Your favorite book series
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A Song of Ice and Fire.Korten12 said:
I read Ranger's Apprentice and I hated it.
Made me want to vomit generic fantasy things out of my eyeballs.
I won't berate the book any more, but what do you like about it? The one thing I did like about it was that Halt wasn't portrayed as being tall and handsome. But the rest of his character and everybody else's (except the bad guys) were pretty Mary-Sue. At least to me.
I've never actually read an entire book series that wasn't One Piece or Death Note. So I'll give the closet series I've ever come close to finishing and that would be the Charlie Bone series.
The Interview with a Vampire series by Anne Rice. It's really good, and the first movie adaptation was, too.
John Le Carre's... well I think it's a series. All the books with the recurring character George Smiley in them. I think I'll just call it his Smiley series.
My favorite book series is easily the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher.
The books are basically Phillip Marlowe stories as told by Gandalf. Definitely awesome. And if you need any more incentive to check them out, the following picture is an accurate summation of the essence of the books:
Edit: In case anyone's wondering, yes that is a zombie T-Rex, and yes that actually happens.
The books are basically Phillip Marlowe stories as told by Gandalf. Definitely awesome. And if you need any more incentive to check them out, the following picture is an accurate summation of the essence of the books:
Edit: In case anyone's wondering, yes that is a zombie T-Rex, and yes that actually happens.
I'm guessing this doesn't include "mainstream" fiction.
Well, everything except The Kingkiller Chronicles. Maybe. Probably.
Here it is, folks, the best that Fantasy has to offer. I've been searching for similar quality like a ravenous beast and everything else falls short.Bruin said:
Well, everything except The Kingkiller Chronicles. Maybe. Probably.
He's not really that old and his age doesn't hamper him at all. He's the same misanthrope every author almost seems obligated to create in every fantasy universe and the author of Ranger's Apprentice almost ignores physics and reality when he made a stumpy ranger being able to take on barbarians by himself. Not to mention a 14 y/o boy being able to get stomped on by a horse and live.Korten12 said:
I love George R.R. Martin. Haven't been able to get any of his other things lately, but he's a fantastic author and I can't wait for him to finish the series up. People have their doubts about him, but he's easily one of the best fantasy authors since Tolkien.procyonlotor said:
I don't think Tolkien was a better writer though--I think he was a better author and that he created a more detailed universe than anybody before and after, but he didn't write with very much emotion and it seemed more like reading a history book than a story at times. A very dull history book that makes conversations ten pages long in between songs.
But if you buckle down and treat it like a college paper or something of that nature, I think Lord of the Rings easily takes the cake for the best Fantasy story ever told.
Still, not my favorite. George takes that place on my mantle.
um... its fantasy for a reason... I find it stupid when people get angry for something not being realistic, so what? Does it matter? Does everything need to be realistic? If someone wrote a story that a 17 year old picked up a gun and becomea pro isntantly would that make the story bad just becuase it wasn't realistic?Bruin said:
