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<blockquote data-quote="bavelb" data-source="post: 78597" data-attributes="member: 358"><p>Not only parody of fantasy, but a parody on postmodernism, popculture, movies, fairytales and whatnot. They are awesome. I have read 90% of them, and the rest are on my shelf to read. Such a shame that he is suffering from slow onset Alzheimers.</p><p></p><p>My current readinglist contains:</p><p></p><p><strong>Steven Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen part 6- The Bonehunters</strong></p><p>(part 7,8,9 and 10 are on the shelf). Great high fantasy stuff but SOOO complex with its intrigues, magic system, races, timelines, languages.</p><p></p><p><strong>George RR Martin - Song of Ice and Fire part 4 - A Feast for Crows </strong></p><p>(been reading this from way before Game of Thrones was a thing, but I took a break halfway to start the Malazan series). A dance with dragons is on the shelf as well.</p><p></p><p><strong>Terry Pratchett - All the Tiffany Aching books, Thud! Snuff, and Unseen Academicals </strong></p><p>All are on the longlist, but I somehow keep rereading the older books. Especially the Watch-series within Discworld are a favourite.</p><p></p><p>As you can see I only read (quality) Fantasy <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />, and stacked up, my backlog of books is about 40 inches high <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>Which brings me to:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Wheel of time got longwinded, predictable and ****ing dumb (all in my opinion of course) after around book 7(or 8....9 god I can't remember). By then it had the pacing of a daytime soapopera, was more mesogynistic than a Lil'Wayne song. The first 3 books were awesome though, the premise (although book 1 was a carbon copy of LOTR book 1) surrounding the magic system between males and females very interesting. </p><p></p><p>Although I heard that when the new guy took over, the pacing picked up again. So maybe I should summary-plot the first 11 books again and pick up from number 12.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Meh, once you are familiar with general fantasy pacing, you learn how to not focus on the main Quest and enjoy all the sidequests that are being told in different books. SoIaF has a slow moving main plot (actually, what IS the main plot? The fight for the throne, or the "Winter that is coming" from the North (ie: the Wights)?. But goddamn if not a lot of small incredible subplots happen (as anyone who saw this weeks GoT episode must have noticed). WoT just slowed than to a crawl all around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bavelb, post: 78597, member: 358"] Not only parody of fantasy, but a parody on postmodernism, popculture, movies, fairytales and whatnot. They are awesome. I have read 90% of them, and the rest are on my shelf to read. Such a shame that he is suffering from slow onset Alzheimers. My current readinglist contains: [B]Steven Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen part 6- The Bonehunters[/B] (part 7,8,9 and 10 are on the shelf). Great high fantasy stuff but SOOO complex with its intrigues, magic system, races, timelines, languages. [B]George RR Martin - Song of Ice and Fire part 4 - A Feast for Crows [/B] (been reading this from way before Game of Thrones was a thing, but I took a break halfway to start the Malazan series). A dance with dragons is on the shelf as well. [B]Terry Pratchett - All the Tiffany Aching books, Thud! Snuff, and Unseen Academicals [/B] All are on the longlist, but I somehow keep rereading the older books. Especially the Watch-series within Discworld are a favourite. As you can see I only read (quality) Fantasy :), and stacked up, my backlog of books is about 40 inches high :) Which brings me to: Wheel of time got longwinded, predictable and ****ing dumb (all in my opinion of course) after around book 7(or 8....9 god I can't remember). By then it had the pacing of a daytime soapopera, was more mesogynistic than a Lil'Wayne song. The first 3 books were awesome though, the premise (although book 1 was a carbon copy of LOTR book 1) surrounding the magic system between males and females very interesting. Although I heard that when the new guy took over, the pacing picked up again. So maybe I should summary-plot the first 11 books again and pick up from number 12. Meh, once you are familiar with general fantasy pacing, you learn how to not focus on the main Quest and enjoy all the sidequests that are being told in different books. SoIaF has a slow moving main plot (actually, what IS the main plot? The fight for the throne, or the "Winter that is coming" from the North (ie: the Wights)?. But goddamn if not a lot of small incredible subplots happen (as anyone who saw this weeks GoT episode must have noticed). WoT just slowed than to a crawl all around. [/QUOTE]
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