blaydcor said:
spiffiness said:
I concur. The first 3 books are awesome, but then the plot goes nowhere and he gets incredibly preachy and starts extolling the virtues of capitalism over communism etc. Plus he likely copied ideas from the late Robert Jordan and IIRC insulted him or joked about him being gravely ill. Needless to say, I never finished Goodkind's series.
Also, I would not recommend reading A Song of Ice and Fire if you don't like depressing books.
I liked Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy, it's got a very interesting magic system and the world is different from typical fantasy.
I'm about to start reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Joe Abercrombie's Before They Are Hanged. Anyone know if the latter is good?
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Abercrombie is great writer: Best characters I've seen in quite a while, great action (without relying on it), unique-enough plot. Really light on worldbuilding and stuff.
BUT if you think A Song of Ice and Fire is depressing, good luck with Abercrombie. It's not really that it's depressing so much as it is that he be kind of...grim? Macabre? It's noirish fantasy at times.
But still very, very good. I highly recommend it.
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Hmm I do like worldbuilding, but hopefully the good characters will make up for it. I'm going to try it out and see how it goes. Thanks for the info!
