Thread 718292065

does /v/ read?

>>718292183
>serif fonts
>art by the author including the extravagant elvish script
>minimalism
The hell you on about?

>>718292183
>he doesn't like the first editions
your brown

>>718292065 (OP)
i dont but i kinda wish I did.
i like worry if i read a book, i wouldn't remember the whole story.
its just shit anxiety reason why ive never read books.
i could ask whats an easy and low effort book to read, but i've never asked /lit/. i dunno if they are welcoming to new readers or not.

>>718292183
Do you even know what that word means?

I've been trying to get back into reading after lurking 4channel and playing vidya (and doing nothing else) for too long. I didn't like my lifestyle so I decided to change it. I still lurk here but mainly on /tg/ and other hobby boards when I'm on the public transport, and play some vidya, but yeah.

>>718292065 (OP)
In terms of physical books it's mostly non-fiction. I haven't read The Return of the King yet

>>718292386
yeah, i do. why do these covers aren't harmful reductions?

>>718292065 (OP)
yes, i love the shadow of mordor and war games, they actually improved the lore.

>>718292065 (OP)
When I was in jail yeah

>>718292065 (OP)
Yes. Games generally have shit stories. Hell, most film and TV does, too.
I read to get my stories. I play games to experience gameplay.
It's why I hate Kojima.

>>718292379
Well it just depends on what you like. Want some sci-fi? The Martain is a delight. Want a little more fi in your sci-fi while staying kinda grounded? Project Hail Mary is great. In fact that is the one I want to recommend. It's exciting, funny, heartwarming, can be terrifying at parts if you can really get immersed. The main character is pretty relatable and the book is from his point of view and he starts off with amnesia so you are figuring out shot with him as it goes. There is more I want to buzz about but I really don't want to spoil it. It's a fun adventure. I read it a few months ago and I was having so much fun I read it in 3 days.

>>718292379
>i like worry if i read a book, i wouldn't remember the whole story.
This fear is not based in reality. If you enjoy and or into the book you definitely going to remember it even more so because its text rather than screen based information. I read garth nix's sabriel and it was fucking kino. Got me into necromancy and into the rest of the old kingdom series

>>718292065 (OP)
what's the holy tri/v/ity of books? lolita, mein kampf and...?

>>718292065 (OP)
Just started Return of the King actually. Watched the movies many times but this is my first time reading the books

>>718292661
Ready player one- the gamer book

>>718292065 (OP)
I tried to read Sanderson but his prose feels...childish?

Yes

>>718292065 (OP)
Started reading

Picked up sapiens for history, thinking fast and slow for critical thinking, psychology of money for understanding others.

>>718292065 (OP)
Yes, right now I'm reading the Old Kingdom by Garth Nix, I'm on the second book. It's quite a good read if I do say so myself

>>718292065 (OP)
currently reading thomas covenant

Anyone got a list of kino books for a newfag. Gotta get the backlog started

Read dianna wynne jones's howls moving castle. Fucking kino. Howl's a pouty twink tho and never thought it would talk about his cousins playing rts games on their pc

>>718292379
Short stories every time. Just pick your genre. I personally enjoy Young Goodman Brown for a surreal temptation October story. Like creepy dreamlike but threatening stories? Where are you Going Where Have you Been. Can always go Shirley Jackson too. Lottery is fun if you dont know about it.

>>718292470
>why do these aren't
rangeban south america

>>718292183
Its
Its the original cover of the trilogy
You fucking moron
>>718292065 (OP)
>does /v/ read?
No

>>718292065 (OP)
Yes but only academic books now.

>>718293059
holy shit anon me too which book?

>>718293106
Sabriel - garth nix
The hobbt - JRR TOKING
Harry Potter - JK Trannies rolling in their grave

these three books are easy to read and really good start with Garth Nix tho

>>718292065 (OP)
>Fancy ring with gemstones where your eye is immediately drawn
>Black speech writing encircling plain gold ring with evil eye in the center and little burning flourishes as though it's manipulating the fancier ring above
ABSOLUTE
CINEMA
BRAVO TOLKIEN 10/10 NO QUIBBLING

>>718292065 (OP)
No fantasy I've ever read has even APPROACHED Lord of the Rings in quality. It's so depressing.

>>718292065 (OP)
yes

>>718292379
The vast majority of books are only as long as they are because of historical tradition, it's a medium that's normalized having massive amounts of filler and taking eons to get to the thematic point. There are very very few novel-length stories that wouldn't be massively improved by being cut down to 10-20% the length.

>>718293141
>Its the original cover of the trilogy
kek, i had no idea

>>718293059
>nix enjoyer
I'm also reading Lirael. At the part sameth gets visited by his parents along with ellimere. Alsomare the Clayr meant to be brown or skin tanned?

>>718293163
I'm on the 2nd book right now, Lirael. I've read Terciel & Elinor and Sabriel and so far they have been a very pleasant read. I was not expecting it to go so deep into themes of death and loss. It's also a very cool take on the necromancer archetype. It's become one of my fav series right off the bat

>>718293203
Haven't read Garth Nix but
>Harry Potter
Literally no thought put into the worldbuilding. I assume he's not 7 and would notice.

>>718293248
That's funny, LOTR kinda sucks so I guess the rest of fantasy novels must be horribad

>cause innumerable troubles and tragedies
>fuck off to Valinor
>refuse to elaborate
What did the Elves mean by this?

>>718292065 (OP)
Yes.

You should all read Dune if you haven't already btw.

>>718293303
Sabriel was suggested to me by my professor and I loved it. Lirael is such an anti-social freak i love her

>>718293341
I agree that there are many loopholes in the story but if you are going to start reading books, its a very easy read. I reread them last year and I still enjoyed them as much as when I was a child. Perhaps it's nostalgia, however if you were a person who never read them, would you not want to at least read them to see what the hype around them was all about in the 00's?

>>718293397
elves are the protagonists of Arda, you're just some NPC, they don't even acknowledge your existence

>>718293248
sucks to be you faggot

>>718293387
>LOTR kinda sucks
stunning and eloquent criticism

>>718292065 (OP)
been reading the quest of heroes books by stephen aryan, some real good shit man. I really love the fantasy world hes come up with like whats an alfar? how does britik manage to be such a huge bitch every time shes on page and so on. planning on reading the king arthur book next, moby dick, and art of war because why not.
Any one have any good fantasy books? never read GOT or LOTR and plan on doing so but some smaller titles would be really cool to read too.

>>718293474
>elves are the protagonists of Arda
The race of Men is literally Illuvatar's favourite children. Elves are basically a beta version of humanity.

>>718293451
Lirael is just like me fr, also the UK cover editions go so hard

>>718293397
>tfw when the valar shat their pants upon seeing the men of numenor invade valinor

>>718292065 (OP)
Yes, I recently finished Reaper Man. Slowly making my way through the Discworld, reading a book from it every now and then.

>>718293621
>shat their pants
Only because they were forbidden from harming them by Eru himself.

>>718293472
It's an entire world that crumbles to dust as soon as you ask questions. I get the nostalgia, it's not like I don't have it. I did ask myself what kind of adults were fanboying this series and why were they allowed to vote.

>>718293571
how far in the book are you?

>>718292065 (OP)
yea i picked it up as a hobby this year

read through the mistborn trilogy, the first law trilogy, and started stormlight archive.

currently almost done with way of kings

>>718293542
>favourite children
>appear WAY after elves, in fact way after most of the important events in Beleriand have already happened
>canonically dumber, more easily corrupted, physically weaker
>spend their initial years as slaves to Morgoth
>the "good ones" spend the next few centuries as little more than serfs to elves
>betray elves at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, hated/mistrusted by them ever since
>the height of their glory was them being gifted an island lebensraum
>they fuck it up by grasping for immortality
>for the next few thousand years just kinda linger and rot in middle-earth

>>718292065 (OP)
Yes. Fantasy, History and historical novels

>>718293521
The Belgariad series by David Eddings. Fairly entry level fantasy, but cool worldbuilding and neat concept of magic.

The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb; darker style of fantasy than LOTR, but with great character building (flaws and all) and again, very cool magic concepts.

Magician by Raymond Feist. (and the two sequels, plus the Empire trilogy with Janny Wurts). Again, great worldbuilding and interesting characters; a lot of stuff cobbled together from Tolkien and real-world history (race of invaders are basically Edo-Japan era warriors), but big in scope and there's almost 3 dozen books in the whole series if you want to go balls deep on them.

image is mostly for banter, but a lot of the titles are genuinely good.

you bastards recommended this and although the first book is excellent, every subsequent one is worse than the last. I read all 7 because I wanted to see how it ended and the ending is shit too. I stopped counting the references to penises, anuses and vaginas at 50

>>718293106
Fred Saberhagen's got a good repertoire:
for fantasy, Empire of the East or Book of Swords trilogy (followed by the sequel series The Lost Swords)
for scifi the Berserker series

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy by Douglas Adams (a misnomer, there are ~6 books)
Through the Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King (written for his kids, who weren't a fan of his horror novels)
Pegasus in Flight by Anne McAffrey
The Phantom Tollbooth
anything by Kurt Vonnegut
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

mysteries:
Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
everything by Agatha Christie
The Hardy Boys if you want to feel smart
Nancy Drew if you want to be smart

>>718292252
What’s a serif font and why is it a good thing ?

>>718293758
Only like Chapter four after she runs into the king and sabby by the paperwings

>>718293794
>appear WAY after elves, in fact way after most of the important events in Beleriand have already happened
Yeah, I guess Beor, Huor, Tuor and Turin Turambar were just fucking around aimlessly, as well as those Men who fought in the War of Wrath
>more easily corrupted
Not by much, judging from what we read in Silmarillion
>physically weaker
Not a big deal, especially for the Edain
>spend their initial years as slaves to Morgoth
This is merely an assumption, not a hard fact.
>betray elves at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, hated/mistrusted by them ever since
Yeah, so fucking what? Elves were betraying and killing each other left and right kek

What really matters, however, is that Men will participate in the Second song of the Ainur while the Elves will perish alongside old Arda.

