Fcuk Books

Are we working under the assumption that there are actually people who don't see this?

>>116696736
Yeah, people from non-english speaking contries as myself apparently. Though i would hardly call it a mind fuck

>>116696289

>read the first book
>realized it was a fantasy rip of of Star Wars
>did not continue reading the series.

There's going to be another book

>>116696289
All of his books suck. They read like a 4 year old wrote them.

>>116697154
>Read the first book
>Realize it's a fantasy version of star wars
>Enjoyment increased

>>116697435
Your not far off

If your parents own a publishing company, you can get horrendous shit published.

>Watch the movie after my friend tells me it's the greatest book of all time
>It's literally one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
>Plot ripped off of just about everything, horrible acting, terrible production values
>Never talk to friend about books or movies again.

>read all the books
>enjoy them
>getting the next one in the mail on Monday

I guess /v/ really can't enjoy anything, even things not vidya related.

>>116697834
I enjoyed the book thoroughly but thought the movie was one of the worst I've ever seen.

You ready to have your mind blown?

Eragon is a fucking atrocious book series and if you read it you're probably autistic.

>inheritance

how fitting

>>116697996
Good friend of mine on campus has been reading the last book over the past two days. Now if I actually had time, I'd be tearing up Reamde. I've read 100 pages and I've had the book more than a month, damnit.

When'd the book come out?
I sincerely hope it was worth the wait

Downloaded the audiobook earlier, it's a bit late to start listening to it though.

Seriously though, these books make the twilight saga look like A Game of Thrones (and A Game of Thrones sucks almost as hard as Harry Potter).

>>116698346
>On a trip
>Friend of mine gives it to me so I get hooked on the series, plans to take it back before I can finish it
>Read it in two days
True story

>love books
>see movie
why'd hard
I don't like star wars

In mythology Diana, the Roman equivalent of the Goddess Artemis, had frequent contact and even named the mythical species we know as "Faeries".

>Be in middleschool
>Read the first book when it came out
>Thought it was the greatest thing ever
>Forget about it for my entire highschool stitch
>Pick up the latest copy as sophmore in college to see if it's any good
>Oh god, a 12 year old with down syndrome wrote this shit. How could I have ever thought this was good?

Read His Dark Materials instead, thanks.

>read the first book when I was a young child
>I literay have no fucking clue what happened in it besides he had a dragon and could spy on people by looking into water

I hate this kid on principle. Also his books suck, the most generic fucking fantasy imaginable, atleast Twlight is fucking creepy, even if it's unintentional. The films are pretty good for that but Eragon just outright sucked.

>>116698880
>Artemis
Oh lordy the nostalgia

>>116698988
>His Dark Materials
mah nigga
one of my favorite book series though I'm unsure how I feel about the ending

especially with all the implied 12 year old sex

>>116698721
>(and A Game of Thrones sucks almost as hard as Harry Potter).
>implying ASoIaF sucks
>implying Harry Potter sucked
2/10 is the best I can do

>>116698988
>HDM
Aw fuck yeah, I loved those books. Never did see the movie, though.

>>116698880
>Artemis Fowl
dat technomagical fusion

>Read Deltora quest when a kid
>great
>fucking
>series
>Read it again
>"MY STOMACH TURNED UPSIDE DOWN AND OR CHURNED" on every fucking page
>goddamnit

Hobbits rhymes with fagets.

In the books, Frodo and Sam leave the Fellowship so they could have gay sex whenever they want.

MIND=BLOWN

>>116698346
>college
>reading Eragon

Mother of god.

>>116699179
The quips on tacobell hotsauce packets have more literary value than ASoIaF and Harry Potter combined.

>>116697435
He was like 14

>>116699419
It's ok. I realized my mistake as soon as I read the first few paragraphs and then burned the book.

What does this have to do with vidya?

>>116697581
>read post
>realize it's written by an autist
>well, at least he is not new

>>116698631
>audiobook

I should start doing this

>mindfuck

Goddammit, I'm sick of hearing about these shitty books. They're almost as bad as Twilight. There's nothing clever or even remotely well-written about them. Fuck off, reported, saged, hope you burn in hell, etc.

I can't be the only person in the world who read this

Right?

>>116698931
I think we all know that feel

>>116699581
>Opinions
>Opinions
>Opinions

>>116698346
It took a while for me to really get into Reamde but it really picks up about 1/3 way through the book.

I ended up enjoying it immensely.

