[Nov] What are you reading?

[Asmo]

nikolai wrote:

"Raymond E. Feist's Magician is an absolutely awful book. I beg you, remove it from your list of to reads and spare yourself."

What?
What didn´t you like about Feist´s Magician?
In my book, this is a must read, a classic. If you like high fantasy it doesn´t get much better than this,imho.

Asmo

 

[Sirius_Black]

What?
What didn´t you like about Feist´s Magician?
In my book, this is a must read, a classic. If you like high fantasy it doesn´t get much better than this,imho.
Asmo

I concur. But different strokes for different folks. And so on and so on....

 

[Welverin]

19th?!?

Actually it's the 18th, The Unifying Force is the 19th and last book in the series (there are also two ebooks). tUF is also what I'm currently reading.

Somehow, I don't see myself catchin' up now. I always
planned to read through it when it was finished. So I
waited for it to finish... and waited... and waited and
waited and waited and-- well.

What are you complain for the last book is already out and you have the rest of your life to catch up!

The Lone Drow by R.A. Salvatore.

How is it? I've been avoiding the spoiler thread since I haven't even started it.

 

[Null Boundry]

nikolai wrote:

"Raymond E. Feist's Magician is an absolutely awful book. I beg you, remove it from your list of to reads and spare yourself."

What?
What didn´t you like about Feist´s Magician?
In my book, this is a must read, a classic. If you like high fantasy it doesn´t get much better than this,imho.

Asmo

When I first read it I thought it was fantastic however I recently re-read it and it didn't seem to have stood the test of time. In part I think it was that I read the new edition with added material with mainly seemed to be padding and putting the odd big signpost about the ending. As is usual with such things they were taken out for a reason.

Still I'm glad I read it the first time.

 

[Viking Bastard]

What are you complain for the last book is already out and you have the rest of your life to catch up!

I'm complaining that there are just damn too many books!

Plus, I'll never be able to get my hands on 'em all.

 

[NeuroZombie]

I am just finishing The Dark Glory War by Michael Stackpole and it is a reccomended read if you have not already. It is not the best book I have ever read, but it is much more enjoyable than many of the books by many big name fantasy writers out there (no names mentioned so as not to start a war ).

Also, in regards to "kids" fantasy books, I recommend any book by:

Garth Nix - The Seventh Tower (Scholastic) series and the Sabriel Series. I just finished the first book in his new Keys to the Kingdom (also Scholastic) series and I have to say that Mr. Nix is one of the most imaginative writers in fantasy literature.

D.J. MacHale's Pendragon series (again, scholastic) is also phenomenal. My wife got the first book for my son, he wouldn't read it so she did and got me hooked.

 

[Asmo]

Null Boundry wrote:

"When I first read it I thought it was fantastic however I recently re-read it and it didn't seem to have stood the test of time."

I must admit it was a long time since I read it, so I´m not sure how I would react if I read it today. I think that Feist is among the best fantasy writers of today. His Empire-books (with Wurts) is extremly well written,and The Serpent War saga is really good to, so I really hope that I can read Magician one more time and be a proud reader

Asmo

 

[nikolai]

Magician

nikolai wrote:
What?

What didn´t you like about Feist´s Magician?

In my book, this is a must read, a classic. If you like high fantasy it doesn´t get much better than this,imho.

I probably dislike it about as much as you like it. I thought it read like it was a bad D&D campaign. I thought the characters were cardboard cutouts and the book was littered with a collection of almost every fantasy cliche you could come up with. I also didn't like the overlong travel-log at the beginning. I also thought the "rifts" and "invasion from another world" plot hook was spectacularly dumb.

It's just not my kind of book at all. Could any fans of the book out there tell me why they liked it? I really can't see the atraction.

nikolai.

 

[Sirius_Black]

I am just finishing The Dark Glory War by Michael Stackpole and it is a reccomended read if you have not already. It is not the best book I have ever read, but it is much more enjoyable than many of the books by many big name fantasy writers out there (no names mentioned so as not to start a war ).

Oh come on....give a mention....initials at least?

Nice to see Mr. Stackpole's name. I recall him from my Tunnels and Trolls days.

 

[Welverin]

I'm complaining that there are just damn too many books!

Plus, I'll never be able to get my hands on 'em all.

Bah I say! Nineteen isn't that many, so start reading already.

Get one every (other) month and in no time* you'll be all caught up. The only books not in paperback already will be by the time you get around to picking them up, so the cost shouldn't be too hurtful either.

*by no time I mean a little over a year and a half (or three years if you go with every other month), less time then it took me to get them all though.