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[Anonymous No.24043504]

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Previous Thread: >>24033184

[Anonymous No.24043554]

>pick up a random conan story to read
>it's about Conan finding an island full of "Blacks" and killing all of them

[Anonymous No.24043588]

Reading Latro in the Mist right now. Gods are silly creatures.

[Anonymous No.24043683]

>>24043554
fucking black kingdoms

[Anonymous No.24043688]

[Anonymous No.24043696]

Write your stupid fucking book

[Anonymous No.24043718]

>>24043696
Are you talking to George?

[Anonymous No.24043751]

Book or series with a female mc that wears or occasionally has to wear skimpy clothing?

[Anonymous No.24043812]

>get Kaladin and Szeth to speedrun their ascension in 20 pages
>spend the previous 1500 pages doing a Diablo 2 tomb run
BRAVO SANDERSON

[Anonymous No.24043825]

>spends 700 pages on Spirit Realm vlog
BRAVO SANDERSON

[Anonymous No.24043829]

I know now why dimwits take cheap shots at Sanderson. The man is a literary God. Only a pro like him would spend 10 chapters of ALL CAPS stretching Honor's origin story because fuck you. That's how you keep the pacing tight and the tension high. What a blessing it is to read Wind and Truth.

[Anonymous No.24043836]

>>24043829
At least those chapters were shorts and something you rarely see.
I personally just skipped every chapter about Renarin's coming out

[Anonymous No.24043847]

>>24043836
You skipped the greatest gay love story in literary fiction ever? In like ever ever!!? Even Shallan gave it a big THUMBS UP. TIMBRE PULSED HIS COCK, everyone sucked cocks nonstop in the Spiritual Realm it was one big nutfest

[Anonymous No.24043850]

Everytime I close my eyes and compare this bilge with Way of Kings I can't help but see Kaladin with his hairy balls out jumping in front of my face playing his stupid flute

[Anonymous No.24043875]

>800 pages of Szeth going monastery to monastery
>flashback to him doing nearly the same thing
BRAVO NOLAN

[Anonymous No.24043896]

Currently around 60% through Oathbringer and this guy needs a better editor, good god.

[Anonymous No.24043929]

Why do you readers hate female protagonists? I think they're fun and cute

[Anonymous No.24043931]

>>24043718
no, Patrick.

[Anonymous No.24043940]

You can really see the Mormon in Sanderson.

[Anonymous No.24044066]

holy shit this new thread is cancer every post so far

[Anonymous No.24044332]

>>24043929
I like gooning to them if they’re hot

[Anonymous No.24044384]

>>24043554
>the black monsters are black people
>I'm not the racist you're the racist

Why play this game when you open up with a losing move?

[Anonymous No.24044445]

>1000+ pages of Kaladin doing actually nothing
>Finally gets to fight
>Jobs immediately
>Wins by talk no jutsu
Why did he turn his shonen protagonist into Steven Universe?
Why did he take the coolest, strongest fighters in his setting going on a journey to cleanse a foreign land into this boring shit?

[Anonymous No.24044472]

>>24044332
post your top 10 gooncore sff novels

[Anonymous No.24044599]

How do we feel about Barker's Books of the Art series The Great and Secret Show and Everville? I think some of the best magic realism

[Anonymous No.24044619]

>>24043896
just put the book down

[Anonymous No.24044640]

>Waiting for webslop authors sequel
>Can barely contain the hype
>Begins it with a soi boi prisoner arc
>Unsub
>Get ready to begin the ride again with another 'author'

[Anonymous No.24044669]

>>24044445
By the last Monastery the scale of their whole journey felt so small, like Shinovar is some backwater town with ten monasteries. The ten day format really fucked the book up too. Everyone knows nothing happens until the tenth day so it's all just fluff in between. And that's exactly what happened when Sanderson railroaded the whole Kaladin and Szeth and Dalinar arcs

[Anonymous No.24044674]

>>24044445
When people ask me if they should read that series, I tell them to read the first book and
>if you like Kaladin, don't read the rest of the series
>if you like Shallan, seek Canadian healthcare

[Anonymous No.24044680]

Not a single animu battle. All the potential for Kaladin vs Vyre flushed down the crapper. What the fuck Book 3 had an all out animu brawl, Book 4 had nothing except two bitches snapping at each other and one bitch literally backstabbing another bitch and Book 5 somehow managed to be worse. Now that is true literary talent

[Anonymous No.24044688]

>>24044445
Come on chud the power of music is second to none. Singing the same song over and over again in Flutestance is how you prevail over Heralds. All that hype over physical spren corpses in the last book and this book just takes Ishar's madness in stride by handwaving it as drinking muh Odium's power.

[Anonymous No.24044691]

>>24044674
Surely it's worth it to recommend the book to new readers who doesn't want to see the journey of Kaladin Stormblessed become Kaladin Therapyblessed and speak lame Words?

[Anonymous No.24044700]

I can't remember a single thing going right, Vyre just pops in and fucks off, zero weight to character deaths, Shallan still dicks around with facing her childhood memories for the whole book, holy fuck that was bad enough and then you had Venli and Renarin and the rest slowing things down. Terrific

[Anonymous No.24044704]

What did I think of it?
Why is everyone brown

[Anonymous No.24044714]

>>24044691
>>24044680
>>24044674
>>24044445
>2024
>Still talking about stormshite archives
Its better then Bakker fagging, but only by the slimmest of Shallan's

[Anonymous No.24044715]

>>24043929
Females you say

[Anonymous No.24044807]

Currently reading Lyonesse based on a recommendation by an anon here, and boy what an amazing trilogy! What else do you guys recommend by Jack Vance?

[Anonymous No.24044813]

>>24043929
tbf the scene with Shallan lying naked under the shower was hot

[Anonymous No.24044814]

>>24044704
Why is every mass produced fantasy book these days A __ of __ and __?

A Book of Shit and Piss
A Court of Simps and Incels
A Song of Cocks and Cum

[Anonymous No.24044816]

>>24044807
Shit yeah, love Jack Vance. Highly recommend his Dying Earth stuff if you haven't read it. The man could compose the hell out of a sentence. Such bright, vibrant prose.

[Anonymous No.24044817]

>>24044714
Brandon releases his 1600 page unedited slogfest of a book and shits all over whatever good he had going from the last 4 books. This is delicious, Kaladin's big hairy balls are swinging in front of my face as he plays his flute and delivers therapy

[Anonymous No.24044876]

>>24044807
Demon Princes was a fun ride. The Face is one of his funniest stories.

[Anonymous No.24044888]

Is there good Elder Scrolls books?

[Anonymous No.24044901]

>>24043931
Hahaha, yeah that's not happening, you fell for a scam my guy

[Anonymous No.24044907]

>>24044888
>licened tie-in novels
>ever good
just read original fiction

[Anonymous No.24044912]

>>24044901
The Rothfuss controversy is bizarre to me. He's not an especially good writer, and his setting isn't especially original or interesting. I'm not sure how this all catapulted him to success instead of sinking him into anonymity.

[Anonymous No.24044922]

>>24044912
All the women I know who read fantasy love his work, he appeals to female readers

[Anonymous No.24044931]

>>24044907
There's always some autist somewhere who wrote fanfiction that's leagues better than anything licensed.

[Anonymous No.24044935]

>>24044912
Fatfuss makes it easy for normies to get immersed especially with the cuckold angle for teens and females

[Anonymous No.24044936]

>>24044907
tbf some of the B5/DS9 novels are really good
I'm sure some of the Halo books were also well received by gaymer fans

[Anonymous No.24044990]

Alright, I've been trawling the depths of Kindle to find myself some decent smut lately, and in the last couple of days I've read Succubus Summoner 101 and 201, Prison Ship Sheol, and Pic related, Augur: Sin and Glamour.
I don't particularly like most harem fantasy simply because it doesn't go hard enough on the smut, while the plot is rarely good enough to carry it on its own.

Augur: Sin and Glamour kicks off with the protagonist, who is basically a bit part mystic, being asked by his landlady to check on a tenant, after she had discovered weird shit in his room doing a welfare check and got spooked. Inside, he stumbled into a half finished summoning ritual, and all of a sudden his talent of mild prophecy starts telling him the only way he gets through the night alive is by finishing the ritual.
I enjoyed this one, although it has a couple of problems relating to the author being one of those huge pussies who is all about affirmative consent. Anyone who reads it will immediately know what I mean when they encounter it.
Despite that, this book has plenty of the smut i was looking for so I still enjoyed it.