>>718293847
will write down the titles and grab em from the library bro ty. also faurk the wizard night and simarlion look cool as faurrrk. simarlion looking like SIR GIDEON ONFIR THE ALL KNOWWWWWWWWWWWING
will def look into reccs and the rest of these books ty ty.

>>718292065 (OP)
I keep trying to get into it, but 99.9% of books are just shit. The only ones I've actually enjoyed reading were Dune and Metamorphosis. I've tried reading all sorts of shit.
>Catcher in the Rye
Stupid boomer shit. Unbelievable people lost their minds reading.
>Three Body Problem
Schizophrenic mess that turns into Hollywood schlock for some reason.
>LoTR
Frodo walked verily up the hill. The hill was steep. There was a gossamer bush to his left. He walked for another mile. Oh look an oak forest. He walked through the oak forest and spotted a river. He carefully waded through the river, walking on various stones that protruded from the water, so as to not get wet. And then. And then. And then. Also it's just Christcuck propaganda at the end of the day.
>Solaris
Started out good, but quickly became boring and went absolutely nowhere.

And those were only the ones in memory I could finish. I've dropped countless others. Maybe I'm just not wired for this medium and more of a non-fiction guy?

Has helped me appreciate good level designs in open world games.

>>718293674
Nta, but they chose not to interfere themselves out of fear of interfering with Eru's intent. They could've easily wiped Ar-pharazons army of humans but they respected Eru's firstborn creation over his secondborn. The valar didn't need to do this as Eru would've probably been flexable. The valar are just humble

>>718294232
Okay, name the last 10 non fiction books you enjoyed

>>718294151
Lol where she tries to kill herself

>>718294386
Yeah lmao

>>718293018
What am I looking at

>>718294448
Smut

physical books or ebooks /v/?

>>718294421
Do you remember in Sabriel when she was completely naked under the covers in abhorsen's house?

>>718294530
my personal meta is audiobook while reading the ebook. I wish free text to speech engines were good enough not to sound like robots

>>718294448
Young male x older female /lit/

>>718294375
I haven't tried reading any yet. I'll probably just read history and philosophy type shit. I just picked up pic related off of Anna's Archive.

>>718294586
Or rather when Sabriel was naked i mean

>>718292065 (OP)
Any recommendations for post-apocalyptic reading, /v/?

>>718293847
I used to love the Belgariad and would recommend it to all my reading friends.
Although my memories are a bit tainted now that it's been revealed that David Eddings and his wife spent two years in prison for abusing their adopted children. In the 1970s no less so it had to have been really bad.

also, based chart. Good to see some Gormenghast representation. But did you really find it harder to get into than the Silmarillion? Once it comes time to keep track of all those Elves with similar-sounding names it became excruciating. I had to tackle it in audiobook form for me to absorb anything.
Gormanghast may be as slow as molasses but it's pretty easy to keep track of the characters.

>>718292278
I saw some versions of the books that looked like OP's pic in an old bookstore for $5 each about a year ago, but didn't buy them because the pages were all yellowed and stiff. Did I really miss out?

>>718294530
E-books cuz they are free, less cumbersome than holding big ass books, and they have a built in dictionary for words you don't know.

>>718293847
Does the list need to be followed exhaustedly? are there any kino's outside anyone know of?

>>718294530
Physical except for my erotic japanese literature about masochistic women (aka the rape books).

>>718294659
>Although my memories are a bit tainted now that it's been revealed that David Eddings and his wife spent two years in prison for abusing their adopted children
Fuck's sake anon, I was unaware of this. That's pretty bad.

And chart's not my preferences, I threw it at /lit/ one day to make them seethe. I didn't actually have that big of a problem with it, but the names do throw me.

>>718294603
is there an opposite compilation? asking for a friend

>>718294737
>dude I'm such a lonely schizo autist
>goes outside every day
>participates in society
>has a personal barber
Pessoa was a hack. Probably a fakecel too.

>>718294232
>enjoys Dune and Metamorphisis
>calls Solaris shit
How old are you?

>you want lovecraft before lovecraft but still good if not better
The House on the Borderland (light rec)
The Nightland (heavy rec)
Same author i just champion Hodgson because he was a fellow weightlift enthusiast and he does describe the horrors. Also a little scifi.


>you want a book that changes shape, size and shadow everytime you read it
House of Leaves
Book of the New Sun series
House of Leaves is print only. Cannot read this digital. Cannot film this. Good music too by the author's sister.
BotNS is frustrating. Best to go in blind. See if you can figure this for yourself. I was angry at finishing the first book now I am going for rereads. Not an easy one just like HoL.

Easy READS
Ray Bradbury. Easy. Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine (not scifi), Something Wicked this way Comes

Currently reading Idoru by William GIbson.
Much better than Virtual Light, but so far everything is inferior to his first trilogy.

>>718294530
ebook to read

hardcover for collecting

>>718292065 (OP)
Cultivation and litrpg of course.

>>718294852
Lonely schizo autist doesn't mean he was a virgin loser like you, parasite.

>>718294653
Haven't read it since my teens, but I remember the Death Gate Cycle novels being pretty okay, had an interesting take on a post-apoc setting at least.

What are the best digital versions of Tolkien's books?

>>718294653
The Road for a grounded small-scale story of suffering
The Mortal Engines quartet for large-scale lost technology schitzo kino.

>>718294852
If you had no internet or games you'd be going outside too.

>>718294530
Physical for stuff I find at OP shops and personal favourites. E-books for hard to get titles or shit that has ballooned in price due to sweaty nerds (e.g. Horus Heresy series)

>>718292065 (OP)
I finished reading Old School Indian by Aaron John Curtis because the cover looked neat and it was alright. I only cared for the poetry parts in the book.
I'm now 50 pages into Life: A User's Manual by Perec because I saw it recommended in one of these threads so hopefully it's good

>>718293018
What's Updike?

>>718294995
>Post-apocalyptic into Fantasy
Neat.
>>718295036
>The Road for a grounded small-scale story of suffering
Seen the movie. Never gotten around to reading the book.
>The Mortal Engines quartet for large-scale lost technology schitzo kino.
Still got the books I bought through the scholastic fair.

>>718292065 (OP)
>>718292065 (OP)
>>718292065 (OP)
>>718292065 (OP)
>>718292065 (OP)
What are some good history books?

Like not schoolbooks but like oh this battle and everything around it. Or this is why the war in kosovo broke out

I’m not sure what I’m looking for but I’m scared to ask /his/

>>718292065 (OP)
I'm an avid reader of novels

>>718292379
>i like worry if i read a book, i wouldn't remember the whole story.
Well, for one, you're selling yourself short. If you enjoy the story the story beats will be etched in your mind to ponder on for years.
For two, No, you will not remember every tiny detail. That is fine. A good thing, even. That's what makes rereading a book later down the line so good. You'll remember the greater story but pick up on all kinds of fine details you didn't notice the first time around and it can really enhance how much you enjoy it.

But that all comes down to how much you enjoy the book. You won't really know what you'll enjoy until you just read some stuff. You don't have to start off with 2000 page novels. Find some shorter books or books that might be recommended reading for schools. Those are usually shorter and easy to digest. I always get a little flack for it, but I fucking love White Fang. Read it as a kid, I'll reread it every few years. It usually comes bundled with a shorter book to read first, Call of the Wild. They are kind of opposites. Call of the Wild is about a dog that goes wild, while White Fang is about a wolf that goes tame. It's a great little survival story and if you like animals at all you'll probably have a good time. If you REALLY liked the survival theme then you can step up to something more substantial. Clan of the Cave Bear is another fave of mine. I mean from White Fang to Clan of the Cave Bear is one hell of a leap but if you like survival you'll probably be into it. But this is all shit I like. You have to find you and the only way to do that is to hop in.

any book recs for absurd fantasies? or fantasies about castles?

>>718294854
29. First person PoV is kinda lame. He shoulda fucked the ocean. The book should have leaned into the horror elements more. Something AT ALL should have happened. It was like a slow burn that just fizzles out instead of turning into a satisfying fire. There was some parts I did genuinely enjoy. I liked the awkwardness and tension of the early scenes and conversations. But once again, it goes nowhere.

>>718293847
What's the scale of this graph? Is D tier still worth reading, or does it represent complete shit

>>718295157
enemy at the gates is a logbook of events leading up to the battle of stalingrad
i expected a novel like the movie but it really is a dry history book

>>718295165
source
haha

Yes, and also fuck CDPR and the Witcher.

>>718292065 (OP)
yeah but not slop like cucks of the ring

>>718295416
Brown hands typed this post

>>718295415
>Morecock
>doesn't like the wticher
your a faggot anon

>>718294931
Oh yeah, this maymay reminds me that I should try reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

>>718292065 (OP)
>ctrl f malazan
>0 results
The best fantasy series hasn't been named, so the answer to your question is no. /vee/ can only pretend doing something, like playing videogaymes for example.

NEW READERS NEED NOT APPLY
I am posting for people comfortable in their reading comprehension. Also a little obscure.
Tony Burgess
All of his trilogy. His movie Pontypool is fantastic but all of it. You want starter for this nutjob? Ravenna Gets. Straightforward, still experimental. Then pontypool, cashtown corners and cesarea. If Game of Thrones is your threshold for fucked then skip entirely.

>>718295415
>more cock

>>718295415
>Moorcock
Portugal?

>>718295453
Why would I read the imitation, when I can just read Elric?

>>718293847
I thought you were talking about a different Farseer trilogy

>>718294530
Kindle.
Long story short, my parents had kindles and I thought they were the stupidest shit. Then they got me one for Christmas. I was determined to hate it, but with reason. I loaded it up with a few books and absolutely fucking loved my kindle. It's not perfect and there are a few things to complain about but over all I fucking love that thing. I read more books in the first year after I got it than I had in my life up to the christmas that I got it.

Also, I'm talking a kindle like the Paperwhite. The e-ink display ones. Do not go with the one that is basically a tablet. I think they are called the Fire. Don't get that. My recommendation is the paperwhite series. The backlight in it perfect and easy to adjust and I won't shut up about how much I love it.

