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Journeyman Geek

2:26 AM

amusingly the prequels was one of the things that pushed me over to fantasy more

aking1012

yeah. i liked the followups too where skywalker gets crazy-cool and restarts the academy

Journeyman Geek

I never really got into the EU novels

aking1012

i didn't read the whole of starwars universe, i just picked up a couple that were recommended by some fellow

i see how you could burn out on it though. anne mcaffery burned me out too. dragons and threads, okay it was a good idea...i'm not up for the same book 10 times though

if you're in to sci-fi fantasy, the best fantasy series i ever read was amazon.com/Aurian-First-Book-Maggie-Furey/dp/0553565257

Journeyman Geek

right now, mostly reading the Tremaire, Song of Fire and Ice (Game of Thrones) and monster hunter series

Well, anything Larry Correia

aking1012

I have some friends who really liked Game of Thrones, but I wasn't much for it.

Journeyman Geek

2:37 AM

oh, and the Legacy of the Aldenata, though i felt the most recent book was a bit hamfisted in its support of catholism

aking1012

Yeah, cryptonomicon did that too

Journeyman Geek

I like the books, i hate waiting years for the next one ;p

aking1012

Coldfire Trilogy

The Coldfire Trilogy is a science fiction/fantasy trilogy written by Celia S. Friedman. It includes: *Black Sun Rising (1991) *When True Night Falls (1993) *Crown of Shadows (1995). *Dominion (2012) Synopsis The main events of the Trilogy take place on the fictional planet of Erna, colonized 1200 years before the start of the books by a group of human colonists from a future Earth. Erna is a primarily hospitable environment; although a planet with severe and intense seismic activity, the planet is similar enough to Earth to allow for habitability. It has, however, another key diffe...

Also an incredible series

Journeyman Geek

god. I cannot understate how important cryptonomicon is to me ;p

aking1012

I wasn't dissing it, just saying that it was an overt appeal to a)religious and b)anti-middle-east if I'm not confusing it with something else

Journeyman Geek

2:40 AM

lol

GOT has no good guys

its EVERYONE stabbing each other in the back

And its purely 'eurocentric'

Unless you mean slavery

but i'd note, that has parallels with europe as well

aking1012

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, it's almost on the level of Dune with the Machiavellian-ism

Journeyman Geek

Dune was... 2-3 way backstabbing ;p

this is up to 5 ways ;p

aking1012

There was a very clearly defined good-guy though

so yeah...almost on the level of dune. oh i see, you thought i meant almost in the other direction...

Journeyman Geek

In dune, there's a master plan

Ok, here, there's two wider plotlines i see

one is the targarians/three dragons (though its unclear who they are)

aking1012

Robert Jordan was bad for spinning off a bajillion plot-lines

Journeyman Geek

2:45 AM

and the Red God's Champion (who might be Job Snow, OR one of the Ironmen whose name i forget OR Stannis...)

And the Red God vs The Others

But the Red God seems to be... vaguely evil

AND the old gods, who're helping Bran Stark

AND anya... no idea where thats going yet.

aking1012

Yeah, I just couldn't get in to it. I tried

Journeyman Geek

Happens

helps that every saturday night i am stuck with a dog in the car in a multistory carpark for a few hours ;p

Perfect place/time to read

aking1012

If you want future book recommendations, I've got a friend who I swear has read the ENTIRE sci-fi fantasy section(the one that tried to start me on GoT)

Journeyman Geek

lol

maybe when i am done spending all my money on hardware ;p