/lit/ - Literature

Just read Lilith by George MacDonald. It was excellent. Much thanks to the anon who shilled it.

>kindles aren't compatible with epub and other shit
You realise that phones are much better, right? You can download shit off libgen and mobilism at 2AM and torrent off private trackers. There are apps for every file format. It's much more convenient.

>>12448662
On my phone:
>torrent client for more books
>filza to remotely torrent from sites
>epub/mobi/pdf/azw3 reader set to black background with light grey text
>f.lux
A recipe to staying up until 2:30 AM reading.

>>12448661
I'd still read it. You can always find something else to read in the meantime. Delayed gratification sucks.

>>10300344
>Schwab
I've read her Vicious books but not that one (the summary was offputting). The prose is actually not bad and the plot was pretty good but the characterisation was pretty juvenile in places. I may end up reading Conjuring if I really run out of books.

>Bear and Nightingale
Excellent prose, excellent worldbuilding but I hate fairy tales as they tend to feel thoroughly unoriginal in the ending. It's essentially an upgraded version of Uprooted with more bulletproof and interesting worldbuilding. Good but definitely by no means the best.

>Oathbringer
If you have read Sanderson's stuff before, it's more of the same - lots of plot, positive outlooks on life, fun worldbuilding but very bland prose. My pick.


>The Stone Sky
The first two books were great, Stone Sky is unfortunately quite predictable with no crazy plot twists and I thought it could have still used more of two characters. I also thought that the scifi sections were juvenile and spoiled the mystery due to the amount of spoonfeeding that the author thought that the audience needed. Fantasy sections were great, as always but predictable.

>Robin Hobb
In my opinion, I dropped the first book of the series because I felt that the protagonist did nothing except get bullied by the author.

My pick for the science fiction section was Thrawn. Zahn writes a lot like Sanderson (lots of plot twists, bland prose, characters who might be antagonists but also have enormous positivity.) I'm also disappointed that Pellaeon didn't appear in that Thrawn novel.

I'm going to say that my favourite 2017 books were With Blood Upon the Sand (fantasy) and Seven Surrenders (scifi). Both feel fairly mature in terms of ideas, prose, plot, characterisation and all the things that make great books tick, but ordinarily I won't read a huge number of books published in the current year if I'm not already following the series.

There are a lot of shit books that get high GR ratings without being good and you never know unless you choose to expose yourself to that shittery.

>>10296182
You know what would be absolutely hilarious? /sffg/ finding a way to visit fictional universes.

>>10140768
http://rickandmorty.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Transcripts
The websites with all the subs.

>>10024171
Fark off, PKD and Lem both write great characters.

>>10009523
>>10009430
I'm not exactly /g/ but I've been torrenting for a long time and like to answer questions on /ptg/ when they aren't full of shit.

The danges:

TORRENTING:
1. Exposes your IP up to the possibility of being DMCA'd by an annoyed copyright provider. Depending on where you live DMCA → Sent to ISP → Sent to you. In some countries like USA you can lose internet access or get fined/sued.

CALIBRE
1. Probably exposes your IP too especially if you can download books off it. One /g/ anon called spaghetti opened a shitton on bibliotik scifi to the internet via his calibre with no (apparent) issues but he was probably serving it off another server NOT HIS HOME COMPUTER
2. Calibre might be hacked remotely as it was in the past. See the URL below for information
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50491/discuss

SAFEST ROUTE:
Uploading your files to a remote website like Mega etc and link to it here. Because it's being served off someone else's website you won't get into trouble from your ISP and there is no risk of having your own server hijacked.

A book consisting of the top 1 million places to download books for free including my private server.

>>9557225
Why is he so cute?

>Read Ender's game
>“I love your butt. Let me kiss it”
Gayest book that I've ever read.

>>9153021
>There are also numerous Star Trek: TNG references throughout the novel but I have no working theory as to why.
This is one of the most amusing things I have read in a while.

>>8648776
That delicious, delicious suffering.

>>8142579
Read the cruciform thing at 1 AM. Did not sleep for the whole night. Played awful pop/party music while reading it because it was the only thing stopping me from losing it. When I finally tried to go to sleep I started hallucinating it.

Simmons did a great job with Hyperion.

>I wish the author had detailed who built the Shrike, why it was a spiky freaky humanoid thing, what was up with its eyes made of ruby and other stuff.
It's detailed in the Endymion books but sadly they suck awfully and retcon Hyperion. Still think it's worth reading though.

>>8142807
>Promoting selfcest
Shame on you anon.