>>718295546
Nah, British.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock

>>718295462
Okay but which translation?
This is important

>>718294735
>>718295275
Damn it anons, it literally says 'troll image' in terms of the tiers, pay them no attention.

Just google some of the titles you like the look of, and make a decision based on the synopsis. Or just ask about them

>>718293847
>prince of nothing and book of the new sun in S
>witcher in A
>malazan in C
Whoever made this list is a complete retard who probably haven't read half the books on there.

>>718295705
fine but can i squeeze the cum out of your nuts. asking for a friend

>>718295478
I'm not exaggerating even a little when I say that Gardens of the Moon is the worst book I've ever had the misfortune of reading. I actually spent some time double checking to see if I hadn't downloaded some troll file that slapped a popular title on some 12 year old's fanfic

>>718295212
>absurd fantasies?
Hard to quantify. I guess Terry pratchett is a safe bet.

>fantasies about castles?
GormenGhast by Mervyn Peake,
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones,
Brokedown Palace by Steven Brust.

>>718292065 (OP)
Currently reading the elder scrolls novel and it's just a cooking story so far. I like Glim.
also reading Sherlock Holmes.

I wanna write my own novel, have written 34k words so far

>>718295571
This looks cool though, I'm going to give it a look

i recently read the screenplay for the sunshine movie
it was pretty good, made more sense than the movie

>>718295796
>Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones,
Just got rec'd this twice so what am I in for?

>>718295845
i wonder why tes doesn't have tons of novels
they got so much lore and races for that game series, why didn't they ever make novels on the side?

>>718293018
What's up, di-

>>718295103
Ah dammit

>>718295724
>Filename
Okay retard

>>718295884
A castle that moves

>>718295774
What can I say, sucks to be you.

>>718295947
because TES excels at worldbuilding, NOT story. The main quest in every game is always generic trash

>>718292065 (OP)
I'm out of books to read, a co worker suggested David Eddings, but im on the fence if I wanna dive into his works. Big into fantasy and epic fantasy. Malazan book of the fallen is my favorite series. Terry Brooks, Mark Lawrence and Terry Pratchett are also good. Ended up reading through almost all of Terry Goodkinds series and enjoyed most of it. Any suggestions? Almost done with the black company and I need another good series to go through. No Brandon Sanderson, ruined WoT for me.

I recommend Robert E Howard's collection of Conan stories.

>>718295662
@grok

>>718296067
yeah and the books would expand on the world building, I just learned that Argonians have webbed hands and feet

>>718295947
Why would Bethesda commission novels to expand on lore that Todd is trying his hardest to erase from the series?

>>718292065 (OP)
I'm currently being stunlocked by gravity's rainbow. This was a tremendous mistake.
I think after this I'm just gonna go back to reading Vance and Zelazny.

>>718296109
>Terry Pratchett

MY

FUCKING

NIGGA

>>718293059
Very good writer, I've enjoyed reading keys to the kingdom and the seventh tower when I was younger.

>>718295947
IMO you're not going to get a legit good writer to obey the hard constraints that a corporation like ZeniMax will impose on everything. I've read some rare licensed works gems, like William R. Forstchen's Arena for MTG and Richard A. Knaak's Day of the Dragon for Warcraft. But even those are just "cool", not solid works of fiction

>>718295724
Hey man if you don't want to put in the time to understand Book of the New Sun it's ok. Not like it spells out most of the points in the fourth book including the theme.

How do you guys find time to read between all the doomscrolling and shitposting on /v/?

>>718296297
I listed to audiobooks while doing chores

>>718295212
>absurd fantasies?
>>718295796
>Terry pratchett
Just as i did so in the previous thread i also recommend Robert Rankin (just read from the beginning).

>>718296332
How do you focus?

>>718296297
I usually read when I'm not home, at work or at uni, I find it easier to read there because I don't want to open my phone in public

>>718296228
>tfw i started reading the colour of magic
>tfw it goes into shit about turtles discs gender

>>718296381
I don't focus, I just mindlessly wash the dishes and listen

>>718296297
Seriously just internalize that about 40% of posts are
>bots
>astroturfing
>third world trollfarms this includes the US
Separate from the site and let none of the above categories instill any emotion in you. If you can't you belong in the fourth secret "actual retard" category.

Why is modern fantasy all gooner shit for women or some redditspeak crap like Abercrombie?

Anyone like Pillars of the Earth? I feel like I'm the only one. I keep trying to get people to read it and when they ask what it's about and I say "It's.. about building a cathedral. Well, the lives of the people around building a cathedral." I can see their eyes glaze over in boredom.

>>718294530
Digital 99% of the time, books take too much space and I don't like having clutter around me. I only buy stuff I really like or if they have some special edition.

>>718296297
I do most of my reading on the shitter.

I'm brown and I never read a book

>>718296484
Plenty of really fucking good fantasy exists already, so the nature of marketing is taking over and trying to expand the market into illiterate fucksticks.

>>718296503
kek my coworker recommended that book to me and I had the same reaction. Maybe I'll actually give it a try.

>>718292065 (OP)
I read Book of the New Sun because I heard it was like Dark Souls. I saw what they meant since Severian is kinda rummaging through a decaying civilization stumbling on ancient wonders but doesn't have a clue what's going on. It was enjoyable. Sword of the Lictor was my favorite part.

>>718294530
physical because i like texture. I also enjoy marks and things from the author that were there by mistake

I've read The First Law and A Song of Ice and Fire. Also Hunger Games in high school. I've read The Age of Madness, the First Law's successor, and it's not very well written comparatively. I really like dark fantasy slop, but my favourite is a fanfic

>>718294653
>Down to a Sunless Sea
comfy plane stuff
>Avery Cates series (Jeff Somers)
comfy psychopath stuff
>Earth Abides
post apocalyptic but still kinda wholesome
>The Postman
really good
>The Stand
also really good apart from the usual shitty King paranormal bullshit

I'm to lazy to get up any more and look at my bookshelves, can't remember titles for shit

>>718296503
Isn't it the one that has a videogame? There is surprise tf2 demoman moment

>>718296503
Ken Follett instantly filters 80% of the population because his books are thick enough to kill another human being. I like him too, but it can be a bit dense at times.

>>718296109
Recommend Eddings; they're very easy reading books. If you can read Brooks, Goodkind and Pratchett, you'll be fine.

Like mentioned above, Robin Hobb writes some really good 'low' fantasy and has two separate series that end up merging into 'one' storyline if you're into that sort of extended long term payoff.

>>718292065 (OP)
I used to, now I'm too distracted by vidya which is more engaging

I finished The Shadow of the Torturer recently. While it's obviously very different from the generic trash out there, for me it crossed the boundary from "interesting and esoteric" to "random things are happening for no reason"

>>718294653
Bakker's 6,5 books about Ryan Gosling from drive

Books are shit.
Read a VN for once in your life.

>Like to read
>Fucking love some of the books I've read
>Know I like to read
>tfw find it really hard to pick up a book
>tfw it's the stupidest reason ever
>tfw know it is stupid, borderline nonsensical, but can't help it
>tfw I pick up a book it ALWAYS feels like a complete waste of time.
>Like every time I pick up a book I feel soul crippling guilt that I should be spending my time doing something else. And I dont feel this way when playing video games or even baord games solo. Somehow, somewhere in my brain I think books are a worse waste of time than vidya.

>>718296283
That book isn't S-tier worthy, and its "fans" (read: posers) are all insufferable, pretentious cunts. You're a great example of that, because you immediately assume that whoever doesn't fellate the book doesn't "understand" it.

Is Sanderson good for someone that has only read TLOTR and ASOIAF?

>>718292661
>Lolita gets released
>The French complain there aren't enough sex scenes in it

>>718294653
The only two that stick out in my memory are a canticle for leibowitz and cage of souls.

>>718296484
Women buy gooner books. Nothing has changed. The formula has merely evolved to consume the fantasy genre further.

Men write cringe sex fantasy into their works too. Larry Niven had a fuckin geezer be irresistible to a young woman.

>>718292065 (OP)
Yes

>>718296697
When will AI become so good that it will make every book into a movie?

>>718296484
Fantasy as a whole got RPGfied and DNDfied. The only good fantasy nowadays can only be found in actual video games, funny how that turned out.

>>718296109
I've been making my way through Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser. It's pretty good so far. I'm just off the heels of marathoning the Conan stories and these books are clearly inspired by them.
they exist in a weird period in fantasy literature; post-Howard but pre-Tolkien.
In many ways they feel like more refined, less repetitive Conan stories but they introduce a lot of fantasy staples for what I think may be the very first time.
also, I think F&GM might actually be the origin of the idea of a "Thieves Guild". I know that Discworld is full of jokes and references to this series.

>>718296795
you'd probably like joe abercrombie more

>>718296697
That is how it is. Author wrote essentially the first four books at once. Had to write and edit as they came out. What was random to you?

>>718296841
AI can't even do proper shot-reverse shots yet, wait a couple more decades

>>718296795
Sanderson is between those two in style. Not as high-minded and "clean" as Tolkien but not "she shat liquid shit for hours" either

>>718296823
>a fuckin geezer be irresistible to a young woman.
that's for women though

>>718296583
It's good. It's great. Read it. I've never felt so bad about a character dieing in any media than I have from Pillars of the Earth. I have never had such pure, unadulterated seething hatred for a character than I have for a character in that book. It's such a good read if you want to feel.
Stick with it. The book opens with.. basically political drama and an election for a monk to lead a monostary. I know that sounds so fucking boring but at least read until you know Tom Builder. After that it's fantastic. And the political bullshit is important.

>>718296781
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R5J7znTWijg
i only read when going to bed or while travelling
would never do it while home at daytime hours

>>718293847
I loved how in the The Sapphire Rose the big bad was undone by commanding his undead to guard every square of his city and the city had tiled flooring, so the fucking undead army just stood still while the protagonists hacked their way through it and killed him with the equivalent of a magical bitchslap.

>>718296795

Yeah, I enjoy his stuff. At least he tries to finish his shit compared to George R Martin. Mistborn is a good start. Wheel of Time wasn't him but he did finish the series and I heard it was enjoyable enough but I haven't gotten around to WoT yet.

