(Part 2) Top products from r/noveltranslations

Originally they were free to read but now only the 4th year of the story is free. I hadn't found the first three years for free anymore you might have a better chance but here is the link any way

And then here is the free fourth year

It's interesting how exposure influences perception of language. I found that word as a young child because I read books for teenagers, I think it was in a British novel from a few decades ago. Maybe CS Lewis, Narnia and such. It would've been from that generation and it had to be fiction.

On the one hand you've got someone that thinks it sounds derogatory and the other hand I think that sounds a bit silly. But it's down to experience and familiarity. Relative stuff. It doesn't make them dumb, it merely displays their thought process.

Yesterday I found someone that thought something was being falsely wordy and just throwing a thesaurus at a paragraph. It was actually a very specific and efficient description of a programming library and the environment/data it was designed for. It made sense to me apart from some terms relating to neural networks, it didn't even use many complex words, but he just thought it was someone being disingenuous.

That perception issue is a large driving force behind anti-intellectualism. Perceiving intelligent or complicated things as negative, bad, or of ill intent/purpose. Through the right light even this comment could find issue with someone due to the verbosity in the midst of the thread. But it's just late and I blab when I'm tired!

If you find perception at all interesting in this context I highly recommend the classic 'Anti-intellectualism in American Life' (wikipedia, Amazon) for an observation of political and social thought up to the 1950s. A really novel bit of nonfiction. Today the idea is still alive and well, but you may know of it now from mainstream media as a "Cult of Ignorance".

I'd like to also CYA because /u/CAPS_IS_LOCKED is definitely not related to that. It was just tangentially related to the initial view of something. I don't want people thinking I think this is actually about them!

Link Neither story is finished, but it fits your bill and the writing is superb.

Link Elliot Kay is amazing too, can find him on Amazon or a number of digital stores.

https://www.amazon.com/Tribes-Venara-Archaic-Reed-Stevens-ebook/dp/B07VZXGDL7

Heres the synopsis:

At fourteen-years-old Nolan had been known as one of the most intelligent young minds in the Canadian city of Collinsville. Only two years later and he has degraded into a common delinquent, spending most of his time skipping classes, playing video games, and getting into more fights than he cares to admit. His once record high academics were on the tail end of a gradual decline, a by-product of the growing indifference that had begun to fester after his parents' recent divorce. Unfortunately for Nolan all of his worries dissipate like smoke in the wind when he abruptly loses consciousness and wakes up in a forest that is completely foreign to him with nothing but the clothes on his body and the alarming awareness that this new environment is not one where he can survive on his own.
After wandering through the hellish wilderness he eventually encounters a strange group of hunter-gatherers that are exaggeratedly stronger than regular people, and manages to gain refuge within their village. When several of the nearby settlements are subjected to vicious genocides, the people around him begin to fear for their safety. By this point, however, Nolan is prepared to do whatever it takes in order to survive in this haunting new reality, a determination that solidifies with the chance discovery of a bizarre stone ring, an ancient object of magic and myth.

It's like a wuxia mixed with high fantasy/epic fantasy, there's a cultivation system martial skills and medicinal pellets etc I really liked it, the writing style basically reads like the synopsis

Zaregoto: Book1 and Book 2, Death Note: Another Note, and XXXHolic: Another Holic from the best mystery author IMO, NisioisiN


Also note, that NisioisiN is the author of the monogatari series (Bakemonogatari, Kizumonogatari, Nisemonogatari, Nekomonogatari, Kabukimonogatari, Hanamonogatari, Otorimonogatari, Onimonogatari, Koimonogatari, Tsukimonogatari, Koyomimonogatari, Owarimonogatari., Zuko-Owarimonogatari, Orokamonogatari, Wazamonogatari)

There are a lot of mystery/horror novels in syosetu.com, it's just nobody translates them, just like there are a lots of BL novels that aren't translated

EDIT 1: I would like to add Ballad of a Shingami series

EDIT 2: .Hack// Another Birth series

EDIT 3: Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria

Why its cheap, you should support novels you like that are translated into your language so that you can give support and possibly more incentive for other companies to translate

Coiling Dragon has a total of 806 chapters if WW charges 3c/ch then if we multiply that by 806 we get U$ 24.18.

