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The Narrow Road Between Desires (Kingkiller Chronicle) "Laughter was the true applause you offered to the world for being beautiful." Sale: $18 to $4.99 by Patrick Rothfuss Rating: 4.5/5 (5,636 Reviews) #Fantasy #Epic #Novella #Bast #Kingkiller #Books #BookSky
The Narrow Road Between Desire... -
There are lots of runner-ups. Here are a few, and why, in no particular order...
- The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordon and Brandon Sanderson. Jordon wasn't the most eloquent writer, and Sanderson is a workhorse, but both know how to plot on a truly EPIC scale, and both are gifted world-builders. IMO, the show is better than the books so far.
- The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Unfinished, and say what you want about Kvothe, but you have to be born without a heart not to appreciate the brutal honesty of this self-lost man trying to remember his own Name.
- A Song of Ice and Fire by GRR Martin. Another well-written but unfinished entry to the genre, but with less mysterious magic than above. The writing, though? Martin has his own magic. It's undeniable.
- Anything by Joe Abercrombie. There's a true successor to Glen Cook. That's what Cook would've wanted, I think. It's only sometimes epic, you see. Mostly, it's in the dirt and mud and gore. It's Sword & Sorcery in an epic realm, with rare occurrences of magic. But pieces keep dropping, with questions attached...
- The Ryria Chronicles by Michael J Sullivan, and pretty much his whole oeuvre since that's what he works on. There's something workmanlike in his writing. It's straightforward in prose, not encumbered by lofty voice. It's deeper than it seems. Start with the buddy stories and unravel the mysteries of the Ryria, and it opens up a whole Silmarillion of fantasy epic adventure in Sullivan's Legends of the First Age series. Which ARE epic.
#fantasy #EpicFantasy #WheelOfTime #KingKiller #GameOfThrones #JoeAbercrombie #Ryria #books #bookstodon -
There are lots of runner-ups. Here are a few, and why, in no particular order...
- The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordon and Brandon Sanderson. Jordon wasn't the most eloquent writer, and Sanderson is a workhorse, but both know how to plot on a truly EPIC scale, and both are gifted world-builders. IMO, the show is better than the books so far.
- The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Unfinished, and say what you want about Kvothe, but you have to be born without a heart not to appreciate the brutal honesty of this self-lost man trying to remember his own Name.
- A Song of Ice and Fire by GRR Martin. Another well-written but unfinished entry to the genre, but with less mysterious magic than above. The writing, though? Martin has his own magic. It's undeniable.
- Anything by Joe Abercrombie. There's a true successor to Glen Cook. That's what Cook would've wanted, I think. It's only sometimes epic, you see. Mostly, it's in the dirt and mud and gore. It's Sword & Sorcery in an epic realm, with rare occurrences of magic. But pieces keep dropping, with questions attached...
- The Ryria Chronicles by Michael J Sullivan, and pretty much his whole oeuvre since that's what he works on. There's something workmanlike in his writing. It's straightforward in prose, not encumbered by lofty voice. It's deeper than it seems. Start with the buddy stories and unravel the mysteries of the Ryria, and it opens up a whole Silmarillion of fantasy epic adventure in Sullivan's Legends of the First Age series. Which ARE epic.
#fantasy #EpicFantasy #WheelOfTime #KingKiller #GameOfThrones #JoeAbercrombie #Ryria #books #bookstodon -
this morning, Pat Rothfuss announced a new novella—a revised and expanded version of "The Lightning Tree", which is a short story in GRRM's *Rogues* compilation. i am v excite :owi:
#Kingkiller #Temeranthttps://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2023/05/new-novella-an-announcement-in-three-parts/
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that part in Wise Man's Fear when kvothe completely loses it not because of all the bad shit that was going on in his life but because he lost his lute and his music was the only thing holding him together, that's a mood...
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