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I'm reading Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb now! It's kind of slow going and it's been a little difficult to get into, but it's starting to pay off now! While I'm not enjoying it quite as much as the Farseer trilogy, I'm still loving it.
Yeah, I just started the third one too. I enjoyed the first two well enough. Really fun books.
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Lovecraft was amazing at what he did, but what he did was very limited and after about a half-dozen of his works they all sort of bleed together. Also, my god but that guy had a tin ear for dialogue.
Still, though, when first stumbling across his work it's pretty wonderful.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Whisperer in the Darkness was also nice in that I think it was the first major "aliens among us" story
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I think it's the book. I like Sanderson. His work on Wheel of Time I enjoy, and he came out with The Way of Kings that I absolutely loved. Going through the first book, it wasn't until later in the book (2nd half, to last third) that I really got into the story. I think he just spent too much time explaining things in the beginning, it felt like it dragged.
After knowing I already liked him, I had a hard time because I went and bought the whole trilogy but didn't know if I'd get through the first book. Now that I've completed it, however, I enjoy it a lot more, and am happily reading the second.
If you can push through, try to keep going, you may end up enjoying it after all.
Sanderson mentioned in one of his Writing Excuses podcasts that he took a risk with Way of Kings by doing a lot of slow worldbuilding and setup in the beginning, hoping that his readers would trust his writing enough to get through it. Not sure how I feel about that, and he seemed kind of on the fence about it after-the-fact himself, but it's interesting to know that he's aware of things like that.
I could see having that problem with Cryptonomicon, but if you can't get into Snow Crash you might be dead inside. The only explanation I will allow is that you don't like cyberpunk as a genre.
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Actually I made it through I think 4 or 5 of the GRRM books some years ago. I remember thinking they were alright, just not great. I found it far too cynical. Love Malazan though.
I also really liked Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I like how every chapter ends with a question, and then the statement "Read on to find out". Which is then immediately resolved within the first two lines of the next chapter.
Lies of Locke Lamora perhaps?
Joe Abercrombie's stuff is excellent as well, it's got some magicky stuff, but it's very much the exception.
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Beyond that, I'd suggest The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb. As the trilogy progresses, magic is involved more and more (although it's never overwhelming,) but I'd still recommend the trilogy just because the books focus almost solely on the characters instead of on the magic.
The idea was cute, but the main characters were all too quickly willing to accept and treat the notion of aliens as fact way too easily.
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I'm a big fan of his, but the hundred pages I read don't seem very good.
That book was the moment when I finally realised that Stephen King had lost his touch. It doesn't get any better.
I did not like Insomnia. It has some nice imagery, I guess, but I can definitely see how you could say that. Entirely disappointing. Still, I just picked up The Regulators. The only other Bachman book I've read is Blaze, which kinda sucked, but I've heard some nice things about this one so I'm hopeful.
Also, anyone here read some of Nelson DeMille's books? It's fucking astounding how different his voice is in Cathedral from The Gold Coast.
Just got a collection of three of Shirley Jackson's stories (she's famous for a short called The Lottery), starting on Hangsaman which is dark, subtle, very character heavy, but engaging.
Also started Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, which looks good.
Oh yeah, that's one crazy-ass intense book.
I've been hearing great news about that book but all descriptions doesn't lead to much special. Anyone want to distill to me why this series is so pro.
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It's a supernatural detective series with a wizard as the main character who goes up against sorcerers and werewolves and vampires and demons. What more do you want?
Definitely get Desperation! I finished it up over the weekend and it was a crazy, awesome ride from start to finish.
Picked up the first book in the "Sword of Shannara" because I've seen the names around. Half way through it, but I'm just feeling like its not written that well. Seems to jump all over the place with who is thinking (any of the 6 main characters can given their thoughts at any time) and generally just seems like it's poorly written.
Am I mistaken/too hypercritical? Does the series get better? Or is it just one of those books that everyone knows, but generally is just average?
Trying to decide if it's worth it to finish the book and continue on in the series.
I just finished going through the safehold series, have another month until the next book comes out, but speeding through the first 4-5 books has me itching for new material.
My interests have ranged from fantasy to sci-fi. I've read weber 's honor harrington, the safehold series, the bolo novels (most of them at least), The wheel of time, brandon sandersons stuff, riftwar... What i need to do is find another nice long already established series to go through. Suggestions are welcome.
I would suggest The Black Company by Glen Cook. While I don't really like his other work that I've read, Black Company is one of my top series. It's basically finished - there is talk of two more books but who knows if we'll ever see them - and all of them have been rerelease in the last few years in handy and inexpensive omnibus editions.
The Chronicles of The Black Company (books 1-3, "The Black Company", "Shadows Linger", and "The White Rose")
The Books of the South (books 4 and 5 plus a related spin-off, "Shadow Games", "Dreams of Steel", and "The Silver Spike")
The Return of The Black Company (books 6 and 7, "Bleak Seasons", and "She Is the Darkness")
The Many Deaths of The Black Company (books 8 and 9, "Water Sleeps", and "Soldiers Live")
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I'd suggest picking up some Robin Hobb if you haven't already. Start with the Farseer trilogy and go from there! She writes in trilogies and most of her books are in the same world.
Roger Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber, at least the Corwin Cycle (Books 1-5).
I have such a problem with multi-POV fantasy books sometimes. It can REALLY work well, but it can also take absolutely for-freaking-ever to get into. I ended up really enjoying the book by the end and I'm just glad when I pick up the next book in the trilogy I won't have to go through that breaking-in period again.
Now I just started the fifth Dresden book, giving the series another go after reading the first four and being pretty ho-hum about them. So far, this book is actually clicking with me as what everyone said the series was. Seems like this week is all about giving things a second chance and ending up happy I did.