General Reading Recommendation Thread (Not Series License Requests)
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@marya I haven't read a lot of our other Heart titles yet, but Can Someone Please Explain was a lot of fun, and I've heard that White Cat's Revenge is very well-regarded.
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@myskaros said in Tearmoon Empire Volume 2 Discussion!:
Can Someone Please Explain
Oh, I'll try that one out. I think I've read the manga of White Cat. Thank you.
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@Clarabelle This is a good list to start reading from.
Have you read bookworm? What's your rating of bookworm? -
@crowdcontrol Yes, I have read Ascendance of a Bookworm, I buy every premium ebook of it.^^ My rating would be 10/10 for it.
@marya I can recommend you:
- Apparently it‘s My Fault Tat My Husband Has The Head of a Beast
- Bibliophile Princess
- Deathbound Duke‘s Daughter (Similar to Bakarina, but much more exiting)
- The Tales of Marielle Clarac
- The White Cat's Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King's Lap
💖Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn - then be a unicorn!💖
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@marya check out I Refuse To Be Your Enemy it's similar and is fun.
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@Clarabelle well if you read and liked
- Biblio P.
- Marielle
you would like
- Can Someone Please Explain What’s Going On?!
The prince is not fine in that series but our young lady is my favorite in those 3 series.
Edit: as for rating with those 3
Marielle > Whats going on > Biblio P would be my raiting.
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@hopebestman I‘ve already tried Can Someone Please Explain What‘s Going On?, but I couldn't really bond with the story, so I quickly lost interest in it.
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hello, I have just finished reading all the volumes of cooking with wild game and Ascendance of a Bookworm. suddenly I started outbreack company but, I hang less. Would you have titles of the same quality as the first two to offer me. thank you in advance
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@La-mergouille - are you looking for books about food, or about people who love books? What do you like about those two series, and what are some other light novels that you like?
The JNC cooking series Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill is less serious than Cooking with Wild Game, it is more fun and silly.
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody also turns into a cooking series (in part), because the main character is on vacation in his new world and enjoys seeing new things, learning new crafts, and eating delicious food. Cooking his own food is a much bigger part in volume 3 and later.
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@HarmlessDave said in General Recommendation Thread:
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
Green's Theorem
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hello and thank you for your response. I will try to answer your questions. Light novels don't necessarily need to talk about books and / or food. What I liked about bookworm and cooking was the quality of the writing and the story. if not in the other works that I liked there is Another, Berserk, Dan Machi, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, me when I reincarnate in slime, goblin slayer, the rising of the shield hero are the series that quickly come to mind.
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@La-mergouille I would suggest Der Werwolf.
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@HarmlessDave We better stop discussing this here.
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Looking for any isekai where the person/people is summon from another country besides Japan.
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@taz2 The Devil is a Part-Timer?
There's an unlicensed series I can think of that's from one fantasy world to another, this one: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/2035/lv2-kara-cheat-datta-moto-yuusha-kouho-no-mattari-isekai-life-the-laid-back-life-in-another-world-of-the-ex-hero-candidate
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@taz2 said in General Recommendation Thread:
Looking for any isekai where the person/people is summon from another country besides Japan.
It's been done in Western fiction since at least John Carter of Mars. Have you read much non-LN SF & fantasy?
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@taz2 said in General Recommendation Thread:
Looking for any isekai where the person/people is summon from another country besides Japan.
@HarmlessDave is right, there are a ton of "Western isekai" stories, at least as far back as Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
I think Three Hearts and Three Lions, by Poul Anderson might be of interest to you.
Edit: Also, The Mathematics of Magic, by L. Sprague Dr Camp & Fletcher Pratt. It collects all of the "Incompleat Enchanter" novellas, along with an amusing and helpful (?) essay on how to equip yourself if you anticipate being isekai-ed into a world where guns won't work.
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The entire Chronicles of Narnia.
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I'm finishing up the If Its for my daughter... series pretty soon and am looking for my next series to start. Ideally, it would be something like Rising of the Shield Hero, but more like the earlier part of the series (before it became a shameless harem isekai). I'm thinking of starting Lazy Dungeonmaster, but it looks pretty heavy on the fan service, so I'm not that sure. I don't mind fan service if it is done well, but once it becomes constant in the writing/derails the pace of the book I usually don't like it.
Quick overview of my tastes based on what I've read already:
Rising of the Shield Hero - Mostly loved the series, but didn't like the harem/fan service aspects near the end
Ascendance of a Bookworm - Love the series, probably don't want to read something quite that slow this time (since I'm still reading the simulpubs)
Goblin Slayer - Absolute trash. Not only is the writing itself terrible, it didn't even make 3 books before it became nothing but fan-service and side-stories (stopped after book 4)
If it's for my daughter... - I like it as long as I can keep my mind from thinking about the creepier aspects.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
