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What are some of your guilty pleasures /sffg/?
Books or series you love, despite knowing they might be shit.

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anything litrpg adjacent
specially if it's horny
I've been reading this shit for years but I keep finding myself needing to go back to it every now and then

Just caught up to Peculiar Soul on RR, seems decent for now. The author obviously put a lot of effort into this work and the worldbuilding, using epigraphs at the beginning of each chapter and photoshoping actual WW1 propaganda posters/newspapers to add some flavor. I'm honestly impressed.

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Pic-related, mostly. It's a charming enough LitRPG isekai thing, but female author and protagonist which leads to some different approaches that I don't always agree with (for some reason we get basically a blow-by-blow of every day and four books in, she's only been in the world for 18 days or some such, it just feels like too much is happening at once, also just way too many fucking characters), and I know a lot of people here would kind of hate it, but I found it entertaining just because the protagonist herself is kind of just fun to read about.

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Legacy of the Force/Fate of the Jedi. They sucked, but Ben and Vestara were qt and I wanted another decade of books about them having to work together. Fuck the Mouse.

GOT but just because I was always cooming to the thought of raping Cathleen Stark and cucking Edward.

Just finished chapter 10 of Lies of Locke Lamora. I wasn't ready for this. I thought I was going to be reading Leverage with wizards.

I have no "guilty pleasures" because I'm not a sissy.
Everything I enjoy I enjoy guilt free.

Who will read and critique my lore that I'm building as a procastrination to avoid starting the writing process because I know it'll expand into several books that will never be good enough to me?

all the Halo novels. The only military scifi I give a shit about.

/wg/ is that way

/tg/ has a general for that I think.

I need suggestions for comfy generic fantasy in the same vein as Wheel of Time and Earthsea. I've read a bunch of serious books lately and I'm in the mood for quests, swords, exploration, magic, all that shit.

The webnovel The Beginning After the End. I'm sure that 90% of the anons here wouldn't make it past the first 50 chapters. It's full of power fantasy cringe but unironically gets good after like 250 chapters, which is a crazy investment for new readers.

Thankyou
And thankyou

Walder Frey did nothing wrong

Rogues of Merth

To be fair the Eric Nylund books, Fall of Reach, First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx are genuinely good. Joe Staten's (the lead writer on the original Halo trilogy) Contact Harvest and Shadow of Intent are also pretty good, but the rest of the Halo books, especially the 343 era ones are really bad

What other military sf have you read and not liked?

Blacktongue Thief, the fantasy world is relatively bleak/grimdark (for hummanity), the narrator copes using his dry humor. Gets dragged into a quest way out of his league, assigned to him by his guild which is basically that world's CIA.

>the fantasy world is relatively bleak/grimdark
Whoa how original.

Recommend me good military sf. This series is my only experience with the genre.

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Bran ate Jojen.

It's a very funny, enjoyable book, but do skip the other two. The second is only decent, the third jumps the shark so hard I thought it was written by a ghost writer. The author supposedly had a lot of shit happen to him over the years that most likely influenced the quality, but it's just bad.

Azarinth Healer webnovel. It's incredibly trashy, despite writing few thousand of pages throught the years the author still haven't improved enough, the writing itself is clunky as fuck. But it's one of the more popular LitRPGs for a reason, it's insanely juicy progression popcorn. Too bad the author had a breakdown recently, which somewhat influenced his decision to end AH in the close future, we are on the last arc. But I think it will be a just ending to the series, one the first great LitRPGs, I had weeks when all I could do in life was wait for 5 PM to read another chapter of it, the highlight of the most depressing weeks of my life.

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>perhaps
It's fact.

Daario is Benjen

It's good, trust me. It's used more for tongue in cheek humor rather than
>muh gritty Grimdark and suffering porn

Bastion vibes

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Okay guys, I ask for recommendations for good fantasy erotica, as I've noticed that despite hundreds of different book charts existing in the linked megaupload folder, not a single one concern Erotic Fantasy or even modern Erotica. Normal Fantasy with strong erotic themes and scenes, pure erotica, harem novels, if it's good, mention it. At the moment I'm reading 'Good Intentions' (picrel), and I must say I'm suprised how damn good it is, I haven't seen something so hot and titilating in a while. I heard something about Kushel Dart being a good erotica, so that's going onto the list, so if you happened to read it, please give your rating for that. As there is no chart for Fantasy Erotica, I intend to do one myself at some point.

I repeat, I ask for FANTASY/SCI-FI EROTICA recommendations, mainly Fantasy, but Sci-fi too if it's good. I mainly intend to read books for men, but if there's good gay fantasy, either for females or males, I'm might try it as well, want to experience the breath of the genre.

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Any of you lads read this?

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Nobody here reads that cringe shit you fucking loser

This Forgotten Realms novel, but only this one. The rest of the series ranged from genuinely bad to absolutely godawful, and the only thing that saved them from being flat out unreadable were the chapters that followed the Archmage.

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The only thing cringe here is your comment. If anyone wants to anwer, they will. I can read 100 erotica books and post review of every single one on this general if I feel like it, your bitching won't change a thing

>38hrs long book
Fuck that shit.

seconded on azarinth healer. its flawed but at the same time very enjoyable.

Yes, read it

How can you enjoy word salad and word minimum novels without feeling that they're wasting your time?

