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⌈ Secret Post #3550 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[(Anonymous)]

So on a whim, I checked out a book from the library by R.A. Salvatore, I thought the name sounded familiar, and I haven't read any of his/her stuff. It's called Archmage (Book 1), and... like fifteen pages in, I gave up. I have no fucking idea what's going on, every other word is a made up fantasy word. What is going onnnn I can't do this.

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[(Anonymous)]

RA Salvorate is the dude who wrote all the Drizzt books. And also a bunch of other novels for Forgotten Realms and stuff. He is a terrible writer.

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[killaurey]

My teenage self would like to argue with you, but as an adult: I agree.

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[ketita]

He really is. I tried reading Drizzt not-as-a-young-teen, and holy shit it was bad.

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[nightscale]

+1

Like I loved them as a teenager but trying to read it as an adult? Eeehhh. Those books still have a special place in my heart but they aren't good, lol.

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, the back cover said this was about someone named Drizzt! Which I have no idea how to pronounce but whatever, I am guessing this is Dungeons and Dragons mythology. Even so, I seriously can't follow this. There's so much exposition with made up names - people, races, places, things, institutions, demonology, it's overload.

And I really wanted to read just a silly, simple, classic fantasy. :(

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[ketita]

For silly simple classic fantasy - have you read the Belgariad, by David Eddings?

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I would generally recommend him too, except the Elder Gods series. Althalus has a few Franchise Original Sins that Elder Gods - especially the last book - went overboard on (mainly the idea of time-travel being used to change history).

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[(Anonymous)]

lol, according to Wikipedia this is apparently a book that's, like, 10 or 15 books into The Drizzt Saga. no wonder you couldn't make sense of it! especially combined with Salvatore's bad writing and Dungeons and Dragons.

Have you read, like, Martha Wells at all? Patricia McKillip? Lois McMaster Bujold's fantasy stuff? Delia Sherman? I didn't read it yet, but AM Dellamonica wrote a book called Child of a Hidden Sea a couple years back that looks really good.

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[(Anonymous)]

Damn, it says "Book 1" on the cover. I need to learn not to be so trusting with fantasy series...

No, none of those people! I'll have a look if I can find them, thanks.

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

It's probably book 1 of trilogy that is only one part of the larger series. D&D novels, if not one-offs, tend to come in sets of three.

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[cbrachyrhynchos]

One of my long-standing frustrations with SFF is that everything is a series these days, which means you get a lot of volumes published that are neither story nor novel. They start with gibberish references to a previous volume, go nowhere, do nothing, and end with minimal development.

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[sarillia]

Try Diana Wynne Jones! I think she fits what you're looking for and I love her.

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[ketita]

Diana Wynne Jones is amazing.

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[(Anonymous)]

Barbara Hambly's fantasy novels age very well. (Lots of adventurey stuff, vivid, complex characters, interesting settings.)

Elizabeth Lynn is an old favourite, also.

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[fishnchips]

Every time I run into NPC Drizzt in Neverwinter online, I have to start laughing because of all the ridiculousness.

Re: Fantasy genre discussion!

[philstar22]

His stuff isn't good. I tried reading it, but I couldn't make it through and I can make it through most fantasy.