonymous No.15576525]

>>15576448
Yes, and if you're not him, you would see he is shitposting and doesn't actually want to read anything.

[Anonymous No.15576643]

Joseph Smith

[Anonymous No.15577046]

What's everyone reading?

[Anonymous No.15577072]

>>15577046
Half-heartedly starting Bowl Of Heaven and Ship Star. Doubt I'll get more than halfway through before I get bored of it and drop it.

[Anonymous No.15577150]

>>15576183
Revelation Space. Horror isn't the main focus but it's there.

>>15576253
> hardish scifi
Greg Egan

[Anonymous No.15577153]

>>15577072
>Big Dumb Object book

That's gonna be a yikes from me senpai.

[Anonymous No.15577222]

>>15577046
Race the Sands

Plotting's very obvious (it's basically a sports movie) but it's a fun and fast paced read

[Anonymous No.15577247]

>>15577046
the king in yellow by robert w chambers

[Anonymous No.15577329]

>>15577046
Starting Heinlein with The Man in the High Castle. Cool setting. Not super impressed with the execution so far.

[Anonymous No.15577337]

>>15568425
roadside picknick

[Anonymous No.15577369]

>>15577329
?

[Anonymous No.15577384]

>>15577369
You know what I mean.

[Anonymous No.15577510]

What should I read after I finish this?

[Anonymous No.15577538]

>>15565687
I read The Keep by F Paul Wilson recently but once it introduced the jewish woman and her father, I hated it. Going to read The Terror by Dan Simmons next.

[Anonymous No.15577782]

I don't feel from reading anymore.

[Anonymous No.15577793]

What's the best fantasy world you'd live in?

[Anonymous No.15577832]

Anyone has a rip of e william brown subscribestar?

[Anonymous No.15577838]

>>15577793
Just live in? Or do I get cheats to survive in that world.

[Anonymous No.15577854]

>>15568964
Read the Bible

[Anonymous No.15577910]

>>15577793
Wakfu. Everyone is immortal. looks good regardless of body type and everyone has cool superpowers. Also the women.

[Anonymous No.15577949]

/sffg/, I'm starting to think I'm going to need to cut this entire section from my book. Literally every inch of it is teeming with deeply creepy romantic arcs featuring profound maturity gaps

>First they meet the best friend's big brother-figure who's in a relationship with a much younger girl
>then the MC finds out his crush is a former special ed student
>he talks it out with the best friend and learns that the best friend had a crush on his big brother-figure
>meanwhile, the tagalong kid asks the big brother-figure's girl-toy for relationship advice because she has a crush on the best friend
>Then the big brother-figure shows his true colors by kidnapping the tagalong kid and tying her to a chair
>the girl-toy and the tagalong kid end up duking it out and the tagalong kid wins, creating a surprising amount of tension during the fight

[Anonymous No.15577967]

>>15566294
it's absolute shit

[Anonymous No.15578029]

>>15577046
Bran Mak Morn

[Anonymous No.15578174]

The reasons you bois aren't getting new e william brown is because instead of writing, he is making d&d quests. He is more a /tg/fag than author.

[Anonymous No.15578371]

>>15566263
Forget that chart. Read Blindsight if you want to feel horror.

[Anonymous No.15578390]

>>15568425
Floornight by Nostalgebraist.

[Anonymous No.15578394]

can we get more horror charts?

[Anonymous No.15578400]

>>15578371
the marketing book?

[Anonymous No.15578406]

>>15576236
Have you tried The Three Body Problem, anon?

[Anonymous No.15578442]

>>15576236
Try Terra Ignota

[Anonymous No.15578459]

>>15578400
What?

[Anonymous No.15578811]

>>15566294
Try reading Gideon the Ninth

[Anonymous No.15578833]

>>15574228
Joe Zieja was a Air Force officer and does a pretty good "military Spaceballs" comedy series. I find this somewhat surprising because officers generally end up writing warhawk technothrillers instead of funny genre fiction.

