YABookgate

[Rezza]

With how much kids these days are enjoying  LORE, Manga, Light Novels, Webtoons, and other stuff, I'm thinking the biggest problem now is that there just isn't enough works that suited the taste of said young boys. And if it does, it's just not marketed enough

This might sound silly, but now is the age of On Demand Service, especially after people have just realized just how big their power of choice are due to The Coof. Just look at Webtoons, or Web Novels platforms. There are enough works for everyone and anyone. Don't like the works? Find something or somewhere else. Or better yet, create one yourself. There isn't any shortages of places or platforms where people can showcase their works freely and easily, unlike years ago

And this is perhaps the thing that is happening to the current publishers, they're still thinking of brand loyalty instead of catering to people's demand. They think people would still line up to buy their books just because the big name publishers are the ones releasing it, even though now people have more choices and alternatives. It's the same problem with old media like TV

 

[Windows 10 Upgrade]

Damn. I wonder who's on the blacklist, err, blocklist? Aside from JK Rowling, presumably.
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AN UPDATE ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT NEWS STORY:

IT’S DEAD, JIM, DEAD

Seems this person has run afoul of GDPR: “holding special category data (related to a philosophical belief)”

In a lot of countries you cannot hold collected data on someone without their consent.

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[Elwood P. Dowd]

AN UPDATE ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT NEWS STORY:

IT’S DEAD, JIM, DEAD

Seems this person has run afoul of GDPR: “holding special category data (related to a philosophical belief)”

In a lot of countries you cannot hold collected data on someone without their consent.

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The tl;dr I'm taking from this: Rampant EU faggotry entrapping a bunch of faggots. I'm assuming this does not apply to Burgerlanders, though I guess it may to the extent Twitter's ToS embraces EU law.

FWIW, my oldest Twatter account is on something like 60 blocklists last I checked, going all the way back to the one Wil Wheaton sponsored in 2014 or 2015.

 

[Flexo]

Maybe we're just from a different time because the Internet wasn't yet prevalent, and even though there's oodles of reading material online, you can't find free shit without knowing someone with a folder or Mega link and there's too many normies who can't figure that out. Also it's just not the same reading off a screen than it is reading off a physical book, which may be a small key factor to why it is people just aren't interested in reading.

https://www.gutenberg.org/

http://www.online-literature.com/

I've been loving these sources for finding classics people haven't even heard of besides the ones they have.

 

[neverendingmidi]

https://www.gutenberg.org/

http://www.online-literature.com/

I've been loving these sources for finding classics people haven't even heard of besides the ones they have.

Pfft. Libgen uber alles.

Only problem is the domain changes on a regular basis.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Some youtube autist breaks down GRRMs writing progress:

TLDW: Basically all the progress he said hes been making was the 12 cut chapters of Dance plus COVID writing; he's basically been lying all this time about the book's progress because he's a workshy shitlib.
Thoughts @Boston Brand?

 

[Someone in a Tree]

Some youtube autist breaks down GRRMs writing progress:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KukzgDTcxeQTLDW: Basically all the progress he said hes been making was the 12 cut chapters of Dance plus COVID writing; he's basically been lying all this time about the book's progress because he's a workshy shitlib.
Thoughts @Boston Brand?

I’m not able to watch this now, so apologies if this is covered in the video, but what evidence would they have apart from rampant speculation and hearsay? Part of me wonders if this will end up like Ellison’s Juneteenth/Three Days Before the Shooting…, that is, an enormous manuscript that the author was just unable to shape into a satisfying narrative

 

[JJLiautaud]

I’m not able to watch this now, so apologies if this is covered in the video, but what evidence would they have apart from rampant speculation and hearsay? Part of me wonders if this will end up like Ellison’s Juneteenth/Three Days Before the Shooting…, that is, an enormous manuscript that the author was just unable to shape into a satisfying narrative

Its mainly most pessamistic assumptions based off of what hes said previously

 

[Boston Brand]

Some youtube autist breaks down GRRMs writing progress:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KukzgDTcxeQTLDW: Basically all the progress he said hes been making was the 12 cut chapters of Dance plus COVID writing; he's basically been lying all this time about the book's progress because he's a workshy shitlib.
Thoughts @Boston Brand?

