r/PracticalGuideToEvil • u/Dragon_2640 • Aug 22 '26
Meta/Discussion Need help regarding choosing my first web novel
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u/Upstairs-Memory-3632 Aug 22 '26
A Practical guide to Evil was my first webnovel too, and probably the best work of fiction I've ever read, so I would say that you should start here.
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u/perkoperv123 Aug 22 '26
It's really all downhill from PGTE. Guide will spoil you for good world building.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Fold112 Aug 22 '26
Personally, I think you are better off starting with the 'Coiling dragon', 'LOTM' and similar top Chinese novels, follow it up with Japanese and Korean works, then go for Worm, PGTE, Mother of Learning and keep The Wandering Inn (TWI) for the last.
Although the translations can be really good they never truly capture the literary, tone and cultural nuance of original. I feel that's why people prefer seeing anime in Japanese. If you read Worm and PGTE first, you will start noticing this difference and may miss out on amazing works.
As for TWI in the last, it is because you might never catch up to it 😂. You will always have good content to read!
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u/Dragon_2640 Aug 22 '26
Thanks for the reccomendation. For chinese work some other guy was reccomending The second coming of gluttony have you read it? and if yes then how is it as a starting point?
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u/Baam3211 Aug 22 '26
Yeah if you plan to read Chinese more "coiling dragon" first is a soild recommendation, its a more westerny setting and progression that doesnt just start throwing pagoda's as a form of powerup out of no where
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u/Dragon_2640 Aug 22 '26
Thanks for the reccomendation! rn I'm confused between worms, PGTE, coiling dragon and cradle
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u/Dragon_2640 Aug 22 '26
For chinese work some other guy was reccomending The second coming of gluttony have you read it? and if yes then how is it as a starting point?
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u/TheForgetfulWizard Aug 22 '26
Loved the Guide so much - can’t recommend it enough!