>>116699575
Well it's a ripoff of Drakan which is a game series and Star wars which has games. That being said I read the first book and enjoyed how terrible it was. Not original at all and the main villain is named like Garlbotrinix or something.

More proof that the world at large has absolutely shitty taste.

>>116699666
>11
>66
>99
>666

>>116697996
I love how shit taste is now a fucking virtue around here

God, /v/ is a piece of shit nowadays

>>116699597
>deltora quest
>the greatest fantasy series OF ALL TIME
Pick 2

>>116699432
The back of a Cereal box has more literary value than Harry Potter.

Never read ASoIaF but I trust your judgement.

>>116699220
You didn't miss much. Had I seen the movie first, I might not have even read the books. Might watch it again though, not sure why.

>Read all the lore books in Morrowind
>Best fantasy novel ever

>>116700013
>OF ALL TIME

It was good but not that good.

>>116699767
>baaaw
>baaaw
>stop bullying my autism over the internet i bet u hate fun

>>116699900
>11
>66
>999
>00
nuthin but dubs and trips

>>116697834
The book was below average but the movie was truly awful.

>>116700214
>Projections
>Projections
>Resorting to autism buzzwords

>this thread
/lit/ would have a fieldday with you tasteless faggots

>>116700013
>>116700013
>>116700013
>>116700013
>>116700013
>>116700013

FUCK YEAH
Best book series EVER

>>116700213
Quiet, I'm nostalgiaing

>>116700326
>Opinions
>implying I'm projecting
>implying it isn't you who is projecting that I am projecting to hide his autism and that he lays skyrim

>>116700382
/lit/ fucking hate books though

>>116700522
So they're just like us, then?

>>116699597
Good lord, I read every fucking book of this series as a kid.

So good

>>116700382
And I'm sure we'd yell at /lit/ for their shitty taste in videogames.

what's your point?

>>116700522

So they're like /v/? They hate what they're board is about?

>>116700595
yep, just like how we hate video games and /a/ hates anime.

Anyone have the link where the English professor goes over each chapter of Paolini's books and just trashes the shit out of them?

Now that was a good read!

>>116699756
I think I read up to Thursday or Friday. Don't really remember much about them though.

>Read Deltora Quest series
>No Kangaroos or Shrimps on the Barbie

The world has lied to me

Who would win in a fight?
Gabe Newell?
Or Mulch Diggums?

>>116699432
And I'm sure you are some literary savant who has been published, right?

>>116700935
Mulch comes with a built-in assflap so I'm betting on him

>>116700935
But they're both the same person

>>116700382
/lit/ hates all books in the same manner that /v/ hates all games. 4chan isn't called the internet hate machine just because of /b/tards.

>>116700674
I think this would be hilarious.

If we really want to make this thread vidya related, I read Halo: Glasslands this weekend. I found it really interesting- not many universes are willing to contemplate "Well, what now?" after the war is over. I'm also interested to see what happens when the details of the SPARTAN program go public, because you can bet that's going to be a shitstorm.

>>116699597
I nostalgia'd hard. Thanks.

>>116699756
I love Keys to the Kingdoms, bro.

Abhorsen trilogy will always be my favorite from Nix, however.

i only like the book because it has dragons :3

>>116700982
Pfft no. I'm a scientist, I don't have time for writing books that will probably never get published. I do have a good sense of the difference between good literature and shit scraped off the floor of a public restroom though.

>ctrl f The Black Company

> results


YOU FOOLS

How come no one I've met has read Artemis Fowl?
It's a damn good series.
Way too short though.

Also guys prepare to nostalgia hard.
Are you ready?
Redwall

Pic related.

>>116701397
>Way too short though.
He's still writing them

>>116701317
No you don't.

You just think you do and enjoy acting uppity because of it.

>>116701464
The next book is the last one, he has confirmed this himself.

>>116701397
I read all of the Redwall books up to... Taggerung? Whatever came after that? I forget.

They had an animated series that came on weekends on PBS, though. I think that started on my local station after I stopped reading the books, though.

>>116701397

Most of my friends have read them. Bloody great books.

>>116698721
I see something wrong in that sentence. IT.

>HURR DERRP NEW AGE MARY SUE DOUCHEBAG ELF HERO SHIT

What a load of crap that was.

>>116701532
That's still seven or eight books.

Anyone ever read the Keys to the Kingdom?
How about Lemony Snicket? The movie for that sucked ass too.

this shit was funny as fuck when i was younger don't hate

Contrary to internet hivemind I enjoyed the books. Sure it isn't the best thing I've ever read, but it is far from the worst.
Ain't got a thing on the Redwall series though.

