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Ukerric
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I still remember when he launched the story on RR, then apologized because "I will probably switch from system to cultivation, because."
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I just finished Defiance of the Fall book 16 and went to Royal Road and chapter 1336 makes no sense. Am I missing something here?
DoTF is definitely worse the Primal Hunter and both of them are worse than Path of Ascension. DoTF seems like it will never finish, he has so many plot threads waiting to be followed and he just keeps introducing new ones.
Edit: I guess he's just a terrible writer who did a timeskip into a random fight and it isn't until halfway through the chapter it's made clear that this is indeed the correct place to be
DoTF is definitely worse the Primal Hunter and both of them are worse than Path of Ascension. DoTF seems like it will never finish, he has so many plot threads waiting to be followed and he just keeps introducing new ones.
Edit: I guess he's just a terrible writer who did a timeskip into a random fight and it isn't until halfway through the chapter it's made clear that this is indeed the correct place to be
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On Book 11 of Primal Hunter... The stat whoring is beyond tiresome. I don't need an entire chapter dedicated to stat rambling. Obviously hyperbolic but it seems that way. I do, however, skip maybe 3 minutes to get past the stat reading. It's literally just useless filler. I'm ready to move on and listen to some other series.
The entire series of The Apocalypse Tamer was on sale not long ago and got the whole series for like $3. So, I may try that one after book 11 of PH.
The entire series of The Apocalypse Tamer was on sale not long ago and got the whole series for like $3. So, I may try that one after book 11 of PH.
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I've read that series, but even after reading the descriptions I can't remember a fucking thing about it. The premise sounds familiar but specifics are just gone. So I looked at my ratings on Goodreads and it seems I gave the first three books a 2 star and the final book a 3 star. So in theory I wasn't thrilled with it, but it got better towards the end, and I cared enough to finish it. For whatever that's worth!
Someone remember me in spoilers something that would stand out? Like, I can't even remember who the main character was, or what he tamed, etc. Could be age, could be meh book. whynotboth.jpg
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Jake Thane is his name. Arcane Archer. Doesn't tame anything but does create some unique lifeforms; such as the hawk he helped create and raise...and create I mean ritual circle. He doesn't fuck a hawk.
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Xarpolis
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I have so many books that I've been saving chapters from Royal Road of, that I haven't yet had a chance to read. And I've been saving these books since they first started showing up over there. The ones on my list currently are 1% Lifesteal, He Who Fights with Monsters, Heavy Metal, Iseleve (not on RR), Magic-Smithing, Matabar, Orc Hero Story (not RR, but it's the same writer as Mushoku Tensei), Re:Birth, Shangri-La Frontier (not RR) & finally The Runesmith.
I'll get a chance to read these eventually. But for now, they're becoming endless .wrd files. I save the original chapters, then never worry about the remakes or edits they do when they turn them into a real novel. I always do 10-chapters per .wrd file, so if a story has 800 chapters, it has 80 .wrd files for my kindle.
I have already read all 30 books of Mushoku Tensei. That was a damn good story.
I'm currently into Re:Zero, but I'm reading the 6 back-story books first. Almost done the 2nd book now.
I'll get a chance to read these eventually. But for now, they're becoming endless .wrd files. I save the original chapters, then never worry about the remakes or edits they do when they turn them into a real novel. I always do 10-chapters per .wrd file, so if a story has 800 chapters, it has 80 .wrd files for my kindle.
I have already read all 30 books of Mushoku Tensei. That was a damn good story.
I'm currently into Re:Zero, but I'm reading the 6 back-story books first. Almost done the 2nd book now.
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After plowing through all of DCC, Primal Hunter and Defiance of the Fall in like 6 weeks, it's definitely a breath of fresh air to start He Who Fights with Monsters.
The baggage of a story that includes Earth transitioning into some kind of multiverse was getting old. Having a good old sword and sorcery Isekai story is exactly what I was looking for. It may transition into more later, but for now it's great. The writer is also extremely Australian and the humour is perfectly designed for me. Shouldn't take more more than a week or so to get through the 13 books that are out so far. It's good stuff!
The baggage of a story that includes Earth transitioning into some kind of multiverse was getting old. Having a good old sword and sorcery Isekai story is exactly what I was looking for. It may transition into more later, but for now it's great. The writer is also extremely Australian and the humour is perfectly designed for me. Shouldn't take more more than a week or so to get through the 13 books that are out so far. It's good stuff!
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Ukerric
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Minor general spoiler alert:
I have bad news for you. Earth transitions into multiverse shit during books 4-6.
I dropped after book 7.
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I enjoyed the multiverse earth storyline though, and it concluded well.
