Ah, the Human King

This book tells the story of how a young dwarf who has just grown up and lives in a dwarf city that is lacking in supplies and self-isolating gradually realizes the backwardness of his own race, and tries to develop his own race while slowly becoming the common master of the world. Goldfinger is a dream grandfather who comes from the earth and teaches the protagonist various knowledge. The protagonist is not only the son of the previous city lord, but also a dragonborn. Let's talk about the advantages of this book first. Obviously, the non-travel aborigines + unpopular low-profile races + western fantasy themes are enough to dissuade most people, but the author still attracted many readers with his extremely amazing writing skills. Different from some young writers who only pile up adjectives endlessly and pursue gorgeous writing style, the writing style of this book is strong, simple, smooth and natural, and its level is considered to be extremely top-notch in the current online novel world. It is so strong that it makes people doubt that it is a high-level translated European and American fantasy work. When writing about people, the author mainly relies on dialogue and action to show his character traits, and creates many vivid characters without too much nonsense; when writing about scenery and battles, he uses exquisite and accurate words and detailed and orderly narrative to outline vivid pictures, which is enough to make people feel immersed in the scene. The second point that makes people feel comfortable reading is the treatment of characters. The protagonist is from the Lawful Good camp, thinks of others in everything, and sometimes even seems stubborn about sticking to the bottom line, which is rare in today's online environment. When the protagonist interacts with various types of characters (sincere, cautious, cunning, arrogant), the various interactions between the two parties are written very realistically, and there is nothing that makes people feel OOC. This is easier said than written. After all, too many authors keep repeating dull character templates, and each character reads like a blur. The rich accumulation of details in this book will make people feel that each character is a real person that can be seen around them, especially the warmth shown when the protagonist interacts with family/friends/gods, which is really well written. With such delicate writing, it can be seen that the author has rich observations on life, thoughts and experiences on interpersonal relationships. However, it is a pity that the flaws of this book are also relatively obvious, making the story appear to be on a high-end and low-end level. There are different opinions on whether this book is bad. I think the most fundamental problem is that the author didn't think clearly about how he wanted to write the main idea of ​​the story, and the result was a hodgepodge. The first part of the dwarf underground city talks about the protagonist's character/relationships/golden fingers/living environment. This part is very good and no problem. In the second part, the protagonist follows the caravan to the Elf Academy. This part is a typical sword and magic theme (the adventures and gains of the small adventure team and the protagonist becomes stronger). It is very well written, but the handling of a half-elf who suddenly starts to embrace the protagonist is very poor, and the emotional entanglement in the writing is too delayed. In the third part of the Elf Academy, the theme of the story changes from adventure to racial conflict. The author tried his best to use the protagonist's mouth to say that only some elves are bad, but at the same time, the school scene depicted was an all-round and systematic suppression of dwarves by elves. He also described elves stealing dwarven technology, using puppets to politically control dwarves, and suppressing dwarves' social status legally, economically, and culturally, leading readers to vent their emotions in the direction of hating elves. However, this is not in line with the common development direction of racial reconciliation that the author's protagonist strives for, so readers can only lament that the protagonist is a fool. There was basically no joy in this experience. What's worse is that this academy chapter seems to have controlled the author's thinking, causing weird changes in various settings throughout the book. So we saw the protagonist's grandfather spend several years teaching a stubborn dwarf from primary school to university level mathematics + physics and chemistry + struggle theory; then we saw a dwarf suddenly obsessed with "horse hair" and learned a set of ideas to transform the world, causing a story that was originally innovative to fall into the common routine of making red in other worlds. (The problem is that this subject is difficult to write about. The author can only write about the elf/dwarf issue as a confusing hodgepodge that is both a race issue, a class issue, and a clash of civilizations. It is as if the author suddenly wants to copy and paste the contents of the middle school politics textbook into a Western fantasy, which is quite a kind of under capitalism. The absurdity of engaging in GC in a segregated feudal theocratic society) In addition, we also see that while an elf civilization that can build huge cities, huge crossbows, and lasts for at least a thousand years does not have university-level mathematical abilities, a dwarf became capable of teaching advanced algebra after being taught by a time-traveling grandfather for a few years. And geometry tutor; I also saw the protagonist returning to his hometown to suddenly attack the city's ruler and his wife (his aunt and uncle), and after launching a failed coup, the whole family ran away and he was wanted; he also saw that the Elf Parliament, which passed bills based on contribution points, could revoke the bill at any time, for the sake of short-term public opinion The long-term self-destruction of the parliament has made the contribution value emphasized in the first half of the book a joke... The final solution to all this farce is to isolate the protagonist (put him in prison) and let the enemy self-destruct (the monster suddenly rushes out to destroy the elves' plan, and the elves' civilization is severely damaged), which makes people laugh and laugh. Now, the protagonist has used the golden finger to awaken in the past ten years after reaching adulthood at the age of sixty, and has become an undefeated master of super weapon combat; a dragonborn who can predict danger, scan terrain, and cross obstacles to know creatures; and has a perfect self-balancing cycle. A super-powerful spellcaster with an extraordinary magic system; the world's most powerful mathematician; a master of illusions who can destroy other people's minds and make them mad; a god who can heal wounds and control the magic of other priests of the church (yes, the protagonist is now a dwarf walking in the world with the power and authority of a true god). The degree of this hangup has reached the point where it feels like it is almost over. Summary: Western Fantasy is a fine book with excellent writing style, but it is good at writing at the micro level and neglects to write at the macro level, which makes the story structure lack of rationality and the hook is too big.

