Best western books according to redditors

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Top Reddit comments about Westerns:

u/fjbwriter · 29 pointsr/Fantasy

Hey r/Fantasy! I’m back with another one of my weird west stories with the magic bullets, daemons, and talking horses. These are set in an original fantasy world based (loosely) on the United States of the late 1800s. In thanks for the community always being here with a smile and friendly recommendation for me, I’ve got the first book in my series FREE until Sunday night, and the second book is only $0.99 (In the US only, £0.99 in the UK starting 5/26)!

For anyone unsure if this series is for them, I humbly offer the following blurb:

Temperance Whiteoak is the last surviving heir to her grandfather’s legacy. Gunslinger. Daemon-hunter. Witch. Able to call forth powerful magicks with the pull of a trigger, she travels the continent of Korvana seeking after the creature that destroyed her town along with everyone she ever knew and loved.

The links below are episodes one and two of an eight-part series, and not only include a gunslinging story, but also fantastic interior art as well by artist Jin Lee! If any of the links below don’t work, feel free to shoot me a message, and thanks for taking the time to check out my stories!

Episode 1 - US Link

Episode 2 - US Link

International Links for Episode 1:

Canada

UK

Australia

Germany

Spain

Italy

Netherlands

Japan

India

Brazil

Mexico

International Links for Episode 2 (starting 5/26):

UK

u/lost_chayote · 14 pointsr/Fantasy

Seconding anything Benedict Patrick.

Also Travis M. Riddle.

Recently finished the first book of The Quest of Five Clans by Raymond St. Elmo and would highly recommend it.

Episode 1 of Bulletproof Witch by F.J. Blair was lots of fun, and Episode 2 is due to be released on the 17th of this month.

I enjoyed Iron Truth by S.A. Tholin - it's more on the sci-fi side than the fantasy side.

Masters of Deception by JC Kang is the selected book for May for the Resident Authors Bookclub here on /r/Fantasy, so it's a good one to pick up if you're interested in bookclubbing it. The halfway discussion will be posted at the end of this week, I believe.

Check out the self-promo thread for some more authors local to the sub. A lot of their books are available through KU.

Also the majority of the SPFBO finalists for 2018 are available through KU. You can find the finalist table here: http://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2018/11/spfbo-2018-finals.html

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^(Side note, since I suppose it's relevant. I started writing reviews this year for all the KU books I read, so you can find reviews of several KU books if you want to lurk through my post history. Seems awkward to link them all here...)

u/countercom2 · 11 pointsr/AAdiscussions

>How do you talk about a group that often has individuals that work against AAPI well-being for personal interest, without being offensive?

Make sure to be clear about who is being addressed eg self haters. Do not generalize.

 

>We cannot override love.

Very wrong. You're assuming these relationships are love. I have facts and proof that very often, it absolutely is not. Do you realize that Af are preferred by sexist, racist, and misogynistic white men? Go read the redpill, hundreds of thousands of white men read that. Here's the latest..

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/4ojhit/how_to_stuff_your_white_meat_into_asian_girls/

 

If the Asian community is ever going to improve, they must face the fact that we're being divided and conquered by whites (mostly males). They are the enemy - not each other. See the list of crimes below. ALL done by wm who turn around and 24/7 show images of themselves "saving Af" from "evil Am". All Asians are being brainwashed constantly.

 

Some research below for support.
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>White hegemonic ideologies of masculinity and femininity determine who gets to have sex with whom …We do not make choices of attraction in a vacuum…Hegemonic ideology becomes our commonsense notions.

>Women were painted as perpetually sexually available to white men while Asian American men were constructed as castrated or impotent…

Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality: Rosalind S. Chou

http://www.amazon.com/Asian-American-Sexual-Politics-Construction/dp/1442209240

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>racialized images can cause Asian American women to believe they will find greater gender equality with white men and can cause white men to believe they will find greater subservience with Asian women. This dynamic promotes Asian American women’s availability to white men and makes them particularly vulnerable to mistreatment.

