Reading Novels Aren't Fun Anymore

Ilikewaterkusa

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U just need to stop bingr reading and read one or 2 novels
and I literally cant binge read since everything sucks.
I thought I was the only one who noticed WN was dead. It's weird to me because it has had a lot of backing and only way to read translated CNs nowadays.
Perhaps this also shows how flawed their system is. They just increase prices, slow translations, and have no transparency. It's like unwilling to bring better changes to the website?
I wonder how the original authors are doing there...

Anyways, I recommend you try reading raws with google translate. I've been finding an overwhelming amount of novels but for me, there isn't much time to read them. Try MTLNation, although recently the pick-ups has been trash, I've noticed more activity over there.
webnovel is just futa futa futa god god system goddess god + futa sex battle god sex system god battle iseaki dxd boku no pico academia fan fic
 

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and I literally cant binge read since everything sucks.

webnovel is just futa futa futa god god system goddess god + futa sex battle god sex system god battle iseaki dxd boku no pico academia fan fic
u can read a normal book for once too a friend of mine told me to read mistborn series already read 1 and 2 and the start of 3... he said second trilogy is far bettter but vin the mc of first trilogy managed to make me quit xD
 

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u can read a normal book for once too a friend of mine told me to read mistborn series already read 1 and 2 and the start of 3... he said second trilogy is far bettter but vin the mc of first trilogy managed to make me quit xD
I can't
 

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and I literally cant binge read since everything sucks.

webnovel is just futa futa futa god god system goddess god + futa sex battle god sex system god battle iseaki dxd boku no pico academia fan fic
Yeah but it's made a lot of $, do people really read them? I wished for a better novelist community, because this community is vast and helpful
 
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There's a general decline in all of entertainment media, tho. For movies we have Star Was: The Rise of Mary Sue Skywalkingovereveryone, Marvels Apendages, DCs New Refurbished Innovated Justice League Reloaded 2.0, Onions made out of glass, Goth loli turning highschool musical and the hardcore feminist bastard child of a good childrens show that raped, killed and everyone's favorite dog...

Books (the real ones fare a bit better) but even there we have a slow decline to YA levels of writing and about as much vampire smut as we have GB harem here on smut hub.

And don't even get me started on games, tho...
Well, putting your crude, off-putting, and "free-thinking" views about current media aside, I appreciate that Jenna Ortega (Wednesday’s actress) is a surprisingly huge fan of One Piece. Just like Samuel L. Jackson and Michael B. Jordan, I always appreciate celebrities with good taste.

Velma is still very mid, though. I’ll give you that for sure.
 

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and I literally cant binge read since everything sucks.

webnovel is just futa futa futa god god system goddess god + futa sex battle god sex system god battle iseaki dxd boku no pico academia fan fic

This post is incredibly accurate, and now I'm feeling sad too.

I gave up on WN about a year ago. It seems like the good novels are stuck in 'Trial Mode' and then dropped, or the translations get hella funky a few hundred chapters in, which destroys the story.

I just want to read something new, that's actually good.
 

Ilikewaterkusa

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Yeah but it's made a lot of $, do people really read them? I wished for a better novelist community, because this community is vast and helpful
95% of views on webnovel are botted. But this community is just too degen just more fuft futa futa futa goodess system god syetm futa god battle sex futa sex lebian god boku no pico
There's a general decline in all of entertainment media, tho. For movies we have Star Was: The Rise of Mary Sue Skywalkingovereveryone, Marvels Apendages, DCs New Refurbished Innovated Justice League Reloaded 2.0, Onions made out of glass, Goth loli turning highschool musical and the hardcore feminist bastard child of a good childrens show that raped, killed and everyone's favorite dog...

Books (the real ones fare a bit better) but even there we have a slow decline to YA levels of writing and about as much vampire smut as we have GB harem here on smut hub.

And don't even get me started on games, tho...
all the good writers got branded as terrorists and got kicked out of the industry unironically
 

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Well, putting your crude, off-putting, and "free-thinking" views about current media aside, I appreciate that Jenna Ortega (Wednesday’s actress) is a surprisingly huge fan of One Piece.
First of all: How rude to call me crude! But please explain what you mean about off-puting and "free-thinking" as most of my comment was made to just disrespect the works and not to anger anyone outside the people that did the movies, is it the "social justice league" one? That was an actually intended crude attempt at disrespecting both DC fans and everyone that actually is for or against using that word. I personally don't care who or what you are if what you do is good/bad enough.
And Batman getting even more remakes isn't something we need, The Dark Knight was good enough. But I personally just don't like the whole superhero thing.

Though I will defend my opinion that the Disney Star Wars were an utter clusterfuck created by people that wrote on low-level fanfiction tier and had the goal to actually destroy the franchise for good. How hard can it be to not fuck up an existing franchise??? And no Hollywood, you don't get the right to answer that, you already effed up enough series...