Elliott Kay was in the Coast Guard and I would rank Poor Man's War as about as good as Terms of Enlistment. Maybe a little better because the plot isn't "humanity gets totally shit on" for the entire series.

Joe Kassabian is former army and is probably more known for his Afghan war memoir (The Hooligans Of Kandahar, described as "stories about soldiers masturbating, drinking heavily, and behaving like saviors of the world with zero regards for the societies they are invading, you may love this book" by somebody who thought they were giving a negative review) but he's got a pulp space opera series.

Jack Campbell is a retired Navy JAG lawyer, under his real name he published a series of legal thrillers literally called "the JAG in Space series" back in the 00s.

I haven't read Planetside yet but Michael Mammay is a former Army officer and it's got good reviews and the premise sounds interesting at least.

Ringo was peacetime cold war IIRC. May have been Grenada but I think he got out before Desert Storm and the GWoT.

>>15574837
Myke Cole was in the Coast Guard but volunteered to go to Iraq to do SF riverine warfare stuff IIRC, bizarrely his stuff is super stereotypical "PFC THROG THINK VIOLENCE ONLY SOLUTION TO LIBS" but IRL he's a raging liberal.

[Anonymous No.15578857]

>>15577046
Coincidentally the only Clarke novel I can't talk about in this general

[Anonymous No.15578907]

>>15578406
TBP has some neat ideas, but it has the worst prose and writing known to man. It makes Sanderson look lively, which is one hell of a feat.

[Anonymous No.15578956]

>>15577046
The Raven, Ann Leckie

[Anonymous No.15578999]

>>15568250
Reading this now. I'm loving it so far.

[Anonymous No.15579678]

>>15576525
I want to read.
I downloaded and started Gardens of the Moon.
It's pretty good so far, if not a little dense.

[Anonymous No.15579707]

Should I buy...Way of Kings?
It's so dirt cheap at the moment with all the covid

[Anonymous No.15579717]

>>15579707
No.

[Anonymous No.15579719]

>>15570146
I don't know anon. I just like how WoT ended. Just my boy Rand free from the weight of the world. I know there are side stories planned, but I respect Brandon for not daring to touch it out of respect of robert

[Anonymous No.15579721]

>>15579707
I got a used copy for 50c a few years ago and still haven't read it. It's good for occupying empty space though

[Anonymous No.15579726]

>>15579717
How about Gentlemen bastards?

[Anonymous No.15579733]

>>15579726
Only if you have a YA 'booktube' channel.

[Anonymous No.15579746]

What was Brandon thinking about that shitty love triangle in Stormlight? It should have stayed Kaladin x Depression. What a way to shit on your own series.

[Anonymous No.15579807]

>>15579746
gotta appeal to the boring women readers who fantasize about becoming a powerful, stunningly brave, beautiful and intelligent agent of change while at least two men pine for them

[Anonymous No.15579823]

>>15579746
>could have depressed hero KINO
>here's some love fucking triangle

[Anonymous No.15579839]

>>15579746
kalladin x syl
fuck the wind

[Anonymous No.15579850]

>>15579746
>wow Shallan is brave and stunning and suffered more!
Jesus Christ, what a shitty read it was. So superficial garbage she is.

[Anonymous No.15579909]

>>15577949
I would fap to this.

[Anonymous No.15580087]

>>15578394
Make some?
I only make charts for books I read personally. Never liked horror, haven't read much over the years.

[Anonymous No.15580098]

>>15577046
Iain M. Banks' Excession. 100 riveting pages followed by 350 deathly dull ones. Just trying to finish the last few.

[Anonymous No.15580115]

>>15574837
>>15578833
Myke Cole fucked up his frontier series. He had his MC all over the place, while still trying to give the hooray about serving your country.

[Anonymous No.15580122]

>>15578857
Why? Is it a biography?

[Anonymous No.15580288]

>>15577046
Entertaining read.

