EPTWhat Are You Reading 2017 - Page 15
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Thermia
United States866 Posts
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Ysellian
Netherlands9029 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](https://www.snazal.com/images/products/large/image_74418.jpg) On November 16 2017 11:52 Thermia wrote: Oathbringer was great! That series has been on my list for ages. | ||
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B.I.G.
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Acrofales
Spain18159 Posts
On November 23 2017 10:40 B.I.G. wrote: First Law trilogy is awesome. I'd put them on top of a must-read fantasy list any day. + Show Spoiler [don't read if hyped for these bo…] + They actually disappointed me with how they got hyped. They're not bad, but imho there's a lot better contemporary fantasy. Both in terms of world building and in terms of interesting character development. And the conclusion is laughably bad. | ||
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Redox
Germany24794 Posts
Although it is sometimes too long and surely not as finely crafted as something like Kingkiller I still liked it better. Not even sure why. I think it is the grittyness. | ||
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B.I.G.
3251 Posts
I actually thought it was quite brilliant how he set up these borderline cliché characters that even with all the evidence to the contrary subconsciously make the reader fit them into the hero roles and character development he expects them to, only to have it completely shattered in the end. People aren't caterpillars that are waiting to burst out of their cocoon of harsh character growth into noble and heroic butterflies, they are bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. | ||
Flicky
England2669 Posts
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B.I.G.
3251 Posts
In all seriousness did you think it was poorly executed or just not your cup of tea? | ||
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Jelissei
193 Posts
![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Sapiens_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind.jpg) ![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Homo_Deus.jpg) And in the same vein: ![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Transmetropolitan_2.jpg) For the layman these are excellent readings on what may lie ahead of us in the not too distant future. | ||
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NukeTheStars
United States277 Posts
![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Annihilation_by_jeff_vandermeer.jpg) Finished this up. I don't say this often, but the movie will almost certainly be better. Its ideas are way more interesting than its prose. I dig how Lovecraftian it is, though. | ||
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Ysellian
Netherlands9029 Posts
On November 23 2017 10:40 B.I.G. wrote: First Law trilogy is awesome. I'd put them on top of a must-read fantasy list any day. Man I read the first two book in the blink of an eye and I'm halfway through the second. You were not kidding, awesome trilogy indeed! | ||
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maybenexttime
Poland5712 Posts
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farvacola
United States18843 Posts
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Redox
Germany24794 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
![[image loading]](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1415584158l/23460922.jpg) | ||
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Ysellian
Netherlands9029 Posts
On November 30 2017 06:41 maybenexttime wrote: Funny how people's tastes differ. I read the first book and found it to be the most generic fantasy, with prototypical, cardboard characters. ;-) You're not wrong though and it doesn't surprise me how it's quite polarizing. I came into the book from a certain angle and it just clicked with me, the generic fantasy and characters all help to make it work as I see things from their angle. But on another day it could also have complete turned me off. + Show Spoiler + The characterization does become much better in the second book personally. | ||
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B.I.G.
3251 Posts
-Hannibal Barca -Charlemagne -Theodoric the great -Anything on the early European "tribes" like the visigoths, osthrogoths, etc Thanks! | ||
Nyovne
Netherlands19135 Posts
- Metro 2035 - Deadhouse Landing - The first fifteen lives of Harry August Are the books I read the last 6 weeks. All great stuff for their respective franchises. Oathbringer takes the cake though. That awesome series, can't wait for the next 7 books :D. | ||
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Redox
Germany24794 Posts
On December 05 2017 19:13 Nyovne wrote: - Metro 2035 Is it better than 2034? Because that one was pretty boring and kind of all over the place imo. | ||
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Flicky
England2669 Posts
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