Look for The Fall of the First World trilogy, by David C Smith. It has a rare but delightful appreciation for what is goodness in men which seems up your alley. It's been re-released on Kindle for like $3 per.deer of the dawn wrote:I really wanted to find a new epic saga to keep me engaged for several thousand pages, but the search continues...
What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?
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"Goodness in men"? Men are evil!! Eeeeeeevvviillll!!wayfriend wrote:Look for The Fall of the First World trilogy, by David C Smith. It has a rare but delightful appreciation for what is goodness in men which seems up your alley. It's been re-released on Kindle for like $3 per.deer of the dawn wrote:I really wanted to find a new epic saga to keep me engaged for several thousand pages, but the search continues...
But thanks, I'll check it out!
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Okay, will check out Malazan as well.
Btw I downloaded a sample chapter of Black Leopard, Red Whatever (it's been a heckuva day, see my post in "What do you feel today?" in Gen Dis) because it's an African fantasy and I was way pumped about that. But the sample chapters I read make Game of Thrones seem tame in the rape and icky sex category, so I won't be finishing that either. Thank God for Amazon's sample chapters.
UPDATE. The sample for The West is Dying included the list of characters and a longish introduction that includes words like Manichean, and then just a few pages of the actual content of the book. Roll my eyes.
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Haha, if you want epic you don't get much more epic than the Malazan books.
Finished King Rat and didn't have anything new left, so started Pratchett's The Last Continent. Always dangerous in that I'll probably end up reading a bunch more now, but since I don't have anything else, they do make a pleasant interlude.
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Finished King Rat and didn't have anything new left, so started Pratchett's The Last Continent. Always dangerous in that I'll probably end up reading a bunch more now, but since I don't have anything else, they do make a pleasant interlude.
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Downloaded some samples, read them, decided to go with Gardens of the Moon (Malazan book 1). Although I also realized I need to go back and read all the Earthsea books again, it's been too long!
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Decisions, decisions! Well, depends on what you're after at the moment. You originally posted that you are looking for a massive read. That's Malazan. And, more than massive, it is of the highest quality throughout! None of this, "The first three books are great, but then it gets boring/repetitive/whatever." The nearly 10K page of the 10 books of The Malazan Book of the Fallen are one, gigantic... I don't even know what to call it. Orgasm? I read it all in a headlong rush. If I was able to stay awake that long, or could read as fast as Av, I would have read it all in one sitting.
And the several books by the co-creator are at least good, and some are great.
And the several books by the co-creator are at least good, and some are great.
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Finally finished The Broken God by Zindell Phew, philosophical sci-fi at its best. I wonder if Zar has read Zindell - I think he might like it...
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Ha, I just popped into this forum for the first time in months and saw this by chance. I've read Neverness and thought it was overall ok, and brilliant in many spots. If he gets better, maybe I should press on. I'm not sure it's possible to be "too philosophical," as Av says, but I'm curious to see where others draw this line.StevieG wrote:Finally finished The Broken God by Zindell Phew, philosophical sci-fi at its best. I wonder if Zar has read Zindell - I think he might like it...
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I've never read Pratchett. I know I should. So help me out, where should I start?
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