Happy to slap down any examples you care to give.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xisrene
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Happy to slap down any examples you care to give.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xisrene
Sword of Truth series? Absolutely horrid. Despite that I read them and even enjoy them. But I don't pretend that the series is anything other than garbage. I won't recommend the series to anyone. I can't explain why I read the series but I do so willingly.
Possibly, if you had refused to read them, you would have been love-whipped in the secret Sacred Devotion Chamber?Quote:
Originally Posted by Silke
If that's the case, not only will I refuse to read them, I will burn all copies I can find.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dmitry the Wizzy
LOL What a pathetic bunch of book snobs.
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philistine.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZedofFennin
And I enjoy the Sword of Truth series. Well.. The last two have been rather preachy, and I think at this point I'm just reading it to be finished with it.
Besides, I think I'm a far better personification of Zed than what TG came up with.
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You mean you don't like to read books that interrupt the plot, such as it is, to go on a 15 page diatribe on why woman not only should be kept in chains but that they would actually prefer it?Quote:
Originally Posted by camrael
Two Alan Dean Foster books that I read I would classify as Excellant:
Icerigger
Midworld
--D
WTF is the Gor series? I guess camarel actually knew the guy who wrote it, or owns the printing press that makes it or something.
heh
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Originally Posted by ZedofFennin
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ers_of_gor.JPG
While it lightly dips into sci fi, C.S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy is one of the best fantasy trilogies I've ever read. The world is unique, the characters are well developed, and the plot is entertaining.
I'll second the Coldfire recommendation. Damien Kilcanon Vryce is a unique protagonist, and Gerald Terrant is my favorite fantasy villian. Detailed world, fleshed out characters - just a fantastic read.
Here's my question... Eragon.
I noticed the books as I walk around the bookstore occasionally.
I just noticed last week that they have a movie poster up for it. Anybody read it, and care to comment?
The Nine Princes of Amber are only half Chaos. Merlin is 3/4 Chaos, trained from birth in Chaos arts and the only person except for maybe Oberon and Dworkin to have walked both Pattern and Logrus. It's not unreasonable to suppose that combination would count for something. I admit that between Frakir and Ghost, Merlin sort of becomes Deus Ex Machina Man, but Amber was never just about magic traps and battles; it's an ongoing story of dysfunctional family relationships and feudal politics, elements that -- along with the Chandler-esque narrative tone -- are carried out as deftly in the Merlin books as in the Corwin novels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haft Vishniak
linking the book that's first in the series I've ready by Jacqueline Carey...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076...lance&n=283155
Just this month she's released a second trilogy with a different main character that follows the story of this trilogy/book.
Its this totally awful series from the late 60's through the 80's which basically has rape scenes, slave sex scenes, and as Lascaris mentioned, lots of long diatribes about women are happier when they are slaves and serving man. Some people today practice Gor :) I was very hungry for sci fi and fantasy as a kid and there was this used book store / junk shop that had thousands of books for $1 or less. Even at my young age I knew the books were crap but the winters in Northern BC were long.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZedofFennin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor
I love those (the first set anyway, haven't read the second set). The first one suffers a bit from super-heavyhanded foreshadowing, but it's still a good read, in a guilty pleasure kind of way.Quote:
Originally Posted by sillililygirl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EragonQuote:
Originally Posted by Merco
Its ok. The author did a good job of developing his character over time. Its not OMG super power guy in the first book. It takes well into the second book before main character even gets semi decent.
In terms of general complaints against the series, yes it copies muliple themes out there. On the other hand these are really good themes. It has links to LotR, Star Wars, and several other fantasy books/series. At the same time it is well presented and easy enough to read.
It was good to read for fun, not something to advance your reading comprehension, but otherwise worth it. The risk in making a fantasy movie based on Eragon is that it is fantasy and it is a rare case such as LotR that it turns out good or epic. Ill see the movie, but am not goin in with huge expectations. I guess ill see the trailer and then comment again...hard to tell with just posters up.
Don't forget the Spikards.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Amber's about archetypes. Can't really see how you can avoid feeling a letdown going from a strong one like Corwin to a penny-ante one like Merlin.
Merlin's space is squeezed from both sides by Fiona the sorceress and Julian the artificier. They're both (obviously) several times more "Amber" and therefore interesting than Merlin, who's a child and speaking from a slightly tweaked Earth perspective.