I don't quite understand why so many people don't like the dwarf protagonist. This is a novel, not a movie. Does the appearance of the protagonist have any impact? And even in movies, the appearance of halflings and dwarves did not affect the results of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. This is a fantasy world, what's the highlight? It's another world, it's people's living conditions, it's the customs and habits of this world, it's everything that is different from the real earth, and it's not about how beautiful and handsome the protagonist is. He is worshiped by enemies and leads the aborigines to learn earth technology... Hiss, maybe most readers actually want to see the latter? In my opinion, this work is very good. The plain and simple description makes the world truly appear before my eyes. If Tolkien's works opened a door to the Western fantasy world for me, allowing me to roughly see the entire world of Middle-earth, see the majestic scenery, and feel shocked, then this book can be said to be a room in that door: the dwarves. Walking in, I can see the details of dwarf life, which are different from others but full of life and make people feel comfortable. If I were to use one word to evaluate this book, I would choose the word "orthodox Western fantasy". It may also be that I am old-fashioned and stubborn, and like this book, I am no longer suitable for the "trend".

The book is a good book, but if the audience is too small, it is destined not to become popular. 1. Western fantasy novels have a small audience. 2. It is more serious and has a small audience. 3. The indigenous protagonist has a small audience. With the three debuffs added up, if anyone can read it, it's because of the author's personal fans.

I skimmed the first chapter, but it's not my cup of tea. I've followed the author before, and I've also read a little bit of Chronicles of Magic, but I didn't stick with it. Let me talk about my own point of view. Why do everyone say that Xihuan has become lonely these years? I think there is a reason. It is not fun enough. Originally, Western Fantasy has a famous feature, the names of the characters are difficult to remember (of course, this is not difficult for people who often watch Western Fantasy or play games like The Witcher), so if the writing is more uncomfortable, it is destined to be difficult to get out of the circle. If coupled with the author's unique ideas, for example, he took a different approach when setting the protagonist's race, setting it as a dwarf, troll, naga, murloc, goblin, ratman, etc. This can certainly attract some authors with unique tastes, but I think that at least now people are relatively superficial and generally like handsome and cool people. That's why the mainstream races of Western fantasy protagonists are still humans, elves, and half-elves. Without it, just one word, handsome is enough. So why is Western fantasy so niche now? Some authors who write Western fantasy don't submit to the Western Fantasy section but choose the light novel section. I think most authors should find out why.

Has the author ever considered writing an alien fantasy novel? It's not the usual dragon novels, but more exotic creatures. Anyway, there are quite a lot of strange animals in DND. I think it would be quite interesting if there was a fantasy novel about exotic beasts where the main character was not a dragon, coupled with the author's writing style. 👍👍👍

I know why this book is not popular. In the final analysis, it is a matter of sense of substitution. The author's writing style is good. First, this book uses an indigenous person as the protagonist, and he is also a dwarf. It's not that a dwarf cannot be the protagonist. It's just that after reading this book, I would rather read The Hobbit. I, a novice reader who likes to read time travel stories, have no sense of involvement at all, and I am confused when I read it. The second point,,,, forget it, there is no point in talking too much now. The beginning is doomed and cannot be changed. I can only say that I wish the author to write better and better. It is best to produce movies and books, which can also be considered as out of his own characteristics. I was confused when I watched it, except that it was interesting at the beginning, but I lost all desire at the end. Goodbye

What can I say? Every time I read a book by this author, I feel like it's good, but it makes me feel bored as I read it. The plot always progresses so blandly. It's really not to my taste

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The writing has always been good, but the oppression brought by the elves is getting heavier and heavier, but the protagonist has always been unhurried. It cannot be said that he has not made progress, nor that he has not grown. But under this long-term depression, I can't find many reasons to continue reading. Especially when I don't like the female protagonist. Their romance may be regarded as an adjustment, but under the huge contradiction, these are not important.

Writing and writing turns into a red revolution in another world. . ==It makes people numb. . In the past, friends around me who were crazy about Amway in the circle of friends read this book. From now on, I will only finish the novels I have read.