Second was Succubus Summoner 101, and 201 my M.E Hydra
These were great. Extremely heavy on the smut, but with a plot that was enjoyable as well. The protagonist summons a succubus, as the title implies. But not the sanitized, safe version from most modern smut. A succubus in this series is a straight up infernal hell-slut who wants to eat your soul through your cock. The author himself described this series as Erotic Horror, and he's not wrong, this is a fun series with a very different tone to most harem fantasy and I liked it a lot. Unfortunately it doesn't look like the author is active anymore so no 301 on the horizon.

Prison Ship Sheol by Nicholas Gaumer on the other hand is quite light on the smut. the Protagonist exists on a backwater planet in a sci-fi universe with institutionalized misandry to a comical degree. He gets called in to run some repairs on a prison transport (which is unusual since he's a man, but there's a lack of (wo)manpower). Shit goes sideways, there's an enemy attack, he ends up with an Admiral's ID chip, and the government decides to make him the scape goat meaning he has no choice but to essentially accept the role of interstellar Dread Pirate, with a prison ship full of political prisoners are various sexy exotic (all female) aliens.
Lighter on the smut, but the author is so much of a shameless chud (most of the antagonists are literal Femi-Nazis) that I couldn't help but enjoy this series.

Thank you for reading my blog, give me more recommendation for smut. The smuttier the better, the trend of 1-2 scenes a book sucks.

[Anonymous No.24045007]

>>24044807
Everything

More seriously he's hard to go wrong with, although a lot of his early work is a little less refined and more pulpy. Ordered by my personal preference

Eyes of the Overworld + Cugel's Saga
Lyonesse
Tschai/Planet of Adventure
Showboat World
Dying Earth
Durdane
Alastor
Emphyrio
The Dragon Masters
Cadwal Chronicles
Maske: Theary
Rhialto the Marvelous
Ports of Call
Languages of Pao
The Moon Moth
The Blue World
Big Planet
The Five Gold bands

[Anonymous No.24045008]

>>24043696
>>24043931
>>24044901
>>24044912
>>24044922
>>24044935
Should I read Name of Wind or nah, be honest. From what I've been told it seems like a really comfy read, but /lit/ insists on treating it like readioactive poison

[Anonymous No.24045022]

>>24045008
Kvothe is the smartest, most talented person to ever live. He has a genius level intellect, instantly masters every field he ever tackles from swordplay to magic, to outsexing literal sex fairies who fuck men to death, to being a master musiciain.
Kvothe is also a cuck who feels a sense of superiority over the men who fuck his oneitis.

[Anonymous No.24045036]

>>24045022
never forgetti

[Anonymous No.24045061]

>>24043504
I don't know why so many so called "Main Characters" always end up getting cucked and still getting with the girl who betrayed them! At least Japanese isekai MCs who despite their moralfagging almost never get cucked unless it's a fetish or tragedy story!

I personally blame this fucking book series by some obviously bald faggot named Tad Williams.

This book inspired the modern day fantasy trope. Even the fattest retard author of them all, GRRM was inspired by this book so you know it's shit but I'll just spoil what I feel is the biggest influence this overly-long fever dream some soi beared Californian faggot had.

So check this out right. The main character is some peasant weak faggot who secretly has king blood (lol cliche right) he meets his love interest, the princess. So can you Anons guess what happens during the course of the book series?

Oh yeah that's right! There's a whole scene where the princess gives up her virginity to some random nobleman on a ship in one of the middle books!

And the MC Still gets with her and marries her at the end of the books and makes her queen!

WTF BRO? HE DOESNT EVEN KILL THAT NOBLEMAN. THAT NOBLEMAN IS LITERALLY HANDWAVED OFF IN A FEW LINES. THE WRITER LITERALLY WROTE A GUY IN TO HAVE SEX WITH THE MAIN LOVE INTEREST. IT WASNT EVEN A LOVE TRIANGLE LIKE MOST WRITERS TRY NOWADAYS

Anyways. Are there any books where the main character doesn't get cucked?
I already Conan,Gor, and most other sword and sorcery type books

[Anonymous No.24045064]

>>24045061
lmao I remember this and I'm glad I was lurking to see that someone else remembered that trilogy.
The whole pov of Simon finding out that he got cucked was devastating. It truly was a slap in the face lol. He even had her scarf iirc that she gave him in the earlier books.

[Anonymous No.24045068]

>>24045022
>Kvothe is the smartest, most talented person to ever live. He has a genius level intellect, instantly masters every field he ever tackles from swordplay to magic
You haven't read the book have you

[Anonymous No.24045088]

>>24044907
Tie in fiction is the only modern SFF worth getting into.

[Anonymous No.24045094]

>>24045008
Just read it and the second book and then enjoy the blue balls.

[Anonymous No.24045139]

>>24045008
>/lit/ insists on treating it like readioactive poison
I wonder why

[Anonymous No.24045151]

>>24043812
>>24043825
>>24043875
>>24044445
lulz
WaT sure was a stinker. Now go check out >>24007932 because you are not upset enough :)

[Anonymous No.24045164]

>>24045151
literally what the fuck was Brandy thinking when he wrote it on a day-by-day basis? His sanderlanche tricks won't work that way, it barely worked in the last book. I know his editor retired in 2020 but RoW had some good moments like Wit comforting Kal with the dog and the dragon story and Teft's death followed by Kal going crazy and the Stormfather being commandeered by Dalinar but then again these happened in the last 200 pages at best so it was also a big stinker but in retrospect its a MASTERPIECE
I feel like I have to take HRT and become a tranny to appreciate Kaladin waving his flute in my face and doing a kumbaya routine with Syl that transforms Ishar and Nale into breaking out in their own Bollywood routine and the power of gay interracial romance prevailing over a 2000 year old Unmade motherfuck this book it has precisely zero redeeming moments I remember nothing good about this book and that's an amazing low for Brando to hit after RoW holy fuck

[Anonymous No.24045180]

And what the fuck is up with
>UNOATHED, ARM UP!
fucking seriously man

[Anonymous No.24045183]

>>24045164
meh, I don't know why I am seeing all of this sudden blame for his Tor editor when Peter has been (what I am going to refer to as) his lore editor since the fucking beginning, and being a yes-man is a huge reason why Sanderson characters are cardboard cutout plot devices with no agency of their own; and Sando has been consistent with his writing of plot devices in lieu of actual characterization since the start (not start of Stormlight; start of his publicized works).

[Anonymous No.24045188]

If you want to read slop, at least read the kind of slop with some soul to it

[Anonymous No.24045192]

>>24045188
Or just read good books in general.
>b-b-but [BOOK TITLE] isn't on a popular bestseller's list!
And that's why normalfags are stuck within the prison of their own creation.

[Anonymous No.24045200]

>>24045192
as far as /sffg/ is concerned there is like two dozen books and that's it, that's all of fantasy literature

[Anonymous No.24045207]

>>24045200
Can Walter Moers fit into the two dozen? I feel like his work would be sufficiently simple for the average /lit/izen to appreciate while also enjoying the wild and free imagination on display

[Anonymous No.24045208]

>>24045183
Book 1 was edited by Robert Jordan's wife, then we had Moshe until 2020 so RoW and WaT suck ass and are bloated with shit tier pacing. Another reason could be Brando losing his passion for TSA and just asspulling it so he can toss it aside and do his fun projects or whatever

[Anonymous No.24045209]

>>24045200
I know. It sucks. The dumbest motherfuckers congregate here.
>>24045208
Brandon's writing in SA is no different than his other works.

[Anonymous No.24045210]

>>24045207
Disregard the resident salt mine, Moersfag. He doesn't want to hear what you like, he just wants to complain

[Anonymous No.24045212]

>>24045210
Too many people are like that these days

[Anonymous No.24045214]

>>24045209
It's the editing that sucks, no real editor would let Brando do the ten day one day at a time bs. It just makes reading a slog as we all know he does his avalanche thing at the very end, and even there Brando just rushed the fuck out of the last few chapters. The book needs a brutal editor

[Anonymous No.24045217]

>>24045214
Yes the editing is a problem.
No the editing is not a recent problem.

[Anonymous No.24045225]

>>24043847
wait what is there gay sex in a sanderson book??? I thought he was mormon

[Anonymous No.24045232]

>>24045225
Never forget that the first instance of direct interaction inside of the Spiritual Realm that we saw is forever tainted by interspecies faggotry.

