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WinterIsComing · **Joined:** Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:23 am **Posts:** 1025

HumanTorch wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

I just started reading fantasy like a year ago, so I'm way behind.

I can't really get into tr00 fantasy anymore, but if you are looking for an absorbing mature 'realistic' fantasy read (more like medieval than fantasy), I would like to recommend Guy Gavriel Kay. I have read 'Song For Arbonne', 'Tigana' and 'Last Light of the Sun' and thought Song For Arbonne was the best by a slim margin.

I feel the same way, but honestly I don't really consider GGK fantasy, basically historical fiction with changed up names and countries and no dates.

Lions of Al-Rassan was awesome. and the movie is coming soon: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443572/

Anonymous · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:02 am

WinterIsComing wrote:

I feel the same way, but honestly I don't really consider GGK fantasy, basically historical fiction with changed up names and countries and no dates.

Which is why I also love George RR Martin..

WinterIsComing wrote:

Lions of Al-Rassan was awesome. and the movie is coming soon: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443572/

*cheers*

Let's hope this means a spate of GGK movies.

Eyesore · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:46 am

T.I.E. wrote:

never tried the Shannara books, is it that good ?

Yes, excellent stuff. The first book has a lot of setup time. He's created a massive world and storyline so it just took a while for him to get into everything. Plus, it's his first book so it shows slightly.

I picked up Voyage Of The Jerle Shanarra in a used bin first, that's like the 10th book in the series. Hahaha. So I was a bit lost at first, but got through the book and really liked it. Then I went and started at the beginning like I should have. Just read them in order that he wrote them.

Fingon · **Joined:** Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:11 pm **Posts:** 3207

Pitface: een parabel by H. Brusselmans

EisenFaust · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:17 pm

I'm working my way through a heap of shit for my remaining exams... So I don't really have the time for reading anything funny...

Metalhead_Bastard · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:42 pm

I'm reading the belgariad series by David Eddings, I've just finished the 2nd book and I'm soon to move onto the 3rd, Magician's Gambit. I also have the first 3 books of the next series (The Mallorean) in my room, which my parents got me for a £1 each from a used bookstore-which is cool.

Eyesore · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:15 am

Metalhead_Bastard wrote:

I'm reading the belgariad series by David Eddings, I've just finished the 2nd book and I'm soon to move onto the 3rd, Magician's Gambit. I also have the first 3 books of the next series (The Mallorean) in my room, which my parents got me for a £1 each from a used bookstore-which is cool.

The Belgariad series is excellent! I have the first book in the Mallorean, too, but have not read it yet.

I did try his more recent The Dreamers series he did with his wife. I got halfway through the second book and could just read no more. There's nothing that grasps you. The premise is good, but the characters are terrible. They have potential to be great, but overall are just boring. Not a very good series, at least the first half.

Dead Machine · **Joined:** Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:24 pm **Posts:** 2527

Shakespeare - The Tempest

My favorite of his. Very worldly and bitter-sounding.

rio · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:40 pm

Dead Machine wrote:

Shakespeare - The Tempest

My favorite of his. Very worldly and bitter-sounding.

Agh... Memories of A-Level English.

MacBeth all the way, w00t!

Dead Machine · **Joined:** Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:24 pm **Posts:** 2527

rio wrote:

Agh... Memories of A-Level English.

MacBeth all the way, w00t!

Actually, I'm reading this one by choice.

Macbeth I was forced to read, and this idiot in class ruined it. It was a good play, but now whenever I open it I hear Dante's nasally voice plowing on and on about something that everyone else has already concluded or yammering about moral absolutes and blah blah blah.

Kills the play.

Fingon · **Joined:** Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:11 pm **Posts:** 3207

the wizard rules series by Terry Goodkind. these are just as good as tolkien was or martin's ASOIAF. Only this has more depth in the story :roll:

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

Fingon wrote:

the wizard rules series by Terry Goodkind. these are just as good as tolkien was or martin's ASOIAF. Only this has more depth in the story :roll:

Oh God, you've got to be kidding me. Stop reading that right away man... That's all I have to say. Worst fantasy series ever.

Now, I'm reading this:

If you enjoy the moral ambiguity and grittiness of Martin's series, you'll like these books, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, of which I am on Book 4. Quite excellent and extremely, extremely complicated books (the first one is especially confusing, yet still a good read and you'll begin to understand more and more as you go on). I fully endorse it.

Fingon · **Joined:** Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:11 pm **Posts:** 3207

what's wrong with the wizard rules? it is good fantasy imo..and at least this one has a story that backs everything up in the style the tales of tolkien had :?

