Ooh, the Wikipedia entry for the Wheel of Time might be a good way to get caught up -- just so you can read the most recent book.
ETA: here is the wikipedia entry for A Song of Fire and Ice.
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
sumi - Nov 30, 2006 7:59:34 am PST #1621 of 28160
Art Crawl!!!
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2006 8:00:59 am PST #1622 of 28160
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The books are known for complex characters, sudden and often violent plot twists, and intricate political intrigue. In a genre where magic usually takes center stage, this series has a reputation for its limited and subtle use of magic, employing it as an ambiguous and often sinister background force.
The novels are narrated from a very strict third person limited omniscient perspective, the chapters alternating between different point of view characters. Martin has a reputation of not being afraid to kill any character, no matter how major.
Hrm. Definitely sounds more interesting than Wheel of Time, which looked like your standard epic fantasy hoo-hah. I don't know where I'd find the time to read these longass fuckers, though.
Ooh, the Wikipedia entry for the Wheel of Time might be a good way to get caught up -- just so you can read the most recent book.
Heh, I skimmed the summary of the first book, and, yeah, it looks like more Lord of the Rings stuff...and I didn't really like READING Lord of the Rings so much.
Nutty - Nov 30, 2006 8:18:31 am PST #1623 of 28160
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think that Wheel of Time is more like what would happen if The Lord of the Rings were set in Sweet Valley High.
Which is occasionally funny! But not on purpose.
Connie Neil - Nov 30, 2006 8:23:15 am PST #1624 of 28160
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t holds her matched LOTR set close
They don't understand, my precious, no, they don't, you're nothing like those other books, no, not at all. They're all cribbing off of you, sssss.
sumi - Nov 30, 2006 9:28:55 am PST #1625 of 28160
Art Crawl!!!
The Wheel of Time: making the Lord of the Rings look short for the past two decades.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2006 1:54:26 pm PST #1626 of 28160
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, thanks for pointing out the wikipedia entry! God bless geeks and those who remember where geeks post.
sumi - Nov 30, 2006 8:23:40 pm PST #1627 of 28160
Art Crawl!!!
I have discovered that my local library has BOTH the new Elliott and the new Bujold. I must go there this weekend and pay down my ginormous fines and put holds on books.
Aims - Nov 30, 2006 9:00:06 pm PST #1628 of 28160
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ok, for those Shel Silverstein fans: Em got "Runny Babbit" for her birthday and ohmigawd. Joe and I were reading it tonight and we had tears running down our faces. It's so very good.
askye - Dec 05, 2006 8:17:46 am PST #1629 of 28160
Thrive to spite them
I'm late to the game, I just finished His Majesty's Dragon. WOW! That is an amazing book, I nearly ran over my lunch break I was reading the excerpt of Throne of Jade. Now I'm torn -- do I run out and buy it after work or wait and add these books to the top of my Christmas list.
beth b - Dec 05, 2006 10:25:43 am PST #1630 of 28160
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
the second one went a little slower than the first ( but the third picked up )> Not sure if that helps or not