[Anonymous No.24045233]

>>24045217
It surely is since his old timer retired in 2020 and the last 2 Stormlight books are bloated as fuck

[Anonymous No.24045277]

>>24044990
There was an anon who reviewed a lot of smut in this thread some time ago. Unfortunately, his Goodreads profile is private.

Here's a few examples from the archive:
>>/lit/?task=search&ghost=false&search_text=Sentar

>>/lit/?task=search&ghost=false&search_text=Anya+Merchant

Here's a relevant thread.
>>/lit/thread/19580299

[Anonymous No.24045298]

>>24045277
I've read a bunch of that. It all had the same problem in that it's barely smut. I've read traditionally published novels with more smut than most of that has in it. The first two of those series I mentioned I liked because they actually went hard on the smut instead of 1-2 token scenes, which bizarrely enough, seems to be quite uncommon.

[Anonymous No.24045305]

>>24045233
>Sanderson himself admitted that Stormlight ONE was bloated way back when
>no this began in 2020!
Ok. I can't scry into Shadesmar to see where you have moved those goalposts. Hope the rest of your day gets better.

[Anonymous No.24045323]

>>24045192
Finding good books beyond some established market remains a problem.

[Anonymous No.24045328]

why are his books so popular yet no one talks about him here?

[Anonymous No.24045334]

>>24045328
The Sword of Truth series is a weird one. I wonder what people today would think about its adaptation.

[Anonymous No.24045335]

>>24045328
Lurk a lot more.

[Anonymous No.24045340]

>>24043504
It still confounds me just how ASS the writing in Metabarons was.

[Anonymous No.24045354]

>>24045340
I found it decently entertaining thoughever

[Anonymous No.24045361]

>>24045298
If you want it all the time, then why not just read the stuff that is, as in actual erotica that's all sex all the time, or fapfics and whatnot. There are a lot of sites, some since the 90s, that cater to that.

[Anonymous No.24045365]

>>24045361
Because that's all catered almost exclusively to women.

[Anonymous No.24045380]

tired of all the lesbians in what would be an otherwise cool premise

[Anonymous No.24045386]

>>24045380
are they hot babes?

[Anonymous No.24045400]

>>24045380
Those are the only books with female leads that are tolerable.

[Anonymous No.24045457]

>>24045365
What? I mean such as literotica, asstr, xnxx, nifty, and whatever else.

[Anonymous No.24045474]

something new from Richard Morgan coming soon, apparently. blog 2 months ago said he was in editing

but it's not the Thin Air sequel sadly

[Anonymous No.24045506]

>>24045457
You're arguing with someone under the age of 20.

[Anonymous No.24045596]

>>24045506
Thanks hall monitor.

[Anonymous No.24045597]

[Anonymous No.24045604]

>>24045305
Imagine how low his self-awareness must be now that he is proudly highlighting the obese page count in WaT's introduction. No wonder WoK was so good in its pacing and handling of different POVs. Probably makes it harder to notice with all the non-main character POVs littered across WaT.

[Anonymous No.24045609]

>>24045604
I think tWoK (or was it WoR) was Tor's -- at the time -- largest printed book. He was writing them back then as 3 books in 1 + interludes.

[Anonymous No.24045610]

>>24045597
I didn't understand why people kept acting like this novel is the second coming of christ
So I went and read it
and I understand even less
it reads like every other xianxiaslop with an edgy moral-relativist heckin based villain protagonist
it's like maybe one or two steps above a "typical" xianxia, and that's being generous

read Regressor's Tale of Cultivation instead

[Anonymous No.24045620]

How difficult is it to JB a kindle and install koreader?

[Anonymous No.24045625]

>>24045620
about as difficult as krangling a twoingler

[Anonymous No.24045634]

>>24045620
Why would you need to?

[Anonymous No.24045642]

>>24045634
Curiosity over my reading statistics, which is something you have to constantly go online to access. And if I'm going to install it then the faster speeds, of course. And other stuff QoL stuff like added filetype support.

[Anonymous No.24045654]

>>24045610
RI is original and distinct, it's got a good balance of typical power fantasy stuff and story telling. Also the main character is well written.

[Anonymous No.24045673]

Kek can any anon make a good Sandersoy edit with this pic? Found this on a thumbnail and had a good laugh.

[Anonymous No.24045685]

>>24045139
I swear this page is the only reason I haven’t read these books. Someone tell me it’s not as bad as it seems. Does he end up fucking her at least? Does he fuck other girls? Is this a recurring plot point?

[Anonymous No.24045686]

>>24045620
you shouldn't have issues if you follow the mobileread guide linked on the KOReader github
jailbreak > jailbreak hotfix > MRPI > KUAL > KOReader

well worth it btw. so much better than Kindle software in pretty much every aspect

[Anonymous No.24045692]

>>24045685
He has sex with the sex fairy as pointed out earlier on

[Anonymous No.24045695]

>>24045685
>Does he fuck other girls?
From what I've read from other anons, yes. Apparently there's whole subplots of him fucking other random sex fairies.
>Is this a recurring plot point?
Unfortunately, it seems to be also yes. I'm in the same train as you. Cuck shit turns me the fuck off, immediately.

[Anonymous No.24045698]

>>24045685
He goes from being a virgin -> taught to fuck by a sex fairy -> fucked the sex fairy so well that she refused to let him leave. THEN there's an entire subplot of him hanging out in a village of wuxia girls and fucking them all
>>24045686
yeah ive 'hacked' my ds and 3ds in the past which is just following instructions (+ anxiety haha) so it can't be too difficult. i assume it formats the kindle right? so i need to backup my currently-downloaded titles?

[Anonymous No.24045704]

>>24045698
yes. you factory reset it to start

[Anonymous No.24045722]

>>24045698
>sex fairies and a harem village
You have piqued my interest

>>24045695
I genuinely don’t know what precisely it is about cuckolding that distresses me each and every time. It’s not even like I’ve been cheated on before.

>Reading the Second Apocalypse
>Men raping, killing and eating each other
>Not necessarily in that order
Light work, no reaction
>Sorweel gets cucked
Immediate nausea, put the book down went to go take a long shower, didn’t read for the rest of the day.

[Anonymous No.24045728]

>>24045722
>You have piqued my interest
it isn't good. the series is written by a guy who describes himself as a "lover of women" in his bio. there's 1/4th of the start of book 2 dedicated to hunting some half dragon thing for his prostitute love idol (the one who cucks him). fucking awful in every way,

[Anonymous No.24045733]

>>24044674
>seek Canadian healthcare
that's a good one, I'll use that from now on instead of kys

[Anonymous No.24045737]

>>24045728
>a guy who describes himself as a "lover of women" in his bio
So basically it's a countdown until he's accused of sexual assault against women.

[Anonymous No.24045738]

>>24044814
Women recognize thing so they like similar thing. It's why when the tv tells them to do thing and they do it, or a famous man, even if it's a serial killer is a thing so I love thing. They have very little individual sovereignty

[Anonymous No.24045740]

>>24044674
>seek Canadian healthcare

[Anonymous No.24045745]

>>24045728
>prostitute love idol
fucking hell man nevermind

Next on my list was the farseer trilogy and memory, sorrow and thorn but now I’m hearing they have cuckshit as well.

[Anonymous No.24045746]

>>24045698
>He goes from being a virgin -> taught to fuck by a sex fairy -> fucked the sex fairy so well that she refused to let him leave. THEN there's an entire subplot of him hanging out in a village of wuxia girls and fucking them all
I understand women reading this, but why would any actual man want to read garbage like that?

[Anonymous No.24045751]

>>24045745
yeah lol the girl he cucks himself over is a literal W H O R E who lets random men beat and fuck her

[Anonymous No.24045763]

>>24045751
Sounds hot as fuck lol
I wish I was him I'd nurse her wounds and kiss her tender skin before her masters beat her again

[Anonymous No.24045779]

I can't believe I read the same Shallan 'oh no muh childhood memory that threatens to turn me into Formless' scene many times DESPITE SKIMMING HER CHAPTERS AT LIGHTSPEED

[Anonymous No.24045799]

>>24044472
I’m not well read enough to give you a solid top 10. These are the ones I’ve read and enjoyed, in no particular order. Thanks to the anons on here for recommending these over the years

>kencyrath series
>kushiel series
>red sonja book series
>jirel of joiry
>jane carver of waar
>court of thorne and roses
>thraxas series

[Anonymous No.24045802]

>>24045779
>Anon inhaled, as if summoning the rivers and the currents into his body. Stormlight streamed inside, infusing his limbs while granting the ability to, as the locals would call it, "think harder".
>Anon placed his hand on the book and absorbed its contents in one ten-minute gulp, Stormlight leaving his body and rendering Anon a mere mortal once again, brain tempered with...
>Anon appeared to have amassed no new information

[Anonymous No.24045822]

>>24044813
kys coomer

[Anonymous No.24045826]

>>24045698
>He goes from being a virgin -> taught to fuck by a sex fairy -> fucked the sex fairy so well that she refused to let him leave. THEN there's an entire subplot of him hanging out in a village of wuxia girls and fucking them all
Only faggots read this garbage.