I tried the Darkness That Comes Before or something and that prose went over my head completely. Could not get into it.

On Malazan Book 6, still enjoying it.

>>718296912
>What was random to you
I think the deadly flower petal shuriken duel was the point where I stopped trying to understand what was happening

I love reading 4chan posts. Does that count?

>>718296681
Thank for the tip anon, I'll give Eddings a try. I did start reading the assassins apprentice, but I dropped it early on for some reason and I'll give it another go.

>>718296109
>Terry Pratchett
He's pretty based.

>liked fantasy as a kid, haven't read anything for years
>start with /lit/ recs, some sword and sorcery stuff
>it's all fucking grade-A garbage that's so god damn predictable a robot could have wrote them
>listen to /v/ recs in a thread like this one
>get much more palatable stuff
Cradle was fun. pretty much what it said on the cover but i chortled a few times.
Discworld is great too. i don't think i'll read ALL of it but it's pretty damn good

>>718296783
Go ahead and lay out your criticisms. My praises?
>you are reading the writing of someone in the the world. you do not get inorganic explanation that would come to anyone that lives there
>every read you catch something new
>prose is just good, even if you are clueless you usually are compelled

>>718292183
Digital killed book covers because they have to look good and clear as thumbnails. Good art exists but it went to premium, hardcover editions.

>>718297006
And a /tv/ enjoyer too.

>>718292379
Read The Witcher
The first two books are unique as they're entirely filled with short stories, 20-40 pages each. Then the real proper novels will have call backs to the short stories but it isn't the end of the world if you forget a character or event in those stories. Some parts may require rereading because of how chaotic they can be though, specifically Time of Contempt.

>>718296781
I get the same really bad existential dread but I find if I exercise for like an hour a week it goes away.
And by exercise I mean like full-on heart shredding cardio. Like you start sweating and going pale lacing your shoes up just because your body is anticipating the pain.

>>718296936
Larry was writing that with one hand and not for women clearly. Same with Philip Jose Farmer. Every protag just gets the most nubile young sluts and no sexual description to the male.

I still can't find something similar to The Wheel of Time. The scale, the kino level
BRING ME MY DEATH FOR I BRING YOURS
TTGL of fantasy.

I remember a teacher making fun of me in school because I wanted to read dracula but she ended up having a miscarriage so it works out

>>718297191
Honestly? She might have deserved that, who makes fun of a kid for reading one of literally the most important literatures ever written

>>718292065 (OP)
I'm readig the Wizard of Oz for the first time currently, but I don't think there are any (good) games about it besides this one 3DS game that was kinda meh.

Shit on my taste /v/ (this is just fiction A-H, rest of the shelves are being constructed)

>>718297190
I have no idea who the guy on the right is and I've never read any of those books but he seems rad as fuck. We need to go back to overpowered main characters played straight and in full seriousness.

>>718297232
I hope it was more than one and it was traumatic each time.

>>718296997
Did you understand that it is so far in the future that the flower shuriken is an alien creature? And the guy running the shop where he is challenged to a duel is runnin a scam with his sister because not only is he skilled at this duel but wears gloves so as not to wake this alien and have it attack him?

Ive been reading pretty much nothing but non-fiction.
Not that Im specifically going out of my way to avoid fiction books, I just get my fill of story stuff through videogames and manga I guess.

>my wife is an international bestselling author
I usually read a book every week and a half or so but she'll finish two or three in the same time period. If I ever read the same passage of text alongside her it's astonishing how quick she is.

>>718297190
To this day I'm not sure why I forced myself to finish all the books. I genuinely think you can cut it in half and it would still have too much filler

>>718296997
That's extremely early.

novels that filtered me
>neuromancer
>that story about paul from dune but he's a little bitch
>that story about crystal magic, some dude who's a slave and carries bridges
>lord of the rings
>dragonlance

>>718297282
Pretty good anon, your taste is impeccable, I don't see a single bad work.

>>718296697
I finished it + Urth, and like, I think it's interesting, and might read more eventually, but ultimately I don't really understand why someone would want to read a novel so intentionally obfuscated that you should re-read it over and over. And I think the idea that Wolfe actually has clear answers for you, if you can just find them, is kind of a bold faced lie since there is not a consensus on what should be pretty pertinent information to the story.

>>718297103
cover obsession is just that to begin with. obsession. books are meant to be used in the process of reading, and we store them in such a way you can't even see the covers. buying those is th4e equivalent of blowing your money on collector's editions of games.

>books in 2025

We have TikTok and porn now

I kinda noticed how a lot of people don't really respect authors as much as other artist (drawers and musicians and whatnot) is it for the low barrier of entry or people are just retarded and can't read?

Would he play any vidya?

>>718297276
I think the lies of P devs are making one

>>718297334
>lotr
>filtered

>>718297020
let me guess, you went to the /sffg/? it's just the same stale memes repeated over and over you won't get any useful information out of that garbage general
you're better off looking at some shitty "AI" top 100 lists

>>718297367
Wait until you see what people think of game devs. Pro-tip: never say you're one at a first date.

>>718292467
how gamestop is still holding on is a travesty

>>718297341
Yeah, I'm a dunce.

>>718297276
lies of p studio might still make a game about it

>>718297367
I want pictures/music/video and words

>>718297367
Your average person can't really tell apart good and bad writing. It's a difficult discussion as opposed to something more obvious like audio or visual composition.

>>718297334
thank you for being honest

>>718297424
Did you actually read everything there?

>>718297401
I kinda solved this by just going through the nebula nominee list in chronological order.
Then you can diverge into an author when you find a good one.

I plan to ditch it once I get to the 90s since that's when cultural rot sets in.

>>718296781
This is me but with video games, can't be bothered playing anything unless it comes with something of proper substance like hanging out with friends. Pick up a woodworking book from the 16th century or something

>>718296697
I love the setting of Gene Wolfe's books but they are an absolute classic example of schlocky, edgy trash and their editor just went
>Bro let's just say it's a flawed narrator and call it a day
So now pseuds rave about how clever and deep it is.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying they're bad - I enjoyed the series - I just wish both the books and fans would be honest with themselves.

>>718297424
>Markus Heitz
kek this shit actually got translated to other languages as well?

I’ve started picking up reading to cure the brainrot of social media and videogames, and I can’t decide what to read half the time. Fiction is the same as video games so that’s off the table, and I don’t want to read faggy autobiography’s so so far I’ve been reading self help books and they all say the exact same shit every single time. So I’m stuck. Don’t know where to go from here.

>>718297401
>it's just the same stale memes repeated over and over
that's all of /lit/. If you removed the Pynchon/DFW/Joyce/BEE/Dostoyevsky spam the board would grind to a halt

>>718292065 (OP)
>I only read Masonic literature, One Piece, and Dragon Ball.

>>718297494
50/50; half are old favourites, and the other half are stuff I've bought to read. This is maybe 30% of my books, rest are in boxes after moving house

it's time to read it again, anon

>>718297505
>nebula nominee
research every book to check for "lgbt" themes, it's worse than the oscars at this point

>>718297505
Yeah I did the same
https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books.asp is pretty good for an overview

A Song of Ice and Fire genuinely is the second best thing after Tolkien.
The only flaw is the first book is a little awkward when you know he didn't have things as planned when writing it as he does come Dance with Dragons

>>718297383
>>718297429
Oh fr? Then I can only hope that it's good because I think I'm starting to really get into the Oz setting as a whole.

>>718297102
Random inane shit happens with no explanation: the book. The no explanation part would be fine if the events weren't completely asinine.
>um but it's not asinine for the characters because it's normal in le book's world
I don't care, it's fucking schlock.

>>you are reading the writing of someone in the the world. you do not get inorganic explanation that would come to anyone that lives there
>>every read you catch something new
>>prose is just good, even if you are clueless you usually are compelled
Couldn't come up with more generic "praise" even if you tried.

>>718297574
carl sagan's cosmos

>>718297350
It is written for the re-read. Context always comes later. Scenes become funny or become tragic. He has much less obtuse works. A lot is specifically written so no there are no answers but the yes/no questions can be debated.


I personally want to discuss this book when reading it and thankfully have someone to do it with. I feel like that is the intention.

>>718297572
I've only read the first one so far, but I liked it a lot; angry grudge bearing dwarves are one of my favourite stereotypes

>>718297664
Completely mogged by Bakker.

>>718297190
Malazon book of the fallen, but that depends on if you can deal with how the story is told. You have many different characters moving the plot forward and world building that won't quite make sense until later books, but when everything clicks the series is absolutely great, and even better on the second read through. Terry brooks has good world and character building as well, but I'd stop after the heritage of shannara series unless you like steampunk. the prequel book was also good.

>>718297664
the MAJOR flaw is that the series will never be finished, why the fuck even start at this point

>>718297457
most people can't tell if a drawing is good or bad either

>>718297641
I hate this book because there’s no other book like it

I’ve tried looking, but romance is all for women, there’s none where it’s the guy getting chased like this one

>>718297589
Same shit, different board. I wonder if there's any possible way to have hobby boards filled only with crossposters, threads like this are almost always decent. April Fools' 2017 had the right idea

>>718297741
it's a hard competition between Gurm and Bakker for plotlines that go nowhere, and references to genitalia

ENTER

>>718292065 (OP)
I read more books than I play games.

>>718297367
Barrier for writing a book is low
Barrier for writing a good book is much higher
Barrier for getting published and actually selling copies is extremely high - higher than most people realise. It's also incredibly rare for an author to be able to support themselves completely with their writing, with many having regular day jobs as well.
>I'm a self-published autho-
You're a bartender with a blog no one reads.

>>718297798
Bakker managed to finish his series.

when I was a poor kid I read all the time because library was free entertainment during a time where we had a single TV in the house that had to be fought over for console use, no internet, and my mom would only buy batteries for my gameboy color once or twice a month(Id also rob every remote, radio clock etc I could for more)
I dont read longform content as much as I wish I did anymore unless the power is out but I still read the occasional science journal or on my breaks at work I might read 2-3 chapters of a manga(but I dont think that really counts)

>>718292661
/lit/ already has an established meme trilogy
Ulysses by James Joyce
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

>>718297698
Name the random. Go ahead. I am trying not to spoil because again the books explain most of their events by the fourth.