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Void
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He Who Fights With Monsters is definitely towards the top of my list, because even though it has a lot of the same pitfalls as every other series that goes on long enough, at least everyone around Jason calls him out on it after a while. And while he is always trying to get stronger, it isn't the obsessive "must get stronger!" that most of the other series push.
This is also one of the few that has secondary characters that actually stay relevant and stick around most of the series, because no matter who the MC is, eventually you get tired of just reading about him. The lack of navel-gazing is always appreciated too. And the humor mostly lands with me, which helps a lot.
This is also one of the few that has secondary characters that actually stay relevant and stick around most of the series, because no matter who the MC is, eventually you get tired of just reading about him. The lack of navel-gazing is always appreciated too. And the humor mostly lands with me, which helps a lot.
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I'm not the Hero - 4 books in and I'm finding it enjoyable enough with 2 caveats. It's like reading a main storyline for a RPG. I know, that's what these types of books are supposed to be, it really is just the main storyline though with almost no side quests and no secondary points of view, kinda irritating. My other complaint requires spoilers, don't read if you don't want to either get irritated or get spoiled. I'd love an answer to the issue though.
The main character gains an ability that allows him to change a persons class. It's one of the main administrative functions, he tries it out on a friend early on. He surprises the guy by changing him from a baker (or whatever) to a healer. It obviously doesn't allow the person to refuse the change, this is made abundantly clear when he repeatedly asks the person if he really wants it. The guy is happy to see the class change has been done afterwards. Ok, this is the issue. I know he is only the administrator for humans, but why doesn't he just change the class of evil powerful humans to level 1 baker. After buying the ability, using it is was cheap, like 1 AP point. I know, he wants to preserve points, but obviously a cheap ability being used like that would save tons of lives and huge amounts of time. Anyhow, rant off I suppose. I'm looking forward to the next book
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I downloaded the first one of this so I remember to check it out.
Currently reading some questionable harem lit stuff, Tamer: King of Dinosaurs. I'm on like book 8 of 11 I think. It was pretty decent, quick reads and fun, and it has dinosaurs and hot women. I'm getting a little turned off now though because in the first 6 or so books, he just suggested that the characters fucked, no real detail. In book 7 he got a little more graphic, and in 8 I'm having to skip entire chapters of fucking. I can go look at porn on my computer any time I want, I don't need in-depth descriptions of it in my books. Particularly when they are all the fucking same, let's be honest. Every dude is amazing and has tremendous stamina and makes the women orgasm 38 times, and he is ready to go like 5 times in a row. Yeah yeah, we get it. I just want to read about him taming some fucking dinosaurs and fighting against other people and dinosaurs.
It reminds me of that Blue Core series someone else mentioned a few months ago. I really liked that one for the ideas and execution, and at least he was polite enough to label chapters as (Explicit) when it was nothing but fucking so I could skip them. I've also read all the Super Sales for Super Heroes and related universe books until I just got sick of the repetitive formula and blue-balling on the real storyline. I mean, I know these are mainly gooner books, but many of them have great ideas if they weren't bogged down by the stupid endlessly repetitive sex descriptions, just with a new female each time. Blue Core was nice because if you skip those chapters it is mostly standard dungeon litrpg.
Are there any more like Blue Core out there? Even if they don't label chapters like he did, I can still skip through the scenes as necessary, but I really enjoyed the actual story. Doesn't have to be based around the mc being a dungeon even I suppose, just good world building and progression and shit. I'm getting sick of these endless litrpg grinds, so even if there is cringey fucking in these at least I feel like they accomplish other shit once in awhile instead of just gaining more levels and powers and spiritual bullshit. In the dinosaur one they are building up defenses, fighting carnivores, fighting other survivors, etc. Sure, he's getting more abilities and levels, but not like Defiance of the Fall or Path of Ascension or clone_001. He's taming bigger and better dinosaurs mostly.
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I just finished the released audio books of Chrysalis Series by RinoZ , can recommend it!
am going back to The Path of Ascension Series by C. Mantis which I put down at book 9 and enjoying it so far.
am going back to The Path of Ascension Series by C. Mantis which I put down at book 9 and enjoying it so far.
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Some new stuff I've liked over the last few months :
Die Trying - this is a weird mix of urban fantasy, survival game, isekai and rogue-lite litrpg - I found it to be heaps of fun. Gods from a different, failing, planet/plane are fleeing the sinking ship to get to Earth and picking champions to compete in a death game competition. The competition runs on 'rounds' where the contestants return to Earth between the rounds. Each round has a randomly assigned power for each champion, along with whatever else they've managed to get points to pay for from the prior round. It's an interesting way of avoiding the infinite scaling trap while also enforcing a bit of narrative discipline where the MC doesn't have a list of 5,000 random skills that would solve all their problems if they ever remembered they had them.
