48 Hours a Day

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Growing up with eccentric materialist parents, who left him in the care of his grandfather for a job overseas, Zhang Heng had learned to adapt and be unfettered by the oddities and challenges in life. But he would soon learn the baffling truth about the world he thought he knew, when one day at midnight, time froze and he found himself in a world so quiet and still it was deafening. That night, he discovered that he had 24 hours more than everybody else and thus, marked the beginning of his adventures. The mysteries surrounding his newfound ability only deepened when a strange old man claimed to have given Zhang Heng that ‘gift of time’ and recruited the young man to participate in a cryptic ‘life-changing’ game on his behalf. Little did Zhang Heng know that accepting those terms meant embroiling himself in many versions of reality and exposing himself to the hidden secrets of the world—a decision he could never undo.

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IH48HD
I Have 48 Hours a Day
我的一天有48小时
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nuu
nuu
July 19, 2022
Status: Completed
A well-written fantasy, with a rather cold and rational, but still empathetic MC.

For a Chinese webnovel, it's surprisingly free of xenophobia, even in terms of Japanese culture. The author has researched a number of eras and fields, and has written a number of attractive arcs with good characters. Many themes are copied from games, movies, and books, but the author gives them his own polish and character. There are also some nice plot twists.

There are a couple of flaws -- the biggest is that most of the arcs are within... more>> games (supernaturally designed, and with implications on real world, but still games), and thus making it hard to care about well-drawn but ultimately fake characters. That also extends to the very end, where the entire line between reality, belief, and fiction is blurred, making it just less important to the reader.

Another flaw is rather flawed translation. Gender confusion in pronouns, and continuously changing spelling of names is rather annoying, although it can be overlooked.

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The continuously changing misspellings of the Chtulhu mythos, especially R'lyeh, are particularly eye-catching.

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ColdFrontDM
ColdFrontDM rated it
June 11, 2022
Status: Completed
I don’t know how anyone is rating this highly. There are so many problems with this series. So many plot threads are dropped. No characters are important. The romance is hilariously bad. And it makes no sense. I like DC much more than this. And since they are extremely similar I will say why. The side characters and characters in the “game” matter.

1. It basically skips him learning about his Time stop ability. Except for the first night.

2. In a world with “no supernatural” things, he is “calm in the... more>> face of the unknown” and immediately jumps to supernatural because his clock bugged out.

3. He is a masculine god. He gets everyone’s interests from school girls to his moms BFF.

4. His basic survival skills, Olympic level archery allow him to fight extremely powerful beings?

5. The stories flow is awful. The first 200 chapters are him at school, dealing with life, doing a minor mission, etc. Then 240 chapters of pirates.

6. I would guess 1100 chapters of this are side story that have no meaning other than to raise irrelevant skills, like driving? Why. <<less
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Dayes
Dayes rated it
April 29, 2022
Status: c1
I like the earlier arcs, but there's an tone shift after the pirate arc, the MC becomes OP, their's no tension, about completing the games, since he's now an super killer ninja badass, and all the following arcs are with multiple other players. I stopped in the hypno arc, and I skipped around 100 chapters of the pirate arc, since it was way too long.
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Shaze
Shaze
April 8, 2022
Status: c325
I'm choosing to drop this sadly; there just isn't a sense of motivation instilled in me to continue.

I enjoyed this really well until the start of the Apollo 11 arc (5th game), which is a subject I really care nothing about. Don't get me wrong, I like Sci-fi, but this is science-fact and like watching paint dry in comparison. Everything up until the end of the 4th game (realistic pirates of the Caribbean) was excellent... and then the author forced us to endure 1960's space crap. It was tedious and... more>> dull, and I just wanted it to end. Despite the competitive aspect, the setting bored the ass off me. Remember the phrase 'its not rocket science'? Well, this time it is.

I really enjoyed the 4th game arc, and I think that's the problem. The idea that it wasn't real, despite the MC living in it for 10 years, losing the life and achievements he'd painstakingly made to be brought back and have to repeat the same thing again and again.... just no. To know that for all he does, all the time he lives in the game, no one will know of all the hardship he undergoes in these game worlds, nor does anything he do really matter. The arc was so good, that I feel that the novel should have used that as the setting.

