2025-01-11 - Reading List
reading list for 2025-01-11
This is what I'm reading the week of 2025-01-11. I only included the ones I've added to my bookshelf to continuous reading.
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从栽下菩提树开始成神 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Becoming a God: Starting by planting the Bodhi Tree )
(no system, no romance, no harem, High Martial, modern world, multiverse)
Imagine you are born with a rare genetic disease that inflict you with such severe pain as if your teeth are been pulled out one by one. Imagine such pain just happens randomly through the day, making it impossible to have a normal life. Imagine been the parents and having to decide wether your 1 year old son should suffer such fate, or be peacefully put out such misery without any moral judgement or legal consequences as it is sanctions by the government. and Now image you are the baby and your parents decided to keep you alive and now you've grown up to be 16 years old. and with the help of a medicine that controls the pain to only happen between 6am to 8am so you can have a "normal life" the rest of the day. that's the MC at the start of the novel. He has suffered through hell each day for the past 16 years, and finally he is been rewarded when he was given access to a rare Martial Visualization Map of "hell on earth". The more pain one overcame, the higher power one gets. Naturally MC gets the highest reward from the Map and plants a Bodhi tree and a small plot of lands surrounded by hell fire. This world is a modern world, but it is ruled by the High martial masters. and your mental abilities are just as powerful as the physical forces. The book is about how MC progress through the martial ladders to be the best, so read on if you like power progressions. He'll work hard for each progression. There isn't much other plots. still a good read, some philosophy stuff in it, and can be inspirational at times as well. I like the power system.
这个明星太有节目效果了 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (This Star has so much entertainment Show Effect )
(Chinese entertainment, urban, system, funny, unconventional)
MC has a system that'll grant him things like "more charisma, +1 to piano, the ability to always hold attention, a card to boost the popularity of a movie, this popular song from earth" etc. etc. The rewards are earned when he surprises people with unexpected acts or answers. and he stars in a real life dating showing, so expect a lot of unexpected interactions. Like when he finished performing a very romantic song for his partner, and people were expecting him to propose, but he just recited the lines for the show's sponsors....... There are many events and people in it that has parallel in the real Chinese entertainment world, and the songs and other stuff are not the most popular and overused ones in such novels. So far it is different enough that kept me going.
这个领主过于忠诚了 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (This Lord is too Loyal)
(no system, medieval, magic, modern technology, revolution, kingdom building, no harem)
MC is a small lord in a world set in the dark middle ages. Lords and the nobels are corrupt and treat the peasants like dirt. Priests are corrupt as well, colluding with the lords to take all the money from the poor and embezzling donations. All in the name of the Divine Goddess who just want to help everyone. MC happens to be able to communicate with the Divine Goddess through a system like interface where she rewards him for helping the poor and destroying the corrupt aristocrats. The rewards from the system is that MC can ask the Goddess to perform miracle things, like making gun powder, or enhance his knowledge of steam engines, etc. etc. basically a gold finger that allows him to start an industry revolution. Read if you like watching a small lord slowly build up to be the king of the world, and the Pope.(The Loyal in the title refers to the MC's loyalty to the Goddess as in he is the true believer of the Goddess's mission to help everyone)
家父儒圣，系统非逼我做粗鄙武夫 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Father is a Confucius Saint, System forces me to be a brute martial man)
System, Confucius cultivation, High Martial power, scheming MC. no harem
MC is in an ancient world like Ming Dynasty. He is the second son of the governor of a state, and also a Confucius Saint. MC has a system that rewards him with Abilities, enhancements, artifacts, wonders, techniques whenever he levels up. But all the rewards are related to martial arts and not the Confucius Dao. So the MC then can dual advance both the Confucius track, and the martial art track, getting double rewards along the way. The book actually has a lot of plot twists and setups, MC is intelligent, but also brute force as well. Maybe a bit too much scheming for me.
穿甲弹不相信碳基怪物 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Armor Piercing Round doesn't believe in carbon based monsters)
Post Apocalypse, sci-fi, military, no system, group
Imagine Fall out 4, but set in China. 4 elite special forces personnel found themselves transmigrated about 400 years later, to a world filled with monsters and human factions. Thankfully they still got their full military tactical weapons and gears, Like surveillance drones, Sniper Grenade launcher, rifles, pistols. And they are surprised to find archived military gears in deep buried vacuum depots that only the know how to use, as the knowledge had been lost. Again, I got lured in the by title. Most of the military equipment mentioned are Chinese made, and there are some cultural references to military memes. but over all, if you like military actions, it should still be enjoyable. Be noted that this is a new novel, so it only has like 20K words. Normally I would read such short books, but with the title, I just gotta see if it is any good.
spoiler alert They are about to detonate a tactical nuclear warhead in the latest chapter.
I have so much backlog of novels to keep up (as one can see from my weekly post) so I won't be adding too many new books.
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