Reading Burnout?
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Ebonbuddha
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Fair enough. But I did say Rahl whined too much. I can understand being thrown into the situations of super being. But let it go after three books.
Gregory Peck played Atticus Finch, Superbly as well.
All time Classic Movie, Even better book!
If you can find a copy try \"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter\". It\'s a long time since I read it but stilll very good.
Infidel Castro
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Originally posted by RedSevenBlue
Originally posted by reverend
As per the fella above...
I also dived right out of fantasy as the whole genre is so turgid it beggars belief. There are very few original writers out there, and the whole trilogy/series lark is just proof of the limits of the field and the skills of the writers. I\'ve never been big into Sci-fi, but recently I started reading Iain M Banks. He\'s got a brain the size of a small planet, I\'m sure of it. But that\'s just one facet of my current reading habits. I read a lot of fiction from the greats of the last century, such as Huxley, Amis (the elder), Orwell, Golding, Greene, plus a few more contemporary authors like Milan Kundera, Peter Carey (sound Aussie writer), Houllebecq...
There\'s a whole world out there, and I\'m gutted that I ever limited myself to the fantasy genre - I could have been rolling in quality years ago
HEINLEIN! READ SOME OF HEINLEINS BOOKS!He\'s one of the best sci-fi writers out there. I heard \"The cat who walks through walls\" was good.
Good shout chap, I\'ll have a sniff at that. I left fantasy but have still got a huge world of sci-fi to look at. As far as decent fantasy though, I have to recommend The Worm Ouroboros and A Voyage to Arcturus. Perhaps also Stephen Donaldson, though he takes a bit of work initially.
philologus
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Right you are D.R. That movie also had a very young Robert Duvall as Boo Radley.
@MarkusTay: I enjoyed \"Hero with a Thousand Faces\" as well. My copy is highly worn and marked up(I bought it new) howeverI think he stretches some connections to verify his point at times. Some of his analogies seem tenuous.
SebastianRushworth
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Originally posted by MarkusTay
Rand DOESN\'t wine?! I think you need to reread the first two books. I feel like bitch slapping the little turd half the time.
Rand... Rahl... Hmmmmmmmmmmm
He stops whining after the first couple of books and starts behaving like the uber-god he is - chucking lightning at people, bursting their heads like baloons, having several girlfriends at the same time lol
I\'ve also read some books on writing fiction, and I think there are something like 17 or 27 or 32 different basic plots (depends on who you ask and how different something has to be to be counted as a separate plot).
If you\'ve read one Dan Brown book you really don\'t need to read anything else he\'s written. Talk about using the same plot over and over and over and just changing the names and the locations.
I\'ve read a bunch of Heinlein books, and they\'re usually quite fun, if a little dated by now. My current favourite for sci-fi is probably Dan Abnett, who writes excellent action novels set in the WH40k universe, and Neil Gaiman, because he\'s so darned quirky and funny.
RedSevenBlue
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My pops is writing a book. He\'s almost done. Its actually funny and exciting at the same time. It drags only once. You may see some similarities to other books in it. He hasn\'t found a publisher, but the current title is \"The Spork Jumped Over The Moon.\"lolOriginally posted by reverend
Originally posted by RedSevenBlue
Originally posted by reverend
As per the fella above...
I also dived right out of fantasy as the whole genre is so turgid it beggars belief. There are very few original writers out there, and the whole trilogy/series lark is just proof of the limits of the field and the skills of the writers. I\'ve never been big into Sci-fi, but recently I started reading Iain M Banks. He\'s got a brain the size of a small planet, I\'m sure of it. But that\'s just one facet of my current reading habits. I read a lot of fiction from the greats of the last century, such as Huxley, Amis (the elder), Orwell, Golding, Greene, plus a few more contemporary authors like Milan Kundera, Peter Carey (sound Aussie writer), Houllebecq...
