I can keep a tally of users and total books they've read, just drop in here and say what you read and what you thought about it, should be a fun discussion I think. Oh, and I guess let me know how many systems you own or something. Maybe you'll win a prize! Probably not. Read books because it's the Chad thing to do on a website about trading videogames.
i just added it to my wishlist. sounds pretty interesting. LitRPGs are hit or miss for me. They can be done really well though, and like you said, it has crazy good reviews
others that i really like are: -The Gam3 (3 books, and i'm not sure if he'll ever finish the series) -Ben's Damn Adventure
I just finished Hilarity Ensues by Tucker Max. My friends and I found these stories hilarious when we were teenagers in college and he was still updating his webpage. This is his 3rd book so it's more of the same drunken debauchery. While some of situations are still humorous it is crazy to read these stories from a different perspective 15+ years older.
I give Tucker Max credit for monetizing his lifestyle and essentially creating a new genre of writing. There is no doubt he knows how to tell a compelling story. However, so much of it comes off as a desperate douche trying to justify being a rude and selfish person. It's hard not to imagine a lot of the stories are embellished and that the actual situation was actually just an unpleasant ride for everyone involved (including Tucker most of the time).
>> finished up Skyward by Brandon Sanderson. already have the next two books in the
>> series so i'll be starting the next one this afternoon
>>
>> also, about half an hour left in the latest book i'm listening to with my wife,
> so
>> the next time we take a trip we'll be finishing that one too
> Have you read other books by him? I've read several and was wondering how Skyward
> compares.
Only a handful so far. Elantris and The Reckoners Series (4 so far). Stormlight Archive and Mistborn are also on my list. Same feel of the Reckoners books (kid with a grudge learns that they know nothing from competent adults) with good world building and character development. Going through this book and the first couple chapters of the second book so far, I'm definitely interested in where things are going and looking forward to going through it all.
Finished up Starsight by Brandon Sanderson, book two in the Skyward series. Seems to me like all of the books in this series are going to have a completely different feel to them, while making the world bigger and bigger. definitely recommend
I think next, I'm actually gonna tackle all the Berserk Hardcover volumes I got and maybe read something else since I'm not bringing Berserk into work with me on the days I have to go in.
There was a library on the ship I was on, so I read Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide, which was quite good. (It's like Hogwarts for murder training.) Here's the super weird part: when I looked up the author to see if he'd written anything else, I discovered that he wrote one of the worst songs ever: Escape (The Pina Colada Song).
Sorry. I could have described that better. No magic. Everything that happens is technically possible. I just meant that the school is like Hogwarts in the sense that it's a secret, exclusive school that only certain people are allowed to know about that is expensive and fancy. Without giving too much away, the book is basically a guide for people who can't attend the school but tells the story of three people who attended as examples of what to do and what not to do. There's a twist ending as well that's logical within the world the book creates but still took me a bit by surprise. I would recommend it if you like dystopian fiction.
nonamesleft wrote:
> Bleed_DukeBlue wrote:
>> There was a library on the ship I was on, so I read Murder Your Employer: The
> McMasters
>> Guide to Homicide, which was quite good. (It's like Hogwarts for murder training.)
>> Here's the super weird part: when I looked up the author to see if he'd written
>> anything else, I discovered that he wrote one of the worst songs ever: Escape
> (The
>> Pina Colada Song).
> Haven't heard of it. In what way is it like Hogwarts? There's magic?
I read six pages and I'm like PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. I WANT TO DO ANYTHING ELSE
It's rare that a book actually hooks me. Last book was Win, this one has a lot of names to remember. It's nauseating trying to keep them separate, plus I know some of the lore and there's Horus and there's Little Horus but are they the same person or two different people, it's hard to say because these are ALL THE OFFSPRING OF THE EMPEROR SO IT'S LIKE... IT GETS CONFUSING. Especially if you're like, 80% present while reading it. I'm fudgeed that if I do decide to continue on with the series, it just fudging goes on forever and ever.
so the premise of this book is silly, but the actual book is just awful.
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six.
When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate.
But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline.
As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found.
I thought it would be a silly and cool premise kinda like The Library at Mount Char but no. The blurb is more interesting than the content.
The main character, Katrina is trans. M - F. Identifies as female. Okay, fine. Parents hate her for being trans, beat, her etc. Wears makeup to cover the beatings. One of the other characters, Satomi sees her as a girl. Every time Satomi refers to Katrina as being a she, Katrina's only response is "BUT I'M TRANS" as if this lone statement is a personality trait. Satomi is recognizing you as a girl, yet "BUT I'M TRANS" seems to be the only thing Katrina can ever say if anyone calls her a girl. I'd like to find out how many times this phrase is used, but I don't want to bother finding an ebook and searching. I really hope all trans people aren't this annoying and think being trans alone is a personality trait.
But I guess the worst part of the book is the paragraph breaks. There could be two sentences with one character, then a clear break and it goes to another. The longest, if that writing prompt of one POV is maybe 2 pages. It's awful. I have no idea how this has such high ratings, I was gonna power-hate my way through it but at page 208 I had to stop. It's awful. There's this other weird alien storyline going on as well that's really fudging dumb.
just finished up The Secrets of Master Brewers by Jeff Alworth and Stan Hieronymus. always fun to read more about how different bears are made around the world. just needed a bit of a palate cleanser before i jumped into the next huge series.
going to be another 16 book series like I did last year where each book will take an average of like 3.5 hours. its actually a continuation/offshoot of that series following a couple of the characters that broke off from the main group at the very end. it was a fun world with a weird relationship between magic and technology, and it'll be fun to read more into it
