I'm trying to think of the name of young adult trilogy I read back in high school. Female good Necromancer main character who used bells to put the dead to rest. Had two nations, a fantasy one and a technological one, and a dividing line between the two where magic and modern science didn't cross that well.
Google says Abhorsen.
It was pretty rad to read a series with a Necromancer MC.
also Dianna Wynne Jones had this book that nobody talks about called the Dark Lord of Dirkholme and the premise is basically that this fantasy land has been enslaved by horrible capitalists who turn it into an adventure tourism style theme park every year, and the denizens of the fantasyland have to figure out the logistics of making said tour more appealing to tourists who want their damn Lord of the Rings adventure, and it fucking OWNED
I'm trying to think of the name of young adult trilogy I read back in high school. Female good Necromancer main character who used bells to put the dead to rest. Had two nations, a fantasy one and a technological one, and a dividing line between the two where magic and modern science didn't cross that well.
Google says Abhorsen.
It was pretty rad to read a series with a Necromancer MC.
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i was a big bruce coville fan as a young'un. such as goblins in the castle and the wonderful Jeremy thatcher dragon hatcher.
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There was a fantasy series I read when I was younger. It had dragons and everyone hated wizards because they were dicks and their staffs absorbed magic and one dude could see the threads of magic and was annoyed because those staffs made the magic threads get all clumpy.
Forgot literally everything else about it!
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There was a fantasy series I read when I was younger. It had dragons and everyone hated wizards because they were dicks and their staffs absorbed magic and one dude could see the threads of magic and was annoyed because those staffs made the magic threads get all clumpy.
Forgot literally everything else about it!
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede! also awesome!
I read so many fuckin’ Redwall books goddamn did Brian Jacques love food, boats and horrible violence
I keep telling myself that one day I'm gonna get the redwall cookbook
then I remember that I hate cooking
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
There was a fantasy series I read when I was younger. It had dragons and everyone hated wizards because they were dicks and their staffs absorbed magic and one dude could see the threads of magic and was annoyed because those staffs made the magic threads get all clumpy.
Forgot literally everything else about it!
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede! also awesome!
Holy shit, yup that’s the one, way to go Grey Ghost
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I just finished listening to the second book in the Shades of Magic trilogy and I like it a lot. Very interesting setting, and i'm going to have to work hard to avoid appropriating one character's whole deal when I make my next tabletop rpg character.
I loved Redwall and devoured those books for a solid year and then someone said HEY THEY'RE ALL THE SAME BOOK and my worldview shattered
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David_TA fashion yes-man is no good to me.Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered Userregular
I was big into Dragonlance. But I didn't start with Dragons of Autumn Twilight, the first book in the series, I remember for some reason starting with Dragons of Winter Night, the second one. Which means you're barely introduced before half the cast are fighting a dragon on a dream plane and the other half is caught up in some Elven civil war between three different tribes of elves that all end in -nesti and, oh, one of the cast might be God in the Bill Murray sense and yeah, nothing says "part of a bigger world" than just being thrown in at the deep end like that.
And then there's the ending, which I was not ready for at the time.
Man... I even remember begging my mom to buy the Champions of Krynn video game for, I believe, the Commodore 64, simply because I couldn't believe they'd made a Dragonlance game and I knew I'd never seen it before and I'd never see it again, so I had to have it. It was alright.
the only series i remember really getting into were the black cauldron, ender's game, and hitchhiker's guide
by high school i had gotten very doofy pretentious dreams of becoming a Great Writer or perhaps a Literature Professor and stopped reading "fun" books and spent all my time reading like, Don Quixote and 1984 and Crime and Punishment
Which was apparently the literary equivalent of smoking the entire pack of cigarettes because I have finished like, 3 books since graduating, and two of those are twilight books that i've only read because my girlfriend wanted me to "see what she had to go through as a teenager"
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Did they ever make a narrative series out of it or was it all just world building picture books
16 young readers novels, baybee
Including one by Peter David???
