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.

While it feels like free stories should just be a thing, it is important to realize that it isn't and people don't usually write/publish/translate a book for free. Buy the book if you can. Also, I recommend Sector 8 (Perimeter Defense Book 1) to anybody that likes science fiction space battles.

I have a book that I think would help that was on Amazon and DB also recommended it after I had bought it. It's not super expensive and it has a lot of explanation about language that isn't in apps and similar resources.

Introduction to learning Chinese

I hope this is of some help on your journey to cultivate in the Chinese language. :)

This Book

Yeah Ready Player One is one of the biggest Sci - Fi novels written in the last decade. This is legit stuff but I'm usually more optimistic when I see a book is being made into a TV series or mini-series.

For another MMO related mainstream SCIFI novel, check out ReamDe by Neal Stephenson. You can probably find Ready Player One and ReamDe in your local library if you live in the USA.

Speaking of Ze Tian Ji (Way of Choices) the 2nd ebook is free on Kindle Unlimited:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B2SK96R

The story takes some time to get going, but it's well worth the time investment. The 4th book should be releasing in May. =)

If you haven't already read his works, Will Wight will make all his ebooks free on July 4th on Amazon.

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I've seen plenty of recommendations for some of his books on here due to having xianxia elements and I'll definitely take advantage to finally read his books.

Note: you have to be logged in to your Amazon account to "purchase" the ebooks.
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Edit

"Sale" is now live, to facilitate buying I'll link Will Wight's list of books on his site with a direct link to Amazon and the first book of each series below.

Will Wight

Amazon

• Cradle - Unsouled
  
• Traveler's Gate - House of Blades
  
• Elder Empire: Shadow - Of Shadow and Sea
  
• Elder Empire: Sea - Of Sea and Shadow

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.

Even though I see your edit if you still want to it seems like there is a paperback version of it here from third party sellers. My only advice is to find a way to make sure it is legit and an english version.
http://www.amazon.com/Full-Metal-Panic-Novels/dp/1413900011/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1458011776&sr=8-7&keywords=full+metal+panic

if you find a good recomendation, let me know, i would be interested as well.
Try the Kingkiller chronicles, MC goes to magic college and all.
https://www.amazon.com/Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicles-Day/dp/0756405890/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1480879260&sr=8-1

Here is the mobile version of your link

The Phantom Server series and the Perimeter Defense series are both Space Opera LitRPG.