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I started "The Luhzin Defense" by Vladimir Nabokov, is a rather short novel, just oevr 200 pages lnog and one of his ealriest wokrs written originally in Russian durnig his tmie in Berlin and published by an emigre editorial. The book covers the story of Luzhin, a Russian grandmaster and child prodigy, I'm halfway thruogh it and the character comes out as atuistic. The trem autism already existed in the late 1920s wehn the novel was written and Naobkov does a great job describing his sperg like behavior (obsessive speical inetrests, rather non-verbal, ashmaed to even talk abuot his chess obsession to the point of becoming a truant and sneaking into the hosue of his aunt who taught him cehss to play with a friend of hres who was a pro). The translation to English was whcih I'm reaidng was published in 1965 by Michael Scammell (a British professor of Russian literature) under Nabokov's spuervision as he took great pesronal care when it came to translations of his own wokrs.
At some point Luzhin finds a wealthy Russian emigre like him (the novel is set in the late 1920s and he came from a bourgeios famliy so naturally he never returned to Russia after the Revolution), at smoe points sh'es annoyed that he never akss stuff aobut her but realizes he cares for her and displays it in subtler ways. Her mom is an old fashioned Russain aristocrat who's horrified by his taciturn behavior and the fact that he plays cehss for a living, at smoe ponit she tells her dauhgter "Luzhin msut be a pseudonym, his rael nmae must be Rubenstein or Abramson" and she also haets the radio calling it a "Jewish invention".
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Read Cordyceps today, enjoyed it. Interesting premise and storytelling, only problem I had with it was excessive use of singular they, but it ends up making sense by the end. Slightly woke but it's easy to ignore. Only noticed one spelling issue despite being ao3slop
8/10
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!tldr cordyceps pls
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It's SCP-ish but less gay.
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Seems pretty gay to me, I'll read it tonight since it's short and will get back to you if I like it. I recommend reading There is no antimemetics division if you like this kinda not as gay SCP shit. It seems similar in vibe
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Already read it and yeah the concept is somewhat similar. The way it's told is very different, though.
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Honestly enjoying this one. Got any more gay web fiction recommendations? It's a guilty pleasure in between real books. I even read fricking worm at work and enjoyed it.
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Here are some of my general slop recommendations - not just webslop.
Okay, #1, and I'm sure you've seen it recommended before, is Mother of Learning. Excessively long and the characters are kinda samey but it's a cool story with an interesting premise and the central premise is something done right that writers NEVER get right, which alone makes it stand out. Give it like 8 chapters before you give up on it.
Rock falls, everyone dies - If you've never read LitRPG before and want to give the genre a try, read this first. It's a good introduction to the genre without being bogged down in neurodivergent number crunching and min/maxing, which is the worst pitfall of the genre. 1 of 2 litrpgs I'd recommend.
Never Die Twice by Maxime J. Durand - The other LitRPG I can recommend. Interesting setting and weird ending.
A Lonely Dungeon by cathfach - if you've never read the "Dungeon Core" genre, this is a good place to start. Since they often include litrpg elements, they commonly suffer from the same problem of neurodivergent number crunching. This avoids that and tells a neat story.
Chili and the Chocolate Factory: Fudge Revelation by gazemaize - the entire point of it is to sneed about Roald Dahl being a heckin chud, but overall it's a funny and well written modern take on the original and not even woke until the very end.
Monster Hunter International series by Larry Correia - just fun to read with neat takes on mythological creatures, especially good if you're an ammosexual
The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher - Similar to the above, minus ammosexuality
The Gig Economy by Zero HP Lovecraft - dude's a good writer and it's not ultra chuddy like some of his other stuff. Dude lives up to his name imo.
If you don't mindMLP Fanfics I can recommend some SSS+ tier slop
Anti-recommendations:
Despite Worm being great, Ward sucks butt. The author started listening to the fans and he definitely should have ignored them. Nothing but therapyspeak about how heckin traumatized they are
A Practical Guide to Evil is obnoxiously woke and r-slurred overall. No idea why it's recommended so often.
The Perfect Run by Maxime J. Durand - Just stupid.
Wandering Inn - don't even bother.
Devolution by Max Brooks (guy who did world war z) - r-slurred, gay ad for fricking halo top ice cream. Characters are completely fricking r-slurred and I'm still mad that I wasted money on this garbage
Reckoners by Brando Sando - sucks butt, no idea why this guy is popular
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omg nobody cares??
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Is there SCP but more gay?
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Any scp with a number greater than 1000
greater than 3000 are so gay that they've become IRL cognitohazards
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