General Reading Recommendation Thread (Not Series License Requests)
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@Zing said in General Recommendation Thread:
Shield Hero is pretty good too, volume 15 really hammered those feels home.
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@db0ssman What really hit me hard in Shield Hero volume 15 was
Link removed by Mod RB, please do not post links to illegal fan translations.
I just wish to have some clarification of under what law or rule it's illegal to post links to such web sites as novel updates or LNDB? When I make a novel recommendation I've been adding links to novel and manga updates because they contain a lot of useful information. Does it mean I've been breaking some kind of rule all this time? Why has it not been addressed sooner?
To my knowledge fan translating web novels is not illegal, so I am unsure why posting direct links to it should cause a mod to freak out like that.
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Fan translating WNs is illegal, the websites that host those WN make it known that the authors have full control over their stories and any decisions for how they will be handled (ie translations), unless they have obtained permission from the author directly to translate the story it is, technically, an illegal translation.
LNDB is fine, it is just informational, NU has direct links to fan TLs, it is a slight grey zone but we rather not have it.
There were a few reasons why NU removal it wasn't enforced earlier, one of them being because it was a grey zone, other then that we now do have a set of forum rules fort users to adhere to.
So going forward if you are making any licensing suggestion requests please do not use NU links.
Edit: To my knowledge MU is also just informational, so that is fine.
Sorry but J-Novel Club does not publicly comment on any potential licensing decision or acquisitions.
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@Rahul-Balaggan said in General Recommendation Thread:
Fan translating WNs is illegal, the websites that host those WN make it known that the authors have full control over their stories and any decisions for how they will be handled (ie translations), unless they have obtained permission from the author directly to translate the story it is, technically, an illegal translation.
LNDB is fine, it is just informational, NU has direct links to fan TLs, it is a slight grey zone but we rather not have it.
There were a few reasons why NU removal it wasn't enforced earlier, one of them being because it was a grey zone, other then that we now do have a set of forum rules fort users to adhere to.
So going forward if you are making any licensing suggestion requests please do not use NU links.
Edit: To my knowledge MU is also just informational, so that is fine.
Thank you for your clarifications, I will try to keep that in mind moving forward.
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@Zing said in General Recommendation Thread:
@db0ssman What really hit me hard in Shield Hero volume 15 was
I kind of hope you aren't referring to the prologue of book 16. That was the most cringe-inducing thing I've ever read in any medium. If that was the author's goal, she did a great job, but even that ended up feeling like a waste of potential.
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@db0ssman said in General Recommendation Thread:
@Zing said in General Recommendation Thread:
@db0ssman What really hit me hard in Shield Hero volume 15 wasI kind of hope you aren't referring to the prologue of book 16. That was the most cringe-inducing thing I've ever read in any medium. If that was the author's goal, she did a great job, but even that ended up feeling like a waste of potential.
Oh no, not that cringe inducing midlife-crisis Naofumi went through. Thought I did find it to be quite amusing. On the inside I was cheering for Raphtalia.
I was actually
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@Zing said in General Recommendation Thread:
@db0ssman said in General Recommendation Thread:
@Zing said in General Recommendation Thread:
@db0ssman What really hit me hard in Shield Hero volume 15 wasI kind of hope you aren't referring to the prologue of book 16. That was the most cringe-inducing thing I've ever read in any medium. If that was the author's goal, she did a great job, but even that ended up feeling like a waste of potential.
Oh no, not that cringe inducing midlife-crisis Naofumi went through. Thought I did find it to be quite amusing. On the inside I was cheering for Raphtalia.
I was actually
Yeah, I'm not saying I didn't feel anything at all, just not nearly as much as the potential that type of scene had. One thing I've learned in life, though is that for everyone that says...
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I want to recommend a novel (Series) to people that enjoyed "The Banner of the stars" or "Legends of the Galactic Hereos" this is another space opera set in a Universe were the human race is at war, with several other alien species that only think of humans as food.
The Series is Old Man's War by John Scali. So far I read the first two volumes in the series: Old's Man War and The Ghost Brigade. My thoughts on the first book were that I liked the character Old Man pov; it dealt with things like being old and losing your wife, family, romance, losing friends and war.