[Anonymous No.24045829]

>>24045779
I have literally no idea what happened in her chapters because after 4 books of dealing with her split personality retardation my eyes would roll back into my head so far I'd pass out every time I saw the word radiant.

[Anonymous No.24045830]

>Storms, Kaladin thought. I have to help them. It was a laughable thought. How could he help? He was barely functional. It was all he could do to stand there.
>But stand. Kaladin. DID.
>And somehow it helped. Seeing someone else resist helped. Szeth, groaning, managed to look up at him. Syl stirred.
>“How?” Ishar repeated. “What are you?” He gestured toward Szeth. “Are you … are you his spren? His god?”
>“No,” Kaladin said. “I’m his therapist.” Ishar blinked.
>“… What is that?”
>“I honestly have no idea,” Kaladin admitted.

[Anonymous No.24045836]

>>24045610
>>read Regressor's Tale of Cultivation instead
>Korean
>Transmigration
>Time Loop
No, I don't think I will

[Anonymous No.24045840]

>>24045829
Shallan makes the BPDemons gigglesquee.
>>24045830
The anachronisms make the female readers gigglesquee.

[Anonymous No.24045841]

>>24045746
Its mostly in the second book and it's not like 'this is cuck garbage' is printed on the cover. Book one came out in 2007, before social media really took off, so disseminating information like that wasn't as easy as it is now

[Anonymous No.24045843]

>>24045830
this is the most reddit writing I've seen all month

[Anonymous No.24045866]

>>24045822
it's hot because Brandon wrote it.

[Anonymous No.24045868]

>>24045841
yeah everything was nice before the redpill plumpftards took off and destroyed everything

[Anonymous No.24045929]

>>24045830
It's a shame. Sanderson CAN write in a more "noble" style, maybe not in ye olde english level of seriousness, but there is definitely a big difference between shit like this and Dalinar's chapters
I remember that
>You cannot take my pain
Was overall pretty liked, even here

[Anonymous No.24045958]

I wish Sanderson wrote ten times more sex scenes and Shallan smut. It would make Shallan chapters bearable if she kept lightweaving clothes on her and going naked 24/7, doing an oopsie and exhaling her stormlight to end up naked in public.

[Anonymous No.24045961]

>>24045958
just get gpt to shitout your smut retard

[Anonymous No.24045989]

>>24045961
Nah I want mister Mormon to do it

[Anonymous No.24045990]

>>24045830
You know, I thought you were just shitposting in sandersons style, I already forgot that was in the book.

[Anonymous No.24046007]

>>24045830
chat is this real??

[Anonymous No.24046009]

Broken Binding House of Chains Malazan endpaper art just dropped

[Anonymous No.24046019]

>thought I'd finish Wheel of Time by New Year's when I finished Winter's Heart in October
>it's December 20th and I barely reached The Gathering Storm due to Crossroads of Twilight being such a drag
it's over...

[Anonymous No.24046020]

>>24046019
Youre not missing much.

[Anonymous No.24046026]

>>24045929
the only two books worth reading by Sanderson are Elantris and the last book of the Wheel of Time, everything else is garbage. Even Adrian Tchaikovsky is a better writer and he's crap too.

[Anonymous No.24046030]

>>24046019
Why do schizo authors enjoy dragging their schizo stories endlessly?
>>24046026
Tbf I liked Warbreaker

[Anonymous No.24046040]

Malazan bros, i got filtered by fall of light. How is the god is not willing?

[Anonymous No.24046041]

>>24046020
Knife of Dreams brough me back. I still don't care about Elayne because she's fucking retarded but the Shaido plot is over and Perrin ended the NTR bullshit once and for all, so things can only improve from here. Also more Rand suffering kino.
I'm kinda lost with Mat though, I completely lost sight of what his plot was about. He stole his gf and is just... walking around with the circus? What the fuck was his his plan?

[Anonymous No.24046053]

>>24046019
Lol everyone I know who finished WoT doesn't care for it that much. Seems like they just wanted to finish the largest fantasy series.

[Anonymous No.24046054]

>>24046041
She was being targeted for assassination by the forsaken ruling the seanchan, so mat helped smuggle her out of ebou dar with the help of valan luca. He's in the process of linking back up with his army

[Anonymous No.24046056]

>>24046054
Well yeah he joins up with the band at the end, but was that always the plan? To me it just looked like he's been aimlessly walking around ever since escaping from Ebou Dar.

[Anonymous No.24046064]

>>24046056
I forget the specifics because book 10 is kinda bad, but iirc it was always the plan. He told them to wait at salidar though, to continue recruiting while he went to ebou dar? So they had to sneak around for a while before he could get a message to the band then find them

[Anonymous No.24046076]

>>24044715
I keep meaning to read this but if its tumblresque in its dialogue I'm going to behead myself

[Anonymous No.24046077]

>>24046053
It would have been better if the entire story was just mainly about Rand and Mat since they're obviously the most interesting characters. It's literally too big for it's own good.
There's like a hundred named Aes Sedai in the story who all do their own things and yet all I remember are the 3 main girls, Elaida, Siuan, Verin, Cadsuane and Galina. And that's just one faction. It's literally Bloat: The Series.

[Anonymous No.24046078]

>>24045380
Like what?

[Anonymous No.24046099]

>>24046077
He ran out of shit for perrin and mat to do between book 6 and the last battle or so. I love his writing style personally so It doesn't bother me, but you could probably condense most of 7-11 and not miss much.

[Anonymous No.24046115]

>>24043504
Is anyone actually keeping up with Sun Eater?

[Anonymous No.24046186]

ive basically ran out of steam halfway through Rhythm of War this book has no business being this long and dragging as much as it does

[Anonymous No.24046190]

>>24044813
Was it ENH and voyeuristic?

[Anonymous No.24046192]

>>24046115
I am patiently waiting for the final book. After the slog of the first book I was not expecting the series to be this good. I genuinely think Disquiet Gods dethroned Demon in White. I regularly think about that whole Ushara sequence. Also everything about Kharn Sagara is just fucking peak.

[Anonymous No.24046193]

>>24046115
How /coom/ is this? Is the female on the cover subjected to the lecherous gaze?

[Anonymous No.24046195]

>>24046186
Unfortunately it doesn't get better.

[Anonymous No.24046196]

>>24046115
Big fan, i read the main novels and the Lorian novella earlier this year. Most likely gonna pace out the rest of the novellas to bide my time until book 7 comes out.

[Anonymous No.24046199]

>>24046193
No coom here, just wholesome love between a protag and his oneitis.

[Anonymous No.24046200]

>>24046192
Kingdoms of Death is still my favorite, i guess i just really like misery porn lol I almost wish Ruocchio would have released KOD and Ashes together as one book for maximum pain

[Anonymous No.24046204]

>>24046192
>is just fucking peak.

[Anonymous No.24046226]

>>24046204
Yes I look like this and say this
>What is better? To be born based, or to overcome your cringe nature through great effort?

[Anonymous No.24046245]

>>24046115
>Sun Eater
like so much of the modern fiction it comes across like it's drawing from too many inspirations and trying to wear too many hats at the same time. the sun eater is one of those supposedly big space fantasy series that hasn't clicked for me at all.

