/lit/ - Literature

first for soulcatcher a shit

snaderfag a hag

Epub (that I have not tried myself): https://www37.zippyshare.com/v/t2MYTzfk/file.html

>>12625098
>Post interesting concepts you found in books
Interplanetary shape shifting aboriginals

recommend books with really really cute girls

>>12625098
Can we have someone else other than an alt right fag start this containment thread?

>>12625283
The Black company

Any recommendations for stuff which works well as an audiobook? Got a couple very long drives coming up, and audible seems to have a sale going on.

Too many good books with shit narrators, or good books which don't work nearly as well in audio format as in text.

>>12625283
Moe Lit should be a genre

>>12625102
Did "soulcatcher/lady a shit" spam start this summer, or was it from earlier?

Is "Heroes Die" by Stover actually good?

I see it on the occasional chart here, but the author's written Star Wars books so that's not exactly a good sign.

>>12625283
>that dead inside look
I see the Korean slave system is still in place.

>>12622477 #
Everyone has autism. It's just the strength of it that's the problem. Fidget spinners made billions for a reason. If you played with a fidget spinner for more than one spin (to see what it was all about) you have autism.
If you can't meet someone's eyes, you have autism.
If you remember a joke and just start laughing for no reason, you have autism.
If you go to talk to a gril and only repeat what she says, you have autism.

>>12625423
her family is extremely wealthy though, so she's doing this because she wants to

guys I need some good, torrentable shit in audio book form for work.

My task is mostly to wait in a small room alone at night and look at a screen, slowly I'm going nuts.

>>12625474
whats your job?
go visit audiobookbay.nl and take your pick

>>12625474
audiobookbay.nl
take your pick from whatever dude.

>>12625491
>>12625494
audiobookbaymind

>>12625491
>whats your job?

Night shift security guard. One guy at a huge site that takes 20 minutes to patrol. The security system is mostly there to prod and inconvenience me. Only got my trusty winged mac-I mean flashlight and if I get jumped I don't even have a guarantee people will enter the site to aid me. The gate is shit and you can roll under it. My grandma could get in.

>>12625294
You do it then.

>>12621846
I understand but
>You made a pic that says "SFFG list of books to avoid"
That's not true, read it again.
>>12622507
I think it's very easy to misread as, well, what this anon misread it as. A list of books sffg recommends that you should avoid
vs
A list of books sffg recommends you avoid.

>>12625460
I don't think you understand how managerial shame manipulation works in asians. You are a deluded fan if you think otherwise.

>>12624462
Emotionally rough or rough writing?

>>12625775
but i am asian

have you guys seen the tolkien trailer? what do you think?

>>12625786
Then you know that she will do what they say or her honor will be forfeit, if her contract doesn't maker her stop and think. Then they will shame her in public with all the lewd blackmail they have on her.

>>12625883
>>>/tv/tolkien

>>12625785
Emotionally rough. It went very dark places I didn't anticipate, but then in the end it wound up being more happy, or perhaps bittersweet, than I'd predicted too.
Vanyel had a hard life.

>>12624462
>I think I want to read more of the Valdemar books
>Would it just be best to start at the beginning?
I read them in the publication order and the ones I liked were Heralds of Valdemar, Vows and Honor and By the Sword.

Is broken earth series any good?

>>12626789
>modern fantasy
It's shit

>>12626789
According to /sffg/ it's trash.
To the rest of the world it's award winning.

>>12625283
Masters of Rome

>>12626873
Isn't it time for your nap and your depends to be changed, gramps?

i got fucking tricked into reading pillars of the shitty earth, im about 60 pages in and its shit, does it get good??

>>12627068
No

Need a new book to read.
What's the Dubliners of fantasy/scifi?

>>12627382
hyperion

>>12625023
Alright mate:
Like Sanderson: Lightbringer series, Powder Mage trilogy, Foundation trilogy by Asimov (scifi), Licanius trilogy
Like Skyward (these suggestions are not YA): Murderbot, Revelation Space (although it's much darker and much more sociopathic)
Like Warbreaker (involving colour): Lightbringer series, Shades of Grey by Fforde
Buddhist themes: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, (anime: Houseki no Kuni)
Like the Broken Earth but in my opinion better: (anime: Shinsekai Yori)

You would most likely also enjoy Neverwhere by Gaiman, the short story How the Marquis Got His Coat Back and Good Omens

>>12625098
You guys know any book that has a similar theme and vibe as Death Stranding ?
i want to read osmething with some crazy almost magical tech

>>12627390
Wikipedia says it's structured like the Canterbury Tales so fuck it guess I'll give it a shot.

>>12627517
I'm not him but every subsequent book after that is a proper novel so worry not, if you like the book the subsequent books are all regular books.

