Actor, writer and singer-songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda has confirmed he is no longer attached to the long-gestating attempt to bring Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicle to the screen.
Interest in the property began back in 2007, when *The Name of the Wind* was published to a rapturous reception and very high sales. It intensified in 2011, when the sequel *The Wise Man’s Fear* was published.
In 2015, Rothfuss reached a wide-ranging and high-value deal with production company Lionsgate that included a feature film trilogy based directly on the novels, as well as a TV show which would act as a prequel and focus on Kvothe’s parents. The following year it was confirmed that Miranda, the nuclear-hot creator of hit stage musical Hamilton, was working on the project as a songwriter for both the films and the TV series, whilst Lindsey Beer was working on the script for the first movie, based on The Name of the Wind.
In 2017, things really got moving when Showtime …
Sarcastic, not serious, but grain of truth fantasy recommendations of popular fantasy books.
The Broken Earth: recommended if you haven’t been hit by a full barrage of fantasy jargon in a while and you miss that sensation. You prefer your fantasy worlds on the brink of destruction at all times.
Stormlight Archive: recommended if you think fantasy should be like science, world-building should be deep and editing your books for prose is more like a guideline than an actual rule.
Throne of Glass: recommended if you like Cinderella, and also if you have absolutely no idea what assasins actually do.
The Name of the Wind: recommended if you like teenage boy wishfullfillment tropes but you need something more high brow, like good prose, to tell people when they ask you why you like this book.
The Lord of the Rings: recommended if you want an epic adventure fantasy where you don’t ever have to wonder what the landscape the characters trudge through looks like because every …
Even if the rest of the book goes way, way south, I just want to crack open a page and be absolutely propelled into the rest of the book (or at least, to chapter 2).
EDIT: Also this doesn’t necessarily have to mean throwing me into a bunch of action.
Helm’s Deep springs to mind.
Any other good examples? #topical
Anyone else annoyed at this new trend of fantasy novellas being published for the same price as a full length novel? I’m a pretty dedicated dead-tree reader and I like to either buy new or used (my library is pretty pants where I live so there aren’t great alternatives). There are a lot of intriguing fantasy and scifi novellas coming out these days like the Murderbot books but they are so expensive! I’m not going to pay the same for 130 pages of book as I would for 400 pages. Am I just a middle aged grump waving my cane at the damn kids in the yard or does anyone else find this extortionate?
So, I’m a mystery/thriller guy. I like my crime stories, with cops and serial killers and races against clocks. I’m browsing my local book joint, and I spot this book called Nightfall.
“Okay,” I thought to myself. “Cool name.”
I read the blurb, blah blah BAU Agent racing to find serial killer before he releases a virus. Ambitious jump, but sounds fun. Has a female protagonist, we need more of that in this mostly male-led genre. Female author, which also means there probably isn’t a paragraph dedicated to deceased victim’s corpse titties.
Book dudes, I tried. Despite the good reviews, it just felt kinda… basic? And not like, in the cookie cutter way you’d watch a procedural crime show. Like, the author had the topic thought up and said “good enough.”
Like, the cult was called The Circle, they followed The Book, and to get out you… just say you want out. That’s it. Now call me skeptical, but I think …
This is probably one of the more common problems us book readers have. When we love books and buy a lot, yet we don’t have the time or energy to read them because life is so busy.
If it were possible, I would just want to spend most of my days being able to read books. That would be awesome for me. But of course, that’s not reality. We have work, school, responsibilities and obligations. Bills to pay. It’s tough.
Thankfully I only buy books secondhand. I don’t buy new. I usually go to used bookstores in my area, Goodwill, and sometimes the mini shops in local libraries. I also use Thriftbooks.com. I could get about 11 books for the price of 1 new hardcover.
How do you all feel about this? Is it something that makes you yearn to just drop everything and read?
EDIT: I should also mention that I will probably have to buy another bookshelf because my other ones are getting full. LOL.