There\'s a whole world out there, and I\'m gutted that I ever limited myself to the fantasy genre - I could have been rolling in quality years ago
HEINLEIN! READ SOME OF HEINLEINS BOOKS!He\'s one of the best sci-fi writers out there. I heard \"The cat who walks through walls\" was good.
Good shout chap, I\'ll have a sniff at that. I left fantasy but have still got a huge world of sci-fi to look at. As far as decent fantasy though, I have to recommend The Worm Ouroboros and A Voyage to Arcturus. Perhaps also Stephen Donaldson, though he takes a bit of work initially.
philologus
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Originally posted by reverend
Originally posted by RedSevenBlue
Originally posted by reverend
As per the fella above...
I also dived right out of fantasy as the whole genre is so turgid it beggars belief. There are very few original writers out there, and the whole trilogy/series lark is just proof of the limits of the field and the skills of the writers. I\'ve never been big into Sci-fi, but recently I started reading Iain M Banks. He\'s got a brain the size of a small planet, I\'m sure of it. But that\'s just one facet of my current reading habits. I read a lot of fiction from the greats of the last century, such as Huxley, Amis (the elder), Orwell, Golding, Greene, plus a few more contemporary authors like Milan Kundera, Peter Carey (sound Aussie writer), Houllebecq...
There\'s a whole world out there, and I\'m gutted that I ever limited myself to the fantasy genre - I could have been rolling in quality years ago
HEINLEIN! READ SOME OF HEINLEINS BOOKS!He\'s one of the best sci-fi writers out there. I heard \"The cat who walks through walls\" was good.
Good shout chap, I\'ll have a sniff at that. I left fantasy but have still got a huge world of sci-fi to look at. As far as decent fantasy though, I have to recommend The Worm Ouroboros and A Voyage to Arcturus. Perhaps also Stephen Donaldson, though he takes a bit of work initially.
Rev: The Worm Ouroboros is excellent. I love Eddison. Have you read the other 3 in that series?
Sebastian: I really enjoyed the Horus Heresy book Abnett just did. Fantastic.
Reading
I read a lot, mostly history as I find that the dark crazy stuff you find in Sci Fi and Fantasy has happened in our own little world most of the time.
Having said that I do like to pick up Sci Fi and Fantasy books for a change of pace. Love a book with a great back story, hence LOTR, and Harry Potter, also love Warhammer, and 40K stuff for realy light reading.
I\'ve had friends rave about Wheel of Time, but odly enough I\'ve never seen them get past book 3 or 4. Maybe I\'ll pick it up after I\'ve finished painting every miniture I\'ll ever want...
I read a lot, mostly history as I find that the dark crazy stuff you find in Sci Fi and Fantasy has happened in our own little world most of the time.
Having said that I do like to pick up Sci Fi and Fantasy books for a change of pace. Love a book with a great back story, hence LOTR, and Harry Potter, also love Warhammer, and 40K stuff for realy light reading.
I\'ve had friends rave about Wheel of Time, but odly enough I\'ve never seen them get past book 3 or 4. Maybe I\'ll pick it up after I\'ve finished painting every miniture I\'ll ever want...
RedSevenBlue
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\"It was a beginning, not the beginning, but a beginning.\" lol, what a nut beginning every book that way.
johnboyjjb
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You\'ll have to forgive me - I wasn\'t around when the movie was shot.
kittykat23uk
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I can recommed books by the Author China Mieville, Perdido Street Station and The Scar are both really good reads. Its a very rich steampunk setting, very dark and gritty.
Infidel Castro
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Originally posted by philologus
Originally posted by reverend
Originally posted by RedSevenBlue
Originally posted by reverend
As per the fella above...
I also dived right out of fantasy as the whole genre is so turgid it beggars belief. There are very few original writers out there, and the whole trilogy/series lark is just proof of the limits of the field and the skills of the writers. I\'ve never been big into Sci-fi, but recently I started reading Iain M Banks. He\'s got a brain the size of a small planet, I\'m sure of it. But that\'s just one facet of my current reading habits. I read a lot of fiction from the greats of the last century, such as Huxley, Amis (the elder), Orwell, Golding, Greene, plus a few more contemporary authors like Milan Kundera, Peter Carey (sound Aussie writer), Houllebecq...
