What are you reading, /tg/?

>>51111038
Textbooks

University life yay

>>51111038
Your post

>>51111038
The Man in the Maze
>>51111171
And a couple of those

>>51111038
Wool by Hugh Howey.

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>>51111038
Just finished Swift's A Modest Proposal. Eating babies. I didn't think this would be funny outside of edgy teenage years.

Looking forward to Karamazov. Seems like a philosophical romp set in Russia; I can see myself having fun making a Fyodor character. Gotta love Project Gutenberg.

Don't stop, be reading. Hold onto that feeling; keep that sense of wonder.

>>51111038
Running: A Global History, by Thor Gotaas.
I have been reading this for two years now. It's heavy going, and is a wonderful sleep aid.

I'm also digging through the Discworld series, in order, on Kindle, buying them as I go. I am up to Guards Guards, but haven't embarked on it yet. Mostly because it's winter, and I'll pass out if I spend too long lying down reading, and it isn't pleasant being woken up by the Kindle bouncing off my ribs as I drop it.

And I'm chewing through the 4e Shadowrun books on rotation until I understand the system.

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Working on Nine Princes in Amber right now. Recently finished pic related. Basically a zombie apocalypse with a space elevator creating a safe-zone aura where humans can live, provided by aliens. Decent book. I wonder as to its potential for an RPG setting.

>>51111038
The Best and the Brightest- David Halberstam

>>51111038
In an unusual move of reading CS-related literature outside of school, The Pragmatic Programer. Pretty useful so far.
On the fiction side of things I got nothing for now, although /swg/ has made me start looking into trying some old Legends books.

>>51111038
Shitty fan fictions mostly. I know they are terrible, but for some reason I love reading them.

>>51111038

I think I have one of these for Nietzsche (well, more than a few) although it's mostly exam stuff for taking cert test

>>51111038
Wheel of Time: Crown of Swords
send help, please

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His 30 years war book was also really good.

>>51111400
Be aware: conventional /lit/ wisdom is that you should read other Dosties before TBK, as that's apparently a grand summation of his themes.

>>51111038
I'm working my way through the 11,147 pages of Malazan.

Plato was pretty ripped.

>>51111038
Discworld.

>>51112659
>Plato was pretty ripped.
Well it does translate to "Broad Shouldered", and was actually his nickname he got from being a wrestler.

Heck, he styled the Academia after the gymnasiums created by the Olympian Academos, since the whole point of them was to train and exercise the mind as one would the body.

Plato had NO dumpstats

>>51112730

Which kind of pisses me off that people are so dismissive of Monks because aside from the obvious Asian influence you could totally be a Plato-esque Greco-Roman wrestler pugilst dude who's also a philosopher.

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Got a ton of good shit for Christmas. Right now I'm reading the Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, next up is going to be either Neuromancer or the TT's Guide to Medieval England, and after that I'll get to Lord Foul's Bane

>>51112730
Socrates had CHA as a dumpstat, though
Everyone who wrote about him agree that he was ugly (and yet, genius enough to make everyone admire him or hate him)

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A bunch of Christian Cameron novels.

>>51112573
The series end payoff is worth it.

>>51112822
But if Plato had decided to go adventuring, he would've used a spear and shield, as Greco-Roman wrestling is pretty useless against multiple and non-human opponents.

Working my way through The Black Company and Malazan Book of the Fallen.

The Black Company's writing is pretty bad. Malazan's isn't much better.

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The Social Conquest of Earth by E. O. Wilson. Only just started, but it's looking to be a fascinating read.

>>51112990

Well he also didn't have special innate power that allows you to punch spirits and suplex dragons so yes he would be using a spear and shield.

I suppose he could also be a Fighter but I also like my intellectual dudes to be ripped and punch philistine bitches in the face with education.

Just about a hunnit pages into Return of the King. For some reason I've avoided it for a long while. And after a string a shit tier reading its been great.

>>51111038
Slowly moving through The Dying Earth. Vance is pretty amazing.

