(light novel)), So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. At least having read it I can enjoy these deadly accurate Amazon reviews. Posted on 8 December, 2016 Hugo Posted in Sin categoría. We’ll skip the bit where the MC smells his own throat and go to: 'These wounds'. The only explanation for that sentence is that the author doesn't know what offered means. Portal Books is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. There’s also a flabbergasting amount of copy-pasted status updates. It’s chill - the MC’s progress is fairly serene and he solves problems with his intelligence, creativity, and the power of FRIENDSHIP. Because I’m addicted. Dialogue is weak even by the standards of the genre, and Timmo's first interaction with a real-life hottie doesn't bode well. It does that thing as Ascend Online where a character speaks, there are quote marks to indicate they have finished, then the SAME CHARACTER continues talking on the next line. Good: The author comes across as a decent guy; liberal and positive. Minor gripes aside, this is an 8/10 book and I'm looking forward to the sequel, which promises to have the MC interacting with a lot more space people. One of the best LitRPG books of the beginning of 2020, the story follows Grim Jack. August 31, 2017 at 5:44 AM. Threadbare, our MC, is a little teddy bear who gets brought to life in a failed experiment. Technically it’s my brother’s Kindle account so HE bought it. And let’s talk about women. Update - I regret to announce that I just downloaded book 4 after a long gap since book 3 and it is utterly unreadable. 10 Great litRPG Books in Kindle Unlimited. This was my first ‘dungeon core’ read and I expected it to be like the Dungeon Keeper games. (light novel)), Dragon Mage Academy The Complete Series: Books 1-7 Box Set, Battle Bond: An Urban Fantasy Dragon Series (Death Before Dragons Book 2), So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. This had lots of good reviews so I gave it a bash. Selfies? For today you can buy it, have a good time, and get yourself hooked. As I understand it, the difference between LitRPG and GameLit is that GameLit stories are set in game universes in which the entire reality is a game but may or may not have game-like mechanics, while LitRPG stories take place in universes that may be considered real and complete worlds in themselves but always have properties which mirror the mechanics in RPG games in our world, like … 1 year ago. Update 2 - I’ve just read Awaken Online and am considering putting that here instead. It honestly made me feel like I had had a stroke or something. by Andrew Girardin. It’s not crunchy and yet there’s tons of explanation of magic systems and runes and whatnot. That's right, kids! Books that read like a video game but don’t have lots of stats and exposed mechanics are called ‘gamelit’. That said, Seiple is a talented guy and has built another interesting world here, so I added the sequel to my waiting list. This makes them tedious and needy. An annoying American playing a near-future online game is sucked into The Land. The MC is heroic and entrepreneurial without being a douche. Really fun and funny! The only rich country in the world that doesn't provide healthcare as a basic right? The Crafting of Chess: A LitRPG Adventure. Unexpected. Would you pay a huge amount per month to have your EYES PIERCED, to be tortured by dark rituals, to have your sanity shattered? The best bits are when the dungeon is creating new traps and schemes to kill the heroes that enter his domain. you will notice that, invariably, almost all the books listed are by men. 10 (light novel) (So I'm a Spider, So What? So you get a sense of the wider state of the game and the war against the Man of Masks (super cool villain name; jealous) but you don’t have to watch the MC kill 400 goblins. May 16, 2018 - LitRPG books that contain elements of Town Building. So, a good start - very interesting premise. It's uncomplicated. The intro is quite bad. It’s about a kid who plays a new online game as a crafter to make money in real life. Nearly more vom. But the bit I really didn’t care for came as a surprise given that the book is fairly wholesome overall. Why do people play Candy Crush or World of Warcraft? BR is an escape from a grim late stage capitalist world - think of America after 20 years of Trumponomics. It comes out of nowhere and is truly warped. There’s mistakes aplenty, obvs. Paying someone 10 bucks to go through the final draft and change ‘too’ to ‘to’ would have made the book 8 percent better. I should delete it from my Kindle. The beginning is a quagmire of character set-up and someone explaining the game mechanics to the MC. It's fun to have a sci-fi LitRPG - almost every other one has orcs and elves and that. I’m saving money hand over fist, here. Of all the "Bad Guys" books in the series so far, this one stands out. Yet it’s maybe the single most important concept in the book! 4 (light novel) (So I'm a Spider, So What? It’s like you’ve hiked to a cheap hut in the mountains but they’ve got memory foam mattresses, a barrel sauna, and a complimentary bottle of prosecco. What does that mean? 10ys - 12ys. The first time I read that, I was confused that the hero thought the ant would be good at fencing. Also unexpected - Amazon customers raving about how funny the books is. The MC is under age, so the game filters out everyone’s genitals and he has zero romantic interest in the women he meets. Come on, guy. C 46 - A threat is made to shove peppers up someone’s ass. So someone handed HIM a jug and he OFFERED a drink to someone else? It's unsophisticated, even uncouth, but you didn't buy a Tana French novel, did you? If the sequel is out I buy it immediately. Ugland's LitRPG/GameLit Books are Required Reading for fans of the genre. "I've read more realistic books, and funnier books, and wiser ones -- but I must say, this is a marvelous blend of those flavors. 