But yeah, Jenna Ortega is pretty cool and I actually liked her raising her voice about the mistakes the story and direction caused in Wednesday. They kinda missed the boat going full teenage drama in the middle of the show and forced her to play both a typical teenage girl and frigging Wednesday Addams at the same time, there was only one way to screw up an Addams Family character and they acutally did it... they tried to humanize her.
A show can be perfect on all accounts but the moment forced teenage drama gets introduced or they try to humanize characters whose best traits were being utterly irredeemable, I'm out and on warpath with the storyboard.
all the good writers got branded as terrorists and got kicked out of the industry unironically
Pretty much. The old guard was somewhat more extreme than what's currently politically acceptable, and so it seems their 'heirs' try to do everything they can in their works to prove that their personal political agenda does not conform with it.

Totally ignoring that you can be a racist asshole terrorist and still be able to make timeless classics as a work should always be allowed to exist to be free from it's creator since othwerwise we'd have to burn 99% of everything because their creator did or said something that at one point in time didn't conform with the views of a later time period.
 

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ScribbleHub is as ScribbleHub does.

really its a lottery to find a book you resonate with. Once you do though, its wonderful - at least until it ends. There are one or two books that speak to my core and Im so glad they're still active.

For kusa, normally id give the advice of wrote the story/stories you want to read but it seems you're already doing that. I might give one or two of them a shot, actually - the one im looking at has a pretty direct premise and looks to have potential on the surface.

But yeah, I feel that sort of undercurrent to not explore certain areas of the human condition or die. Its obvious with BL, but therere other more subtle places too. it's a mess.
 

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Reading novels isn't fun anymore at least for me. Notably, I've been noticing that there has been a large decline in the quality of novels posted on scribble hub following the collapse of Webnovels. And while the oversaturation of former WNs authors coming here and posting their often shitty fanfics here is a large part of why I have given up novels, I have been giving up on novels even prior to that. Since the Summer of last year, I have given up on reading novels in their entirety and I'd say that orientation towards not reading novels is possibly a me thing with an ever-changing mindset however it would more so be an accumulation of various factors if anything when accounting for realism. Currently, I am attempting to pick up reading novels again to try and re-spark my love for writing however I need several recommendations and some advice from yours truly.

Wait, did something specific happen with Webnovel, or is this more of a slow decline that's accelerating? They contacted me a month or so ago, actually (out of the blue), and I haven't responded aside from the first acknowledgment email. Would be good to know if there's something up with them.
 

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Wait, did something specific happen with Webnovel, or is this more of a slow decline that's accelerating? They contacted me a month or so ago, actually (out of the blue), and I haven't responded aside from the first acknowledgment email. Would be good to know if there's something up with them.
I think they have been getting more and more aggressive on trying to paywall everything. Also, their contracts are a really bad deal from what I've read else ware on the forums.
 

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I think they have been getting more and more aggressive on trying to paywall everything. Also, their contracts are a really bad deal from what I've read else ware on the forums.

Lol, yeah. Their contracts looked terrible, lol. I guess they must be hemorrhaging writers and readers, then?

Guess it's a good thing I ignored the follow-up email, lol. Should probably email back and be like, "Nah. Thanks tho!" XD

Thanks for the info.
 
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This reminds me of a video I watched a while ago about "The good old days". Basically people tend to look back at past experiences more pleasantly than they actually were, or people's view of newer things are skewed because of those past experiences. I am not saying novels haven't gotten worse now, but it could be your perception. Great novels have always been a rare find, and I don't think it has changed from the past.
 

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Wait, did something specific happen with Webnovel, or is this more of a slow decline that's accelerating? They contacted me a month or so ago, actually (out of the blue), and I haven't responded aside from the first acknowledgment email. Would be good to know if there's something up with them.
Webnovel is just full of futa futa god futa futa god system god fuck orgy futa god fan fic ddeil devil devil futa goodess
This reminds me of a video I watched a while ago about "The good old days". Basically people tend to look back at past experiences more pleasantly than they actually were, or people's view of newer things are skewed because of those past experiences. I am not saying novels haven't gotten worse now, but it could be your perception. Great novels have always been a rare find, and I don't think it has changed from the past.
Zoomers do that a lot since they have no real culture.
 

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Yeah, sifting through the white noise, takes forever. That's why I just decided to write my own junk.
Readers can be persnickety.
Webnovel is just full of futa futa god futa futa god system god fuck orgy futa god fan fic ddeil devil devil futa goodess
That would be a "good" name for a novel.
With a title like that, you don't know what you're getting.
 

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Read "Swiss family Robinson."
That family would have washed un naked on the beach and ended up building a mall!!
 

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Maybe this is an obvious suggestion, but since it hasn't been mentioned yet: Have you tried looking on Royal Road? I don't know if the quality is really much better (especially since a lot of people post on both sites), but different kinds of books are more popular there, so it might be easier to find things that suit your tastes.
 
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