Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

[AtheistPreacher]

Let's do that. It has been a long time since I read first 3 novels of SOIAF so I am going by the feeling I got when I was reading it. I shall do a reread when my books clear up just to have a better opinion.

BTW Texhnolyze is going great. Thanks again for that.

Maybe your opinion will change, maybe not, but there's also so much great stuff to read that re-reading something you were tepid about to begin with isn't always the best option. May as well just move on and chalk it up to different strokes for different folks. The only reason I'm even considering re-reading book 1 of WoT again is that I experienced two such different reactions to it... loved 1-5 on first read, then on second read was bored before I even finished the first one. I'm thinking there may be some middle ground for me there, maybe I was just in a bad mood, so probably I owe it to myself to give it one more shot to know for sure.

But glad you're enjoying Texhnolyze. Not many people do, it's about as niche as you can get. :-D

 

[Shaggy]

I will admit back in the day that if the art work sucked on the cover I wouldn't read the book so I probably missed out on some good books.

Has anyone read The Dragon Prince or The Dragon Star series by Melanie Rawn? I really like them back in the early 90's. I never read anything else from her though.

I really liked Sword of Shannara series up until I stopped reading them, the last book I read was The Talisman of Shanna. Ender's Game was one of my favorites, lost interst in it after speaker of the dead. I really got in to Wheel of Time, the last book I read was Lord of Chaos. I'm pretty sure that was the last Fantasy book I've read.


OT: Lower Lights BBS, anyone? TradeWars? Thinking about those books takes me back to that time period.

 

[AtheistPreacher]

I will admit back in the day that if the art work sucked on the cover I wouldn't read the book so I probably missed out on some good books.

Has anyone read The Dragon Prince or The Dragon Star series by Melanie Rawn? I really like them back in the early 90's. I never read anything else from her though.

I really liked Sword of Shannara series up until I stopped reading them, the last book I read was The Talisman of Shanna. Ender's Game was one of my favorites, lost interst in it after speaker of the dead. I really got in to Wheel of Time, the last book I read was Lord of Chaos. I'm pretty sure that was the last Fantasy book I've read.


OT: Lower Lights BBS, anyone? TradeWars? Thinking about those books takes me back to that time period.

I did read Sword of Shannara back in the day, but at the time it struck me as such a carbon copy of Tolkien that I resolved not to read any of the others. I have to admit it was compulsively readable, and I hear that the subsequent books aren't such blatant ripoffs. So it may be another series that deserves a revisit from me.

Ender's Game is still one of my very favorites. That and Watership Down are the two books that I recommend to anyone and everyone regardless of the genres they claim to enjoy or not enjoy. It's hard to go wrong with either of those.

Never read or even heard of Melanie Rawn.

 

[Shaggy]

I read Sword of Shannara in 5th or 6th grade. I'm pretty sure I had never heard of The Hobbit or LOTR until Jr. High or High School. I think that's why I'm so found of it. It was the coolest thing I had ever read, at the time.

 

[spycam1]

Lol @ fish for hating books he liked enough to read 7,000 pages of.

 

[spycam1]

I read the first 5 books in WOT back in high school, then gave up cause it was just so giant. I just started it up again and am in the middle of 7. No idea when I'll finish, though, school takes up any time I would have to read WOT. So does Jazzfanz.

 

[fishonjazz]

Lol @ fish for hating books he liked enough to read 7,000 pages of.

It was a chore
I VERY RARELY ever start reading something and then stop but reading wheel of time was something that i was just making myself do, i was not enjoying it.
i wish the characters were less predictable cause the idea of the story is really good.

I just couldnt take anymore of the stereotyping of men and women and nynaeve tugging on her braid.

Its funny cause when i finally decided to stop reading it i went to wikipedia to read summaries of each book to see how it ended...... i had guessed what i thought would happen and which characters would live through the story and whatnot, and i ended up being correct about nearly everything.
It was so predictable in terms of who would live and die and what was going to happen

Thats what i love about a song of fire and ice...... heroes change into villians, villians become heroes, you never know who will live or die, the bad guys actually win sometimes, bad things happen to good people quite often and good things happen to bad people. (Just like real life)

WOT is like how in action movies there can be 20 bad guys with machine guns vs 1 good guy with a knife and somehow all the bad guys cant shoot straight and the good guy seems bulletproof while managing to win the battle

 

[One Brow]

I had to read A Wizard of Earthsea for 7th or 8th grade English. Loved the book. A few weeks later I discovered that there were two sequels in the school library, and read them both in the library that same day.

Have you read 4 and 5 yet?

 

[colton]

Have you read 4 and 5 yet?

I bought Tehanu but didn't especially like it, so I didn't bother with The Other Wind. I did recently purchase Tales From Earthsea, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

 

[gregbroncs]

I did read Sword of Shannara back in the day, but at the time it struck me as such a carbon copy of Tolkien that I resolved not to read any of the others. I have to admit it was compulsively readable, and I hear that the subsequent books aren't such blatant ripoffs. So it may be another series that deserves a revisit from me.

Ender's Game is still one of my very favorites. That and Watership Down are the two books that I recommend to anyone and everyone regardless of the genres they claim to enjoy or not enjoy. It's hard to go wrong with either of those.

Never read or even heard of Melanie Rawn.

I definitely still like Terry Brooks. Sword of Shannara did feel a little like Tolkien (but Much much easier to read) But the rest of his books are very enjoyable. I read all of his books as soon as they hit paperback.

 

[Jazz Traveler]

For those who like Robin Hobb books, she's coming out with a new Fitz and Fool book in August of this year titled Fool's Assassin. And have to say I am majorly excited. Most of her other series have been meh for me, but I truly loved Fitz and Fool and am eager to see how this new series turns out.

The only other book I'm looking forward to reading is Patrick Rothfuss's Day 3 in the Kingkiller Chronicles. Who knows when it will be finished...

 

[AtheistPreacher]

For those who like Robin Hobb books, she's coming out with a new Fitz and Fool book in August of this year titled Fool's Assassin. And have to say I am majorly excited. Most of her other series have been meh for me, but I truly loved Fitz and Fool and am eager to see how this new series turns out.

The only other book I'm looking forward to reading is Patrick Rothfuss's Day 3 in the Kingkiller Chronicles. Who knows when it will be finished...

Yes, my friend, that's the news I used to bump the thread.

And yeah, Rothfuss is definitely a good one. Books are good, and I follow his blog and have been making a few small donations to his annual charity fundraiser.