1. share. Once we get past the exposition and into the actual game/main story, it turns into something worth reading. I'm ploughing through but only a few pages a night. I really wanted the hero to pound their heads into the floor. It's truly baffling and very often ruins the flow. Lesbian fiction can be hit or miss, something I learned quickly while running a lesbian book club in 2017. There’s a bit early on where his high charisma makes a big difference to the plot, but overall the stats are meaningless. The character progresses at a breakneck pace - in the number of pages some heroes would take to get to level 4, this guy gets to level 14. The colour of magic in this world is blue, but Chmilenko has fallen in love with the word ‘azure’ and uses it no less than 40 times per sentence. Henegar must have been in the US military because he starts the book with a poem - of sorts - dedicated to 'the Soldier'. This is great! Incredible narration here and with a great story that had me belly laughing. It must account for over 5% of the book. Which is extraordinary. Give a good editor a draft and an hour with a yellow highlighter and he could turn this into a 9/10 genre classic. January 6, 2021 I mean... *checks notes... Boundless Realms). Girls who play games attach themselves to men like barnacles to a ship. I shouldn't let it bother me and I shouldn't go on about it but JESUS CHRIST PEOPLE YOU'VE ALL READ A BOOK BEFORE. Let him work out why he’s in a game. He was in the army before drones phased out actual soldiers, so he chooses to role play as a Roman Soldier. The protagonist (Jim) dies, and enters his new life blessed with powers he shouldn't possess. 1 (light novel) (So I'm a Spider, So What? (light novel)), So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. (That one is especially irksome because there's no way the main character would continue to deliberately annoy Randolphus. A very poopy vomity chapter.). Rowling is often lauded for her talent for world building and plotting, but personally I don’t think she gets enough credit for how funny … Why am I doing this? BUT it’s not really LitRPG. C 16 - Vomits while falling and falls into the vomit. But not quite the heights of Epic. That's how Rome conquered the known world, and it has its own beauty. But in Book 3 I started to get really fatigued by the constant combat. It’s all self-published, so there’s no editor, no quality control. One is the use of quotation marks. I have just downloaded the second book (Kindle Unlimited paying its way!) I think those criticisms are very fair but I can’t state enough that this book is GREAT and one of the most enjoyable LitRPGs I’ve read. He gets kicked off his perch and has to play an impossible scenario - which only gets worse. It feels like it was written in the 80s - it’s all about punks and skateboarding and graffiti. Seriously. Unfortunately the cover art is SO DUMB that you won’t buy it. When our hero finally gets to Thera he has to complete a tutorial. It’s really draining that the characters have unwinnable fight after unwinnable fight. The books are far from high literature - if I was flirting with a writer from the New Yorker, trying to bond with her over our mutual admiration for Tana French, and then I accidentally started enthusing about this LitRPG thing... Well part of me wishes I were single to go and try it. The word ‘asshole’ appears more often than the word ‘the’. The first 10% of the book should all be cut. So something made me not buy the 3rd book after I finished the 2nd. It's good! The interactions between the main character and his companion are often baffling. What. It's a maddening sound. The ancillary characters are well-done, too, giving us an eye on the outside world and there’s just the right amount of connection between this small dungeon on a remote mountain and the geopolitics of the rest of the world. There’s magic, combat, and city-building, and it’s all pretty satisfying. (A fast read is a good read.) But beware! But with the comma, it's crystal clear and no need to furrow one's brow for a second. I feel like I'm playing the adventure I'm reading and it's always interesting when Richter levels up or finds new loot. I'm basically ending every night on a low note. What's fun here is that our hero, Timothy, is forced to take a rubbish race/class combination that no-one would voluntarily choose. The ‘knowing references’ to pop culture etc aren’t just lame, they break the immersion. In two early combat scenes we are puzzled to find our hero checking his inventory or considering his stat upgrade options - there was no mention that he'd struck the killing blow! Fanks. – Daily Kos Bowels. ... Top 8 Best Funny Novels For 2021 – A Bit Of Adventure, Good Laughs & Great Stories. The cover is shit. The Roman legion conceit is solid, if slightly repetitive. Off-puttingly bad. Why is the MC only getting the chills after whatever he did with the jug? It means that each grouping only has 9 levels in it, because 10 and 1 of the next rank is the same. Update - Book 2 was more of the same, and the side-quest filler book about Riley was fine. Usually once you get to novice(10) it will become apprentice(1) instead. Then there's a dirty yellow strip with the author's name. Who gives a shit? But… I knew that already. (I imagine that's a typical story; I've never actually listened to it.). All nagging aside, there are some really gripping bits. The hero sort of reluctantly accepts that taxes are needed but it's said while holding his nose. Richter's story is captivating, funny, and a little addictive. Later, when you’re a LitRPG veteran, you can decide you are too cool for Kong, and look down your nose and say things like ‘well it’s a good starter book I suppose’.There are loads of sequels already so you can keep grinding.Read more below in the general reviews section if you want. 5 (light novel) (So I'm a Spider, So What? There's some world-building - literally - and the fights are quite well done. It's clear what he means, but then again, it's a world underpinned (literally) by magic. It's really a slog. As I write it’s 2019 and they might get it NEXT YEAR. He has a magic power that no-one else in the universe has. It’s quite heavy on ‘cultivation’, meaning the characters are always fussing about their auras and saying things like ‘oh wow you can process water essence how many meridians do you have open?’