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Looking for some new Sci/Fi or Fantasy novels.


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For some reason I'm torturing myself by going back through WoT, something I haven't done in many years. On Fires of Heaven now.

Holy poo, I remember Robert Jordan going on and on with the detailed scenery porn, but whole pages of nothing but describing the textures of the carpets in a room is just unnecessary.

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I'm reading The Name of the Wind right now, and it is fuging dragging along...

I guess I'm now spoiled by the ASOIAF books, but so far (300 or so pages in) I'm almost bored witless... Too many details that don't really matter...

Same here. I don't know....I just find it to be extremely boring. I'm not that far into it either. Couldn't give a page because I got it on Audible (btw, don't buy it on Audible as the narrator sucks). Right now I'm at the part where Kvoth's father sings part of the song he's been writing for months that apparently everybody really wants to hear for some reason. Yay?!

And honestly I'm not into books with magic in it, and I get a feeling that this one may end up having a lot.

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Same here. I don't know....I just find it to be extremely boring. I'm not that far into it either. Couldn't give a page because I got it on Audible (btw, don't buy it on Audible as the narrator sucks). Right now I'm at the part where Kvoth's father sings part of the song he's been writing for months that apparently everybody really wants to hear for some reason. Yay?!

And honestly I'm not into books with magic in it, and I get a feeling that this one may end up having a lot.

Hang in there... it gets a bit better...

I'm halfway through the second book in the series, The Wise Man's Fear... The first one got better once you get past a certain point... The second one is pretty good so far too... I still wouldn't call it elite fantasy fiction, but it is pretty decent... I'll look forward to what happens the rest of this book, and then into the next one...

There isn't a lot of magic in the books really... Rothfuss has elements of it, but he's thrown a science-y twist on it to make it a little more real world... It is called Sympathy (I thought you would have heard about it by now where you're at) and it involves linking elementally similar things... There's also some Sygaldry, which I guess you could call magic, but it is tied in to the use of Sympathy as well...

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The Fionavar Tapestry is an awesome "Arthurian" trilogy written by Guy Gavriel Kay. Many fantasy buffs don't seem to know much about it. I stopped reading WoT when I was 17 because it was apparent that Robert Jordan, RIP, was making a huge money grab. His writing style changed and became unnecessarily long winded. Like other people said, after Book 6 it was like torture. He could have finished it before he died; it's hard to reconnect with some characters now that I really liked (like Mat and Rand) because I feel like Sanderson doesn't really know how to write them. And Night Angel was pretty awesome. Wetboys.....if only I could be one.

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some good light trash reading for escapism if you like:

brian lumley

world war z

koontz series - odd thomas & frankenstein (love his writing style and very much try to emulate with my own books)

anita blake series up to book 11

mark tufo's zombie fallout series

bv larson

d.j. molles

henlein, asimov, and herbert are heavier hitters in large if you like the classical avenues

ghost in the shell and neuromancer were way ahead of their time (and altered carbon is a step further if you like the genre)

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