>>12626883
>Hugo Awards
>rest of the world
Are you alright? do we need to call an ambulance.

>>12626789
The first two books are GOAT, the third one is average

>>12626789
This is what the author looks like. So what do you think?

>>12627621
>every jap writes isekai
>every chink writes wuxia
>dunno what gooks write, probably kpop shit
>all white men write is litRPG DND shit
>all white females write is YA
>all black people write is muh rights
>/sffg/ can pirate every book on the internet and all people read here is FUCKING shitty webnovels about big chests

>>12627658
>shitty webnovels about big chests
fuck you chests are awesome. they contain loot and or milk.

>>12627674
Booty>>>Thighs>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Chests

>>12627658
>I could be reading classics and actual good books but all i did is download some shitty action horror japanese novels from the 80s and 90s
Oh god what have i done...

>>12627729
>being melanin enriched

>>12627068
its not scifi or fantasy, but it does get better. the plot doesn't kick in until after the timeskip

>>12627741
Wtf i love N.K Jemisin now?!

>>12627741
>>12627868
>having melanin at all when you could just be albino
baka

>>12627729
>Booty>>>Thighs
Shit taste.

Started rereading Dune recently.
Pretty goddamn stellar.

>>12627982
>thighs get no blood flow
>die
>rot
Great job genius

Wow. All it took were 2 memes and birdboi anon disappeared.

>>12625283
My diary

>>12625474
>>12625561

Check out some lecture-style podcasts like History of Rome and Revolutions by Mike Duncan. Recently I started listening to Pontifacts and Darknet Diaries and they're both fairly interesting so far.

Would also suggest Old Time Radio stuff like X Minus One, which featured stories by a lot of Golden Age SF authors.

I JUST FINISHED HYPERION
I WANT TO TALK TO SOMEONE ABOUT IT
ITEM 1:
WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?

>>12628581
man I`m jealous. I really want to read that again for the first time.

>>12628581
lel
I just got gifted that and it sounds really nice, guess I'll fuck off for a bit now until I read it

>>12625098
Amino is about a couple of detectives going around arresting people who have been genetically altered. Pretty cool.

>>12628595
So, here's the thing about Hyperion. Most of the book is short stories, and most of the stories start off really boring. You wonder "where is any of this going?" and then it sucker punches you by turning out to be really interesting.

>>12627495
Hyperion

>>12628664
I didn't think they started off boring. Read it again. There is a lot of flashforwarding and cues early on in those stories that give the impression something big will happen soon.

>Writing for NPR, Amal El-Mohtar said that comparisons to J.R.R. Tolkien and George R. R. Martin: "[...] are wildly inaccurate to the experience of reading this book"
>She described the book as similar to "[...] more like if Toni Morrison had written Ovid's Metamorphoses".
How does it feel to know that everyone is so ashamed of fantasy novels that they can't even bring themselves to compare a good fantasy book to another good fantasy book?

Ugh this webnovel just turned fucking gay, dropped

>>12628689
Because pretentious hacks are pretentious hacks. Look at every /lit/ poster outside of /sffg/

I just made this

>>12625098
Alright I read The Forever War. It was like Starship Troopers + Time dilation + Ooohh ahhhh oWWeee the army is taking advantage of me again

>>12628689
Is it good?

>>12627910
We wuz Elrics and shit

>>12628852
It's Marlon James, the guy who wrote A Brief History of Seven Killings writing an African based fantasy trilogy. I plan on reading it this year but I can't say right now whether it's good or not.

I recently finished SEVENEVES, I say finished but i gave up a few pages into the 5,000 years later part.
It got cringe as fuck.
But right up until then, man, what a ride.
I'd still recommend anyone to pick it up. The whole first act of the novel is fantastic, some of the best Sci-fi i've read.

The question is asked, what would the entire planets economy aimed as space survival look like? And the answer is incredible.

>>12628678
Man sits down and says his story isn't exciting or heroic and starts talking about his baby.
You expect it to be boring
But its not.
That's what I mean by "starts off boring"

>>12627910
>>12628861
>Elric of Melnibone
More like Elric of Melanin: none

>>12625283
UBIK

>>12629160
Francesca best girl

>>12625283
>"I've had a terrible experience," Leo said, "in Palmer Eldritch's domain. He's a damned magician, Barney. He did all kinds of things with me, things you and I never dreamed of. Turned himself for instance into a little girl, showed me the future, only maybe that was unintentional, made a complete universe up anyhow including a horrible animal called a gluck along with an illusional New York City with you and Roni. What a mess.

>>12625561
Wouldnt it be more dangerous for you if youre listening to something on earphones instead of paying attention?

