Dokja was an average office worker whose sole interest was reading his favorite web novel ‘Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse.’ But when the novel suddenly becomes reality, he is the only person who knows how the world will end. Armed with this realization, Dokja uses his understanding to change the course of the story, and the world, as he knows it.
Thank you IzePress for the lovely physical arc! I was SO EXCITED to receive this.
This series was highly recommended to me by Holmes (@ holmes.reads) given that I love Solo Leveling and ORV is even better than Solo.
Consider me intrigued after reading the book! Things are so interesting. I find Dokja Kim to be an incredible resilient character. While yes, he does hold an advantage having been a reader to the book, TWSA where the scenarios take place, he isn’t a passive character and strives to survive this new world. Given that this is a long series, the world building is still building up. The concept of the story mimics a video game concept humans are being treated as game pieces and entertainment as they go through scenarios to live and fight for their survival. This is broadcast and streamed to all over the world where celestial beings watch over it as entertainment. I love the mixture of eastern and western legendary figures they used such as Sun Wukong, my all time favourite character! It was amusing to see his name pop up as a Celestial and I am very interested to see where the author takes this story.
I find the translations straightforward and easy to follow….
I wish they made it a 300 page volume and include more chapters as opposed to only doing the first 25 chapters given that vol 1 in Korean has 36 chapters. This means that it will probably go past the 5 volumes that the Korean version has….
Overall, I am very tempted to just find the fan translation of this series and read to know what happens next or maybe wait for Vol.2!
สำหรับเราการอ่านครั้งที่สองนี้ ลื่นไหลมาก เหมือนเป็นเกม eater eggs มากกว่า ยิ่งอ่านยิ่งเพิ่มความเข้าใจจากรอบแรกมากขึ้น พออ่านแล้วนึกถึง cabin in the wood กับ ready player one คือพวกระบบกลุ่มดาวกับการผสมผสานตำนานกับเทคโนโลยี กลมๆ รสเข้มแต่คล่องคอ
It is about 1 man that has a bad working and he reads 1 novel that only 1 people read. Then 1 day he goes to the train station when he gets on the train the novel that he read starts to be true. Then 1 monster appeared and a story started. It has some quest it says that to kill one life if you finish the story and survive you will get money but nobody knows what will happen next except him.
I like the people that I tell in the story because he is smart and they know everything that will happen next.
I like it because when I read I feel excited about what will happen next. Also, the story is kind of dark.
Welcome to the world that "data" from reading an unpopular fiction, is the most powerful weapon to help you survive till the end.
A memorable quote from the 1st book: "แค่อ่านหนังสือให้มากก็พอ" (คิมดกจา, น.211)
P.S. In case you are interested, comparing with that of "Solo Leveling", (in my opinion) the plot of this fiction is more complicated and most killing scenes are more brutal.
Reading the lite novel after watching the movie that came out this year. I had read the manhwa a few years back and I’ve gotta say the lite novel is way more complex (no surprise) and classic litRPG. I’m unsure if I’ll keep reading (already read the manhwa, not very engaging (might be translation struggles))
Chapter List: Prologue : Ch. 001 - Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World Episode#1 : Paid Service Begins ch. 2 - 6 Episode#2 : The Protagonist ch. 7 - 12 Episode#3 : Contract ch. 13 - 15 Episode#4 : Line of Hypocrisy ch. 16 - 18 Episode#5 : Dark Sentinel ch. 19 - 21 Episode#6 : Hour of Judgement ch. 22 - 26
Interesting concept not unique, world video gamification scenario, seen in Netflix Japanese show Alice In Border Land, another Manho Like Solo Leveling and The Gamer But with a twist of the Omniscient Reader While it was all predetermined and written in another webtoon The free tier has now expired and now the world enter the Paid Service tier We meet the Protagonist of the story who survived the 3000 chapters It seems like he is repeating the same game, he know things how it happened, like our friend and so the appearance and survival of our protagonist - Kim Dojka - is new for him Ah. He is a regressor/returner and this is his 3rd time A Regressor/Returner "relives the life he lived" The Contract with the Imp Star Stream System Youtube/Twitch for the universe Second Main Scenario is over Great so far. ------------