[Anonymous No.15580418]

>>15580115

>Nigger + pajeet

Mmmyikes

[Anonymous No.15580450]

Some one please convince me to finish dune, I'm about to drop it. I got halfway trough the first book but it just isn't doing it for me, I'm slogging trough it. But everyone and their mother has it on their recommendations list, especially here, so there must be something I'm missing.

[Anonymous No.15580514]

>>15580450
No one cares about your plight or your blog, fuck right off.

[Anonymous No.15580525]

>>15580514
> why yes, you shouldn't talk about what you are reading and what you think of it in this thread about talking about book in this board about talking about books.

[Anonymous No.15580536]

>>15580525
you're not talking about anything you're just moaning for attention

[Anonymous No.15580540]

>>15577046
Finishing I, robot by Asimov. I'm getting really into it and if the rest of his grand saga is on the same level of quality I will have a very nice next few week ahead of me.

[Anonymous No.15580584]

>>15580536
I found the characters caricatures ratter than real people they exist to play their part which is fine but they seem to exist only to play said part in the story.
The main protagonist seems both useless and overpower at the same time, seeing how every minor thing he does is glorified to high heavens
The "middle eastern" aesthetics nice but the world building fell a little "shallow".
But like I said this is the first book on what people consider one of the great sci fi series of all times. yet all i get is YA vibes from it.
What I'm asking is why people here might like it. And if I'm missing something in my reading.
You are either baiting or just retarded and unable to understand what I said.

[Anonymous No.15580588]

>>15580525
Your basedboy whining about not being able to finish Dune of all novels is just off putting. Please stop.

[Anonymous No.15581315]

>>15566294
Fuck off, Brandon writes great books. They're great fun

[Anonymous No.15581351]

>>15570614
Cope, Dalinar is the best character in the series and no one cares about you cribbing over a little romance between Shallan and Adolin

[Anonymous No.15581406]

>>15576236
Joyless old fossils can't have fun, it's not your fault.

[Anonymous No.15581418]

>>15577967
Cremling take.

[Anonymous No.15581428]

>>15579707
>>15579726
Yeah you should, they're great fun. Ignore these homos, they're crusty old trannies who can't have fun.

[Anonymous No.15581442]

>>15581406
You have to be over 18 to post on this website.

[Anonymous No.15581443]

>>15581351
the guy asked for an opinion genius

[Anonymous No.15581468]

>>15579746
It was a small part of the series, quit whining.

[Anonymous No.15581497]

>>15581442
Cope grandpa, go read your aspie hardcore fantasy while I enjoy some Sanderson.

[Anonymous No.15581562]

>>15581468
>literally shits on Kal's backstory and that Kal shouldn't be whining because muh shallan suffered more
It's not the love triangle that angers me but the scene in chasm. What the fuck was he thinking undervaluing Kaladin's suffering so much?

[Anonymous No.15581575]

>>15581562
Who cares lol

[Anonymous No.15581644]

>>15580418
>yikes
>Pol / rebbit

[Anonymous No.15581672]

>>15581428
Or maybe they read more books than you?
But he can read and form his own opinion, like a normal person would.

[Anonymous No.15582076]

>>15577046
Recently read Glen Cook's 'Passage at Arms', it was like reading Black Company but hardscifi meets Das Boot. Excellent book. Going to go on to his Starfishers and Darkwar trilogies eventually. I'm a bit into his other scifi standalone 'The Dragon Never Sleeps', really interesting so far, feels almost proto-Halo like.

After that I'm going to read a lot of Gibson I have on the way (Bridge and Blue Ant trilogies) and finally read Viriconium.

[Anonymous No.15582078]

>>15578833
>The Hooligans Of Kandahar
I actually read that. That review is spot on.
Unfortunately I think the whole experience soured him on anything even remotely authoritarian since he seems to have turned into a massive liberal pussy.
I was thinking about reading his actual novel but the reviews were just awful.

>>15580418
Akshually the poo in the loo looks like a Sikh.

[Anonymous No.15582109]

>>15582076
>>15577046
Oh and in between Cook novels, also quickly read my first Zelazny, 'This Immortal', really interesting little post-Earth spiritual scifi, a lot of it stuck with me. I have a lot of the SF Masterworks ready to go, I think I'll get to his Lord of Light pretty soon.

