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re: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Recommendation & Discussion Thread
Posted on 5/31/24 at 10:05 am to TTownTiger
Posted on 5/31/24 at 10:05 am to TTownTiger
Ok so yea just me. Just looking him up, it's pretty all he does. Dude has done like 500 books.
Probably had something to do with I read 90% of it before I listened to some and his voice just through me off. I obviously didn't have them talking Irish in my imagination
Will give him another shot once my wife starts book two if I'm not already done with it.
But right away I'm already liking the feel of book two better than one.
Probably had something to do with I read 90% of it before I listened to some and his voice just through me off. I obviously didn't have them talking Irish in my imagination
Will give him another shot once my wife starts book two if I'm not already done with it. But right away I'm already liking the feel of book two better than one.
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Posted on 5/31/24 at 2:32 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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Don't want to sound like I hated it, I still liked it, but it was definitely had some parts that were pretty dumb and cheesy
I'm on the 3rd book and I feel the same way. Enjoying it and it's entertaining but yeah.
Posted on 5/31/24 at 11:15 pm to Loup
I am 3/4 through the Will of the Many.. Started A bit slow but it is very good
Posted on 6/1/24 at 5:50 am to Loup
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pretty dumb and cheesy
I never did continue with the series, just not my thing. From a post I made 7 years ago:
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Reading it was interesting, the author has a ton of influences and it felt like he threw them all in a blender and made a book from it. Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Spartacus, Dune, ancient mythology, and others. The only things that felt original were the words "bloodydam" and "gumbubble" and their use got to be annoying.
For a light weight page turner it's very good, and that is fine. Think - action popcorn movie.
Posted on 6/20/24 at 9:28 am to Tigris
Reading the Bloodsworn books by John Gwynne. A litlte over halfway through the second one. I liked the Faithful and the Fallen pretty well, though they were a bit of a slow burn. Whereas Faithful and Fallen drew heavily on Celtic/Greco-Roman culture, this one pulls directly from Norse mythology.
I knew that was the case, and it had originally turned me off a bit, but I'm finding this series to be a huge step forward in Gwynne's writing. Lots of diferent viewpoints with lots of shades of grey. Fun characters and interesting world building. Overalll, I recommend this one.
Prior to that, I was reading Bound and the Broken series by Cahill. Was bummed (sort of) to find out that the 3rd book wasn't the end... but was wondering how the heck he was going to wrap it all up into a trilogy. So, I guess I'm excited that there is a least one more book coming.
I knew that was the case, and it had originally turned me off a bit, but I'm finding this series to be a huge step forward in Gwynne's writing. Lots of diferent viewpoints with lots of shades of grey. Fun characters and interesting world building. Overalll, I recommend this one.
Prior to that, I was reading Bound and the Broken series by Cahill. Was bummed (sort of) to find out that the 3rd book wasn't the end... but was wondering how the heck he was going to wrap it all up into a trilogy. So, I guess I'm excited that there is a least one more book coming.
Posted on 6/20/24 at 11:16 am to hogfly
Recently tried to read Hyperion, I know it is a big one on this board but I couldn’t get into it. Read the first one and thought it was pretty good then got about 60 pages into the 2nd before I decided it wasn’t for me. I think it was just to “out there”. I will say the priests tale in the first book had me sold but it was the very first tale and all the others after that were “meh”.
Just finished The Blade Itself which is the first book of Joe Abercrombie’s First Law series. Really enjoyed it. Picked up books 2 and 3 yesterday
Just finished The Blade Itself which is the first book of Joe Abercrombie’s First Law series. Really enjoyed it. Picked up books 2 and 3 yesterday
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Posted on 6/22/24 at 6:38 pm to cfish140
The Sun Eater series gets better as it goes. I’m on book 5. Red Rising, First Law, Three Body and I’d say Sun Eater is the most entertaining.
A sleeper series that no one mentions is the Vagrant Trilogy.
A sleeper series that no one mentions is the Vagrant Trilogy.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 9:20 am to Poichess
hey guys, i'm looking for a good fantasy or sci-fi series that i can get into. i read a lot of heavy non-fiction stuff, so i like to intertwine some good fiction stuff for a little escapism. i read and loved ASOIAF and have been sort of chasing that high ever since with no luck. i read the first Wheel of Time book but i found the dialogue so awkward and cheesy that i just dont think i can keep on with that. same with Terry Goodkind - bad dialogue just takes me right out of the story. I've read LOTR and the first couple Dune books as well, which i liked fine, but i dont really care to continue into the Dune-verse.
i guess i'm looking for something more like ASOIAF - dark, gritty, good dialogue.
i am sure there are already tons of good recs on this thread, but there's just too much to wade through to know what is really good.
thanks
i guess i'm looking for something more like ASOIAF - dark, gritty, good dialogue.
i am sure there are already tons of good recs on this thread, but there's just too much to wade through to know what is really good.
thanks
Posted on 6/24/24 at 9:50 am to Sam Quint
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i am sure there are already tons of good recs on this thread, but there's just too much to wade through to know what is really good.
It's be worth reading some of the thread. The book board is a slow moving board and it takes a while to get a lot of responses
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i guess i'm looking for something more like ASOIAF - dark, gritty, good dialogue.
