Hey, Just asking for some suggestion for some Fantasy book, be it by Terry Pratchet (As in, Chaotic literature) or anyone else, doesn't really matter, I wanna read something and boggle my mind :P
But my needs are either Chaotic or something very Deep with a whole universe and alot of character interactivity and perhaps some fights but not too neccessary.
Thanks, or how someone from this forum would put it in his anti-hello term (But here I'm refering to my thanks) - UnThanks.
wheel of time. a bit tough to get into and slow on the buildup, but it's heavy, with dozen sof 'main' charachters, probaly a hundred or more named minor charachters, and a tnagled web of itnrgiue, relations andrivalry(etc and so on) politics and relgion intermingle and ar erepsented withotu saying so outright, deep rich cultures clash. i receomend it to anyone, even a moran liek j00!
The Tale of the Five by Diane Duane...there's 3 out of 4 books done so far, the first one's "The Door Into Fire" but the story really gets rolling in book 2, "The Door Into Shadow." Very realistic worlds and characters...trippy magic stuff too.
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Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Time Enough for Love - Robert A Heinlein
It's the story of a 2,000 year old man named Lazarus Long. Lazarus is tired and he wants to die, but he's captured by some of his descendants who talk him into a Shahrzadelike scheme of storytelling to postpone death. Long tells them stories of his many adventures while they try to rejuvenate him and send on another adventure - this one to his own past.
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Best fantasy EVAH!
Quote from: The Good Reverend RogerThe United States Budget, 2005 Ed.
Best fantasy EVAH!
geez rog that was so funny i lost my thought as to what i was going to put...
R.A. Salvatore any of his serieses are great reads....but Dzz`t is the shit when it comes to cool characters..
Steven Erikson. Or George R. R. Martin. Neither of these are my favorite writers, but they're both good and fit the bill. I think Erikson is a little better.
(MY favorites are Gene Wolfe, John Crowley, China Mieville, M John Harrison, Guy Gavriel Kay, stuff like that. The real wackos like Paul Park are sometimes fun too.)
Quote from: ataraxiaSteven Erikson. Or George R. R. Martin. Neither of these are my favorite writers, but they're both good and fit the bill. I think Erikson is a little better.
(MY favorites are Gene Wolfe, John Crowley, China Mieville, M John Harrison, Guy Gavriel Kay, stuff like that. The real wackos like Paul Park are sometimes fun too.)
Martin can either finish the Dance of Dragons series, or kiss my ass.
Quote from: The Good Reverend RogerQuote from: ataraxiaSteven Erikson. Or George R. R. Martin. Neither of these are my favorite writers, but they're both good and fit the bill. I think Erikson is a little better.
(MY favorites are Gene Wolfe, John Crowley, China Mieville, M John Harrison, Guy Gavriel Kay, stuff like that. The real wackos like Paul Park are sometimes fun too.)
Martin can either finish the Dance of Dragons series, or kiss my ass.
Ayo. I already forgot the stuff in the ones that are out so far, and who knows if I'll feel up to rereading them so I can get into the new one coming up.
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Quote from: ataraxiaQuote from: The Good Reverend RogerQuote from: ataraxiaSteven Erikson. Or George R. R. Martin. Neither of these are my favorite writers, but they're both good and fit the bill. I think Erikson is a little better.
(MY favorites are Gene Wolfe, John Crowley, China Mieville, M John Harrison, Guy Gavriel Kay, stuff like that. The real wackos like Paul Park are sometimes fun too.)
Martin can either finish the Dance of Dragons series, or kiss my ass.
Ayo. I already forgot the stuff in the ones that are out so far, and who knows if I'll feel up to rereading them so I can get into the new one coming up.
Well, I'm not reading any of his new shit, until he finishes the old shit.
fantasy writers,
kow ho wto milk readers x10 than any grisham
Quote from: Horab Fibslagerfantasy writers,
kow ho wto milk readers x10 than any grisham
Motorcycle.
