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Abyss, on 18 November 2010 - 03:36 PM, said:
Gothos, on 18 November 2010 - 12:13 PM, said:
...Though from what I hear and see, translations hardly do the books justice. You just have to know the original language, more so than you think. It's why I read Erikson in english.
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Back on the original point more or less, does anyone have a favoruite book that was de-throned by something else? Mine was STORM OF SWORDS before i read DEADHOUSE GATES, then MoI pushed it to third.
'absolute best' is tricky because what was best at one point in time can change with the reader and what they read. THE HOBBIT still holds a special place in my bloodpumpy parts, but it's far from 'best'.
- Abyss, sees your thread necro and raise you a thread drift...
This is so funny. The progression of ASOS, getting trumped by DG, getting trumped by MOI...is exactly the same I would say of me....only add THE EAGLE'S BROOD by Jack Whyte before ASOS for the one that was trumped by that one.
I still get warm fuzzies from AGOT though, but ASOS always won out for sheer craziness and war.
I think that for me, in my top three best ever I'd have to have a tie for one of the spots between CURSOR'S FURY and PRINCEP'S FURY by Jim Butcher just because both are so unbelievably awesome in completely different ways. The other two spots are certainly MOI and DG, and ASOS has to hang around there too....this is hard man.....but if I was allowed to include a non-fantasy book then Carlos Ruiz Zafon's SHADOW OF THE WIND is definitely on there too.