Even if this is a sci-fi most of the action takes place on the ground space battles served only as intro to the actual fighting on land. The technology was interesting and the races presented are different physically with have unique culture. Aliens are fun to name a few we have crab people, roaches people, bird people, spider with giraffe heads people.
The second book is in the point of view of another character; a "clone", and becoming a real person being able to do choices etc.
Worth checking out if you into this genre. After finishing all the six volumes I am planning to start the Honor Harrington series another space opera
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@renofury - I've read and enjoyed the first 4-5 in Scalzi's Old Man's War series and I enjoyed it too.
I also liked the first 6? or so in the Honor Herrington series but I lost interest after that.
If you haven't read David Drake's Hammer's Slammers stories they're also good. Something I like about them is the stories are most often from the viewpoint of enlisted mercs and low-level officers, instead of from the main leaders. Some of his one-offs like Forlorn Hope are also worth reading.
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@HarmlessDave said in General Recommendation Thread:
Hammer's Slammers
Thanks for the suggestion checked it on Wikipedia it does look intresting
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@renofury said in General Recommendation Thread:
I want to recommend a novel (Series) to people that enjoyed "The Banner of the stars" or "Legends of the Galactic Hereos" this is another space opera set in a Universe were the human race is at war, with several other alien species that only think of humans as food.
The Series is Old Man's War by John Scali. So far I read the first two volumes in the series: Old's Man War and The Ghost Brigade. My thoughts on the first book were that I liked the character Old Man pov; it dealt with things like being old and losing your wife, family, romance, losing friends and war.
Even if this is a sci-fi most of the action takes place on the ground space battles served only as intro to the actual fighting on land. The technology was interesting and the races presented are different physically with have unique culture. Aliens are fun to name a few we have crab people, roaches people, bird people, spider with giraffe heads people.
The second book is in the point of view of another character; a "clone", and becoming a real person being able to do choices etc.
Worth checking out if you into this genre. After finishing all the six volumes I am planning to start the Honor Harrington series another space opera
Scalzi also has some wickedly funny stuff out there- anyone who has a history with fandom of space-opera/ Star Trek will find parts of Redshirts hilarious (and the book as a whole has dramatic moments and is a good story even if you don't care about Star Trek/ trekkies)
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There are a few series I'd like but i doubt they will be licenced by anyone. But you never know so ill post them here.
- Campione
- World break aria curse of holy swordsman
- High school dxd
- Bofuri I don't want to get hurt so ill max out my defence (anime was awesome and series 2 already announced as it was popular yet No one has the license yet)
- 8th son are you kidding me
- Aesthetica of a rogue hero
- Lord marksman and vanadis
- Wisemans grandson
There are others but if i list them all I'll be here for hours 😉 lot of isekai books listed as I've recently been reading a bunch. I listed ones that have animes out so if you haven't seen them you should as they are great. 1 and 2 were awesome series and I'd love to find out what happens next but fan translations aren't great so i have up on them.
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@Paddy8686 High School DxD novels have been licensed.
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@Paddy8686 see the licensing suggestions sub-forum: https://forums.j-novel.club/category/13/licensing-suggestions
Add to existing threads instead of starting new threads for the same title. Links to existing threads are here: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/1156/read-first-compiled-list-of-existing-suggestion-topics
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@yuyu - see my post just above yours, and the speculation thread in this sub-forum: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/52/acquisitions-speculation-general
This thread is for recommending already licensed and translated works that you can buy.
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@HarmlessDave ok. Thank you.
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@santouryuu said in Bookworm Part 3 Vol. 1 Discussion!:
Release That Witch
Does it have an official release?
NU says it's licensed by someone called Webnovel, but on their RTW page there is a post in reviews saying "As a professional team, we're earnest in translating this awesome novel. Every translator did self-checking after finishing each chapter, which will then be examined" which looks like a huge red flag for me. -
@AlexUsman It's on Webnovel, which is for all intents and purposes a legitimate platform. It's owned by Tencent, though, so you may have personal reservations about them.
https://www.webnovel.com/book/7931338406001705/Release-That-Witch