It's one of the worst kept secrets in the industry that Martin has zero intent of ever finishing ASOIAF. He wrote himself into a corner with no easy way out, especially with only two books left.

Worse, as a writer, his big motivator has always been money - he write because the alternative was no longer getting paid. Now he had TV and merch money, so what's he need all that writing nonsense for?

He only finished book 5 because his editors literally flew him out to New York, locked him in a room and supervised until he finished so he'd have a book coming out with the show.

Toss in the fact that, looking at Bookscan, his sales numbers nosedived after the Game of Thrones finale... he knows he needs to knock it out of the park, or he'll be out. He'd rather flee the stadium and try and run out the clock while he can ride the gravy train.

He and Patrick Rothfuss will likely never finish the books people want them to... Scott Lynch at least has the excuse of what turns out to be a breathtakingly bad case of clinical depression.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

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Let’s not underestimate how much that can motivate GRRM

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

It's one of the worst kept secrets in the industry that Martin has zero intent of ever finishing ASOIAF. He wrote himself into a corner with no easy way out, especially with only two books left.

Worse, as a writer, his big motivator has always been money - he write because the alternative was no longer getting paid. Now he had TV and merch money, so what's he need all that writing nonsense for?

He only finished book 5 because his editors literally flew him out to New York, locked him in a room and supervised until he finished so he'd have a book coming out with the show.

Toss in the fact that, looking at Bookscan, his sales numbers nosedived after the Game of Thrones finale... he knows he needs to knock it out of the park, or he'll be out. He'd rather flee the stadium and try and run out the clock while he can ride the gravy train.

He and Patrick Rothfuss will likely never finish the books people want them to... Scott Lynch at least has the excuse of what turns out to be a breathtakingly bad case of clinical depression.

Some of my friends who are diehard ASOIAF fans refuse to listen when I tell them we're never going to see A Dream of Spring, and maybe not even Winds of Winter. I counter with all this stuff, plus the fact that it has now been eleven years since Dance with Dragons and GRRM isn't getting any younger. Even if his editors lock him in a room and threaten to sic angry fans on him until he sorts out the Meereenese Knot and we get Winds, I figure he's going to do a Herbert and croak before he makes any substantive progress on Dream of Spring.

This whole thing has been such a strange phenomenon. I don't think I've ever seen anything that rose so high and crashed so hard as Game of Thrones did. I think we'll still be talking about GoT fifty or a hundred years down the road, but as a cautionary tale, not as a literary classic like Lord of the Rings or a pop-culture juggernaut like Marvel or Star Wars.

 

[Mola Ram]

Some of my friends who are diehard ASOIAF fans refuse to listen when I tell them we're never going to see A Dream of Spring, and maybe not even Winds of Winter. I counter with all this stuff, plus the fact that it has now been eleven years since Dance with Dragons and GRRM isn't getting any younger. Even if his editors lock him in a room and threaten to sic angry fans on him until he sorts out the Meereenese Knot and we get Winds, I figure he's going to do a Herbert and croak before he makes any substantive progress on Dream of Spring.

This whole thing has been such a strange phenomenon. I don't think I've ever seen anything that rose so high and crashed so hard as Game of Thrones did. I think we'll still be talking about GoT fifty or a hundred years down the road, but as a cautionary tale, not as a literary classic like Lord of the Rings or a pop-culture juggernaut like Marvel or Star Wars.

I don't like how The Dark Tower turned out, nor am I fan of latter day Stephen King in general, but I give the man credit: when he felt the chill of death approaching he got off his ass and knocked out three novels in a couple of years just to be done with the fucking thing. GRRM is just playing out the string.

 

[Shaka Brah]

I don't like how The Dark Tower turned out, nor am I fan of latter day Stephen King in general, but I give the man credit: when he felt the chill of death approaching he got off his ass and knocked out three novels in a couple of years just to be done with the fucking thing. GRRM is just playing out the string.