Tell me this is the final fucking book.

Just finished listening to my entire collection of audiobooks.
Pern
Harry Potter
How to train your dragon
Artemis Fowl
Discworld
Lord of the Rings

Any recommendations?

>>116701722
>How about Lemony Snicket?
Brilliant books. I hated The End when I was younger but then I re-read it recently and was like HOW COULD I HATE THIS THIS IS SO FUCKING GOOD 2DEEP4ME

BREAKING NEWS: ADULTS HATE BOOKS INTENDED FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS.

>>116701883
I never ended up finishing them. That's what sucks about book series, they don't end in time for your adulthood.

>>116701262
Yes... dragons...

This is the best book ever... until the sequel comes out.

>>116701722
Yeah I've read them all up til Friday, kind of lost track since the wait for the new books was so long.

Have you read Sabriel/Lirael/Abhorsen?

>>116701816
it was. it ended with eragon riding off into the sunset

>>116701862
Are you looking for fantasy like what's been discussed in this thread or something else?

>>116701883
I got these books from an aunt with a (what I though then) to be a peculiar sense of humor. Enjoyed them, but I think I'd get a bit more out of them if I reread them now.

>>116701804
I read two of them when I was a kid, I couldn't really get into them, but in retrospect it's kind of neat.
Has nothing on Wind the Willows though. I read all of them, kicked ass.

>>116701977
It was great going back and re-reading them once I'd had more experience in classic books/poems/writers etc. There are so many literary and religious allusions in the books that children are gonna miss out on, it's almost a shame.

>>116702047
It sucks and the guy who wrote it is a huge faggot.

Any of you guys read Epic? I don't have a picture because I'm on my phone, but shit, dude. Read it, it's fabulous. It's about this vidya-RPG world that everyone plays. Like, everyone. It's literally the best book ever. Read it, fag.

>>116702055
I think I might have read up until Friday as well, I don't remember.
And no, I haven't

>>116700469
>Implying my rig can run skyrim
I'm too busy playing Morrowind anyway

>>116702075
Anything that fits the style of what I've been reading/listening too.

Also a recommendation for other /v/ goers; try audio books.
Start on Harry Potter or Greek Myths, both have great readers and they are comfy as fuck stories to fall asleep too.
Stephen Fry is fucking awesome.

>>116701862
witcher
in original language.

>>116701397
>Redwall
>Good night moon
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH
Actually my college has a 'routine sleeping' campaign called 'goodnight cougs'

>>116701883
The End was the biggest a severe disappointment for me as a kid. Haven't read it again though.

We ussually have some good convos and debates on here but I figure we can take some to a forum.
My friends just started their forums at popnculture(dot)com. Figure I cAn help them spread the word and get us in there talking about comics and around there.

>>116702185
You should give them a shot if you enjoy Nix's writing. It's like a mix of zombie horror and medieval fantasy. Heavily involves necromancy and an interesting take on magic.

that feel when youre writing a fiction book for ages 9 - 12

not sure how deep i should make it, if kids can grasp shit at that age

suggestions, /v/?

>>116701722
Aw yeah, Keys to the Kingdom. I wasn't much for the shoehorned ending though, where "LOL but Arthur, even tho all of reality has been torn asunder, you can make it however you liek! that's wut u call 'Art'. HURR! 'ART', AS IN ARTHUR! I AM A TROPE mASTER!" - Garth Nix

>>116700674
>>116700674
I'm interested in seeing this.

>>116701722
>Keys to the kingdom
>My face the entire time reading it
I liked it, but... Wat.

>>116702410
Make it deep, but subtle deep, so that kids will understand it when they read it for the first time, but won't appreciate it until they read it for the second.

>>116699756
I saw it in the library once. It looked kinda good, but I didn't take it out.

>>116702410
Make it extremely deep.
Market it for student ages.
Make trillions.

I'm 23 and I love most of these "young adult" books.

>>116702425
Man is that really how it ends? I figured he'd become like the new creator or something it was pretty heavily implied. Or at least the most powerful Denizen.

Well shit, guess I don't have to go buy Saturday/Sunday.

>>116702410
I read Eragon when I was in the fifth grade, and thought it was awesome.

However, since the third in the series never came out when I was so young, I was trying to reread the entire series to catch up, but couldn't. The books are fucking terrible, and he spends wayy too much time making up his own little fantasy world without shit happening in it.

