this thread will almost certainly get taken down for being low-effort (because it is) butt I need an answer. Robert Jordan, GRRM, Jim Butcher, Patrick Rothfuss and the other r/menwritingwomen all-stars will write pages about how she breasted boobily down the stairs but never mention how that thang was sitting.

I’m tired of reading about buxom wenches and want to read about thicc wenches instead

“This is before I’ve blown up; I blew up on Mistborn 2,” Sanderson recalled. “[The publisher] still thought I was maybe going to be a failure as a writer.” However, he was a long-time fan of The Wheel of Time, and when Jordan died he wrote a moving eulogy on his blog. This eulogy eventually found its way to McDougal.

“Mistborn had been floundering, my name was not mentioned [for finishing The Wheel of Time],” Sanderson said. “But somebody that day, her name was Elise Matheson and I’m very thankful to her, was printing off things on the internet, nice things that people had said about Robert Jordan. And she printed off my thing, and she put it in the stack. And that night, Harriet read it.”

The eulogy resonated with McDougal, who Sanderson said was particularly taken with the final line memorializing Jordan: “You go quietly, but leave us trembling.” The eloquence of the eulogy, combined with Sanderson’s …

The Green Bone Saga is my all time favorite series. I have it ranked higher than big names like The Wheel of Time and The Dresden Files and smaller but still high quality names like The Dandelion Dynasty and The Memoirs of Lady Trent. I’ve recently started my fourth read-through of the series—I read it once a year—and once again I am utterly stunned by how good it is.

Many people have probably heard this series pitched one way or another over the years on this sub and elsewhere, but I encourage you to read this post anyway as my pitch for it and the things I like about it tend to be quite different from most people. I’ll also have a section at the bottom for what sorts of people might not enjoy this series, as I feel that while it’s amazing, it’s definitely not for everyone.

What is the Green Bone Saga?

The Green Bone Saga is a Cold War epic fantasy series about a warrior society that undergoes change and modernization as its two largest clans collide and …

Hi everyone.

I was just wondering if anyone else had the same experience with “A hundred hears of solitude” by Garcia Marquez.

All the childs having sexual relationships with adults just made me sick honestly. Don’t get me wrong, I love Garcia Marquez and I have read most of his work, but this book was way too much with all the sex between grown ups and children.

I made it to the part where Aureliano marries Remedios and, it clearly states, that she barely made it to womanhood for the wedding. And I just sat there with the book wondering why I was reading this to begin with.

So, I don’t think I’ll ever finish this book.

Anyone had a similar experience?

Edit: I should make it clear here just in case, I am from Argentina, right at the bottom of south america. So these types of sexual relationships are not something out of the ordinary around here (sadly). I know real examples of this kind of things, so thats why I really dont enjoy reading it.

Edit 2: …

This Japanese word describes a habit that many readers unknowingly engage in every time they acquire new copies of titles on their list

A few months ago I watched a Booktok about a book I had never heard of previously and the premise was something I would not normally read. But the review was intriguing and so I started reading “Dungeon Crawler Carl”. I have basically done nothing since but read the series. I’m on the fourth book now.

This book is crazy weird but delightful and imaginative. The author Matt Dinniman writes without rules which provides a refreshing and surprising story line.

I haven’t heard many people talking about it, and like I mentioned before, the premise is wacky so I just had to come on here and sing its praises! Read it if you haven’t!

So I recently found a book club at this indie book shop that was sorta close that I’d never been too online. I had heard of them doing events for major book releases previously and decided I’d read this particular book they were reading for this month since it was a popular dark romance and I was curious. When signing up it just asked if you had the book yes or no and at the time I didn’t. So I went out and purchased the book elsewhere. Read it enjoyed it and was ready to go to this event.

When the day came I pulled up and had to sign in. The guy asked if I had the book and I said yea but then asked if I purchased it from them. So of course I said no which he then told me in order to join there book clubs I had to buy it from them and that was my ticket in but no where was this stated online. They also have a log to verify if you’ve actually bought from them. So he told me I would have to either buy the book again or buy another of equal value and this book was already 19 dollars …

Hello printSF! Picked up some books from a second hand store the other day. The Stugatsky and the Delany books caught my eye because i already read and liked most of their other stuff, but then i noticed these other two books are from the same series, with pretty cool cover art if you ask me, so i bought all four. The theme of the series seems to be unerapreciated authors and less known works of more popular authors. Does anybody know or recommend other books from the series? I read the Harrison, Lem, Triptee, Vonnegutt and Zamyatin books from the list and based on that, I like the selection.

City - Simak Night’s Master and Death’s Master - Tabitha Lee The Dreaming City - Michael Moorcock City of a Thousand Suns - Delany

I recently finished the first Murderbot novel. I enjoyed it, but I was surprised how short and simple it was. The main character is amusing, but otherwise there isn’t much to say.

It’s short. The plot is straightforward. The worldbuilding is minimal. The character development is… very minimal. Mostly, it felt like the writer took one joke (killer robot just wants to watch TV), and stretched it into a novel.

Not knocking anyone’s preferences, but given how popular the books are, and the upcoming live action show, I had expected more. Do the later books develop more substance?

I just started my Brandon Sanderson journey with Mistborn last week and am about ³⁄₄ through The Final Empire, and I’m a bit… let down? Primarily, I think it’s the prose that throws me off.

I wouldn’t say it’s poor, per se, but I would say bare-bones. Often, both the dialogue and narration can feel super plain and almost… too simple? Perhaps I’ve been too critical, but I just came off of reading Pierce Brown’s Red Rising series over the past couple of months (all 7 books) and he writes such strong prose towards the end of the series, in my opinion, that perhaps in comparison, Sanderson’s just seems so simple.

I’m wondering if I don’t have it in me to continue Mistborn after finishing The Final Empire, if I’ll have any better luck with the Stormlight Archive? Does his writing style “advance” at all?

To be clear, for all of the huge Sanderson fans out there - I’m not saying it’s bad nor am I saying he’s a poor writer. It just feels like, in comparison to a couple of different …

I’m currently turning the first page of The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton, and I think the series so far - in regards to The Reality Dysfunction - is truly awesome and beautiful, with mythos and lore that have amazing depth.

The thing is, I never heard of the series till I came across a random Reddit post, and I’m glad I did - and while Hamilton is known and The Nights Dawn trilogy gets a lot of praise (and in some ways, critique) on this sub and others, I feel it’s not super popular and we’ll known as other series or IP’s in general.

I’d love everyone else’s thoughts on what they think some under-appreciated series are worth reading!

I am currently reading Blindsight by Peter Watts and the concept of a scientifically explained vampire is suprisingly interesting to me. Any other books that experiment with this setup or topic?

Edit: Wow, these are really a lot of great recommendations. Thank you all a lot!