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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: ReposadoXochipilli]
    #22182872 - 09/03/15 12:31 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Did I completely get you wrong and you meant A Memory of Light should have been ten books so as to tie off all the loose ends?


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: EllisDSox]
    #22182981 - 09/03/15 12:57 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

either or would have worked, either cut out all the tea and food filler or keep the style going. hell there is an entire continent that they don't even get to lol.

feel like they kept trying to ante up and lost the feeling.

could have developed the age of wonders delusions/memories also. and some of the twists completely threw out the lore just for the sake of drama. i won't spoil but some things were made to be truth that conveniently changed just to make it more dramatic. also didn't dig the real final battle. whole bunch of blackout let my hoes do it for me stuff.


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: DTCharlieB]
    #22182998 - 09/03/15 01:00 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Yeah it was a sour deal

The book had a lot of pages left and then suddenly the story stops and King launches into this whole discourse on how he is not going to write on this particular story anymore. That sucked! :mad2:


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: Patlal]
    #22183083 - 09/03/15 01:21 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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I work in a bookstore, therefore I know what I'm talking about. I got like 20 book nerds in the staff to suggest shit at all times. Their combined knowledge is enormous.

Fantasy suggestions:

1) Name of the Wind. Patrick Rothfuss.  Quite possibly the best damm fantasy book out there right now. It's part of the King Chronicals trilogy)

2) The Blade Itself. Joe Abercombrie.  A trilogy of The First Law. Extremely good trilogy as well.


These books should keep you busy for a while. Come back to me for further suggestions.





:lol: I seem to be one of those rare fantasy fans that didn't like Name of the Wind at all.

My main complaint with it was that the main character, Kvothe, is basically perfect at everything and is hated by everyone around him for being so amazing (and despite being a condescending prick to everybody around him still somehow gets laid whenever he wants) while also doing a whole bunch of utterly retarded shit. Namely, spending the entire first book running around looking for Denna, pointlessly squandering all of his money that could've been used for tuition at the university and then having to scramble for cash last second, and being an irresponsible little prick to all of his instructors for seemingly no reason. All while expressing emotion in the most bloodless bullshit way imaginable. Like...parents slaughtered in front of him in the very beginning of the book and he wanders off into the woods in some  strange fugue where he invents ever-more perfect methods of playing an instrument as the strings continue to break  :puke: ...It's like the guy can't express himself without turning it into a fucking poem. The guy hardly even feels human whatsoever.

Plus Rothfuss' characterization of all other characters in the entire novel is utter trash. His portrayal of women is horrendous, and the few other 'main' characters get entirely too little screentime compared to Kvothe. They're just subsumed under Kvothe's titanic ego and lack of any real DAMAGING flaws...plus if I recall correctly Rothfuss mentions 2 pretty significant plot points and then simply never goes into them because they're 'not relevant to the heart of the story' like Kvothe being put under trial for essentially witchcraft and a journey across the sea to the Maer. Like...whats the fucking point of even bringing them up if you're not going to talk about them?

As far as I'm concerned the one thing that Name of the Wind had going for it was the fact that the magic system Rothfuss invented was fairly interesting.

All :imo: anyway


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: Cj-B] * 1
    #22183109 - 09/03/15 01:25 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Robin Hobb

Especially:
The Farseer Trilogy
Liveship Traders Trilogy
The Rain Wild Chronicles

I'd love to read all her fantasy novels :p

They're all in the realm with eachother


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: Cj-B]
    #22183117 - 09/03/15 01:26 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

You are in fact one of the rare ones.

But hey, everybody has their opinion.

So 99% of the people live Name of the wind. it has 4.5/5 on goodreads. Somebody is responsible for that 0.5 missing right?


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: Patlal]
    #22183570 - 09/03/15 03:36 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Yeah Robin Hobb is the shit too

Keep em coming! I am going on a three week surftrip soon and I needs to read lots of books


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: Tripsurfer]
    #22183593 - 09/03/15 03:43 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Tad Williams - Shadowmarch


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: Tripsurfer]
    #22183601 - 09/03/15 03:47 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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Terry Pratchett's Discworld




do want, but there is like forty books in the series. lol

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Overall The Dark Tower was the single best thing Stephen King ever wrote. Not really a fan of Stephen King myself though




you try 11/22/63 by King? i am not a big fan of King's either, but this book looks and sounds great, for a King. i think his newer books are little less all over the place than his older ones, since he quit droogs and shit. i'd imagine they're at the very least decent fun popcorn reads.


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: PreparationH]
    #22183608 - 09/03/15 03:49 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

My top recommendation is Patrick Rothfuss' King-killer Chronicles (they start with 'the name of the wind')

I also really love everything by Ursula K LeGuin though a lot of people I know find her boring sadly on account of lack of action

Farseer series is decent, Guy Gavriel Kay is pretty decent too


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: Ezuma]
    #22183685 - 09/03/15 04:16 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

My favorite fantasy novel is the bible.


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: Shining Cosmos]
    #22183874 - 09/03/15 05:09 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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My favorite fantasy novel is the bible.




Speaking of bibles

There's an entire section in the store I work at for bibles. We have a bunch of different stickers for promos and whatnot. 2 guys from the sales staff decided to put "signed by author" stickers on all the bibles.

It was hilarious

Also, I did that:



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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: akira_akuma]
    #22183959 - 09/03/15 05:29 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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Terry Pratchett's Discworld




do want, but there is like forty books in the series. lol






Pick a story arc and go with that. My favorites are the ones featuring Death, the City Guard, and Rincewind, with Death being the overall best one


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: Cj-B]
    #22183986 - 09/03/15 05:36 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

i knew there was some sort of twist here. so there are different story arcs anyway, they aren't all meant to be read in order necessarily so, that's actually pretty awesome, i will look into closest to the beginning and figure which i'll choose from the paths.

thanks!


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: ReposadoXochipilli]
    #22188147 - 09/04/15 01:31 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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either or would have worked, either cut out all the tea and food filler or keep the style going. hell there is an entire continent that they don't even get to lol.

feel like they kept trying to ante up and lost the feeling.

could have developed the age of wonders delusions/memories also. and some of the twists completely threw out the lore just for the sake of drama. i won't spoil but some things were made to be truth that conveniently changed just to make it more dramatic. also didn't dig the real final battle. whole bunch of blackout let my hoes do it for me stuff.




I agree, but it kind of had to be an anti climax by that point, unless it was literally another ten books. They'd exhausted every type of magic duel, sword fight, magic sword fight and whatever the fuck else so at least the final battle was somewhat original. I was less disappointed reading it a second time, but it certainly isn't as good as it could have been and there's a full three or so books of filler garbage that could have been cut out entirely to make room for other stuff.

It also seemed they use the taveren thing to get past lazy writing a lot. Stuff that makes no sense happens and is explained away through this about 50 times in the series.


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: PreparationH]
    #22188212 - 09/04/15 01:50 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Has anyone here ever read Imajica by Clive Barker?  That was an excellent fantasy book.


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: Burke Dennings]
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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: Dilsnique]
    #22188249 - 09/04/15 02:01 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Jesus lol


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #22188291 - 09/04/15 02:12 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

I love Clive Barker!
Funny enough I was actually about to mention Abarat but Imajica is just as great.


But my hands down favorite fantasy series has got to be A Song of Ice and Fire.
I've been rereading it like once ever year or two since I was like 15.
Martin needs to hurry up lol


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Re: Favorite fantasy novels? [Re: PreparationH]
    #22188869 - 09/04/15 04:31 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock.


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