>>12628689
It feels honest. I mean what similarities does Tolkien and GRRM even have? Large scale I guess?

How do you like your fantasy metaphysics, mythologies, cosmology etc.? Monotheism? Polytheism? Multiverses? Dispassionate, uninvolved deities or more like ancient gods who love making trouble for mortals? Confirmed afterlife, reincarnation or true deaths or uncertainty?

>>12628670
>>
thanks anon!

>>12628689
Because when you say "it's a fantasy novel" people immediately pigeonhole you into being some nerd who is ripping off Tolkien/Wheel of Time/R.A. Salvatore after taking a couple writing classes at the local community college. Why, you probably took your characters from the AD&D game you played in during high school and are using those, your magic is probably Vancian, and you probably post on r/worldbuilding regularly.

>>12625294
(You)

>>12628689
>read a couple of reviews on Goodreads
>women who were obviously "fans" before the book was even released are dropping it because of rape, gore and pretentious writing
Wtf I love this book now

>>12628581
what was your favorite story? for me, the one about the guy and his daughter was fucked. just imagine the emotions you would go through seeing that happen to your child.
also the first story is probably the next best.

>>12628844
Forever war was gay as fuck and degenerate

>1 year old undead mage killing bandits
>ONE YEAR OLD
fucking japs i swear

>>12629837
>Heracles strangles venomous serpents in his crib
>without either past life knowledge or magic
FUCKING GREEKS I SWEAR

>>12629886
>Hercules
>No magic
A baby strangling a snake isn't even that hard to believe. Baby's have surprisingly strong grips and if one managed to grab a snake by the neck and squeezed, it could probably kill it. Unlikely, but hardly on the same.

>>12629900
>Baby's have surprisingly strong grips and if one managed to grab a snake by the neck and squeezed, it could probably kill it.
And a 1-year-old dhampir with undead minions could probably kill bandits.

Read Shadow of the Torturer, feel like I'm missing something. I didn't feel any enthusiasm for it, and don't think I know much at all about any of the characters, including Severian. Is Wolfe just too smart and literary for me?

>>12629960
So is it the baby killing the bandits or is it the minions? How intelligent is a one year old dhampir? Not the OP so I have no idea what the Jap work he's referring to is.

>>12629604
The Scholar's tale was also my favorite.
I didn't think the tape recording part of the Consul's tale was very good, but his explanation after the recording was fantastic.

>>12630041
The undead incapacitate them and he just sucks them dry if I remember correctly. He has the intelligence of a teenager who reincarnated and was raised as a test subject because of his unique death magic and then reincarnated again and remembers both previous lives but had to more or less re-learn magic so he isn't as powerful as he was at the end of his second life..

>>12630022
Checked.

To truly enjoy the book you should take pleasure in the writing, be curious about all the secrets of the world and be even more curious about the secrets of the characters, delighting in every revelation. BotNS is certainly not for everyone and if you don't feel it after the first book it might just not be for you.

Anyone else have a giant boner for named weapons and such?
I blame Diablo 2

>>12630201
Only if said weapons are magical/cursed or considered legendary. Otherwise it's just stupid.

>>12630201
Post favourites

I am Welcomed in the Home of Ravens and Other Scavengers in the Wake of Warriors, I am Friend to Carrion Crows and Wolves. I am Carry Me and Kill with Me, and Die with Me Where the Road Ends. I am not the Honeyed Promise of Length of Life in Years to Come, I am the Iron Promise of Never Being a Slave.

Or Ravensfriend, for short. I love overly long names

>>12630201
I like magical armor, weapons or other items with special properties and having unique names for them seems sensible. My boners are reserved for those with sentience and the ability to turn into cute girls, though.

>>12630257
Cringe.

>>12630201
When fittingly named, absolutely. Terminus Est is my favourite example.

>>12630225
Of course, yeah. Unless it's played for laughs or as an inmaturity thing.
>>12630278
>My boners are reserved for those with sentience and the ability to turn into cute girls, though.
Hey, I saw an anime like this. Although I think the girls turned into weapons. After frenching.

Is 23 too old for a fully functioning human male, such as meself, to start reading Harry Potter?

>>12630285
I like that Severian defines "Terminus Est" multiple times. It's a super neat name and weapon.

>>12630289
Since you are such a functional adult male, you can just wait a couple of years and read it with your children.

>>12630289
Of course not.

>>12630285
Terminus Est is great, even if the way it works is sorta retarded

>>12630148
Thanks. Dunno about the writing, I don't think I have much of an aesthetic sense for prose. It isn't dry or purple, but I don't think I can even tell good from great, never mind enjoy it.
I did like the world, and the fact that it's just explained for you. But I don't really know where to begin with the characters, never mind their secrets.