[Anonymous No.15582379]

>>15566517
Really liked that one, pretty damn comfy

[Anonymous No.15582526]

>>15565687
>Discord https://discord.gg/KWPCM7m

Why are you advertising a Discord run by a fat Mexican transgender pedophile who calls himself Alice?

[Anonymous No.15582527]

I just finished Xuthal of the dusk, and damn was it great.

Does Conan ever get better than that?

[Anonymous No.15582614]

>>15581672
cope

[Anonymous No.15582651]

>>15582527
Beyond the Black River is the best one and it's not even close.

[Anonymous No.15582747]

>>15582526
>Why are you advertising a Discord run by a fat Mexican transgender pedophile who calls himself Alice?
Are there Discords run by normal people anyway?

[Anonymous No.15582748]

>>15582526
Why wouldn't the OP advertise their own discord?

[Anonymous No.15582756]

>>15582747
Depends on how you are defining "normal person".

[Anonymous No.15582795]

>>15582756
Well you know - not being a pedo, not being a tranny and if possible not being fat and not being a Mexican (but those two kind of go together).
You know normal.

[Anonymous No.15583004]

>>15582795
The thread was going good, can you stop trying to start shit and neck yourself?

[Anonymous No.15583010]

>>15565687
>Seanchan victory because nobody can defeat damane in battle, because the white tower and black tower never unite, the white tower are bound by oaths that disadvantage them in battle, and the Aiel culture is in absolute shambles
What did Robert Jordan mean by this???

[Anonymous No.15583021]

>>15579719
>I don't know anon. I just like how WoT ended. Just my boy Rand free from the weight of the world.
Ok but which girl did he end up with?

I think Min must be the only real answer.

[Anonymous No.15583030]

>>15583004
Are you feeling called out or something?

[Anonymous No.15583110]

The discord servers are being run by pedophiles. Be careful out there.

[Anonymous No.15583166]

>>15583030
I'm feeling you are posting off topic shit. You probably want another ban.
Place was cool for a while, until you were unbanned (more likely ban evaded) and now you're starting shit.

What was the last sff book you read today?
What's it about so far?

[Anonymous No.15583239]

>>15583110
How do you know?
Or is this one of those 'I don't like them so they are pedos' things?

[Anonymous No.15583277]

>>15583010
Jordan made the seanchan (and the aiel too for that matter) unrealistically competent. The idea that everyone in the seanchan army is some master strategist on par with the westland's great generals is just plain absurd, as is the idea that an empire can just keep expanding for 1000 years and never once suffer a defeat.

[Anonymous No.15583340]

>>15583277
I don't think that's quite accurate. The Seanchan suffer several defeats and have a history of fairly frequent rebellions in their homeland. But they're unreasonably resilient, they always bounce back from any setback twice as hard. Even when Semirhage slaughters their entire royal family save one, that barely gives the Seanchan pause.

And their sul'dam/damane system is way too OP. The only apparent downside is their inability to link with each other while the white tower can. But the white tower can't go on the defensive, they can only act in self defense. That's far more limiting.

Also it's not discussed a lot, but the crystal throne is a ter'angreal that evidently brainwashes anybody that goes near it. That's OP as fuck.

[Anonymous No.15583368]

>>15583277
Also the Aiel get shattered. When Rand tells them the horrible truth of their history, their society is thrown into complete chaos is never recovers from. But when the truth of Sul'dame is revealed, the Seanchan basically just shrug it off. If Aviendha's prophesies come true, the Aiel ultimately end up getting hunted down like wild animals.

