The Lusty Argonian Maid

[krazyleroy]

i do not read most of the books in skyrim, i just collect them. gotta fill them bookshelves!
after 400+ hours of gameplay, i finally read The Lusty Argonian Maid.
i highly recommend it. got a good laugh out of it.
any of you know of other books in skyrim that most Dragonborn might not actually read, but are must-reads, either funny or interesting for whatever reason?

[Shrapnel]

引用自 JKflipflop：

引用自 Shrapnel：

You're assuming people play video games to read books or something. When I want to read a book I dont play a video game, I read a book. When I want to play a video game, I dont go into it looking to cozy down with one of it's books. I'll do it for this one particular book but only because of the recognition it's gained

That's a pretty ignorant stance to take. I've read just about all of the books in the game. Some of them (as mentioned) are quite well written stories. Some of them are even about you in past games.

Its ignorant that I want to play in my video games instead of reading books...really.
Agree to disagree, there's nothing ignorant about it.

[stuartsswilliams]

nothing like a gummed up snake lady trying to...ummm

[Nobody]

It's a funny book

[Nerevars Goat Univeron]

Who wrote version 2? Was it Crassius? If so, how can there be more? Shouldn't he be dead by now?

[Eludium]

olaf and the dragon

[Elaini]

"Books"... A few hundred words in single covers and that's it. Lol...

[Eternie]

引用自 Shrapnel：

引用自 Eternie：

You would all get to enjoy games more if you actually took an interest in some of the surrounding stories.

You're assuming people play video games to read books or something. When I want to read a book I dont play a video game, I read a book. When I want to play a video game, I dont go into it looking to cozy down with one of it's books. I'll do it for this one particular book but only because of the recognition it's gained

What Shrapnel's comment shows is his very young age that he doesn't understand the benefit of books!
Firstly there are loads of Skill books... not reading them is handicapping his own character! The other part Skyrim isn't just a Video game!
It is a Roleplaying game with hundreds of ways and types of characters that you can play and only one of which is the village idiot.
Yes Shrapnel you can play it any way you like ... Wether you read books or sign posts you play it as you want!

JKflipflop I agree I particularly mentioned the stories above as I thought Shrapnel would be fascinated in the Story "Mystery of Talana" and the others mentioned they are brilliant!
Whether others read them or not doesn't effect me either way. But I would give credence to efforts of the writers of the ElderScrolls. Who gave us so much with these outstandind stories

[Procrastinating Gamer]

引用自 Shrapnel：

引用自 JKflipflop：

That's a pretty ignorant stance to take. I've read just about all of the books in the game. Some of them (as mentioned) are quite well written stories. Some of them are even about you in past games.

Its ignorant that I want to play in my video games instead of reading books...really.
Agree to disagree, there's nothing ignorant about it.

Well if you really don't want to read them in game; just about all of them are up on either UESP or the Elder Scrolls Wiki to read outside of the game.

Here's the link to volumes one and two.[www.uesp.net]
EDIT: Dawnguard introduced a version for the ladies, The Sultry Argonian Bard[www.uesp.net].

[Procrastinating Gamer]

As for books in the game I've enjoyed myself - Hallgerd's Tale was a nice read, as was The Armourer's Challenge. A Response to Bero's Speech has me curious to see the speech it's responding to and Horror of Castle Xyr has always held some interest for me since you got to act out part of a scene in a sidequest in Tribunal.

Both A Dance In Fire and The Argonian Account give some very nice looks at Valenwood and Black Marsh, respectively. There's more, but I can't think of the titles off the top of my head.

[ReallyMeanGoldfish]

Skyrim was my first TES game so I have no experience with the lore etc. I found reading the books did help make the world have a past etc.

[Procrastinating Gamer]

One drawback when you look enough into the lore, for me at least, is that it makes the plots of the game feel a bit lacking. What I mean is that there's so much to the setting's history and metaphysics but the games only scratch the surface, there's so much potential going to waste.

Some of it I can understand due to technical limitations - some of the stuff on Summerset Isle would only really work with a very powerful lighting engine what with all of their crystal-made buildings and boats made of solidified sunlight, or Valenwood's migratory trees and the cities built in their branches - but it keeps feeling like some stuff gets toned down or just overlooked.

If you've only played Oblivion and Skyrim, all you know about the titular Elder Scrolls is that they're these weird, mysterious magical scrolls that have some strange ties to fate. When you dig into it outside of the games, though, you see that they aren't actually scrolls - that's just how the mortal mind percieves them. The prophecies written in them aren't certain either, constantly shifting until the events they depict come to pass. And they simultaneously do not exist, yet always have existed. And that's still just the surface of it.

[No_Cool_Names_Left]

The lusty Argonian is a very good read. Anybody who can make me want to read about human on lizard sex witout making me go inverted has some fine writing skills.