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Dennis
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 Posted - 29 Mar 2012 : 16:58:55
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I read them far too fast I can barely remember the details now, so I might have to reread them someday. The pace was incidental, as I needed to finish them quick to jump to another series, which, if memory serves, was either Feist's Demonwar or Weeks' The Night Angel.
I couldn't care for many of the characters, though, despite the fact that most of them are spellcasters, the class which I'm always biased to. I suppose the dragons had to do with it. Never like them in the first place. Bloated lizards are worse than bloated catfish (aboleths). |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 29 Mar 2012 : 18:07:20
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| There are many realms books which i have read only to end up forgetting 80% of the storyline a few years later. This doesn't happen with non-realms fantasy books that i read though. |
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swifty
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United Kingdom
517 Posts |
Posted - 01 Apr 2012 : 22:42:44
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go back to sleep america.everything is under control.heres american gladiators.watch this.shuttup. BILL HICKS. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 31 May 2012 : 07:14:26
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Originally posted by entreri3478
There are many realms books which i have read only to end up forgetting 80% of the storyline a few years later. This doesn't happen with non-realms fantasy books that i read though.
That doesn't happen to all the Realms books I read, though. Some I even memorized a couple of lines, specially those of my favorite characters by my favorite authors. |
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coach
Senior Scribe
USA
479 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jun 2012 : 01:07:21
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City of Ravens
Sellsword trilogy |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jun 2012 : 16:43:32
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The Haunted Lands trilogy,
The Twilight War trilogy, these are the realms at its best.
The Crystal Shard for nostalgia's sake if nothing else.
and of course Lord of the Rings. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jun 2012 : 16:45:08
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| Oh and Shatterpoint by Mathew Strover, one of the best Star wars novels ever written. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 02 Jun 2012 : 01:15:42
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Oh and Shatterpoint by Mathew Strover, one of the best Star wars novels ever written.
Of course, because it's by Matt Stover. Probably the best SW fiction writer to ever grace the printed pages of that galaxy so far, far away. Aside from James Luceno, Elaine Cunningham, and, now, Jeff Grubb, that is.  |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
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Posted - 02 Jun 2012 : 11:30:53
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Originally posted by Thauranil
Oh and Shatterpoint by Mathew Strover, one of the best Star wars novels ever written.
Of course, because it's by Matt Stover. Probably the best SW fiction writer to ever grace the printed pages of that galaxy so far, far away. Aside from James Luceno, Elaine Cunningham, and, now, Jeff Grubb, that is.
You are correct sir. I loved all of his books. Though it seems that we will unfortunately not be seeing anymore Star wars books by Elaine Cunnigham, I am looking forward to reading Jeff Grubb's Scourge. |
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Fellfire
Master of Realmslore
1965 Posts |
Posted - 04 Jun 2012 : 19:56:36
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| I decided to put this here instead of in the What are you Reading thread because I liked it that much. With my recent interest in all things piratical, I decided to search out fantasy pirate books. Disappointingly, I didn't find much. But, I just finished On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers and it was a heluva good book. Full of swashbuckling pirates and voodoo magic. Now this is the book that the fourth Pirates of the Carribean was LOOSELY based on, but if I didn't read that I never would have known. I give it 4 1/2 stars. Next up is China Mieville's The Scar. |
Misanthorpe
Love is a lie. Only hate endures. Light is blinding. Only in darkness do we see clearly.
"Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but.. blinding. The shadows betray you because they belong to me." - Bane The Dark Knight Rises
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jun 2012 : 00:50:45
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Originally posted by Fellfire
I decided to put this here instead of in the What are you Reading thread because I liked it that much. With my recent interest in all things piratical, I decided to search out fantasy pirate books. Disappointingly, I didn't find much. But, I just finished On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers and it was a heluva good book. Full of swashbuckling pirates and voodoo magic. Now this is the book that the fourth Pirates of the Carribean was LOOSELY based on, but if I didn't read that I never would have known. I give it 4 1/2 stars. Next up is China Mieville's The Scar.
If you are looking for a good pirate fantasy novel then I would recommend Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies. It is Book 2 of his Gentleman Bastards series and book 1 is amazing as well...though severely lacking in the pirate category.  |
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Fellfire
Master of Realmslore
1965 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jun 2012 : 00:56:17
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| Thank you, entreri. I finished them up just a few weeks back. Excellent books. Can't wait for the next one. |
Misanthorpe
Love is a lie. Only hate endures. Light is blinding. Only in darkness do we see clearly.
"Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but.. blinding. The shadows betray you because they belong to me." - Bane The Dark Knight Rises
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jun 2012 : 03:17:57
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Originally posted by Fellfire
Thank you, entreri. I finished them up just a few weeks back. Excellent books. Can't wait for the next one.
Glad to hear you enjoyed them. I also can't wait for Book 3, which unfortunately looks like it will be a long while. |
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