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I'm more than halfway through mage errant which is like a less quality version of mother of learning (student centric but no time stuff), but still very enjoyable zero to hero.

for litrpg I finished 'system apocolypse' recently, which I enjoyed. Funny, I went into it right after cradle and it was jarring. Very quickly realized how quality the writing of cradle was.

I discovered system apocolypse because i've been using ai to track down finished series even though they're typically a bit iffy quality, kind of pivoting out of litrpg into zero to hero for this reason, as there's a lot more finished stuff.
 
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Listening to Morningwood; Everybody loves large chests by Neven Iliev on Audible.

Started this this morning. First book is short but good so far. Protagonist is a mimic.
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Go through book one mainly because of Hays, feels like a c tier movie you only watched because you really like one of the actors.
 
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Man, I'm struggling with HWFWM. I'm almost half way through book 1, awesome that it's almost 24 hours in audible, most of the books seem to be 20+ hours long. I bought the first 12 on s crazy sale a while back.

1st, the narrator must have a sound board for " Jason says" and "Gary said". He'll say whatever the character says, pause, then add "character says ". I can't *sink* into this.

I know every main character has to have main character power, but I'm just not getting it. And his smugness after leaving a world where his family dissed him after his brother took his gf. No progression from lone looser to gifted adventurer.

And the political lean of the author isn't the worst, but enough that it's almost the straw on the camels back.

Does this get better? So many compare it to Primal hunter, and it's just not for me
 
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fris said:
Man, I'm struggling with HWFWM. I'm almost half way through book 1, awesome that it's almost 24 hours in audible, most of the books seem to be 20+ hours long. I bought the first 12 on s crazy sale a while back.

1st, the narrator must have a sound board for " Jason says" and "Gary said". He'll say whatever the character says, pause, then add "character says ". I can't *sink* into this.

I know every main character has to have main character power, but I'm just not getting it. And his smugness after leaving a world where his family dissed him after his brother took his gf. No progression from lone looser to gifted adventurer.

And the political lean of the author isn't the worst, but enough that it's almost the straw on the camels back.

Does this get better? So many compare it to Primal hunter, and it's just not for me
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Funny, I thought the first 3 were the peak for that series.
 
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fris said:
Man, I'm struggling with HWFWM. I'm almost half way through book 1, awesome that it's almost 24 hours in audible, most of the books seem to be 20+ hours long. I bought the first 12 on s crazy sale a while back.

1st, the narrator must have a sound board for " Jason says" and "Gary said". He'll say whatever the character says, pause, then add "character says ". I can't *sink* into this.

I know every main character has to have main character power, but I'm just not getting it. And his smugness after leaving a world where his family dissed him after his brother took his gf. No progression from lone looser to gifted adventurer.

And the political lean of the author isn't the worst, but enough that it's almost the straw on the camels back.

Does this get better? So many compare it to Primal hunter, and it's just not for me
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First book was very bad. It does get better, but the guys political lean gets worse.
 
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On book 11 of HWFWM. It's a mid book series. There are redeeming parts, but the exposition and the author injecting his politics gets much worse as the series goes on. It's getting to therapy quest by therapist sanderson levels of THERAPY at times during book 11. Hard to say if I'd put it above or below dungeon fighter carl. The series have about an equal level of gay retarded going on. I definitely wouldn't be this far in the series if I didn't pirate it and wasn't getting paid to read it.
 
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Literally ARK the video game in book form. The author could be a poster here, from reading his bio (except he played EQ2 longer than any sane person should). Book is short, but not horrible, and easy to read. I mean, if you want to play ARK without playing it, here you go. I will read more when it comes out but I'm not expecting much.

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Drop a space marine into a fantasy world and you have this book. It is fairly well written and has a lot more content than the first one, but we'll see how the second book goes. It doesn't actually have any litrpg elements if you aren't a fan of those; no stats or character sheets or system, etc. Just fantasy shit with a space marine running through it. Starts off with him very mission focused and cardboard-y, on purpose, but his conditioning is starting to unravel and he's developing a personality, so we'll see how that plays out. The world has a bunch of stuff that doesn't get fully explained right away, but eventually you start to get more info, which is good because there aren't massive lore dumps all over the place. You're just left a little confused because of terms and such for a long time. Nothing most people can't handle, unless you're a woman that asks 3 minutes into a movie who that guy is.

I give both books 3/5, but for different reasons, which should be apparent. Mostly just to see how things play out in future books.
 
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Guurn said:
I get your point on the main character, but he does only sleep with female characters. Like every Litrpg the writer tends to push something and then within a couple pages contradicts that assertion directly. I actually find that pretty funny. The only one that isn't on your list that I really liked was Hell Difficulty tutorial. I have a feeling that you may have an issue with the number of characters in the main characters orbit as well as him being a generally unlikeable guy. Basically everyone he meets comments on how punchable his face is and how little emotion he shows. I think the only series I can think of that really fits your type without being heavily cultivating, which I can't stand, is Awaken Online. There are some dud books in the series and the side series meant to flesh out the other characters flopped for me. The initial bad guy is a meme though.
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Loving Hell Difficulty Tutorial so far, just finished book 4. The ending of that book is amazing.
 
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fris said:
Man, I'm struggling with HWFWM. I'm almost half way through book 1, awesome that it's almost 24 hours in audible, most of the books seem to be 20+ hours long. I bought the first 12 on s crazy sale a while back.

1st, the narrator must have a sound board for " Jason says" and "Gary said". He'll say whatever the character says, pause, then add "character says ". I can't *sink* into this.

I know every main character has to have main character power, but I'm just not getting it. And his smugness after leaving a world where his family dissed him after his brother took his gf. No progression from lone looser to gifted adventurer.

And the political lean of the author isn't the worst, but enough that it's almost the straw on the camels back.

Does this get better? So many compare it to Primal hunter, and it's just not for me
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I had same issue, all of them go away.
 
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