I wanna read something that’s fucking brutal with fighting and sex and all the things, but also WELL WRITTEN (so NOT George R.R. Martin, I can’t stand his shit). I want Lord of the Rings on crack and steroids.

  • musky_occultist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    2 months ago

    I regret that I have but one downvote to give. Wizard’s First Rule is literally the worst book I ever read. (A lot of people do seem to like it, though.)

    • rhadamanth_nemes@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      Wizard’s First Rule is the only tolerable book, if barely. They’re all thinly veiled (not thinly veiled) fetish writing, or high school level political theory.

      At a certain point it’s clear that Terry fired enough editors that the remaining ones stopped trying.

    • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I’m going to choose to interpret your comment as charitably as possible, and that your library is the best curated on the planet. What have you been reading?

      • musky_occultist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Hah, I did mean it in the spirit of good discussion. (Though maybe I also feel like I have a sacred mission to keep the unwary from inadvertently Goodkinding themselves!)

        I’ve actually been having a hard time getting into anything new lately for some reason, but I recently reread C. S. Friedman’s Coldfire and Magister series (serieses? trilogies), which are kind of dark, but not so “gritty, gorey” that I thought they’d be a good recommendation for this thread. The former in particular is excellent, and they’re both fairly unusual takes on fantasy.