>>12629886
>making excuses for fucked in the brainnjaps

>>12630278
>My boners are reserved for those with sentience and the ability to turn into cute girls, though.
You probably like that gunmeister online shit.

>>12630289
Isn't 23 too old to be worrying about that sort of shit? If you're interested then read it. You aren't committed to finishing them if you don't like it.

>>12630404
Not really into guns, but I'll put it on my list.

Y'all ever read this? Saw it in a used book store but ended up not picking it up and I'm thinking about going back.

>>12630427
You'd think, but he is posting on 4chan so one can assume that they are stunted somewhat.

>>12630201
I like spaceships with interesting names. The Culture series have quite a few interesting names but generally I prefer something short and snappy.

>>12630508
It's pretty good if you're interested in a hard science look at the colonisation and terra-formation of Mars, and long, long paragraphs on rock formations and moss genetics. Not a light read, but interesting. There are two sequels that continue the story, but honestly, I got bored after the second one and probably won't bother with the third.

name a more hype moment from Sci-Fi, protip: you can't

>>12630575
Thanks, if it's still there when I go back I may pick it up.

>>12630695
Farewell Thunderchilddddddddd

Any recent fantasy come out that's non-woke, gritty, and violent without being nihilistic grimderp that's trying to shock you with how gritty and violent it is?

>>12630022
I'm reading it right now, I find the prose very good and with a gripping atmosphere. The writer has a poetic way with words while remaining crisp and fluid. I also enjoy the world-building; I'm possibly a sucker for science-fantasy (tehno-medieval shit)

>>12630892
I'm glad you asked

>>12625283
Unironically

>>12631156
How much of a mary slut is she?

>>12631370
She's a farter.

>>12631370
Very much.

>>12631370
Not that much.
The biggest mary sue (gary stu in his case) in the series is the king and the big bad gets beaten by a character introduced in book 6.
Once magic gets returned she only uses the full extent of her powers twice and only once did she manage to unfuck the situation, in the last book she also loses pretty much all of her powah after failing to banish the big bad.
She mostly just sets up plots while trying to sacrifice herself.

First 2 books are very YA tropey, there is no resemblance of a love triangles after the first book.
I wouldn't call the later books YA, even though they are marketed as such. (Dune also gets marketed as YA these days)

>>12625283
>recommend books with really really cute girls
On that topic, are there any novels with cute female vampires as love interests, i.e. twilight for boys? Not the slutty one-night-stand-turns-out-to-be-a-vampire kind, if possible.

I know a bunch of manga with cute vampire girls but novels seem to be predominantly for women.

Anyone following A Practical Guide to Evil lately? Is book 5 good?

The protracted drow arc in book 4 totally took my desire to read the series any more.

>>12629331
Based post

>>12631773
Men are terrible romance writers

>>12631443
When is she going to write a fantasy series where the protag is a cute mom?

>>12631812
I don't really need the book to be a romance-focused story, I just can't stand characters written by women most of the time, or even if I like some characters they always end up fucking the wrong other characters which makes me mad.

>>12630892
>conan were none of the things you listed
You cope fags are the worst.

Any Warhammer fans in here? Any good witch hunter books besides Mathias Thulmann?

Reading the Area X Trilogy right now and it’s rlly fcking me up with how good it is.

>>12631953
What the hell are you incel-ing about?

Should I start Dune or Eye of the World?

hows your novel coming along /sffg/?

>>12630695
the ramming scene from the last jedi

>>12630892
The Steel Remains is sorta recent.

>>12632143
Fuck off with your gay shit

>>12632277
No u.
It's a decent book and I thought it fit anon's bill. What's your problem?

>>12632287
I think his problem is that it's gay shit.

>>12632303
Ha, ok. I doubt he even read it, he just wants a gotcha.

>>12632312
So it's not gay?

>>12632330
Not gay, not shit.

>>12632345
So why is it tagged as gay and lgbt on goodreads?

>>12632330
Main character literally fucks boys.

>>12632372
Gay MC.

>>12632143
GAY RAPE AND INCEST

>>12632377
So it is gay shit then.

>>12632390
I don't think so, no.

>>12632401
If it's not gay shit how is the mc gay?

>>12632419
He just is. Doesn't make the book gay shit.

>>12632438
Yes it does.

>>12632444
Well then that's where we disagree.

>>12632457
>Well then that's where we disagree.
What a gay conclusion to this dispute.

>>12632465
It really is.
I have a confession to make too, if you'd like to hear it.

Get a room.
A gay room.

>>12632469
You're a shit?

>>12632469
We are all very keen on hearing your deepest, darkest BBC fetish-tier secrets.