>How can you enjoy word salad and word minimum novels without feeling that they're wasting your time?
They aren't bad. You know, you can eat your favourite dish done improperly, it's not as good as it could be, but it's your favourite dish so your going to eat it anyway. It doesn't need to be perfect if it particularly well scratches the itch a few things can. I am not wasting time if I am satisfied. I wish it was better than popcorn, and the author did attempt some things, mostly in that cynical way people who read too much grimdark do, but it was something. Frankly speaking, at its worst AH is still better than typical chinese webnovel at its average.

So, /sffg/ like or hate the Lightbringer series? I just finished the books and despite being young adult fantasy shit, i found the themes of faith, agnosticism and religion very interesting ,sadly in the final book Weeks resolves everything with a Deus ex machina and the good gods showing up and saving the day making the actions of the protagonists seem minor, the author could have been more subtle in the resolution. I liked anyway, better than Sanderson.

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Is it good then? I've never seen it mentioned anywhere, it's flown under my radar for years

is there a place I can check to see if a book has cuck content?
Genuinely asking, not memeing
so far I've just been using Goodreads' review section to see if anyone mentions how much they hated getting blindsided by cuck shit before I read a book.

it was awful, the fact that it wasn't his brother down there but just some schizo illusion seems like some really bad retconning seeing as we literally got some POV chapters from him. The rest of the series is just bad. It's a good reminder for me to never read anything Brent Weeks writes ever again.

Damn, you guys validate my decision to not read further than the third book. I heard it went downhill and didn't touch it anymore, if there were retcons like that then it would be retroactively awful.

I decided to try Heretic Spellblade. It's better than I expected it to be considering the genre. The anime characters threw me off at first but they grew on me and also I really dig the setting.

>the third jumps the shark so hard I thought it was written by a ghost writer.
Can't be that bad, the first book has already had several chapters dedicated to jumping sharks.

linda nagata, the red

In the prison case, it was suspicious that they happened right after Gavin lost the same colors, anyway the series is full of retarded twists, but I kinda accepted that this is the norm with YA shit.

Perhaps now you can understand why I like RI so much and constantly recommend it.
Even if you don't like it, compared to THE REST of the chinkshit it's a breath of fresh air.
And unlike you, I read like a dozen of those awful shitty stories first before ever learning about it, so it seemed even better by contrast.
>LOTM
Yeah, that's pretty good too, though it has various issues it's easily one of the best chink webnovels ever written and has an extremely novel setting for people exhausted to death by ancient chinese fantasy settings.

I've also been reading The Path Toward Heaven, 156 chapters in so far, and I can say it's potentially really good. It has a huge issue of not giving enough clues to the central mystery to actually speculate or really care about it, but several of the side characters have plotlines that are fairly interesting. The translation quality is also very good and the writing flows smoothly.
The main catch however is that the MC is one of those "so stupidly overpowered it's not even a joke" types, though it's not as bad since he gives literally zero fucks and mostly just observes other people around him and occasionally provides advice.

>I decided to try Heretic Spellblade. It's better than I expected it to be considering the genre. The anime characters threw me off at first but they grew on me and also I really dig the setting.
Man, you serious? I read that some time ago and it's the worst erotic/harem novel I've read, it's so bad it doesnt even have the decency of having real sex scenes, just a few lines or fade to black. Character are barely characters at all, the writing is shit. Seriously, try other books, like 'Incubus Inc' or other books from the author of it. Optionally try 'The Big Waste'. Or even 'The Wild Wastes' (no connectiong to the last one), it's also harem but much better. Everything is better than that 'Heretic Spellblade' shit.

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I dropped it some time in book 2 or 3. It's successful as a language exercise and some time maybe I'll go back to it for that but to me it was empty otherwise.

It started good, without the flaws of the author's first series but then the jade gates closed and it imploded midway through. Dropped.

New anthology from DMR just dropped. Talk about BASED.

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>good gay fantasy

Is this still /cultivationwebnovelsgeneral/? I would recommend Dumb Husky And His White Cat Shizun, but if you're reading it DESPITE of the teacher-fucking rather than FOR the teacher-fucking, there's probably too much filler for it to be worthwhile. The bird ladies and Rufeng Sect arcs should have been cut.

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I like saccharine weepy feel-good wholesome shit and I will slay all edgelords with their own poopy katanas

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she cute

The Eddings were convicted of child abuse for keeping their four-year-old adopted son in a dog cage in the basement and beating him. Both were sentenced to a year in jail. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure Ce'Nedra introduced primed the West to love redhead tsunderes.

yeah everybody knows but at least they werent pedos like Marion Zimmer Bradley

I'm a fan of Wayne Barlowe's "Hell" novels "God's Demon" and "Heart of Hell", and each has gratuitous non-sequitur sex scenes that come seemingly out of nowhere. The first book has a particularly evil antagonist raping a type of hellbeast that isn't really a "person" and is more equivalent to bestiality, to show how depraved this particular individual is; it is not erotic. The second book has a rather surprising incidence of very cute very lewd yuri action between the two succubi who are the protagonist and her sidekick, and it's portrayed more positively

First Amber novel was quite disappointing. I disliked the 'shadow-world' portions immensely. Is it worth persisting? I'm assuming that the setting will shift to being more prominently Amber itself after this novel, but the prose was so pedestrian and dull I just don't know if it'll be worth it.

Of course. Beautiful series.

What are some actually good ACTION fantasy novels? I feel like every book is about muh character writing, muh goals, muh plotpoints. Do authors even remember how to write action scenes anymore?

NO
QUIT WHILE YOU'RE AHEAD, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
I READ THE WHOLE THING AND IT'S THE WORST SHIT I'VE EVER SUFFERED THROUGH I WOULD NOT WISH IT ON MY WORST ENEMY