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The fifth volume in the series. Having finished the great tomb for the king which considerably fattened his pocket, Weed was on a roll... until he gets sucked into a dangerous quest that might decide the future of the whole continent!
335 pages, Paperback
First published May 26, 2007
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January 14, 2022
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Ha! The Master (dojo) pulled a mean trick on Weed/Hyun. The translations getting significantly worse. Hm. Now it's like reading brief summaries vs a story.
Ha! The Master (dojo) pulled a mean trick on Weed/Hyun. The translations getting significantly worse. Hm. Now it's like reading brief summaries vs a story.
June 3, 2016
Cool. Finally the book features the epic classes in RPG. Elves, orcs, necromancers. Awesome
March 19, 2021
I believe that if anybody manage to sit through this entire series, they will become a social justice warrior. The juvenile mentality of victimizing yourself, getting attention in order to get support from other warriors, and then taking revenge, is as romantic as it gets. If you already have the perfect imagery of how your want everything in your life to play out, why not just spread your legs and get everything you want from a higher power, why EVER engage with other people.
Weed only go-in while having all the answers, from a position of power so his feelings aren't hurt. A quarter of of the text is narration, a quarter is action and dialog of others, and a whopping half of the book is self contemplation. Seriously, how do Asians even manage to reproduce?
Weed only go-in while having all the answers, from a position of power so his feelings aren't hurt. A quarter of of the text is narration, a quarter is action and dialog of others, and a whopping half of the book is self contemplation. Seriously, how do Asians even manage to reproduce?
January 9, 2017
(Review for Volumes 1 - 20)
Interesting adventure of a "sculptor" in a fantasy game world. Part of the story takes place outside of the game and both sides come together to drive the main character's motivation.
Interesting adventure of a "sculptor" in a fantasy game world. Part of the story takes place outside of the game and both sides come together to drive the main character's motivation.
February 22, 2018
Aunque el tomo es más corto de lo que suele ser típico en las light novels Este lo he deborado. La parte de los orcos y la pirámide son tan creativas, divertidas y épicas como pocas. Esa mezcla de humor y epicidad es la caña.
October 24, 2017
Неплохо!
January 7, 2015
Edit: So I've read the first 7 books in this series and this review is applicable to each of those individually. I initially rated these 4 stars but came back and lowered the rating as that is simply not fair to the other authors whose work I've rated as four stars.
The story line and concept for this series is great and I have enjoyed each of these books. However, though the translations are decent, I feel the work suffers greatly simply due to the lack of a professional English translation as well as English editing and publishing process. This series has tremendous potential though. Unfortunately, at this point, what is publicly available to English readers is seriously lacking. I've read that there are plans in the near future to professionally translate and publish.
Each volume is relatively short (between approximately 350-390 pages), which is not a problem, but what is an issue is that each subsequent volume has a lot of repetitive information. Also, there's a lot of story that just didn't interest me (i.e. grandma and sister. You could probably cut out 95 percent of what has been said about them and still paint the same picture that has been created about those characters and their impact on the main character). Some of my qualms may just be a cultural difference too, so I can't judge to harshly.
I feel that the 7 volumes I've read so far, in the hands of a good editor and translator, would probably make a good 3 or 4 books. Potentially an amazing 2 or 3 books. As of now, I've decided to take a break from the series. There's a few books that have just been released that I'd like to read. Though I'm vested and interested in this story and its main character, I feel I should be more vested/interested after 7 volumes. By the way, there's about 40 volumes published currently. Approximately 20 of which have been unprofessionally translated by various people. Which, when you think of that, it's pretty impressive as it speaks to the overall love for the story as these translators are typically simply fans of the series.
Original: I've said this before, but I really enjoy this type of book. Now if the authors works would just be officially translated and sold. Starting the next one soon. I imagine I'll be reading these for a while if the translation quality remains at the level this book was or better. Thanks to my GRs friend H.P for turning me on to this read in particular.
The story line and concept for this series is great and I have enjoyed each of these books. However, though the translations are decent, I feel the work suffers greatly simply due to the lack of a professional English translation as well as English editing and publishing process. This series has tremendous potential though. Unfortunately, at this point, what is publicly available to English readers is seriously lacking. I've read that there are plans in the near future to professionally translate and publish.
Each volume is relatively short (between approximately 350-390 pages), which is not a problem, but what is an issue is that each subsequent volume has a lot of repetitive information. Also, there's a lot of story that just didn't interest me (i.e. grandma and sister. You could probably cut out 95 percent of what has been said about them and still paint the same picture that has been created about those characters and their impact on the main character). Some of my qualms may just be a cultural difference too, so I can't judge to harshly.
I feel that the 7 volumes I've read so far, in the hands of a good editor and translator, would probably make a good 3 or 4 books. Potentially an amazing 2 or 3 books. As of now, I've decided to take a break from the series. There's a few books that have just been released that I'd like to read. Though I'm vested and interested in this story and its main character, I feel I should be more vested/interested after 7 volumes. By the way, there's about 40 volumes published currently. Approximately 20 of which have been unprofessionally translated by various people. Which, when you think of that, it's pretty impressive as it speaks to the overall love for the story as these translators are typically simply fans of the series.
Original: I've said this before, but I really enjoy this type of book. Now if the authors works would just be officially translated and sold. Starting the next one soon. I imagine I'll be reading these for a while if the translation quality remains at the level this book was or better. Thanks to my GRs friend H.P for turning me on to this read in particular.
August 31, 2016
The book was good, but what I really love was the ending, reallyyyyyy cool. Great things are going to happen to Weed booth in the game and real life, I love it.
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