Looking in the same genre, the only reason Robert Jordan couldn't publish the last 2 Wheel of Time books is because, when he dictated them to his wife during chemo, she didn't write it all down so some parts had to be filled in. The guy was literally on his deathbed telling it aloud to make sure people could see the story he wanted.

If GRRM keels over do you think fans will be disappointed when that cuck Sanderson writes the last 2 books?

 

[Commissar Fuklaw]

What really chaps my arse over ASOIAF is George's lack of communication and constant lying and manipulation when he does. All he has to do is come out with the truth and so many people would be understanding, there's zero downside to doing it.

I had a link that I can't find now of his NotABlog and interviews for ADWD, where someone went through what he was saying at the time and what he was actually writing. It was complete bullshit. You don't have to go full progress bar like Sanderson, but jesus christ you can just say "Hey, I'm having a rough time because XYZ, I'd rather be doing ABC instead for the meantime, but I'm still keen on doing it!"

That retard Rothfuss could do the same thing and be honest with everyone and he'd get back so much goodwill.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Question for the thread is name of the wind worth reading?

 

[Commissar Fuklaw]

Question for the thread is name of the wind worth reading?

The prose is well written which makes it easy to read but I didn't enjoy the Gary Stu main character. Some plot points are interesting, but really I got the feeling the book was mostly filler in the end. I have the sequel waiting next to it but I haven't got the interest to continue with the story.

 

[Shaka Brah]

What really chaps my arse over ASOIAF is George's lack of communication and constant lying and manipulation when he does. All he has to do is come out with the truth and so many people would be understanding, there's zero downside to doing it.

I had a link that I can't find now of his NotABlog and interviews for ADWD, where someone went through what he was saying at the time and what he was actually writing. It was complete bullshit. You don't have to go full progress bar like Sanderson, but jesus christ you can just say "Hey, I'm having a rough time because XYZ, I'd rather be doing ABC instead for the meantime, but I'm still keen on doing it!"

That retard Rothfuss could do the same thing and be honest with everyone and he'd get back so much goodwill.

Like how there's a whole fan theory about how the Berserk manga went on hiatus due to Idolmaster because Miura was a superfan. People don't mind when authors take time to do what they like.

 

[Commissar Fuklaw]

Like how there's a whole fan theory about how the Berserk manga went on hiatus due to Idolmaster because Miura was a superfan. People don't mind when authors take time to do what they like.

I sympathise with both GRRM and Miura because I've spent time writing several grimdark stories for NaNoWriMo and came to the conclusion that I couldn't stay in that headspace for as long as they both did and in George's case, still has to. It's rough to express horrible things for so long when you're not a maniac.

 

[Two Gorillion Dollars]

Question for the thread is name of the wind worth reading?

God, no. It's fantasy where the most fantastical it gets is, like, escaping college loans and being obsessed with one particular woman. There's a bit where Mary Sue Kvothe says the most incel nice guy shit, and I quote: “I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name.”

He'll never finish the third book. His writing is okay at points but at other times it's just the most banal motivational poster shit you can find, except dragged out with double the amount of words needed to get to the thought-provokingly prosaic point. He never actually tells the story of how Kvothe isn't the great hero people think he is. It's similar to Ready Player One where it's more proof that the SF/F world had an odd episode of mass psychosis for a few years.

 

[JJLiautaud]

God, no. It's fantasy where the most fantastical it gets is, like, escaping college loans and being obsessed with one particular woman. There's a bit where Mary Sue Kvothe says the most incel nice guy shit, and I quote: “I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name.”

He'll never finish the third book. His writing is okay at points but at other times it's just the most banal motivational poster shit you can find, except dragged out with double the amount of words needed to get to the thought-provokingly prosaic point. He never actually tells the story of how Kvothe isn't the great hero people think he is. It's similar to Ready Player One where it's more proof that the SF/F world had an odd episode of mass psychosis for a few years.

Jesus how could anyone write that look at it and not reconsider their career as writer?