[Anonymous No.24046255]

>>24046186
Me but Words of Radiance

[Anonymous No.24046315]

>Fem protags all over fantasy
>No quality zako content of hordes of female mooks getting killed violently
>No good ryona content
>"Dark" fantasy is just world building with rape

Wasted potential

[Anonymous No.24046333]

>>24044931
that's true fanfiction powered by autism and love, not offical licensed works

[Anonymous No.24046347]

State of the Sanderson 2024 Projected Schedule
Fall 2025: Isles of the Emberdark (Crowdfunding fulfillment)
December 2025: Tailored Realities
Early 2026: Isles of the Emberdark (Tor release)
Spring/Summer 2026: Skyward Legacy One (?)
December 2026: Dark One or Isaac’s Cosmere Novel
Sometime 2027: Dark One or Isaac’s Cosmere Novel
December 2028: Ghostbloods 1
Summer 2029: Elantris 2
December 2029: Ghostbloods 2
Summer 2030: Elantris 3
December 2030: Ghostbloods 3
December 2031: Stormlight 6

[Anonymous No.24046351]

Shitspren and fartspren...

[Anonymous No.24046358]

Cozy grimdark

[Anonymous No.24046359]

>>24046315
Any books where the female mc encounters actual adversity?

[Anonymous No.24046363]

What did erikson mean when he wrote the barghast randomly chopping off the feet and free using fellow tribeswomen? Was that necessary? How does that further the plot beyond him being a boomer cheuvinist?

[Anonymous No.24046365]

>>24046053
I enjoyed WOT except for like winters heart, crossroads of twilight, and knife of dreams. The series should have ended with the dragon reborn though. The first three books are pure kino, the rest are mid.

[Anonymous No.24046367]

>>24046347
What a presumptuous dickhead to have the gall to say "stormlight will be finished over a decade from now." Fuck this shit head up his own ass author.

[Anonymous No.24046382]

>>24045610
>read Regressor's Tale of Cultivation
>mc named seo eun-hyun
i don't engage with cultural appropriation
only the Chinese may write cultivation novels.
plus it's not finished yet

[Anonymous No.24046392]

>>24046363
Why wouldn't stone age barbarian savages behave like stone age barbarian savages

[Anonymous No.24046400]

>hundred page sections about the protagonist doing some extreme sport of mech-diving into gas giants to learn the deepest lore from billion year old lizards
>intercut with random 5 page scenes describing some hitler alien with a bioenhanced penis raping randos and creampieing them with neurotoxin jizz

What the fuck

[Anonymous No.24046433]

>>24046365
It has the best moments in fantasy in the later books, though, and probably the second best ending to a series after lotr.

[Anonymous No.24046439]

>>24045277
>>>/lit/thread/19580299
why is it that every single coomslop fantasy novel targeted at men is harem? is it just because it gets the author out of having to write any character development if they can scene change to another girl? 99% of coom novels written for women focus on a single relationship, why can't male authors do the same thing?

[Anonymous No.24046451]

>>24046347
I'm not surprised, given that he gave a 3-4 year prediction for Ghostblood 1, but I am still sad it'll take so long for Stormlight to resume.

[Anonymous No.24046482]

>>24046439
Because then that'd be a romance novel.

[Anonymous No.24046494]

>>24046115
______ I SAID IN MY FATHER'S VOICE
__(shocking thing)__ Someone said... Then I realized It was I who had spoken

These were so effective. They "wowed" me, really clever
But then the author kept re-using the turn of phrase again and again and again. Am I going insane? Isn't that like, really weird? It feels like these moves you're only allowed to do once
(or a second time to make a point, that now the character has progressed, it has a new meaning - despite being the same phrase)

Maybe it's exacerbated by marathoning the series..
Big fan, read everything

[Anonymous No.24046507]

>>24046482
>>24046439
I'm only half-joking.
You could try seinen (for men) romance manga. There's a few that I've liked. There's an absolute ton of vanilla ero/h/porn manga where it's just one girl and one guy. Prose is definitely more difficult to come by, not that I've looked all that much. Having it be a monogamous sexual relationship even more so. Wanting it to be well written? Good luck.

[Anonymous No.24046508]

>>24046482
The "romance novel" label is applied for all kinds of coomslop though.
For example here's a "romance" novel about a girl working at the minotaur cum factory as a cock milker.
>Violet is a typical, down-on-her-luck millennial: mid-twenties, over-educated and drowning in debt, on the verge of moving into her parent’s basement. When a lifeline appears in the form of a very unconventional job in neighboring Cambric Creek, she has no choice but to grab at it with both hands.
>Morning Glory Milking Farm offers full-time hours, full benefits, and generous pay with no experience needed . . . there’s only one catch. The clientele is Grade A certified prime beef, with the manly, meaty endowments to match. Milking minotaurs isn’t something Violet ever considered as a career option, but she’s determined to turn the opportunity into a reversal of fortune.
>When a stern, deep-voiced client begins to specially request her for his milking sessions, maintaining her professionalism and keeping him out of her dreams is easier said than done. Violet is resolved to make a dent in her student loans and afford name-brand orange juice, and a one-sided crush on an out-of-her-league minotaur is not a part of her plan—unless her feelings aren’t so one-sided after all.

Is it too much to ask for male targeted coomslop with a single main girl the same way as books like that?

[Anonymous No.24046511]

>>24046508
Yes, it is, because most male readers aren't interested in reading about the emotional aspects. The physical aspect must be overwhelmingly dominant. That becomes repetitive quickly.

[Anonymous No.24046516]

>>24046494
at this point i think Ruocchio does it intentionally as a quirk of Hadrian's writing style or something since we're reading a memoire but i agree they're a bit eyerolling six books in

[Anonymous No.24046518]

>>24046508
Would it be too much to ask to have a novel about a skinny virgin farm lad who chanced into a job at a milk farm where he milks the breasts of women with supernaturally enhanced tits?

[Anonymous No.24046519]

I've only read ASOIAF and First Law. I like dark, medieval (no gunpowder please...) low fantasy. What should I read next? Bear in mind I have seriously only ever read those, I mean nothing else

[Anonymous No.24046523]

>>24046511
But the relationship development aspects are the only reason for longform works, otherwise you can just read 4000-word smut stories on literotica or ao3
>>24046518
Apparently it would.

[Anonymous No.24046526]

>>24046518
In The Barn, written by Piers Anthony

[Anonymous No.24046549]

>>24046516
The main character obviously struggled with his similarities to his father, and kinda was in denial.
At some later point in the series, he's aware of what he's doing, and grown to accept it.

Same with the speaking without thinking thing. It's his character flaw. Hadrian is actually very impulsive, and sometimes loses control of himself. (what sets plots in motion)
Despite managing to rein himself in 99% of the time, and play it cool.

The book definitively gets meta with those 2 phrases, though. And use them for laughs.

[Anonymous No.24046566]

>>24044888
Is there? I really enjoy the World of It

[Anonymous No.24046572]

>The Fencer Trilogy by K.J. Parker
What am I in for?

[Anonymous No.24046575]

>>24046526
holy shit

[Anonymous No.24046577]

>>24046549
coming in book 7:
Dorayaica is going to telepathically speak in his father's voice

[Anonymous No.24046583]

>>24046572
book 2 cover goes hard

[Anonymous No.24046592]

>>24043718
Yes.
But also to (you)

[Anonymous No.24046598]

surprised sffg doesnt mention this guy more often with articles like this

[Anonymous No.24046607]

>>24043504
My brothers, does any of you have an ebook of The Hobbit with the First Edition text? Is there even such a thing online?

[Anonymous No.24046613]

>>24046607
i'd just download different versions off libgen and compare them in Calibre until you got the actual one you want

[Anonymous No.24046620]

>

[Anonymous No.24046625]

>>24046620
>colo(u)r of her panties
>mermaid on cover
What did he meme by this?

[Anonymous No.24046631]

>>24046625
the mermaid has to pick out panties to wear after she grows legs, you see.

[Anonymous No.24046637]

>>24046631
Bizarrely sexy. I'm a Backyard Goblins kind of guy but mermaids growing legs is a fetish I wasn't prepared for.

[Anonymous No.24046643]

>>24046598
The distance between the author and the book being produced has multiple layers.You got the text on the page, then you got the narrator, and then you got the author. The author and the narrator in the story are not synonymous. And from the author's pen name, you got the actual person. Conflating any of these layers is a huge presumption on the part of the reader. So to look at a scene in a Piers Anthony novel and try to infer something about him as a person puts the reader on very shaky ground. It's simply something that is not to be done.

[Anonymous No.24046656]

>>24046643
i'm afraid i have already informed the police and they are on their way to seize your hard drives. your child-raping days are over

[Anonymous No.24046660]

>>24046637
>Bizarrely sexy.
never thought i'd see /lit/ coom to the premise of a disney movie.

