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Addison

Addison

Dark Lord
Mythopoet said:
I'm just curious, because I'm a huge fan of LOTR and I have read the synopsis of Six of Crows and it didn't appeal to me at all, what is it about the book that makes you think fans of LOTR would like it too? From the synopsis it seems to me like it would be difficult to find two more different fantasy novels. I am simply wondering because I always find it fascinating how different people react to books in different ways. :)
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True, different readers attribute different parts of LotR or other stories to new stories. Where I draw the connection is the epic journey and life-risking task they've set themselves on. Add that it takes place in such a remarkable, beautiful, intricately created world, then definitely LotR.

I don't know if you're aware, but "Six of Crows" is a story happening in a world set in a previous trilogy. "The Grisha Trilogy". The plots of those stories could tie a little closer to a LotR theme than Six of Crows. Like I said, "Six of Crows" reminds me of Leverage. Seriously, Kaz- Nathan, Inej-Parker, Matthias-Eliot, Nina- Sophie, Wylan- Hardison. Add the whit and the intricate details of their plans, oh heck yeah.
 
DragonOfTheAerie

DragonOfTheAerie

Istari
Addison said:
True, different readers attribute different parts of LotR or other stories to new stories. Where I draw the connection is the epic journey and life-risking task they've set themselves on. Add that it takes place in such a remarkable, beautiful, intricately created world, then definitely LotR.

I don't know if you're aware, but "Six of Crows" is a story happening in a world set in a previous trilogy. "The Grisha Trilogy". The plots of those stories could tie a little closer to a LotR theme than Six of Crows. Like I said, "Six of Crows" reminds me of Leverage. Seriously, Kaz- Nathan, Inej-Parker, Matthias-Eliot, Nina- Sophie, Wylan- Hardison. Add the whit and the intricate details of their plans, oh heck yeah.
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Oh, the worldbuilding is intricate. I found the settings delightfully vivid.

I love this book, everyone read it PLEASE.
 
Russ

Russ

Dark Lord
Just finished Mississippi Blood, the third book in Ilses' Natchez Burning trilogy.

From what I can tell this trilogy will be a permanent landmark in the thriller genre as well as an amazing look at both the south and race relations in the United States.

Fantastic work, cannot praise it enough. Might be the best non-spec fiction I have read in 20 years, other than my wife's debut novel!
 
Mythopoet

Mythopoet

Dark Lord
DragonOfTheAerie said:
I FINALLY finished the Two Towers.

LOTR IS SO AMAZING I know people are obsessed with it but like why are they not MORE obsessed???
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You're clearly just not hanging out around the right people. ;) But tbh around places like this I try not to talk about it too much so as not to annoy people. Otherwise every conversation about books and stories and writing would definitely lead to LOTR and Tolkien for me. lol
 
Insolent Lad

Insolent Lad

Master
I'm rereading Kipling's 'Kim' and his writing is so gorgeous it makes me embarrassed to call myself an 'author' in comparison. The opening pages are a textbook on combining story and description. No laundry lists for Rudyard! But the story...well, kind of flat.
 
TheCrystallineEntity

TheCrystallineEntity

Dark Lord
I just finished reading Seraphina again. I felt like the main couple didn't have enough chemistry. If anything, Phina has more chemistry with her uncle than her lover.
 
Banten

Banten

Shadow Lord
I haven't read fiction this entire year, but I did just finish John Dickie's "Blood Brotherhoods: the Rise of the Italian Mafias." Now onto "the 5 Families" by Selwyn Raab.

Lots of research on organized crime.
 
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DragonOfTheAerie

DragonOfTheAerie

Istari
TheCrystallineEntity said:
I just finished reading Seraphina again. I felt like the main couple didn't have enough chemistry. If anything, Phina has more chemistry with her uncle than her lover.
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I've read that, but it's been a while. I remember the story being kind of slow, but I remember liking it. I don't remember about the romantic subplot, but that was back when I hadn't read many books with romantic subplots. (I still don't, really...)
 
La Volpe

La Volpe

Mystagogue
Rkcapps said:
I'm trying something different ... "Fight Club".
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At risk of talking about Fight Club even more (but then again, the whole premise of that (those?) rule(s) is faulty, since the group couldn't have grown if no one had talked about it; but I digress):

I watched the movie and later read the book, and I found the movie better. It's one of only two stories (of which I'd read the book and watched the movie) where the movie was better for me. The other one is Jumper. Interestingly, in both of these cases, I had watched the movie first, so that might have created a bias.
 
Mythopoet

Mythopoet

Dark Lord
I've been in a mood the last couple weeks where I can't read just one book. So, depending on how I feel, I've been switching back and forth between the umpteenth reread of Dune and The Lord of the Rings, the novel Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini and a Sherlock Holmes pastiche called Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula (which is in a volume with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes).

Scaramouche is.... interesting. I feel that, though I'm at the 21% mark and the main character has already witnessed his best friend's death, helped to spark the French Revolution and is now on the run from the law, the story is only just getting started.

The Holmes vs. Dracula story is ok. But whoever wrote this certainly doesn't have the writing chops or the mystery chops to compare with Doyle.
 
C. A. Stanley

C. A. Stanley

Master
I'm currently reading Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel, after reading Sleeping Giants for the second time this year. Has anyone else read these books? The format is very different... it's written in interviews and mission logs. I've never read anything in this style before, but it's done so well, and I'm loving how pretty much the whole story is told through dialogue (perfect for unobtrusive info dumps!)
 
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