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What do you think a Raver should read?
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:08 pm
by jacob Raver, sinTempter
I just finished FR...was okay...
There's currently this large annoying sucking sound around me...
I'm looking at what to read next...
Thought I'd see what my peeps think...
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:57 pm
by Orlion
You haven't finished reading GAP?!
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:30 pm
by Warmark
A Song of Ice and Fire.
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:45 pm
by aliantha
GAP first. Then Malazan. (All that should keep you busy for the better part of a year or so...)
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:03 pm
by jacob Raver, sinTempter
Orlion wrote:You haven't finished reading GAP?!
Got half-way through the second book...it was starting to get a little interesting
Evil dude had to get used to living in that other body
but still didn't really hook me...was about twelve years ago...
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:04 pm
by lucimay
yes, finish the Gap, then start on the malazan. when you finish malazan start martin's song of ice and fire or fire and ice (which ever it is) and then possibly by the time you get all the malazan books gap books and soi&f books read martin will maybe have finished the NEXT soi&f book.
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:03 pm
by Zarathustra
Definitely got to finish Gap. Start over from the beginning, and go through as fast as you can. It will be a hell of a ride.
The read Bakker's Prince of Nothing series.
Then Song of Ice and Fire.
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:32 pm
by lucimay
pay no attention to malik. skip the bakker and go right to malazan.
then soi&f.
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:51 pm
by jacob Raver, sinTempter
lucimay wrote:pay no attention to malik. skip the bakker and go right to malazan.
then soi&f.
What'ya got against Bakker?
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:54 pm
by Zarathustra
She's teasing me because I didn't like the first Malazan book, and still haven't followed up on my promise to give the rest of the series a try.
To be fair, of the ones listed here, Malazan is the only one "Donaldson approved."
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:21 am
by Brinn
Agree with Malik. In exactly that order.
As far as "Donaldson Approved" goes...All I can say is Erickson must have some incriminating pictures.
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:52 am
by Auleliel
GAP first, Song of Ice and Fire next.
I haven't read the Malazan books so I can't comment on that.
But you definitely need to read the Gap and A song of Ice and Fire.
If you still have time after that, read Mordant's Need. Fluff compared to the rest of Donaldson's stuff, but entirely worthwhile nonetheless.
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:44 am
by Vraith
A REAL Raver would read "Posession", "Mein Kampf", and "How to Get Chicks with Hypnotism"
but, for a poser, finish the Gap, you don't like waiting for the payoff, so Malazan is a little risky. The Titus books are great, but a little dated style/idea wise, so you have to keep when they were written in mind.
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:55 am
by jacob Raver, sinTempter
I thought about reading my...damnit, was such a simple word...can't remember, but lost interest...I've got that possession thing down pat (is it just me or does that fourth 's' in possesssion always bother you to), and I don't need much help with women...
How is Gharmen...whatever dated...wotdyamean? Can you be a lil more sespific w/o giving away too much?
Wow...poser, huh? (and here I thought restraining myself was a good thing)
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:59 am
by Orlion
I'm not sure how the Titus books are dated, either, except that they have a fairly strange kinda language... but that fits in well because they're strange kinds of books
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:42 pm
by Vraith
They just feel like they were written in 1800, not the 1950's to me...I think it's because there's a kind of distance between the POV and Titus..so it seems to me. Still, they really are great (though I haven't read the third yet)
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:33 pm
by jacob Raver, sinTempter
Vraith wrote:They just feel like they were written in 1800, not the 1950's to me...I think it's because there's a kind of distance between the POV and Titus..so it seems to me. Still, they really are great (though I haven't read the third yet)
Like Ourboros?
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:46 pm
by danlo
Ourboros was written even earlier-the language is archaic and I don't think the publishers ever really edited it.
Wait for Murrin, he's our resident Gormenghast aficionado...
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:16 pm
by jacob Raver, sinTempter
Malik23 wrote:She's teasing me because I didn't like the first Malazan book, and still haven't followed up on my promise to give the rest of the series a try.
To be fair, of the ones listed here, Malazan is the only one "Donaldson approved."
Was it a case where he mentinoed Malazan as one he liked and didn't mention the rest...or did he say that this was the only other good fantasy out there?
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:19 pm
by lucimay
Was it a case where he mentinoed Malazan as one he liked and didn't mention the rest...or did he say that this was the only other good fantasy out there?
he said it was his favorite.
AND... (pullin out all the stops here now) i've met him several times now,
and i can tell you unequivocally (or however you spell that) that on those occasions when we've chatted about such things (once or twice), he really does find erikson brilliant and has
never once even
mentioned bakker.(pokes tongue out at brinn
)