2024-11-04 Weekly Reading List
Reading list for 2024-11-04
This is what I'm reading this week. I only included the ones I've added to my bookshelf to continuous reading.
You can see my 2023 reading list Here: www.chaosdrifter.cc
or if you prefer Reddit, Part 1 2023 and Part 2 2023
I'm native Chinese speaker so I read the raw from Qidian. you can try finding the english translation on novelupdate or try places like app.omniread.com where they use Advanced LLM models to do MTL that should be more understandable and consistent than google translate.
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全民修行：前面的剑修，你超速了 (Everyone Cultivating: The sword Cultivator in front, you are speeding.)
xianxia, modern world, no harem, no system
MC is in a xianxia world and was in isolation for about 1000 years after he achieved highest level of cultivation. When he woke up and re-entered the world. It has been transformed into a modern cultivating society where most people are cultivating. Story is kind of slow and blend, was reading just to see how cultivation is used in modern society. Basically order is maintained because the most powerful cultivators are there to maintain it, like a benevolent dictator.
这只巫妖，想靠文娱洗白上岸 (This lich wants to use entertainment to whitewash its reputation. )
western fantasy, early victorian, harem (succubus), entertainment
MC is in a western magic world as a lich who is about to killed in 10 years time by the hero. To prevent that, he wants to remake the reputation of the Lich from evil necromancers that slaughter people and turn the corpse into zombies, to someone who had his/her own reason to become a lich and is a tragic figure who has a heart of gold. To do that, he started making movies and TV shows to cast the Lich in a more favorable light. Like making the movie "The professional" where the MC is a lich that was wrongfully chased by the knight of the Church of Holy Lights. It is always interesting to see blend of modern culture with ancient magic world.
让你当法师，没让你培育九尾神狐 (You are suppose to be a Mage, no one wants you to cultivate a nine-tail Divine Fox )
western fantasy, dungeons, no harem (so far), gold finger(but not system)
MC is in a magical world with dungeons that everyone is focusing on progressing. He has a gold finger of been able to level up his own skill sets and his pet's skill set every week. It normally would have taken years and a lot more effort to do so. So he used to become very powerful and leveled up his fox companion into the ultimate beast, a nine-tail Divine Fox. It has some face slap, no simp MC.
成为魔女的我，却掀起工业革命 (becoming a Sorceress, but I started the Industrial Revolution)
Female MC, early victorian, no Harem
MC is a powerful Sorceress in a world set in victorian age. She has a system to trade reputation points for scientific knowledges. She is also a high aristocrat but she wants to lead a revolution to topple the kings and the old order to establish the first democracy (think French revolution)
So she uses her sorceress skills and the scientific knowledge to build factories, guns, cannons, tanks, etc. etc. to defeat the existing establishment.
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