It's got a pretty heavy comedic lean, but more the absurdist kind rather than outright jokes. The main character gets the signup bonus of being able to take stuff into and out of the game, assuming he lives through a round, which leads to some pretty hilarious results with out of context things on Earth. The MC's real strength lies in a different direction though - the system enforcing the litrpg mechanics on the game is kind of a hack job* and the MC works hard on being the most insufferable kind of abusive rules lawyer you ever encounter in a tabletop rpg.
* Does it make any kind of sense that something with 1000hp can take 1000hp of damage to its big toe and then die because it's at zero hp ? No. Does the system care ? Also no ;p
The 108 - I'm recommending this one much earlier than I usually would, but the author has a proven track record of finishing series in satisfying ways, and really, the opening few chapters were real bangers.
It's a time loop story, although unlike any other I can think of - in a coincidental alignment with the other recommendation, this is also a games of gods, where the god of Time has decided that some random guy is going to win, no matter how unqualified he is to start with, and the loop is the mechanism. What really sets it apart though is the setting - it's like litrpg meets xiaxia space opera - the tournament is on a heavily populated orbital megastructure in the ass-end of the universe. It's eldritch sci-fi horror, kind of reminiscent of 40K.
Cultivation System: Elder Edition - weird premise on this one - it's one litrpg man VS the cultivation universe, but more of a 'if you can't beat them, join them' front, where the system grants rewards for teaching disciples and for the achivements they make. Needless to say, the MC soon ends up with the most absurd band of underaged fabled heroes, reincarnated immortals and demonic inheritors, leaving a trail of destruction everywhere they go. What makes this more enjoyable, to me anyway, is the MC really has no idea what's he doing, but really grows to care for the pack of misfit kids that he ends up looking after. It's very tongue in cheek, with various ongoing gags like which fictional family member the MC just happened to inherit the perfect art for a given person in a given situation from.
No great literature, but makes me smile and is occasionally heart warming - reminds me of Chrysalis a bit.
Die Trying - this is a weird mix of urban fantasy, survival game, isekai and rogue-lite litrpg - I found it to be heaps of fun. Gods from a different, failing, planet/plane are fleeing the sinking ship to get to Earth and picking champions to compete in a death game competition. The competition runs on 'rounds' where the contestants return to Earth between the rounds. Each round has a randomly assigned power for each champion, along with whatever else they've managed to get points to pay for from the prior round. It's an interesting way of avoiding the infinite scaling trap while also enforcing a bit of narrative discipline where the MC doesn't have a list of 5,000 random skills that would solve all their problems if they ever remembered they had them.
It's got a pretty heavy comedic lean, but more the absurdist kind rather than outright jokes. The main character gets the signup bonus of being able to take stuff into and out of the game, assuming he lives through a round, which leads to some pretty hilarious results with out of context things on Earth. The MC's real strength lies in a different direction though - the system enforcing the litrpg mechanics on the game is kind of a hack job* and the MC works hard on being the most insufferable kind of abusive rules lawyer you ever encounter in a tabletop rpg.
* Does it make any kind of sense that something with 1000hp can take 1000hp of damage to its big toe and then die because it's at zero hp ? No. Does the system care ? Also no ;p
The 108 - I'm recommending this one much earlier than I usually would, but the author has a proven track record of finishing series in satisfying ways, and really, the opening few chapters were real bangers.
It's a time loop story, although unlike any other I can think of - in a coincidental alignment with the other recommendation, this is also a games of gods, where the god of Time has decided that some random guy is going to win, no matter how unqualified he is to start with, and the loop is the mechanism. What really sets it apart though is the setting - it's like litrpg meets xiaxia space opera - the tournament is on a heavily populated orbital megastructure in the ass-end of the universe. It's eldritch sci-fi horror, kind of reminiscent of 40K.
Cultivation System: Elder Edition - weird premise on this one - it's one litrpg man VS the cultivation universe, but more of a 'if you can't beat them, join them' front, where the system grants rewards for teaching disciples and for the achivements they make. Needless to say, the MC soon ends up with the most absurd band of underaged fabled heroes, reincarnated immortals and demonic inheritors, leaving a trail of destruction everywhere they go. What makes this more enjoyable, to me anyway, is the MC really has no idea what's he doing, but really grows to care for the pack of misfit kids that he ends up looking after. It's very tongue in cheek, with various ongoing gags like which fictional family member the MC just happened to inherit the perfect art for a given person in a given situation from.
No great literature, but makes me smile and is occasionally heart warming - reminds me of Chrysalis a bit.
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