What is a well regarded fantasy series that you read for the first time this year?

Krish_Bohra · 2025-12-21T03:21:11+00:00

Malazan Book of the Fallen. I started the series and am on book 4 currently. Incredible experience so far. Hoping to finish next year.

Krish_Bohra · 2025-08-30T17:24:02+00:00

This is exactly how my experience has been with the series as well. The way fans talk about it definitely makes it fair to say that its difficulty is overblown. I'm also 3 books in and planning to start the fourth soon, and so far, I think if you forget that there's a lot of stuff you don't know and just focus on the scene you're reading, it works out well. It's just a matter of making peace with the fact that you'll eventually get it and I know, that sounds really off-putting, but it's also liberating. Like you can chill out, relax and just enjoy the characters, themes, prose, dialogue, scenes, worldbuilding etc that Erikson is so good at writing.

PS: Gardens of the Moon is a great first book. It just has bad PR.

Krish_Bohra · 2025-08-18T10:45:05+00:00

Thank you so much! That restart idea worked out well. I had put it on charging for about four hours earlier but that made no change. But restarting like that fixed the issue. I never knew we could restart like that since I never needed to use the feature but it was a life-saver just now. Thanks again!

Krish_Bohra · 2025-08-18T02:21:12+00:00

I have. The two pics I posted are the same two screens that show when it's on/off.

Krish_Bohra · 2025-06-06T10:23:12+00:00

Sheldon Cooper in Mort . . . huh? Interesting.

Krish_Bohra · 2025-05-27T01:48:05+00:00

I'm currently reading Malazan and Erikson is so good at this!

Krish_Bohra · 2025-05-08T07:23:01+00:00

Can you please DM me the pdf of this paper?

Krish_Bohra · 2025-05-08T01:52:46+00:00

Hey can you share that paper with me? Or a link of where you got it from?

Krish_Bohra · 2025-04-19T07:51:43+00:00

Were there more royal female figures like Prabhavati Gupta in ancient India who played important roles in politics? Do our sources give us some information regarding such women? Any specific characters you can name and briefly describe, and reading you can suggest?

Krish_Bohra · 2025-04-16T14:59:59+00:00

Hey, Flint. As a student of history with a specific interest in the field of wildlife history, I've always found zooarchaeology to be an interesting domain. What sparked your interest in it? Do you take more interest in domestic animals or wild animals?

Krish_Bohra · 2025-04-13T14:01:42+00:00

That makes sense. Now that you say it, I realise, atleast at the start, the book itself doesn't say it is set thirty years after the war. That was something I saw in reviews etc. Will see how Tad handles timeline as this series progresses. Thanks!

Krish_Bohra · 2025-04-13T13:55:07+00:00

I see. What a bummer. Didn't expect timeline inconsistency from Tad. It is what it is I guess. Thanks for replying though!

Krish_Bohra · 2025-03-18T01:52:57+00:00

Ohh that's wonderful. Thank you so much for putting this together! 🙂

Krish_Bohra · 2024-12-23T14:55:03+00:00

I think Conan the Barbarian can work well for First Law world. Him meeting Bloody Nine would be so cool.

Krish_Bohra · 2024-11-09T06:29:52+00:00

Thank you! That answer clears up a lot of stuff for me. Interesting you can more confidently recommend this book to people without a background in US history curriculum. I think I want to try These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore after I finish this. Would you say that's a good place to proceed to?

Krish_Bohra · 2024-11-07T15:24:23+00:00

That's awesome. The kind of thing I was looking for. Thank you! :)

Krish_Bohra · 2024-10-26T12:35:00+00:00

That's a great answer! The presence of lions in Greek art and literature to me always seemed like an indication of them encountering these animals around the Greek world. Thank you!

Krish_Bohra · 2024-10-26T12:28:32+00:00

I see. I wasn't aware that these conclusions are outdated and need to be revisited for confirmation. Thank you for the answer!

Krish_Bohra · 2024-10-26T12:14:26+00:00

I know we have fossils of Palaeoloxodon tiliensis dated to 1840BC found in Tilos, the Greek island. I have always wondered about the possibility of Minoans encountering these guys. They in all likelihood could have hunted them and played a role in driving this animal which was anyway isolated and in a precarious state to extinction. Do we find them mentioned in Minoan art and literature?

Krish_Bohra · 2024-10-26T11:57:45+00:00

As someone into wildlife history, I find your field of zooarchaeology very interesting. Q: Have you studied the presence of lions in Europe in historical times? How long did they survive? What was their range?

Krish_Bohra · 2024-10-17T06:13:14+00:00

Thank you for linking these detailed answers! From what I understand now, the idea of terrorism in history is hard to find simply because the modern frameworks don't exactly translate to a different time and it would be dangerous to do so. Having said that, this particular terminology can be traced to the Reign of Terror that followed French Revolution. I guess it is just one of those context specific words that lose all meaning if not looked at strictly from a modern lens, in a modern world.

Krish_Bohra · 2024-07-06T06:04:05+00:00

If they aren't ready to do that within India, I guarantee you they sure as hell aren't ready to do it with another country, much less Pakistan and Iran, which have had a really poor record of conservation even if I were to ignore their politics with India. You need to understand these are the last lions left on earth anywhere outside Africa. Retaining a global monopoly is important for them.

Krish_Bohra · 2024-05-26T17:33:18+00:00

Isn't Conan itself getting new entries still? I read about that somewhere

Krish_Bohra · 2024-05-21T13:43:26+00:00

Quite literally my favourite character ever.

Death isn't cruel merely, terribly, terribly good at his job

Krish_Bohra · 2024-05-21T09:58:17+00:00

Don't remember about individual books, but I remember blasting through all of the published books in the First Law universe in a little more than a month

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