Now If we compare it with some blockbuster novels we can see the difference in price

|Novel|Word Count|Complete novel price (Amazon)|Price per Word|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Harry Potter| 1,085,000|U$ 68.17|0.00006|
|Game of Thrones| 1,736,000|U$ 34.49|0.00002|

The total word count of Coiling Dragon is approximately 1,874,000. If we do the same calculation but using the price of 3c/ch then we get this:

|Novel|Word Count|Complete novel price (Aprox)|Price per Word|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Coilin Dragon|1,874,000|U$ 24.18|0.00001|

So from my point of view, that price is completely acceptable.

I was thinking about this all day for some reason because it felt familiar. It reminded me of a story I read on amazon years ago called [Black Wolf] (https://www.amazon.com/Black-Wolf-World-Novel-Online-ebook/dp/B00JGT28MY)

Not sure if it's the right one but I'm pretty sure the juggernaut scene happens in the second or third book?

Anyone who thinks the plot is interesting will probably like Yahtzee's Mogworld.

https://www.amazon.com/Mogworld-Yahtzee-Croshaw/dp/1595825290

Yes, the Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation.

offhand probably not enough to be definitive.

but here are some:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807005/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/calling-truce-political-wars/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_political_orientation

I can't find the one with the %s but generally 'accepted' fact that in the US there is ~30% liberal and ~30% conservative and ~60% in the "middle" (I'd argue they are really more evenly split than that, but that is the old %s at least.)

Edit: there is some really good books describing how to USE this type of knowledge to your own benefit https://www.amazon.com/Art-Deception-Controlling-Element-Security/dp/076454280X/ Among many others.

If we're talking "officially" translated rather than fan-translated, then there are older works.

The Deer and the Cauldron and Flying Fox of the Snowy Mountain are two wuxia novels that were published in the 90s, for example.

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And you could also consider classics like Journey to the West (xianxia-esque, first published in abridged form in the 40s), Water Margin (wuxia, first published in the 30s apparently), and Romance of the Three Kingdoms (wuxia-esque, a single chapter was first translated all the way back in 1907 apparently).

All I could find is this

https://www.amazon.com/Journey-North-Ethnohistorical-Annotated-Translation/dp/0520058097

but yeah, $50 is a bit much.

I am specifically thinking of My Path to Magic and The Road to Magic ( Way of the Demon). There are probably others as well.

Edit: The Way of the Shaman may or may not be Russian in origin.

If you finish reading the 2 kingkiller books (I honestly suggest reading the first and then waiting for the third to come out), read Blood Song by Anthony Ryan. Then if you have even more time, read anything by Brandon Sanderson. Mistborn series and Stormlight (I just really wanted to re-rec this one). Joe Abercrombie's The Heroes (and all of his other books, ofc). Then for even more character development, read the Coldfire trilogy. It's an older book and not as 'fast' as books written nowadays, but it has Gerald Tarrant.

http://www.amazon.com/Courting-Death-Carol-Stephenson-ebook/dp/B004T4LQHY

Super Powereds and Battle Mage: Tales of Alus was good...

Baka Tsuki has some of the later volumes, which were never officially translated. As for the others, I've read them through the Tokyopop translation. Actually, now that I think about it I'm not sure Banner of the stars was ever translated. There was a manga adaption, though.

> Teamfourstar doesn't monetize any of their dbz abriged videos because doing so would get them in trouble with copyright. Commercial usage, while not a completely deciding factor, makes the usage almost always lean towards unfair usage of the copyrighted material. (of course, there are exceptions, such as when the work benefits the public)

That's because their work is not sufficiently transformative. Plot, characters, and even the depiction and look of characters is exactly the same with the exception of voiceovers. If they used their own animation and original terms they could monetize.

If you sufficiently distinguish your work it's fine. Let me introduce you to Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody. You may also have heard of "Weird Al" Yankovic.

> That is not what I meant. The reason it's non-commercial is because it can be argued that you are paid for your service, and not fo the content itself. Especially so if said person also does other work.

That's rubbish. Payment for service is still commercial work. Whether you pay for a specific piece of content or a service doesn't change that it is commercial.