>>116702348
it's because it was too deep for you and you missed all the references to Voltaire and Christianity

>>116696958
in france dragon is the same word so french people saw it
at least i hope so

Everything is yellow because that's the color of his shades.

Anyone know any good audio books?

>>116702723
Yeah, it was overall disappointing. The entire world pretty much dies, but because he's so amazing he gets to remake it, and can create an alternate him to go live with Leaf and his family while real Him stays in the House

>>116700935
Mulch.
He can, y'know, move.

>>116702723
No, he does become the new Creator and the lead-up to it is pretty great, but he just re-makes all of reality like it was before the last of the House was dissolved by Nothing.

>>116702851
>Timecat

Nostalgia overload

>>116696289
That's because he couldn't come up with a name for the dragon at first, so when he wrote the book he wrote Eragon(Replacing D with the next letter in the alphabet) expecting to do a find and replace later.

>>116701804
Only book series with more feasts and racism than Lord of the Rings.

Than again, I can't complain. One of my favorite book series was The Belgariad, in which everybody's personality was defined by their nationality.

>>116702901
Wow. That's just terrible.

I'll probably still read them eventually. It's pretty much The Legend of Zelda put in book form. All those powerups.

>>116702834
SHIT

>>116702233
>>116702851
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQBi-cPb3ws

>>116702509
>>116702697
thanks for the input guys

i have a fun writing style but so far ive really gotta add some more moralistic deep to my story

sup

>>116702851
FFFFF I was not expecting to see this.

How about The Book of Three?

>That feel when Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket is currently writing a second series of books set within the same universe, but at a different time, as ASoUE

Shit tier lore and setting

All this talk about Keys to the Kingdom and little to none about Garth Nix's superior books.

Check them out if you enjoy his other works.

>>116702410
Man, I tried to write a book a couple years back. Everytime I got bored a fight broke out. By the time I got to page twenty there'd been two fistfights, a swordfight(On a space station) and a gun fight.

Greatest series ever and the 4th book was the best in the series.

Pic related

>>116701359

>Glen Cook

Haven't been able to find a copy unfortunately. Loved the Dread Empire trilogy though. Only books I've read more than once.

>>116703483
I cannot write fight scenes for the fucking life of me. If I ever start writing they'd have to be like 90% focused on dialogue.

>>116703422

Image combines literature, movies and games, but only gives a few examples for movies/books.

Nearly all literature is automatically better than game worlds. Sorry. Video games aren't that deep story-wise. Read some good literature and you'll see this.

>>116703618
I'm the opposite. I can choreograph a decent fight scene but I'm shit when it comes to people conversing.

>>116703695
If I used literature for that it would be so big I couldn't post it on 4chan

There's probably 500,000 fantasy books out there

I still need to add Dark Souls to the Great Tier even though I've never played it.

>>116703485
>4th is best
MY FUCKING EYES

>>116703422
You should add runescape

>>116699264

My brother

Captcha: herpetology: larlyia

>write a story
>feel like you always have to use an alternative to "said" when you add dialogue

is it good to use 'said' once in a while? I feel like it's really bland and lacks the potential for detail you could add with a word like 'exclaimed'

>>116703860
Dark Souls is alright. Basically a bunch of creatures/dead guy/Gwynn find the souls of lords underground. They get powerful, rebel against the dragons, and Gwynn sacrifices himself to link bonfires which make people undead or some shit that is never explained. One dragon turns traitor after getting a lord souls. Basically you are the inheritor of the weakest Lord Soul called the Pygmy. Basically it means you never go insane after dying when undead. You eventually kill all the holders of the lord souls, steal them, and kill Gwynn who is now some super zombie. After that you either sacrifice yourself exactly like Gwynn did or you go on to be epic overlord and savior of mankind. Either way you killed the traitor dragon which leaves the boss from Kingsfield unopposed to recreate a dragon army and totally conquer mankind all over again.

>>116704332
Typically when I wrote, I used said or some variation thereof at the beginning of the conversation, and then just relied on the natural back and forth between two people after that, unless something interrupted. Variation is good, but there are only so many ways you can convey that someone said something.

>No Bartimaeus trilogy

Top-tier setting, magic, and trolling.

>Buy the first book some years ago.
>Try to read it, stop about half way through.
>Never touch it again.

The kid who writes this shit is fucking atrocious. I watched an interview that was done with him and George R. R. Martin, where the interviewer was asking them to discuss certain things about their books such as the way they handle character development, and the magic within their books and such.

Every reply this kid gave after Martin was absolutely cringeworthy. I pray he does nothing after this.

