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I've always felt China Mieville has extremely original settings and good prose, but his plots are kinda lame. I have never actually read Leguin. Is her stuff YA? I might check it out if it isn't.
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doverhog posted:Define YA. Young Adult. Harry Potter.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Mieville and Rothfuss are similar in that both of their readers are accustomed to Dungeons & Dragons novels and comic books. When they read Perdido Street Station or Name of the Wind they genuinely think the prose is exceptional, like a small-town kid who takes his first step into the big city and gets tricked by the most obvious scammer imaginable. I said his prose was good, not that it blew me away or anything. Rothfuss is loving horrible. I couldn't even finish his first book about the rear end in a top hat kid who kept loving up his free ride to magic college. I guess I'll check out Earthsea. I think I avoided it as a kid because it was written by a woman and young dumb me thought it would be all about feelings. Which is even dumber because I liked Anne Mccaffrey as a kid. The Dregs fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Feb 5, 2019 |
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Hometown Slime Queen posted:One time when I was in high school I think I saw some books by Terry Goodkind and was like "Hey! I've heard of that author! He's pretty well known and this is a popular series, right?" so I opened one up. I googled Terry Goodkind after reading this post and LOL: 
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Hey now, I don't adorn my walls with Frazetta prints, but his art is really good. OK-I do have a Frazetta calendar.
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WatermelonGun posted:I know literally nothing about Finnish literature. Please tell us more than their ridiculous names. Why are you so mad I don't get it
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Blood Meridian scared the everloving poo poo out over me. I don't even remember noticing the prose. His other one, I forget the name of it, the one about the apocalypse-that is one of the two books to ever make me cry like a baby. Don't read it if you have recently fathered a child. The Dregs fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Feb 6, 2019 |
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Maybe a genre author living in an HOA brutalized his tree Carry on then
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I'm embarrassed by the times I have tried to read Dickens only to be foiled by the paragraph-long sentences. I need to try again. Maybe on audible.
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Groke posted:Dragonlance books are fine if you're, like, 14. I remember them fondly. Don't think I'd bother revisiting them now though. I tried rereading them a year ago. They are unbearable.
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Can someone recommend me some good female protagonist genre stuff? My 14 year old daughter devoured the Mistborn series and asked if I had anything else like that, and specified female leads.
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Citcon posted:The malazan book of the fallen series has a shitton of female characters and is great. Most of the top end characters are women. Its more mature than mistborn though so not really a girl power type of book. I think I remember Malazan being pretty heavy, but I'll check into it again. Never heard of the other. Thanks!
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The March Hare posted:Others have mentioned Gene Wolfe but I'll also leave some choice quotes about the man from his wikipedia page in this here thread for those on the fence. Imma have to check this Wolfe guy out Oh. He wrote BotNS. I read the first one and I didn't 'get' it. That's the one where they fight with poisonous featherswords right? The Dregs fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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AKZ posted:Blood Meridian is a book that I return too every couple years. The first time I read it I struggled to fall into the "along for the ride" feel at first. Once I managed to hit the right stride it felt like the literary version of an impressionist painting. I enjoy it quite a bit. Carrion Comfort has the best example of an antagonist that is both batshit crazy and extremely clever that I have ever come across. That Joker guy should take notes
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Groke posted:Dan Simmons used to write good before the brain eater got him. Yeah, he's really hit or miss. When I read Darwin's Blade I theorized that it was written by a ghost writer.
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Applewhite posted:Will there ever be a sci-fi author good enough to have THREE initials in their name? Dare we to dream? GRRM wrote some scifi, i believe.
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Applewhite posted:George R. R. Martin still only has two initials. You have a weird way of counting initials.
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