/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.22003572]

/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

Aztec setting edition

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[Anonymous No.22003595]

First

[Anonymous No.22003610]

opinions on The Night Land
Novel by William Hope Hodgson?

[Anonymous No.22003621]

/SFFG/ Recommendations:

Read Reverend Insanity, Lord of The Mysteries, Neuromancer, Hyperion, The Prince of Nothing

Also read The Wandering Inn, Between Two Fires, Mother of Learning, Cradle, I Shall Seal the Heavens, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Poppy War.

[Anonymous No.22003686]

>>22003610
>William Hope Hodgson
One of the greatest fantasts who ever lived.

[Anonymous No.22003702]

good books involving female wendigos
not necessary erotica

[Anonymous No.22003726]

Title: Battlefield Reclaimer
Author: David North

[Story]
Sam is a young man that comes from a line of distinguished Arcane Scribes...or at least would be, if his grandfather and consequently his father and the rest of the family hadn't been disowned after World Law's broke and they were cursed with a broken Class that could not be progressed - Battlefield Reclaimer. Cursed by the world, they live in a small village trying to make a living without a working Class.

When he receives the same Class on his day of awakening as 18 year-old man, his father takes him on a journey to an ancient ruins of Otherwordly invaders where he hopes to find a way to unlock their Classes, for both of their sakes. Activating unknown artifact ends up taking both the son and the father far from their home, deep underground...and leaves the boy magicaly transformed into something far from human. Cursed and hurt, Sam is too angry to give up and together with his Father decides to unravel the mystery of their curse.

[Review]
Average. Just average. The character are walking cardboards and incapable of spitting out a line of compeling dialogue. What at first reads like a somewhat generic LitRPG with time unfolds to be a poorly made copy of Cradle, but without humor, funny characters and anything resembling decent writing. Still, the story manages to captivate interest with its thought-out magic system and good progression...or at least would, if I haven't seen the same story dozens of times, but more entertaining.

I shamelessly admit to skipping around 15% of the book by skimming battles. It seems David North is one of those people that think battles should be written in detail, dully noting every action. Apparently 'evoking writing' does not exist in his vocabulary. Boring, that's what they were. And boy, isn't the book wordy. It's fatter than a average american, sometimes you can read a paragraph and see the same information repeated again in the next. This book should be half as long, but shallowness of the plot had to be hidden somehow.

In summary, average book with little going for it aside of focus on magic and enchanting, uninteresting protagonist, cardboard characters and next-to-none plot. I guess it's popular because it's a coherent piece of a story without large flaws, but also wholy souless, which ironically is the name of Cradle's first book that Battlefield Reclaimer tries to incompetently replicate.


5.5/10

[Anonymous No.22003737]

>>22003726
...aaaand I forgot the cover art. Apologies.

[Anonymous No.22003810]

>>22003726
>>22003737
your """reviews""" are SHIT
FUCK OFF

[Anonymous No.22003858]

>>22003810
Even if I can't count on my family or friends, I will always count on you being there for me. I love you.

[Anonymous No.22003911]

>>22003610
>>22003686
>Why yes, I deliberately wrote my novel with an archaic 17th century style prose, how could you tell?

[Anonymous No.22003916]

Discuss

[Anonymous No.22003936]

>>22003916
What's there to discuss? Are you 16 and have just realized the mainstream message about what women like is false?

Nothing simpler in the world:
Men want women that aren't off-putting and they can get along with.
Women want attractive, powerful men that are mandatory bigger physically than themselves.

Look at fantasy romances and how they are written. One book will tell you everything.

[Anonymous No.22003944]

>Reading chinese story
>"Boil the dog when it catches the rabbit"
what the fuck is wrong with these people that this would be a common saying

[Anonymous No.22003955]

>>22003944
dogs are made of food bro

[Anonymous No.22003959]

>>22003944
>Boil the dog when it catches the rabbit"
Well after the dog gave the rabbit the knot, you know it's a full degenerate, and needs to be gotten rid of.

[Anonymous No.22003964]

>>22003959
what the FUCK

[Anonymous No.22003967]

>>22003944
When the flying birds are done with, the good bow is stored away; when the sly rabbit dies, the hunting dog is boiled

It's a warning.

[Anonymous No.22003990]

>>22003726
Recapping the story should be like 2 or 3 short sentences, maybe, not half of the content of your "review". People don't need you to tell them what a book is about, that's what the shit they print on the back of them is for.

[Anonymous No.22004019]

>>22003936
Just a complement to your post, the fact that the gorean community is full of women is a great example of that

[Anonymous No.22004070]

>>22003990
I know desu, I still struggle with with being concise. That's partly why I keep writing the reviews, though

[Anonymous No.22004194]

>>22004070
based

[Anonymous No.22004265]

>>22003572
Is there a Gene Wolfe reading guide?

[Anonymous No.22004267]

>reading fantasy books by some author
>enjoy it since it has classic swordsman protag and his waifu
>read another series by author
>this time it's an urban fantasy earth based setting and it's enjoyable
>Halfway through the protag and his waifu from the first series makes an appearance and basically become the true protagonist again cucking the new mc
>finish it although finding it annoying
>read another series written by the author
>the protags are reincarnations of the first protag and his waifu
This has gotten to be a bit too much i'll say

[Anonymous No.22004286]

>>22003916

[Anonymous No.22004316]

>>22004265
2nd to last image in the mega

[Anonymous No.22004366]

Am I a cuck for considering buying the folio edition of BOTNS for $205?

[Anonymous No.22004375]

>>22004366
Money's been wasted on worst stuff than that, I think you'll be fine.

[Anonymous No.22004506]

>>22004366
It's appropriate if you own property and have money.

[Anonymous No.22004514]

>many fantasy stories today have a school setting
>Realize this was the last time fantasy authors had any real name interactions with other people

[Anonymous No.22004515]

>>22004366
>Oh. My. Science. Shut up and take my money!
You are a bane to science fiction and fantasy. It's very ugly and fluorescent.

[Anonymous No.22004538]

>>22004267
Simon Green?

[Anonymous No.22004539]

>>22004286
that's not accurate, here's a romance I'd write

[Anonymous No.22004541]

>>22004539
>Tfw no female knight gf

[Anonymous No.22004545]

>>22004515
don't use your reddit quips on me bitch. I agree the exteriors are pretty shitty but the interior pages and the illustrations look nice imo

[Anonymous No.22004547]

>>22004541
The fact I could probably still overpower her and plant my unshaven, disgusting cheeto lips on her shows how reality is gritty and grimdark.

[Anonymous No.22004549]

>>22004547
she cute

[Anonymous No.22004552]

>>22004545
Then get a PDF and buy the art prints. No books are worth that much if the exterior looks like shit.

[Anonymous No.22004644]

>>22004541
Still couldn't overcome even a bottom tier average male

[Anonymous No.22004670]

>>22004515
my sweaty hands would degrade that book.

[Anonymous No.22004786]

Has anybody read this? I can't work out if it's Gothic spoopy kino, or generic YA

[Anonymous No.22004814]

Why do you hate women so much /sffg/?

[Anonymous No.22004821]

What are some good scifi novels that give an eerie suspenseful atmosphere for an alien contact/abduction? Something in the vein of Crichton books like Sphere or Andromeda Strain, or Lovecraft works like Colour Out of Space, or like Signs or Close Encounters of the Third Kind but in book format instead of a movie
Note that the aliens don't have to be hostile (indeed, I'd prefer if they weren't), but their direct or indirect presence should be offputting, at least at first.

[Anonymous No.22004824]

>>22004814
Because fantasy is for neckbeard incels.

[Anonymous No.22004828]

I'm only 22% in but out of CP, PoG, and now UoW, Skaffen-Amtiskaw is my favorite drone currently. I think Culture has the most personable AI/robots.

[Anonymous No.22004832]

>>22004814
citation?

