fantasy novels

Subject: fantasy novels Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:15 am

Is anyone else a fan of fantasy novels?
Recently I've been enjoying Joe Abercrombie's work. It is really well written (very descriptive without dragging) and suspenseful. It is similar to George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and fire series; they both are dark and violent, very witty, and feature many nontraditional fantasy characters. However, Abercrombie very conscientiously works against fantasy tropes and instead of having a fetish of killing off main characters just disfigures them.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:44 am

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Dragonlance was pretty sweet if you're looking for sword-and-sorcery crap. I've read Chronicles and Legends.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:34 pm

The only stuff I can stand from this genre any more is Jacqueline Carey's work. With that said Michael Moorcock's stuff and Terry Pratchett's stuff are still essential.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:36 pm

Not the biggest fan, though I'll yell out "Magician" every chance I get because its really well written with an excellent prose style and an epic-scaled plot that doesn't pretend to be LotR.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:12 pm

I loved 'The Hobbit' when I was younger, but never could really get into LotR =/

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:29 pm

Kamikaze wrote:: The only stuff I can stand from this genre any more is Jacqueline Carey's work. With that said Michael Moorcock's stuff and Terry Pratchett's stuff are still essential.

I really like Jacqueline Carey's stuff as well and I thought Michael Moorcock was pretty good as well. I haven't gotten around to reading anything by Terry Pratchett but I've only heard good things about him.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:32 pm

Rosalind wrote:: Not the biggest fan, though I'll yell out "Magician" every chance I get because its really well written with an excellent prose style and an epic-scaled plot that doesn't pretend to be LotR.

I loved Magician and the conclusion to that trilogy (A Darkness at Sethanon) is one of my all time favorite books.

Towards the Pantheon Posts : 365 Join date : 2009-09-06

Two Words: Gaunt's Ghosts

Ciaphas Cain is awesome too.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:16 am

The Entity wrote:: Two Words: Gaunt's Ghosts

Ciaphas Cain is awesome too.

Yeah, I liked Gaunt's Ghosts as well.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:07 am

More horror/fantasy, but Robert McCammon's "Swan Song" was and is one of the best novels I have ever read. I give it a go every year or two.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:22 pm

"The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear" by Walter Moers is a good book.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:04 pm

I would also recommend the Tales of The Black Company series by Glen Cook. This series has been described as Vietnam War Fiction on Peyote. good stuff

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:06 pm

Just picked up the most recent Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson Wheel of Time book and its actually pretty good. Stuff is actually happening and its much better paced. Anyone else's thoughts?

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:18 pm

The only essential WoT book is the first one, IMO. I really want to explore further but I don't have the time/patience.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:07 am

Seconding Terry Pratchett.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:08 pm

The Gozzfather wrote:: Just picked up the most recent Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson Wheel of Time book and its actually pretty good. Stuff is actually happening and its much better paced. Anyone else's thoughts?

I really want to buy this, but I don't want to start while I'm in the middle of Brisingr... and since Brinsingr is generally a boredomfest and I don't really have much spare time, it might be a while.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:31 pm

Nautilus wrote:: The only essential WoT book is the first one, IMO. I really want to explore further but I don't have the time/patience.

Yeah I completely get what you are saying. As much as I love the series it is definitely too long. Books 1-6 were pretty awesome and while books 7-10 had their moments they were all much longer than they had to be. Book 10 was the worst. It was the only one in the series that was really bad in the series in my opinion.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:11 am

The Gozzfather wrote:

Nautilus wrote:: The only essential WoT book is the first one, IMO. I really want to explore further but I don't have the time/patience.

Yeah I completely get what you are saying. As much as I love the series it is definitely too long. Books 1-6 were pretty awesome and while books 7-10 had their moments they were all much longer than they had to be. Book 10 was the worst. It was the only one in the series that was really bad in the series in my opinion.

Agree here also. I've heard the new one is on par with 2-4 though.

Subject: Re: fantasy novels Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:43 pm

truewalrus wrote:

The Gozzfather wrote:

Nautilus wrote:: The only essential WoT book is the first one, IMO. I really want to explore further but I don't have the time/patience.

Yeah I completely get what you are saying. As much as I love the series it is definitely too long. Books 1-6 were pretty awesome and while books 7-10 had their moments they were all much longer than they had to be. Book 10 was the worst. It was the only one in the series that was really bad in the series in my opinion.

Agree here also. I've heard the new one is on par with 2-4 though.

Yeah, After reading it I'd have to say It's definitely the best WoT in a long time.

Also, I just read an awesome steampunk book called Magestrum. Its essentially Sherlock Holmes mixed with elements of sci-fi and fantasy. It's also really funny with a lot of good dry humor. I'd definitely recommend it.