How would you adapt The Culture to a game?

>>718297760
He'll announce The Winds of Winter at NYCC next month, but also reveal that he'll never finish Dream of Spring.
Winds will come out, he will pass, and the endings and cliff hangers will leave asoiaf regarded as the second greatest series of all time because of the decades and decades of theory crafting and ideas for what Dream could have been.

>>718297775
there is artemis fowl, sorta
but i need a story about a young man finding out his female cousin is a werewolf and she introduces him to the world a big strong furry women

Highest IQ thread in /v/

>>718296503
Keep up the good fight. Whoever you hook will be grateful that you told them. Pillars of the Earth is some kind of weird sleeper hit that only spreads by word of mouth. I see it in plenty of lists but I know it only very rarely actually gets read from seeing it on a list. The only reason people read it is because someone that read it raves about it to them. It's in a weird kind of limbo.

>>718297424
Imagine the time spent dusting.

>>718292065 (OP)
If you're talking fantasy and SF you basically have a lifetime worth of novels to read. It's sad when you discover how derivative video game stories are.

Be honest /v/, have you even read 25% of these?

>>718297760
I bet the fact fuck did not like that. Someone WILL finish it because there will be money in doing so. Same with Wheel of Time.

>>718297739
To be fair I liked it at the time as well but it got more and more boring, maybe you'll like it more

>>718297827
yes but at what cost?

>>718293847
Come on, name of the wind is not D tier.

Right now, I’m reading House Of Leaves.

>>718297321
I never had problems with filler or SoL arcs but The Fires of Heaven and fucking Crossroads of Twilight were mistake. TFoH (the one with circus arc) is gait roadblock (Dumai's Wells happens in the next book) and CoT is so bad even Jordan himself called it bad. Doesn't help that CoT book happens after big world changing cliffhanger and it's fucking 90% flashback sol about Elayne's bath. Imagine reading this ongoing.

>>718297891
Probably some sort of 4X. Scope is too big for basically anything else unless you do an uncharted-esque adventure game focusing on a tiny part of universe.

>>718298031
it deserves it for also never being finished

I like /ss/ and incest. This one has nephew/aunt. Is there any book with Mom/son incest?

>>718297992
Read books you enjoy, not what people tell you you "should" read.

>>718298113
Oedipus by Sophocles

>>718297321
You can tell WoT was basically just in the right place at the right time. It made zero lasting impact on fantasy at large.

>>718297992
>The Bible
>LOTR
>1984
>The Hobbit
>Breave New World
>Animal Farm
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
>A Clockwork Orange

I read all the brainlet ones. Also
>The Epic of Gilgamesh
fucking kek, it's not even complete

>>718297276

Final Fantasy IX is the essential Wizard of Oz game

>>718298131
You don't enjoy the books on that list? You must be a miserable faggot

>>718296503
I remember my mom giving me this book to read when I was like 13. The book is horny as hell. I wonder if its just a warped memory at this point, but man I just remember that the amount of sex in this book was crazy. In one scene they were like "I dunno if you should have sex with your child-wife, sire", and he goes unironically goes "well, if there's grass on the field play ball!"

>>718297846
Check out this paper from SIGGRAPH 98 about the limitations of cloth simulation solvers https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~baraff/papers/sig98.pdf

>>718297752
>Malazon book of the fallen
I know about them from /lit/ memes
>Erikson
>*simulates*

>>718298031
Only ever see NotW recommended by people who "normally don't read books". Of course it'll be the best book you've ever read if it's the only book you've ever read.

>>718297992
Probably 30% but not much more.

I was about to spit on this list for not having A Clockwork Orange, but it just snuck in

>>718298146
You can skip all the existentialist stuff.
It's just eurononce justification slop.
Anime website comorbidity.

>>718298070
the circus shit, the bowl of winds shit, the male a'dam shit, the whole Egwene in the tower shit, the Egwene enslaved by the Seanchan shit, the Perrin and Faile shit. Now that I think about it, basically every Egwene and Nynaeve plot is trash

>>718297801
I finished Worm but I'd never read it again, too poorly paced and too much misery porn. It's better as a setting for fanfiction than as a story.

fantasy nerds should definitely check this one out

>>718296332
Me too. Time without listening to audiobooks feels wasted unless I'm gaming.

>>718296503
>Pillars of the Earth
I always was curious about this series because of video games.

>>718296503
>>718298185
Picked the FUCK up

>>718298134
Is there one without a bad ending?

>>718293889
I was enjoying these but stopped halfway through the second book. It was around when Achamian was getting tortured AND cucked. Cmon, give the guy a break. Maybe I'm just a pussy but it got too depressing for me to read.

>>718297801
you needed stronger opponents
What the fuck was his problem?

>>718298182
I’m a nerd who likes reading nerdy books that are fun, not a pseud leftjock who only wants to read socially approved theory and excessively grounded existential shit.

was there any parts of a book that gave you a massive boner but the rest didn't?

>>718298224
Aside Camus I don't see any existentialist stuff jumping out at me. I agree though, existentialists I may have over looked there likely aren't worth reading

>>718298240
I've heard of it beacause it inspired Tolkien. is it really good?

>>718298316
Achamian is Bakker's punching bag throughout the whole series. He's never allowed to be happy

is winnie the pooh a book that adults could read or like a kids kids book

>>718298182
Don Quixote is a fantasy book, perfect for new /v/

>>718297992
Moby Dick
The Bible
The Iliad + Odyssey
LotR
Meme Meridian
Plato
Lolita
Uncle Ted
1984
The Hobbit
The Aeneid
Beowulf
Heart of Darkness
Frankenstein
Catch 22
Canterbury Tales
Girugamesh
Nicomachean Ethics
Brave New World
Dune
The Prince
Let's see Paul Allen's business card
Siddhartha
Animal Farm
Metaphysics
Meditations
A confederacy of Dunces
Politics
Orange Violence


I need to step up my game a lot, I feel like a walking meme of illiteracy.

>>718298316
Oh, you have no idea.

>>718294530
Physical, it just feels better and its nice to have one hobby that doesn't involve starting at screens.
Digital for manga tho unless its a short series, they take up way too much space.

>>718298375
It’s a kids’ book, but I read an excerpt from it as a kid and found it eerie and atmospheric in a way that stuck with me through my teens.

>>718298328
>lord of the rings
>not nerdy
>the bible
>existential shit
>Unabomber Manifesto
>socially approved theory
You didn't even look at the first 2 rows before you started crying and getting defensive about being stupid.

>>718298328
this. the most faggy thing anyone could do is read for social approval instead of enjoyment

>>718297698
I'm still waiting. There is still debate between motivations, rape/not rape and if the author is trying to propagandize but i would like to hear the random events that go unexplained.

>>718298226
I like Faile. Take that back. Rolan twist was brutal.

>>718298347
>Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
>Random scene that pushes all of my kink buttons as if he was directly reading my mind
Shit caught me on the back foot god damn. Although it does feel a little like he was trying to get as many fetishes into one book as possible.

>>718298375
Adults too; the original Pooh books by AA Milne are really nice, I read them to my daughter pretty often

>>718298383
one of the best books of all time
and ignoring reality and simply saying everything is what you want is perfect for /v/

>>718292065 (OP)
Yes but I don't read fiction, only stuff that will expand my knowledge about specific fields
basically if I don't feel like I'm gaining xp from reading a book then I won't read it

>>718297390
the beginning where hits on his ass for a whole year filters a lot of adhd retards

>Force myself to read more books over the past two years, albeit slowly, since I didn't ever read "real" books as a kid
>Get surprised when I realize the memories of the books I've read are automatically turned into "scenes" as if they were from a movie instead of just the words on the page I read

>>718298529
>anon finally understands the apple in the mind meme

>>718293954
DLC for letters

>>718298405
>>718298369
Noooo come on. I was hoping things would turn around for him at some point.
I was really invested in him and the prostitute chick. I know it wasn't gonna happen but I wanted them to be happy.
I hate Kellhus so much bros

>>718298423
I’m a genius. You disagreeing with me makes you the stupid one.

>>718293954
Serif fonts are ones with the little embellishments, called serifs, to them, example being if you compare the T used on each of the three covers in OP to the T which is used in the standard sanserif font sanserif fonts being ones without the embellishments you'll see used most places online.
It's neither a good thing or a bad thing though, just a kind of font that would not be typical of minimalism since it includes the embellishments whereas minimalism would want to avoid that and would typically use a sanserif font.

>>718298590
If it's any consolation everyone will get what's coming to them. Kellhus included.

>>718294710
Yes.

>world has been ravaged by the crash of an alien sex demon ship and the invasion of zergs created by the sex demons
>the demons want to annihilate all life because this means less souls for the gods to feed on and the demonic souls will be immune from hell
>after a few thousand years a shaolin monk monastery where kids train their naruto powers to godlike levels is sent to kill his father because his father was psyonically spamming the monks' dreams with pop-up advertisements
>the monk is captured by a mongol warlord but uses advanced lgbtq mind trickery to make his son gay and kill his father
>the mongol son teams up with a whore and a cuck wizard to go kill the monk who is now Jesus
>turns out halfway through his journey Jesus got mind-controlled by [basically Loki] and Loki sent him to kill the sex demons
>he fails because one of his psychotic sons is a glitch in the matrix and invisible to his prescience
>the story ends with Satan being reborn and destroying the world

>>718298375
A legitimately good series for children, would also be a good one for adults to read along with their kids. I remember picking the 09 revival up when I was really young and still thinking its stories and that otter bitch were alright even though Milne had already died ages prior. Your post also randomly reminded me this exists

>>718298653
You forgot to mention the part where the evil sex demons were objectively correct and the closest thing to good guys in the setting.

>>718298190
I will trade you this research about venom producing glands existing in a huge roster of reptile species traditionally thought to be non venomous
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1535947620344972
(theres a direct pdf link on the site but its a huge link to post)

>>718297891
you could make another genre from every book. but random space adventures with john shepard would probably fit most of it.

