Malazan Empire: Top 100 something something.... - Malazan Empire

Jump to content

Help

2 Pages
←
1
2

You cannot start a new topic
You cannot reply to this topic

Top 100 something something....

#21 QuickTidal

Frog

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 21,339
Joined: 05-November 05
Location:Nowhere Specific
Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 23 May 2018 - 05:22 PM

Gladstone's first Craft sequence book is $3 on Kindle.

SOLD.

We shall find out if it's stamp-worthy soon!

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon

#22 polishgenius

Heart of Courage

Group: LHTEC
Posts: 5,213
Joined: 16-June 05

Posted 23 May 2018 - 05:24 PM

Just checking, that is Three Parts Dead, the actual first one, and not Last First Snow, the chronological first one, right?

Anyway, good stuff. Enjoy (I hope).

I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.

#23 QuickTidal

Frog

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 21,339
Joined: 05-November 05
Location:Nowhere Specific
Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 23 May 2018 - 05:34 PM

polishgenius, on 23 May 2018 - 05:24 PM, said:

Just checking, that is Three Parts Dead, the actual first one, and not Last First Snow, the chronological first one, right?

Anyway, good stuff. Enjoy (I hope).

Yep. I'll read them in publication order. I know there is a weirder Chronological one.

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon

#24 Tiste Simeon

Faith, Heavy Metal & Bacon

Group: Malaz Regular
Posts: 11,982
Joined: 08-October 04
Location:T'North

Posted 23 May 2018 - 07:09 PM

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 23 May 2018 - 01:00 PM, said:

On the one hand, I want to decry it because it includes Anne Rice, but at the same time have to applaud it including The Last Unicorn and Watership Down (wouldn't have necessarily said that was fantasy...) as they're two of my favourite books which I first read as a child and have continued to re-read and adore since.

And Brian Jacques' Redwall is a massive blast from the past - anyone else on here read those when younger?

I always find those lists sort of fun though. Never ceases to amaze me what they rate very highly that I couldn't stand, and what gets missed off.

Flipping Redwall!! Oh man I think I read every single one of them, most of them multiple times...

A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.

#25 Salt-Man Z

My pen halts, though I do not

Group: Malaz Regular
Posts: 4,160
Joined: 07-February 08
Location:Apple Valley, MN

Posted 23 May 2018 - 10:31 PM

QuickTidal, on 23 May 2018 - 05:34 PM, said:

Yep. I'll read them in publication order. I know there is a weirder Chronological one.

The chronological order is easy enough: it's right in the titles.

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch

#26 TheRetiredBridgeburner

House Knight

Group: Malaz Regular
Posts: 1,516
Joined: 28-March 13
Location:Deepest Darkest Yorkshire

Posted 24 May 2018 - 08:11 AM

Tiste Simeon, on 23 May 2018 - 07:09 PM, said:

Flipping Redwall!! Oh man I think I read every single one of them, most of them multiple times...

Me too! Been giggling to myself remembering the way the hares of The Long Patrol used to talk all evening!

- Wyrd bið ful aræd -

#27 Macros

D'ivers Fuckwits

Group: High House Mafia
Posts: 8,847
Joined: 28-January 08
Location:Ulster, disputed zone, British Empire.

Posted 24 May 2018 - 09:13 AM

I think publication order is better (personally) I feel they were put out in the order by design and allows for a better character introduction.
(Max Gladstone series)

2012
"Imperial Gothos, Imperial"

#28 Coco with marshmallows

DIIIIIIIIIIVVVEEEEE

Group: LHTEC
Posts: 2,115
Joined: 26-October 05

Posted 30 May 2018 - 10:14 PM

Macros, on 24 May 2018 - 09:13 AM, said:

I think publication order is better (personally) I feel they were put out in the order by design and allows for a better character introduction.
(Max Gladstone series)

I think publication order is almost always a better idea, regardless of chronology, as authors tend to change (usually improve) over time.

About the only one i can think of that i'd recommend chronological > publishing is maybe Sharpe by Bernard Cornwell, though even then there's some notable changes (particularly to Sharpe's personal history to make him more like Sean Bean - i'm not even joking)

meh. Link was dead :(

#29 Tatterdemalion

I sneeze warrens.

Group: Malaz Regular
Posts: 461
Joined: 03-December 09
Location:Toronto, Canada
Interests:Fantasy, cartography, creativity, finding a readership before I'm cast aside by history, roti.
Currently working on my Imbalance series.
Web: joelminty.com
Twitter: @JoelMinty