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I only read the first two books in the enchanted forest series, apparently
I knew there was a third book coming out but could never find it and then animorphs came out and I stopped looking for it
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I was big into Dragonlance. But I didn't start with Dragons of Autumn Twilight, the first book in the series, I remember for some reason starting with Dragons of Winter Night, the second one. Which means you're barely introduced before half the cast are fighting a dragon on a dream plane and the other half is caught up in some Elven civil war between three different tribes of elves that all end in -nesti and, oh, one of the cast might be God in the Bill Murray sense and yeah, nothing says "part of a bigger world" than just being thrown in at the deep end like that.
And then there's the ending, which I was not ready for at the time.
Man... I even remember begging my mom to buy the Champions of Krynn video game for, I believe, the Commodore 64, simply because I couldn't believe they'd made a Dragonlance game and I knew I'd never seen it before and I'd never see it again, so I had to have it. It was alright.
I had the first 3 books in a collection that I've had to tape back together three times, and I've read some of the newer ones, but they have that fantasy brand problem where they crawl increasingly up their own ass with every installment.
"this reads like someone turned their D&D game into a book, dad."
"that is literally exactly what happened."
my favorite Dragonlance books are the Twins trilogy, though, because Raistlin and Caramon are the best, and there is much time-travel fuckery.
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David_TA fashion yes-man is no good to me.Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered Userregular
I've been trying to come up with the mid-point between Dragonlance and Discworld in my adolescent fantasy reading and I finally remembered, it was the Myth Adventures series by Robert Asprin. I just don't remember if they were good or not, though. I think I liked them.
I love the 2 picture book dinotopia books, they are incredibly beautiful and set my imagination on fire.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I've been trying to come up with the mid-point between Dragonlance and Discworld in my adolescent fantasy reading and I finally remembered, it was the Myth Adventures series by Robert Asprin. I just don't remember if they were good or not, though. I think I liked them.
I was big into Dragonlance. But I didn't start with Dragons of Autumn Twilight, the first book in the series, I remember for some reason starting with Dragons of Winter Night, the second one. Which means you're barely introduced before half the cast are fighting a dragon on a dream plane and the other half is caught up in some Elven civil war between three different tribes of elves that all end in -nesti and, oh, one of the cast might be God in the Bill Murray sense and yeah, nothing says "part of a bigger world" than just being thrown in at the deep end like that.
And then there's the ending, which I was not ready for at the time.
Man... I even remember begging my mom to buy the Champions of Krynn video game for, I believe, the Commodore 64, simply because I couldn't believe they'd made a Dragonlance game and I knew I'd never seen it before and I'd never see it again, so I had to have it. It was alright.
I started with Dragons of Summer Flame -- which uh, was a weird way to do it!
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
oh, also have any of you read The Exploits of Ebenezum by Craig Shaw Gardner?
or the sequel, The Wanderings of Wuntvor?
They're pretty great irreverent fantasy adventures. They go to Hell and it's the modern world but underground and filled with slime
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I literally thought that Dinotopia was just those two picture books because I searched my libraries and book stores for ages And never found a narrative book for them
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David_TA fashion yes-man is no good to me.Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered Userregular
I was big into Dragonlance. But I didn't start with Dragons of Autumn Twilight, the first book in the series, I remember for some reason starting with Dragons of Winter Night, the second one. Which means you're barely introduced before half the cast are fighting a dragon on a dream plane and the other half is caught up in some Elven civil war between three different tribes of elves that all end in -nesti and, oh, one of the cast might be God in the Bill Murray sense and yeah, nothing says "part of a bigger world" than just being thrown in at the deep end like that.
And then there's the ending, which I was not ready for at the time.
Man... I even remember begging my mom to buy the Champions of Krynn video game for, I believe, the Commodore 64, simply because I couldn't believe they'd made a Dragonlance game and I knew I'd never seen it before and I'd never see it again, so I had to have it. It was alright.
I had the first 3 books in a collection that I've had to tape back together three times, and I've read some of the newer ones, but they have that fantasy brand problem where they crawl increasingly up their own ass with every installment.
"this reads like someone turned their D&D game into a book, dad."
"that is literally exactly what happened."
my favorite Dragonlance books are the Twins trilogy, though, because Raistlin and Caramon are the best, and there is much time-travel fuckery.
