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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.
 

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Tuco Tuco you should probably check out the first Unbound book next-ish.
Started Unbound yesterday, really enjoying it.

After so many litrpg the first few chapters of "Random nerd kinda floundering and bored in life gets thrown into a gamified world" is like enjoying a classic burger at a new restaurant, familiar, but delicious and fresh.
 
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Also new Savage Awakening episode


I'm currently reading #5 (6 is the one that just came out), and I might be almost done with this one too. He just finished his stint with the rhinos. I get that none of these main characters are ever going to die, but it just gets super boring when you know he's just going to dig deep, deeper than ever before!! and win the fight, and probably unlock a new skill or some shit in the process. Hell, I can't even remember if his name is Zac or Zane, because who cares? I literally skim every navel gazing section until I see the notification text for whatever bullshit skill he just upgraded or unlocked too.

It's fun at first to see him doing all these crazy things, but now it is boring and I don't give a shit. At this point I'd rather read about Evan and Avery having adventures, even if they also are always going to win. At least it would be different, through the power of friendship or whatever.

I took a break for 10'ish books and read some actual legit stories (Murderbot for the 2nd time, and Bobiverse that I had only read the first two previously) and coming back to litrpg is pretty jarring. Aside from the whole self-edited thing, which is horrible in this Savage Awakening book, the whole litrpg thing always seems to hit a wall unless the author has a pre-planned arc of just a few books and actually ends it. By itself litrpg is just a neverending treadmill, and eventually I have to get off of it before they have milked every last drop out of the story.