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My wife bitches about that every time she finishes reading one. She says they don't resolve anything and then add new storylines. I say it's b/c he wants to write more books. It's like the first season of Lost.
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Awesome book. About my favorite character of hers, too. Marius.distressed_romeo said:Blood and Gold: Anne Rice
Metal Ken said:
The Dark Wolf said:Awesome book. About my favorite character of hers, too. Marius.![]()
The Dark Wolf said:I'm reading the series that that book is a sorta prequel to, 'The Mallorean', by the same author(s).
You should try the George R.R. Martin series I turned Drew on to afterwords, Ken. It's brilliant.If you like the Eddings stuff, you'll love the Martin, I almost guarantee it.
Drew said:Martin = Eddings with less political manouvering and no obligatory "thief" character.
Course, those are two elements I always dug about Eddings, but if you're on a fantasy kick, Martin is definitely worth a read.
Currently, well, I read the third Martin on the flight over to Italy and the first couple trainrides (bob, is the 4th out?), Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth on the flight back (it's no Invisible Man, but it IS ellison, so if you've read IM it's definitely worth a read), the introduction and the first chunk of Jaques Derrida's "Of Grammatology" on the beaches of Italy (which is a fucking accomplishment, for kicks I should post up some excerpts), and started re-reading Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" again on the flight back, which is one of those books that amazes me even more every time I re-read it. a seriously fucked up read, but incredible.
Drew said:Eh, it's been years since I've read him. All I was saying was that if you like Eddings, you'll probably like Martin.
And keep in mind I'm one of the most un-phasable people I know - if the world WAS coming apart, I'd be the one standing there cracking jokes about the Apocalypse while trying to stop it. I'm sorry, i've got a very dark sense of humour, and the end of the world is too good an opportunity to miss.![]()
The Dark Wolf said:Man, Eddings and Martin the same? Look, I'm reading Eddings right now, but he can't even come close to Martin. Yes, he writes interesting stories, and that's numero uno. Gotta have that. But his characters are so one dimensional! I mean, the world is falling apart, and what are the characters doing? Huh. Bantering. Funny. They've been doing that for 800 pages, now. No emotion, no reality... his characters (Sure, I love Belgarath. He and Silk are about the only two worth a shit, and what do they do left and right? Uh... banter) are cardboard.
Martin's characters on the other hand breath with life. Each one is different. with different motivations, different goals. In Eddings, his villians are just pathetic bad guys, who never, ever get one on the good guys, and have the most simplistic motivations. In Martin, well, who's the bad guys? Show me? He'll make you see two (or more) sides to every conclusion you want to make.
Martin is FAR more satisfying, as well as technically proficient, than Eddings, or Robert Jordan, or Terry Goodkind, or any of their ilk.