[Anonymous No.22004837]

>>22004832
Post a story with a female MC

[Anonymous No.22004847]

>>22004837
I'm reading Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage right now

[Anonymous No.22004941]

>reading warrior of altaii
>Sex but no sex, must rape but no rape
>Something something water
This book is fucking retarded

[Anonymous No.22005062]

Did any good sff books get published in the last 3 years

[Anonymous No.22005083]

>>22005062
Castle Town

[Anonymous No.22005134]

>>22005062

[Anonymous No.22005221]

>>22004821
Pushing ice by Reynolds does this well.

[Anonymous No.22005249]

>>22005062
I've written about plenty that I've enjoyed that were were published over the last three years. Whether you'd like them is a different matter. I've also listed out each year which have been most read in the current year.

[Anonymous No.22005320]

>>22004786
pretty generic YA, although I personally enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.22005323]

So that's a no then

[Anonymous No.22005324]

>>22004366
Just get the classic hardcover first editions like a sane man

[Anonymous No.22005370]

>>22005134
Stupid YA trash

[Anonymous No.22005464]

i'm in love

[Anonymous No.22005480]

>>22005464
What are the other 11?

[Anonymous No.22005487]

>>22005480

[Anonymous No.22005497]

empire of the bakkerpires

[Anonymous No.22005535]

Fuck Theon/Reek chapters in Dance are so depressing

[Anonymous No.22005611]

Well the new Night Angel (guilty pleasure) is abysmal and I don't know how to feel about that. I think the Lightbringer series genuinely ruined Weeks' brain, because the magic that characterized the original trilogy--the unabashed corniness, the total, straight-faced embrace of teenage angst and edge, the charmingly self-unaware goofiness of the whole thing feels greatly diminished. It feels as though Weeks got a taste of writing "real" fantasy which was more serious, and forgot that he didn't get famous for writing "real" fantasy he got famous for writing magic mall-ninjas in camo pants speaking like 90s Anime characters in a PG-13 rated show about assassins.

I am so goddamn depressed that this wasn't kino, I was really, really looking forward to it because I treasure terrible authors who distill their terribleness into something beautiful like Weeks did and I was really hoping to revisit that feeling. The one upside is that the villain is pretty funny, which is something Weeks has been good at since Gigachad Garoth from the first trilogy, but even then it's hard to live up to the Dark Emperor cracking dad jokes while being cartoonishly evil mostly towards his own minions by having a Mark Zuckerberg as a lizardman forcing the protagonist to play the trolley dilemma ten times in a row like something out of a Peter Molyneux game from 2004.

[Anonymous No.22005641]

>Been reading Worth The Candle
>Just finished the pregnancy arc
>It was a billion pages of trauma dumping and sitting around discussing interpersonal relationships etc
>think story is going to pick up again now that that's over with
>the party does one actual thing then they take a break to literally go to therapy
Give it to me straight; is the rest of the story just more of this? I'm not sure how many more character arcs about trust issues I can handle.

[Anonymous No.22005660]

>>22005641
The story is quite big on this, but I don't recall actual therapies being excessively present in the plot. The plot and story themselves are supposed to be therapeutic.

[Anonymous No.22005669]

>>22005641
I literally told you it was shit, anon
but you didn't believe me

[Anonymous No.22005700]

read worth the cradle instead

[Anonymous No.22005746]

>>22005641
What part of "vapid self obsessed psych-wank" did you not understand? All the lesswrong/"rational" fics are like this.
>here's a vaguely interesting premise
>how about we assign arbitrary numbers to everything?
>have I mentioned I have clinical depression?
>I heckin love science!
>the stupid proles simply don't understand my deeply intellectual emotions
>Ai is the devil, literally
>Why am I so sad and lonely? It must be everyone else's fault, they're just too ignorant to understand my genius!
>repeat for 400,000 pages
Stand back classic lit, a new magnum opus is on the block!

[Anonymous No.22005753]

I wanna read Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath but I need to do work still. Maybe an audiobook will suffice for now.

[Anonymous No.22005765]

>>22005746
>>Why am I so sad and lonely? It must be everyone else's fault, they're just too ignorant to understand my genius!

Yes, quite apt description for a story in which the author in detail shows how all of his youthful fuck-ups were his fault, and how it could be averted. Truly an egotistical ride. I guess the value of self-reflecton is lost upon schizo /lit/ troll like you.

[Anonymous No.22005766]

>>22005765
oh my god
did you just defend worth the candle?

[Anonymous No.22005776]

>>22005766
Obviously his galaxy sized intellect discerned uncountably many layers deeper than us common folk and uncovered it's true literary genius unsurpassed in history. Alas we will never be able to penetrate it's great mysteries ourselves and can only hope he, in his magnificence, exposes to us unworthy cretins a scant glimpse of it's wisdom.

[Anonymous No.22005791]

>>22005776
>no argument, just snark and irony
Who am I challenge your wisdom, you have my gratitude for showcasing me the error of my ways.

[Anonymous No.22005812]

Can anyone recommend me some good shorter fantasy books around 100,000 words or less, preferably that are part of a series? I've written an urban fantasy book that I'm in the process of reducing the word count for querying, and realizing part of why I tend to run long is because I mostly read doorstoppers. It's probably my taste for longer works, but I feel like most of the shorter fantasy books I've read could've used more fleshing out.

[Anonymous No.22005815]

>>22005812
cradle

[Anonymous No.22005823]

>>22005766
>oh my god....
>dude... did you just...
>defend that book?
>DUDE! You can't fricking do that!
>oh my god...

[Anonymous No.22005938]

>people who are immortal or pursue it are le evil
>people that oppose them are le good

[Anonymous No.22005941]

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/68174/tankers
some boomer is on royal road trying to ape Heinlein

[Anonymous No.22005954]

>>22005941
>not xianxia, litrpg, isekai or rebirth
>royalroad
ngmi

[Anonymous No.22005964]

>>22004847
i dropped that hard somewhere around the middle
the prince was just way too much of a gary stu.

[Anonymous No.22005973]

is the heros ability in the emperor's blades really that he can rotate an apple in his mind?

[Anonymous No.22006017]

>>22005370
>Stupid YA trash
That's all sci-fi and fantasy.

[Anonymous No.22006071]

I fixing hate multipov. it's like the author is hitting the immersion reset button every chapter

[Anonymous No.22006086]

I hate obligatory animal companions.

[Anonymous No.22006089]

>>22006071
Occasional different povs from the protagonist can be fine but I really dislike it when it basically switches around with every chapter or so.

[Anonymous No.22006111]

>>22006071
>try a new book with single PoV precisely because I hate that multiple-pov thing too
>second book in the series introduces a second PoV with a completely new character I don't give a shit about
Dropped it hard. I'm not saying it is always bad but often it's terrible and rips apart a good flow of action.

[Anonymous No.22006117]

>>22005487
>The Curse of Charlie
>Charlie

[Anonymous No.22006118]

>>22006071
other POVs should be reserved for preludes, interludes, and postludes only

[Anonymous No.22006123]

>>22006111
yeah blood song was good but dropped after second book almost immediately

[Anonymous No.22006126]

>>22006118
yeah I'm ok with it setting it up with different pov like that but jumping around all the time is obnoxious

[Anonymous No.22006129]

>>22006071
>>22006089
>>22006111
>>22006126
>*last paragraph of curent pov character's chapter*
>*villain monologue*
good job making it here
i bet you you're wondering what all those very obvious and tantalizing hints in regards to my master plan and relationship to you amount to, aren't you?
well it's simple really. let me explain
*pov ends*

>>*new pov character's chapter*
*the more she drank the more she shat*
*tugs braid*
*internal monologue*
*internal monologue*
*20 pages of internal monologue while character walks from one end of a hallway to another*

>>*followed by third pov character's chapter*
*it's just a rehash of the same scene that led up to the first chapter but from a different perspective

>>*50 pages later you finally make it to the continuation of the first scene**
but it's already too late. it's been over an hour at least. you have to fall asleep now and then wagecuck and if you're lucky resume reading in 8-24 hours, long after any excitement has left you.

and meanwhile the author chuckles smugly at how clever and creative he is because he structured his book this way. delayed gratification, bet you haven't ever heard of something so brilliant, have you, you shiteating peasant?

[Anonymous No.22006142]

>>22006071
I like multi PoVs as long as they are done every chapter or two.