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

Fingon wrote:

what's wrong with the wizard rules? it is good fantasy imo..and at least this one has a story that backs everything up in the style the tales of tolkien had :?

Well, firstly, its called The Sword of Truth series. But haven't you noticed the terrible dialogue? The non-sensical descriptions? The paper thin characters? The story that's been completely ripped off from Jordan and Brooks (though this becomes more apparent in book 2, Stone of Tears, the last one I read before resolving to never read anything with the name "Goodkind" on it again) and is completely cliched fantasy?. Apparently, the books after the second one get even worse, as Goodkind relinquishes what little story he has in order to endlessly spout out Ayn Rand style philosophy. Apparently in the last book, Richard makes a 10 page speech to a pacifist society about why pacifism is wrong, endlessly repeating himself. And then I'm not going to even go into the author himself; quite possibly the most arrogant man I've ever had the displeasure of hearing say anything. And that is whats wrong with The Sword of Truth series.

End rant. Read Martin and Erikson.

Metalhead_Bastard · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:24 pm

Eyesore wrote:

Metalhead_Bastard wrote:

I'm reading the belgariad series by David Eddings, I've just finished the 2nd book and I'm soon to move onto the 3rd, Magician's Gambit. I also have the first 3 books of the next series (The Mallorean) in my room, which my parents got me for a £1 each from a used bookstore-which is cool.

The Belgariad series is excellent! I have the first book in the Mallorean, too, but have not read it yet.

I did try his more recent The Dreamers series he did with his wife. I got halfway through the second book and could just read no more. There's nothing that grasps you. The premise is good, but the characters are terrible. They have potential to be great, but overall are just boring. Not a very good series, at least the first half.

I've never been compelled to read any of his books with his wife, adding Eddings' writing to any other authors would just ruin it, imo. Having trouble getting the 3rd book, I'll have to either have to find it used (not willing to pay £7 for a fuckin' paperback) or get a damned library card.

Sifl · **Posted:** Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:20 pm

Nineteen Eighty Four

rio · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:50 am

Now reading the Morning Star- Britains daily Communist paper.

Interesting reading.

Goat · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:32 pm

rio wrote:

Now reading the Morning Star- Britains daily Communist paper.

Interesting reading.

Commie Bastid.

NP: Bloodbath - Year Of the Cadaver Race

Eyesore · **Posted:** Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:12 pm

Metalhead_Bastard wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Metalhead_Bastard wrote:

I'm reading the belgariad series by David Eddings, I've just finished the 2nd book and I'm soon to move onto the 3rd, Magician's Gambit. I also have the first 3 books of the next series (The Mallorean) in my room, which my parents got me for a £1 each from a used bookstore-which is cool.

The Belgariad series is excellent! I have the first book in the Mallorean, too, but have not read it yet.

I did try his more recent The Dreamers series he did with his wife. I got halfway through the second book and could just read no more. There's nothing that grasps you. The premise is good, but the characters are terrible. They have potential to be great, but overall are just boring. Not a very good series, at least the first half.

I've never been compelled to read any of his books with his wife, adding Eddings' writing to any other authors would just ruin it, imo. Having trouble getting the 3rd book, I'll have to either have to find it used (not willing to pay £7 for a fuckin' paperback) or get a damned library card.

Yeah, if The Dreamers series is any indication of change, then don't bother. It's bland and boring.

Metalhead_Bastard · **Posted:** Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:51 pm

Eyesore wrote:

Metalhead_Bastard wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Metalhead_Bastard wrote:

I'm reading the belgariad series by David Eddings, I've just finished the 2nd book and I'm soon to move onto the 3rd, Magician's Gambit. I also have the first 3 books of the next series (The Mallorean) in my room, which my parents got me for a £1 each from a used bookstore-which is cool.

The Belgariad series is excellent! I have the first book in the Mallorean, too, but have not read it yet.

I did try his more recent The Dreamers series he did with his wife. I got halfway through the second book and could just read no more. There's nothing that grasps you. The premise is good, but the characters are terrible. They have potential to be great, but overall are just boring. Not a very good series, at least the first half.

I've never been compelled to read any of his books with his wife, adding Eddings' writing to any other authors would just ruin it, imo. Having trouble getting the 3rd book, I'll have to either have to find it used (not willing to pay £7 for a fuckin' paperback) or get a damned library card.

Yeah, if The Dreamers series is any indication of change, then don't bother. It's bland and boring.

I still haven't found Magician's Gambit for an acceptable price anywhere, next time I go to Chester I'll have a peek in the used bookstore.

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