They need to add Malazan book of the fallen. Easily my fave fantasy series.
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Getting through that first book was sheer willpower
Because of first book most people quit. Thats Malazans biggest weakness. Author throws you in this world without explaining anything and you need to get hold of everything. Gardens of the moon shines in re-read. If you have will try to continue!
I felt very similar about The Eye of the World, even with the glossary. But I am so happy I stuck with it.
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I don't get why American Gods is always recommended. Neil Gaiman takes the coolest ideas in principle and finds the most underwhelming ways imaginable to flesh them out. That and Neverwhere were really disappointing to me for those reasons.
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I don't understand the love that the Dresden Files gets. Great idea with terrible execution. Butcher's writing is just clumsy with bad dialogue and weak world building. The series was originally recommended to me because I was lamenting that Gibson had moved away from noir after Neuromancer and a friend thought Butcher would fit the bill.
Dresden Files is one of those series where I think if you encountered it when urban fantasy was just revving up as a genre (and you were the right age), it imprints on you. It was definitely its own cool thing when it first broke out.
But it's not aging well 20 years later, and if you come to it older I think you "imprint" on it less.
I genuinely despise the dialogue for at least the first six books in the Dresden files. If my friend didn't convince me to keep going, I would have given up. However, around book 10-12 is when I saw the magic.
That's a huge time investment for something you may not eventually like, but it paid off for me fwiw.
I genuinely despise the dialogue for at least the first six books in the Dresden files. If my friend didn't convince me to keep going, I would have given up. However, around book 10-12 is when I saw the magic.
That's a huge time investment for something you may not eventually like, but it paid off for me fwiw.
So, yes or no on the night Angel series? I enjoyed Week’s Prism series a lot, and have though about moving to his other books eventually.
Is it top 21 fantasy of all time material? No. But it's a fun read, so give it a check out sometime.