>>12632480
Just the biggest turd.
Moreover, I never read the book.

>>12632510
So you are just perfidiously trying to get anons to read this gay shit? Who hurt you, anon? What is your endgame?

>>12627068
>I got tricked into reading actual literature make it stop
You should probably drink bleach, you’re genes aren’t worth carrying on

>>12629823
I agree. It was all smoking dope and fucking the person next to you.

SPOILER
It was kind of funny how Haldeman predicted the homo life and outlawing heterosexuality to control population. As well as a completely homogenized race of humans in the near future resembling Polynesians (le 56%). It was a funny critique kind of ahead of its time

>>12632655
It wasn't a prediction.

is there a story about a guy who's reincarnating into fantasy world with magic and shit and gets tons of bitches
ökay maybe with just reincarnation but where everything is fucked and the story deals with how fucked everything is

>>12627658
>japs: adventures guild + harem
>chinks: powerlevel increases by 10^999 after every arc + harem + old harem gets forgotten after each arc
>gooks: vr/game influenced fantasy
>white men: cuck fantasy with women lead
>black people: 404 since they can't read or write

>>12632709
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

>>12632709
>is there a story about a guy who's reincarnating into fantasy world with magic and shit and gets tons of bitches
shitloads
>ökay maybe with just reincarnation but where everything is fucked and the story deals with how fucked everything is
only in manga and anime

>>12632709
The misplaced legion

>>12632068
I'm Voceling about you complaining about shit that conan does.

it feels weird not having a hard and fast plotline figured out. I hope I can improvise this

>>12630892
The grace of kings is gritty and violent without being a nihilistic, grimdark clusterfuck. I wouldn't call it not-woke, but the social angle isn't very overt in the first book

The city of brass is good too. you might like it more because the whole thing is basically about a race war going clusterfuck

>>12630285
by far my favorite weapon. i love that there's nothing magical about it, its just a unique sword with some special engineering
>>12630323
what? do you mean the mercury in the center? as far as i know, mercury is pretty heavy so it would actually help, but im not sure how its moving within the shaft on the inside, what would you do about the air that gets trapped inside? its still cool though

>>12632124
first 20 pages for the past year. so its not

>>12632709
I can't tell if you're trolling. That's literally 90% of all LitRPG's

>>12628303
No I am still here, but I don’t have any major updates so I’m not posting more. I don’t want to flood the thread.

>>12632884
I don’t think anyone wants to hear about me talking about the domestication of bats, or the biology of gigs-penguins, or the diversification of domesticated otters.

>>12632826
I hear that. it always takes forever to kick off.

I just started making headway, but I have almost no idea where Im going besides the ending and and a vauge outline of a three-act plot structure

>>12632637
>actual literature
Why are e/lit/ist fags in our general? We don't want you cunts here. Shoo.

>>12632709
Daniel Black.

>>12632719
pol you a funny guy
I will delete you last

>>12632919
same. i keep coming up with all these worldbuilding elements and trying to plot out a vague structure for like, 3 books, but i keep having to remind myself that i need to actually just write the first book.

>>12632884
>>12632904

>>12632124
got 15 chapters done, with each chapter being around 1,500-2,000 words long
I'm aiming for 18 chapters, but it might take 19 or even 20 to wrap this up
It's about mercenary band trying to come by in a world engulfed in war by magicians and non-magician humans who have allied themselves with said world's Satan.

Basically it's about transporting merchandise to a fort, but getting trapped there by forces of niggers with satan on their side. Nothing world changing, but a small band of people trying to survive.

>>12633008
That's a really short book. Barely past 30k words.

>>12633037
It's my first try at writing, so I figured I'd keep it short so I would finish the story how I wanted, and I could get feedback for future if I wanted to try writing something once more. Especially since, English isn't my native language.

>>12633050
Fair enough. Short stories are also good.

>>12633002
I like the birdboi, thank you my dude.

>>12632970
>>12633002
Moot is back?

>>12632709
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time

>>12632972
its so easy to fixate on minor details and ignore the big picture. it took me three years to get to this point and all I know is that Ive got to find a way to have my characters fight a displacer beast knockoff midway through and have it spare them for their audacity

>>12633069

>>12628689
>NPR
more like NPC

>>12633105
Oh no.

>>12632107
Dune. Because it's shorter

>>12633191
i never liked worm

>>12633191
All that tells me is that some authors needed better editors.

