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The Books/Reading Thread
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finishing it isn't that important as they mostly satisfy as stand-alone stories, but i'd try to do the first five at least. i forget where you're up to, maybe you already have.
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I read the first two. I’ve been told the third is when it gets really good.
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part of that is just that it's the first time you aren't starting from scratch with a mostly new set of characters tbh. the second one can be a bit of a slog first time around (not exactly unintentionally, it must be said--these characters' lives are a slog) but i found that rereading it after i was already familiar with the characters was quite a different experience. regardless, the third is much more of a page-turner i'd say, i hope you go back to it sometime.
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and he won't appear in the first book. I started reading the Kharkanas books a few weeks ago. It took a bit to re-familiarize myself with all the characters but the quality didn't drop from the main series.
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no. it's on my to-read list but isn't a priority. Night of Knives is a short novel so I might get around to it in the next year or so. Esslemont has been cranking them out. He has 9 books published with another trilogy on the way
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I've probably said it before but I liked Deadhouse Gates right out of the gate (no pun intended) and didn't find it as much of a slog as I've seen some say about it. I even prefer it to Memories of Ice by a slight margin. I'll be starting House of Chains sometime in the near future.
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house of chains is primarily a continuation of deadhouse gates so you’ll probably enjoy! and yeah i absolutely love dhg personally but i know some people seem to struggle with it. all the central plot strands are really strong imo.
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I've read the first three and I too like Deadhouse Gates the most. I was really invested in the chain of dogs stuff.
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I remember reading Deadhouse Gates and being within two hundred pages of the ending, and thinking to myself--What the fuck is going on? It was then that I put it down, and haven't picked it up since...
I'd like to give it a try again, because part of me thinks maybe too much other shit was going on in my life to really pay attention (this was over a decade ago, so I would've been finishing undergrad and trying to figure out what the hell I was doing next. And I'm really unimpressed with all other fantasy I've tried, other than Bakker. To hell with GRRM at this point.
I'd like to give it a try again, because part of me thinks maybe too much other shit was going on in my life to really pay attention (this was over a decade ago, so I would've been finishing undergrad and trying to figure out what the hell I was doing next. And I'm really unimpressed with all other fantasy I've tried, other than Bakker. To hell with GRRM at this point.
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Reading this, as soon as I graduate from Powers's The Overstory and Halliday's Asymmetry:
Yeah, I think I'm past "solid" fantasy. I read a short story by Feist in an anthology years ago, which I liked. I also think GRRM writes solid fantasy, but I just don't get anything out of it anymore. Bakker manages to infuse some semantic apocalypse and genre-bending stuff into his work, which I find interesting.
Yeah, I think I'm past "solid" fantasy. I read a short story by Feist in an anthology years ago, which I liked. I also think GRRM writes solid fantasy, but I just don't get anything out of it anymore. Bakker manages to infuse some semantic apocalypse and genre-bending stuff into his work, which I find interesting.
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I like that Feist often mostly focuses on the human side of things in his books, with magic often either being in separate books or being treated as a rarer thing. I like Gemmell for the same reasons. Also liked A Song of Fire and Ice early on for that reason, before the series went to shit.
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yeahhh i don't think erikson is great for stop-start reading with long hiatuses haha. they're pretty dense and self-referential as well as ridiculously huge in scope, so it's not that easy to follow, especially as he just kind of drops you in the middle of it and drip-feeds you the lore.
something else i'd recommend is richard k. morgan's a land fit for heroes series. you might've read or seen the adaptation of altered carbon which is his more well known sci-fi work, but his fantasy is quite interesting and unusual too IMO, i keep meaning to read the second book. i would strongly recommend mieville too, i tend to think of him as at least borderline 'fantasy', but i think you're already a fan. there's always stephen donaldson as well, i'm a big fan of everything he's ever written (except maybe his latest series which i didn't get into) but he tends to be pretty polarising.
i own a whole bunch of other fantasy books that i've been told are original and distinctive, i should probably get around to reading some of those. stover's heroes die looks cool for example.
