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Uncreative — 6 months ago(September 23, 2025 03:58 AM)
Despite having 4 more in the works The Black Company has been complete since 2000. It starts off following a group of mercenaries workouts for the big scary villain. If I was an eccentric billionaire with an unlimited amount of money to throw into a live adaptation of something it would probably be this. After the first trilogy it gets a lot weirder.
I'm assuming you read Lord of the Rings at some point in your life.
Wheel of Time famously has its ups and downs but in general I liked it. The middle part of the series definitely drags though.
Discworld is a much sillier version of fantasy. They're almost all stand alone books with various recurring characters. Small Gods was my favorite of the bunch.
Song of Achilles and Circe were both interesting takes on Greek myths. Achilles isn't bad. If the MAGAs of the board could read I'd love to trick them into starting it. It's extremely gay so their reactions would be hilarious. Circe is the better of the two by far.
Helliconia kind of sits on the borderline of sci-fi and fantasy. It's a trilogy on an alien planet with the same GOT gimmick of extended seasons taken to 1,000 year extremes.
Fevre Dream was a southern vampire story by George RR Martin that I liked a lot.
The Conan the Barbarian stories are worth checking out.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 23, 2025 04:31 AM)
I have read Lord of the Rings, Song of Achilles and Conan (I've actually read a ton of Robert E. Howard; in my opinion, he was a much better writer than his friend Lovecraft). Discworld has been on my radar for a long time and I really should give it a shot someday.
I'll look into some of the others! The Armageddon Rag is the George R.R. Martin novel I've had on my to-read list for a while.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 27, 2025 03:18 AM)
Cool. My local library actually started a romantasy book club a few months ago and it seems to be doing well!
Not quite the same thing maybe, but have you heard of the book
Sterling House
by Alix E. Harlow? It's a gothic romance fantasy set in Appalachia… as well as in another realm
I really enjoyed it!
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Celestia Bloodshed — 6 months ago(September 26, 2025 02:41 AM)
ok it's a couple, actually:
so i started Tolstoy's
The Kreutzer Sonata
today, a short novella i should be finishing by tomorrow.
i also started Patricia Highsmith's
The Price of Salt
, source novel of Todd Haynes' film Carol with Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett. i've seen the film before i knew it was adapted from said novel and loved it a lot. i hope this one holds up bc i was slightly disappointed with her last Ripley novel, the last book i've read from Highsmith.
furthermore, i'm still reading the Stalin biography,
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
by Simon Sebag Montefiore which i started before my reading slump and am now continuing, again, in a slow pace of reading one chapter a day, to fully absorb everything that i'm reading.
and lastly, i'm also reading a compilation of short stories by Black African authors and have just finished the (first) section which was writers from South Africa. now i'm onto a short story by Angolian writer, Oscar Bento Ribas.
cursed, scarred & forever possessed
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