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15-06-2005, 18:39
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Son of Tob
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WoT books are a decent read. I have been reading this genre for 20 years+ and there are a lot of great authors out there whose books are well worth reading.
Terry Brooks - Shannara Series
Roger Taylor - Hawklan Series
James Clemens - The Banned and the Banished
A.A Attanasio - Dark Shore books
Mercedes Lackey
David Gemmell - Legend series, Waylander series, Druss series (one of my favourite authors)
Simon R. Green - Deathstalker series (weird but good)
Raymond E. Feist - "Magician" is my all time favourite book.
Robin Hobb- The Farseer books, very good
Sara Doublis - the Axis Books.
Tad Williams - great stuff, both the older fantasy books and his more recent books
There are 1000's of books out there well worth reading. I have about 800 or so at the moment, some good, some crap, but you'll never know if you'll like them unless you read them.
As to WOT books, I hope he gets aroudn to finishing them soon. Book 10 was a non-event.
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15-06-2005, 23:27
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buncha book reading nerds
anyone read the historian yet? :=)
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16-06-2005, 01:03
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The Robin Hobb farseer series is the first trilogy of 3 trilogies focusing in the same world/time place...pretty entertaining
Have read some of the others that rip quoted but will look into the others, would like to keep htis thread open for other books to read, I do about 1-2 books a week. (don't sleep well). So always looking, lol I went as despareate to read all of grissam's books last month and just read one book by patterson, not really anything I"d suggest but just getting across I read alot, but prefer good stuff.
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16-06-2005, 07:37
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Cyb0r Queen
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Working my way through WoT atm too...
And I do love the books, but hate alot of the ways it's written.
1. The super battles at the end of each book, is just to short. You read 600 pages building up to the fight, and it ends in 3 pages...some times it seems like he's just to excited about writing the fights, that he rushes through it.
2. Repetition! Every god damn book repeats every damn detail about every shitty little thing, like you hadnt read it 10 times allready.
3. He changes his writing style to much through the books. Understandable since a man has to change over 15 years, but some times he switches to a new story telling style for 100 pages, then goes off to another or his original :(
Other than that I'm loving the books..good story, good eye for detail (if you like that ^^) and the plain fact that you dont finish the books in 3 days and wish there was more :p
Also worth reading is the Icewind Dale saga, Raymond E. Feist's books like Riftwar saga, serpentwar saga etc, and Dune ofc.
edit:
While reaing the books, I thought about how cool it would be if someone made a mmorpg based on the WoT world. Sadly it would require a massive team to get all the details of the world and story into the game. There's loads of things in the story that woukld work excellent in a mmorpg, and a chance to make a more "diffuse" good vs evil setting.
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And 30 mins later I find there is a WoT game with multiplayer/inet support O.o
Prolly shit, but atleast gonna try it when i get home ^^
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16-06-2005, 16:16
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Lord fungus
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tell us how that goes ani, heh
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16-06-2005, 19:07
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Stop after 7 heh, save yourself the tragic waste of paper it's become.
Read Robin Hobb instead - all the realism of Martin without the constant slaughtering of every one of your favourite characters. Admittedly, seeing the heroes live through everything without a scratch apart from the one scripted, overdone death near the end(see Eddings, Feist if that's your sort of thing, it's all good fun to read) gets pretty freaking anonying after a while, but Martin takes it beyond the ridiculous from my point of view. Hobb is the only one to have found the balance I would like to see.
Bernard Cornwell is another whose historical fantasy are hugely realistic and gritty - the Warlord and Grail trilogies in particular.
There's been a lot of other good series listed so far in the thread, so I won't make this any longer by writing reviews of them all online. (I work in a library, so i've got the time heh :p)
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16-06-2005, 19:26
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Originally Posted by SuperSoly
tell us how that goes ani, heh
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Supposedly you need to play it multiplayer to get any value out of it. Its a poor fps where you use terangreal as weapons and can't channel without them for some reason even though you are an aes sedai
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16-06-2005, 21:03
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Cyb0r Queen
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Quote:
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Supposedly you need to play it multiplayer to get any value out of it. Its a poor fps where you use terangreal as weapons and can't channel without them for some reason even though you are an aes sedai
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Yes...it sucked bawls..big time
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