>>51113017
TBC's writing is pretty dry but it makes sense for it to be like that. I feel it's a good fit, unlike say in his Garrett books.

/lit/ here, I'm an english professor, ask me for a recommendation

>>51112904
No, Socrates had a super high charisma and happened to be ugly, which is not factored in to charisma but you could maybe pretend is counted by a flaw that penalizes skills

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>>51113160
NO!

>>51113157
>TBC's writing is pretty dry but it makes sense for it to be like that. I feel it's a good fit, unlike say in his Garrett books.
Honestly it almost felt a parody of itself occasionally.

>>51113160
Okay what would you recommend me?

>>51111038
I read nothing but nonfiction last year. So I'm about to start Infinite Jest.

>>51113285
Dead Souls by Gogol

>>51111038
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This post.

>>51113285
What do you like?

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My whole life I just assumed Jamaica was a happy place. Goddamn.

>>51113280
Yeah, I guess. Read them a long time ago, but remember laughing at the way he resolved huge battles sometimes. "...And then we took the keep", boom, done. Something like that.

>>51111111

>>51111038
Got a load of books for christmas, but currently reading Metro 2033. It was in my reading list for a few years since the game came out and I managed to get it for free as part of a promo for a convention. It wasn't until a while later I realised it was signed by the author. Pretty delighted about that.

>>51113344
Because of what, reggae? I'm not usually bringing this up but stuff like gay killings have been pretty well covered.

>>51113542
Probably because dude weed lmao.

Re-reading the Tao te Ching and Art of War for a character heavily inspired by Kill Six Billion Demons.

>>51112617
Started reading that one (Europe's Tragedy - a history of the thirty years war) just a while ago. It starts with trying to explain the situation that lead to the war(s) exhaustively which is kinda nice, but his writing style is very dry and that makes it feel meandering. I guess I'll keep with it though.

>>51113542
Yeah, pretty much because Bob Marley was from there and he seemed cheerful. I'm very ignorant about Jamaican history, it's been a shock to realise a lot if it's comprised of hell and nightmares.

>>51111200
This post.

A gay thread

>>51113781
>>>/y/

>>51111952

How are you liking Amber? I read the first two books and lost interest.

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Just finished this.

This shit /tg/ recommends can sometimes take a terrible turn.

>>51113649
I really liked his dry writing style.
I'm legit on the autism spectrum though, so that may have had something to do with it.

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>>51113908
Next on the list is this.

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Besides textbooks, Captain's Fury by Jim Butcher. I think I might switch it up with something else before reading the fifth book in the series because I'm getting a bit fatigued of it.

Salvatore's The Night of the Hunter.

>>51113908
I think I read that a few years ago. Is that the one that's basically a very vulgar version of the Aeneid?

>>51111952
>>51113890
Not the first dude but Amber was my favourite series when I was but a wee lad. Infinite multiverse and sword fights and pithy comebacks. I wish I could find a group to play the TTRPG.

I also loved Lord Demon by Zelazny. Dragons, waifus and pocket-dimensions!

Three things:

>Beautifully illustrated copy of Don Quixote from the 50s
>God Emperor of Dune
>a textbook on Italian futurism I got from the Guggenheim.

>>51112638
TBK is the last novel you'll ever need to read. All other fiction is crap compared to it.

>>51113303
Read that already. As well as a lot of other Russian stuff.

>>51113339
I like a lot of different stuff, though I don't read a lot of fantasy or sci-fi. Recently I read Donna Tart's books and liked them a lot.

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I'm writing a research paper on the causes of the Spanish-American War, so I'm reading this. Basically it gives an account of the production, service, and destruction of the USS Maine.

>tfw writing novel
>tfw thing its shit
>tfw can't go on

The more I write the more I hate myself! This isn't even my first novel. I fucking buried the others.

>>51111038
The new book in Jamie McFarlane's Privateer series. Which occasionally annoys me enough to write Jamie an email about how he got a detail wrong. To which he typically politely replies "thanks, and what else can I do to make it better?"

A week back I finished reading a friend's most recent draft of a novel he's writing.