There\'s a whole world out there, and I\'m gutted that I ever limited myself to the fantasy genre - I could have been rolling in quality years ago
HEINLEIN! READ SOME OF HEINLEINS BOOKS!He\'s one of the best sci-fi writers out there. I heard \"The cat who walks through walls\" was good.
Good shout chap, I\'ll have a sniff at that. I left fantasy but have still got a huge world of sci-fi to look at. As far as decent fantasy though, I have to recommend The Worm Ouroboros and A Voyage to Arcturus. Perhaps also Stephen Donaldson, though he takes a bit of work initially.
Rev: The Worm Ouroboros is excellent. I love Eddison. Have you read the other 3 in that series?
Sebastian: I really enjoyed the Horus Heresy book Abnett just did. Fantastic.
Well, blow me. There are MORE? I honestly didn\'t know that, so I\'m going to have to track the swine down! What a great little story the first one was, with the study of the raison d\'etre of the daemons. Very interesting.
I forgot to say though, the greatest fantasy author of all time (in my eyes) is Pratchett, and he never goes stale. He understands the power of parody and humour, so in not taking himself too seriously, he doesn\'t fall into the traps of the \'serious\' fantasy writers.
philologus
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Rev:
In this order
The Worm Ouroboros
Mistress of Mistresses
Fish Dinner in Memison
The Mezentian Gate
Apparently Tolkien was a fan of Eddison\'s writing. I loved them all.
In this order
The Worm Ouroboros
Mistress of Mistresses
Fish Dinner in Memison
The Mezentian Gate
Apparently Tolkien was a fan of Eddison\'s writing. I loved them all.
Infidel Castro
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I\'ll bookmark this thread especially. Got to pick those up somehow. Nice one
Master Rahl guide us while waiting the Tarmon Gai Don
Fiction is basically the same ancestral plot repeated over and over again.
Like music is basically 7 notes reapeted in different ways.
How it is played that counts here.
Foundation Cycle:Asimov drew inspiration from an history book(the title was something \"The rise and the fall of the roman empire).
It is stated in the introduction .
And it represents a current of thought very much similar to the positivist-illuminist idea if history(a great and magnificent empire of culture and order brought down by barbaries, preparing the way for a new and better one)
Fiction is basically the same ancestral plot repeated over and over again.
Like music is basically 7 notes reapeted in different ways.
How it is played that counts here.
Foundation Cycle:Asimov drew inspiration from an history book(the title was something \"The rise and the fall of the roman empire).
It is stated in the introduction .
And it represents a current of thought very much similar to the positivist-illuminist idea if history(a great and magnificent empire of culture and order brought down by barbaries, preparing the way for a new and better one)
Started The Dreamthief\'s daughter last night. I wanted different, and I sure got it. Elric vs. the Nazis? Not my usually cup of tea, but I have read other works in the \"Nazis & Magic\" genre which weren\'t bad. Not including Indiana Jones and those Mummy movies of course, which weren\'t bad for what they were (Pulp).
I enjoy the \"alternate history\" genre very much, and if anyone knows any good books in that vein I would appreciate it. I read one a few years back called Byzantium, in which Mohammed had converted to Christianity at an early age and was Sainted! Talk about a whole different world... The Greeks were still large and in charge.
Best we cover our bums, eh?
lol
I enjoy the \"alternate history\" genre very much, and if anyone knows any good books in that vein I would appreciate it. I read one a few years back called Byzantium, in which Mohammed had converted to Christianity at an early age and was Sainted! Talk about a whole different world... The Greeks were still large and in charge.
Best we cover our bums, eh?
lol
Infidel Castro
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Mark dude, there\'s no \'t\' in Nazi!
SebastianRushworth
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If you like alternate history, then you could try \"Fatherland\" or \"Archangel\" by Robert Harris (no magic though )
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