[Anonymous No.15583376]

>>15583340
>But the white tower can't go on the OFFENSIVE, they can only act in self defense

[Anonymous No.15583471]

>>15583340
>The Seanchan suffer several defeats and have a history of fairly frequent rebellions in their homeland.
From what I remember about their "ever victorious army," they may lose battles but they always win wars.
>The only apparent downside is their inability to link with each other
There's also the fact that they're cutting their potential population of channelers to a fraction of what it could be because women who could learn to channel if taught get recruited as sul'dam instead of learning how to channel.
Of course, that's only a downside if the aes sedai get their shit together and actually recruit as many potential channelers as possible.
>>15583368
>But when the truth of Sul'dame is revealed, the Seanchan basically just shrug it off.
Tuon shrugs it off, but everyone else who learns about it is deeply upset. It only looks like it doesn't affect the seanchan because the information hasn't spread beyond a handful of people.

[Anonymous No.15583485]

>>15583166
I read a book about a transgender Mexican pedophile with a fake name of "Alice" who runs Discord servers in an attempt to groom underage /lit/erature readers into sexual relationships with him.

It sucked, I didn't like it.

[Anonymous No.15583523]

>>15583166
Is this how you deal with being called out?
Being a passive aggressive little shit threatening other with bans? Running for jannies skirt every time someone pops the soap bubble of your safe space?
Disgusting.

[Anonymous No.15583539]

So this is all the one guy who likes to derail the thread again isn't it?

[Anonymous No.15583545]

Give me some SPOOKY FUCKING SCIFI. I just want to read something unnerving and thrilling. None of ohnonoimgoinginsane bullshit from Soicraft, only good stuff like I Have No Mouth or Carrion Comfort. Thank you

[Anonymous No.15583557]

>>15583471
>>There's also the fact that they're cutting their potential population of channelers to a fraction of what it could be because women who could learn to channel if taught get recruited as sul'dam instead of learning how to channel.
>Of course, that's only a downside if the aes sedai get their shit together and actually recruit as many potential channelers as possible.
That's true, but consider also that the Seanchan can "recruit" captured aes sedai but the aes sedai cannot effectively do the opposite (since the damane and sul'dam are brainwashed as fuck.)

>Tuon shrugs it off, but everyone else who learns about it is deeply upset. It only looks like it doesn't affect the seanchan because the information hasn't spread beyond a handful of people.
Maybe so, but the aes sedai don't seem to be engaging in an effective propaganda campaign to spread knowledge of it. Also Tuon's dismissal of the matter seems to hold some water; damane must be collared because they would otherwise channel. Sul'dame have the ability to learn, but they don't do it by themselves, so they are not a danger and consequently don't need to be collared. The Seanchan's ideology seems to adapt to this new knowledge well.

I think the real question is the matter of Aviendha's prophesies. She, the Wise Ones and Rand conspire to change the future to avoid that outcome. But if her prophesy works anything like Min's prophetic abilities, any attempt to change the future will fail.


Something that bugs me though is the survival of Mat and Tuon. I think by the metalogic of the series, neither should have survived. Most of the other characters either survive or perish based on the strength of their relationships, particularly but not necessarily with the opposite sex. Those with healthy relationships survive, while those with dysfunctional relationships perish. Beyond individuals, this seems to be the case for the white and black tower divide; since they cannot reconcile they both perish before the Seanchan. But Mat and Tuon's relationship is deeply dysfunctional and both survive.

[Anonymous No.15583675]

>>15583485
was the main character also obese?
>>15583523
yeah what a pussy desu, imagine begging for people to be banned every time you can't hang. he might also be schizophrenic since he thinks we're all the same person lol

[Anonymous No.15583681]

>>15583545
Frozen Hell by John W. Campbell, maybe?

[Anonymous No.15583730]

>>15572394
I'm glad you enjoyed it anon, personally I didn't like it but it was a short series so hey

[Anonymous No.15583741]

>>15568378
The Tower of Fear by Glen Cook

[Anonymous No.15583790]

>>15583539
Yep. It's the thot poster.
He deserves another ban desu.

[Anonymous No.15583802]

>>15582747
Maybe not, but there's a tremendous gulf between "normal person" and "fat ugly Mexican transgender pedophile."