[Anonymous No.24046679]

>>24046660
Sir, you are enormously sheltered. Pinnochio spawned a million fucking porn arts and stories. Kaa still has people aroused by a stupid fucking snake with multicolored eyes.

[Anonymous No.24046687]

>>24046660
a chick cohabitating with seven dwarves? crossdressing asian? a shota sex doll that comes to life? come on

[Anonymous No.24046757]

>>24046679
There was something really sinister and seductive about Trust in me. Kid me thought Kara was going to do IT to Mowgli.

[Anonymous No.24046765]

Which author has the greatest medieval tactics and strategy knowledge presented on page? Meaning when he talks about supply lines, formations, engagements, he seems to know wtf hes talking about

[Anonymous No.24046769]

>>24046757
>Then a sweetly seductive and sinister song whistled through the Punjabi underbrush.
>“Trusssst in meeeeeee”…
>Mowgli had heard the girls in the village before, talking about getting some “jungle snake”, he had never known what they meant. He realized now that he was about to find out.

[Anonymous No.24046772]

>>24046765
Ursula k le guin

[Anonymous No.24046799]

>>24046765
I normally don't read military-themed fiction but I recall a /lit/ guy writing pretty good alexander the great fanfiction (sort of)
Undying Emperor

[Anonymous No.24046866]

>>24045597
reverend insanity ritualposter is the reason I will probably spend a significant amount of next year reading lord of mysteries. first webnovel and if it doesn't suck I might try RI

[Anonymous No.24046868]

>>24044715
how /coom/ are these?

[Anonymous No.24046875]

>>24046868
0
t. read all three

[Anonymous No.24046876]

>>24046019
What pace do most people finish the wheel of time? I'm spacing it out between all my other reads and after only four books in two years I realize I probably have another half decade before I get to the end.
The slow pace doesn't bother me but I've never spent so long with a single series before

[Anonymous No.24046879]

>>24046400
weird penis stuff is a fantasy staple desu

[Anonymous No.24046880]

What Vidya and Books are you guys playing and reading? For me, It's Dwarf Fortress and a Dragonlance Novel

[Anonymous No.24046886]

>>24046880
Just picked this up. I generally play unreal world.

[Anonymous No.24046891]

>>24046880
reading pic.
playing big titty coombait gacha games

[Anonymous No.24046904]

>>24046886
Godzilla novels now?!

[Anonymous No.24046908]

>>24046009
Cool art. Shame about the books though.

[Anonymous No.24046909]

Fantasy needs romance. There I said it. Not Romantasy where the entire point of the story is for the girl to fuck the monster of the month, but every fantasy story needs boy meets girl, and their adventure drives them close together, apart, then back together.

[Anonymous No.24046913]

>>24046904
Apparently they were published shortly after the original film and only got released as an English translation in 2023

[Anonymous No.24046914]

>>24046909
The Hobbit

[Anonymous No.24046917]

>>24046909
Nothing better than meek boy winning the heart of girl boss

[Anonymous No.24046922]

>>24046909
I don't need to be reminded in my books that I haven't sat on a mans face in a decade.

[Anonymous No.24046941]

>>24046909
>and their adventure drives them close together, apart, then back together.
Obligatory second act misunderstandings are the worst, anyone who actually wants that is certifiably retarded.

[Anonymous No.24046960]

>>24046909
Why boy meets girl? Why not boy meets boy or girl meets girl? Or even girl meets boy. Boring boy meets girl cliche

[Anonymous No.24046962]

>>24046960
Cuz anything else is gay

[Anonymous No.24046974]

>>24046875
But are they good

[Anonymous No.24046982]

>>24046886
Unreal world is very good

[Anonymous No.24047004]

books with this vibe?

[Anonymous No.24047005]

>>24046974
they're ok. #1 is the worst

[Bryan No.24047016]

>>24047004
Journey to the West

[Anonymous No.24047020]

Anybody read his stuff? I'm interested in his newest book but it'll probably never get translated

[Anonymous No.24047057]

>>24046941
They don't have to be driven apart by a misunderstanding, it could be anything

[Anonymous No.24047060]

>>24043588
>Latro in the Mist
How does it compare to Wolfe's big works?

[Anonymous No.24047067]

>>24047057
It's still just forced drama for the sake of forced drama, it's a shit trope that nobody likes.

[Anonymous No.24047069]

>>24046879
What fantasy has weird penis stuff? I know sf horror has some because of HR Giger's influence.

[Anonymous No.24047076]

>>24043504
>>24043504
>the shard of honor is TANNER FROM HIGHSCHOOL

Brandon Sanderson, I KNEEL.

[Anonymous No.24047092]

>>24046880
Alternating playing between Path of Exile 2, Elin, KeeperRL, Amazing Cultivation Simulator, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Umineko, Danganronpa, Total War: Warhammer III; reading Dungeon Crawler Carl, Worth the Candle, HPMOR, Unsouled, Reverend Insanity, Old English Exodus, and Sherlock Holmes.

[Anonymous No.24047096]

>>24047060
I have the reread this

[Anonymous No.24047115]

>>24046519
The Waylander trilogy by David Gemmell (Waylander, In the Realm of the Wolf, Hero In The Shadows).

The Witcher short story collections (The Last Wish, Sword of Destiny)

[Anonymous No.24047116]

>>24046519
Try the Faithful and the Fallen by John Gwynne. One of the few recent fantasy books that has no liberal/woke agenda in it.

[Anonymous No.24047120]

>>24047115
How does the Waylander trilogy compare to the Drenai Saga?

[Anonymous No.24047121]

>>24047120
I didn't read the whole Drenai Saga. I wanted books about Sam Fisher in fantasy and I got it.

[Anonymous No.24047133]

I don't like Kaladin using the word 'neurosis' when thinking to himself
he's basically inventing psychology for the first time, there's no basis for the concept

I don't like Kaladin using the word 'datapoint' when thinking to himself
The Woman-lady is inventing science, there should be no such vocabulary in use yet
If I'm wrong. I don't think Kaladin's education in medicine would involve stuff like 'datapoints', he would rather use a term like 'evidence' or simply 'reason' (to do a thing) which would do the exact same thing in the sentence it was used

[Anonymous No.24047140]

>>24047133
You are putting too much thought into this
Brandosando shits out 4,000 words of this slop without giving much if any consideration to whether it feels believable
His work is the platonic ideal of REDDIT WRITING

[Anonymous No.24047143]

>>24047060
It's just a straightforward historical fiction story about a soldier in the Peleponnesian war who has the Memento dude's memory problem and talks to gods and goddesses, you won't regret reading it.

[Anonymous No.24047144]

>>24047133
>>24047140
Moshe left, books 4 and 5 sucked. It's as simple as that + Brandosaurus becoming far more dispassionate after he landed a jackpot with his Dragonsteel publishing Kickstarter revenue.

[Anonymous No.24047148]

>>24047067
>any adversity in a relationship is forced drama
no, it is you who is certifiably retarded

[Anonymous No.24047149]

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a-k6eaT-jQ&t=431s
5 extra books in 2 years that coincides with RoW coming out, yeah he's burnt the fuck out and bored of Stormlight and wants to do his other new projects 24/7.

[Anonymous No.24047150]

The Sunlit Man was so fucking shit compared to the likes of Elantris and Warbreaker, it's over for the Brandosaurus

[Anonymous No.24047156]

>>24047149
I'm just surprised they didn't turn out to be shit.

[Anonymous No.24047157]

The writing really was worse than it has been before. About a third through I thought to myself "this feels like it was written by Sanderson's biggest fan". Then when I got to the end i realized I was right
>I'm his therapist
>for real
>do their thing
>Odium parked the everstorm
>kick some fused ass

[Anonymous No.24047158]

>>24047157
All along the only thing keeping Sando's writing from coming across as a half-retarded redditor fanfic was his editor

[Anonymous No.24047161]

>>24047157
He's gotten too big for his newbie editor to tell him his shit stinks, and he's surrounded by an echochamber that will never tell him where he goes wrong.
It's so over.

[Anonymous No.24047162]

>>24047158
The Jew brought out the best in the Mormon. This is the single best argument in favor of Jews. Jews FTW

[Anonymous No.24047164]

>>24047161
Come back, king

[Anonymous No.24047165]

>50 people live in 20 houses and a few farms in Shinovar
How were these guys ever a threat?

