UH OH! editionPrevious: >>25612894>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Banned Authors:Ty JohnstonKarl WagnerStephen KristiansenDavid GemmelKazuo Ishiguro>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Thread Question:Do you ever go back and reread books from when you were younger?
Read darkstalker over three days.Got embarasingly floored from from what I guess can be called whiplash of not having anything in the way of expectations or maybe just expecting something more action adventure related rather then what I actually got which was a setting largely constrained to nobility court romance. (but they're all dragons)I then get slapped across the face by it also being this tightly executed tragedy romance novel where there's a rolling dread throughout for the reader to bite their lips for as Anakin nightchad over here threads the needle towards being a supervillain inspite of his lover and friend moving heaven and earth to avert exactly that.I think what made this part of story so successful is not so much the story of Darkstalker, but the plight of the three friends who try so hard to turn him from the path of evil. The fact that they are not successful makes it hit richer. (Uh spoiler for a prequel/villian origin story but the titular villian does in fact origin)Setting has certain fantasy-isms to let one know repeatedly that these whole dragon nations have depth that is unseen and trusted to not been needed for the story. It's a tight ship and doesn't have the pages to waste time or effort on going over vestigial information about ther dragon's world outside the limited look at three dragon kingdoms who actually matter at all for this story with the night and ice wings having their war and there being a scattering of seawing politics as well theough the first half since 1/3 of three pov's are of the seawing prince/friend to darkie.
>>25625618I just reread Mistborn. It's been a few years since I read it, but it was one of my first modern "adult" fantasy novels.I remembered it being better. With all the emdashes and "it's not x -- it's y" in the book, if it came out today I'd start a witch hunt. I guess this book was in the training data.For the book being 500 pages, the side characters feel simplistic and made of cardboard; everyone has only a couple defining desires. I'd forgotten all the side characters except Breeze, Sazed, and Kelsier.The plot itself is probably the best part, and it's what I remembered the most from before.
>>25625638We know, you already posted all of that.
>>25625638Out of all the books in the world, what made you decide to read Darkstalker?
>>25625665Just being obnoxious for you.>>25625668Goodreads actually because it bumped up a place to by hatever metrics they judge by to bethe 20th best fantasy book, which is yeah, that’s a borked system but again the thing did leave an impression.
The Magic Kingdom of Landover is good and I'm tired of pretending otherwise
PRAISE THE PROSE!!!
>>25625708Yev? Is that you?
Reading The Last Wish (Witcher). Not sure why my impression going in was that Geralt is an anti-hero because he's the most morally black and white character I've read in a while. He also seems to have zero agency in several of the stories, the plot just sorta happens to him and then something solves the central conflict and he moves on.Idk it's been fine so far but I'm probably not going to read the next book.
>>25625795No, I don't have any interest in reading that. I do need to be reading more though. Due to life events, playing games, and other priorities, I only read a single book this month. The games were Alan Wake II and Gnosia. Next I'll be reading The Anguished Earth. It's only a novella so I could finish and write about it today, but I don't feel like. Tomorrow I will.
>>25625825Good, at least you don't read scaleshit.
>>25625618>Do you ever go back and reread books from when you were younger?Yeah, I bought the Delatora Quest books and loved the reread, though I don't remember the books being so short.
>>25625618>Do you ever go back and reread books from when you were younger?I haven't. I read slop like Ranger's Apprentice and The Last Apprentice in my elementary years. I think the "best" book I read as a child was The Thief Lord.
>>25625759 Mashallah
>>25625618Why is it always Science Fiction "AND" Fantasy? We all know these two genres are not equal. I hate that they are completely grouped together as if they have anything to do with one another.
Judt finished The Stars My Destination. Amazing book, I wish I had read it when I was young.
People have been ripping off lord Dunsany stories for 100 years and never giving him his due credit.
>>25625920Provide your personal brief definition of both.
>>25625920>why are the future and past lumped together???gee i wonder
>>25625920Yea, science fiction is way less popular and mooches off of Fantasy to keep the thread alive. There's been like half a dozen separate attempts to split up the general and create a science fiction general by uppity twerps like you, and you always come crawling back here because you can't even last a week without fantasy chads to bump for you.
>>25625618>Do you ever go back and reread books from when you were younger?I did that years ago, went through my old book collection and reread stuff from when I was in school: Redwall, His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, the Hobbit, and the Riftwar Saga. Some of it held up, some of it didn't.
I want to like this since I liked the anime but it's written in a really annoying manner.
Haven't read a page in a day or two
>Do you ever go back and reread books from when you were younger?It was so long ago I've forgotten a lot of it. Borrowed a lot of stuff from libraries too. Next year I'm focusing on re-reading stuff that I read 10-20 years ago in my collection.
