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What are you reading/listening to this week? (October 4th, 2023) (self.chat)

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[–] flossdaily@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

LitRPG is almost entirely unreadable. Incredibly cringe dialogue, amateur writing, etc.

It's never, ever great. But, sometimes it's just a lot of stupid fun. I feel deep shame at how much time I've spent on Eric Ugland's Good Guys and Bad Guys series.

and J.R. Mathews did a good job with his book Jake's Magical Market.

Seriously, this stuff has no literary value. For each of these series I went in with the attitude that the moment I get bored, I'm out ... And with all of the ones I've mentioned, they sucked me in very effectively.

Note: they all almost universally suffer from really rushed and stupid beginnings.. there's no subtle or elegant way to start a story in this genre.

[–] aendarus 4 points 1 year ago

Ahhh, I get it. I read fanfiction for the exact same reason. Sometimes I feel lazy and I want to read but turn my brain off, so I'll open up AO3

Also (back in my sad cringe era) I did read a couple "gamer" fics which are like the fanfiction version of LitRPGs but worse. The problem with those was (other than the terrible writing and the sexism) the lack of a clear ending, so they go on forever and eventually fizzle out