I don't like it as much when they switch during the same chapter, or if you get a couple of paragraphs of one and then a couple of another and it keeps going back and forth.

That is the reasons I dropped revelation space, it switches pov far to often.

[Anonymous No.22006149]

Started book 2 of The War Eternal series.
Kino so far.

[Anonymous No.22006163]

>>22006149
Nice. I picked up the first one on a whim at a used bookstore a while back just for the cover. Looking forward to getting to it.

[Anonymous No.22006172]

>>22006163
Finished the first book yesterday in one sitting. Definitely worth reading, if you have a kindle you can get a couple of moths free kindle unlimited trail, the whole series is on there.

[Anonymous No.22006177]

Titus Groan is so comfy bros...
how do Gormenghast and Titus Alone compare?

[Anonymous No.22006180]

>zlib is dowb again
fucking americans

[Anonymous No.22006183]

>>22006149
>female on the cover.jpg
stopped reading there

[Anonymous No.22006186]

Am I crazy or the new chink gacha Star Rail is copying Brando's cosmere?

[Anonymous No.22006193]

>reading dune hexalogy
>page 215 / 3117
this book is so chill to read, i really like the pacing in the first book.

[Anonymous No.22006204]

>>22006193
I could not finish Children of Dune even though I adored Dune and Messiah

[Anonymous No.22006229]

>>22006183
OK chud

[Anonymous No.22006233]

>you have quite a mouth on you at times
>you mean that other times it isn't there?
Is this really Brando's concept of witty, clever remarks or did he purposely write Shallan as someone terrible at banter

[Anonymous No.22006236]

>>22005221
I find it beyond belief that Reynolds has done anything well

[Anonymous No.22006261]

>>22006233
Brandon is always extremely shit at dialogue but I think he might be making it worse on purpose just for her

[Anonymous No.22006275]

>>22006204
Children did suck but as a fellow Messiah enjoyer God Emperor is worth it.

[Anonymous No.22006279]

>>22006233
This is what you get for reading Brandon books, specifically Brandon books with female MCs

[Anonymous No.22006316]

>>22006279
Eh, Vin is pretty fine at least. Shallan just feels weirdly... Pointless and at-odds with the story sometimes. It rarely feels like she adds anything. Hell, she has no reason to be in the first book at all.

[Anonymous No.22006321]

i stocked up on stuff to read.

i also read a bit into "reincarnated with the strongest system" because it was rated high on webnovel. it was funny at the start but i can't believe how shit it actually is.

also no bully.

[Anonymous No.22006338]

[Anonymous No.22006416]

>>22003610
Good, but the prose style was a bit much. Not accessible for most readers, and even over-dense in so some areas so as to detract from the intention of his descriptions.

[Anonymous No.22006419]

Vamp lit with human protag and romance?

[Anonymous No.22006420]

>>22006316
It felt kinda weird how the book forgets about her for like 250 pages in the first half

[Anonymous No.22006434]

>>22003911
>writes his tour-de-force fantasy novel in fake archaic English
>fails badly. Mirdath's character is also a mess.
I'm so happy someone re-wrote his mess of hack work into the masterpiece it should've been.

[Anonymous No.22006488]

>>22006419
I enjoyed Zero Sight and its sequel but the author didn't finish the series.

[Anonymous No.22006508]

I'm reading one of the mega recommentation "God Touched" by John Conroe and I wasn't expecting much as it's self published but holy fuck it's so bad. The writing is below average but serviceable enough for its purpose, no, the real issue is the annoying gary stu MC. Also it feels like the start of book one should be taking place in book two or three.

Pic kinda related, the MC if he was a bed.

[Anonymous No.22006514]

>>22006508
It was bad for many reasons and I just dropped it when it added a second male protagonist.

[Anonymous No.22006528]

>>22006434
There’s a re-write? This is news to me. I just finished reading the original version.

[Anonymous No.22006531]

>>22006514
I'm only a few pages in and I only powered through because I like sexy vampires. Actually I'm dropping this now, the MC is written like such a real life redditor who happens to be a turbo badass chosen one I want to puke.

[Anonymous No.22006549]

>>22006531
Eh, he is a reincarnated angel, so is the vampire girlfriend. Be glad you got off before it got to the cuckolding plotline, that was infuriating.

[Anonymous No.22006559]

>>22004547
This made me cackle hysterically in my cubicle. I could, and probably would, do the same thing. Grimdark indeed.

[Anonymous No.22006565]

>>22006549
>cuckolding plotline

Picked up again. jk that's not enough of a motivator.

[Anonymous No.22006579]

>>22004814
It can reasonably be assumed that the majority of anons who browse /lit/ - and especially /sffg/ - are young men. Neurotic, artistic (autistic), and emotionally feminine men are to women what citrus is to a roach.

[Anonymous No.22006586]

>>22004837
The Witcher series is pretty good. Stops being about Geralt by book 3, and Ciri takes over as protagonist.

[Anonymous No.22006588]

>>22003572
Severed Press reigns supreme

[Anonymous No.22006596]

Why did no one tell me about A.A. Attanasio? Who else are you plebs hiding from me/don't know about because you only read dogshit?

[Anonymous No.22006602]

>>22005700
This looks so YA that I wouldn’t even glance at it in passing. Better used as kindling for a fire or toilet paper for a French restroom.

[Anonymous No.22006623]

>>22006596
I’m hiding RUDY RUCKER from you

[Anonymous No.22006685]

>>22006596
Lurk a lot more.

[Anonymous No.22006781]

never read his books but I just know this dude is into feet. can see it on his face.

[Anonymous No.22006884]

Listening to audio books while hiking is so nice bros

[Anonymous No.22006916]

>>22006579
Meh, I'm a schizoid in my 30s. Not neurotic and don't have anything against women. Bigotry is pretty cringe. I just like sff books and mostly come here for the odd recommendation and to people watch. Reading The Wizard Knight rn, it's pretty good

[Anonymous No.22006938]

>>22006916
>Bigotry is pretty cringe
I wish I could upvote this heckin' epic virtue signal, my fellow 2016+ new 4channel browser. :D

[Anonymous No.22006963]

>>22006938
What can I say, I'm a liberal. Sorry that triggers you.

[Anonymous No.22006990]

When will the 'muh womenz' meme end?
Get over it, chuds.

[Anonymous No.22007005]

>>22006990
nothing against women, just don't like reading books from their pov

[Anonymous No.22007019]

>>22006990
Sorry that triggers you.

[Anonymous No.22007049]

>>22007019
Doesn't trigger me, it just getting a bit old now. Anytime a woman is mentioned it ends up with several posts from people mememing about it.

We get it, it's an epic maymay and of course you have to fit in on an anonymous Mexican taco stuffing forum.

[Anonymous No.22007200]

This has caught my attention but I've read that it's part of a chronology set in a particular universe. Should I read the books published before it or is it fairly standalone?

[Anonymous No.22007231]

>>22003572
I just finished reading the Red Rising trilogy and I had a gorydamn good time. It’s definitely one of my favorites and I was surprised to still discover something this good. But I fear it might turn to shit in its sequels. I just started reading Iron Gold and I was very disappointed by the new format of having changing POVs. I hate these types of books because most of the time half the POVs are complete shit. What do you guys think? Do the sequels hold up or does the series turn bad after Morning Star? I’m only in the first few chapters of Iron Gold and it already doesn’t really feel the same.

[Anonymous No.22007255]

>>22006186
Care to elaborate?

[Anonymous No.22007257]

>>22007049
>Doesn't trigger me
Sure, soiboi

[Anonymous No.22007379]

>>22007200
It's pretty much standalone.

[Anonymous No.22007410]

>>22006963
>>22007257
>What can I say, I'm a 2016+ newfag
Your kind lets us know at every first available opportunity.

[Anonymous No.22007420]

Ok guys. Give me a comfy fantasy with adult character/s who go on an adventure.
People keep suggesting shit with kids but I can't relate.
I liked the Dragonlance Chronicles.

[Anonymous No.22007428]

>>22007420
Adults going on adventures? Sounds like manchildren to me.

