>>25116253
stop browsing reddit

Lots of books that people recommend are actually shit. See: Dostoevsky, Kafka, Plato.
You simply have to put your own tastes above the stupid masses.

>>25116253
do not fall for the audibook retort to this either. that's their go-to line when someone says they can't get into the book. I swear this book is being astro-turfed. if I said I don't like Harry Potter nobody responds with "BUY THE AUDIOBOOK!", but with this stupid series they all do. fucking strange

>>25116253
It's fun, has great characterization, and toes a fine line between tragedy/comedy. I don't care for the referential humor and the achievement sorta shit.

>>25116253
You should've realized something was up when the people who usually don't read books were recommending it.

>>25116598
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You have to learn to ignore this kind of thing. Like when Red Rising fags say the later books are totally mature and intriguing and not at all brainless YA slop like first one. People are always trying to trick you into reading garbage.

>>25116655
I picked up Red Rising at one point and there was a sex scene like 10 pages into the novel, so I put it down right then and there.

>>25116253
What you need to remember is that the majority of people are midwits, and therefore think mid shit is the best.

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>>25116253
>reddit crawler carl
A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well. A summer insect cannot discuss ice, because it knows only its own season. A narrow-minded scholar cannot discuss the Tao, because he is constrained by his teachings. Now you have come out of your banks and seen the Great Ocean. You now know your own inferiority, so it is now possible to discuss great principles with you.

Read Reverend Insanity.

>>25116899
Anon, you're just describing the parable of the Cave, but chinky this time.

This goes for all LitRPG I find. It's all complete garbage writing, but it finds a following for other reasons. The readership in the associated web novel culture has a tendency to lavishly reward conscientious authors who regularly shit out instalments even if the quality is not there, which is understandable if you take into account how often authors start and then abandon their work on those websites. There's also an element of geeks recognising and celebrating the representation of RPG elements in texts. It's definitely a silly low culture phenomenon... almost like the pulps... so I feel bad about judging it too harshly, but it is easy to hate the readers who overhype such shit and pay big patreon bucks to these genuinely awful yet idolised stories.

>>25116901
"Frog in a well" is a much more succinct and evocative allegory than "dude chained up in a cave watching shadows on the wall".

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>>25116253
Book sellers are all swindlers and the users talking at you online are being body snatched by snake in the grass advertisers, even this politically incorrect website is coordinated by nyrb and penguin illuminati shills.

>>25116253
>>25116655
My stemcel friend who has only just gotten into reading recommended I read this. He had lent me a copy of Red Rising, which I am going to read but not sure I'll enjoy, as I'm really not interested in that kind of post-YA sci-fi/fantasy. I am going to have to read it as he is my friend, but I've been putting it off for a while.

>>25116253
Misread that as
>I feel like being gaslit. Books for this?

>>25116253
don't listen to normies about books. listen to me me, exclusively. go read 'Frog and Toad Together'.