I don’t even know where to start, she’s just too cool! She’s so different and that’s what’s so cool about her. From reading the chapter titled after her in OOTP to the very end of the books, the way she’s described from her hair, to her Butterbeer necklace to what she’s doing, even the house she lives in etc, instantly made me wanted to be friends with her. I don’t even know why she gets so much hate from people in her school, she has so much personality and she comes in so clutch at the end of the books(Deathly Hallows) Evanna Lynch nailed her role so well, everytime i see her face, i instantly don’t even see her as Evanna, i just see her as Luna , she literally is a real life Luna! the casting for her was so well done!
(just had to write this out! one of my favourite characters in the Harry Potter books/movies alongside Ron and Dumbledore!)
Edit: Just finished work and my goodness the amount of upvotes/comments i had is overwhelming to say the least. Was not expecting this at all …
I recently graduated university and at this point haven’t had to read fiction for a class in over 2 years but I still can’t bring myself to read any classic literature even if I already know I enjoy the story. My brain has made such an intense association between classical writing styles and excessive hw/quizzes/papers that I can’t just relax and enjoy the book. Wondering if anyone else has this issue and how to get over it.
EDIT: Might have phrased this wrong since a lot of people think I just stopped reading books. I still love reading the question is more for people who are fans of classics-how do you get over feeling like it’s work to read them
This book got a lot of attention when it came out, but I finally got around to picking it up recently, and I can see why it go so much love - what a crazy page turner!
Earth has been destroyed in an unknown cataclysm, but just before the fall, a scientific ship in a nearby system terraforms a planet and drops a super-evolutionary nanovirus onto the planet - where it starts working on spiders and ants.
In the generations after the fall, humanity recovers enough to send out a few ark ships, one of which is heading toward the burgeoning spider world. We rotate between two narratives: one that describes the evolution of various spiders and spider characters across the generations, and one that details the events aboard the ark ship Gilgamesh as it’s human cargo wakes and sleeps over the eons.
During the spider sections, he does something pretty interesting to keep us feeling emotionally connected to successive generations of spiders even though we haven’t met those individuals …
So several weeks ago I tweeted a question to James S.A. Corey asking them if they were influenced by CJ Cherryh, to which they responded with a simple “yep.” At that point I had only read Downbelow Station, Merchanter’s Luck, and Cyteen. Now that I’m well into Heavy Time, I feel dumb for even asking. It’s astonishing to me the parallels between the world Cherryh created and the world of the Expanse, especially with respect to Belters. I highly recommend to anyone who is a huge fan of the Expanse, read Cherryh, especially Heavy Time. You’ll be blown away. I haven’t gotten to Rimrunners, Hellburner, or Tripoint yet, but I assume it will be more of the same awesomeness.
Edit to refer to Expanse authors as “they” and not “he” because it’s two people and I don’t want to confuse anyone. Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham write under the pseudonym James S.A. Corey. Also spelling.
I’ll give two, one FTL and one non-FTL
Vorkosigan Saga: wormholes exist but they are naturally occurring and cannot be created or moved. Using them requires lengthy journeys through local space on either side. Many routes involve convoluted chains of jumps. Wormhole entrances and exits become major strategic priorities.
Revelation Space: no FTL. Journeys between stars take decades with passengers in cryogenic sleep, which can cause amnesia on revival. The best way to travel is on a Lighthugger, a class of ship so named because it travels at 0.99c. These ships are a kilometer long, semi conscious, and rely on a Conjoiner Drive which can only be manufactured by one small breakaway faction of the human race. The conjoiners have stopped making them, so the few ships in existence are enormously valuable
There is probably a small number of you who are fans of Ted Chisng’s short stories that don’t already know Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu. I highly recommend it as a genre breaking/crossing set of really good short stories. It has a great short on language, but the short story of the same name as the series really cut some onions for me (got me teary eyed).