For me? It’s Roadside Picnic. This book had no right being as good as it was.

>>718292065 (OP)
i like silmarillion more

>>718298585
Reminds me of how 4 and 7 have echo fighters.

>>718298801
i have the book but never read it. what am i in for

>>718298757
>objectively correct
how? Is there any evidence at all that their plan would work? They tried countless times on other planets

>>718298858
Nothing in any way similar to the movie or game STALKER

>>718298871
They finished their work on other planets, which is why the gods were so scared and began to possess mortals during the critical points in order to stop them.

>>718297880
Every event that happens in the book is random, it's a jumbled esoteric mess. In some chapters you can rip out whole paragraphs, put them in different places in the same chapter, and it won't make things any more asinine.

>>718298442
>random events that go unexplained
Nice reading comprehension, about what I expected from a wolfe fangirl.

Read my books, /v/.

>>718294530
Whichever is easiest. Personally I tend toward physical books these days because I get too distracted by other stuff when I try reading the ebooks/pdf/epub/whatever on my PC and would rather be able to just read the book without distraction.

>Dark Forest chink adaptation is two cours confirmed
>shooting just started in 2025
>Western adaptation shitfest is filmed back to back until 2027
>Ugly 3D show is hated by chinks HARD
This is suffering. Why chinks didn't adapt their biggest franchise into high budget 3D show? Similar to To Be Hero. I need my kino.

>>718298858
11/10 sci-fi kino

It’s short, sweet, and the translation was goddamn magnificent. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy the book nearly as much as I did. I started Neuromancer shortly after and find it to be extremely dull in comparison.

>>718298653
im confused just from reading this greentext

>faggot souls comes back to /v/
>the same awful off topic /vrpg/ threads also appear
so when will /v/ be usable again

>>718298986
These look cool.

>>718298916
did the gods actually do something in the first apocalypse?

>>718298858
Fairly standard scifi story; unexplained stuff happens, people have to learn to live with it.
Very similar to wyndhams stuff like kraken wakes or day of the triffids.

Alright, since it’s a book thread on /v/, I NEED to bring up Spy Gear Adventures again. PLEASE tell me there’s SOMEONE here who read these.

>>718298769
>venom producing glands existing in a huge roster of reptile species traditionally thought to be non venomous
This sounds more useful than the cloth research, thanks. I didn't even know some of these lizards existed

>>718298986
Are these actually good? The fact they got shilled all of a sudden by '''''book reviewers''''' made me wary

>>718292065 (OP)
I've read the first two Expanse books recently and have started the third. But I'm thinking of dropping it because Holden is so dogshit

>>718299042
They couldn't do anything during the first one because they had no way of understanding what was going on since the no-god an the soulless consult could not be detected by them for obvious reasons. They just saw a lot of mortals start dying and ate really well for a while but couldn't make much sense of what actually was going on. It wasn't until Ajokli and that god of war incarnated in Kellhus and Cnaiur that they realized what exactly was happening and after that happened all bets were off.

>>718294530
Ebooks. Hardcover fancy edition for collecting.

>>718299012
don't worry if you read the books you will still not understand shit because most of it is delivered in an exposition dump at the very end but really you get most info from an author essay that's not even part of the series

>>718293571
>mfw I realised the dog was foreshadowing her identity with the second sentence she spoke

>>718299101
They're astonishingly chink coded, but they do a fun job of exploring the premise.

>>718292065 (OP)
I read a lot better books than shitty genre fiction lol

>>718292065 (OP)
no i just buy piles of books that sit all around my house

>>718299026
Yeah where's the twitter threads and console war shitposting at?

gargantua and pantagruel is the only book ive read since high school

>>718299174
like?

>>718297574
>Fiction is the same as video games so that’s off the table
I don't agree with this way of thinking, following that you wouldn't even read the Iliad, The Stranger, Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Faust and many other classics.
Try reading Seneca's Letters from a Stoic I suppose, it's about the only non-fiction I'd easily recommend to people.

>>718299176
A true patrician.
>>718299164
Yeah cool, I might give them a look

>>718296283
>>718297102
>>718298442
/lit/ please go and stay go

>>718292065 (OP)
Yes, currently reading the red and the black by stendhal. still not better than nioh though but its pretty good.

>>718299197
So, what's the best ass cleaner ever?

>>718294324
Collapsing a mountain on them then finishing off the fleet with a wave was allowed?

I doooo!

>>718299258
no clue, i never read it.

>>718294324
>They could've easily wiped Ar-pharazons army
No they couldn't have. They had their shit kicked out of them, which is why Eru had to intervene on their behalf.

>>718299101
Yes. But it's not what you may expect. The first book subverts expectation in funny way.

>>718298959
You bitch about generic praise yet go "every event". Please provide evidence towards you not being a mouthbreathing retard.

>>718299276
>King in Yellow
I've had this sitting on my shelf for like 18 months, is it any good?

>>718294530
Audiobooks. Getting an Audible account was a total game changer.

>Brothers Karamazov is just like video games, pointless!
>Self help books is where I'll find real wisdom

>>718299276
This is the equivalent to showing off a video game collection of Last of Us, Horizon Zero Dawn and the complete PS5 exclusives collection.

>>718298316
>>718293889
He actually gets cucked? I had Prince of Nothing on my list but I guess not anymore.

>>718299254
Pls go read some romantic fantasy

>>718299336
Will I hate the book if I have a low tolerance for women being dumb women cunts?

>>718299398
The term is romantasy

>>718297938
Honestly not that bad, I just try and run the duster over the tops and the spines every couple of books. I think books should be a bit ragged over time too, adds character

>>718294653
Hell Divers. Has nothing to do with the game.

>>718299361
>not reading both
NGMI

>>718299389
he falls in love with a whore and he has to sit outside while she's getting fucked. Then later on she's no longer a whore but gets fucked by a shapeshifting demon. Then she gets fucked by Jesus. The whole time he's simping for her, but also for his two former boy lovers

>>718299378
Not even remotely.
These are all fantastic books, and if you disagree, you're a pretentious faggot reading books for the wrong reasons. 90% of what I read is late 1800's/early 1900's literature, and this era is where writing was truly detailed and imaginative in nature.

>>718299353
I enjoyed it but it's basically just three spooky stories.

>>718294653
I've been reading a lot of trashy 80's horror novels that deal with apocalyptic scenarios. some of them are great.
>The Fungus, by Harry Adam Knight.
A London Biochemist is trying to solve world hunger by developing a strain of extremely fast-growing mushrooms. it turns out that the enzyme that causes the rapid growth is transmissible across different species of fungus and soon a lab leak leads to every species in the area going berserk, killing people and taking over the country in a nanobot grey-goo esque scenario with a faint hint of The Last of Us.
>The Rats trilogy by James Herbert
highly aggressive and intelligent killer rats begin to spread over the UK. the first two books involve government scientists eventually getting the problem under control but by the third book world war 3 happens and there is a nuclear exchange, so the tidal wave of rats emerge from their hiding places with nobody to stop them. in a followup graphic novel called The City rats have taken over the ruined world and humans are tolerated as reluctant cattle that are randomly slaughtered for food.
Possibly an inspiration for the Skaven from Warhammer Fantasy
>The Fog, by James Herbert.
Essentially 70's 28 Days Later/Crossed.
An earthquake releases a toxic bacterial gas from a government bio-warefare storage bunker. any creature who breathes it in begins to become psychotically violent or suicidal after a few hours and dies of seizures after a day or two. Since the gas is alive it continues to grow into a larger and larger cloud as it is blown around the country by the wind.

>>718299135
What book is that?

>>718299343
Chariot race? A tour of some fucking garden/greenhouse with a bitch that MC picked up a few hours ago?
What fucking descriptor do you want if it's LITERALLY every event?

>>718294530
Ebooks
I'm attached to the idea of physical books but I hate having to use both hands, some books have terrible covers, and I hate having to buy hardcovers only for new books

>>718299487
Horizon Zero Dawn and Last of Us are fantastic games, and if you disagree, you're a pretentious faggot playing games for the wrong reasons

>>718292252
What's special about sarif? They should have used Carolingian fonts if they wanted to be faithful. Still waiting for an edition with those.

That said, I have a special edition that's one book only and I regret buying it. It's cumbersome to read, regardless of how pretty it is with its black cover.

>>718292183
That's the first edition you retard, that's what it looked like when the first book came out in case you haven't understand it yet.

>>718299487
I like those books and you are a dumb faggot who is wrong. Filter of time and you being a pleb.

excellent and stimulating thread, it won't get better on 4chan today for me. Well unless some meme worthy events happen in the Manure-arseshit game. See ya on /sp/

I'm reading The Deathless trilogy, it's preddy good.

>>718299556
Why don't you regale us with how "bad" these books are then, if you've read them, anon?

Are there any good baseball or tennis books?

Not how to get better books but like fiction. And while we’re at it any baseball or tennis manga?

>>718299276
I actually have that same printing of The Ceremonies because for some reason it doesn't have ebook distribution.
Joins my copy of In Search of Schroedinger's Cat that I received as a gift.

>>718299483
Yeah I'm definitely not reading it then, I hate male characters who try to redeem whores.

>>718292065 (OP)
I've read Snowcrash right before the memedemic. I brought some Dostoevsky and Yukio Mishima which I haven't got around it yet.

>>718299456
speaking of romantic fantasy, thoughts on the dragonriders of pern? mom used to read them and they seem like a nice mix of fantasy and si fi

>>718299426
No. Only third book has female MC. Second book (peak) is male fantasy anime kino.

>>718299607
How about you regale us with how Last of Us and Horizon Zero Dawn are bad?

>The Gentlemen Bastard will never be finished
>A sing of ice and fire will never be finished
>The kingkiller cronicle will never be finished

>>718299221
Here's some. Tolkien is horrendously overrated btw and OP should be permanently banned for making these awful threads over and over.

