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Nesacat said:
GOLLUM ... tell me how you go with Thomas Covenant. I stopped reading after the first one because of how I felt about the character. It's got nothing to do with the plot or the style of writing. It's just an aversion to the character himself.

Clive Barker's fiction is intriguing. It wanders all over the place and takes a peek at the oddest things.
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Same here, he must have been the most disgusting and unredeemable main character I'v ever encountered in a fantasy book. I've never read any other books and would discourage others from doing it.
 
Well, just this minute I received (in the mail) The History of the Hobbit, Part Two: Return to Bad End... again, a lovely book, very nicely done, and looks utterly fascinating. Now, if I can only clear my reaching schedule enough to fit these things in before the end of the year.....:rolleyes:
 
Im very very weak when its against controling my urge to buy books when i wasnt planning to do anything but browse the shelfs for future buys.

Today i went in only to order DG books and get my ordered copy of Vampire Hunter book 1. I came out with these too :

Black Company - Glen Cook
The King beyond the Gate - David Gemmell
Young Bloods - Simon Scarrow
Grass For his Pillows - Lian Hearn

Simon Scarrow i know nada except he writtes a famous Roman series and i didnt even think about buying him cause i wanted Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series. Since Those was sold out, Scarrow was the lucky subsitute thanks to my urge to buy more historical fiction. Man i really hope he is good.....
 
Don't know about Scarrow, but I've heard good things about Hearn... and I'll be curious to hear what you've got to say about the Black Company....
 
Black Company as other DG fans has told me is the kind of fantasy i like.


The start is almost too fast paced even for me who are used this kind of fantasy.

Hearn was easy buy i adored the first book.

If you havent read it and have any interesting in historical fiction,japanese history,samurai,ninjas,magical powers i would recommend it highly.
 
Ah, I thought I recognised the title...I've read Across the Nightingale Floor and (I think!) Grass for his Pillow. Never got round to reading the final book, though, and I think if I were to do it now, I'd have to re-read the first two again to remember what happens! :D
 
Nesacat said:
Dylan ... I tried reading them several times after an interval of time and it still didn't work. Love Barker's work though.

Am very curious to see how GOLLUM fares.
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I read the Thomas Covenant series when it first came out Nesa and I loved them. I agree the main character can be hard to like but I really enjoyed these books because they were so different to anything else I had read in the Genre. This series appears in my top 5 series of all time. So YES I like them a lot!!
 
I also like Glenn Cook's Black Company books, a major major influence on Steven Erikson's fabuluos Malazan series.
 
Heh maybe you can tell if it improves what i thought its not so good in the first book in Glen Cook thread.

I was alittle dissapointed by it.
 
The Covenant books are the only ones I've never managed to get through. Maybe someday. It's funny, because I like Donaldson's work especially the short story Daughter of Regals. It's up there with my favourite short stories.

I like Glen Cook. I've only just read his Dark Company books after seeing them being discussed here. Before that I'd only read his PI Garrett books, which I really, really like and read in between books.

You might want to give Lian Hearn a try JD. I've read all but the fourth book - Harsh Cry Of The Heron - which I have not seen anywhere in the bookstores here. There are well written, very lyrical and paint a vivid picture of the time.
 
Nesacat said:
The Covenant books are the only ones I've never managed to get through. Maybe someday. It's funny, because I like Donaldson's work especially the short story Daughter of Regals. It's up there with my favourite short stories.

I like Glen Cook. I've only just read his Dark Company books after seeing them being discussed here. Before that I'd only read his PI Garrett books, which I really, really like and read in between books.

You might want to give Lian Hearn a try JD. I've read all but the fourth book - Harsh Cry Of The Heron - which I have not seen anywhere in the bookstores here. There are well written, very lyrical and paint a vivid picture of the time.
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Yes I really enjoyed the stories from Donaldson partly because they were so different in the late 70's and early 80's to what else I could get my hands on from commercial sellers.

Glenn Cook's novels do improve as far as the Black Company goes, not in the same league as Erikson but still better than average. I too am a fan of the P.I. Garret series Nesa...:)

As far as Lian Hearn is concerned I've read the first trilogy and found it to be a worthwhile read. Quite lyrical given the often simplified sentence structure reminiscent of Hemmingway than Hearn adopts here. I have the Harsh Cry Of The Heron in my 'library' but am yet to read it.

At the moment I'm in Hugo nominee mode for the remainder of this month, so see you later guys...:D
 
Nesacat said:
The Covenant books are the only ones I've never managed to get through. Maybe someday. It's funny, because I like Donaldson's work especially the short story Daughter of Regals. It's up there with my favourite short stories.

I like Glen Cook. I've only just read his Dark Company books after seeing them being discussed here. Before that I'd only read his PI Garrett books, which I really, really like and read in between books.

You might want to give Lian Hearn a try JD. I've read all but the fourth book - Harsh Cry Of The Heron - which I have not seen anywhere in the bookstores here. There are well written, very lyrical and paint a vivid picture of the time.
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I was kind of surprised how lyrical it when i read the first book. I mean i didnt expect that from a YA title about samurai and ninjas.

Dark Company ?:rolleyes:

I really hope it gets better before the first book ends. I dont waste money on books if the first book isnt good. Also Black Company books are apparently only three so i expect the first one to end well if im gonna keep reading the series.

I have no interest in reading the books about the world. I like the company guys i dont care about Lady there and Taken one or whatever.


Funny i hear he inspired Erikson. No matter how uneven Gardens of the Moon were it had alot more interesting story,characters,battles.
 
OOOPPPsssssssssss..sorry about that Typo LOL!

Erikson is pretty much better than anyone else I've read as far as EPIC storylines go. Not the greatest prose but still comfortably above average.
 
GOLLUM said:
OOOPPPsssssssssss..sorry about that Typo LOL!

Erikson is pretty much better than anyone else I've read as far as EPIC storylines go. Not the greatest prose but still comfortably above average.
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I was actually surprised by his prose.

After reading GRRM whose prose i found so generic and boring i found Erikson's good specially when its about Epic fantasy of today.

Sure he is crap compared to my favorit Gemmell but so are 99% of fantasy writers i have read ;)

Glen Cook has a decent one too. His writing style is alittle annoying though cause there are so many Company guys talking sometimes and several of the times you dont know who it is except the one that is telling the story Croaker.

Someties you have to geuss cause he doesnt always say One-eye said or Elmo said that. I found that very annoying when there 8-10 guys talking and you have to geuss.
 
True but it certainly keeps you on your toes.

Erikson's prose is definitely pretty good, you should try Italo Calvino, M John Harrison or Gene Wolfe for superior prose.
 
Check out the subforum we have here on Wolfe for ideas on reading material...:)

Just a word of warning, he's not to everyone's liking, his work is fairly cerebral and can be quite deep in its meaning and not always easy to follow. Certainly a challenging author.
 
I like a challenge specially when its authors with good/great prose, i have a fetish for those ;)


I read Jack Vance for the first time with Dying Earth first story which was so wierd but interesting cause of his prose.

I have to confess, i had to reread some of the words several times to understand them.
 
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