It was awful.
At least he took my criticism well, and is self aware enough to know it's awful.

>>51115540
I thought I was bad at writing, but when I started doing peer reviews for other papers I realized I was not as bad as I thought I was.

>>51111038
I started reading a sort of fantasy novel titled Freja. It's pretty interesting so far. Apparently the writer is a veteran war reporter.

Anyway, it's set in bronze age Scandinavia and can be described as Norse mythology turned into some kind of fictional proto-history in which the gods are all just humans whose names and lives would turn into the basis for the pagan myths.

I don't know if it can really be called fantasy, though. There's no clear line between the superstition and the supernatural. They have rituals where they dance around the burning carcasses of dead animals to fertilize the soil, they read portents from dreams and bones, and they stay inside during nighttime because they think the darkness has the power to drive people mad. The characters all believe this stuff and the writing really gets across that they all see the proof of magic and gods everywhere they look.

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This. Again. Like the fifth time.

>>51115465
Absolutely loathing the shit you write is an essential part of being an amateur writer, what is important is to keep writing and going back to edit what you have wrote until you hate it just a bit less.
Once you wrote and suffered enough you will find to hate what you spawn less and less.

The most important part is to not give up in the first place and keep writing through the pain.
Hang in there Anon.

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>>51111038

The Fionavar Tapestry, Whit and Horus Rising, at the same time. I need to organize my reading

>>51111038
Consider Phlebas

>>51115173
Damn. Now I can feel my copy glaring at me from its place on the bookshelf.

>>51115650
I've been feeling the same way about my copy of The Hero with a Thousand Faces for a long time now. I know I should be reading it, I have the time to read it, but I still never get around to reading it.

This thread is far more /lit/ than I was expecting.

Basics of C#.

>>51114175
Bingo.

Truly a masterpiece reworking of an ancient classic for a modern era.

Some day I genuinely do hope a film is made out of it.

>>51111038
La Horde du Contrevent - Damasio

/tg/ would drool over it, it has everything you like and more

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We interrupt the thread to WITNESS:

>>51111111
WITNESSED!

>>51111038
Alternating between the Overlord novels, the Pokemon Sun & Moon strat guide, and Anima: Beyond Fantasy's various Exxets.

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>>51111038
Kill me.

>>51115624
How is the Fionovar Tapestry? I liked Tigana and Lions of Al-Rassan.

>>51116351
Just started it. It's good. That's all I have to say about it so far.

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>>51111038
Stormbringer

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I'm reading a book about a person of note with whom I happen to share a name. It's a pretty neat life this fellow lived.

>>51115465
Sucking at something is the inevitable first step to becoming sorta good at something. Paraphrasing a cartoon dog here but it's no less true.

Lustrum by Robert Harris. Sequel to the excellent Imperium. Both of which are fictional biographies of Cicero done in an incredibly engaging and accurate style.

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>>51111038

I do audiobooks for a living.

...thank christ War of the Worlds is over and done with. That thing took fucking forever, and I swear you spend the entire book following the wrong brother about.

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Guys
seriously
read this series

>>51112928
The start of Killer of Men really took me by surprise. It was about the only time in my life I've experienced the feel of not growing up with a life of smithing, hunting, reading, writing, running around mountains naked and fucking.

Trash LNs and a book on interwar range-finding techniques. Thanks /hwg/!

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A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

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>>51111038
Tacitus, the Annals. I'm not even kidding.

Fucking Germanicus was such a boss.

>>51113188
He literally annoyed people so much that they sentenced him to be executed. Socrates is the epitome of high Int, low Cha.

>>51111038

>Penguin classics

I recently finished the epic of gilgamesh, I received it as a gift for christmas. Is there anything similar something with heroes or legends of old cultures?

>>51111171
This. 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000% this.

>>51111038
"The Golden Bough" and "Revolt Against the Modern World."

Though neither were written for the purpose, they're pretty much the manual for worldbuilding internally consistent fantasy societies.

>>51120523
What specifically are you looking for, in terms of story structure or tropes?

The icelandic sagas, Beowulf, the Vedic stories, and the Illiad are all good places to start.

The last thing I read was the Naked Lunch. Before that? Utilitarianism by JS Mill.

Someone recommend me something. Anything will work, just make it wacky and vaguely pretentious.

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Having difficulty keeping on top of the current canon.

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Readings for university, of course. fffffffffuck history courses sometimes; too much goddamn reading, not enough discussion, even in upper year seminars

Also pic related. Rankin is one of my favourite mystery authors

>>51113344
Jamaica is fucking brutal in some parts, especially in the Kingston slums. Poverty will do that to you.

>>51113160
rec me some speculative fiction, fagoo.

Re-reading Marcus Aurelius because it has helped me through hard times in the past. I've read it like 4 times now, so does anyone have recommendations for similar relatively down to earth philosophical works?

>>51120819
Jesus dies.

>>51111038
Just finished The Fifth Elephant (Discworld), working on 100 Years of Solitude.

>>51115570
all it took was exposure at university for me to be cured of any notion that I was somehow a bad writer. some people REALLY can't write.

>>51121007

>It has helped me through hard times

Is it that good? What is it like?

>>51120671

Ah yes thats perfect thank you

Yeah basically anything with legends or mythologie

>>51116739
Was he involved with the Ottoman Empire's campaigns in WW1? Thats how a fair few Arab and near-eastern political figures got their start

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>>51111038

The second book of the Lost Fleet.

Raymond Chandler

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I have many, many American folklore books that I'm powering through.

>>51116351
Early Guy Gavriel Kay is substantially different from later Guy Gavriel Kay. Fiovar Tapestry is very much from a period where his work was more overtly fantasy and influenced by mythology than his later books, which are more overtly historical.

Song for Arbonne feels like a bridge between Fionvar and his later stuff. So if you liked Song for Arbonne, you should like the Fionvar Tapestry.

>>51116884
Good stuff. I really liked the Cicero trilogy.

>>51113344
This is an excellent book, I'm looking forward to Marlon James' step into the fantasy genre.

>>51111038

Angels of Caliban.

... fuck you guys, I like Black Library stuff :P

>>51121007
Consider reading some of Cicero's work, particularly his letters to Atticus.

>>51115622
Maybe the black guy meant that he's reading Plato not because he wasn't intellectual, but because he didn't think he was or didn't consider himself one - you're reading because you are humble enough to learn from others. Then it'd have been a compliment.
I know if I'd met someone who responded to that question with "Yes" I'd think they were a pretentious prick.

>>51116990
How can I do that? I've always wanted to, and I get complimented on my voice 5 days out of the week (I work reception)

>>51121051
I've read the first little portion of it (not a chapter surely, it was a diary). This was a guy who wrote in his diary about all the things he was thankful for. Becoming the Roman Emperor didn't make the list, IIRC

>>51118233
Do you have any idea to where to download this from, it sounds Tight as.

>>51122971
Literally any used book store ought to have it for under a fiver.

Seriously nerds, off to the book store with you.

The Count of Monte Cristo. Gotta respect the classics.

>>51121066
Yes, and it's quite a tale. He was a cavalry officer, and at one point pulled a then-relatively-unknown Mustafa Kemal out of the fire. He drifts all around the history which makes up the current political climate of the Levant, and at one point ended up as a Colonel in the Wehrmacht. It's fascinating.

>>51111038
Dreadnought by Robert K Massie.

It's pretty good.

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>>51124145
Pic related is the same dust jacket ad the copy I own.

In any case, the book covers Anglo-Germanic relations between 1870 and 1914, as well as the naval arms race between the two nations.

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>>51111038
Biggest piece of shit I've read so far.

>>51121749

I do it through ACX. But there's a lot of hoops to jump through, first you have to publish a book through KDP and then claim it on ACX as your own, then you can do an Audiobook of it.

Mostly I've been rolling through public domain works, having someone do illustrations for it and then attaching the audiobook to that.

