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I need some escapism, What do you suggest?

>> No.3685345

>>3685338
Video games.

>> No.3685347

>>3685338
Russian Roullete

>> No.3685353

>>3685338
Discworld until Snuff. You don't want to read Snuff.
Animorphs.
Baccano.

>> No.3685358

>>3685338
I usually take drugs

>> No.3685363

>>3685353
read pretty much everything of Terry Pratchett and it's getting boring

>> No.3685375

Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber or Le Guin's Earthsea Quartet. Compelling escapism with literary merit.

>> No.3685379

>>3685338
The Potter series really went to shit in the later books.

>> No.3685436

>>3685379
Oh jeez so much this.
It started stumbling a little in the 5th, and it just took a nosedive in the 7th.
If she didn't try to wrap the plot up, she would have done well. The first 4 were preddy good.

>> No.3685440

>>3685338
Video games

>> No.3685443

>>3685436
I actually liked the seventh, it had a lot of flaws, the Wizard Red Dawn section sort of languished on and the whole bank robbery section felt pressed and a bit contrived. But I think overall it did well.

>> No.3685444

>>3685440
>>3685345
Video games are inferior escapism. The actual gaming elements just get in the way.

>> No.3685454

>>3685443
I didn't like how she seemed to pull the Deathly Hallows out of her ass in the last book.

>> No.3685457

>>3685436
The first 4 books knew what they were doing. The latter books just wobbled inconsistently not sure if they were going to be a boarding school escapist series or a SUPER SERIOUS young adult series.

>> No.3685474

>>3685454
Didn't really bother me, I mean its not like I got mad in book two when the chamber of secrets was brought in out of thin air, or in book four when a thousand year old tradition of the trwizard tournament was pulled out of nowhere. Book five gives us a hall of prophecy that was never alluded to, monster undead winged horses that can conveniently transport someone from school grounds to the ministry in 10 minutes, etc.

I mean I suppose you could take issue with all of those, but it seems like your problem would just be that the author didn't write a comprehensive encyclopedia of the fictional world and its history for you to read before the story proper.

>> No.3685509

>>3685474
I had an issue with her pulling out something as plot critical in as the Hallows in the seventh and last bloody book of the series. It wasn't even that necessary to begin with, book six already asspulled the Horcruxes as a means to kill Voldie.

>> No.3685525

Anime
>>>/a/

>> No.3685532

>>3685509
Meh. I mean the hallows weren't that significant, they represented a temptation of power that took hold over Voldemort, Dumbledore, Grindelwald that Harry was able to turn his back on. In so far as the wand turned on its wielder was a feature of wandlore which was expanded in the book though alluded to earlier.

I don't really have a problem with it.

>> No.3685585

The Secret History

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3685598

>>3685338
Here OP

>> No.3685748

>>3685598
>poison
So aptly named.

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>>3685353
Snuff wasn't so bad even though it was obviously not up to snuff.
Science of Discworld 4: Judgement Day however was downright bad and I wonder if he's actually that far gone or if the disc parts was written by Stewart & Cohen as well. The character's personalities and dialogues were all over the place, the new character and antagonists as well as the conflict itself was ridiculous in characterization and handling.

I was actually a bit depressed after finishing it.

>> No.3685809

>>3685338
A Song of Ice And Fire?

>> No.3685833 [DELETED] 

>>3685338
Joe Abercrobie.

>> No.3685840

JOE. Joe Abercrombie.
>tfw I can't even write a name correctly.

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3685935

>>3685598

>Let Me In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Its called 'Let The Right One In' you plebeian. I bet you didn't watch the original film either

>> No.3685936

>>3685444
Being able to wander in explore interactively with the world makes up for mechanics.

>> No.3685955

>>3685598
If you want something a bit like (early) Harry Potter, I recommend Septimus Heap.
It's kids' fantasy, but it's kids' fantasy done right.

>> No.3685978

>>3685338
/lit/'s low brow guys used to love Dresden FIles. Pretty good books if you like hardboild and or magic

>> No.3686104

>>3685444
>The actual gaming elements just get in the way.

