Hi.

I'll probably regret posting this in a week or so when I have cognitive function back, but whatever. I'm recovering from pretty serious surgery and am consequentially drugged to the gills.

I want things to read, but am kind of picky:

Lengthy and completed.
'Light', easy reading.
Time travel is a plus.

Anything that requires thinking or concentration is a no-go. That includes authors that like flowery phrasing a bit too much. Think Joe.

I've read all of Nonjon's stuff (trilogy, black comedy, browncoat), Make a Wish (and the sequel) and Oh God, Not Again (the sarah ###'s thing) so far.

I do want completed things, because... I'm probably stuck in this bed for at least another two weeks and I want some closure to the things I'm reading.

Don't really care what genre, I suppose, though humor or time travel-ish stuff is good.

Guilty pleasure quality is fine. As long as it's 'easy reading'.

I think I'm repeating myself at this point so I'll just hit submit and yeah.

Apologies to the mods in advance for a fairly useless thread, blame the drugs.

 

I've not actually been reading much HP fanfic recently, but I'll suggest this. It's not HP fanfic, or fanfic at all, and it's not strictly finished but if you need something lengthy then give Worm a try. It clocks in at something over 1.1m words so it'll keep you busy for a few days at least!

It's a serialised piece of Original Fiction in a Superheroes & Supervillains setting that releases every Tuesday and Saturday and by all accounts it looks like it will be finished in the near future (by the end of the year or early next year).

I urge you to have a look even if you don't think you'll like it. I didn't think I'd get on with the theme, myself, since I have never read that kind of thing in any form... but I think it's gold.

 

What Lies Beneath by Master Slytherin.

Truly an amazing fic.

 

Try...

The Resistance of Azkaban by Shezza

The Unforgiving Minute by Voice of the Nephilim

Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness by Thanfiction

A Study in Magic by Vixit

 

Timely Errors of Worfe is the first that comes to my mind.

Some of the stories of BajaB might qualify. I'm thinking in particular of

Almost a Squib
Harry the Hufflepuff

 

Time To Spare is a longish (170K) story where Harry gets sent back in time, has to preserve the timeline as it appears to non-time-travellers, and is finished.

It's been quite a while since I read it, but I don't remember it being overly complicated

 

Multiverse by bobmin

Kinda funny, not overly great writing, but completed and has time travel in it.

Harry-Potter And The Summer Of Change by lorddwar

Long, completed, easy to read and has funnies, but no time travel

Time to Live and Time to learn is a short one by loralee1.

More guilty pleasure then anything else. But it's light and sometimes funny.

 

This is Death Eater Harry who is best friends with Malfoy and Snape with extreme angst.

Apprentice Potter trilogy are perfect for what you want to read.

 

One Hundred and Sixty Nine is a bit like what you are a describing, although it's "guilty pleasure", not really like your average DLP stuff and some warnings do apply. Harry doesn't feature in the story much. This is basically Hermione / young Sirius with some romance and adventure. Hermione is not happy with how things turn out after the war and being Hermione she figures out how to travel back in time using a super charged time turner. She arrives before Voldemort has attacked the Potters and plans to basically murder Voldemort using all the knowledge she had gained during the war. The main reason I am suggesting this is that it features time travel, from what I can remember is not terribly heavy to read and it's completed with 315k words.

 

I suggest you browse through this community: http://www.fanfiction.net/community/Over_And_Over_Again/27268/99/1/1/

It contains mostly HP travelling back into his 11 year old body, almost no slash. 62 of the listed 239 stories are complete.

 

The Awakening Power

It's in the library. It's complete. It's a nice easy read. It's got a couple of nice duels, one for fun and one that's deadly serious.

It's also got something I'd never seen before: factionalized goblins.

It's H/G, so skip it if you hate on that pairing. Also, it doesn't have the requested timetravel, and does have more than a little (mostly realistic) romance.

EDIT: Oh yeah, Harry absolutely works Snape over in a fight when Snape hits Harry's berzerk button with 20lb sledgehammer. Made all the more awesome by the fact that Snape was set up for it.

 

Er... How are the stories I posted classified as "Dark Arts stuff"? I recc'd completed, lengthy fics per the OPs request. Maybe you're talking about his "light" request? I took that to mean "nothing heavy" (or as the OP says, "easy reading"), i.e. no psychological mind-fucks. Even if he was talking about the "light arts", while the stories in my post aren't full of sunshine and rainbows, they definitely shouldn't be classifies as "dark arts" fics. And the OP said any genre was fine anyway.

Just trying to help ~shrugs~

 

Shezza's Denarian series wasn't mentioned. It's as finished as it'll ever be, and it's a fantastic read.

HP wasn't explicitly mentioned, so I'll also include other 'verses and crossovers.

Broken series by Jim Butcher.

What would slytherin Harry do?. A collection of sort of one-shots.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6452481/1/Gryffindors-Never-Die Time travel, kinda humorous, I hated the ending.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3486089/1/The-Man-With-No-Name Doctor Who & Firefly. Not exactly humour, but it's DW, it's light.

Anything by http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1228238/DisobedienceWriter light, guilty pleasure reading. Nothing ever goes wrong for the protagonist in his stories.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7893489/1/The-Dresden-Fillies-False-Masks DF/MLP, fantastic if you like ponies.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8551180/1/In-the-Mind-of-a-Scientist Mad scientist Harry, very light read. Sequel is a crossover with stargate.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5501817/1/Something-Wicked-This-Way-Comes HP/Disgaea. Humor. Less than one chapter (epilogue, really) to completion, with it's update rate it should be done by the end of your two weeks.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6254783/1/Rise-of-the-Wizards No humour, not completed, but a long and pleasant read nonetheless. Especially if you dislike Hermione.

Guilty pleasure, ruthless OP Harry. No annoying "other cheek" stuff.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8195669/1/The-Rise-of-a-Dark-Lord
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8244833/1/The-Fallen-Renegade This is actually fanfiction of Shezza's trilogy, but nevertheless a good enough guilty pleasure.

 

You know, Delanda Est fits this category almost perfectly.

Its a very simple easy read, it's 370k words long, Harry/Bellatrix, and time travel.

It's not a stunning piece of literature, and fails to live up to just how good it could of been, but it's very readable and i'd rate it somewhere between a 3.5-4.

 

How have I not heard of this? I almost don't want to read it, because it will probably ruin the perfect image of it I have in my head.

Also, I curse you all for filling my reading list once again.

On topic: guilty pleasure humor made me think Clell (although many people here rather dislike his stuff). Harry Potter and the Sun Source, perhaps?

 

That is a joke?
I could have swear that it was real. huh.:facepalm