[Anonymous No.22007462]

>>22007420
The Silver John books/short stories are comfy and underrated. Mark Twain meets the Hobbit but it's set in 50's America. If want a comfy traditional euro wizard/knight shit setting I can't help. I prefer David Gemmell's adventures, which you should read though.

[Anonymous No.22007463]

>>22007420
The Bloodsworn Saga by John Gwynne.

[Anonymous No.22007471]

>>22007420
Not read this yet but came accross it the other day.
https://www.risingshadow.net/library/book/64214-the-sword-defiant
Well I did read the first chapter on amazon and it seemed pretty decent.

[Anonymous No.22007488]

>>22007471
nta
I posted what I wrote about that recently. It was decent overall.

[Anonymous No.22007496]

>>22007488
Going to read it after I finish the series I'm reading now. Do you have a archive link?

[Anonymous No.22007532]

>>22006233
An author can only make characters as smart or funny as they are. Brandon might be relatively smart, but he's definitely not funny. The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook confirmed that to me. I went in expecting Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett and it didn't even get a smirk out of me. Utterly boring and unfunny.

Still like Stormlight Archive though.

[Anonymous No.22007556]

>>22007496
>>/lit/thread/S21941208#p21942894

[Anonymous No.22007618]

>>22007556
Thanks.

Sounds good to me although a bit generic apart from the talking sword.

[Anonymous No.22007659]

>>22006884
>Listening to audio books while hiking
You didn't hike.

[Anonymous No.22007660]

About to start this. What am I in for?

[Anonymous No.22007664]

>>22007618
You're welcome.
May it be better for you than it was for me.

[Anonymous No.22007669]

>>22007660
Are you entirely new, inattentive, or a troll/bot? Do you sincerely want an answer?

[Anonymous No.22007700]

>>22007669
I'm new to Wolfe. And yes, I wanted a sincere answer. Excuse my original post, was never good at initiating conversation.

I started already and appreciate the atmosphere so far. Something's off about it though, hard to describe. Like the protag has brainfog or something.

[Anonymous No.22007702]

>>22005134
I just finished the first cradle book. Enjoyed it far more than I anticipated. I'm not a huge fan of the whole asian fantasy vibe... but once I got into it and the sci fi elements started to blend in and I realized it was essentially a Wuxia / Shonen style story I got really hooked.

I'm already tearing through the second book and the world is so strange and expansive, are there any other books like this--where you have a fantasy story all about personal growth, power and determination?

[Anonymous No.22007733]

>>22007702
>I'm already tearing through the second book and the world is so strange and expansive, are there any other books like this--where you have a fantasy story all about personal growth, power and determination?
That would be a cool basis for a whole genre, wouldn't it? I'd call it something like Progression Fantasy.

[Anonymous No.22007734]

>>22007702
> are there any other books like this--where you have a fantasy story all about personal growth, power and determination?
you mean the entire progression fantasy genre?

[Anonymous No.22007736]

>>22007700
He's narrating his life and only telling you what he feels like telling you, which means that yes, much is intentionally obscured. That may account for the brainfog.

[Anonymous No.22007741]

>>22007702
ave xia rem

[Anonymous No.22007744]

>>22007702
>are there any other books like this--where you have a fantasy story all about personal growth, power and determination?
Reverend Insanity

[Anonymous No.22007747]

>>22007734
yeah, but are any of them as good as Cradle? And are there any that aren't Asian themed?

[Anonymous No.22007750]

Hello fellow cultivators.
>as good as cradle
lol!

[Anonymous No.22007753]

>>22007747
>yeah, but are any of them as good as Cradle?
That's a matter of taste, isn't it? Also, please read the rest of Cradle before you act like it's the pinnacle of progression fantasy.
>And are there any that aren't Asian themed?
Yes, a lot of them are litrpgs but there are some like Mother of Learning that are quite good and neither Asian nor litRPG.

[Anonymous No.22007754]

>>22007747
This guy has been writing about them. He has a list. So have others. You can also look at overall thoughts.
>>21984154
Other than that other sites are dedicated to them. There are also charts in the mega in the OP.

[Anonymous No.22007758]

The guy who writes Soulship looks like a younger, less fat Brando. Not exactly of course but go compare his picture on amazon to anything Brandon.

[Anonymous No.22007768]

>>22007753
> are there any that aren't Asian themed?
Defiance of the Fall
Randidly Ghosthound

[Anonymous No.22007771]

>>22007747
> are there any that aren't Asian themed?
Defiance of the Fall
Randidly Ghosthound

[Anonymous No.22007776]

thanks for all the recommendations bros

[Anonymous No.22007778]

>>22007702
>I'm already tearing through the second book and the world is so strange and expansive, are there any other books like this--where you have a fantasy story all about personal growth, power and determination?
As much as some anons tell you it's called Progression Fantasy, it's been a part of Fantasy genre for decades. PG is simply more focused on actual power acquisition than other stories. A story about 'personal growth, power and determination' is basically a basis for a good fantasy book and could describe almost anything from the upper tiers of Fantasy.

If you want the poster child of Progression Fantasy and dislike asian themes, go read Mother of Learning. It's fucking great.
Optionally Sufficiently Advanced Magic, but it has small tidbits of asian settings inside. If you don't have prejudice against LitRPGs, try Dungeon Crawler Carl or Infinity Realm (IR also has some asian tidbits).

[Anonymous No.22007797]

>>22007778
I just looked through a bunch of the recommendations above and a lot of it seems schlocky and video gamey...the world has been sent into a multiverse of monsters and the hero must level up to defeat them!

At least Cradle had some interesting world building and character development behind it.

Also agreed that classic fantasy adventures have this element of progression as well, though sometimes a great Conan adventure with zero character development can still be quite satisfying.

[Anonymous No.22007818]

I started Lord of the Mysteries, because probably one faggot here shilled it endlessly. I found the start to be quite boring. But after around 50 chapters it starts to go somewhere. I will continue.

[Anonymous No.22007852]

>>22007797
>I just looked through a bunch of the recommendations above and a lot of it seems schlocky and video gamey...the world has been sent into a multiverse of monsters and the hero must level up to defeat them!
That's why I gave MoL, SAM and two LitRPGs that I know aren't schlocky. If someone mentions Defiance of the Fall, Primal Hunter or whatever, then they are dumb and do not understand how normal fiction works.

[Anonymous No.22007860]

>>22006177
Gormenghast improves on Titus Groan in almost every way. Titus Groan moves away from the setting of the castle and suffers for it but I think overall it is underrated here

[Anonymous No.22007903]

Any books that are more about the world, like with a lot of landscape descriptions, rather than the characters? Besides Tolkien.

[Anonymous No.22007910]

>>22007702
>>22007778
Mother of learning is literaly the shittiest recommendation of them all. It absolute garbage. The main character is trash, the progression is garbage, the plot other characters are shit.

[Anonymous No.22007919]

Now that I think of it... Books of Babel series is kind of progression fantasy

[Anonymous No.22007922]

>>22004828
Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints is mai waifu

[Anonymous No.22007924]

>>22007910
Your opinion is the shittiest.

[Anonymous No.22007929]

>>22007660
Subtext and symbolism.

[Anonymous No.22007943]

>>22005062
i thought these books were fairly good
would have much better if the mc wasnt a woman

[Anonymous No.22007951]

>>22007910
>It absolute garbage. The main character is trash, the progression is garbage, the plot other characters are shit
sounds like your typical progression fantasy to me

[Anonymous No.22007992]

>>22007951
It's worse

[Anonymous No.22008001]

>>22005062
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[Anonymous No.22008092]

Fuck me this book is so good. Why did Gene Wolfe have to die.

[Anonymous No.22008111]

>>22007771
>Randidly Ghosthound
Why.
Defiance of the Fall I'll at least give you it's not completely nothing, but Randidly is just a whole lot of nothing.

[Anonymous No.22008135]

>>22008111
I prefer it to DotF in their latest volumes. DotF is mostly asspull esoterica at this point. Ghosthound is still trying to tell a story, even if it's just a shaggy dog story.