>>116704332
This so fucking much. I hate this. I prefer to describe what somebody is doing and then just add the dialogue at the end of the paragraph if I can. If not i basically have to use 'said'. Fucking hate that shit.

>never realized eragon was dragon with an E
>never cared about the books enough to give them the three seconds of thought it would have taken to see that

and I still don't care

>>116704332
I've tried to avoid using it every time, like if it's a conversation, I'll write "replied" instead, but it's at least good to start conversations with something like that to give the reader an idea of who's saying what. I kind of like Douglas Adams's approach when two characters are conversing where he'd set who's saying what, and then alternate in a back and forth fashion by having each person's conversation on a separate line.

>>116704332
I'm fairly certain you could use other words to help express how the character is saying things.
Does he imply it, does he say it scathingly, or does he grunt it?

I'd know, if I didn't I would be Terry.

>>116698133
>autistic

>write a story
>mfw english classes then read into hidden meanings that dont exist and make up metaphors for stupid shit I never even thought of

>>116703422
>Fucking videogames in the list.
>Greyhawk higher than Dragonlance.
>Warhammer anywhere other than shit tier.
>None of the fantasy books people actually care about, like Belgariad, Discworld, Runelords, A Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire, Malazan Book of the Fallen, Amber, or Saberhagen's Book of Swords.

>>116704332
Read some Hemmingway.

>>116704638
good idea, starting a little neutral then adding detail as the convo goes on

i suppose too much spice ruins something the same as not enough spice does.

>Hairless groin general

>>116698133
I have aspergers

Last book is actually not shitty, according to decent literary standards.

>>116704808
It's subliminal because daddy touched you

>Write a story about a random guy spilling all of his woes to a bartender
>fucking everybody class thinks it's the story of the year all years

But... how?

I'm a fucking horrible author!

>Then I write about some kid being picked up as an apprentice mechanic for gigantic super racecars by this old ass guy who cusses a lot
>They think it's story of the decade all decades

SERIOUSLY WHAT THE SHIT

EVEN MY TEACHER THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD

NO

STOP COMPLIMENTING
STOP LIKING MY SHIT
GODDAMN

>>116705123

>Write something in class
>Can't write for shit, can't write on demand
>Make some shit up, steal cliches from classic movies
>Teacher thinks it's great, you can't think about it without cringing

>In English at school
>Need to write some short story
>No fucking clue what to write about
>Take that creepypasta from years back about the guy who was the last person on Earth and shit
>Stretch it out across 5 or 6 pages
>Get called up later about it
>"Oh fuck what if they found out I plagiarized some shit"
>The person who marks the exams apparently broke down crying while reading it
>Everyone else who has read it says it's one of the most moving things they've ever seen in their years of marking exams
>They praise me for my "natural flair" and "incredibly subtle, darker themes throughout, such as the struggles of coping with depression and suicidal tendencies"
>Mfw I had no idea what they were talking about and they all attached 2deep4u bullshit to my shitty rushed story
>Mfw I went along with it and my teachers all thought I was a genius for the rest of my school days

>>116698988
>>116699121

>mahdoubleniggas.jpg

Ending made angry. They couldn't leave ONE DOOR open.

One door, man. ;_;

Vidya:
The Deus Ex logo forms a DE. We already know that. HOWEVER, look at it carefully when you flip it over...JC
Well holy shit.

>Middleschool
>write this awesome story about murder and zombies from the zed's perspective
>friends loved it
>teacher loved it so much gets read to entire class
>class throws a shitstorm
>calls for this popular kid's shit to get read
>it's some generic kid stumbles into monastery and gets taught kung-fu shit.
>they compliment him for days and urge him to start writing books
>every time we do creative writing all the way through senior year it's still the same kung-fu setting with flat characters and corny dialogue
>they still rave whenever he writes a story.
Fucking hate this shit.

>>116705544
Holy fuck shit
Also JC stands for Jesus Christ

>>116701359
>>116703526
I honestly prefer his Garret PI books to the Black Company books. Reading a Black Company book just makes me depressed for days. I will readily admit that Petty Pewter Gods and on are shit though.

In other news, I'm always surprised Bazil Broketail has never been adapted into a movie, since the first book essentially has a perfect movie plot. Plus, it's a book series where talking dragons are used like motherfucking tanks in combined arms battles against the hordes of darkness. What's not to like?

>>116705561
popular fiction

I enjoy the book series, but the movie is complete garbage.
>hurr lol bad guy summons a shadow dragon that never existed in the book series