>>718299361
>Brothers Karamazov is just like video games
Unrelated to your post, but I've always thought The Brothers Karamazov would be perfect inspiration for narrative games that actually give a fuck about gameplay, whatever that means for the genre. That book was way more interactive than any RPG I've ever played

>>718299617
I assume you've already read Prince of Tennis.

>>718297574
Damn anon, can't you really think about any non-fiction other than biographies or self-help? How about anything under the categories of "humanities", "natural sciences" or "social sciences"?

>>718299561
god damn it....

>>718295478
Nah, Malazan is shit. Throwing all shit at the wall at once and then 50 chapters later giving you a hint that one piece of shit you threw in chapter 3 combined with another piece from chapter 38 looks like your mom while all this time pretending it's a good writing is not a good writing.

>>718299662
>The Gentlemen Bastard
some of the worst shit ever written

>>718299617
>tennis books
One of the greatest and praised books of all time buddy.

>>718297574
>Fiction is the same as video games
god what a retard

>>718299662
>kingkiller cronicle
as much as I enjoyed it, the whole thing where the loser protagonist gets to spend months fucking some gigastacy deadly fairy until he chaddifies himself was juts too much

>>718299657
>/v/ anon only experienced in ragebaiting can't read *or* argue
imagine my shock

>>718299683
>That book was way more interactive than any RPG I've ever played
Jesus christ lol

>>718297901
Holly never goes after Artemis and nothing even happens between them until the 7th book and even then

Not the same

>>718299662
At least Jim Butcher finally beat the curse

>>718299673
My favourite part of The Anatomy of Melancholy is when Burton openly shits on every version of Anonymous we've ever seen post on this site

>>718299715
Isn’t this shit impossible to read and understand for brainlets like 99% of /v/??

>>718299535
Chariot race is the only concession i am prepared to make. That is one disorienting and strange scene. The garden/greenhouse is a museum of the past. Again if you have not clued in that this is insanely distant into humanity's future by this point this is here for you.

It is insanely clear within that book why that girl is guiding him.

>>718298986
I've wanted to read some Chinese books. I was recommended the Three Body Problem but upon scanning the back of the book I see it talking about an online game or some other retarded Isekai shit so I noped out of there as fast as I could.
Did I over-react or was I right?
Are there any good Chinese books that don't involve Isekai nonsense?

>>718299802
nah thats ulysses

>read all the way through Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
>Afterword mentions it was adapted into Bladerunner
>OH SHIT THIS WAS BLADERUNNER
>mfw

>>718299798
There was a passage about hermits being subhuman I really wish I could find.

I'm enjoying this on my ereader

>>718299164
>They're astonishingly chink coded
Hey they were written almost two decades ago! What if all trans propaganda you see everywhere is part of an alien plan to destabilize our society? To make us weak. To kill our science. To cause gender wars. Think about it logically.

>>718299802
I'm sure anon will be fine.
The actual /v/ filter will the message that being ironic is toxic which is delivered to the reader by so full of irony it circles back round to sincerity.

>>718299753
Prove me wrong
>book with one ending written by a gambler posthumously BTFOs the efforts of dev teams the size of a small army sweating over bloated multi-path stories that end up forgotten in a year
How does he keep doing it, /v/?

>>718292065 (OP)
Reading the books ruined the movies for me. Doesn't help that when I first rewatched them when reaching adulthood I absolutely hated the last two because of the stupid nonsensical part where Frodo is manupulated by Gollum and sends Sam home. In fact that was my motivation for reading the books initially.

Christopher was 100% right.

>>718299837
Oh fuck, I actually confused the two
Ulyssss was the one I was thinking of

>>718297775
>I hate this book because there’s no other book like it
>I’ve tried looking, but romance is all for women, there’s none where it’s the guy getting chased like this one
Japanese Light Novels have you covered, but of course you'll have to put up with the japanese writing style.

>>718299918
Dostoevsky is for dumb teens

>Heard about tranime weebs raving about the Metamorphosis manga
>It's literally has exact premise of that German film Christine F and that Swedish film Lilya 4-ever
You know watching outside of tranime movies and shows won't hurt, there's endless amount of content

>>718294530
Same as with music. Physical for collecting and digital for consuming.

>>718299707
>anon can't remember what he read from the other day.

filtered, ether you understand it or it's shit. there is no inbetween.

>>718299995
Post music collection

>>718299990
and that makes it bad because?

>>718299802
Infinite Jest was written by a hippie in a durag who died like 20 years ago. It’s yet another book propped up as an intellectual, creative masterpiece by normalfags that’s really just a book for normalfags. I don’t read nerdphobic books.

>>718299843
There are a lot of those passages, lel

>>718299964
Where's your spiritual successor to Lolita, Nabokov?

>>718296795
His sci-fi is quite good, if you can stand YA.

>>718299990
>tranime
Go back shartyteen.

>>718292065 (OP)
LoTR is such a shit sorry if you've ever actually read any good amount of fiction. Literally the
>It was first so it must be the best!
Of books.

>>718299961
japanese light novels are a lower form of literature than garfield.

>>718292065 (OP)
I try to because I want to make something of my 2 hours of daily commute to wageslave. I try to read classic shit but it's really hard so I end up reading a lot of fiction slop instead.

Why is this thread so comfy?

It’s like /lit/ but with a /v/ filter where everyone is discussing books but still calling out shit taste

>>718299990
>You know watching outside of tranime movies and shows won't hurt, there's endless amount of content
This thread is full of actual garbage that I wouldn't even grind up and feed to a dog.

>>718299806
You're once again proving your pseud nature. The fact that it's """"""clear"""""" and that you can """"""understand"""""" doesn't make them not random. The book is written and edited in a schizophrenic way.

>>718299892
I'm not a schizophrenic (yet) so I need pretty substantial evidence to treat fun ideas like this as anything more than idle speculation.

But I have entertained the idea that the woes of the 21st century have been visited on us by some sort of intangible enemy.
It's just that odds that it's an alien are pretty low; all the speculation I've seen on this topic is that if an alien civilization wanted to defeat us they could just accelerate a 12 mile long mass to 10% of the speed of light and let ballistics handle the rest.

There wouldn't be a need for any humiliation rituals.

>>718299961
Well?? Are you going to name of these novels or what

I can only read Beau and Edythe falling in love so many times before I kill myself

>>718300023
Hey buddy, if it wasn't for DFW society and culture wouldn't be subsumed in 10 layers of irony wrapped around everything

>>718300068
There is nothing comfy about this thread, it's like reading normalfag social media and I don't come to 4chan for this.

>>718299840
To be fair, Dick's novel is pretty fucking well divorced from Blade Runner, and probably for good reason. I can't imagine trying to explain Mercerism to the average movie cinema audience, it's oblique enough when you're trying to read it for the 5th time

>>718300017
Been getting rid of it lately lol. Maybe i'll start collecting LPs in few years again but right now i'm kinda going hard with removing clutter and unnecessary stuff.

>>718297992
Isn't Spring Snow is just a boring romance novel?

>>718300025
Maybe I'm dumb but what part of that is supposed to denounces hermits as subhumans or attack me (Anonymous) in any way?

>>718300149
Image made me laugh
anyways you’re gay

>>718300043
I just don't like how much time is spent on detailed descriptions of things that aren't that interesting. I prefer more dialogue and interesting characters in my books.

Where should I begin with him?

>>718300068
This is an absolutely terrible thread.

>>718300194
>I just don't like how much time is spent on detailed descriptions of things
This is literally the only good part about lotr.

>>718300151
Mishima is very love him or leave him. If you actually read him that is and not larp about based fascist Japanese man.

>average person reads 12 books a year
>ive read half a book and I can’t finish it even though it’s only 300 pages

Well /v/? How many books have you read this year so far?

>>718300094
>literally cannot follow a character with unclear motives for a half a book
Go ahead, you win. The world is filled with people like you.

>>718300259
It's a matter of taste, I also don't like the songs.

>>718300269
Around 70 but many were short and plays.

>>718300187
It's more that he calls out shitty behaviour seen everywhere, so the book runs down a whole list of things simply applicable to common sense. I just find it funny sometimes to imagine some 21st century anon as the subject of his chapters.

>>718300269
There's about a 0% chance that the average person reads 12 books a year. There's a shit ton of people who never reads anything.

I've read like 5-6 so far.

>>718300194
Tolkien put a lot of effort into using english in a very particular way which is usually missed.
He deliberately uses the old english/german words for things and it makes the story seem more tangible, since these words usually describe objects and locations in english rather than concepts.
This is part of why lord of the rings is celebrated and regarded highly.

If you want to see this hammed up to the absolute maximum there's a short essay written by Poul Anderson called Uncleftish Beholding you can read in a few minutes.

>>718300297
that's why asimov is best.

>>718300357
The average is fucked because at the other end people read 50-100 books a year

>>718297992
I'm trying to read Fictions right now and I simply dont get it. It's just describing random fictional books.

>>718300269
>>718300357
it's not the average person, it's the average "reader"

>>718299818
>Did I over-react or was I right?
Over-react. The game is recruiting tool for (radicalized) alien sympathizers. It shows you some part of alien history.

>>718300109
Sorry anon, you'll have to do your own research, our tastes probably don't match.

>>718300324
Got any reccs?

>The biggest Canadian book store Indigo is filled with nothing but mangas and women's romance fantasy novels in best sellers section
How's it down south in Barnes and Nobles?

>>718300405
I'll believe that it's average among people who consider themselves readers.

>>718300297
>It's a matter of taste
No, this is a nitwit's dismissal. The quality of writing is more important than fantasy heros quipping and cliffhangers. A boring story told well can be great, but an eventful story told poorly will always be shit. This is why all genre fiction is bad with no exceptions.

>>718300269
>>718300324
>>718300357
>>718300405
I don't think people reads anymore they're just into audiobooks.

>>718300398
>called Fictions
>is about fiction

>world is destroyed by aliens
>A 14 years old girl and a 9 years old kid are the main characters
>They fuck when she is 17 and he 12
>She gets pregnant and gives birth a son
>The main boy dies in an accident
>Girl thinks they only option to repopulate the planet is having sex with her son but is worried about her age. She is going to be in her 30s by the time her son is old enough and isn't sure if she could give birth enough kids before hitting menopause
>Book ends with a massive time-skip
>People from the far future findout the girl was the Eve of the new world
More books like this one?