Although I will say that both have rallied since their low points so maybe they'll cross trajectories again.

[Anonymous No.22008139]

>>22008135
Randidly failed to convince me to read past the first book, DotF at least took me a while to drop. Both kinda suck, though. If we're gonna talk LitRPGs in those terms, honestly I'd give it to Primal Hunter as the current best one. It's not GREAT, but it's yet to really falter all that much compared to those two.

[Anonymous No.22008156]

>>22008139
My favorite ongoing litrpg is probably Bear Clan, but the fourth volume was a bit of a down tick. The fun world reveals are spent, and it resorted to some magical engineering. But still good. Primal Hunter is in meander mode, but the author seems to be having fun with it and it carries through when I read it.

[Anonymous No.22008161]

>>22008156
Oh, also the rarely-read Bushido Online, which somehow managed to get a little bit better with each volume and I really hope it doesn't implode.

[Anonymous No.22008186]

>>22008161
>>22008156
Heard of Bushido Online at least. Might give that one a read, though LitRPGs that take place within an MMO always make it a bit harder to take seriously, because the stakes are inherently lower and there's also the disbelief that this game world is somehow human-designed. Probably a bit weird to think. I liked Ripple System, at least when it wasn't doing PvE stuff (because it turns out reading about dungeon raids is REALLY uninteresting whereas PvP means you get interesting conflict and characterisation). Dunno Bear Clan at all. I mean, my current favourite is DCC, but that's hardly a fair comparison given how it's not really a very typical LitRPG by any notion.

[Anonymous No.22008202]

>>22008092
he's still writing books in heaven. But not sure if all of us will get to read them.

[Anonymous No.22008219]

>>22008186
Bear Clan is russian, but the guy who did Way of the Shaman. If you liked that, you'll like Bear Clan even if you didn't like his other books.

If you try Bushido Online give it a chance to grow on you. For the first volume I was sort of hung up on the gimmick of everyone larping as Japanese. Maybe you will demonstrate a more supple mind. In the end I like the clan intrigue and cleverness.

And DCC is sort of in a class by itself right now. That's another one I hope doesn't implode.

[Anonymous No.22008223]

I don't like the solo grinding shit in litRPGs, I want a party or at least a cute tomboy partner for grinding.

[Anonymous No.22008233]

>>22008219
Oh, I don't think I've even touched any Russian LitRPG stuff, admittedly.

[Anonymous No.22008271]

>>22008223
imagine showing Tolkien this post in the 50's

[Anonymous No.22008279]

>>22008219
He lets fans dictate the course of the story, I think it may be inevitable.

[Anonymous No.22008280]

>>22008271
>imagine showing Tolkien this post in the 50's
Too late to save LotR from being boring.

[Anonymous No.22008303]

>>22008279
ARE YOU THE ONE WHO HATES THE CAT ANON

[Anonymous No.22008305]

>>22008223
Kys

[Anonymous No.22008306]

>>22008305
Why is solo grinding so important to you?

[Anonymous No.22008313]

>>22008271
Would Tolkien have enjoyed D&D?

[Anonymous No.22008320]

>>22008313
no

[Anonymous No.22008324]

>>22008313
no

[Anonymous No.22008326]

>>22008306
I don't like mc teaming up with others. Most of the time the team becomes literal trope and I really dislike trope shit

[Anonymous No.22008335]

>>22008326
I don't really get how parties are tropeshit but those MCs somehow aren't but good for you that litRPG is almost exclusively solo grinding.

[Anonymous No.22008343]

>>22008313
I think he might appreciate some of the worldbuilding, like using maps and consistency in the rules, but he'd probably consider the theater aspect inferior to reading a book.

[Anonymous No.22008349]

>>22008335
The tropeshit is when mc joins a party and there is a "girl" and it becomes ya love story and everything else story/plot is only there to serve the love story. If its some sort of Black Company tier party, a band full of male mercenaries who go on adventure then that is fine, I don't mind that but litrpg parties are never like that.

[Anonymous No.22008352]

>>22003572
Any progression/cultivation novels set in a world like Journey to the West

[Anonymous No.22008354]

>>22008349
>The tropeshit is when mc joins a party and there is a "girl" and it becomes ya love story and everything else story/plot is only there to serve the love story.
Sounds cool, any recommendations like this?

[Anonymous No.22008358]

>>22008354
Sounds like shit and you are a coomer trash.

[Anonymous No.22008360]

>>22008358
>Sounds like shit and you are a coomer trash.
So, basically, you are making shit up and there actually are no litRPG stories like what you describe?

[Anonymous No.22008366]

>>22008354
Read better stuff please

[Anonymous No.22008372]

>>22008360
Almost every litrpg story that involves mc joining the party has some shitty female character that mc falls for. Do you even litrpg?

[Anonymous No.22008375]

>>22008366
>Read better stuff please
Okay, any warnings which stuff to avoid if I totally hate litRPG love stories?

[Anonymous No.22008377]

>>22008223
I found some well-rated LitRPG books where the MC grows with companions. Here are some recommendations:

The Land: Founding by Aleron Kong. It has a rating of 4.2/5 on Goodreads and 4.6/5 on Amazon.
Ascend Online by Luke Chmilenko. It has a rating of 4.3/5 on Goodreads and 4.6/5 on Amazon.
Awaken Online by Travis Bagwell. It has a rating of 4.3/5 on Goodreads and 4.6/5 on Amazon.
I hope this helps!

[Anonymous No.22008378]

Cradle would be good if it didn't (spoilers ahead) go the retarded mega space conflict route. I fucking hate when authors have a decent words and just go "sike, there's a billion fucking planet and actually the real war is in spessss".

[Anonymous No.22008382]

>>22008378
have a decent world*

[Anonymous No.22008389]

>>22005083
>not on libgen
reeeeeeeee

[Anonymous No.22008409]

>>22008377
>I hope this helps!
You don't sound sincere, at all.

[Anonymous No.22008416]

>>22008409
Well duh this reads like shit chatGPT would spit out.

[Anonymous No.22008417]

>>22008378
I didn't like the bits with the Abidan all that much. Probably would have been better if he handled those parts with more tell than show because at that power level, I just found myself baffled by how unimpressive everyone and everything was, except for instant eradication/restoration moments.

[Anonymous No.22008432]

>>22008378
The point of that stuff is that it's meant to put into perspective how utterly petty the Monarchs are being. The space war shit is largely just a 'background' deal. We'll probably not get any real more on that except some snippets of The Mad King or whatever, because the story is still primarily ABOUT Cradle as a world. Hell, the scale of things is set pretty early on when Suriel first shows up, and it never really escalates too much from there.

[Anonymous No.22008435]

>>22008202
Bakkerfans will not get to read them, but they will get to continue reading Bakker when they meet him where he's going

[Anonymous No.22008457]

>>22008377
>Awaken Online by Travis Bagwell. It has a rating of 4.3/5 on Goodreads and 4.6/5 on Amazon.
I didn't read it but apparently this has one of my absolutely most hated tropes ever, the main girl dates the asshole bully before wising up and getting together with the mc, or something alone those lines. This is even worse than "best friend dates the asshole bully" in that other progression fantasy, Iron Prince.

[Anonymous No.22008465]

>>22008457
kek I was thinking of IP then I read the last sentence.

[Anonymous No.22008477]

>>22008465
I found it baffling that the author thought that was a good idea.

[Anonymous No.22008481]

>>22008457
>>22008465
>>22008477
Iron Prince at least doesn't have the best friend being a romantic interest, though it's still a weird moment overall because it's just sort of "anyway off screen they became friendly". They also make it weirdly clear said friend is bi before having her hook up with a dude anyway. Which is funny.
God, Iron Prince was such a bland book. It's a magic academy book where it's just a school year and that's it.

[Anonymous No.22008486]

>>22008409
>>22008416
it is a response from bing.

[Anonymous No.22008488]

>>22008481
The author went out of his way to make her unattractive to waifufags first, by making her very promiscuous and having her mock the MC for being such a virgin, there even was an event in their past where she pretended to agree to date one of his bullies (which upset the MC) and then humiliated the bully or something along those lines. It still made me drop the book. That bully guy was just a pest and I wanted less of him, not a redemption arc or whatever the author wanted.
Luckily, the book really wasn't all that good, anyway, so dropping it was no big loss.