[Anonymous No.15583888]

>>15583557
Expanding on the last idea, here are some examples that come to mind, though there are more:
>Lan and Nynaeve
Love and respect each other deeply. Lan rescues Nynaeve from drowning in a river, and Nynaeve foils Lan's death wish, both survive.
>Moiraine and Thom
Moiraine gives Thom closure for the death of his nephew, and Thom rescues her from the fox/snake freaks, both survive
>Faile and Perrin
Probably contentious since Faile is kind of a bitch, but both clearly love each other. Perrin learns to respect his wife's autonomy, and consequently both survive
>Rand and his harem of anime babes
All seem okay with that arrangement, and all survive. Rand learns to respect the autonomy of women who want to risk their lives for a cause, like Perrin.
>Morgase and Tallanvor
Morgase learns to stop being a sloot I guess, both survive.

Maybe one of the strongest examples:
>Pevara and Androl
Red Ajah and Ashaman, an unlikely pair, come to understand each other, save each other a few times, and consequently survive.

Notable example in the opposite direction:
>Egwene and Gawyn
Fail to trust each other. Gawyn doesn't tell Egwene about the suicidal Seanchan ter'angreal he found because Egwene keeps bitching at him whenever he tries to tell her anything. Consequently both die.
>Siuan and Bryne
Probably should have lived, but both died because they didn't stick together like Min told them to

Questionable examples:
>Elayne and Birgette
I surmise that Birgette 'survives' in a fashion because she proved her heroism yet again when loyally defending Elayne; as consequence of this, Elayne survives. Incidentally Birgette is the coolest.
>Logain
Chooses to rescue civilians instead of seeking more power, is morally redeemed by this and survives. However his Black Tower evidently never reconciles with the White Tower, and ultimately both fall.

[Anonymous No.15584028]

Looking for a story. Read it story only once years and years ago in a collection I picked out at random at my local public library, haven't ever forgotten it. I believe the book said the author was Scottish, and that he never published any other work of fiction in his life. Probably written sometime between the mid-70s and early 80s.

Story has absolutely no dialogue and no real characters, but is focused on a Voyager-esque space probe from Earth, tootling slowly around the galaxy, stopping off at a solar system to gather planetary data, radioing a report containing said data back home, recharging its power cells by orbiting the local sun for a while (solar cells? ram scoop? can't remember), then calculating a course to the next system and setting out. It keeps on carrying out this routine for millions and millions of years, incapable of even conceiving that there's very little chance anyone or anything is still alive back on Earth to receive its messages. Eventually, it encounters another probe, of completely alien design, but practically identical methodology and purpose. The probes each calculate that their missions can be more efficiently achieved working together than solo, exchange and relay the data they've gathered so far, and continue on together from there. Gradually, more and more probes are encountered, as the number of surviving unexplored systems dwindles, and a flock of sorts is formed. The story ends with this flock of probes huddling around the last surviving star in the galaxy, storing up as much energy as they can before striking out across the vast lightless gulf towards another, younger galaxy, there to continue their eternal collective purpose.

Mentioned this story to someone in a conversation the other day, they suggested asking here, I saw this thread, so this is where I'm doing it. Anybody got a clue?

[Anonymous No.15584238]

>>15584028
>Mentioned this story to someone in a conversation the other day, they suggested asking here
4chen is truly kill. We are brought up in casual fags conversations.

[Anonymous No.15584402]

What are the best books in the SF&F Masterworks Library? Mainly interested in SF, but I wouldn't mind a suggestion for some "deeper" Fantasy either.

[Anonymous No.15584555]

>>15583021
He wants three of them. But I am here he's just going around being Thom

[Anonymous No.15584571]

I don't see how the Black Tower would go to shit with Logain's epiphany.

[Anonymous No.15584593]

>>15568282
100% this

[Anonymous No.15584608]

Anyone got one of those litrpg recommendation charts? I need to show my friend an excerpt.

[Anonymous No.15584616]

>>15584571
I think the only way the Black Tower beats the Seanchan is if they learn to get along with the White Tower. The Black Tower aren't bound by dumb oaths, which is an advantage for them in battle. But they also can't form circles without the cooperation of women. Granted the Seanchan can't form circles either, but still, I think a major theme of the books is that mutual respect between men and women is the key to success.