A video game made after 2005

>> No.3686134

>>3685443
87 chapters of camping. Ron's going now. Oh Ron's back. nbd guise

>> No.3686135

Drugs.

>> No.3686221

Video-games. Even at their best they still invite pure indulgence.

>> No.3686311

>>3685935
>read the english version
>writes it by its name
>gets called pleb for calling something as it was listed
ok.

>> No.3686471

>>3685978

In similar vein, there's The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne.

>> No.3686480

>>3685444
You need to play a PC, open-world RPG or adventure game from the 90s.

>> No.3686515

>>3685338
Infinite Jest

not even kidding. Its maximalistic style allows you to live in the world created by the book.

>> No.3686535

>>3686515
>trolling ppl to read that shit
Escapism is fantasy not reality.

>> No.3686538
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3686538

this right here. It's incredibly beautiful

>> No.3686557
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3686557

>>3686311
>english version
you mean the americlap version
because americlaps are too dumb to read more than three words at once

>> No.3686583

>>3685444
How in the hell do the mechanics get in the way?

>> No.3686591

>>3686557
>you mean the americlap version
I downloaded the audiobook from demonoid ages ago. It was named "Let Me In" i listed it in my books as such, is that a problem? You should be happy that i shared such a good story with you instead of ridiculing me for having listed it as a different name.

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>>3686591
>the audiobook

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3686821

>> No.3686829

DO YOU LIKE THE CONCEPT OF A META-SERIES?
AND FANTASY?
BECAUSE I HAVE A COPYPASTE PARAGRAPH WITH YOUR NAME ON IT

>> No.3686832

>>3686557
>>3686591
What are you arguing over? It wasn't even a good book.

>> No.3686842

>>3686832
>It wasn't even a good book.
Get out
All those weird boners you got during the story and felt dirty about afterwards when you found out she was a he...

>> No.3686850

>>3686842
>muh fap material
Says it all really.

>> No.3686948

>>3686850
I didn't fap to it. I just got weird boners and its /lit/'s fault.
You guys suggested that book to me in the first place, along with the Black Jewels Trilogy... which was the weirdest rape boner i every... not even Peter. V. Brett's Warded man series when the girls's dad raped her and that guy getting raped could compare.

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3686965

>>3686948

I don't think I've had a why? boner in 5 years. Conditioning is pretty cool.

>> No.3686983

>>3686842
>when you found out she was a he
more like "when they were fucking twelve years old"
unless you think being attracted to a male is somehow worse than being attracted to a child, in which case you are pretty fucked up m8

>> No.3686997

Conan by RE Howard
All the Wodehouse, especially earlier stuff (though my experience is only with that and his last novel)

>> No.3687032

>ctrl+f heroine
>0 of 0

It's just a little pin prick.

>> No.3687041

>>3687032
Try spelling it correctly.

>> No.3687047

>>3687032
If your heroine has a prick, no matter how little, you're doing it wrong.

>> No.3687054

>>3687047
check your privilege you transphobic cismonster

>> No.3687085

>>3687041
>anglocentric

le corsican connection face

>> No.3687082

>>3686983
Yes being gay is worst than being pedo.
Being a gay pedo is the worst of the worst.
Go and give your support >>>/lgbt/

>> No.3687090

>>3687032
What is >>3685598
Read the fucking thread instead of "f3"ing, no one can be arsed t type out a wall of text when they can just post a pic.

>> No.3687209

>>3687082

> worst than

>> No.3687213

>>3686583
Well in say Bioshock infinite the escapism is poisoned a little by the fact that the main guy has just killed like 1000 men and women to pay off a debt. It takes you out of the experience

>> No.3687827
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AUGH, WINGARDIUM LEVIOSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>> No.3687887

>>3685935
The american version of the film is better.

>> No.3687902

>>3685338
The Barsoom books
Prisoner of Zenda
Triplanetary
Tarzan the Terrible

>> No.3688729

>>3687887
Because of oink oink