[Anonymous No.22008490]

>>22008477
He's a LGTV supporter and is one of those "don't read my books if you're a bigot"fags. Of course he'd think it was a good idea.

[Anonymous No.22008497]

>>22008488
It's weird he does that and then just has an actual super waifu-y character love interest for the protagonist too. It's kind of like... What's the point, then. Also if you're gonna make a redeemed rival, maybe don't start with the rival being completely 100% awful the entire time and then say "actually he was cool off-screen trust me".

[Anonymous No.22008518]

I want a female MC that goes on a funny adventure.

[Anonymous No.22008522]

>>22008490
Somehow litRPG and haremlit which should be ultra neckbeard/"misogynistic incel" genres are the most reddit things in existence.

>>22008497
Writing the best friend as having her own agency instead of serving the MC's interests probably gave him some sort of male feminist boner.

[Anonymous No.22008562]

>read something from royal road
>the second the protagonist faces any actual adversity or danger, people start seething over the story being ‘ruined’
This has happened so many times
For some reason that site hates protags that are not overpowered

[Anonymous No.22008584]

>>22008562
Post concrete examples, anon. For all I know you are euphemizing shit like the MC's family being brutally raped to death in front of him as facing adversity.

[Anonymous No.22008586]

>>22008303
Nah, Princess Donut has a better storyline than most secondaries in a cast.

[Anonymous No.22008588]

>>22008497
It’s not weird at all
The bully is just the mc’s rival
They even get along at the end
Iron prince is very anime inspired
Also the love interest noble girl is something that would come straight out of an isekai harem with how ideal she was

[Anonymous No.22008608]

>>22008588
I always hated that Vegeta got Bulma. Even more so since Chichi ended up being such a Xanthippe.

[Anonymous No.22008668]

To the anon who posted the Freewrite devices the other day... Fuck you, I just pissed away $315 for a layman's laptop. Think I've got autism but it'd be nice to have a singular focus when stuck riding bitch on the road for jobs. I look forward to adding it to my growing list of expensive paperweights.

[Anonymous No.22008677]

>>22008668
Goodness, anon, do you not look at pictures before you consooom?

[Anonymous No.22008681]

>>22008435
What if I enjoy Bakker and Wolfe?

[Anonymous No.22008690]

>>22008668
lol that's me. Love me some schadenfreude

[Anonymous No.22008701]

>>22008677
I knew what I was looking at, just couldn't personally justify the price to myself until I saw the podunk version.

>>22008690
Sell me yours, dickhead. I'll give you what I would've paid for the Alpha.

[Anonymous No.22008705]

>>22008432
I'm sure this is what he intended, but this >>22008417 was also how I felt. I pretty much dropped Craddle because of it.

[Anonymous No.22008715]

>>22008705
I mean, you do you, but it's saying something that even the penultimate book only involves the Abidan by way of Ozriel just watching the events of Cradle like it's a TV show.

[Anonymous No.22008735]

>>22008715
I mean I'm glad you can still enjoy it, but for me that massive scale difference between the "real fight" (which is boring as shit btw) and makes what is going on on Craddle a pointless sideshow. Ants fighting ants.

[Anonymous No.22008737]

>>22003916
four grey aliens and a nordic

[Anonymous No.22008740]

>>22008735
My autism kicked in during that post, lemme try again:

I mean I'm glad you can still enjoy it, but for me that massive scale difference between the "real fight" (which is boring as shit btw) and what is going on on Craddle makes it look like a pointless sideshow. Ants fighting ants.

[Anonymous No.22008748]

>>22008735
>>22008740
>autism
>doesn't correct Crad(d)le typo
My autism would beat your autism in a fight

[Anonymous No.22008756]

>>22008740
Fair enough, I think it's sort of the point that, even as small scale as Cradle 'really' is, it doesn't matter that it is so small because every Iteration matters deeply, whether on a cosmic scale or simple to the people who live there.

[Anonymous No.22008760]

>>22008748
I'm a dipshit ESL and it's 3am pls understand.

>>22008756
Yeah for sure. I think the sudden switch between fantasy to some pseudo sci-fi with spaceships also contributed to mindfuck me in a not good way.

[Anonymous No.22008771]

>>22008760
The switch and the power level scaling wouldn't be so bad if you were familiar with xianxia. A lot of them start with the MC being barely above regular mortals and take hundreds or thousands of chapters to get to the absolute pinnacle of beyond godlike power with regular out of depth encounters that wow the MC and reinforce his determination not to be limited to the mere local pond power levels.

[Anonymous No.22008774]

>>22008760
Fair enough. Given how little we actually really see of Abidan society, it's actually kind of left ambiguous how 'sci-fi' they really are. Their enemies are a bit more strictly sci-fi, but even then it tends towards sci-fi in a very overly fantasy sort of way.

[Anonymous No.22008782]

>>22008771
Well, a very recurring theme of Cradle is "there's always more". The only character that doesn't apply to is Ozriel and he basically ends up forcing himself to experience more because of how utterly banal his existence had become.

[Anonymous No.22008794]

>>22008771
I don't like Xianxia -much- but it's mostly because how obnovious the "senior this senior that" stuff is, the idea of massive power differential between people and cultivation is pretty cool. I was actually surprised to enjoy Cradle. The bothersome for me was the idea that everything going on is a sideshow of an event that completely dwarves it.

[Anonymous No.22008796]

>>22008782
Yet he couldn't do anything about the existential threat the Abidan were gradually losing against.

[Anonymous No.22008801]

>>22008796
Well, that's more just "probably just entropy". I dunno, I feel like it's not unlikely we'll see a more thorough exploration of the Abidan and the like in another series, Cradle mostly touches on them to highlight significance and scale.

[Anonymous No.22008802]

>>22008794
obnoxious*
the bothersome part*
ffs i swear i'll start correcting my post soontm

[Anonymous No.22008895]

>>22008794
>I don't like Xianxia -much- but it's mostly because how obnovious the "senior this senior that" stuff is
I feel like that is more prevalent in parodies than the real thing, especially in western xianxia.

[Anonymous No.22008959]

>>22008668
Lmao

[Anonymous No.22009062]

>>22008668
Nice. Here's my freewrite.

[Anonymous No.22009089]

>read all this royal road litrpg stuff
>give that one anon's RR story a chance
>prose is much better
>can't get into it because my brain doesn't want to comprehend the prose
>must go back to simple sentences
>I miss litrpg
Sorry anon. I know the prose is better, but I can't. litrrpg prose is just so much easier to digest

[Anonymous No.22009134]

>>22009089
RIP, your brain

[Anonymous No.22009162]

Name a single good 21st century fantasy novel aside from Bakker or Clarke. You simply cannot.

[Anonymous No.22009189]

>>22009162
If Bakker's writing is what you consider good, I don't want to know what an evil fantasy novel would look like.

[Anonymous No.22009211]

>>22009162
You’ll have to get through me first *slams down novel*

[Anonymous No.22009251]

does this gen accept discussion of sci-fi/horror

[Anonymous No.22009277]

>>22009251
Read the title of the fucking thread you spastic

[Anonymous No.22009283]

>>22009277
Most friendly and well adjusted 4chan poster
>>22009251
Yep. We like Lovecraft, CAS, and the like. What do you want to discuss?

[Anonymous No.22009332]

>>22008668

[Anonymous No.22009345]

>>22008668
>>22008690
no arrowkeys is a terrible design choice.

[Anonymous No.22009379]

>>22008313
I imagine the Inklings gaming night would be epic

[Anonymous No.22009398]

>>22008233
Try the Nullform series.

[Anonymous No.22009399]

>>22009345
It's part of some hipster design philosophy to keep you from 'backspacing over your mistakes and efforts'. Preserving your stream of conscious kind of BS.

[Anonymous No.22009448]

>>22009399
but then that nullifies the entire device being used as a word processor. so terrible.