>>718300462
>quality of writing
>fantasy heros quipping
Shut the fuck up. Ignored.

>>718300462
It's not a matter of taste whether it's well written or not, but it is a matter of taste if you enjoy it or not.

>>718300280
I can follow a character with unclear motives, and I could even somewhat follow the random-ass evens from the book on my 1st read. The fact that it's "le complex" doesn't make it good.
It's the quintessential entry for posers and pseuds, kind of like house of leaves, but at least house of leaves reads like satire. Book of the new sun reads like a shrooms+acid+alcohol trip of a demented man.

>>718300431
Plays? Ancient Greeks and Shakespeare
From books I read this year Moby Dick and Don Quixote are definitely worth reading and live up to their reputations

>>718296415
Hoo boy, you're gonna hate the whole thing with female dwarves...

>>718299529
Frazetta artbook from Tachen. The expensive one is XXL size version

>>718300269
Give or take about 12. The only ones that stuck with me are Catch-22, Red Dwarf, Catcher in the Rye, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I got halfway through Tales of the Dying Earth before getting bored of Cugel's shit.

>>718300068
What the fuck you're on about everyone's getting outed here that they won't read anything that isn't a manga you stupid nigger.

>>718300424
>grooming is fine if it's a little girl doing it to literally me

>>718300564
Not that guy but
>moby dick
Was the most boring shit ever, the guy wouldn’t shut up describing the fucking wood in the church, after explaining clam chowder for 30 pages I jumped out the window

>>718295584
I understand you were given your kindle as a gift. However, if you can help it do not purchase a Kindle. Purchase a Kobo or another non amazon e-reader. It will get you away from Amazon's ecosystem , be a better e-reader, and most likely be less costly.
I have a Kobo Clara b&w and its awesome. You are right e-ink displays are fantastic

>>718292065 (OP)
I do, I like both physical and digital, never audiobooks (genuinely not reading) so for newish books I like to use my kindle or tablet.
Older books I like to get physical second hand because the hunt and collection is part of the fun.
You can still get really great books dirt cheap if you know where to look. Reminds me a lot of hunting for retro games 15~ years ago.
I watched all of Star Trek from TNG - Voyager last year each one of those series has dozens of novels so those are fun to look for in stores but every store I've been too there are about 2x - 3x as many ToS books, hard to find DS9 and Voyager ones..

>>718300589
Cugel fucking rules nigger. I adore Cugel.

>>718293248
You never read MacDonald, Eddison or Peake?

>>718300435
>Bookshop is full of the two genres that are currently selling the most books
Really gets the noggin joggin

>>718300564
Moby Dick is one of the classics Ive read where every positive thing said was 100% right. Melville really was brilliant

>>718300630
That is indeed the filter that filters people. I just like how he has the narrator talk.

>>718300526
Someone who eats mcdonalds doesn't have a sophisticated palate. Taste isn't an excuse. Having the same preferences as a toddler is not a defense.

>>718300510
Holy fucking kino.

>>718300630
I spit my last breath at thee. From Hell's heart, I stab at thee

>>718292661
Redwall
>pedo
>nazi
>furry

>>718300564
>Don Quixote
>but Don /v/xote those sales are huge and clearly a great success
>Don't be deceived the game is a flop

>>718300435
10ish years ago Indigo/Chapters was a really great place to meet weeaboo girls. I used to go there and skim through the manga and make a list of anything that looked interesting to read online later while talking to cute girls who were reading as well.

>>718300640
>never audiobooks (genuinely not reading)
Explain

>>718300793
>/v/ is defeated because the Knight of Mirrors shows him his reflection and he realises he's a fucking neckbeard who will be forever alone in his parents attic

>>718292661
Video game-books trinity?
I guess:
>I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
>Witcher
uhhhh Sherlock Holmes?

>>718296332
I can never understand people who say they read a book but didn't actually read the book. Motherfucker some one read you the book you didn't read it you listened to it.

>>718300656
I did too. When he got back home and fucked himself over with the sorcerer's trinket, which then forced him to restart his journey all over again I mentally checked out. It felt like a natural conclusion. I put the book down where Cugel signs himself up to get on a boat to go back to the mainland.

>>718300560
To even say it's pseud is fuckin embrassing. It is a story told in four parts and it seems you only read one part. Even if you somehow think it is still not a scifi story your regular scifi story is still told. You get events even if you are fucking stupid.

>>718300793
>concurrent readers for DON'T QUISHIT on an all time low
lmao, sonysisters are fuming

This is the last book I remember reading and really having an effect on me. Specifically, the first third of the book slowly ramps up to become insanely stressful and terrifying, but the sensation of that feeling vanishing when the otherworld family nonchalantly plucks the parasite out of her foot was really striking. It was like one of those three-dimensional reading feelings where the author demonstrates something to you. In this case, it’s making a point about perspective and fear by showing a girl experiencing what she and the audience obviously feel is a nightmare scenario, then having it casually solved by much more experienced characters who basically see it as a pest control scenario, all tied together with the physical relief sensation of having something you didn’t know was there pulled out of your body,, but, y’know. Anyway, I didn’t finish it, but the first part was cool.

>>718300853
>Knight of the Black Screen Monitor Reflection

>>718300860
Explain why that matters

>>718300845
I'm going to bed soon but the TLDR is that it uses a different part of the brain and the way you acquire and retain and process information is not the same. When you read words you go at your own speed and process and interpret and reread multiples times without realizing it and you retain and can breakdown information much better than listening to someone speaking words to you.

>bumplimit
>actual good book thread almost without pseud shittery
>even avatarfag didn't get his (You)s

>>718300909
may as well call watching lets plays the same as beating a video game

>>718296969
I'm currently on book 3 of WoT. It's not bad so far I've been enjoying it. 1

>>718300909
active =/= passive

>>718300043
what do you think is the story? odds are you're a midwit who didn't even understand it

also even if you don't like the story, LOTR has exceptionally written dialogue.

>>718300194
the long descriptions only really happen in book 3 (two towers) and the start of the fellowship.

>>718300909
When in an audiobook do you stop and reread (listen) or look at the wordlplay or look at the spacing, punctuation?

>>718300937
Any discussion about music or books is going to attract pseuds that will need to be rebuked. In the case of these threads, we can ward them off by talking at length about Harry Potter and comic strips, but I fear the Golden Fleece may lose its effect eventually.

>>718300887
I have physical edition of this book (I was into Gayman after American Gods) and still didn't read it even after decade. This is my curse.

>>718295327
https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/work/=/product_id/RJ402453.html

>>718301123
TL;DR, girl wanders into the magical zone unprotected to see the magical people, picks up a magical parasite without having any idea, and an evil stepmother dressed in all white suddenly shows up and starts being allowed to completely dominate and ruin her entire family’s life, culminating in a scene in a field during a thunderstorm where she’s levitating in front of her and monologuing about all the stuff she’s gonna do. It’s pretty scary. Maybe it resonated with me because I was treated unfairly by an abusive family, but none of this is unfamiliar territory for fantasy books.

>>718300876
Straight up the basic events aren't random or esoteric. You get the basic events. If you don't you somehow are breathing and I would like to dissect you. It is everything else. The story in the background that is hard to piece together.

>>718300609
Always has been.

>>718298185
Y.. yeah. That happened. There were 2 or 3 sex scenes in there. And yeah the one noble getting all horny at the fallen noble washing in the fountain was a thing.
And now that I think of it, every time that happened the author me turned the pubic hair. I guess he likes his girls bushy. The sorta sequel World Without End was hornier. And a little rapey. Well, not a little. One was just full blown rape.

I want another book thread after this. We down? Maybe I can storytime The Massively Multiplayer Mystery again.

>>718301446
>my mom and my sister love both book
lmao

recommend me some good fun fantasy slop, doesn't need to be anything grand

>>718301758
>slop
No.

>>718292065 (OP)
I haven't read in a long while but I used to read a lot, The Neverending story is still my favorite book despite reading Tolkien and plenty of other fantasy books. It's just a shame that the movies were so different from the book with some horrifying revelations being made about both Bastian and Fantasia.

>>718301758
Discworld is very charming funslop.
Start at the beginning.

>>718301851
the beginning is so mindnumbingly boring, i can't get past the first couple pages

>>718300638
I jailbroke all 3 kindles I've bought over the years and pirated all but one book. I don't know how they feel about it these days but when I first got my kindle there was a little kerfuffle about digital books. I don't remember the whole story but at some point Amazon said, in so many words "Okay, this is a snippet of the source code that Kindles run and how computers hook into it via usb. You totally shouldn't look at it and learn how to jailbreak your kindle devices even though the investors forced us to put some in some bullshit limitations on the device that no one else is happy about. After all, if you jailbreak it there is no way to stop you from using all kinds of different, free, widely avaliable ebook formats that you know and love!"
Legit one of the only times Amazon was super cool and just wanted people to read.

>>718301758
Belgariad

>>718297401
>you're better off looking at some shitty "AI" top 100 lists
i'm genuinely going for this atm

>>718302051
I’ve read Guards and Mort and I really wish you wouldn’t call it slop.

Anything dwarf centric? Already read The Dwarves and I want more

>>718301758
The Riyria Revelations series is a pretty fun adventure

>>718302278
Slop doesn't necessarily need to be derogatory, it just describes something homogenous.
Discworld is fantasyslop in the same way a homecooked casserole made by your wife (she loves you) is wifeslop.
Food analogy I know but it's hard to convey the point that slop can be highly enticing and enjoyable without going there.

>>718302443
>Discworld is fantasyslop in the same way a homecooked casserole made by your wife (she loves you) is wifeslop.

>>718301031
>That book you read and found uninteresting? Actually you read it wrong...
Talk about midwits. I bet you think it's deep because much post-world war commentary and ''''la deep'''' religious metaphor because you're stupid enough to think something alluding to religion = deep like a 14 year old who just heard about NGE for the first time.

>>718302443
Using the world slop like this is newfag shit. Knock it off.