Fantasy – Book Recommendations
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To be honest i could not disagree with you more, Awaken Online was very uninteresting to me. A Prison of Worlds i did enjoy however.
I didn’t say it was GOOD, just that it was one of the better ones. To be honest, the LitRPG field is littered.
Just that. Littered, like with trash.
Get it?
Badumtish. Yeah i guess, the only true Litrpg i really like is The Land. unless I’m forgetting some which i probably am.
[quote=EyeDeKay;6547][quote=Dirk Flamberge;6544]I kind of lost interest while reading Name of the wind, and for tolkien the movies were enough for me.[/quote]
Why’d you lose interest?
Books are much better. Movie leave out a lot like always. *shudders* Except the eagles.
[/quote]Pff, in the case of the LotR series that things were left out of the movies was actually a good thing. Seriously, I have no idea why Tolkien gets so much acclaim. His books were long-winded, excessive, and boring. I am a voracious reader, and rarely do I stop reading books that are even halfway decent (for instance, I actually read every book in the Wheel of Time series once despite how bad they got between 6-10). But I never was able to get past the what 30 pages whining about misplacing the Ent-wives from Treebeard…. seriously I get it, you lost them. It didn’t need to be that drawn out.
[quote=Rakshasa;7312][quote=EyeDeKay;6547][quote=Dirk Flamberge;6544]I kind of lost interest while reading Name of the wind, and for tolkien the movies were enough for me.[/quote]
Why’d you lose interest?
Books are much better. Movie leave out a lot like always. *shudders* Except the eagles.
[/quote]Pff, in the case of the LotR series that things were left out of the movies was actually a good thing. Seriously, I have no idea why Tolkien gets so much acclaim. His books were long-winded, excessive, and boring. I am a voracious reader, and rarely do I stop reading books that are even halfway decent (for instance, I actually read every book in the Wheel of Time series once despite how bad they got between 6-10). But I never was able to get past the what 30 pages whining about misplacing the Ent-wives from Treebeard…. seriously I get it, you lost them. It didn’t need to be that drawn out.[/quote]
Not sure how you managed to get yourself to read through the totality of WoT, i think i only made it to 3 or 4 and had to give up because of all the whining and the useless male characters.
Haven’t seen it mentioned so far but I highly recommend the Spellmonger series by Terry Mancour.
10 books so far and any author who creates his own method of cursing based upon the goddesses assets he himself writes about gets some of my money.
Highly quotable
[SPOILER]I can completely see Tizzy being a god of chaos that can be birthed from humanities subconscious. I mean who doesn’t have a stoned, eight-limbed, flying wise-ass in their brains[/SPOILER]
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I fear you have put the egg before the chicken!I am thinking that humanity was spawned from my own superconsciousness!
You should see some of the things I dream up when I have a tummy ache from too many cookies!
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[url=https://www.amazon.com/NPCs-Spells-Swords-Stealth-Book-ebook/dp/B00KB2RLKO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1530335549&sr=1-1&keywords=npcs]NPC’s by Drew Hayes[/url]
[url=https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Casting-101-Hellkitten-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B01N4PZKPT/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1530335782&sr=1-2&keywords=soul+magic+101]Soul Casting 101 by Viola Grace[/url]
[url=https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Ruins-Dreams-Book-ebook/dp/B01N6SCHC8/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1530336665&sr=1-1&keywords=Ancient+ruins]Ancient Ruins by Benjamin Medrano[/url]
[url=https://www.amazon.com/Flaw-All-Magic-Magebreakers-Book-ebook/dp/B074Q4C66B/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1530337040&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=the+flaw+in+all+magic&psc=1]The Flaw in All Magic by Ben S. Dobson[/url]
[url=https://www.amazon.com/Sufficiently-Advanced-Magic-Arcane-Ascension-ebook/dp/B06XBFD7CB/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1530337321&sr=1-2&keywords=sufficiently+advanced+magic]Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe[/url]
[url=https://www.amazon.com/Net-Dawn-Bones-C-Chancy-ebook/dp/B012GZ1LAY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1530337477&sr=1-1&keywords=a+net+of+dawn+and+bones]A Net of Dawn and Bones by C. Chancy[/url]
[url=https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Calling-Twenty-Sided-Sorceress-Book-ebook/dp/B00M9WCUOQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1530337555&sr=1-11]Justice Calling by Annie Bellet[/url]
[url=https://www.amazon.com/Schooled-Magic-Christopher-Nuttall-ebook/dp/B00INFP20W/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1530337868&sr=1-2]Schooled in Magic by Christopher Nuttall[/url]
I love NPCs and Fred the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes.
I think I’ve mentioned the Authors & Dragons Podcast he DMs as well. Funny as hell.
[url=https://archiveofourown.org/works/11478249/chapters/25740126]Worth the candle[/url]
[url=https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2961893/1/Mother-of-Learning]Mother of learning[/url]
Also basically anything by drew hayes is great, like forging haespstus and super powereds.
[quote=Rakshasa;7319][quote=Dirk Flamberge;7315]There’s childish whining and then there’s WoT whining, and it’s not just that it’s the overall emasculation of all the male characters and how all the female characters are scheming psychopaths, and how no matter what is done feels absolutely pointless, how it felt like the main characters were essentially Railroaded along with 0 character growth.[/quote]
Fair enough. Although, all things being equal the emasculation of men in the novels and the resultant problems that it created in the books (and yes, the author did note it once or twice)…[/quote]
I bought a bunch of novels for the summer holidays, and I have to say that three books in a row not-so-subtly concentrating on extolling the virtues of Grrrl Power left an aftertaste of crude propaganda as strong as the North Korean TV variety.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSLnuos5pkw[/youtube]
Can’t we have equality, do men really have to be stupid, spineless, cowardly, and willing targets of ridicule in Science Fiction and Fantasy literature from now on? So many authors have turned on the faucet, that I suppose this is what American TV storytelling became at some point of the writers’ youth or childhood.
And if you want to write propaganda, can’t you at least not insult my intelligence and perception, do you have to be so crude and unsophisticated about it?
[quote=Mikey;7480]
And if you want to write propaganda, can’t you at least not insult my intelligence and perception, do you have to be so crude and unsophisticated about it?[/quote]If one feels compelled to write/distribute/regurgitate blatant propaganda, does that not mean, by the very act of doing so, that said individual is unable to espouse an elegant, sophisticated and intelligent argument for their position?
Now of course, by definition, said argument, would still technically be a form of propaganda, but we wouldn’t call it that, rather it would be called “a reasoned logical argument.” Which sounds MUCH better than “propaganda.” [/quote]
Now admittedly, neither the first nor the second works with wizards, so for most demons, such discussion is moot.
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