Honestly, do not quit you're day job. It brings in maybe 10 or so dollars a month if I'm lucky. I had a good couple of months recently where people started buying my rendition of a Christmas Carol in the runup to Christmas, but that was really anomalous, and even then I only earnt about 90 dollars.

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If I didn't know better, I'd swear Cervantes played D&D.

>>51111038
The Tale of Genji. Not a weaboo, just interested on universal literature (I got the recomendation from a weaboo girl tho).

Also, like 6 of >>51111171 but that doesn't count.

>>51112822
Plato was ripped because he fought in the war, with actual weapons. Wrestling was a sport game (albeit pretty violent).

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>>51111038
Just finished this and Nam by Mark Baker. Both different but very similar books at the same time.

TWD is a graphical novel, while nam is a serie of anonymous accounts about Vietnam.

And both show how fucked up and misunderstood veterans are whrn they come back from traumatising experiences. It's sad that the general struggle is exactly the same when going back to civil life, 40 years later.

>>51113908
If you got past that title name you're the only one to blame.

>>51111038
>HMB while I empty this chalice

>>51115570
>>51121043
>see there's a lot of people who is worst than me
>still think I'm a shit writer

I can't help it, I'm just a self-hater faggot.

>>51111038
M:TG's uncharted realms.
Yeah, I know...

It took me a fucking year to finish Dune because university takes all my time. I didn't want to commit to a real book after that. Next on my list is Neuromancer, though. When I find the time.

>>51117088
Is it about Muhammad (pbuh)

>>51111038
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, after which I'm gonna read Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Ambition

>>51120039
He annoyed people with his high Cha. They killed him for "corrupting" the youth, you can't corrupt anyone if nobody likes you. People mad at the fact that they like you when they should not can be very dangerous.

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>>51117088
I regret nothing.

>>51124732
You're probably not understanding the book then.

>>51124094
cool

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Rereading the Genevieve omnibus. Those stories aren't just set in the old WH setting but they were written during the late eighties, early nineties so some of it is pretty daft and in blatant contradiction to later fluff.
They're still nice stories set far away from the wars and battlefields BL usually focuses on. There is a lot more of daily life and regular society in the Empire in Genevieve than in the fiction GW published later on.

World of Warcraft: Illidan by William King
Walker of Worlds (Chronicles of the King's Tramp, Book 1) by Tom de Haven
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

>But Anon, how can you read three books at once?
Well, I live in two different places and don't bring my books with me
And Walker of Worlds is in standby since this summer

>>51126402
Meh, Drakenfells was excellent, the second half of the omnibus drags awfully.

Basically all of the theater stuff is great.

>>51121669
Well that would depend, what if the person is genuinely an intellectual? Especially in regards to philosophy.
To answer no would be dishonest, a mark on your character, to lie to make yourself seem more humble, is still an act of lying.

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>>51112617

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>>51111038
its kicking my ass right now but im really enjoying it

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>>51120590
>"The Golden Bough"

"EVERYTING HAS ACTUALLY BEEN THE SAME SHIT ALL ALONG."

You can quit reading now. That's all the book says.

Alternatively just read TVTropes. It's basically the same text for a modern audience in a non-paper format.

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>>51111038
i'm on my second year in history studies i read a lot,on the picture it's only my personnal book for the semester dont counting the library, but when i've some time i read some HH stories like this one.

>>51122971
do you even internet, bro?

https://archive.org/details/annalsoftacitus00taci

But if this doesn't meet your needs, a google search will solve it.

>>51125018
I'd argue you're the one who missed Cervantes' point, because whether you interpret it as the weakness of martials compared to wizards or the futility of man, the message is basically the same.

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It's Great War history month on my reading list.

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Reading this dude.
His stories are pretty short and are filled with great ideas for games.

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Having a hard time staying interested DESU. It's jumping around far too much. While I'm sure it all comes together in the end, it's taking its sweet time.

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I'm actually editing a book for /tg/ right now. Upon completion, it and its art gallery go up on 1d4chan for free. Unfortunately, the cover art is hella small (not the artist's fault) thanks to reasons, but it's still legible.

