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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:09 pm

Some good series there.

You might be interested in books/series by the following authors too:

David Eddings
-Belgariad Series
-Malloreon Series

Terry Goodkind
-Sword of Truth Series

Fred Saberhagen
-Book of the Swords Series
-Book of the Lost Swords Series

R.A. Salvatore
-Almost All Series

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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:45 pm

The Black Company series by Glen Cook is also worth checking out. Excellent dark fantasy series from the 80s!

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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 2:14 pm

dbartman wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Some good series there.

Terry Goodkind
-Sword of Truth Series

This was also made into a TV series called "Legend of the Seeker". It is availible on HULU, and was produced by Sam Raimi. The best part of the series is when Ted Raimi plays a villain who mentions White Plume and Barrier Peaks. I haven't read the books, but I hope they were much better than the TV series.

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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:14 pm

dbartman wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Some good series there.

You might be interested in books/series by the following authors too:

Fred Saberhagen
-Book of the Swords Series
-Book of the Lost Swords Series

benjoshua wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread: books by Fred Saberhagen;

Yup. Those were some good books. I especially liked his Berserker series.

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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 5:17 pm

burntwire brothers wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:
This was also made into a TV series called "Legend of the Seeker". It is availible on HULU, and was produced by Sam Raimi. The best part of the series is when Ted Raimi plays a villain who mentions White Plume and Barrier Peaks. I haven't read the books, but I hope they were much better than the TV series.

They were. The TV series does not do justice to the books.

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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 7:56 pm

dbartman wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:
They were. The TV series does not do justice to the books.

I agree 100%. Wizard's First Rule through Confessor were fantastic. I also quite enjoyed some of Terry's recent stuff like Nest.

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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 8:25 pm

benjoshua wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:I read all eleven books in the John Carter of Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It's classic

Carl Sagan gives a lot of attention to this series in the Mars episode of Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet), worth checking out.

I've begun to realize just how influential these books have been. All the classic sci fi & fantasy tropes seem to originate from them.

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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 1:51 am

Shifting this topic just a little, I've been curious to know if any of you all have read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"? It's not Fantasy or Sci Fi, falls under the category of 'Magical Realism'.

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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:11 am

sauromatian wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:I've begun to realize just how influential these books have been. All the classic sci fi & fantasy tropes seem to originate from them.

It seems that way, but Burroughs was inspired by authors like Rudyard Kipling and H. Rider Haggard. Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, in particular, has a Raiders of the Lost Ark and/or John Carter adventure vibe.

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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:40 am

Anybody ever read the "Guardians of the Flame" series of books by Joel Rosenberg?

About a group of college kids who play D&D and get sucked into the campaign world by their evil professor DM, who also happens to be a powerful wizard in the game world, and have to find a way back. A bit campy but still pretty cool and right up my alley as RPG loving middle schooler. I devoured those books back then.

I found them again at the library and I'm re-reading them just for fun.

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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:55 am

Agent Cooper wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Anybody ever read the "Guardians of the Flame" series of books by Joel Rosenberg?

About a group of college kids who play D&D and get sucked into the campaign world by their evil professor DM, who also happens to be a powerful wizard in the game world, and have to find a way back. A bit campy but still pretty cool and right up my alley as RPG loving middle schooler. I devoured those books back then.

I found them again at the library and I'm re-reading them just for fun.

I really liked 'The Sleeping Dragon' when I was a teenager, and read it more than once back then.

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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 2:37 pm

Agent Cooper wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Anybody ever read the "Guardians of the Flame" series of books by Joel Rosenberg?

About a group of college kids who play D&D and get sucked into the campaign world by their evil professor DM, who also happens to be a powerful wizard in the game world, and have to find a way back. A bit campy but still pretty cool and right up my alley as RPG loving middle schooler. I devoured those books back then.

I found them again at the library and I'm re-reading them just for fun.

Read the first three books back in the early '90's. Even managed to track down the email address for Mr. Rosenberg (hint: He's NOT the conservative author with the same name.) and corresponded with him a few times before losing contact. LOVED the series premise and how he handled what would be "modern" technology translated to magic.

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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:41 pm

benjoshua wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:It seems that way, but Burroughs was inspired by authors like Rudyard Kipling and H. Rider Haggard. Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, in particular, has a Raiders of the Lost Ark and/or John Carter adventure vibe.

I thought about mentioning that aspect of it (John Carter's Mars = the Middle East; unexplored planets = the unexplored interior of continents in the colonial age), but didn't want to risk this turning into politics. Maybe doing so will now cause the OTHER Joel Rosenburg to appear here.

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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 9:09 pm

I first read them a long time ago and reread them a few times. Not bad. The dialogue was a little too extremist for my tastes (DON'T get on my bad side. People tend to die when they do). They got soap-operaish (is that a word?) later on.

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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 1:23 am

Agent Cooper wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Anybody ever read the "Guardians of the Flame" series of books by Joel Rosenberg?

About a group of college kids who play D&D and get sucked into the campaign world by their evil professor DM, who also happens to be a powerful wizard in the game world, and have to find a way back. A bit campy but still pretty cool and right up my alley as RPG loving middle schooler. I devoured those books back then.

I found them again at the library and I'm re-reading them just for fun.

Absolutely loved these books as a kid. Not going to be confused with high literature, or even the best of this genre, but entertaining nonetheless.

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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 1:26 am

Mister Yuk wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Shifting this topic just a little, I've been curious to know if any of you all have read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"? It's not Fantasy or Sci Fi, falls under the category of 'Magical Realism'.

I recently heard of this book and picked up a copy. Can't say when I will start reading it, but probably later this winter. Good?

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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:26 pm

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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:58 pm

Grug Greyskin wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:
I recently heard of this book and picked up a copy. Can't say when I will start reading it, but probably later this winter. Good?

Yes, it's one of the best works of fiction I've ever read especially considering that it was a translated version (the author is Colombian), not trying to build it up to you too much though. From looking at goodreads, there are more than a few that didn't like it (but that's anything though).

I don't want to give away anything, but I was really blown away by how the author treated the fantastical aspects of the story.

Will give you a heads up though. A lot of the criticism of the book pertains to the amount of characters in the story having the same or similar names. There is a good reason for that, but be warned - there's a family tree page in the book. Keep that page handy.

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