[Anonymous No.24047167]

based Jed

[Anonymous No.24047173]

>>24047167
>i cried
there is no hope for this "man"

[Anonymous No.24047176]

>>24046909
Only if the girl acts like a normal woman would. They're always le strong quirk chungus who don't need no man instead of a pleasant gal. The hero has enough on his plate than to have to worry about a bitchy cunt.

[Anonymous No.24047181]

>>24047167
So did Brando Sando seriously write a 1400 page romance about the gays?

[Anonymous No.24047182]

>>24046962
Girl meets girl gets my dick hard, so it's good in my book.

[Anonymous No.24047183]

>>24047181
Shallan, Renarin and Rlain spend 80% of the book in the flashback realm where Shallan spies on Renarin's attempts to autistically hit on Rlain until they kiss

[Anonymous No.24047184]

>>24047167
Was the gay stuff really that long? I admit I skimmed the Rlain and Renarin chapters, as well as the Shallan and Venli and basically I skipped all chapters excluding Kaladin, Szeth and Dalinar.

[Anonymous No.24047186]

>>24047167
>Disney-style gay romance
So gay shit that's only in the background and doesn't even make it into the final book?

[Anonymous No.24047189]

>>24047186
Kaladin fighting and Dalinar uniting are also in the background and doesn't make it in the final book.

[Anonymous No.24047191]

Imagine having anime style fights as your USP and then shitting all over your own formula in return for gay romance and scenes of men and women and spren talking to each other about trauma and therapy and endless platitudes. What a STINKER

[Anonymous No.24047193]

>stormlight archive
>no stormlight

[Anonymous No.24047194]

>>24043504
Anybody know this book?

[Anonymous No.24047195]

>>24047191
He has transcended fantasy as a genre and now writes about IMPORTANT topics and offers REPRESENTATION, chuddie
Good thing too, because fantasy has been a hotbed of fascist thought since Tolkien's day, it's so refreshing to see someone finally take a stance in favor of humanity and being a descent person

[Anonymous No.24047202]

>>24047195
>descent person
lol

[Anonymous No.24047203]

Sanderson's been cracking at the seams since Tress, where he told a story about how people who live in poverty should be content in their station and wallowing in literal shit because if they try to improve their station in life society will collapse and that's a bad thing.
A competent editor would've pointed out to him that most of his readers would not appreciate such a message, but there was no one to tell him. Wind and Truth merely shows how out of touch he has truly grown from his fanbase.
If one follows his intentionally blank podcast, episodes about eating different kinds of steak might also be signals as to how far from the daily lives of ordinary people who can't afford food snobbery he truly is.

[Anonymous No.24047219]

>>24047203
He hasnt written a good book since Elantris.

[Anonymous No.24047225]

>>24046880
just finished playing The Case of the Golden Idol
highly, highly recommended

finishing up Use of Weapons and will probably continue to another Culture book

[Anonymous No.24047236]

>>24045207
I shill Moers constantly. Rumo is one of the best fantasy reads I've had this year.

[Anonymous No.24047238]

>>24047236
When I was young, that scene in the misty seaside town in the first Rumo book was basically my introduction to Lovecraft-style horror.

[Anonymous No.24047271]

>>24047225
Are the Culture books related or you can pick any of them in any order?

[Anonymous No.24047308]

>>24047271
they are independent books
both anons in the /lit/ archive and the Culture reddit sticky generally recommend The Player of Games or Use of Weapons as a starting point introduction
and specifically *not* the first book, Consider Phlebas, because it's (apparently) so different compared to the rest of the series

I started with The Player of Games, and now reading Use of Weapons, I can confirm that they're not related in time, place, characters, or plot at all.
but these are the only 2 I've read personally

[Anonymous No.24047311]

>>24043504
Cixin Liu any good? I saw a few science fiction books from them next to a new one frm Paolini. Dunno if any are worth the money.

[Anonymous No.24047315]

>come back to thread
>new hip and trendy meta is spamming that Sanderson's writing is shit because of his Tor editor and ignoring his entire bibliography
Wouldn't be /sffg/ without obscene psychosis and headcanon.

[Anonymous No.24047321]

>>24047315
The writing in his newer books is objectively worse, come on now.

[Anonymous No.24047334]

>>24045610
>t. Read volume 1 only

[Anonymous No.24047336]

>>24046880
not playing anything right now, but reading The Fellowship of the Ring

[Anonymous No.24047338]

>>24046880
This morning I achieved cultural victory in a game of Civ 4, reading Latro in the Mist and some comics (Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus 3 and Paul Chadwick's Conrete volume 7)

[Anonymous No.24047339]

>>24047182
Despite the thread theme, that's not the talk here tard.

[Anonymous No.24047354]

>>24047020
I bought and read Gene Mapper around when it released. It was ok. I didn't care to read more. Haikasoru was disappointing.

[Anonymous No.24047357]

>>24046960
Because I hate gay people.

[Anonymous No.24047430]

>>24047315
His editor retired before RoW which is where his prose took a nosedive

[Anonymous No.24047450]

Problem: I need to re-establish the scale of the world after focusing on my MC's growing reputation as a boogeyman in the local criminal underworld

Solution: The Big Wheel (planetary shield) needs maintenance, space cthulhus know this so they attack, the Big Wheel Church sends Big Fucking Robot to fight the Space Cthulhus

Real reason: I think it would be both funny and also very fucking cool to have a giant mecha vs. kaiju interlude in the middle of my gritty noir-fantasy novel

[Anonymous No.24047452]

>>24047450
shid this was supposed to go in /wg/
whatever

[Anonymous No.24047482]

Is The Black Company- Southern Boogaloo, just them btfo’ing pajeets

[Anonymous No.24047539]

>>24046508
>His entire body was covered in a spotted, short-haired hide of sable and cream, and his long member bore the same markings, Violet saw once he lowered himself to the bench, cock slipping through the opening. The spots on his shaft were interrupted by several thick veins, the markings fading as her eyes traveled up the stiff length, her mouth running dry at his wide, mid-shaft swell, ending in a light pink head the size of her fist, the deep slit at its tip already beading with moisture.
>“This won’t take long,” he chuckled, groaning when the technician’s oil-slickened hands gripped him, slickening his skin in a smooth glide. “I’m ready to burst as it is, this is two days of build-up.”
>She stepped closer as her training partner began stroking the long cock, wanting to ensure she was fully concealed beneath the bench . . . and wanting a better look, she admitted to herself. His balls indeed looked full to bursting, at least to her eyes, watching in fascination as his sac tightened as he was pumped, the twinned bulges the skin concealed raising slightly.
Hot.

[Anonymous No.24047578]

Please can I just get a series with a simple, vanilla romance subplot. I’m tired of all the degeneracy and cuckshit. The protagonist doesn’t even need to have sex, though that would be a bonus.

[Anonymous No.24047587]

>>24047578
Heterosexual romance with no kinks is oppressive

[Anonymous No.24047623]

>>24047578
>>/lit/thread/22697481#p22698555
There are a lot that have what you're asking for, but that doesn't mean you'd want to read them.

[Anonymous No.24047625]

>>24047311
Just try it out on the high seas first, I liked it

[Anonymous No.24047630]

>>24047315
That's just your imagination. It's shit because of multiple factors, least of all being his Tor editor. Read the thread. It's Moshe retiring. It's Brando getting bored during the Stormlight cycle and diverting his attention by writing five books off schedule. It's Dragonsteel becoming more novel and profitable compared to writing Stormlight so he just laid waste to the whole thing by removing stormlight itself from Roshar and having everyone break their oaths or peace the fuck out. Haha

[Anonymous No.24047637]

>>24047578
Shallan's romance is technically a subplot for most of the Stormlight series, even when she's wedded so start there. I can't believe I'm nostalgic for Shallan from Oathbringer, these last two books and particularly WaT have been massive stinkers.

[Anonymous No.24047646]

I liked when Kaladin was hustling ladders and fighting crabs

[Anonymous No.24047665]

>>24047578
>>24047623
Eh, why not, here's some others. None of these are tradwife though.

FANTASY
Imager
>>/lit/thread/19723974#p19729848
>There's a romance subplot, but it doesn't progress beyond kissing, of which there's a lot. She doesn't state that pre-marital sex is unacceptable, but it's very close to that.
Modesitt in general has very vanilla romances in his series.

Curse of Chalion
>>/lit/thread/22678324#p22679394
>There's also some romance, a considerable amount of flirting
As long as you don't mind an age gap romance.

