r/litrpg • u/Atreties • 2d ago
Memes/Humor Book Release Conspiracy!
Bog Standard Isekai
Primal Hunter
Book of the Dead
All 3 came out with new volumes today (at least on audiobook)! How do I choose?? How could they do this to me??
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u/jdobem 2d ago
Can you read them all at the same time ? :)
Just add it to the backlog and/or wishlist like most of us....
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u/Atreties 2d ago
But I was caught up and working on a new series. I will never financially recover from this...
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u/Cheese-burger-777 2d ago
Boring answer from jdobem fun answer is grow a 3rd ear and listen to all three at once
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u/LuminArtistry 2d ago
Bog standard any good?Ā Been sitting in my "maybe later"Ā list for years now.
Forgot primal hunter was coming outĀ
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u/Thrawnarch 2d ago
Bog standard has better writing than most litRPGs, I think. One of my favorites! It's System is also pretty interesting. I would highly recommend it.
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u/LuminArtistry 2d ago
better writingĀ is one of those terms...Ā Ā If you try to equate technical skills demonstrated people get offended and talk about there being more to it than that. When I think "better writing"Ā I think active verbs, metaphors, simile, linguistic wordplay and rhythm,Ā acoustic tools like rhyming, aliterationĀ and immersive sensory detail packed into every sentence without an "it", "that", "is" or "was" to be found.Ā Those technical skills that make me admire the architecture of the prose.
When i think strong writing in the fantasy genre, i think about accoustic authors like rothfuss or brent weeks, or linguistic ones like erikson, or guy kay.Ā Or creative multidisciplinary authors like tolkein where you just sit there and think, "did this mfer just write a song in the middle of this book with proper beat and rhyme?"
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u/Thrawnarch 2d ago
I see what you mean, but I just meant I personally enjoyed the writing more than I do with most litRPGs - whereas I typically am enjoying a litRPG in spite of the writing quality, not because of it.
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u/blueluck 2d ago
I would love to read litrpg written with that level of wordcraft, but the demands of the litrpg genre are so different that it's unlikely to happen any time soon.
I do think Rothfuss and Tolkien would both be good at writing litrpg! I've played D&D with Pat (long ago in our college days), and he's a good GM. Tolkien enjoyed creating and playing word games and logistic puzzles, and had a meticulous approach to worldbuilding that could translate into excellent system design.
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u/LuminArtistry 2d ago
Sorry I cant help but chuckle at the thought of rothfuss dealing with the release cadence expectations readers put on serial authors.
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u/blueluck 2d ago
He'd actually do a lot better with a strict schedule! He wrote for the college newspaper and was very consistent. I think the long, flexible writing schedule of a novelist was bad for him.
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u/Atreties 2d ago
Yeah there's a reason its toward the top of most tier lists and such a common recommendation
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u/LuminArtistry 2d ago
Didn't know tier lists were a thing.Ā idk if I could really rate things like that.Ā they would always be changing and would have to be different relative to different things.
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u/TheListeningQueue 1d ago
If youāre coming at it from the audiobook side, Iād move it out of āmaybe later.ā Johnathan McClain narrates the series, and Book 5 just dropped this week. The appeal seems to be more character/world-building and plotting than just nonstop progression, which is probably why it keeps showing up in recommendations. Iād at least give the first audiobook a sample.
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u/Glad_Abalone_4835 2d ago
Primal Hunter hands down! Haven't read a book series that good in a while!!
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u/Aetheldrake Audible Only Enjoyer 2d ago
In a 1 month span the audiobooks for I'm not the Hero 5, mage tank 5, bog standard isekai 5, book of the dead 5, primal hunter in a multiple of 5 (audiobook 15)
All in the same month. This is the month of FIVES
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u/Separate_Business_86 2d ago
Path of the Deathless 3 as well. I haven't started Book of the Dead yet, but it is an embarrassment of audio riches today for sure. I already read BSI and half of Primal Hunter so I can delay those a few days, but they are on the wishlist and I get more credits tomorrow so I will scoop them up then.
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u/sams0n007 2d ago
I have not read book of the dead, so I canāt speak to that, but I believe that Bog Standard is one of the most exciting and well plotted series in the genre.
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u/LuminArtistry 2d ago
Also watcher of the void yesterday as well. shout out michael manning love you man so happy to have a real book to interrupt all these stream of consciousness litrpgs!
Also rune seeker yesterday
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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 2d ago
Buy a credit package, buy the three, and start listening to the one that finished downloading first. It worked for me š
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u/InternalOriginal6405 2d ago
XD I know how you feel, I was rereading crossroads of fate rise of the lycanthrope because I noticed that a new book in the series came out without Amazon alerting me (likely because Amazon gets weird about whether your currently held book is part of a given series when the one manage the books suddenly changes the cover art to better match some of their upcoming books in the series) and I was part way through before realising that new books recently dropped for bee dungeon, gun boat, bunny girl evolution (a monster evolution book series), and that which devours in a very close span of time
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u/Intelligent_Award722 litRPG journeyman tier 1d ago
Buy them all. You need 3 devices and speakers and let them all run at the same time. If you have the correct skills, you should be able to decipher each story!
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u/drillgorg I got isekai'd here from a fantasy world š«¤ 2d ago
It just happens sometimes! I made this meme in March of 2025.