It may be the case that Logain's epiphany changed the course of destiny and allowed the Black and White towers to unify, but I would have liked to see some more hint of this happening. Some sort of reconciliation between Logain and Cadsuane maybe.

[Anonymous No.15584619]

>>15584608
>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.15584621]

>actual bleak future ahead all of them
>Rand is around roaming around not helping them
It is it bad that I like it basically foretells that Rand fucks off truly and never interferes with the fate of the world.

[Anonymous No.15584623]

>>15584608
Check the charts in the OP
Newfag

[Anonymous No.15584673]

>>15584616
Even then Logain and his men without the white tower is still some of the most powerful channelers alive. If they really do stick with their 'the Black Tower protects' then they might actually evidently unite with the white tower. I think Andol and Pevara would be the key to this since the two were practically made for that purpose.

[Anonymous No.15584694]

>>15584673
I agree that Andol and Pevara would probably be the key to it. Perhaps their relationship is how Jordan and Sanderson chose to convey the eventual unification of the towers.

As to the raw power of the men, I believe Aviendha's prophesy mentions that they manage to fight well and hold out for a long time, but are eventually worn down by the Seanchan.

[Anonymous No.15584717]

>>15584621
Dude just saved the world. Besides, his best bro is literally their fucking general. I don't see how anyone would fucking win with Mat in the helm of the things

[Anonymous No.15584740]

/sffg/ - wheel of shit general

[Anonymous No.15584790]

>>15565687
just started way of kings, is shallan meant to be boring? does she get better later in the book?

[Anonymous No.15584806]

>>15584790
No. She becomes a condescending cunt later on as well. Wheel of shit level of annoying

[Anonymous No.15584823]

>>15584806
fuggg

[Anonymous No.15584831]

>>15568378
the first law series

[Anonymous No.15584838]

>>15584790
Gets worse if anything, sanderson can't write females to save his life.
Even just writing them exactly the same as his male characters would be drastically better

[Anonymous No.15584849]

So, I'm a fan of Brandon Sanderson's adult novels. Mistborn 1 is one of my favorite books in fact. Anyhow, I'm about a third of the way through The Way of Kings and am just...bored. None of the characters are particularly compelling and all their plot threads aren't really going anywhere. Also, whatever the central conflict of the book is, it doesn't seem to have shown up yet. I hate to give up on it since Words of Radiance is said to be really awesome, but I can think of about five other things I'd rather read right now.

[Anonymous No.15584865]

>>15584823
She basically becomes "Look at me I am so quirky and insane XDDDDDDD"

[Anonymous No.15584866]

>>15584849
>central conflict
not even defending the book but the character arcs all clearly have their own conflicts at that point of the book

[Anonymous No.15584893]

>>15565687
The Monk by Matthew Lewis. Great read

[Anonymous No.15584905]

>>15584238
In a thread full of Wheel of Time lorewanking and ship-to-ship combat, you decided to single out the anon looking for an obscure short story as a casualfag. Well done.

[Anonymous No.15584922]

>>15584865
Hawt

[Anonymous No.15584930]

>>15584905
>implying anyone actually reads WoT and didn't just read the tor summaries
Please, no casualfag has the autism and patience to read the first three books.

[Anonymous No.15585123]

>>15584849
Sanderson has gone native. He is a YA author now. He put his other books on hold to shell out three YA shit books about space and some girl.
I don't fuck with him anymore.

[Anonymous No.15585137]

>>15584849
The Way of Kings is a slog unless you find yourself really enjoying one of the protagonists. Words of Radiance really is much much better, but the third book returns to a lot of the problems in the first so it's really fine to just drop the series entirely if you aren't feeling it.

[Anonymous No.15585194]

>>15585123
It's kinda understandable how /lit/ would turned on him because of that.

