first part of my reply was in response to the first bit of the post (talking about skipping whole chapters). the second bit was giving my personal tendencies of skipping. I am a rampant DNFer (I have a huge tbr and not enough time to read everything) so I find myself only fully reading books where I trust the author to make any scene worth it even if they prove me wrong. I have considered many things, but I only find myself skipping or skimming when I already know I won't miss anything

I’ve actually thought about doing that! It would certainly be awesome

"Do what pleases you" is such a dumb thing people say on this site. Sure, do what pleases you, but you didn't read the book and if you say you did, you are lying.

At least where I live the first five books are really easy to pick up used, so you might have luck there. Of course the later ones are a bit trickier to locate but worst come to worst you could always order them in.

Thank you for the information! And yes when possible I would definitely try to contact any possible relatives.

It depends on how high up the category tree you go.

Lord of the Rings for example is fiction, fantasy, adventure, epic

Circe is fiction, fantasy, myth inspired, coming of age. One could also make a case for fiction, fantasy, women's lit.

Most LitRPG is fiction, fantasy, adventure, LitRPG

I hold that everything below the second split is a sub-genre not an independent genre. If you want a further refinement fantasy belongs to Speculative Fiction along with Science Fiction, Horror, and Alternative History.

I love Spader too, I couldn't get enough of him even when he wasn't in the series for ages.

The third book has an even worse ending in my opinion, the series started out strong but it went downhill so fast! Fun fact the third book has another serial killer we never heard about before.

I clocked the new neighbor being the catfish almost instantly, it was too obvius (as most things in the series are not that is necessarily a bad thing) but the reporter being the son came so out of left field it felt like it was just a twist for the sake of the book having a twist.

I honestly feel bad for the cop she accused in every book, turns out he was just an asshole. The mc went from mildly infuriating to absolutely insufferable tbh.

Overall I am frustrated by how this series went I need someone to went to. I still enjoyed it, but fuck what a way to ruin a good thing

I just joined this subreddit and...I was not expecting to see this series here, and I mean it in the best way possible.

I absolutely adore this series too, anyone reading this that is even remotely interested should check it out!

We had the same argument back in 1901, and for thousands of years, people have constantly declared that there is nothing new under the sun.

Hello everyone, Im new here.. Im looking for some suggestions on books , mostly fiction/classic literature.. Ive recently finished 10 Minutes 38 seconds in this strange world by elif shafak and The kite runner by Khalid hosseni. I would prefer books similar to these or in classic literature books like The secret garden , swiss family Robinson, Alchemist, Black Beauty etc... Thank you guys in advance

it helps me to use different formats. audiobooks for fun, text for academia.

as for feeling like you're wasting time, scheduling yourself really well is the best advice i could give. i only read outside of my studies while at lunch, after before 9 am or after 8 pm, or on saturdays or wednesdays (my days off). otherwise, i have time set aside for reading for my classes. i don't worry about what i should be reading for my classes while i'm reading for fun because it has a different time and place

You do realize that sub-genres are, by definition, also genres, right? One could argue that fantasy is a sub-genre of literary fiction. Does that mean fantasy is not a genre? See how ridiculous that sounds?

You’re trying to do all these mental gymnastics to say that LitRPG isn’t a genre, but meets the very definition of genre.

Yes we can all agree on the first level split of fiction vs Non-fiction. Here the only sticky area is how you separate religion/myth/folk tale.

The second level split most people will agree on is the plot or setting genres.

For setting we have Now in this world, historical in this world, or a speculation about other worlds.

For plot you have mystery, adventure, romance, thriller, drama.

After this level of splitting you start getting an infinite amount of sub-genres.

I think the OP is asking about new second level splits.

Good for you

i only capitalize words i find to be important

If only you cared about using capital letters as much as you cared about what people post in a sub you don't like.

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The crying of lot 49. The entire plot rotates around the results of the ending which doesn’t exist. I was so mad

Do we really need to « read books » in order to call ourselves readers? If so, is it fine to skip most chapters?

It's been kind of an open secret for years.

I actually hated the ending (or most of the whole book) of As Good As Dead more.

While I kind of get why it happened I somehow still think it goes agains everything we learned from the previous books. It was unsatisfactory to me and so over the top.

I could say the same to you. Why do you people keep responding while acting like anyone doing the same has some kind of problem? Are you just obsessed with getting the last word? At least I'm actually making a point. You can't even manage legitimate conversation or discourse. So go if you want to go. I'm perfectly content doing as I am to irritate you.

>That being said, it would be in good taste to try and get the blessing of the authors or (more likely) their surviving descendants.

More than just good taste- OP you could get thier permission AND interview them, to provide context around the letters. It would go from a coffee table book to an actual work with transformative properties and add signifgant weight to the publication.

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