Penric and Desdemona has some romance and even married life later on, but may set off degeneracy alerts at a few points.

The Demon Awakens
It's been about 26 years since I read this, but I remember the series has romance that eventually leads to marriage. Salvatore also tends to do romance subplots, but it's been a very long time since I've read.

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
>>/lit/thread/17522259#p17524974
Weird Russian romance, though probably too degenerate. As I mention in there, there's Spice & Wolf as well, but again, non-human aspect.

Wheel of the Infinite
>>/lit/thread/19685515#p19687299
Has some romance, though it's between a 45 year old woman and 30 year old man.


SCIENCE FICTION

Permutation City
>>/lit/thread/17357377#p17357598
Surprisingly has romance, but you'll have to also want to the read the rest of what it's about.

Press Enter
>>/lit/thread/22328631#p22329242

Eh, whatever. Still probably better of reading it other ways though.

[Anonymous No.24047692]

>>24047430
Brandon never had an editor in any capacity until the longnose that all of you are jerking off? Must have been my imagination otherwise!
>>24047630
>Brandon admitting that Stormlight 1 was excessively long/filler is my imagination (I could scrounge up the WoB but no point to here)
>Brandon having a reputation for NOTHING HAPPENING UNTIL THE ENDING since Elantris is my imagination
>nothing happening at all during Mistborn Era 1 Book 2 was my imagination
>following regular new Sanderson releases and recognizing patterns for around 15 years was my imagination the entire time
>entirety of Mistborn Era 2 only exists within my imagination because book 4 was wholly disconnected to the previous 3 with a different approach (because of the real life years-gap in between the finale) but nobody bitched about that
>Brandon getting off-track from the cosmere last decade (through writing tons of non-cosmere shit) was, once again, my imagination
Expecting genuine discourse from /sffg/ has been, once again, nothing but imaginary. You about-facing and admitting "other factors" after several posts of harping on about his editor should be imaginary yet here we are with this tiresome newfaggotry.

[Anonymous No.24047712]

>>24047167
I was not even able to overcome The Oathbringer, so now I try to finish it by listening to German audio version of the book to practise the language and it will definitely be my last SA book.

>>24047238
>the misty seaside town
Any good book with such a trope? Except "The Shadow over Innsmouth".

[Anonymous No.24047718]

>>24047321
Maybe he is just out of ideas, so now it is fillers everywhere.

[Anonymous No.24047746]

I wasted half a day giving Stormlight a chance because you motherfuckers keep posting about it
I should've spent that time reading more Comprehension Ability, this shit is so ass

[Anonymous No.24047768]

>>24046245
>filtered

[Anonymous No.24047777]

>>24046494
There are many retarded quirks I picked up reading this series. Here are two that stood out, in particular:

1. Placing the focal object at the end of the sentence:

"It was the weapon I needed, the sword."
"With influence over the galaxy, nothing can stop the wave -- the empire."
"I felt it at the top of the mountain, the wind."

2. Repeating words:

"Light. Light is what I saw when I opened my eyes."
"Darkness. Darkness is what enveloped me..."
"Valka. Valka stood there..."

Christ on a cross. Once you see the quirks, you can't unsee them.

[Anonymous No.24047778]

>>24047692
Yeah Moshe kept him in line. I didn't read Mistborn after Kelsier died midway into the first book, so fuck his other series. Stormlight was supposed to be good consistently while he used his other series to let loose his inner Tumblerina, but now that Moshe is gone there's no difference.

[Anonymous No.24047779]

>>24046367
He's getting his bag. He ate and left no crumbs.

[Anonymous No.24047781]

>>24047167
>wait 7 years for sanderslop
>so upset he cries when it's not good
do you think this guy will finally read a non sanderson book or will he just go back to nothing but vidya and reddit-humor tv shows

[Anonymous No.24047783]

>>24047161
Of course. A lot of people stand to make serious money by letting Sanderson pump out whatever slop he wants.

[Anonymous No.24047786]

>>24047183
Stormlight Archives peaked in book 1. Anyone who chose to read the rest is retarded. Simple as.

[Anonymous No.24047788]

Know what I'm gonna reread WaT and brainwash myself into loving it. I should be done by the time the next sffg general pops out.

[Anonymous No.24047789]

>>24047539
>wide, mid-shaft swell
fucking knotfags i swear to god.
added to the backlog anyway though

[Anonymous No.24047792]

>>24047746
Not one person said it was good lol we kept saying his shit was ass

[Anonymous No.24047804]

>>24047786
How do you know that it peaked in book 1 if you didn't read the rest?

[Anonymous No.24047806]

>>24047804
Did you read the series?

[Anonymous No.24047813]

>>24047806
2,5 books. Anyway
> Anyone who chose to read the rest is retarded.
How do you know that it peaked in book 1 if you didn't read the rest?

[Anonymous No.24047817]

>>24047806
2 was good. 3 was great if you count only the flashback Dalinar chapters and the Sanderlanche sequence. 4 was irredeemable except for a handful of sequences like the Stormfather showing Eshonai around before letting her soul depart, the dog and the dragon story, Kaladin becoming Odium-lite after Teft's death, the Pursuer, his power level reveal at his village, actually RoW was a masterpiece compared to the TURD that is WaT. I still cannot believe Sanderfag thought it was a good idea to have the Shinovar scenes show nothing but Monastery boss fights. Fucking hell

[Anonymous No.24047818]

>>24047813
I just know.

[Anonymous No.24047829]

>radiants skipping their oaths
>radiants renouncing their oaths because lol
>radiants becoming demigods because afterlife therapy lol
>both bondsmiths falling for a Bollywood tier asspull about Todium switching babies
hahahahhahaha I can't believe this shit

[Anonymous No.24047847]

Okay I'm rereading WaT but I feel like I'm torturing myself.

[Anonymous No.24047851]

>>24047847
>Speedreading, skimming, and skipping filler for a second time immediately after having finished a book that just came out
I guess you've got brain problems

[Anonymous No.24047852]

I feel like I got raped gangbang style by Marton Branderson, Goyim RR Tolkien, Leftwing Tennyson and Bigfeather Rothfuss. My mind is SCRAMBLED

[Anonymous No.24047856]

>>24047851
I moved on after much coping with Rothfuss, Lynch and GRRM. I trusted in Brandon and instead I got this >>24047829 I feel absolutely wasted, I can't breathe I haven't slept well for two days I did not expect a total gut punch like this UNOATHED ARM UP Jesus fuck

[Anonymous No.24047861]

Wind and Truth is a great novel. It is the pinnacle of adult high fantasy. It feels jarring because the Stormlight universe is now fully linked to the Cosmere. This is going to be great! There are so many elevation I Ean ueha hu ufd
I mean yes the book is great, yes.

[Anonymous No.24047866]

>It is time, Dalinar. That was … Cultivation’s voice.
>Speak the Words. You know them now.
>He did. He fixated on the power’s perspective, watching Tanavast betray it time and time again. He took to heart the lessons of his realm: that in this case, the destination wasn’t about a place, but about a Connection.
>It was about who you had become, not about where you arrived. The power surrounded him, and he slammed his hands together, opening a perpendicularity.
>Then he spoke to Honor the most important Words he might ever say.
>Words that only worked if he could say them truly.
>“I understand you.”

[Anonymous No.24047868]

Yes, this scene is awesome because Dalinar understands Honor aeven though he sa mere mortal and it makes sense because it is very important for mortals to understand Gods or something like that sure it's not as impact ful as YOU CANNOT HAVE MY PAIN but hey haha I'll take it haha I'll take it I'll take it I'll take it and I'll take it and I'll take it I'll take it

[Anonymous No.24047872]

>>24047004
Dragon Ball

[Anonymous No.24047878]

I UNDERSTAND YOU? HOW THE FUCK IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE MEANINGFUL OR AWESOME OR JUST PLAIN FUCKING GOOD IN ANY WAY! Huh! MORMON FAT SCUM

[Anonymous No.24047887]

>>24047856
Don't fall for pretentious modern fantasy writers. Embrace traditional, pulp-rooted writers who embrace the power of imagination

[Anonymous No.24047901]

I could've read every book in the Western canon, but instead I decided to read Cosmere and Malazan.

[Anonymous No.24047911]

>>24047901
whats the western canon of sff?

[Anonymous No.24047914]

>>24047887
this jesus christ why can't you faggots read something good like Vance instead of shitting up these threads with uninspired drivel