Asian American Women And Racialized Femininities 'Doing' Gender across Cultural Worlds
http://www.irows.ucr.edu/cd/courses/232/pyke/femininities.pdf

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>He defines internalized racism as “the ‘subjection’ of the victims of racism to the mystifications of the very racist ideology which imprison and define them” (Hall 1986 - 26).

>it is referred to as “internalized racial oppression,” “internalized racism,” “internalized White supremacy,” “internalized Whiteness,” and the much criticized term “racial self hatred.”

>The dominant group controls the construction of reality through the production of ideologies or “knowledge” (Foucault 1977 [1975]) that circulate throughout society where they inform social norms, organizational practices, bureaucratic procedures, and commonsense knowledge. In this way the interests of the oppressors are presented as reflecting everyone’s best interests, thereby getting oppressed groups to accept the dominant group’s interests as their own

>the subjugated inculcate, seemingly by cultural osmosis, negative stereotypes and ideologies disseminated as taken for granted knowledge.

>individual inculcation of the racist stereotypes, values, images, and ideologies perpetuated by the White dominant society about one’s racial group, leading to feelings of self doubt, disgust, and disrespect for one’s race and or oneself.

>All systems of oppression not thoroughly coerced through brute force and overt repression involve the dominant group’s ability to win consent of the oppressed.

>When the oppressed come to accept these identities as “real,” they are in effect internalizing their subjugated status

>One need not experience discrete, identifiable instances of overt discrimination to internalize racial oppression.

>White racism can infiltrate the world view of the racially oppressed without their conscious consent (Osajima 1993) in a subtle process some refer to as “indoctrination” and “mental colonialization” (hooks 2003).

What is Internalized Racial Oppression and Why Don't We Study it - Acknowledging Racism's Hidden Injuries

http://irows.ucr.edu/cd/courses/232/pyke/intracopp.pdf


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The origins of self hate and white worship are the same – racist stereotypes and lies that masquerade as “facts”…

>Even at a young age, the white racial frame that normalizes whiteness affects children.

>A study of sixty-five Asian Americans at an elite university found that respondents spoke more positively about their physical features when they seemed "less Asian" and more "white" or "American."

>Earlier research has shown Asian Americans being ashamed or attempting to hide their race or pass for white.

>At least I didn't have a Korean accent; then it would have probably been even worse.

>It made an impact over time, when all you hear is the negative instead of the positive. I always felt like the outsider and I was teased for just being Asian. They'd pull their eyes down, and they always thought I was Chinese.

>All sixty respondents had memories of being teased and feeling like a racial "other”.

>Asian Americans, especially girls and women, are disturbingly overrepresented with rates of depression and suicide. As recently as spring of 2011, The National Alliance on Mental lllness released a report that Asian American girls have the highest rates of depressive symptoms of any racial/ethnic or gender group.

Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality: Rosalind S. Chou

http://www.amazon.com/Asian-American-Sexual-Politics-Construction/dp/1442209240

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A sliver of the crimes committed by whites against Asians.
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Cambodia
http://www.amazon.com/Sideshow-Kissinger-Nixon-Destruction-Cambodia/dp/0671835254/

Laos
Hiding America’s War Crimes in Laos | http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/2715

Vietnam
http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American/dp/1250045061/
http://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Program-Americas-Forbidden-Bookshelf-ebook/dp/B00KGMIW6Q/

Korea
http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-History-Korean-1950-1951-Nonconformist/dp/0316817708/

Philippines
http://www.amazon.com/Benevolent-Assimilation-American-Philippines-1899-1903/dp/0300030819/

China
● China’s Rise, Fall, and Re-Emergence as a Global Power | http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/03/chinas-rise-fall-and-re-emergence-as-a-global-power/
● USA’s warfare against China ½ | http://www.voltairenet.org/article177063.html

 

Asians need to ask themelves....why are they talking about their "progressive afwm relationships" and taking foodie pictures and demonizing Am for their "toxic masculinity" while being TOTALLY SILENT on mass rape, genocide, the white male pedophile epidemic in Asia. I can provide sources for that too if required.

 

Really, how does the ONE group that commits BY FAR, the most horrific crimes imaginable come out looking like heroes. That's the question everyone should be asking.

