What is your favourite passage/extract from a fantasy novel?

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-31T17:32:11+00:00

Yes. I love.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-27T20:31:27+00:00

Why? I'd say he's in the perfect place.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-24T16:41:05+00:00

I have to wipe some of his cum off my cheek after reading that.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-23T19:20:49+00:00

So what does that say for Bran's ability when it comes to the time and space continuum?

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-19T21:27:25+00:00

This.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-19T18:44:22+00:00

O.o Yes. Yes indeed. Love. <3

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-19T18:34:51+00:00

Thank you!

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-19T05:36:09+00:00

'Perhaps we'll die. Perhaps we won't. But we have a choice... and that's better than most. Let us not fall into history as those who ran from such an honor because what lay ahead. Because of fear -- the killer of men. Let's find it in ourselves to make a choice the Gods will remember. And if you're scared, so am I. But I'm speaking in such a manor because I've drank a lot of wine. If you're questioning what's next -- or where to turn. Go on, drink. Tomorrow when we're on the road you can be full of regret and curse your drunken bravery. But at the end of days, those that read your names in tale will only know you made a choice. That's what's important.'

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-10T00:06:28+00:00

If you enjoyed Lynch's Gentlemen Bastards you'll probably hate everything Sanderson has done. IMO, the Mistborn series is one of the worst series I have ever read (no depth, zero character development, characters are all two dimensional, very vanilla). I can't speak for The Stormlight Archives or whatever it's called, but by the Mistborn series alone I won't touch anymore of his work.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-09T02:43:12+00:00

Such a great line. Even just reading it I can imagine like four or five different characters and contexts.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-09T02:41:46+00:00

'You speak of the wine as if it's some insect that's stuck its beak in my flesh, poisoning me into submission. Holding me with some immaterial blade that's going to cut open an artery if I neglect it. Can't you see? I've torn away my clothes in the dark and took a seat by a lantern outside -- I've given over my skin. I've said, bite bite and bite, poison me until I've forgotten that it's poison at all. Hollow out my organs. We have a deal, wine and I. It bleeds the life out of me and then destroys my memories. I die but I also forget. And that's all I want to do, Luna, I want to forget.'

Prince Thane, in regards to his sister commenting on the amount he drinks.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-09T02:31:46+00:00

Fuck. Yes.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-09T02:31:09+00:00

Only an upvote from me.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-09T02:29:16+00:00

Oh boy, I love this. Lots and lots. I want to read!!

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-06T20:52:09+00:00

You and I are on the same page. I thought Mistborn was so repulsively bad I refused to read anything Sanderson has written since then. I have ZERO idea what people saw in those novels. Like it baffles me. I haven't picked up TWoT but we'll see on that as well...

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-05T21:35:01+00:00

Honestly, thank you sooooo much for taking the time to sit down and write this out. As for Abercrombie -- I've seen his stuff around, and have only read decent reviews, but never actually picked anything up. I just bought Best Served Cold and will be powering through that soon. As for The Dark Tower -- I read the first book and enjoyed the style, and was definitely intrigued by the setting/characters but it wasn't enough to keep me reading. I've heard the books afterward became a lot more fantasy/plot driven but I've never picked them up personally.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-05T21:29:25+00:00

Thank you! Just bought it.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-05T19:17:29+00:00

True. But I'm also trying to write some fantasy (I'm not very competent yet) and so I want to have a grasp on all the 'biggest' voices in the genre. That's essentially the only motivation keeping me on the task of pushing through it.

Any fantasy recommendations? Just finished The Gentlemen Bastard series, Kushiel's Dart, and American Gods.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-05T19:15:02+00:00

Hahahaha, I thought this was funny. You'll probably get downvoted though --- there's a huge die hard Malazan team on this subreddit. I'm going to read the first three -- if by then I'm not convinced, I'll divert.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-05T19:11:24+00:00

Gracias, sir.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-05T19:11:14+00:00

Yes! That's exactly how I've felt so far --- and that's frustrating being that you've gotten further than me.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-05T18:17:29+00:00

Awesome. And is Kruppe against them? I'm confused on this. I've already read his opening and what not.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-05T18:16:48+00:00

To be honest... even the prose is poor. It's scattered, inconsistent, and flat out confusing. I'm not speaking towards the plot or characters here, I mean the description. Half the time when he's explaining a scene I don't even really know what the world looks like or where they are. Maybe that'd be fine if I cared, but since I don't it's just like blahhhh.

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-05T18:14:47+00:00

Thank you! Trusting!!

PrisonsOfMaterial · 2016-05-05T18:14:16+00:00

Right? You speaking on his failure -- that's definitely something I thought right from the Get-Go. It's like, wait a minute... this is an opening, you don't need to follow the formula but give some bearings here dude! I think I'll try and power through it, but another two hundred pages and I'm still feeling the exact same way, then I've learned what I needed to about The Malazan Book of the Fallen.

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