dragonlance is a guilty pleasure
its entertaining but its cheesy
ice and fire is just gdlk. ridiculously gdlk. RED WEDDING BITCHES
Martin better step it up in Dance, after the mediocrity that was all of my least favorite POVs + new ones that made my most hated look great cough Cersei, Brienne cough.
The only redeemable chapters were Jaimeās.
It seems that with Crows, Martin indulged the very worst of his fanbase by making their fan fic canon.
Mayhaps the utmost misanthropic basement dwellers who read Martin truly enjoyed his detailed account of a grotesquely obese youth getting it on with a new mother, whilst indulging in her breast milk.
Maybe they even fapped to it.
But I sure as fuck didnāt need to read about it.
āJaime Lannister sends his regardsā
that scene, dude. omg. no chapter in any book iāve ever read has astonished and thrown me for such a loop as the red wedding. although āoff with his headā in AGOT was close
the new motto of house stark: we suck at the game of thrones! :looney:
Nah.
Jon will seriously fuck a body up - heās learned how to play the game.
And heās got the battlefield genius of his father and brother.
Heās pretty well set.
Bran is smart and only getting wiser.
Arya? Miss āIāll convince the dude to lean over so I can slit his throat more easilyā, Arya?
And Sansa is a pillow strangler waiting to happen.
Sansa scares me.
Trained by Littlefinger, but with good looks and a pussy - and all the social power those tools can bring.
Sheās pathology waiting to happen.
really? i just finished the first two books, bout to finish 3rd, have not read 4th. youāre not the first person to say it sux0rs. thatās too bad.
but the first 3 books are so gdlk it dont matter.
eddard gets pwned. catelyn gets pwned. robb gets pwned. the NPCs like maester luwin all get pwned. shits serious. everybody gets shot. this author is not afraid to kill off his characters. keeps u on your toes. WHOSE GONNA DIE NEXT?
and the best thing is, the characters all die horrific deaths. in dragonlance, the heroes usually die heroically. like sturm buying time for lauranna. but the red wedding? aint nothin heroic bout that it was a MASSACRE
The first two were great.
The third was a veritable masterwork.
The fourth left one struggling to finish it, all the while wondering if Martin had pulled a Jordan early and Crows was a āGhostā (pun intended) effort.
Iāve been reading Ice and Fire for sometime now, and itās hard for me to keep up the enthusiasm about it. I havenāt even read the last book since I wanted to wait until the next one came out to read them both together. And iām sick and tired of authors milking something good (R.Jordan and Wheel of Time series anyone?)
Anywho, iāve added The Legend of Drizzt Series to the queue. There are about 12 books out I believe, w/ good reviews.
Four was the weaker of the series, but thatās just because Storm of Swords is such a hard act to follow
Speaking of which. I saw this one Dungeon Magazine or Dragon Magazine, I forget which one, but it has a realm where there is an Inn that connects all the D&D worlds together. So potentially you could have Raistlin visit the Forgotten Realm world, etcā¦
The Soulforge is the best Non-Core Dragonlance book, with Legend of Huma coming in second.
George R.R. Martinās books are amazing. Tyrion is so boss.
what about Book II (Brothers in Arms)
Garbage.
I also thought The Doom Brigade was a great book. It gives you some insight from the Draconian viewpoint. But my all time favorite DL book hands down, is The Soulforge, followed by Summer Flame.
To the Deathgate cycle people:
Itās so badā¦ Iāve had all 7 pristine copies of the Deathgate cycle books sitting on my shelf for almost 8 years now and I havenāt even opened them. Is the series as good as people say? (I already know the answer to thisā¦ I should just stop being lazy) Iāll get around to reading them somedayā¦ Iāve read about 40 Dragonlance books though =/
Indeed.
Also, the Dark Sun books were surprisingly good. I believe all of them were written by Troy Denning.
I loved the seasons set of books, but once it got into the series about Caramon/Raistlin, it just feltā¦ soā¦ self insert.
IāM COMPLETELY FEEBLE AND HATE EVERYONE BUT I AM THE MOST POWERFUL AND WILL BECOME A GOD AND BLAH BLAH BLAH NOT TO MENTION THE HOTTEST CHICK IN THE BOOK LOVES ME FOR SOME REASON EVEN THOUGH IāM PROBABLY INCAPABLE OF ACHIEVING ERECTIONS HELL YES.
Once I finished the āof Twinsā set, I kinda stopped reading. Anything awesome Iām missing? Iāve been told āNot really, shark jumped, etc.ā when Paladine kicked the bucket.
Talk about milking something good. Salvatore does that with his famous dark elf quite a bit. Homeland is really good though.
Iām currently reading Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (the author who is completing Wheel of Time) and it is exceptionally good. I recommend you all to pick it up.
No one reading fantasy books here at SRK?
A friend of mine read The DL series I always and still read Forgotten Realms. Check out the Erevis Cale trilogy.
i liked dragonlance.
sturm went out like a G.
stopped reading around the introduction of the knights of takhisisā¦ thought that was a stupid idea.
raistlin and crysania were pretty nice romance i think. for me who was sort of an isolated youth in terms of my social attitude sometimes, it was nice to see someone like raistlin get someone who truly loved him.
thatās one hell of a thread necro.
always loved the DL series, too bad the movie sucked ass.