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[quote=Tizzy;6770]Oooh, Kindleverse!! A subset of the multiverse that only exists in the deepest regions of the Amazon![/quote]
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The place is here, the time is now, and the journey into the ten-page $14 scam ebooks we are about to watch could be our journey.
[quote=Tizzy;6659]I think that would logically work in the Fantasy forum, there is a topic on recommendations there, another topic on what makes a good fantasy novel would work.
Of course, I really don’t know what you mean by a “a good fantasy book”
As I see it, you need to take worlds as you find them, and then write the non-fiction narratives of the events in that world as you observe them.
You sort of have to describe it as it is, the author can be at fault for not being able to suitably describe the events that happened, but you can hardly blame an author for the laws of physics, or lack there of, in a particular localverse or the events themselves nor their lameness.
Now true, the author might misrepresent them, but ultimately authors are just describing what they find in those worlds.
That’s what T-A-G is doing. His faults are all about narrative structure, omissions of facts (now that’s a serious issue for T-A-G, he is often misrepresenting my actions) etc.[/quote]
Speaking of which. Was Tolkien approached by someone who witnessed the events of Middle Earth? Or was he someone who could perform astral projection and he interviewed them, transcribing the tales the way that I do with my astramastery?
Interesting. By the way, you wouldn’t happen to know what the 21st animagic discipline is, Tizzy? I’m a novice animage, and whenever I bring it up with my teacher, he goes on a rant about how it doesn’t exist. Think you could help me out? I’d owe you.
Does not exist!
Nope, not at all.
However, if it did exist, there are some “beings” in the Antilles Cluster localverse that have been known to practice it, so it could show up in OOA.
Antilles? Right!…Abyss, I’m going to have to wait for TAG to release that. I don’t have any contacts there, and astral projection across the multiverse without an anchor is the definition of stupidity.
Yes, but if one is self-contained and pressurized, like a demon for example, such jumping can be a fun adventure, never know where you are going to show up. Although appearing in deep space can be navigationally challenging, trying to figure out where to head to, much worse than being lost at sea.
Aagh, I haven’t even finished #2 yet. I bought it the moment it was released and haven’t gotten to it…
I am most annoyed at M. Krout, his fictionizing fecundity makes me feel very inadequate.
For those of you who like The Divine Dungeon series by Dakota Krout, book 3 is available for pre-order on Amazon – due out 15th Novemeber.
[url=https://www.amazon.com/Dungeon-Calamity-Divine-Book-ebook/dp/B076PL4P1G/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1509265106&sr=8-4&keywords=dakota+krout]Dungeon Calamity (The Divine Dungeon Book 3)[/url]
You know, I read the first two Laboratory Dungeon books, but it just didn’t hook me past that. Not sure why. The premise was interesting, I guess I just didn’t care for where they took it.
Delvers is interesting.
Scottie Futch has some interesting LitRPG stuff. Like [url=https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Tactics-Advance-Scottie-Futch-ebook/dp/B0716G935L/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8]Earth Tactics Advance[/url]. Basically what would happen if the Earth had an apocalypse that changed it into a Turn-Based tactical RPG. I think that was just a “can I make this happen” kind of story.
I’m having issues seeing how The Nascent series by tony corden got the overwhelmingly positive views it has. The books are a compendium of ridiculously over the top Mary Sue back patting nonsense bonanza, and the amount of Contrived situations borders, and then jumps the border like a Vin Diesel mexican drug cartel drug running movie, into complete insanity, and oh my god the loot lists. The loot screens were the worst.
