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Wes Mantooth said:
Know nothing about the books but Rosamund Pike as the lead and five kids who look like your typical Netflix “stars” makes me think this is gonna be utter trash.
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Time will tell.
My suspicion is it won't be. They're not doing it like the Shannara series, their goal is to do it better than the GoT series.
 
leftyjace said:
Honestly? I echo that opinion.
He's a pretty special talent.
If you haven't tried reading the Stormlight Archive stuff, I highly recommend it. Each book's ending just knocks your socks off. It's almost silly.
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Do you need to read the Stormlight books in order? (my library app has some of them but not all of them so Im not sure I can start at book 1 and go in order)
 
I read the first seven books one summer in the 90s, but then never finished the series. Someday. I'm interested in the series, though.

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fishonjazz said:
I have heard from a lot of people that sanderson is a much better writer than jordan.
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Unfortunately true, the Sanderson contributions were the best in the series. But the series as a whole was not great compared to many other series. It was one of those things where I read so much, may as well finish them all, but I ended up speed reading a lot because they simply aren't good stories.

Unfortunately, my two favorite series in the genre GOT (don't care much now that the tv series is done) and the Kingkiller Chronicles, will likely remain incomplete.

The WOT tv series does not interest me at all.
 
Hekate said:
I kept pushing this one in the back of my mind and now that I have seen how close this is, I can't keep still. Thank you. It's going to be a restless month, lol.

I get the feel they are going to do the books justice.
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Remember the Khaleesi.

Anything and everything can be ****ed up. Count on it being ****ed up and you won't be disappointed. GoT started so strong, then for 2 seasons just completely **** the bed.
 
TheGoldStandard said:
Unfortunately true, the Sanderson contributions were the best in the series. But the series as a whole was not great compared to many other series. It was one of those things where I read so much, may as well finish them all, but I ended up speed reading a lot because they simply aren't good stories.

Unfortunately, my two favorite series in the genre GOT (don't care much now that the tv series is done) and the Kingkiller Chronicles, will likely remain incomplete.

The WOT tv series does not interest me at all.
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Agreed on the Kingkiller Chronicle. Rothfuss manages to make a tired genre and story fresh even while using almost all the cliches of the genre. But I've seen him involved in a lot of things other than finishing and there was an article a while back where he went all philosophical and esoteric talking about not finishing as the best ending he could provide because it leaves it open to the readers imagination or some such ********. Pretty sure he meant it tongue in cheek but so far he has made good on that promise.

He also once said he had like a dozen sub-plots he had to rework and that the would only publish when he had a perfect work to give to the readers. So often perfection is the enemy of excellence. That appears to be the case here too.

But I hope both of those get finished. But both authors have made it clear they don't really care about finishing them, if not in word then in action. That's just weird to me. But I can't do much about it.

But I did manage to get a Tak boardgame early on. It is a beautiful game.
 
leftyjace said:
Came out in 1990! I was on the edge of my seat from that year forward...

And I am ALSO very interested in the Foundation series. Should be epic (hopefully)!
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Are you saying they are adapting Asimov's Foundation series into a show? Absolutely no idea how they pull that off.
 
There used to be a jazzfanzer whose name was edgewriter iirc whose name in real life is trevor H Cooley and he writes in this genre. His Bowl Of Souls books are my favorite in this genre and is one of my favorite stories of all time.
I highly recommend all of you to give them a try. I think that there are about 11 or 12 books in the series out so far (I could be wrong though) and I have read them all. They are outstanding. Been waiting of the next book in the series (titles Halfbreeds) for a long time now. Hope it comes out soon as I really miss the characters in the story.
 
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