Legit LOTC Book Club

[Jonificus 2763]

@Niccum Yeah yeah sure thing buddy yeah sure

[winterblood 11181]

A series that I think is amazing is The Chronicles of the Twelve Kingdoms by Esther M. Friesner  There are four books, I believe, but I've only read three.  I plan to order the fourth one soon to read.  The books, to me, feel quite creative and beautifully written.  They always inspire me to get to writing and feeling imaginative.

The first book is Mustapha and his Wise Dog, the two main characters in that one are my favorites through out the series.

 

The second book is Spells of Mortal Weaving, it was the first one I found and read.  It had some minor spoilers to the first book, but I still enjoyed reading it greatly.

 

The third book is The Witchwood Cradle, I loved a lot of the side characters in this one

 

The fourth and I believe final book in the series is The Water King's Laughter.  I haven't read it yet, as mentioned before, but since I loved reading the first three, I've no doubt that this one will be amazing too.

 

[monkeypoacher 8055]

On the subject of history books, I've been reading this:

which is pretty interesting I guess

 

p.s., if you're going to get big into environmental determinism you should probably read more books because Jared Diamond is kind of a meme

 

p.p.s @Emelia excellent taste~~~

[Samoblivion 532]

 

Dune is to sci-fi what The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy. A towering piece of story-telling that paints a fraction of an incredibly vast and complex world. Prepare to meet the bizarre world of the 22nd millenium, a world of conspiracies, betrayals, murderous sex-nuns, floating fat men, farseers, noble houses, assassins and sand worms. How far will a young man with a terrible destiny go to save his family and take revenge on the empire that damned them?

 

The Spice Must Flow.

 

Pros:

- Easily one of the deepest and most alien sci-fi universes ever created.

- As much a treatise on metaphysics and destiny as it is a novel.

- A Lawrence of Arabia rip off in the best way possible.

- If you ever saw the Dune movie from the 80s, don't worry the book is far far far better than what that turned out to be.

- The ending and sequels (most of them...).

- THE MOTHERFUCKING FREMEN.

 

Cons:

- The writing and universe are so hard to get into that the first few chapters cause physical pain. Once you get your head around the weird **** in this world it gets awesome. Power through, it's worth it.

- Paul, the main character, is a bit of a Mary Sue. It gets annoying at times but you can ignore it for how good the rest of the story is.

- The author occasionally gets lost in some random characters' musings on time and space and all sorts of random ****.

 

 

[Samoblivion 532]

1 hour ago, Oodles said:

On the subject of history books, I've been reading this:

which is pretty interesting I guess

 

p.s., if you're going to get big into environmental determinism you should probably read more books because Jared Diamond is kind of a meme

 

p.p.s @Emelia excellent taste~~~

 

How's he a meme? My History lecturers at uni seem to think quite highly of him.

[Rael 935]

[The Great Mongol Khan 1110]

11 minutes ago, Stanley Opar said:

[kingnothing 571]

captain underpants is pretty good :}

[Wendigo 786]

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