Quote from: The Good Reverend RogerQuote from: Horab Fibslagerfantasy writers,
kow ho wto milk readers x10 than any grisham
Motorcycle.
with sidecar.
That's the prime reason why I mostly read old stuff that's been done for years (and ignore all efforts to turn them into franchises). I quit on the Robert Jordan, Eddings, and then-TSR stuff 10 years ago.
How about the obvious choices?
Robert Shea
Philip K Dick (VALIS, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer -- what's really fun is figuring out how these are a trilogy)
Schroedinger's Cat by RAW was kinda cool -- even if it was a cross-over with that pile of shit called Illuminatus
Oh, and a definite read is: Firefox (http://afterdark.planetfurry.com/stories/cowan/Firefox.rtf).
too bad, jordan was only getting started 10 yeara s ago. he didn't start milking till five or six years ago :P
fesit is anothe suggestion. i thinkits he serpent war saga is the 2nd trilogy isn the series. proably the best overall(as fr as i;ve read)soem the chrachter are from teh previous but the newer carachter get filled out more than previous insltallemtns. difference bewtweeebn this and jordan is(WOT) IS less charachter, dev. nto strong female chrachters, mroe emhpasis on plot than charaachter dev.. tho it's better than the previous instlalment and the single boko(except prince ofth eblood, which i felt was really good for charachter development)
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Philip K Dick (VALIS, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer -- what's really fun is figuring out how these are a trilogy)
Essentially, they're not. VALIS and The Divine Invasion were parts 1 and 2 of a trilogy, but... He died about 2 chapters into the first draft of the third one. The working title was "The Owl in Twilight".
The publisher pulled a bait-n-switch and stuffed Transmigration in as the third book, hoping nobody would notice.
OMFG! I read PKD and now my entire universe is falling apart!
I NO LONGER KNOW WHICH BOOK IS THE REAL THIRD BOOK!!!
DAMN YOU, PHIL!
The way I see it, everything PKD wrote is part of the same book, which oddly enough, is an autobiography. ;)
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Philip K Dick (VALIS, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer -- what's really fun is figuring out how these are a trilogy)
Essentially, they're not. VALIS and The Divine Invasion were parts 1 and 2 of a trilogy, but... He died about 2 chapters into the first draft of the third one. The working title was "The Owl in Twilight".
The publisher pulled a bait-n-switch and stuffed Transmigration in as the third book, hoping nobody would notice.
Philip K Dick was WAY too cheerful for me.
But, then again, I AM me.
Quote from: ataraxiaQuote from: The Good Reverend RogerQuote from: Horab Fibslagerfantasy writers,
kow ho wto milk readers x10 than any grisham
Motorcycle.
with sidecar.
Sidecar?
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What are your thoughts on "A Song of Fire and Ice" ?
Supposedly something good...
I've never heard of it before. But the title alone sounds good.
Think I'll check it out. I haven't been much into fantasy books lately.
But my kid gave me a box full when she moved last month, so I'm about to start reading them.
Quote from: Merlin of ChaosWhat are your thoughts on "A Song of Fire and Ice" ?
Supposedly something good...
It was one of my recos. George R. R. Martin. Good if you like things to build up slowly and then kill important characters every two pages once it gets moving :D
Quote from: ataraxiaQuote from: Merlin of ChaosWhat are your thoughts on "A Song of Fire and Ice" ?
Supposedly something good...
It was one of my recos. George R. R. Martin. Good if you like things to build up slowly and then kill important characters every two pages once it gets moving :D
Not too much new, Chronicles of Amber had something like that.
But I'm looking forward to reading this series (Fire and Ice).
My favorite Zelazny was always Doorways in the Sand. Any book where a 13-year career college student (who uses guerilla tactics to maintain his student status) is offered a peanut butter sandwich by an alien disguised as a kangaroo with an English accent while he's dying (literally) of thirst is all good with me. He also gets reversed by the Moebius strip machine and can't just go through again to fix it since it'd turn him inside out the second time.
It's kinda like Horab's story, come to think of it.
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