 

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>how do you respond when people claim that we don't have a right to complain about discrimination due to the fact that there is racism/sexism within our community?

Ask them if the "tone police" would rather be born Asian than white. Or, you can point out the myriad of wm oppression like 620+ % MORE domestic violence than Am, 297% more raping than Am, etc. Point out their ludicrous "stop white genocide" campaign. Never get gas lighted by white hypocrites. They are absolute experts in bullshitting. I've seen it too many times.

u/shadowsweep · 10 pointsr/geopolitics

Yes. The "democracy" agenda does.

 

btw, the title is about human rights.

u/JohnBierce · 7 pointsr/Fantasy

You want Francis James Blair's Bulletproof Witch! It's pretty short, but book two's coming out soon.

Mistborn Era 2 is pretty excellent, to my mind- it's just a very different beast than Era 1, and I think a lot of people really wanted it to be the same.

There's also a pretty good collection of Weird West short stories I picked up a few years ago called Westward Weird that's worth checking out.

u/herstoryhistory · 7 pointsr/Westerns

I've got a Western coming out on October 1st. I like to describe it as Romancing the Stone meets Blazing Saddles. It's on preorder on Amazon. Check it out--you might find it fun.

u/JamesRickardAuthor · 5 pointsr/selfpublish

Grandpa Wore a Six-Gun

$5.99 paperback

$1.99 Kindle

This is my first full-length work. Give it a go.

Grandpa Wore a Six-Gun is a western tale the way they used to be. Join Charlie Hobbs as he leaves the farm, finds himself in bordellos, saloons, stage robberies, and more! Here’s the West as it really was. Smell the gunpowder, blood, and sweat of life on both sides of the law!
Kick off your spurs, put your feet up, and get ready for a fun read.

https://www.amazon.com/Grandpa-Wore-Six-Gun-James-Rickard-ebook/dp/B07Q646JB4/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Grandpa+Wore+a+Six-Gun&qid=1555187622&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

u/mariox19 · 3 pointsr/books

Me too, and I'm still not sure we're talking about Westerns. In any case, Shane, by Jack Schaefer is a must-read. Get the critical edition. Apparently, the mass market paperback was edited many years ago to take out words like damn, since these are "unsuitable" for the young readers the publishers thought the book was aimed at. (This may have been after it was made into a movie.) In any case, this is by no means a kids' book. It's an excellent novel.

u/EventListener · 3 pointsr/printSF

A lot of historical / historical adventure / Western novels that I've really enjoyed feel like genre SF adventure novels exploring unfamiliar settings but with no actual SF elements:

u/GradyHendrix · 3 pointsr/books

True Grit - it's short, it's fast, it's a Western and I think it is THE great American novel in a way that Huckleberry Finn no longer is.

The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson's massive historical trilogy about the discovery of algebra and money markets is seriously smart, confounding, entertaining, and leaves you sort of exhausted and alive.

u/Cdresden · 3 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

Red Country by Joe Abercrombie.

u/Kauyon_Kais · 2 pointsr/Minecraft

There is an alternative timeline book called River of Teeth based on that idea!

u/GrumpingIt · 2 pointsr/TheDarkTower

Heads up, the UK Publisher Hodder & Stoughton has all 8 Dark Tower novels and the Complete Concordance as a matching set, and on amazon it would actually cost me less to have the H&S set shipped all the way from the UK than it would to preorder this set. That's the 7 main books, Wind Through the Keyhole, AND the concordance, whereas I'm pretty sure this set available for preorder is only the 7 main series novels. I saw the H&S books in person in China and they're beautiful, so if this set doesn't look super beautiful or have SOMETHING better than the H&S set, I'm getting the H&S set instead. The H&S books are all available on amazon.co.uk as well as eBay.

Here are links for books 1-7, WttK, and a copy of the concordance.

