Fantasy – Book Recommendations
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[quote=Tizzy;6714]I get tentacle porn, it’s pretty much the basis of love with Melissance and her hubby, but do Oozes have tentacles? Pseudopods, yes, of course.
A warm dry jelly? That seems rather odd.
Are pseudopods that amenable for the necessary hand gestures to cast spells?
Also, does it speak telepathically? Or exude vocal cords and pump air through them?
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They call them tentacles, but they’re pseudopods. And apparently, gestures in this world are only for a mental framework. If you really concentrate, you don’t need them.
The speaking was a blessing from a goddess…so…MAGIC! Deus Ex Machina!
Frankly the MC grew too quickly, I thought. Especially the speaking.
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Orconomics – J. Zachary [/size][/size][/quote]Listened to the audiobook, jeez. Fantastic. Some of J. Zachary’s other short stories are pretty funny if short.
Not sure, was midway through and the MC wasn’t really making me feel engaged, and i wont deny that tolkien is a classic, but the movies didn’t draw me in enough to make me want to read the books.
[quote=Christopher Cope;6554]Wow, where are the classics of fantasy?
Chronicles of the Black Company – Glenn Cook
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant – Stephen Donaldson
Elric, Corum, Hawkmoon series – Michael Moorcock
Chronicles of Amber – Roger Zelazny
Belgariad – David Eddings
Riftwar saga – Raymond E. Feist
Fafhrd and Grey Mouser – Fritz Leiber
Sword of Truth – Terry Goodkind (This is a love or hate series, latter for me, but is indelibly part of the fantasy landscape)Other notable series
Tale of Malazan book of the Fallen – Steven Erikson
Blood Song – Anthony Ryan
Jhereg – Steven Brust[/quote]The Belgariad & Malloreon series by David Eddings and the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffery were the series that first got me hooked on reading fantasy as a young teenager…..but they’re not what I would recommend for adult readers today – they are still good series but more suited to a young audience just being introduced to the genre IMO.
I enjoyed the Riftwar saga by Raymon E. Feist and the subsequent spin-off series, and used to buy each new book (many times in Hardcover) when released – until he started to kill off my favorite characters from the first books – I gave up on the books when he killed off Jimmy the Hand – I don’t think I’ve even gone back and re-read any of the previous books since that happened.
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant drove me nuts – just consistent whining from the MC about him being sick and not believing anything he saw.
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OOPS!
“You may need to skip several sections in Volume 4. No reason. Just saying. Might be some monkey business going on.”
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Oh? I guess Singkun will be talking in those chapters? Hmm… I wonder if there’ll be a new Loki to join Tizzy and Singkun
OK: Have not yet read, but this looks to be right up GelCube’s alley:
[url=http://a.co/acWNrbM]Chronicles of a Royal Pet: A Princess and an Ooze (Royal Ooze Chronicles Book 1) [/url]
The Dark Lord’s Handbook LOOKED interesting, but it didn’t live up to it’s expectations with me.
Unconventional Heroes…I read the first one, but not sure why I didn’t read the second.
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I looked at The Contractor, but the blurb didn’t hook me. I’ll check it out. Thank The Slimy One I have Kindle Unlimited. At current book prices, my book budget would equal my food budget…and I have three cube-lets at home![/quote]Contractor was a book that was so predictable that I could play Cliché Bingo using it and win before I finished. Not that it was “bad” writing.[/quote]
Totally agree. To make it sound worse the three races are stealth frogs, space religious fanatics and not demon demons.
Yes, but he’s a pretty new author, first book was in October 2016. Don’t think he has figured out the advantages of KU yet, nor price optimization.
Price a bit less, sell a lot more, make a lot more. And KU, as I keep saying is a great deal for authors…unless you have some magical way of getting your book noticed on the apple bookstore, BN or playstore.
I wasn’t on KU at first (but it wasn’t as good a deal then either) because I wanted to be at all bookstores. Quickly found out that they don’t count for a plate of mash potatoes against the mountain of Amazon.
Never sold anything on Apple, sold maybe 2 or 3 on BN, sold 4 on Smashwords, sold 5 or 6 on Playstore in the first 2-3 months, compared with a couple hundred on Amazon.
Currently I make about 2x as much from KU as from individual sales, and individual sales are 2 orders of magnitude beyond what I could do elsewhere.
Wow, where are the classics of fantasy?
Chronicles of the Black Company – Glenn Cook
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant – Stephen Donaldson
Elric, Corum, Hawkmoon series – Michael Moorcock
Chronicles of Amber – Roger Zelazny
Belgariad – David Eddings
Riftwar saga – Raymond E. Feist
Fafhrd and Grey Mouser – Fritz Leiber
Sword of Truth – Terry Goodkind (This is a love or hate series, latter for me, but is indelibly part of the fantasy landscape)Other notable series
Tale of Malazan book of the Fallen – Steven Erikson
Blood Song – Anthony Ryan
Jhereg – Steven Brust[quote=Gelcube;6772]What is it about super-powered teenagers that make them remain virgins?[/quote]
It didn’t seem like the author was very good at writing female characters.
I enjoyed the novelty of reading the gayest book series I’ve ever seen, with zero sex scenes.
He even shortly described semi-realistic BDSM leather scene play in a very non-erotic manner.
The first Astlan book talked about Tom’s dong in more length than all the three Legacy/Gilan books taken together.
Yeah, not a fan of ridiculously dark fantasy, and Urban fantasy more often than not gets on my nerves because it’s either not well written or super depressing or super whiny, Like the wheel of time in the first case and most generic Urban Fantasy in the second. GG I’m sorry to say that among all the books you linked in the first post besides the few there that i had read beforehand the only one i enjoyed was the Pax Arcana series, all the others didn’t really draw me in, i guess we have mostly different tastes but a fraction of things we both like.
Here’s a piece of literature that i found interesting, if anybody’s interested. A Fresh Start By rlfj
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