>>12633191
glen cook can go suck a dick
fucker is never going to finish black company

>>12633209
why? yeah it got annoying at parts but it was a fun read. Introduced me to a new idea of aliens and shit

>>12633239
Didnt that finish after the first 3? Everything ive heard is from people saying dont bother with the rest
>>12633191
Christ wheel of time is out of hand. The payoff cannot be good enough to justify the filler

>>12633265
i stopped reading it when they first engaged the surfer thing from the sea and MC was turning into celestial being with her mind and it all felt too stupid at that point

>>12633191
Dang, Riftwar is that long now?
I hadn't really read anything after Serpentwar.
Suprised Shannara or Xanth aren't on this list.

>>12633272
> The payoff cannot be good enough
It is good enough.
> to justify the filler
The filler is about 2 or 3 books worth.

>>12633191
>tfw in the Navy blue part of the Malazan bar

>>12633281
>surfer thing from the sea
>MC was turning into celestial being
Those two things happened at opposite points in the story, may as well have read the whole thing mate

>>12629174
>Not Wendy Wright
Come on anon stop lying.

>>12633299
it's a year or two since i read
I remember the thing causing a wave, and the buglady freaking out because in her head there were celestial beings

>>12632124
Its not a novel, its a short story compilation. And the answer is "not good". My co-author is doing almost all the work. I've only got around 2 pages actually written.

I'm writing a magic system where your "mana pool" is restored by sucking dicks because in this universe cocks have magical properties. The black market cock trade is thriving.

>>12633191
Based Black Company and based Narnia. There's no reason to draw these books out to 1000+ pages.

>>12633191
How does Turtledove's Southern Victory series compare to this? Because I read all of that.

>>12633191
I'm amazed how short LotR is compared to the rest. My memory of it was it being much, much longer.

>>12633191
>When a series is so long the same color gets used 4 times

>>12633286
Feist had basically written nothing but Riftwar stuff since 1982, he ended it in 2014 and started a new series last year with King of Ash but the last non-Riftwar thing he wrote was a horror thriller in 1988. And he was doing one book a year for most of the 90s and 00s so I can at least applaud his work ethic.

It's also slightly inflated since IIRC the three Empire books were actually mostly written by Janny Wurts (herself a critically underrated author IMO) and he just signed off on them.

Im reading the wheel of time and, can someone explain why rand is such a cuck when it comes to women? it gets really annoying after a while.

>>12633665
> cuck
wtf are you even talking about?

>>12633191
Worm is even longer now if you count the sequel.

why there's so little good fantasy reading in English?
Chinks are pushing like 1-2 good titles a week out, whereas in the west there are not that many, maybe once a year something good comes out

>>12633909
big fantasy releases are usually focus tested and rewritten multiple times to be as formulaic as possible to rake in the most cash. if you want frequent updates read web novels or look into indie authors. they usually put out a novel each month or so. you gotta lower your standards though. they arent anything like the greats but at least the release schedule is consistent.

>>12633909
I much doubt you have partaken in all that western fantasy has to offer.

>>12633909
>Chinks are pushing like 1-2 good titles a week out
>good

Birdboi anon here, does anyone have bird questions?

>>12634173
will there be duck mating with corkscrew dicks and maze vaginas?

>>12634185
So actually, sorta, but not between the vulkur. There is a giant flightless waterfowl that has been domesticated whose closest relative is ducks.

>>12634185
Schiz

>>12630695

I enjoyed the Liam Neeson from a few years ago. Was much better than I thought it would be. I probably still prefer the original, but it was a nice change and Liam`s performance was good.

I would like to try the new one Audible did that is like, the whole book but with some of the music thrown in.

>>12627495
Goddam I cannot wait for that game

>>12634225
i love you birdboi. i sincerely wish for you to succeed in your endeavors.

>>12634313
Thank you friend. I am sorry for the fact I flood this general.

>>12633050
>Especially since, English isn't my native language.

Are you writing directly in english?

>>12633191
>dresden files
>didn't put unfinished

>>12632124
65,000 words and another posibly 30,000 coming through. I'll probably end it by may.

>>12634225
It'd be a shame if someone loosened that cloaca ... a real shame...

>>12632124
Done, but I've realized there's another wave of edits I want to make. I started writing a little bit of the next book.

>>12632124
I think I'll finish by mid march, it's around 53k right now but will wrap up around 100k from how things are looking

I've been showing chapters to others to try to get feedback on the first halfish of the novel though, and brainstorming the plot of the second half cause it's more mm, I don't want to write inconsistencies since I want the area being written about to be part of a series later

>>12634374
we all know butcher is done writing. not even he likes the dresden files. peace talks will never happen.

>Master of Sorrows is out today
Hopefully it will be better than Ruin and someone will finally upload it to mobilism

>>12634225
>>12634173
>>12628303
Who are you and why are you called birdboi?

