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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

the misery of searching for stories that catch your interest, finding a rare nugget of gold, reading the entire fucking 400 chapters in a few days, and being unceremoniously dumped back into reality and faced with the ocean of absolute dogshit that people somehow find amazing.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah you've basically described how I read books I enjoy.

Harry Potter, Red Rising, The Lunar Chronicles, The Hunger Games.......all books I blew through in days and immediately had that "it's all over" funk afterwards where the world feels so much less interesting than the one my head was in for the last glorious 72 hours.

[–] TheBluePillock@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And the better it is, the harder the fall. I'm five months into a very long RPG series, but starting to approach the end. The hangover from this one is going to be absolute hell.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

absolute dogshit that people somehow find amazing

Harry Potter, GOT, Hunger Games etc... ?

Edit: Read the other comment, made me chuckle x)

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago

no i'm talking about royalroad stories, though to be fair a depressing amount of them are just "what if harry potter but with a litrpg system with 0 fucking explanation, a somehow even more insuffrably inherently special and amazing protagonist, and worse writing?"

like i accept that most stories are going to be garbage because writing is hard and i'm a picky reader, but holy shit i have to trawl through the "most popular" pages to find anything even tolerable