The real world doesn't hold much appeal either. His constantly absent parents are abroad, choosing their careers over their son, dumping him on his Grandpa to raise. People like this should never have kids. They aren't the worst parents, but they fail the most basic rule of parenting: be there. They aren't rich, but he lives comfortably enough. Still no substitute for having parents physically and mentally present. There's also dorm roommates and a friend or two, but nothing that leaves an impression. In other words, no meaningful relationships. Those that he does make, won't even remember meeting him in the game worlds, nor do his actions affect real life history.

That seems more like watching the author torture the MC, with us the only audience. I enjoyed the pirate arc too much to see its hero get mentally worn down by these endless games, having to see him start a new life over and over only to have it mean nothing. This genre just isn't my thing, and I know that now. <<less
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fangyuan
fangyuan rated it
February 3, 2022
Status: Completed
One of the better Chinese novels I have read. Some of the arcs in the novel were amazing but there were a few that were rather meh
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like Chernobyl and Bakumatsu arcs

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. The game element in the novel is great and without character level, the playing ground for the 'players' was not that skewed as they would need to rely on their skills and items instead. MC is likeable and intelligent as well. Novel could have been a masterpiece were the arcs consistently interesting.
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changen4125
changen4125 rated it
June 29, 2021
Status: c938
The underlining plot actually SUPER interesting after you peel back the "monster of the week" theme.

MC's character is well written. The gripe about his intelligence and skills are removed after you understand who he actual is.

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There is definitely some "meta" stuff going on. The use of pop culture references and the relationship of deities with pop culture and the weird background of the MC is definitely well written. The Elder gods (think Greek, Roman, Egyptian, etc.) are competing with each other using agents in a name. MC is thrown into the game and tons of mythological forces are battling it out in the background to influence him.

spoiler within spoiler due to MASSIVE SPOILER!!!. DON'T CLICK IF YOU WANT TO f*ck UP YOUR READING EXPERIENCE.

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It is pretty clear by chapter 920ish that the book is about the revival/awakening of Cthulu and MC is Cthulu himself.

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sleed
sleed rated it
May 9, 2021
Status: c550
The needles exposition at the star go away the more the writer gets better.

I liked lego world arc.

Sherlock Holmes was tedious and honestly doesn't feel worth it.

... more>> After 500ch I think author lost interest

The quality dropped.

Pirate arc was good.

Provided you skip here and there.. It's s good novel but it after a while author looses sight of the things that made the novel interesting.

The author after chp 419.. Like he lost the edge when he was writing new characters.. Like they lost the color basically they didn't seem interesting.

And that was big part why this novel was compelling to keep reading.

But suddenly author seems like just wanted to simply pump more quantity>quality dropped. <<less
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ResidentialPsycho
ResidentialPsycho rated it
May 9, 2020
Status: c40
This is a slow-paced supernatural adventure type of series where the MC enters a "game" and has a certain task to complete, and he gets to keep his experience with him. At midnight, he has an extra twenty-four hours to himself as well.

The MC is okay but doesn't have much depth or appealing characteristics. There isn't any depth or much substance to any other characters either. The setting appears to be modern-day, but there isn't any imagery to make it appealing. There is minimal action. The biggest weakness of this... more>> series are the flaws in logic, but I've seen worse. There aren't any strengths to this series either.

The translation quality is much better than what I would normally expect from EndlessFantasy Translations. Series they have translated in the past were done in such poor quality that I blacklisted this group for awhile and avoided reading anything they worked on. Surprisingly, the translations for this series not only make sense but usually flow well. They just leave a few words untranslated that should have been translated, have some obvious grammar mistakes, and a few translation errors, such as "desert island" rather than "deserted island." It's clear that no grammar-checking or spell-checking programs were used after the first several chapters of the series since many of these are quick fixes.

Overall, this is not a bad series. It just doesn't have anything attention-grabbing or interesting going for it. <<less
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