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Yeah, they suck. I own the first print. I saw online the first first print of #1 didn't have a slip cover, but I'm pretty sure mine does? So I dunno!
I have no idea if people want these versions, cause I mean, just look at them.
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I have no idea if people want these versions, cause I mean, just look at them.
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Power Leveling because I can.
Their is a problem with the quote so I have to reply.
Because on how deep the rabbit hole is for me I can say with certainty.
Japanese Manga Writers overall has a better story line as well as actually telling a story than modern day Western Writers.
Korean Manhwa Writers are getting a lot better.
Chinese Manhua/Wixia Writers needs fucking work.
But because of the flooding of the market, the quality of storyline as well as panel work, illustration is starting to get questionable. Still overall better than what is being put out in the West, I see the watering down of quality due too need and profitability.
It is going to cost me A LOT OF MONEY just of get my foot in the door to these publishing companies/gatekeepers if I want something I want to be produced... get produced.
It's bad... Real bad.. Maybe there will be another recession to bitch slap some of these DEI Elitests out enough so other people can get in.
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Wordsworth classics presents: spice and wolf.
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I was wondering a while ago why comments on news posts on Goodreads are gone, and people in the subreddit claimed it was because there were too many "racist or homophobic" comments. But I have no idea whether there ever was an official statement (probably not).
But every list in the GR news section was always full of diversity crap, who tf was complaining there?
Goodreads is terrible but I haven't found a better alternative and I kinda enjoy reading 1 star reviews.
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The first book is beat for beat Star Wars in plot and execution.
At the criticism seemed to have gotten to him and Paolini made it more original in the next books.
His Majesty's Dragon is the superior dragon series.
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Kadokawa literally needs to pay closer attention to their localizing teams because Western localizers are PC as fuck and have been sneakily rewriting or outright removing sentences in the name of "translation/localizing is an artform". LN fans have been catching them in the act, but not enough has been done to make this shit stop.
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They're liars.
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I don't think the criticism got to him, it's that he wrote the first book when he was 15 and the second when he was 20.
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Star Wars is basically just Dune, down to the intergalactic sci fi setting with a focus on close quarters blade fighting and mysterious abilities like The Voice or The Force, space politics, and messianic figures. I would argue that you're pretty retarded if you prefer Star Wars over Dune but they're not the same. Lucas definitely read Dune when it was published and it definitely influenced his films.
As for Eragon, Star Wars doesn't have an extremely autistic magic system about another language that makes words and intent into energy that changes the physical world. It just has "The Force", which has less explanation than the magic shit in Dune. Magic in Eragon is basically the whole point. Dragons are creatures of magic and the land suffers as their race does. What is the equivalent of Dragons in Star Wars?
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I listened to this in the car. It was decent. But then i made the mistake of listening to a fan of these types of books, one of these Romantasy fans.
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Speaking of long videos shitting on terrible books, I'm a big fan of Krimson Rogue and I heartily recommend all his long form videos. Some of them are just insane shit, but most are related to YA, being slop such as 50 Shades, Ready Player Two, After, etc.
Empress Theresa, absolute schizobabble about the most deranged mary sue, 6 hours of content.
64 Squares, more psychotic ramblings about a gary stu accountant, written by a real accountant who was bored at work one day.
Ready Player Two, one of the worst sequels ever, and a genuinely bad book.
Midnight Sun, Twilight but PoV swapped to Edward, lots of serial stalker type monologuing.
After, a book about a woman who goes to college, cheats on her stable boyfriend with an abusive drunk manchild, and the subsequent 500 pages of drama.
The Missus, 50 Shades but british and subsequently, more retarded.
Empress Theresa, absolute schizobabble about the most deranged mary sue, 6 hours of content.
64 Squares, more psychotic ramblings about a gary stu accountant, written by a real accountant who was bored at work one day.
Ready Player Two, one of the worst sequels ever, and a genuinely bad book.
Midnight Sun, Twilight but PoV swapped to Edward, lots of serial stalker type monologuing.
After, a book about a woman who goes to college, cheats on her stable boyfriend with an abusive drunk manchild, and the subsequent 500 pages of drama.
The Missus, 50 Shades but british and subsequently, more retarded.
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Can japs actually write anything without it devolving into some sick fucked up fetish porn?
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I listened to him a lot in high school. I remember the Empress Thresa one, and the Twilight readings, which were the most hiliarious with how over the top he went in reviewing them.
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"Star wars is dune" is like saying every book plagiarizes the dictionary. For just one example, Dune is all about going TO a desert planet after being away from it during the first act. Star Wars, conversely, is all about LEAVING a desert planet after the first act (at which point nobody returns to it). And Messianic figures? Maud'dib has entire crowds following him and inspires a jihad, whereas Luke Skywalker has barely anyone even know his name (most of the final act is him being referred to as Red 5). Etc etc
Eragon book 1:
Opens with a highly placed female figure of a rebellion fleeing a magically powerful lieutenant of a tyrannical emperor. She ends up delivering a vital mcguffin stolen from said empire to an orphan who lives in a remote, backwater corner of said Empire. With this mcguffin, said orphan ends up bonding with an old, powerful warrior who was once a part of a legendary Order that enforced the rule of law, until one of its members betrayed said Order and set himself up in the now tyrannical empire.
The old guy then proceeds to train the orphan in the ways of his Order until they go to rescue the aforementioned female mcguffin deliverer - at which point the old mentor dies.
Etc etc to the third act where the orphan uses his macguffin and training to save the rebellion from an overwhelming attack by the empire.
Again, I'll admit that the later books greatly diverged from later star wars. But book 1 is just straight up "A New Hope" in plot.
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Interestingly enough, the whole of what women read vs. what men read strikes me as polar opposites; you'd think people who have "smart" hobbies who have next to no romantic history would be drawn to one another, but they're not. Men who read regularly personally often fall into niche unorthodox politics which frighten women, and the women just want to read brainrotting porn slop which is harmful to them in more ways than one and a waste of a tree as well. - What I want to know is how did this happen? It still floors me that women eat this up like candy though are uncomfortable if the book comes off as "racist" or "misogynistic" when it's likely not even there to begin with in the actual book. I have a hunch it might be because Twilight fans never grew out of that in more ways than one, which is why where we're at now with this.
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Jane Austin was already talking about this in the Victorian era. It's not new. It just became prevalent and accessible when marketers realized women buy more shit than men do, and hyperfocused on women. Completely threw the industry out of balance.
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Sure, but you're skipping much of the important plot points. The macguffin happens to be the deuteragonist, inextricably tied with the magic system, all of which is explained in the first book, as the training is a lot more involved than "use the force". It's a long ass book.
I was referring to the literal immaculate conception of Anakin because of the midi chlorian bullshit and the prophecy but yeah, that's in later films. Same with space politics, but the ancient order of Jedi Knights is just a pleb tier Bene Gesserit who have no idea how to keep humanity's balance. That's the whole point of the Jedi - to keep balance in the force, which means the galaxy, which means humanity. The Bene Gesserit do the same - they act as humanity's shepherds. It's why Leto II reminds them of their "noble purpose" when they discover his hidden cache in the later books. Noble purpose... like what the Jedi are supposed to do? And Jedi mind tricks are literally just the Voice dude.
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Ma'am, we're literally in a thread about how the primary producers of fucked up fetish porn are western women writing for other western women.
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Frieren is 142 chapters that follows the adventures of a elf who didn't know that a guy loved and she loved him until after his death and is still broken up about it 50 years later. So I'd say yeah.
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Sounds gay