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1MarcoGaidin
Seeing as there has been a spark of opinions on the "Heroes of the Horn-thread" I was wondering what everyone here reads, while waiting for Jordan to release the next book...
We have had a few opinions on Tolkien vs Jordan, which leads me to my question: Has anyone ever read Terry Goodkind and thought that it was, at best, a cheap version of WoT?
Also: I read a lot of Gaiman, Pratchett and enjoy urban fantasy and high fantasy in particular. I am currently working through a recommendation list and have found some jewels and some terrible (IMO) books.
Being South African I have to order all my books on the net and wait for long periods so I always wonder what other people, with easier access to books, read.
Oh, and I am not a fan (possibly the only) of Rowling and that boy wizard.
We have had a few opinions on Tolkien vs Jordan, which leads me to my question: Has anyone ever read Terry Goodkind and thought that it was, at best, a cheap version of WoT?
Also: I read a lot of Gaiman, Pratchett and enjoy urban fantasy and high fantasy in particular. I am currently working through a recommendation list and have found some jewels and some terrible (IMO) books.
Being South African I have to order all my books on the net and wait for long periods so I always wonder what other people, with easier access to books, read.
Oh, and I am not a fan (possibly the only) of Rowling and that boy wizard.
2dchaikin
Hi MarcoGaidin,
I'm not much help here. I haven't read much fantasy (or scifi, etc). Reading Jordan is almost out of character for me, if that makes sense. There are only three other fantasy series I've hooked onto: Tolkien's LOR, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, and Rowling's wizards. I've pretty much kicked speculative fiction out of my reading, although I do have Neil Gaimon, Douglas Adams & Neal Stephenson on my TBR for 2007.
I'm not much help here. I haven't read much fantasy (or scifi, etc). Reading Jordan is almost out of character for me, if that makes sense. There are only three other fantasy series I've hooked onto: Tolkien's LOR, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, and Rowling's wizards. I've pretty much kicked speculative fiction out of my reading, although I do have Neil Gaimon, Douglas Adams & Neal Stephenson on my TBR for 2007.
3liselle40
sorry, but i have to agree with dchaikin about Rowling and her wand holders, and i'm really into fantasy/sci fi. and i love books about vampires. um. . . were you looking for titles/authors?
4doshiamit
I live in India so availability of the more obscure books is sometimes difficult, and Im not willing to pay the Amazon International shipping rates.
WOT got me into Sci/Fantasy as a genre. so for the last few months thats where Ive been. Started on the Terry Goodkind stuff right after cause that seemed to pop up in every single recommendation engine when you said you were a WOT fan. Liked the first book Wizards first Rule, loved the second book, and it was downhill from thereTears of Stone though I have to believe that name was not a coincidence and was meant to bring in WOT fans, with some good parts to a few of the later books, I gave up after Pillars of Creation, that was just terrible.
After that was done I started and finished the Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer. Very cool, very funny. Followed it up with Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy, which was wicked funny too. And pretty dark for a young adult type book.
I than decided to go to a few of the older classics. I read Dune which was spectacular. Was not able to get the second book Dune Messiah immediately, so picked up Phillip Pullman's Northern Light which is called also The Golden Compass. Thats what Im reading right now.
Im thinking of finishing up TGH which I started to reread a while ago, but got distracted from.
What I got next on my list is George R. R. Martin. I cant find any of his books here, but my brothers coming from the states soon, so I'll buy them of amazon and send it straight to him, he can carry them here. Ive heard a lot of good things about this series, if anyone here has read it, is it worth my gettng all the books at the same time? Or should I sample 1-2 books first?
WOT got me into Sci/Fantasy as a genre. so for the last few months thats where Ive been. Started on the Terry Goodkind stuff right after cause that seemed to pop up in every single recommendation engine when you said you were a WOT fan. Liked the first book Wizards first Rule, loved the second book, and it was downhill from thereTears of Stone though I have to believe that name was not a coincidence and was meant to bring in WOT fans, with some good parts to a few of the later books, I gave up after Pillars of Creation, that was just terrible.
After that was done I started and finished the Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer. Very cool, very funny. Followed it up with Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy, which was wicked funny too. And pretty dark for a young adult type book.
I than decided to go to a few of the older classics. I read Dune which was spectacular. Was not able to get the second book Dune Messiah immediately, so picked up Phillip Pullman's Northern Light which is called also The Golden Compass. Thats what Im reading right now.
Im thinking of finishing up TGH which I started to reread a while ago, but got distracted from.
What I got next on my list is George R. R. Martin. I cant find any of his books here, but my brothers coming from the states soon, so I'll buy them of amazon and send it straight to him, he can carry them here. Ive heard a lot of good things about this series, if anyone here has read it, is it worth my gettng all the books at the same time? Or should I sample 1-2 books first?
5dchaikin
I read Dune ages ago. I agree, it's an amazing book. I also read Dune Messiah and found it OK, but not very interesting. I stopped there. I've been under the impression that the rest of the series is more like Dune Messiah than like the first book.