>>12634490
You missed a couple of threads I see

>>12634439
Why’s Peace Talks Taking So Long?
(An explanation, so you can stop emailing complaints to the feedback box, which doesn’t reach Jim, and mainly just frustrates the folks running this site.) Personal problems/life events spanning the past several years are what gummed up the works.

Got divorced, with all the fallout that comes from that.
His dog died, who was “the brains of the operation” as Jim tells it.
Got engaged, then remarried.
Moved to another state to live with his fiancee, now wife.
Lived in an apartment with no private writing space for years longer than intended because the contractor building his new house blew the deadline by a couple years at least.

That last bit made it especially hard for him to get traction on Peace Talks. Thankfully, the house is finally finished and Jim is back at work, under the guidance of his new canine buddy Bru and his wife’s four majestic cats.

As of January 31st, 2019, the current draft of the novel is up to chapter 43. Progress!

>>12633191
>unlabeled graph

do you even care?

>>12625326
I fucking loved the Stormlight Archive books. Some dude and his wife do the narration, and it's pretty great. I just wish they'd stuck to doing male/female voices respectively, but instead they each do entire chapters with all the characters within. Ie. sometimes women are voice by the guy, and other times men are voice by the wife.

>>12633296
get back to writing stormlight archives brandon

>>12633191
Some of these are extremely misleading because you are comparing a bunch of disconnected stories in a shared setting (Discworld, Riftwar) with really long, single continuous stories (Wheel of Time, Malazan)

>>12633657
Explains why they had such a different feel. A lot more human drama, intrigue, and sex. I know for a fact Feist can do sexual stuff (Faerie Tale was quite the jarring transition when I read it in high school after reading riftwar books) yet he keeps Riftware very PG.

>>12633408
The writing is densely constructed compared to more modern prose.

>>12633075
Pretty sure every PMD uses it as a basis

>>12625326
Nigel Planer's Discworld readings are excellent, he does every book prior to ~24 barring a few of the books the witches feature in

>>12633075
>Explorers of Time
The ending honestly made me cry

>>12634490
>>12634499
Yeah I've been gone for a few weeks, care to explain?

>>12634953
>>12601123

check that thread

>>12634977
Wait, so is he writing a fantasy series or a sci-fi one?

>>12634986
sci-fi by the looks of it

>>12634811
Serpentwar throws in sex, rape, and prostitution though.

>>12634986
Both.

>>12634986
Anon, he doesn't have any catgirls.

>>12634986
sci-fantasy by the look of it.

>>12634582
>the contractor building his new house blew the deadline by a couple years at least.

FUCK contractors man. If they don't pull shit like that it's stuff where they use material one step above papier-mache and your house starts falling apart after a couple years and the construction company has disappeared from the face of the earth.

>>12635014
Yes it does get a bit racy, I forgot all that stuff with Roo and his mistress. But overall it felt really watered down.

>>12635176
I know this is way off topic but yeah I agree: if you have the level of knowledge needed to avoid getting ripped off by modern construction contractors you might as well just hire a few guys and build the thing yourself.

catgirls, wolfgirls, foxgirls, bunnygirls, or birdgirls

>>12633909
If your standard is at the level of Chinese webnovels, there's plenty of crap getting put out.

>>12633371
Is the protagonist a dude who can suck his own dick? I assume there's a character who has two dicks.

>>12635250
>bunnygirls
not even a furry but this one, if not foxgirls

>>12635250
Tell me more about birdgirls. Do they have cloaka?

Anyways, I take them all and also antgirls.

>>12635250
All are welcome my friend, except birdgirls.
I associate them too much with filth and disease.

>>12635250
antgirls

>>12635275
I was thinking more of the humanoid with animal traits rather than furry
>>12635282
yes
>>12635288
fair enough

>>12634986
Birdanon here. It is a fantasy world set in a technological equivalent to the early industrial era and spans until the digital era.

>>12635320
>you will never be tenderly manhandled by Petra
Why even live

>>12635250
Wolfmommies

Which of Birdboi anon's races do you want most to be your gf?

Cloaca sticc fascist birdgirls?
Big milky mommy slappy whale queens?
Crazy four armed religious human dominatrix?

>>12635392
Usually, I am quite into fantasy races but these descriptions don't invoke any pleasant images in my mind.

>>12635493
>not wanting to pummel that cloaca

fucknuggets, I took a nap after work and missed my chance to write for the night.

>>12634582
holy shit, actual information?

It's a shame it doesn't sound like we're getting it this year, but the fact that it seems to be happening at all is fantastic.]

>>12635392
what does slappy mean in this context?

>>12635531
I have no idea. Birdboi described them as slappy.

>>12633665
Because a cuckoo wrote the series, any man who isn't a pathetic shitbag is also sworn to evil.

>using anything but royallib.ru to pirate all your books

What does /sffg/ think of The Long Earth?