>>51137096
I'm reading The First World War by Hew Strachan.

God, it's so depressing. Not the whole dying-in-mud-and-blood but the beginning. Watching everything spiral out of control because nobody can see the big picture and knowing what it's going to lead to.

>>51138292

Stick with it, the first book feels a bit long winded but it pays off when you get to the next book.

His other three stand alone novels are much more concise and have better pacing. The Shattered Sea trilogy is pretty good too.

>>51138292
The whole first novel is basically just introducing the characters and plot. It's a little annoying but I enjoyed the series.

>>51127016
If they genuinely were an intellectual I'm sure they could reply with 'yes' in such a way that it doesn't seem condescending.

Then again..

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>>51111038
Heretics of Dune

>>51124805
>judging books by cover

>>51124841
It's because you know you could probably do better.

Just gotta get the hours in.

I'm one to believe you have a duty to express yourself.

"The Land of Remorse", an athropological research into southern Italian "psychological healing" in folklore

"The Ruin of Kasch", an erudite weaving some kind of fucked up tale sneaking through the end of the ancien regime, combining false testimonies by Talleyrand and other personalities with philosophy with Indian Vedic texts. It's kind of like what would happening if Burroughs decided to write a comprehensive history of the world.

I'll get the Collected Works of Machiavelli for my birthday, so I'll get into that next.

I was also thinking about reading the Eclipse Phase rulebook, in the off chance I ever manage to find a game.

>>51137857
You reading a collection specifically or just everything? Anyway, keep at It. He's one of the most enjoyable writers of the last century.

The Stand by SK (expanded version)

>>51144730
Is that a jojo reference?

>>51144752
No.

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>>51115574
He hasn't read every Pratchett book 20+ times

>>51117824
Didn't like it.

All Tommorows.

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I love these stories even though many haven't aged well. I also wish there were more Lovecraftian elements. The perfect book for me would be a character collection of stories about Conan battling Lovecraftian cults and monsters

>>51144197
I cannot but help feeling that in this particular case judging book by cover is warranted.

>>51145068
Have that same edition, I've been thinking about buying the other two books for a while now.

Standard objection to what you said, wouldn't fighting Lovecraftian entities defy the whole point of them?

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almost done after starting it 2 days ago

>>51145151
Maybe not fighting per se but rather them being present in the story as adversaries

Howard and Lovecraft were apparently bros irl and I feel like Conan's medieval-prehistoric setting lends itself naturally to grim dark Lovecraft stuff

>>51134219
I think I just misinterpreted anon. It would've not be the first time I see someone who has not even read the book claiming Quixote is a lolsorandumb murderhobo, and I assumed the comment was about that.

>>51144197
>reading whatever without a filter when there is so much literature out there

I would not read a pdf with that shitty title without at least two trusted and educated personal friends confirming it's decent. Bad literature is toxic for the mind and makes you lose your time.

>>51144576
>tfw depressed and unmotivated and my failure to write better stuff only makes it worst

>>51145212
Ah yes, then I completely agree and share your desire for it. As far as I remember, there are a few stories where the two mythos coexist - I think the nane of Yog-Sothoth is mentioned once or twice, and there was some letter exchange about a collaboration between them. You may want ti look it up.

I'm just tired of people going "lol, cthulhu is tentacles and scary and let's blast those shoggoths with a revolver xD".

>>51145300
There's something so addictive about Howard's Conan. Not sure what it is.

>>51145212
>Howard and Lovecraft were apparently bros irl

Howard also was a Mall Ninja Supreme.

>>51145717
>mall ninja

Kek isn't that a /k/ meme? I'm vaguely familiar with it, elaborate for me why he was a mall ninja

I knew he was supremely depressed

>>51144814
Sanderson gets a lot of hate, but I like him man.

>>51111400
Dosto is great, I would start with Biesy though, if you plan reading other stuff, as it is the "lightest".

>>51145297
Yea, I know that feel.

Just change something.