[Anonymous No.22009605]

>>22008354
>>>/a/252327837
enjoy

[Anonymous No.22009648]

>>22008522
>Somehow litRPG and haremlit which should be ultra neckbeard/"misogynistic incel" genres are the most reddit things in existence.
wow it's like prioritising females and wanting to be surrounded by them all the time turns you into a feminized faggot who constantly needs validation from fictional characters like upvotes on reddit

[Anonymous No.22009690]

>>22006071
I agree. Personally, there's always one character who I end up more invested in than the others and I end up constantly being annoyed when a story that I'm enjoying gets interrupted to go follow someone else entirely

[Anonymous No.22009724]

Seperate /litrpg/ general when?

[Anonymous No.22009748]

>>22009724
never retard

[Anonymous No.22009749]

>>22008488
All that garbage, why not instead focus on story and adventure? At least fuck in the first chapter so it's done and out of the way and mc can get on with other thigns, but no, story and and adventure are irrelevant, most of the time it's some retarded ya love shit. These authors should be fucking gassed

[Anonymous No.22009752]

>>22009748
Please make one so we don't have to put up with your shitrpg.

[Anonymous No.22009770]

Has anyone read the Dresden Files?
recommend?

[Anonymous No.22009772]

>*makes a whole thread crumble and seethe in his path*
How can one man be so based?

[Anonymous No.22009775]

>>22009724
they would get laughed at so hard by tourists. fantasy and scifi readers already have enough trouble understanding litrpg serials. this is their home.

[Anonymous No.22009782]

Just finished the farseer trilogy. Thanks for the recommendation sffg. That trilogy was like crack, I'm tempted to go further in their world but not sure yet.

[Anonymous No.22009784]

>>22009772
>his path
What is his path?

[Anonymous No.22009803]

>>22009784
The path of Satan. It’s also very wide since he’s fat.

[Anonymous No.22009811]

>>22009782
Well the Liveship Traders trilogy is different enough to be a standalone series despite being set in the same world.

[Anonymous No.22009829]

>>22009775
It wouldn't be so bad but litrpshit seems to be pushing away discussion of sff. 75% of these generals are now weeb novels and litrpg.

They need to make their own general.

[Anonymous No.22009840]

>>22009829
It's been attempted many times. It never lasts for more than a couple threads for a very simple reason. Few care to make the threads consistently.

[Anonymous No.22009855]

>>22009784
The path of bad dialogue, shitty ya romance and cuckoldry.

[Anonymous No.22009859]

>>22009855
>caring about romance
fag

[Anonymous No.22009868]

>>22009859
if you were to find some filthy roach floating in your soup, would you not care?

[Anonymous No.22009872]

>>22009868
I would. Doesn't change that you're a fag

[Anonymous No.22009875]

>>22009872
I am not fag, I just don't like romance trash in adventure stories. Keep romance in romantic novels.

[Anonymous No.22009899]

Why do powerful protagonists not visit brothels or sleep around?
Sex is fun. Why do they avoid it? I don't need to read a description of how he fucks someone, but it feels unnatural how fantasy protagonists seem to have no interest in sex. They only ever sleep with the female lead at the end of the entire story.

[Anonymous No.22009923]

>>22009899
Have you never ventured outside of YA or what? Visiting brothels is perfectly natural in in mature Fantasy stories. Unless you read shit written by <30 years-old writers, new generation finds it 'unethical'

[Anonymous No.22009946]

>>22009899
Most people don't want romance in books, go read a romance novel. Sure there are plenty of sff books that do have that in them, especially urban fantasy.

[Anonymous No.22010004]

>>22009899
Not sure what books you're reading but many feature characters that have sex, even if its not explicitly stated. Even in series you don't initially think of. For example in WoT Mat screwed half of the busty barmaids in the Westlands but it always mentioned in an off-hand manner that it's easy to overlook.

[Anonymous No.22010011]

>>22009899
like 1/3rd of the second kvothe book is about how he went to a sex fairy goddess's world and made her fall in love with him with the power of his 17 year old dick

[Anonymous No.22010058]

>>22010011
I checked and it's true he's only 16, lmao. Why are Americans so obsessed with teenagers? Is this some conspiracy to give everyone insecurities about not doing anything important in life before hiting 20s? Fucking hysterical.

[Anonymous No.22010074]

>>22010058
not like kvothe does anything in the books beyond being an arrogant dick, consistently overestimating his abilities and getting bested and humiliated time and time again
supposedly he also gets everyone he loves killed or something, but the final book is never coming out so we'll never know what happens

[Anonymous No.22010077]

>>22004821
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke is exactly what you want

[Anonymous No.22010126]

>>22010058
It's almost as if teenagers are the main audience for the majority of such books.

[Anonymous No.22010172]

esoteric, abstract magic systems >>>> some yugioh trading card bullshit where they burn tin to go fast or powers are tied to the color spectrum or some stupid bullshit gimmick that completely demystifies the setting

[Anonymous No.22010223]

>>22009770
really, nobody has read this series?
by the same author that wrote codex alera, Jim Butcher

[Anonymous No.22010225]

>>22010172
Both can be cool.

[Anonymous No.22010232]

>>22004267
Michael Moorcock?
>>22004366
Worthless without the Urth.
>>22006596
>>22006685
Too confusing just for the sake of it. I liked the first quarter of Radix, but the enjoyment is gone once they start using telepathy.
>>22007660
An amoral 15 year old orphan boy takes a hike across post-post-post-apocalyptic Chile. He also brags about meeting the president, a monarch, a talking cat, and multiple women dropping their panties as soon as they meet him.

[Anonymous No.22010312]

>lord of the mysteries 2 ch127
>the psychologist he is meeting is susie
i fucking knew this would happen. i fucking knew it. god damn it. why are writers such assholes?where is audrey?! i demand justice!

[Anonymous No.22010331]

New bread when

[Anonymous No.22010335]

>>22010331
10 minutes

[Anonymous No.22010351]

>>22010331
20 minutes

[Anonymous No.22010401]

>>22004541
>tfw no stronkfu to crush your dick between her biceps
Why live?

[Anonymous No.22010459]

>>22009724
Are you the fag from last thread who wanted people to discuss Poul Anderson and Wolfe, some of the most talked-about authors in this general, more often? Lurk more and then dunk your head in acid.

[Anonymous No.22010539]

>>22010459
No I'm not him and there should be a seperate litshitrpg general.

[Anonymous No.22010545]

>>22010459
*raises paw* that was me. Problem?

[Anonymous No.22010552]

>>22010539
ARE YOU THE ONE WHO HATES THE CAT

[Anonymous No.22010561]

>>22010552
No I love cats but I hate litrpg in sffg.

Are you garage boy?

[Anonymous No.22010574]

>>22010545
>>22010561
>I hate on-topic posts and want more of the same!
By all means, return to your favorite social-aggregate. That is, quite literally, what it is for: Stagnation and discussion of the same titles ad nauseum. This will be my only reply.

[Anonymous No.22010589]

>>22010574
There are plenty of books to talk about but most people just want to talk about the same ones all the time.

[Anonymous No.22010592]

>>22010574
I didn’t actually make the post from last thread. You need to realise Anonymous isn’t the same person.

[Anonymous No.22010614]

>>22010574
>>22010459
Get in /litRPG/ chads!
>>22010612

[Anonymous No.22010619]

>>22010614
Based

[Anonymous No.22010636]

>>22009770
>>22010223
I dropped it after a few books because the protagonist was constantly acting like a retard, making the worst decisions possible and it just wasn't enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.22010642]

>>22010614
No.

[Anonymous No.22010643]

>>22010642
Go and stay go
>>22010612

[Anonymous No.22010657]

>>22010643
LitRPG, like it or not, is still SFFG. You're pointlessly fragmenting it because sometimes people discuss a subgenre you don't like.

[Anonymous No.22010665]

>>22010657
If you want to role play and self insert go play Skyrim.

[Anonymous No.22010668]

>>22010665
I'm not a fan of grimdark, I don't demand the creation of a grimdark general because sometimes people talk about grimdark books.

[Anonymous No.22010669]

>>22010657
Stop responding to shitposting wannabe janitors.

