I was expecting a run of the mill videogame to TV-series but I have to say judging from the first 3 episodes I am blown away. Everything from the design, the music, and the acting went above and beyond anything I expected from this show. Has anyone else watched it yet? If so, what are your thoughts?
AMAZING. Fantasy, a little bit of dark. I never played League of Legends and enjoy every second.
Recommend me books where we have no idea what is happening outside of a very limited area, for example - attack on titan and maze runner. Where the rest of the world is shrouded in mystery and people have living in the tiny known area for so long that they don’t even think about the outside world.
Obviously, there are a lot of jokes made about how many times the game has been remade/rereleased, etc, but the point remains that for so many of us, Skyrim was a seminal moment in our journey as fans of Fantasy gaming and storytelling.
What Skyrim stories do you have? Favorite memories? Characters? Quests? Locations?
I remember waiting in line outside Gamestop for the midnight release, just talking with fellow fans about our biggest hopes for the game and what we would do first. My roommate and I had stocked up on snacks and taken off work the next day (seriously) in preparation.
Once we got home we went our separate ways to play and met back after 3-4 hours to exchange stories. He had gone left after the opening mission, and I went right. We had already had completely different experiences.
To this day, that remains one of my favorite memories.
but geez louise can Nynaeve quit ‘sharply tugging on her braid’? I am a person who has had a braid at many times in their life, and never once have I tugged at it, sharply or otherwise, due to impatience, nervousness, frustration, or anger.
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Honestly though, I have been reading fantasy forever, and for whatever reason have never read this series. I figured I’d remedy the situation and have forced myself through the first two and a half books. I just can’t anymore. I was really hoping the characters would become more complex and stop doing stupid stuff all the time, but alas it seems like the wheel weaves as the wheel wills.
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Please don’t hate me
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EDIT: Damn, I didn’t know this would be such a shit-stirring post. Thank you all for your permission to stop reading - I didn’t need it but am glad to have it. And no offense was meant to those that hold the series dear, I just wish I could be one of you :)
This is all subjective of course. But for my money, I’ve never found an author in fantasy that can describe the desolation that loneliness can create in a persons spirit without necessarily spelling it out.
In her Fitzchivalry Farseer trilogies she’ll have these tossed off lines, maybe one or two sentences at most, that cut me to the bone in their accuracy. The awful silence loneliness can be wrapped up in like a gift, I can “hear” off the page the minute I’ve finished reading them.
It’s just lazy.
I dont care how down to earth or likeable a main character is. When the perspective comes across like every woman they encounter is either lusting after them, or being sized-up and put into different categories of dream-girl archetypes, it turns the otherwise relatable main character into a leering creep.
Can you imagine reading a book where every male character was introduced as simple archetypes like “bad boy type”, or by the size of thier package, despite thier role in the story?
Edit: If it matters, I also like women and get the appeal of reading about boobies, but I dont need to know about every booby if said booby isnt important to the story.
Edit #2: I’m sorry I cant respond to y’all, I’m only human!
If you like your books filled with dream girls and ladies who breast boobily, power to you. You read those books, and I will choose others. The authors will still.make money, and I dont have to finish an off-putting book. …
I joined the Harry Potter train late. I first saw the movies and was impressed by them. They are well made entertainment with a lot of heart. I later read the books and found them even better than the movies. The movies breeze past you because they cover a lot in a short span. Whereas the books, without any time and budget restrictions, can go in on much more detail.
I was initially hesitant as an adult to give time to books meant for children and teens but my opinion changed early on. Not only do the books mature as they progress, they are also pretty fun to read. Interestingly, for me the plots and the magic/wizardry were unimpressive. Each book is a mystery where someone is trying to kill or hurt Harry and only Harry and his gang can solve the riddle. The magical aspect is mostly by the number and world building is okay.
Where the books shine are during the mundane moments in between the bigger, plot-driving moments. This includes the class room lectures, the character …
Quoth Siddhartha: “What should I possibly have to tell you, O
venerable one? Perhaps that you’re searching far too much? That
in all that searching, you don’t find the time for finding?”
[…]
“When someone is searching,” said Siddhartha, “then it might
easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he
searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything
enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object
of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the
goal. Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being
free, being open, having no goal. You, O venerable one, are
perhaps indeed a searcher, because, striving for your goal, there
are many things you don’t see, which are directly in front of your
eyes.”
That is the most beautiful and personally-significant passage I’ve ever read in my whole life. After reading Siddhartha, I felt myself appreciating the world around me just a little bit …
Night Work comes from Austrian author Thomas Glavinic, and first published in English in 2008. Glavinic didn’t have prior form as an SF novelist. I’m not clear whether he’s well known in Austria, or Germany, but I’m pretty sure this book is not at all known in the Anglosphere, and that’s got to change, because it’s a fantastic and unique book.
House of Leaves on the other hand, is quite the best seller and pretty well known - perhaps infamous - at least in some circles. One of those circles is literary theory. If House of Leaves didn’t exist, it would be necessary for a literary theorist to invent it. Of course, that’s arguably exactly what the author (Mark Danielewski) did. There must be many post-grad literary theory students out there who’ve got their master’s degrees out of it. It’s excellent thesis fodder.
If you strip away a lot of the metafictional fluff away from House of Leaves - the spiralling or chaotic …
Something along the lines of the Honor Harrington series. The protagonist should be excessively competent, basically a Mary Sue.
Especially looking for lesser known books, as I have the feeling I’ve read most of the well known ones.
I just ask, because I started reading Alastair Reynolds a few months ago and he definitely has high concepts but -as i find on the blurbs- often gets named as a “master of space opera”.
Before that I always thought these concepts could never go together.
I stopped watching Modern Family years ago and never watched the full show, but I caught some clips the other day and I was reminded of what a great actor Ty Burrell is. He has a kind of serious stupidity that radiates a Nielsen vibe, his timing is great, he’s got a good voice and good looks to him. I’m just kind of shocked that he never broke out into movies or anything after so many years of modern family.
Maybe part of the problem is he fits the aloof sitcom dad role so well that it would be tough to see him as anything else, but I think he could do it. I’m surprised we haven’t even seen him as a side character in one of the million marvel movies.
My only thought is that maybe he likes modern family and the sturdy pay check and hasn’t expressed interest in other roles, but it’s a shame because I feel like he would be great.
The CW, on paper, makes shows that should appeal to me. Lots of monsters, magic, and superheroes. But, for the last ten years, their content is unwatchable. Gradually I’ve come to realize that, regardless of the main plot, all CW shows are written the exact same. There’s aways an unnecessary love triangle that becomes problematic at the weirdest times, two key characters find it impossible to share critical pieces of information with each other despite talking about the very thing they have critical information about regularly, and the team ensemble rarely communicates effectively driving sub plots at every turn that don’t need to exist in the first place. Almost all the interpersonal relationships between characters are toxic.
This is lazy writing, but at the same time, the CW sure does put a lot of effort into it.
EDIT: The CW is a network channel in North America owned by Warner Bros and CBS. Shows like Supernatural, Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Gilmore Girls, Charmed, …