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The Books/Reading Thread
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Knowing Prof. Black personally, I'm sure it's a very thoughtful piece. I recommend every analysis he has contributed to.
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I just finished 1Q84 today. Love Murakami, but I thought this was a real crowd pleaser. I mean, after 900 pages, it wasn't a non-ending, but it wasn't the way a visual medium would end.
Robert Jordan wrote Conan novels? That's a worry, although you're giving them the green light so I'm definitely curious. I'm a massive Robert Howard fan.
Also, this is why I stopped reading the Wheel of Time series after book 2 - the series just got so long that I would shudder at the thought of following half-baked Tolkien rip off characters ad infinitum. I'm probably being unfairly cynical, but I thought the first book was really derivative of Tolkien. Fucking fantasy - no genre has so blatantly ripped off the originators (Robert Howard/Tolkien etc). Every fantasy book has maps with forests and mountain ranges and place-names that have simply rearranged a letter or two from those in Middle Earth. God almighty, where do they get off. Having said all this, I'm a big fan of David Gemmell.
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have i ever mentioned i was literally named after a character from feist's MAGICIAN
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I really enjoyed the first four books in the Drenai Saga story and then the various sequels to the Waylander book.
Yeah, there's just something about them. So easy to read and sort of comforting I think. He doesn't fill his books up with weaklings and characters with too much self doubt. They exist, but they're not the focus on his books. I love it how the emphasis is on a 'defend at all costs' ideal. Apparently he based some of the characters on people he knew and respected, his father I think being one of them. So there are all these larger than life men willing to die. The book 'Quest for Lost Heroes' is a great example. It's amazing. It also features a gay couple, incidentally, which is pretty interesting, and not in a hammy or sensationalist way. Gemmell was seriously the man. Massive fan.
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You're exact name begins in lower-case? That's amazing.
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Yep, The Quest For Lost Heroes was one of the first four books in the Drenai Saga so I definitely loved it. The only problem I ever had with his books was when he kept adding to the Druss The Legend series. The first book was enough, the rest really didn't work for me.
Gemmel is a big fan of Druss isn't he. For me he is cool enough but I'm not sure he warrants another two or three books of his own. A follow up to 'The Quest for Lost Heroes' would have been awesome because it ends on such a cool note. I haven't read 'The Legend of Deathwalker' though so I can't say if the Druss books are all good or not. All this Gemmel talk is making me want to continue reading his stuff. I've got two or three of his novels sitting on my shelves that I haven't read for a rainy day...
Also, have you seen the Drenai timeline that has been created? It's thousands of years long and deals with a heap of books. So it makes me want to read them all to get a better picture.