[Anonymous No.22010707]

>>22010668
>Grimdark general
Ahhhh… that sounds like a gritty and harsh place a man can really rape and murder in as an unchecked sellsword or knight that never sees the fist of a true king’s justice, for all kings are false!

[Anonymous No.22010875]

>>22009770
I read it up to the latest few books and then lost interest.
It's kinda decent action shlock, you can kinda imagine each book as a movie or a tv show on the level of supernatural.
Basic premise in each installment is
>noir detective parody man gets shit on by women/the government/poverty
>gets hint/job for a new important case
>hops in his comically small car and slowly drives around doing detective shit
>Oh crap it's not just criminals it's magic demon werewolf nazi vampires!
>entire rest of the book is him shooting people with a hand cannon while quoting dirty harry, setting things on fire, taking grievous injuroes, and sleeping with women of dubious morals
>in the end there's a massive explosion, all the bad guys die except the ringleaders who flee into the sunset sursing his name, and the woman of the book backstabs him and steals his shit before disappearing and he goes back to being a noir detective
>also there's a comedy sidekick talking skull who used to be an ss officer but who's totally cool now honest and only OCCASIONALLY attempts to reinstate the third reich by using necromancy to revive hitler

[Anonymous No.22010882]

>>22010312
>pirate sites haven't updated from 114 in over a week
This is the end for me.

[Anonymous No.22010912]

Anyone here read this series? Been watching the show and just found out it's a book series. I don't mind the show but I might ditch it and pick up these.

[Anonymous No.22010914]

>>22010707
who's the faggot in the middle? I like grimdark

[Anonymous No.22010946]

>>22010914
A Mexican-Spanish translator. The lords of Grim and Dark went there to discuss how gritty reality was.

[Anonymous No.22010952]

>>22007919
Are these books actually good or not?

[Anonymous No.22010962]

>>22010614
Fake and gay

[Anonymous No.22010996]

>>22007922
I like how Skaffen's intro was blasting everybody and getting shit done. What other Culture books are worthwhile to read? I read good things in the archives about Excession but the plot of trans having babies(?) and arguing with each other does not sound appealing; is that collection of Culture short stories worth reading too? Should I go ahead and read them all? I probably will at some point.

[Anonymous No.22011006]

Anyone like Machen up in this bitch?

[Anonymous No.22011030]

>>22010882
my usual site seems to have stopped at 118 yesterday. but i found another that went up to 129.
either way, sooner or later we'll probably get to read it.

[Anonymous No.22011033]

It reigns supreme…

[Anonymous No.22011067]

He really hit the nail on the head

[Anonymous No.22011179]

>>22011067
He is right, so many writers stick to the same fantasy tropes to capture the Tolkien audience and don't try to create their own unique settings, races and themes.

I try to avoid anything Tolkien like and try to look for fantasy that is different from the norm.

[Anonymous No.22011206]

>>22011179
Yeah. No one really even reads the names he lists either. I tried to list off some attributes to the dullards on /tg/ but my argument went over their heads.
>>88776474

[Anonymous No.22011210]

>>22011179
>>22011206
>>>/tg/88776474

[Anonymous No.22011277]

>>22011067
Those authors think you should make allegories to how Trump is an evil dictator in your fantasy book and Roe V Wade being abolished is making women second class citizens. No thank you. At least people who copy Tolkien aren't mentally broken by politics and are trying to make something perennial.

[Anonymous No.22011285]

>>22010614
I hope the time wasted on gathering harem cover arts and making a shitty troll thread was worth it for you, anon

[Anonymous No.22011300]

>>22010225
no

[Anonymous No.22011318]

Speaking of litRPGs:
>Okay guys. As we approach the end, there’s going to be several minor and a handful of large-ish retcons in order to make things fit better.
Oh no, DCCfriends?

[Anonymous No.22011320]

>>22006071
Agreed, it's my #1 red flag among authors I would actually consider reading.
I think the only one that comes to mind actually having pulled it off is Pratchett. Erikson, GRRM and Jordan certainly didn't.

[Anonymous No.22011321]

>>22011285
What are you talking about? LitRPG reigns supreme

[Anonymous No.22011325]

>>22011067
>and there's a lot to dislike
>proceeds to list things that are morally righteous, good and true throughout history
I hate subversive leftists. They are a death cult.

[Anonymous No.22011373]

>>22011277
Enjoy your generic fantasy anon.

[Anonymous No.22011391]

>>22007420
Fafhrd & The Grey Mouser.

[Anonymous No.22011401]

>>22007702
Isn't it just ripping off chinese xianxia?
There's endless amounts of that stuff with different flavors. Straight Xianxia (including reskins with fantasy and/or lovecraft flavors), system novels, transmigration game novels etc etc.

[Anonymous No.22011422]

>>22007747
>And are there any that aren't Asian themed?
Lord of the Mysteries, Throne of Magical Arcana, Super Dimensional Wizard, Coiling Dragon, Warlock of the Magus World.

[Anonymous No.22011451]

>>22010312
>>22011030
I figured it out and got caught up. Have to jump through a lot more hoops though, what a pain in the ass.
It's kinda funny how connected but not Lumian is to the tarot club, he's practically surrounded by them and presumably an extremely important part of some sort of master plan of theirs, but seems distant and unrelated. There must be some sort of connection for him to occupy a similar position to Susie as an outer disciple despite having never met any members until a few days previous. Maybe Fors was just a fan of Aurore, or the baboons are patrons of Klein. But I think it may have something to do with his lineage, a suspiciously absent father is bound to be important. I wonder who he was, lumian wasn't born with characteristics so probably not an angel, but he's an uncannily good match for the hunter sequence and hiding his name means it's one we'd recognize.
Also, a side note, but where the fucck did fallen mercury come from? Back when it was a dreamscape it made some sort of sense, but why did some random monster have a high sequence cursed artifact with CoI's powers? There wasn't anything else there like that. And where'd that three headed monster go?

[Anonymous No.22011464]

>>22011422
>Warlock of the Magus World
kys

[Anonymous No.22011469]

>>22011373
Thank you. Generic fantasy is much better than current news event.

[Anonymous No.22011475]

>>22011067
Where did this obsession with subverting expectations come from?
There's nothing wrong with a classic tale of adventure.

[Anonymous No.22011487]

>>22011475
He is a literal communist.

[Anonymous No.22011489]

>>22011464
That's the only one I didn't finish myself but a lot of people seem to really go in for the edgelording and D&D refs.

[Anonymous No.22011509]

>>22007750
Junior you're courting death!!

[Anonymous No.22011519]

>>22011487
He's an idpol faggot at that.
He was also accused of sexual abuse of some indian-britbong Mamata back in '09 and shut her down with multiple lawsuit threats even before #metoo became a thing.

[Anonymous No.22011531]

>>22011489
I have not read worse literature (of any kind) than that webnovel, I think one needs to have some talent and ability to actually write something so garbage

[Anonymous No.22011537]

>>22011531
I mean the guy calls himself The Plagiarist and the beginning is eerily similar to Super Dimensional Wizard. (which is a far better story)

[Anonymous No.22011549]

Any recs for a father/child(ren) driven story? I've already gone through the Witcher.

[Anonymous No.22011555]

>>22011537
I have no issue with him plagiarising other work but it's genuinely just so bad.

[Anonymous No.22011686]

Bake new bread

[Anonymous No.22011703]

>>22011451
i thought the three headed monster just represented CoI that failed to get summoned. but good catch with fallen mercury. there seems to be a lot still missing from the real events that occured in cordu.

i wonder if his role really is that important. it could also be that he is just one among many minor arcana, and that we'll see more of the minor arcana before getting to see the real players again. which would be a shame.
but i can't see why they would need to recruit him specifically for this as a key player.

i also wonder if periodic tarot gatherings won't be covered in the story anymore..

[Anonymous No.22011740]

>>22007231
Iron Gold retroactively gets better once you start and finish Dark Age. It does the set up for a decade long time skip and sets up the kino that is Dark Age. Light Bringer is the only book in a decade that I've been dying to read up to the release.