[Anonymous No.15585282]

>>15585194
It also has to do with book three going to shit. I honestly feel Sanderson rushed oathbringer and filled it with fluff because those starlight shit books were burning a hole in his pocket.
Didn't trust Sanderson after that.

[Anonymous No.15585288]

>>15576415
anything that doesn't contain fantasy?

[Anonymous No.15585323]

>>15585288
Clive barker. But what do you consider fantasy?
A man with an octopus head would be fantastical.
If you want non fantasy horror, that sounds like thriller shit. Serial killer shit. All horror will have some fantasy elements to it. Unless you want Friday the 13th shit.

[Anonymous No.15585341]

>>15565767
literally who?

[Anonymous No.15585360]

>>15585282
I can't take Stormlight after Lift. The only interest that I have for Stormlight is because Dalinar, Kaladin, and Bridge Four is still around.

[Anonymous No.15585369]

>>15585341
Someone who has burnt the anons in here.

[Anonymous No.15585378]

>>15585360
I dropped Sanderson and became a self published reading fag.

[Anonymous No.15585472]

>>15579909
damn, that is a really bad sign.

fuck. I was just getting excited for the fight sequence at the end of the chapter

[Anonymous No.15585497]

This is kino. Anyone got other pirate recs? Even stuff without fantasy elements is fine, although my next read is going to be Treasure Island.

[Anonymous No.15585602]

>>15585497
Isn't that the book they stole the idea for the pirates of the Caribbean franchise?

[Anonymous No.15585616]

>>15585602
I'm not a Disney shill and I don't trust Wikipedia either, but they bought the rights to use the novel's title and some plot elements for the 4th movie, having apparently not known about it before, and PotC was a ride at Disneyland long before the novel was published.

[Anonymous No.15585841]

>>15585616
You smell like a Disney shill to me.

[Anonymous No.15585855]

Any books with GRI published in 2020?

[Anonymous No.15585908]

been out the game past few years, what's top tier shit thats come out? nothing trannies that would like either

[Anonymous No.15585960]

>>15585908
>been out the game past few years
>somehow knows the newest buzzword on lit, specifically sffg, "trannies"
>doubt
You ain't fooling anyone. You would have said not written by a woman if you were an oldfag sffg user.
Fucking newfag rebbit crossboarding piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.15585979]

>>15585960
sounds like you'll be part of the 45% at this rate

[Anonymous No.15586015]

>>15585979
>>15585960
>>15585908

It's exchanges like this that make me wonder how any of you people can walk around with a superiority complex when your mentality has gone more or less unchanged since kindergarten. This is the birthplace of the word "cummies" and you're dogs barking at the vacuum cleaner. Get over yourselves

[Anonymous No.15586016]

>>15585960
hrt-laden brown hands typed this post

[Anonymous No.15586175]

>>15583545
Blindsight by Peter Watts

[Anonymous No.15586262]

>>15569237
>kellhus
Get used to it. Everything rotates around him. He gets even more insufferable. Its all grimdark wank.

[Anonymous No.15586267]

you people don't even shitpost about sff anymore. It's just retards calling other retards trannies day in and day out

[Anonymous No.15586285]

ok "alice"

[Anonymous No.15586286]

NEW THREAD
>>15586257
NEW THREAD
>>15586257
NEW THREAD
>>15586257
NEW THREAD

[Anonymous No.15586289]

>>15571768
Amazon is all but useless when trying to find new releases. Everything is buried under mountains of YA garbage, and sponsored ads for whatever shit is popular on twitter.

On a related note, I'd love recommendations for new stuff. I'm old and have read most of everything. I liked Malzan and Culture. Thought Xelee was eh. Liked the Armored Saint.

[Anonymous No.15586295]

>>15586289
>Liked the Armored Saint.
no helping you then

[Anonymous No.15586511]

>>15584849
I only read the first two mistborn books, but I think Sanderson's WOT books were better.

[Anonymous No.15587026]

>>15585378
Why. Have you found even one worthwhile read this way?

[Anonymous No.15587503]

>>15586262
great