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Just saw that Matt Dinniman is doing a Reddit AMA, but the more important news is that DCC was purchased to be developed as a TV show/movie!
Well this at least is something.
https://screenrant.com/scott-lynch-gentleman-bastard-next-book-excitement/
https://screenrant.com/scott-lynch-gentleman-bastard-next-book-excitement/
I'm reading Shadowmarch now, I've just started book 3 and am really enjoying it.
I only discovered Tad Williams earlier this year and raced through the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series and then the last King of Osten Ard, then decided while I wait for the last book to try the Shadowmarch series and am finding I prefer it to the others.
But they're all excellent, he always seems to start very slowly but his story telling and plotting is brilliant.
I started The Swan‘s War trilogy by Sean Russell but stopped 50 pages into it. It just felt kind of bland and dated. A bit like WoT or Brandon Sanderson.
Now I have nearly finished the first book of the Godblind trilogy by Anna Stephens. Definitely much better although there is still a lot of room for improvement in the next 2 installments.
I am at a point where I am not willing to finish stuff I am not really enjoying. This clearly enhanced my reading experience.
Now I have nearly finished the first book of the Godblind trilogy by Anna Stephens. Definitely much better although there is still a lot of room for improvement in the next 2 installments.
I am at a point where I am not willing to finish stuff I am not really enjoying. This clearly enhanced my reading experience.
Anyone reading or have read the Red Rising Series by Pierce Brown? It's being adapted into a TV series. Hope they don't ruin it. It's a must read for fantasy lovers.
Read the first one or two and for some reason it didn’t click. That was years ago though, so maybe worth a retry?
You should. It got better. I didn't read the last two yet because I have to read the ones I've read already to get a refresher. If it's adapted accurately it should be amazing based on the character, costumes etc.
Yeah
I haven't read it yet, but it has been designated as a must read in several book blogs.
Am gonna pick this up soon.
Do you have Libby? That's what I use with my NYPL card.
Alright, it’s next on the list!
Re-listening to DCC right now. Holy shit it’s so good. Is there a better book/narrator combo ever made? It’s perfection.
No. I pretty much do all reading in Kindle. Preferably within Unlimited. Others are just pre-release advance copies, I get from publishers.
DCC is just perfection! Love it.
The books are free to borrow on Libby. I think it works on Kindle too.
I've been avoiding grimdark and any serious fantasy nowadays and leaning more towards cozy fantasy and similar.
Will get around to this eventually.
I probably skipped over it a half dozen times when skimming through Kindle Unlimited because the description sounded stupendously stupid, but holy shit was I wrong.
What's cozy fantasy? Examples?
These days I read almost exclusively translated fantasy, predominantly xianxia-xianhuan-cultivation lightnovels.
Anyone read The Echoes Saga? I'm on book 4 and enjoying it a lot.
I've had a few years not reading fantasy, while I plow through a bunch of Heavy metal related biographies and histories. I've, all of a sudden, got a real hankering to read a good fantasy yarn now, but on a 99p kindle budget because, y'know, mortgage, cossy livs and all that.
Does anyone have any good recommendations for someone that likes fantasy, but maybe not grimdark stuff, or YA stuff as that seems to dominate the rankings on Amazon. If it's any help I quite like The Black Company, Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series, some Forgotten Realms stuff. I didn't mind Brent Weeks first series, but it was a bit teeny. Something that's a good romp, with intrigue. Preferably not a 10 book series, maybe a trilogy at most.
I did just buy The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, because I love a good murder mystery and the last one I read in a fantasy setting was over a decade ago (Low Town by Daniel Polansky, which I enjoyed).
Edit: oh. Just found I had at some point bought the Gentlemen Bastard series on kindle and never read them. Guess that'll do.
Does anyone have any good recommendations for someone that likes fantasy, but maybe not grimdark stuff, or YA stuff as that seems to dominate the rankings on Amazon. If it's any help I quite like The Black Company, Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series, some Forgotten Realms stuff. I didn't mind Brent Weeks first series, but it was a bit teeny. Something that's a good romp, with intrigue. Preferably not a 10 book series, maybe a trilogy at most.
I did just buy The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, because I love a good murder mystery and the last one I read in a fantasy setting was over a decade ago (Low Town by Daniel Polansky, which I enjoyed).
Edit: oh. Just found I had at some point bought the Gentlemen Bastard series on kindle and never read them. Guess that'll do.
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Stuff that's light and not violent.
Beware of Chicken (this is Cultivation too)
Legends and Lattes
Morcster Chef
And some light progression fantasy
Mark of the Fool
Return of the Runebound Professor
Mage Errant
Path of Ascension
Forge of Destiny
Millennial Mage
Robert Jackson Bennet is great, you can pick up his divine cities series
Or since you are budget concious, I'm gonna drop a few links:
https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/prologue/
https://palelights.com/table-of-contents/
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57011/industrial-strength-magic
Mark of the Fool is great, although I am slightly concerned we are creeping into He Who Fights With Monsters territory of a never ending series. Author said book 8 would be final book when book 7 dropped and now he says it will be a 10 book series. It does not suffer HWFWM's problem of obvious filler content to grab more patreon dollars, so I'll trust the author on this one.
Mage Errant is great as well and is a completed series which his a huge bonus.
Mark of the Fool is finished in Royal Road.
Really? Fantastic news!
Thanks.
I don't recognize Legends and Lattes, Return of the Runebound Professor, or Morcster Chef, will look them up.
Other than Mage Errant (which I've read and do recommend), the remaining items are all still ongoing. I have them all on my TBR list for when they are completed.
I'll admit it. No idea what DCC is. Can someone elucidate me?
Dungeon Crawler Carl Series
Dungeon Crawler Carl.
One of the best series I've read and unlike any other. Very unique.
Recently picked for a TV adaptation by Seth MacFarlane.
Lovely, thanks!
Do yourself a favor, one you won't regret, and get the audiobooks. It takes a 10/10 series and elevate it to 15/10. To save a boatload of $$ I would recommend getting Kindle Unlimited for a month and then getting each of the books in the series (they are all free with KU). This will lower the price of the audiobooks in Audible from ~$35 to around 5-7.
Which ones now?
I started Renegade Immortal, but our it on hold. Still have to get to it.
Btw....if you like Superhero Cozy series, I'd recommend Chronicles of the Fid. Completed too. Lovely, charming and super entertaining.
I just finished The Legendary Mechanic and currently reading The King's Avatar. Both are highly recommended. Some day I'll post here a tier list of the many translated novels I've read since you mentioned Coiling Dragon here a couple of years ago.
Thanks. Downloaded into my TBR pile.
I made it halfway though the first audiobook but the humour didn't land for me at all. I quite liked the litRPG system though, so if the humour lands for you I can imagine it would be good.
I picked this up on an Audible free trial on your recommendation and you weren't wrong...what an amazing job Jeff Hays does. I finished it today and am going straight into book 2.
Glad you liked it! Next book comes out in a few days and the audio book follows in Feb I think.