I guess if you want to read long flowery descriptions of every room entered thats a valid choice
random thoughts Send a noteboard - 03/02/2010 06:12:00 PM
random thoughts Send a noteboard - 03/02/2010 06:12:00 PM
Maybe you should try reading Clan of the Cavebears. There are some nice multiple page descriptions of how she made breakfast. 
Cook has great characters and great stories that move along quickly.
Zelanzy is interesting, at least for the first set of books. Not my favorite stories by any means but still decent stories. Could have been worse, I could have suggested the Elric books.
Sanderson I really can't comment on since I have only read his WOT book. I thought he did a decent job with that and people who read epic fantasy tend to like it.
He limited the choice to epic fantasy and then listed damn near every epic fantasy novel I have read. If he hadn't ruled out scifi and other forms of fantasy I would have suggested he read something like Julian Comstock or Thomas Covenant or A Brave New World or The Bad Place or watership Down or…….
I guess I could have suggested Tad Williams but I liked his Other Land books better so I forget about his fantasy. MAybe I should have gone with The Sword of Shanara?
Cook has great characters and great stories that move along quickly.
Zelanzy is interesting, at least for the first set of books. Not my favorite stories by any means but still decent stories. Could have been worse, I could have suggested the Elric books.
Sanderson I really can't comment on since I have only read his WOT book. I thought he did a decent job with that and people who read epic fantasy tend to like it.
He limited the choice to epic fantasy and then listed damn near every epic fantasy novel I have read. If he hadn't ruled out scifi and other forms of fantasy I would have suggested he read something like Julian Comstock or Thomas Covenant or A Brave New World or The Bad Place or watership Down or…….
I guess I could have suggested Tad Williams but I liked his Other Land books better so I forget about his fantasy. MAybe I should have gone with The Sword of Shanara?
I need some reading recommendations...
- 03/02/2010 02:15:29 PM
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Glen Cook Black Company
- 03/02/2010 02:40:21 PM
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Heh. To each their own. I couldn't disagree more with those three.
- 03/02/2010 02:47:44 PM
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- 03/02/2010 02:47:44 PM
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One could question your sanity...
- 03/02/2010 02:51:26 PM
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Hrrrruuuuh? (that was a surprised Tim Allen noise, for those wondering)
- 04/02/2010 05:46:27 AM
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I guess if you want to read long flowery descriptions of every room entered thats a valid choice
- 03/02/2010 06:12:00 PM
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I tried to read sword of shanara once.
- 03/02/2010 09:53:12 PM
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I loved sword of shanara
- 03/02/2010 10:23:42 PM
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Pft. I've got your back on Glen Cook, Random. Don't listen to this nutjob *NM*
- 03/02/2010 09:57:44 PM
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*NM*
- 03/02/2010 09:57:44 PM
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I think the previous two posters have given you a ton of good stuff already, but a few more...
- 03/02/2010 04:36:02 PM
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cold fire trilogy 
- 03/02/2010 06:33:31 PM
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I'd not toss all of RA Salvatore out the window. He writes outside DnD
- 03/02/2010 09:51:56 PM
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Since you love ancient history and majored in it...
- 03/02/2010 11:28:40 PM
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Didn't Gene Wolfe also do something set in Ancient Greece? Latro in the Mist, I believe?
- 03/02/2010 11:41:17 PM
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Thanks everyone for your recommendations. I appreciate the help!
- 04/02/2010 04:56:13 AM
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