The Current State of Fantasy: Does it Satisfy You?

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The Current State of Fantasy: Does it Satisfy You?

#41 polishgenius

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Posted 29 November 2006 - 11:22 PM

stone monkey;139609 said:

ps. How the hell do you people get to-read lists that hold 40+ books? If I buy 5 books on a Saturday afternoon, I've read them by Monday morning.

See, I could do that if I had the free time and inclination (I read a Clash of Kings in one sitting), but I have other things to do and prefer to take breaks between long bouts of reading.
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Posted 30 November 2006 - 04:31 AM

I'd say that there have been more then enough releases this year and we have a ton of good new authors out or coming about.

R. Scott Bakker
Scott Lynch
Daniel Abraham
Alan Campbell
Tom Lloyd
Joe Abercrombie
Brian Ruckley

Just to name a few. :mad:

#43 Whelp

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 09:45 AM

I am satisfied with the current state of affairs :mad:

#44 ChrisW

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 10:28 AM

er brood I tink you missed my point;)

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 11:23 AM

I'm not showng off. Trust me, my life would actually be somewhat cheaper if I read at a substantially slower pace. Have you any idea how annoying it is to shell out £20 on a book only to be done reading it a few hours later?

I also get a fair amount of time to read each day as my commute to work is an hour, each way.

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 12:00 PM

I started reading Erikson and Mieville this past year, and still like reading Tolkien and early Jordan, so I'm happy with the current state of fantasy.

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 02:22 PM

ChrisW;139862 said:

er brood I tink you missed my point;)

Not at all - we'd just all appreciate it if you slowed with the sarcasm. Besides, however accidentally, you did stumble on a widely held view.

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 02:23 PM

stone monkey;139867 said:

Have you any idea how annoying it is to shell out Â£20 on a book only to be done reading it a few hours later?

Yes. I do sympathise, to be fair, I buy books three at a time. Though I'm not sure I've ever spent Â£20 on one book.

But I reckon we're the unusual ones, not the guys who take a couple of days or weeks to a book.

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Posted 01 December 2006 - 05:00 AM

Maybe I'm still...excited about the fantasy genre because I haven't been reading as much lately, and still haven't read quite a few of the authors whose books I see lauded on here. Or else my mind just blocks out the bad fantasy that I've read. Or my standards aren't as high.

There's still authors writing whose series I'm looking forward to reading/finishing. Martin, Erikson, Jordan, Donaldson, Cook...

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Posted 01 December 2006 - 05:07 PM

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Have you any idea how annoying it is to shell out Â£20 on a book only to be done reading it a few hours later?

I wish I could read that fast. It takes me a month to read one volume of MBotF. Even at top speed, reading all day, it would take me a few days, and I would remember very little of it.

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Posted 01 December 2006 - 05:43 PM

It's handy if you absolutely have to read something in a hurry, but a major pain in the posterior if you don't as you run out of things to read in rather a hurry.

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Posted 02 December 2006 - 12:29 AM

Besides, however accidentally, you did stumble on a widely held view.

I rarely stumble cept when walking and there was nothing accidental about it otherwise it wouldn't work aswell:)

As for sarcasim, well I currently have little tolerance for fools even accidental ones and as i'm clearly a fool it's getting hard to tolerate myself so I'm venting. I'm trying to be a good boy and stay away from the WoT thread so ya gotta give me some credit;).

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Posted 08 December 2006 - 02:38 AM

Well, fantasy is going on just fine for me. Plenty of quality stuff out there, though its still outnumbered by the crap (that is to say, poo).

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Posted 10 December 2006 - 04:06 AM

Plenty of great stuff, still.

And, Stone Monkey: I know the pain and my advice is this- USED BOOK STORES.

They are my god. I just bought six books for 12 dollars.

When the money situation is tight, I go to the used bookstore for my entertainment. I don't buy many books of late from regular stores (damned prices are going up on books...) unless it's a new release. And I try to go every two weeks or so, at least, to the used book stores, 'cause their inventory is constantly shifting.

That and, if you have books that you bought and are like, "Meh, I'm not going to reread that"- sell'em back. I usually end up getting a book for every two I trade in. That gives me more shelf space and new books to read!

(I read far too much and fast. Of late I've slowed down, but not by much- I average 2 days for a book (as opposed to my record of a trilogy (400 pages a piece) in a day once upon a time)).

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Posted 10 December 2006 - 02:18 PM

ObsoleteResolve;143354 said:

(I read far too much and fast. Of late I've slowed down, but not by much- I average 2 days for a book (as opposed to my record of a trilogy (400 pages a piece) in a day once upon a time)).

I read LoTR in a day once when I was fourteen.

Â¬_Â¬

Admittedly I was struck down with flu at the time and was quite literally reading for the whole day. And it was the second time I'd read it. So it doesn't really count.

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Posted 13 November 2008 - 08:15 PM

Holy Thread Necromancy Batman!

Found this thread because I was looking for reviews of The Blade Itself by Abercrombie (I'm thinking of buying it)...

It's so interesting that the earliest posts in this thread predate so much exciting writing...

I mean think about how many books are coming out next year or in 2010: Bakker (The Judging Eye), Lynch (The Republic of Thieves), Rothfuss (The Wise Man's Fear), Sanderson (A Memory of Light), Esselmont (Stonewielder), Erikson (Dust of Dreams/ The Crippled God), Martin (A Dance with Dragons ?). Many young voices with a few old hands there at the end.

Makes for an exciting time to be a fan of fantasy IMHO.

Can any forum old timers think of a time when there were so many exciting writers on the near future publication schedules as opposed to one or two really writers (say a Jordan, Brooks, Martin, Eddings etc.)?

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Posted 23 November 2008 - 09:47 PM

Skywalker, on Nov 13 2008, 08:15 PM, said:

Agreed lots and lots of good stuff on the horizion. On Patrick Rothfuss' blog he also mentioned Ken Scholes and his book Lamentation. He says its gonna be a great series.

Oh and I thought The Blade Itself was bad ass.

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Posted 23 November 2008 - 10:14 PM

With a surname like that he can't help but be magic...

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Posted 24 November 2008 - 01:19 PM

I've read a LOT of fantasy (I have a bookshelf full of everything from Erikson to GRRM to Joe Abercrombie to Guy Gavriel Kay) and I have to say that the genre seems to be exploding right now.

It can be difficult to weed out the good stuff from the crud but I have "discovered" a lot of new authors lately: Scott Lynch, Patrick Rothfuss and the aforementioned Joe Abercrombie for starters. I think it's just a question of taste really...some other new authors just got on my nerves and I stopped reading their series after 1 book.

And to anyone who is hesitating over Joe Abercrombie's "Blade Itself"....buy it!