The Gunslinger

Drawing of The Three

Waste Lands

Wizard & Glass

Wolves of the Calla

Song of Susannah

The Dark Tower

Wind Through The Keyhole

Dark Tower: Complete Concordance

u/korero_pukapuka · 2 pointsr/52in52

It's the 31st here in NZ and I just now finished reading a short 148 page sci fi. Genrenauts: The Shootout Solution.

u/MichaelRUnderwood · 2 pointsr/Fantasy
  • If you like stories about stories...
  • If you are looking for a short read as a palate cleanser between fantasy epics...
  • If you like heists, westerns, and/or pop culture references...
  • I have the book for you.

    The Shootout Solution - Genrenauts Episode 1 - is the pilot of my Genrenauts series, which we describe as "Leverage meets Jasper Fforde."
u/Bendanarama · 2 pointsr/Fantasy

I would heartilly Reccomend the Necroscope Series by Brian Lumley. A very interesting take on vampires wioth a lot of Cthulhu Mythos influence.


Also, when it comes to Weird Western, I got you Fam.

u/GogzH · 2 pointsr/Fantasy

can confirm this also works for amazon.co.uk and have just purchased it for myself so thank you Ben and Merry christmas to you as well :)

links are here for anyone interested.

u/mkaito · 2 pointsr/Fantasy

Episode 1 on Amazon.es (yes we Alston read English books).

Bulletproof Witch: The Delivery of Flesh (Episode 1) (English Edition) https://www.amazon.es/dp/B07JLDPZM7/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_-Ig6CbS33QDDX

u/seriouslyslowloris · 1 pointr/suggestmeabook

Try The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl or Briarpatch by Tim Pratt. Or anything by him, really. I'm a big fan of Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams, (and to a lesser extent) Terry Pratchet. You'll like this guy.

u/spikey666 · 1 pointr/scifi

This is quite cool. Pratt's original short story is pretty great (text or audio). His novel The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl is an underrated gem.

u/mrbooze · 1 pointr/movies
u/2500ak · 1 pointr/whattoreadwhen

There is nothing like reading White Fang or Call of the Wild while in the Alaska backcountry. You start reading, and with no evidence of civilization suddenly it's 1890. Also read the short story, to build a fire.

Get a copy of a book or Robert Service poetry. You have to read the Cremation of Sam McGee at least once around a campfire (our most famous poem), it's even better if you cam manage to recite it from memory.

Here's a YouTube vid of Johnny Cache reciting it.

Here's one I read years ago where the sea breaks it's back it's the story of how captain Vitas Bearing and scientist George Stellar discovered Alaska. A truly harrowing tale.

this book is the memoirs or Dick Proenneke. He lived by himself in a cabin by a lake in remote Alaska for decades. The documentary based off of it (alone in the wilderness) is excellent but I haven't actually read the memoirs myself.

Since you're in the mountains read desperate passage this is an exceptionally well researched and written account of the Donner Party, it's chilling, I read while snow camping in the Chugach, powerful stuff.

Anther great thing to read in the wild, journals of famous adventurers. The Lewis and Clark diaries, for example.

A translation of the Poetic Edda (pretend your living in Viking times)

True Grit always an enjoyable slogging through untamed wilderness read.

Hatchet by Paulson, this book is aimed at a younger audience, but it's a good book for reading when out in the woods.

I'll second song of fire and ice, Alaska is the perfect place to read it and imagine themselves the king in the north, or wandering out beyond The Wall.

Also blood meridian is another good suggestion. Adventure in the wild lands with a big element of the unknown and sleeping under the stars. By that same token I'd recommend Dead Mans Walk by McMurtry, the fist prequel to Lonesome Dove, lots of slogging through the wilderness and mountains.

Those are all I can think of at the moment.

Also a note on into the wild, I've never read it but it a lot of people up here do not like it because it's caused a lot of people to come up and emulate the guy, some of them have died or almost died. So don't tell anything to the effect of that book being your inspiration for coming to alaska.

u/veritasae · 1 pointr/selfpublish

Was going to write my own response, but MCG pretty much summed up my thoughts as well. It was wordy: about 50 seconds to read it out loud. I suggest maybe half of that. I also agree about the names, they just aren't needed when it comes to marketing the story. I think Red Country is a pretty good example at a blurb that works.

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