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You all ever get into some kind of reading rut, where every plot and character seems to blend into each other? I guess it's easier to do when books are your job here.

[Clearly, someone's bored.]

So that being the case: what are you favorite books, what are they about and why do you like them? Can be anything from your own world too, I don't care much.

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That is when you need to diversify your genre. Everything starts to blend together when they use the same tropes.

The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a good start, a basic foundation. Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils is also a classic and worthy of recommendation. I Shall Seal the Heavens and Renegade Immortal have also reached the top of must-read lists as well.

Sounds like a sound fucking diagnosis to me.

What kind of genre do these books fall into exactly? I might've been here for a little while now, but none of these titles sound familiar.

It's all too common for authors to just start stealing from each other. Eventually, nothing new happens and it becomes over-saturated in the same bullshit.

[Especially popular genres with lots of authors pandering to the lowest common denominator!]

They're all xianxia and wuxia.

Ah, right. What do they call that here, tropes? But I'm told it's that sort of stealing that ends up making money for the authors too. It's a convenient excuse, at least, for all the birdshit that's boring and unoriginal.

Who and what? Are those popular in this world? Sorry to say, I'm not from a place much like this—save for the cheap whiskey and contrived authors, anyway.

Oh yes! Easy cash grabs are using the same themes and tropes over and over. The majority of people will pay and read it. Of course, it's extremely boring after a while. But, some people manage to do new and creative things.

I can't say it's popular in the states here, but it's quite popular in China. They're stories about martial heroes and immortals battling monsters and demons and growing stronger.

China...sounds familiar.

[ It would be even more familiar if you did your homework and studied up on this world you've been living in for the past several months, eh Sal? ]

They must have some great fucking taste at least, because that sounds like just the remedy I need for my, uh, literary woes. Do you know if the shops here sell xianxia and wuxia novels?

I would hope so, it's a very large country, the largest population in the world, and economic power. Not everything is about America you know.

[No, no, he should be forgiving, people came from other worlds after all. Technically he shouldn't even know what China was! The people of Proud Immortal Demon Way were in a fantasy world unrelated to the real one, so really it was stranger for him to talk about it so casually.]

I can't say if the stores have translations. I'm not sure you can just buy them here in general, but you can order them easily online. A lot of them are web novels that can be read simply with a subscription or an account.

It's probably easier to just get web novels though since there should be auto translations available that way.

[He wasn't sure if the nanites helped with characters or not.]

[ Ah, shit. Life is so much easier when she's trying to be an asshole. ]

Hey! I was force-fed enough imperialist propaganda back home to not eat it up around here. I'm just not as...fucking familiar with the details of this new world, that's all.

I'll see what's available on the internet; if I've learned anything about this place so far, it's how to order books for delivery if I need to. And thanks for the advice, I guess.

I apologize for having come across as brusque. There is a lot to take in when not familiar and rather complicated depending on the world you came from.

[He was just lucky this world was not dissimilar to his original one. Not everyone can be a transmigrator from the modern world.]

Ordering for delivery is one of the best things about the internet. But, the wealth of information available and the repository of media is truly the greatest blessing! Animation, live action, audio, literature, games, all of it accessible instantly and without the need to go anywhere.

Adjusting to the internet was one of the first things I had to learn, but damn if the lesson doesn't seem to go on forever. And all of the operas are on demand now, downloadable to this tiny screen. Convenient, but I can't help but wonder if the art doesn't suffer a little.

But, I take it your world was something closer to the this one? No swords or magic or any of that?

Not quite. The world I came from is a world of swords and cultivation. I wouldn't call it magic. Though, Daoist spells are used.

[He can't admit his true origins just yet, even though he had nothing to lose by admitting to that secret!]

But I have adapted quite well to the ways of this world.

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