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Halfway through Defiance of the Fall 15. It's still my favorite series right now. There's something about a book that makes you really work to earn understanding it. The way it bounces from actual scenes that move the story forward to epiphany stories that you don't know aren't happening to the MC until halfway through the third chapter of the epiphany. How it makes references to throwaway characters from 5 books ago that are required to remember before understanding core sections of the plot. The way it painstakingly progresses through each of the 37 tenets of the lung empowerment rituals.

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You should just summarize the last couple of books in a few sentences so the rest of us that are never going to read it can keep up. I stopped a couple books ago, but from the sounds of it I'd almost believe that he's trolling his readers now and making shit as boring and dry and repetitive as possible. But unless he got an AI to write it for him, that's a lot of work for trolling. I'll never read anything else he writes, because even if it starts strong he'll eventually fall into this same bullshit I assume, so I'm done. But I'd like to know when, 38 books from now, something cool finally happens.
 

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You should just summarize the last couple of books in a few sentences so the rest of us that are never going to read it can keep up. I stopped a couple books ago, but from the sounds of it I'd almost believe that he's trolling his readers now and making shit as boring and dry and repetitive as possible. But unless he got an AI to write it for him, that's a lot of work for trolling. I'll never read anything else he writes, because even if it starts strong he'll eventually fall into this same bullshit I assume, so I'm done. But I'd like to know when, 38 books from now, something cool finally happens.
Yup. Pretty much, but I HATE not finishing a series.
 
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Yup. Pretty much, but I HATE not finishing a series.
Hah. Are you at GRRM's house right now threatening him until he writes? Or maybe Rothfuss?

Seriously though, I've read enough shitty shitrpg that I just had to cut several of them off because they were so fucking bad. If I continued them I would just end up hating the author and myself for wasting my time. Worse, I might want to murder them.
 

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LITRPG is a genre where I don't mind quitting a series at all because once the MC has progressed to a certain point the game has been beaten.

In an alternate universe there is a small but bitter fanbase mad at the author for releasing the 31st book named Laurion's Song that they find derivative, boring and full of filled content. The fanbase recommends people stop reading after Book 5: The Planes of Power.
 

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I stopped reading it in volume one, it was clear that the author had nothing to say beyond using a well trod premise to hook readers into getting invested ultimately in nothing at all. Yay me I guess, but I do I wish that they'd put a little more effort into it.
 
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I really didn’t mind quitting defiance and primal hunter because they were so boring and wooden that I wasn’t invested in the characters, world, or story at all. Primal started that way, just shit. Defiance first group of books was fun but once he cleaned up earth and started swimming around in an alien planets ocean and leveling up by pondering it was pretty easy to stop caring and quit.