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y0su
Finland7871 Posts
On March 28 2014 11:38 lichter wrote: I too was fooled by this blog title. 1 star for you because the book covers weren't even mildly saucey My mind keeps changing the K to a B... | ||
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tili
United States1332 Posts
I've read it through at least three times, and I read an enormous amount of fantasy as a child. | ||
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Andre
Slovenia3523 Posts
It's a bit sugar-coated in some parts as romance is featured heavily, but the world and the characters are really interesting. | ||
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Redox
Germany24794 Posts
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emythrel
United Kingdom2599 Posts
list of her works, most are still in print http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Mary_Shelley Did anyone mention Suzanne Collins? Writer of The Hunger Games? Possibly, someone did. Anyhow, great writer, sci-fi, fantasy, all the above. | ||
Falling
Canada11496 Posts
I have read the first Hunger Games book. It was weird though because I had watched the film first and there really was nothing new to read, the film was suprisingly faithful. Except maybe, there was a little more survival stuff in the actual Games. Weird experience. Light reading, but enjoyable. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
Want to pull for Diana Wynne Jones, who is criminally underrated. She doesn't write epic high fantasy but she is an amazing author and writes amazing stories. Primarily wrote for YA audience, but I don;t think that's necessarily a detriment against her (she has some adult targeted works as well). She is also very well steeped in the fantasy tradition, and a lot of her works parody traditional tropes in very clever and humorous ways. I would recommend you try reading Dark Lord of Derkholm (as a bonus, it has carnivorous sheep :3). | ||
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Falling
Canada11496 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On March 29 2014 02:51 Falling wrote: Haha. Is that the origin of your name? It wasn't, but imagine my pleasure when I came across the following passage: "It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters." :3 | ||
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ne4aJIb
Russian Federation3209 Posts
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Yurie
12082 Posts
To keep on topic, Trudi Canavan has a few good books, is female and has females as lead characters. All series are good but I myself preferred the Age of the Five series. (Notice I did not use a strong adjective about the books, worth reading/buying but not the best anybody will read.) | ||
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emythrel
United Kingdom2599 Posts
On March 29 2014 01:42 Falling wrote: mm. Yes, I should read something by Mary Shelley. I also just finished Dracula by Bram Stoker and quite liked it. I have read the first Hunger Games book. It was weird though because I had watched the film first and there really was nothing new to read, the film was suprisingly faithful. Except maybe, there was a little more survival stuff in the actual Games. Weird experience. Light reading, but enjoyable. I found the first person narrative a bit jarring at first but once i got used to it, it was great. I haven't actually read them but rather listened to audio books, as is my preference these days, and having a womans voice lent itself well to the first person style of the book. The films are indeed very faithful to the books, something i wish they had done with Harry Potter lol. | ||
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Dubzex
United States6994 Posts
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insectoceanx
United States331 Posts
“I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it’s madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.” - George RR Martin Part of the beauty of Martins characters is they actually make oyu hate them. And don't give up on the characters, he has a way of changing them completely and showing totally different sides of them. | ||
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Thereisnosaurus
Australia1822 Posts
If you're into interestingly written books centering around women in the SF/F space, Diamond Age is a real pearl. | ||
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InvictusRage
United States230 Posts
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Otolia
France5805 Posts
On March 28 2014 04:59 Falling wrote: I would definitely read more of Robin Hobb, and I'll definitely put the Assassin Trilogy on my list, and I'll see about Left Hand of Darkness. Partially it's contingent on the regional library, but we'll see. Yeah, I agree about Mistborn. I've read the first two and I have the third sitting on my shelf. But I could read that court intrigue by day, fantasy-Jedi by night stuff all day. Once they broke out of the first book, I definitely missed the Ocean's 11 feel to the first book. Obviously, an author can't spin their wheels and rewrite the same story again and again (Brian Jacques in his later years), but there was a magic something missing in the second. Hobb is my favorite fantasy writer after Pratchett. All of her series (including those made under a pseudo) a outstanding but I wouldn't have started with the book you took. The events there are taking place somewhat far into the main storyline. | ||
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Falling
Canada11496 Posts
On March 29 2014 13:50 insectoceanx wrote: The Wayfarer Redemption has a lot of shit going on and can be hard to keep track of but it all falls into place in the 3rd book. I remember just being like wtf, how in the hell did she tie all this shit together. I read it a long time ago, This has inspired me to revisit it again once i finish my second read of Song of Ice and Fire. “I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it’s madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.” - George RR Martin Part of the beauty of Martins characters is they actually make oyu hate them. And don't give up on the characters, he has a way of changing them completely and showing totally different sides of them. re: Wayfarers. I honestly thought the plot was pretty straightforward. If anything, the world felt pretty empty except when they ran into pockets of people, hidden or otherwise. I guess by that quote, you and GRRM suggest there is a sort of double standard. Maybe there is. But I don't actually like graphically written violence either, so it's more a case of soldiering on until the cumulative effect reached a tipping point. But I really, really don't care to read about rape detailed or not. Donaldson's was not graphic at all, but I stopped immediately. The fact that I lasted 2.5 books with Martin is a testament to his skill as a writer. I'm not writing angry letters to him... I just stopped. He has the right to write that stuff, but I don't have to enjoy or read it either. I could see how he was going to recontextualize Jayme, but I don't care for it. When I say I ran out of vaguely sympathetic characters, I mean that. Trying to describe the feeling... it's like Martin boiled 30 years of selfishness and violence backstabbing and other evil acts down and condensed them down to a couple years (whatever is the time frame of the book,) but in the process he boiled off all virtue, compassion, and... joy out of those same 30 years. It's very bleak. Lord Stark was only vaguely sympathetic to begin with- he is on Team Justice or maybe Lawful Stupid. But he is not compassionate- from the last name and his opening scene, I don't think we're meant to think that. He's inflexible and is more akin to Stannis then you would otherwise think. Compassion for another hardly exists in Martin's universe. I think the bleakest thing about GRRM's universe is that from the highest king to the lowliest peasant is just trying to maneuvre to get what's best for them. There is no virtue, no idealism (not counting Stark's inflexible, short-sighted contingency plan as 'idealism'), no compassion, no goodness. If the Nazis conquered GRRM's land, prince to pauper they would all sell out their neighbours and no-one would've hidden the Jews. Everyone's a Machiavellian. That sort of self-sacrifice doesn't exist in his universe, and that is very depressing to read just because self-interest and backstabbing are so all encompassing. I don't need knights in white shining armour, but I do need even just a sliver a moonlight- there isn't even that for me. As a side note, I do think one's capacity to continue reading is somewhat contingent on how compelling a character you think Tyrion is. I never did. Plus Dany's plot was going no-where after 2.5 books, and I was meh on Jon's storyline. | ||
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Mothra
United States1448 Posts
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