For the first two books, the main character is so perfect that she’s definitely a Mary Sue. She gets everything she wants almost immediately. She becomes insanely rich, super powerful in her chosen virtual reality game, and is able to tactically and psychologically assess any situation out of nowhere. She instantly, in her first fight, learns how to use the game mechanics to her advantage but somehow literally no one else has ever done this same thing even with years spent in game. Throughout this series, the main character constantly knows what to say or do to resolve a situation easily. It doesn’t matter if she has to literally change her entire character, she just suddenly does it. She constantly out-thinks experienced tacticians and fighters, schools people in everything they should already know, and wins fights that she shouldn’t be able to win, no matter how tactically-minded she is. The main character also gets everything she wants on her own schedule, rather than anything else. Case in point: the MC attends a college and she gets to take her classes on her schedule. Sure, the classes are run by advanced artificial intelligence programs, but that doesn’t mean anything worthwhile. the humans running the college classes would get to decide the schedule and she’d have to work around that if this was real life, even with AI running them. But in this universe she does whatever she wants whenever she wants, no matter what.
i could go on, but i wont. But i could.
[url=https://www.amazon.com/Laboratory-Futuristic-Dungeon-Core-ebook/dp/B075FGN21G/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1530336117&sr=1-1&keywords=the+laboratory]The Laboratory: A Futuristic Dungeon Core by Skyler Grant[/url]
[url=https://www.amazon.com/Nascent-Stork-Tower-Book-1-ebook/dp/B076MQP782/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1530335905&sr=1-2&keywords=stork+tower]Nascent by Tony Corden[/url]
[url=https://www.amazon.com/Delvers-LLC-Welcome-Blaise-Corvin-ebook/dp/B01M0U4B3S/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1530336880&sr=1-1&keywords=Delvers+llc]Delvers LLC: Welcome to Ludus by Blaise Corvin[/url]
[url=https://www.amazon.com/Trapped-Mind-Project-Emerilia-Book-ebook/dp/B01MZD5RQX/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1530337116&sr=1-4&keywords=emerilla]The Trapped Mind Project by Michael Chatfield[/url]
+1 for the Trapped Mind Project by Michael Chatfield – it actually took me months to decide to read the first book, I didn’t like the Blurb description for the book and series and kept putting it off…eventually decided to read it – and then promptly read the next 10 books in the series….
Becoming the Orc Chieftain (First Orcish Era Book 1) by E.M. Hardy – Just read and found it interesting enough to read in 1 sitting, will look at the second book when it’s released. Not a traditional LitRPG, but interesting.
New Era Online by Shemer Kuznits – just read the first book (Life Reset), and about to start on the second (Life Reset: EvP).
Ok, I’ve been on a Light Novel kick lately, and I usually enjoy the more non-traditional isekai stories. I’m just going to throw this out there.
[url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0763LLK22/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1]Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon[/url] by Hirukuma. It’s…so over the top absurd in most respects. But it’s a well written story, and the characters are so likable it’s hard to not read and laugh.
[quote=Gelcube;7526]Hirukuma[/quote]
How can you stand the protagonists in JP web novels? It’s like none of the JP authors has ever seen or heard of self confidence or independence in any of their forms.
After having gone through hundreds of CN/JP/PH web novels, this is the handful that’s any good for an adult reader, and reliably updated:
“Spare me, great Lord!”: https://www.webnovel.com/book/9067107706001305
“Reverend insanity”: https://www.webnovel.com/book/7996858406002505
“White-robed chief”: https://www.webnovel.com/book/9319692306001905
“The path towards heaven”: https://www.webnovel.com/book/8799158806001005
“The daily life of the immortal king”: https://www.webnovel.com/book/9320715905002805
“Emperor’s domination”: https://www.novelupdates.com/series/emperors-domination/
“History’s strongest senior brother”: https://www.novelupdates.com/series/historys-strongest-senior-brother/
[quote=Gelcube;7528]Sometimes I can’t, but my reading goes through phases, and right now I’m into light stories that make me laugh. A story who’s main character gets reincarnated as a vending machine? That gets a laugh. 🙂
[/quote]A vending machine?
OK, that’s it. If I hear one more bitchy demon newbie whining about being enslaved as a demon, I’m going to slap them silly! They could have ended up as a vending machine! Surely being a demon is better than being a vending machine?
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