InediblePenguin posted:

About ten years ago I participated in a white elephant exchange and I received a complete paperback set of Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures series. This is an entire loving series of books based solely around puns. Egregiously lovely puns even as puns go. The main character is named Skeeve. There's a race of people who look like cartoon devils and they're called demons but it's short for "dimensional travellers." There's a planet of Mafia stereotypes headed by a stupidly camp-gay "fairy godfather" get it get it get it get it. There's a place called Perv. There's a stereotypical genie-land, where the males are called Djinn and the females are called Djeanies. There's a place called Scamaroni where the people are known for being suckers. There's a place called Ronko that's "full of televisions and advertising." There's a dimension where all the inhabitants are cowards, the place is called Wuh and the inhabitants are called Wuhses. There are trolls, and the female Trolls are called Trollops.

The_White_Crane posted:

UNITED STATES OF JAPAN

Arcsquad12 posted:

To be fair though neither of them would have worked with the book's setup. And we still got pre zombie reg shoe.

Squidster posted:

Weirdly, this can actually be done. There's a manga called Qualia the Purple, in which the protagonist has literally omnipotent power, but is still challenged. She can replay every choice in her life to try every possible outcome in pursuit of her goals, and when killed just uses quantum immortality to try again. But she's limited by her own mind - she can only make choices she can imagine. Even as an immortal multidimensional god-thing, she's only as smart as a gifted teenager. The only limit in her universe is her.

Getsuya posted:

There is one really, really good netnovel I've read (it's actually one of my favorite series right now) but yeah the current flood of 'other world/vrmmo' netnovels that are getting published is mostly embarrassingly bad.

It's fine when they're free online but once they get published the bookstores are asking $10-ish for barely-edited nerd wish fulfillment of the worst possible kind.

SerialKilldeer posted:

Caligula: Divine Carnage by Stepehn Barber and Jeremy Reed

Silvergun1000 posted:

So what exactly is a light novel? Is that just what they call the YA genre in Japan or is there more to it than that?

CommissarMega posted:

there's a general trend where a bland highschool protagonist goes into a fantasy world inhabited by hot chicks with big boobs, who all fall in love with him once said protagonist somehow turns into a combination of Alexander the Great and Superman. Also everyone has and knows their RPG stats for some reason.

A Pinball Wizard posted:

Wait... Were there really people who thought My Immortal was real?

Comrade Koba posted:

The kid that died on the previous expedition was really a kickass super-spy. When they finally find his frozen corpse, they find out he was carrying a secret weapon to use against the Nazis: a set of detailed photographs of Hitler having gay sex with Jewish kids.

In the epilogue, the protagonist personally hands the pictures over to Winston Churchill, who later uses them to blackmail Nazi Germany into not invading Britain.

outlier posted:

* CP is also a travelogue novel, a "let's come up with an excuse to tour this world I've built". Which can be a lazy genre.

FrozenVent posted:

I don't think I'll ever be able to enjoy To Kill a Mocking Bird.

Samuringa posted:

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/965269953577299969

Wish granted.

chitoryu12 posted:

chitoryu12 posted:

Ah, at this point in the book Will has an unwanted erection during a conversation, so he closes his eyes and thinks about the Holocaust to get rid of it.