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| The 10 Greatest Fantasy Series Of All Time | |
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| Topic Started: 30 Dec 2009, 09:56 (175 Views) | |
| Kevin Thomas Riley | 30 Dec 2009, 09:56 Post #1 |
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The 10 Greatest Fantasy Series Of All Time Of the ones listed I've only read Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire, plus the first two Harry Potter books. But I'm going ahead with Potter and plan on starting with Jordan soon. What does anyone else think of the selections? |
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| Jedikatie | 30 Dec 2009, 11:00 Post #2 |
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Well, I've read at least 6 of those series--Harry Potter; A Song of Fire and Ice; Wheel of Time; Discworld; Lord of the Rings; Memory, Sorrow and Thorn;--and I believe (but can't swear to it because it was so long ago) that I might have also read A Wizard of Earthsea... I'm kind of surprised to see Discworld on there, since it's not really a "series" in the strictest sense but rather a collection of books that aren't specifically tied to each other in that you have to read this book first to understand what's going on in the next one--with the single exception of The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic, since TLF is the second half of TCoM's story. But you can pretty much start anywhere in the books and figure out what's going on. But Terry Pratchett is highly entertaining in his parodies of the real world, especially since he's setting it in the equivalent of about the late 16th century or so of our time. If you want a good laugh, then he's well worth reading. Just remember that the first book (The Color of Magic) was written some 30 years ago, so some of the humor may be lost on those who aren't old enough to remember that far back. Tad Williams' series was decent, from what I remember (I read it when I was still working at the library, and I haven't worked there in 9 years). I liked it enough at the time. And he did, mercifully, keep his story down to 3 books (4 if you buy the paperbacks, because they split the final book). Harry Potter, while I can see that some wouldn't consider it groundbreaking, did something that a lot of writers didn't manage to do: namely, get kids to read. And enchanted scores of adults along the way. It's essentially this generation's Star Wars. I'm not a big fan of LotR, but that's just me. I thought he overwrote the descriptions (something that Robert Jordan also overdid). The story itself is not that bad, it's just that (like Moby Dick and its every other chapter being an exhaustive detailing of the whaling industry) I think he could have eliminated some of those excessive descriptions and the books would have been better. Robert Jordan kind of meanders about for about 5 books once you hit the middle stretch (with books #9 and #10 taking place almost concurrently). He also goes on and on with the descriptions (more so in those middle books), and as the guy who wrote the article noted, he can't write women. There's a reason why a lot of people can't stand the women in his books, and it's because they're all essentially from the same mold. Oh, there's a few exceptions, but most of them are just badly written. |
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| Jedikatie | 6 Jan 2010, 12:15 Post #3 |
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You know, since you posted this, KTR, I was looking over at the Kindle store for this particular series by Tad Williams a few days ago because I was curious to see if they had it available on Kindle and how much it costs (because I might reread it). And now I'm wondering, since they list 2 Kindle versions of the final book in the trilogy, To Green Angel Tower, if they split the last book on the Kindle version into 2 books (like the publisher did when it went from hardback to paperback), or if the Kindle versions, which both list the novel as being 816 pages long, are the same version, just with different release dates... Mostly I'm wondering because the third novel was originally 1104 pages long, and I don't see exactly how they managed to lose nearly 300 pages of text in the Kindle version (even if the Kindle version doesn't actually use page numbers) and have the whole story, yet neither one is marked at TGAT, pt. 1 or TGAT, pt. 2, as I've seen them do with other books that were split up over multiple volumes. |
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