>>12633298
I really enjoyed the first 5 books of the Malazan series. But I've gotten to the final two and I just can't seem to find the motivation to finish it. Toll the Hounds was such a slog and only got good at the very end, and I'm afraid the next 2400 pages of the final two books will be just as bad.

>read Dune
>get confused

>>12635870
>read Dune Messiah
>get bored

>>12630892
Robert E Howard was a first wave feminist, which was basically considered an SJW for his time.

Any exploration books? Like conquistador stuff but in a fantasy or sifi setting?

>>12635893
>read Chapterhouse Dune
>get boner

>>12634371
yeah, since there's nowhere i can think of audience for finnish fantasy novels written by amateurs

>Lud-in-the-mist
>expect some fusty old dinosaur book
>get Mindfuck: Inside a fucking mindfuck: The Novel
What the absolute fuckeroomi did I just read? This was weirder than Fforde's Shades of Grey for sure.

And then the ending made me fucking cry.

>>12634582
Is that fuck nugget joking, how hard is it to rent a place that gives you that little bit of private space to write if you need it so much to write?
It's the lamest fucking excuse I've ever heard.

>>12633191
is recluse any good?

>>12635799
>reading a terry

>>12636349
writing isn't easy anon, and butcher's been working on more than just peace talks

>>12636349
>just write how hard is it

>>12636322
It's a hidden gem.

are there any fantasy stories where brown prince takes away the princess?

>>12637579
probably.

>One year after the president has plunged the world into nuclear war, a journalist takes refuge in the Twin Cities Metro Containment Zone. On assignment, she documents internet humor at the end of the world, hoping along the way to find the final resting place of her wife and daughter. What she uncovers, hidden amid spiraling memes and twitter jokes in an archive of the internet's remnants, are references to an enigmatic figure known only as Birdcrash, who may hold the key to an uncertain future.

>>12637610
>Birdcrash

It is prophecy.
>Trump wins presidency again
>Birdboi becomes and internet phenomenon
>World War 3 is a thing

>>12637610
>she documents
>her wife and daughter
Red flags are raised. I already expect it to be shit (because it's not scifi or fantasy), but because they listed the protagonist is happily married to her wife and she needs to rescue her. Books that blatantly list that they are pandering are to be avoided.

>>12637610

>>12637818
Pretty sure the wife and daughter are meant to be dead.
>find the final resting place of her wife and daughter.

This can't not be satire. It's not even well-hidden satire but, if the Goodreads reviews are anything to go by, that doesn't matter because TDS sufferers will take it dead seriously anyway. It's got
>lesbians
>journalists
>Gromald Grumff
>memes

No way this is serious, but I'd read it anyway. Why not just dive headfirst into this well of absurdist pop-culture auto-fellatio?

>>12637875
If it was post apocalyptic book with advance technology I might have read. But it's neither fantasy or scifi.

Reminder that Throne of Glass is one of the best modern fantasy series of all time.

>>12637954
It's not fantasy, but it's definitely a fantasy.

https://blog.aboutamazon.com/books-and-authors/video-games-you-can-read
>"I always dreamed about being an author"
>the classic pretentious author shot of the author hunched over his computer typing while speaking aloud
>"I could feel my mana bar slowly draining"
>"I do a genre called LitRPG"
>"I gave up being a doctor for this"

i'm screaming

>>12638009
Kong was a doctor huh?

>>12631788
Its good. The drow arc sucked, but now its good again.

>>12637974
>18 year old slave girl beating royal knights
I know it's fantasy, but come on, I can digest magic and dragons and all that but there has to be limit somewhere

>>12638137
mfw

>>12628581
Hyperion is perhaps the best example of what i love about literature: I felt like i was drowning every time Shrike, or anything else for that matter, was described. When i stopped to visualize conceptually what it was it was just a three meter tall silver dude, and yet on the page he wasn't. Same with everything, really: attempts to specify stuff limited it in ways that wasn't needed and worked without it.

Favorite story was probably diplomat's but that's because i'm a little bitch for all kinds of depictions of love. I don't remember caring all that much about detective's lovestory, was it depicted interestingly?

Give me a series with wholesome sibling relationships.

what are some interesting novels about bizarre aliens, preferably intelligent? i just finished reading blindsight by peter watts and im craving something even a bit similar

bunnyboy > birdboy

im already in bed and have no desire to make the new thread
slave out

>>12635753
I use royallib to read those vintage porn novels,pretty kino desu

>>12636349
The reason Butcher writes Dresden Files it's because it sells,he doesn't give a single fuck about any of the characters

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>>12638802
>>12638802
>>12638802

>>12638263
Anything later by Heinlein.