I've been pumping him for years but I'm to the point where I'll die on the "Joe Abercrombie is the best fantasy writer since Tolkien" hill. Especially if you want to add gritty as a requirement. His character development is pretty incredible and stories are very unique, and nobody writes a fight scene like him. I used to give that title to GRRM but his laziness has soured me to him so much. I freaking love A Song of Ice and Fire but GRRM as a person has bumped the books down for me.
I too couldn't keep going with Wheel of Time. I read the first two and bought the 3rd, but couldn't keep going. I plan on picking it back up at some point but his writing style just wasn't for me. Though I could see why people love the story so much because the story seemed to be there, it was just his writing style that killed me.
If I could only suggest one, I'd start with Abercrombie's First Law series. The first book is The Blade Itself. I love that book but it's pretty much the whole board would agree that it really picks up and gets you hooked in book 2.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 9:59 am to Sam Quint
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i guess i'm looking for something more like ASOIAF - dark, gritty, good dialogue.
I don't know if anyone has recommended The Broken Empire series (Prince of Thorns, King of Thorns, Emperor of Thorns), but it might be something worth checking out.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 10:40 am to Sam Quint
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i guess i'm looking for something more like ASOIAF - dark, gritty, good dialogue.
I saw this post, and I just knew iwyLSUiwy would beat me to the punch.
Abercrombie is all of what you're looking for, with a bit of humor mixed in.
Mild spoiler:
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“I’ve fought in three campaigns,” he began. “In seven pitched battles. In countless raids and skirmishes and desperate defences, and bloody actions of every kind. I’ve fought in the driving snow, the blasting wind, the middle of the night. I’ve been fighting all my life, one enemy or another, one friend or another. I’ve known little else. I’ve seen men killed for a word, for a look, for nothing at all. A woman tried to stab me once for killing her husband, and I threw her down a well. And that’s far from the worst of it. Life used to be cheap as dirt to me. Cheaper.
“I’ve fought ten single combats and I won them all, but I fought on the wrong side and for all the wrong reasons. I’ve been ruthless, and brutal, and a coward. I’ve stabbed men in the back, burned them, drowned them, crushed them with rocks, killed them asleep, unarmed, or running away. I’ve run away myself more than once. I’ve pissed myself with fear. I’ve begged for my life. I’ve been wounded, often, and badly, and screamed and cried like a baby whose mother took her tit away. I’ve no doubt the world would be a better place if I’d been killed years ago, but I haven’t been, and I don’t know why.”
He looked down at his hands, pink and clean on the stone. “There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and there’s a lot of ’em. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. I’ve earned it. I’ve deserved it. I’ve sought it out. Such is my punishment.”
Posted on 6/24/24 at 10:48 am to boxcarbarney
looks like we have a winner. thanks yall
Posted on 6/24/24 at 11:29 am to boxcarbarney
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I saw this post, and I just knew iwyLSUiwy would beat me to the punch.
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“I’ve fought in three campaigns,” he began. “In seven pitched battles. In countless raids and skirmishes and desperate defences, and bloody actions of every kind. I’ve fought in the driving snow, the blasting wind, the middle of the night. I’ve been fighting all my life, one enemy or another, one friend or another. I’ve known little else. I’ve seen men killed for a word, for a look, for nothing at all. A woman tried to stab me once for killing her husband, and I threw her down a well. And that’s far from the worst of it. Life used to be cheap as dirt to me. Cheaper.
I am not ashamed that I am in a First Law Facebook group. Don't really get on there but some stuff will pop up on my page from time to time. One guy would type this exact quote out as a reply to spam text messages he gets
Some of the replies he would get were pretty great.Posted on 6/24/24 at 11:58 am to iwyLSUiwy
You guys are getting me stoked to start this series. I knew I was coming to the right place. I wandered around 2d and Charles on Saturday picking up books and googling reviews and ended up leaving with nothing.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 12:37 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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and nobody writes a fight scene like him
Reading Abercrombie fight scenes gives me an adrenaline rush.
Some of the Bloody Nine fights had me shaking.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 12:42 pm to Loup
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Reading Abercrombie fight scenes gives me an adrenaline rush.
Some of the Bloody Nine fights had me shaking.
The Heroes has the best battle scenes I've ever read
Posted on 6/24/24 at 12:54 pm to boxcarbarney
Will agree First Law slaps. Currently on last Covenant of Steel book The Traitor. It’s somewhat similar but First Law way better.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 12:59 pm to boxcarbarney
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The Heroes has the best battle scenes I've ever read
I guess I'll tackle that one next. I was planning on reading the Age of Madness trilogy next.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 1:43 pm to spehog
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Currently on last Covenant of Steel book The Traitor. It’s somewhat similar but First Law way better.
I felt burned so bad by the third Raven's Shadow book, that I never read anything else by Ryan. Is the Covenant of Steel really that good? Because Raven's Shadow started extremely strong, but shite all over the bed at the end.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 2:07 pm to boxcarbarney
Convent of steel has had a similar arc of starting strong and getting worse. Got 200 or so pages left in the last one, we’ll see. I mentioned it because like thrones and first law very medieval feel and grim/violent action. Ryan does great with that time period battles, showing the scope and horror of it.
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