. ‘X did Y, which is strange because he’s a gamer, not an athlete,’ or vice versa, is repeated a bazillion times. Yes! Huh. The Good Guys is the name of the series. Then at a certain point it almost seems written by someone else. Every time a plank smacks him in the head he levels up in constitution, and every time he realises something about the world he gets a point in intelligence. I left myself a note saying ‘vanishingly few typos’ but can’t find anything else. Why? Most LitRPG books are available through KU so it has really transformed how I choose which ones to read. And it’s full of grating sections like: [the main character has been spotted by a giant ant]. And there's a certain plot event that is maddening as a reader. But after rinsing my mind out with soapy water I’ll be right onto the sequel. As always in LitRPG, a non-joke joke is loaded into the author's assault rifle and fired repeatedly into the reader's face. Good: The general tone of the world - the quest and spell descriptions, level up notifications and the like, have a good voice. Then the shittest stock image of a castle. Well, questions don't have question marks, but they do appear at the end of statements. I also find anything with ‘gods’ really extraordinarily tedious. You don't need to have played a video game to immediately and instinctively know that XP (experience points), npc (non-player character), and PVP (player vs player) should be IN CAPS. It's hard to enjoy 'banter' when it is only written because the author wants to type it out. But he spends so long agonising over his character he ends up being sent to a remote village, alone. 3 (light novel) (So I'm a Spider, So What? The year is 2085. Update: Okay book 4 introduces the ‘female nagging a man to do his duties and not galavant around doing fun projects’ trope that appears in half these books. It’s dumb and grating - strength TEN agility TEN dexterity TEN something TEN this is my life now TEN endurance TEN strength oh did I say that already TEN etc. (Actually that isn’t true - it’s more like the power of being the only player in the game who isn’t a total dick.). (light novel)), Midlife Curses: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Mystery (Witching Hour Book 1), False Security: an Urban Fantasy Adventure (Death Before Dragons Book 5), So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. Someone much more… teenage and scared of girls. No. They've made some weird choices though. Many LitRPG books are so focused on the progress of the characters in game that they otherwise have only a meandering, rather purposeless plot. The MC keeps running his mouth off - even when it lands him in near-death situation after near-death situation. Discover the best Humorous Fantasy in Best Sellers. Just tell me what’s changed! Should be good! What wounds? Again, I was left pretty underwhelmed. The whole ‘RPG’ of it all has minimal importance and the MCs skills are always sufficient for the task at hand. Update - Another sequel I only read because I got Kindle Unlimited. level 2. There are 8 verses like this: It is the Soldier, not the reporterWho has given us freedom of the press. I can’t imagine that I’ll go on to the next. Surely he's fearful? Sold!)). It's bad enough on the Kindle, scrolling through loads of tedious numbers we've seen a hundred times before. Read more about that book in the LitRPG reviews section below. Commas emerge from gaps between words like weeds in my patio. To which do you refer? Which in addition to the unlikable MC left me feeling a bit frustrated. 30 Funny Books for Kids. Funny, imaginative, captivating! THAT SAID - many people seem to love it so if you can get the first one cheap, maybe it’ll work better for you. ‘Watching’ a character solve problems, get more experience, spend his experience points on new abilities - it should be awful and it is awful, but on the other hand it’s awesome. If you look at lists of canonically funny books on the internet, which I do with some frequency (what, is that not a normal way to spend one’s time?) (light novel)), Grave New World (Down & Dirty Supernatural Cleaning Services Book 1), A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons: A Light-hearted Humorous Fantasy Adventure (Dragoncat Book 1), That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Vol. Something about a brother? I wanted to like this one. But I hated it. So yep, soft recommend from me. I read this about 6 months ago. The LitRPG elements are non-existent. TAO WONG looks really cool on the cover. It’s just as good. Dungeons fall one by one and Vogthar seems to take the world over. You never quite know what's happening and the author makes a great many unwarranted assumptions. Can't get into it without spoiling. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. (light novel)), Dusk Avenger (Flirting with Monsters Book 3), Tangled Truths: An Urban Fantasy Dragon Series (Death Before Dragons Book 3), So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. Or more like a vampire, sucking them dry then moving on to the next victim. Let’s call it well-intentioned but cringeworthy. I had heard of LitRPG before, and arguably, some books I've really liked fall into this category, it was a pretty hard sell for me. Surely not. Updated hourly. Dungeon Born is the first book in a series by Dakota Krout. C 36 - I have to look up the meaning of ‘swamp ass’. This one starts great. 30,000 words, non-illustrated. Yes! Now I’m more willing to try a sequel and see if the author has improved, or start some series with mixed reviews. 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