i finished my first ever fantasy novel yesterday by author david gemmell, the ending was anti climatic, but all in all it was a fair initiation to the fantasy world.
i'm not an avid reader but when i do pick up a book it's usually one from the contemporary variety, but these past several days reading legend it felt refreshing like cool mountain air. perhaps it's been a welcomed change in my stale routine.
it's a phase, i know it, but the phase is still fresh so the second book has been decidedly picked up.
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Sometimes when you think you have a problem you read about people who are less fortunate than yourself in this world. The relativity of it all reminds you of a different perspective you've forgotten to use and when used, it feels as though a load's been taken off your shoulders, less burdened, less "glass is half empty" when facing the hurdle ahead of you, which now, has been trivialised by that forgotten perspective.
7 comments:
David Gemmell is an AWESOME writer. Some of his stuff is really violent :) and his heroes go around bashing people and chopping off their limbs. Not all his books are created equal. Ghost King was good.
Another rather nice book would be The Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori 1 by Lian Hearn. Different sort of fantasy style, but still good. It's let down by the sequels though.
Try Magician by Raymod E.Feist. It was in that top 100 books list recently. I liked it.
Chip
After a while Gemmel's books become the same: unknown and unsure hero battles out against the hordes and finds he is some long lost king in the process :)
Still, very enjoyable stuff. You can borrow some Gemmel books off me if you want to.
Janny Wurts is a good writer, in the sense that there is not as much the simple good vs evil, but just antagonists against each other. There are bits where it's a bit slow though!
Dude, Gemell is for teeniboppers and D&D nerds.
I'll lend you Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. That will fark with your mind, I promise.
Muddy.
ooh, and JookBoy is right... Janny Wurt's stuff is very good if you're sick of the good vs evil stuff.
Or try Stephen Donaldson for some evil vs slightly less evil stories.
Muddy
give me awhile on mr gemmell's books, so far so good, let me borrow some of that other stuff in a couple of months.
ahhh hardcore!
i'm half way through reading a third gemmell book 'quest for lost heroes' - feels like a let down already, but maybe it'll pick up in the second half.
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