I have actually told a lie, Dragons of Winter Night was not my first Dragonlance book, it was my first book in the Dragonlance series.
This was my first Dragonlance book. A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book about Raistlin and Caramon (by which I mean Raistlin).
It was amazing, it managed to be my first introduction to D&D, to Dragonlance and in some weird way, to coding.
I literally thought that Dinotopia was just those two picture books because I searched my libraries and book stores for ages And never found a narrative book for them
To be fair, the picture books were the core of the popularity, I think everything else that was spun off them wasn't as good.
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I used to go to this used book store with my dad.
I'm talkin' like, 15 cents to a dollar per book, and you could bring books to trade
I had a pretty extensive collection of the D&D Choose Your Own Adventure books
and those uh, shit, Lone Wolf? Something Wolf? The RPG books that you played by yourself
edit: There was at least one Dinotopia mini-series on like, ABC, or NBC. it was an Event when they showed it
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Google says Abhorsen.
It was pretty rad to read a series with a Necromancer MC.
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Hell yeah I read Sabriel so many times
Forgot literally everything else about it!
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede! also awesome!
I keep telling myself that one day I'm gonna get the redwall cookbook
then I remember that I hate cooking
Holy shit, yup that’s the one, way to go Grey Ghost
I think I had it! I can’t remember cooking anything from it!
http://www.audioentropy.com/
And then there's the ending, which I was not ready for at the time.
Man... I even remember begging my mom to buy the Champions of Krynn video game for, I believe, the Commodore 64, simply because I couldn't believe they'd made a Dragonlance game and I knew I'd never seen it before and I'd never see it again, so I had to have it. It was alright.
I read something about a weapon master (ninja) and I'm curious l.
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by high school i had gotten very doofy pretentious dreams of becoming a Great Writer or perhaps a Literature Professor and stopped reading "fun" books and spent all my time reading like, Don Quixote and 1984 and Crime and Punishment
Which was apparently the literary equivalent of smoking the entire pack of cigarettes because I have finished like, 3 books since graduating, and two of those are twilight books that i've only read because my girlfriend wanted me to "see what she had to go through as a teenager"
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Now THIS was the shit Young Zoe was obsessed with
Pretty much every single one of them gets better in the second book. It's so much better than the first one in basically every way.
The enchanted forest series is very very very 90s feminist, I don’t actually know what wave that is but it is very that.
I had that exact book.
Did they ever make a narrative series out of it or was it all just world building picture books
Sometimes you want to read 30 iterations of the same story you're into and that's ok
16 young readers novels, baybee
Including one by Peter David???
I knew there was a third book coming out but could never find it and then animorphs came out and I stopped looking for it
I had the first 3 books in a collection that I've had to tape back together three times, and I've read some of the newer ones, but they have that fantasy brand problem where they crawl increasingly up their own ass with every installment.
"this reads like someone turned their D&D game into a book, dad."
"that is literally exactly what happened."
my favorite Dragonlance books are the Twins trilogy, though, because Raistlin and Caramon are the best, and there is much time-travel fuckery.
Well holy shit I had no idea
the Myth books are great.
Fuck I haven't thought about them in ages, they are SO BEAUTIFUL
I started with Dragons of Summer Flame -- which uh, was a weird way to do it!
or the sequel, The Wanderings of Wuntvor?
They're pretty great irreverent fantasy adventures. They go to Hell and it's the modern world but underground and filled with slime
I have actually told a lie, Dragons of Winter Night was not my first Dragonlance book, it was my first book in the Dragonlance series.
This was my first Dragonlance book. A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book about Raistlin and Caramon (by which I mean Raistlin).
It was amazing, it managed to be my first introduction to D&D, to Dragonlance and in some weird way, to coding.
To be fair, the picture books were the core of the popularity, I think everything else that was spun off them wasn't as good.
I'm talkin' like, 15 cents to a dollar per book, and you could bring books to trade
I had a pretty extensive collection of the D&D Choose Your Own Adventure books
and those uh, shit, Lone Wolf? Something Wolf? The RPG books that you played by yourself
edit: There was at least one Dinotopia mini-series on like, ABC, or NBC. it was an Event when they showed it