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𓀐 @JjH8+uuP: "There's no such thing as a banned book" edition >Archive: https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg >Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg >Thread questions: What's the last book you read? What's the current book you're reading? What do you plan to read next?

UH OH! edition >Archive: https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg >Banned Authors: Ty Johnston Karl Wagner Stephen Kristiansen David Gemmel Kazuo Ishiguro >Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg >Thread Question: Do you ever go back and reread books from when you were younger?

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𓀐 @Yxi3q~ky: Read darkstalker over three days. Got embarasingly floored from from what I guess can be called whiplash of not having anything in the way of expectations or maybe just expecting something more action adventure related rather then what I actually got which was a setting largely constrained to nobility court romance. (but they're all dragons) I then get slapped across the face by it also being this tightly executed tragedy romance novel where there's a rolling dread throughout for the reader to bite their lips for as Anakin nightchad over here threads the needle towards being a supervillain inspite of his lover and friend moving heaven and earth to avert exactly that. I think what made this part of story so successful is not so much the story of Darkstalker, but the plight of the three friends who try so hard to turn him from the path of evil. The fact that they are not successful makes it hit richer. (Uh spoiler for a prequel/villian origin story but the titular villian does in fact origin) Setting has certain fantasy-isms to let one know repeatedly that these whole dragon nations have depth that is unseen and trusted to not been needed for the story. It's a tight ship and doesn't have the pages to waste time or effort on going over vestigial information about ther dragon's world outside the limited look at three dragon kingdoms who actually matter at all for this story with the night and ice wings having their war and there being a scattering of seawing politics as well theough the first half since 1/3 of three pov's are of the seawing prince/friend to darkie.+ 2

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𓀐 @paaB~fNd: We know, you already posted all of that.+

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𓀐 @*XCt=+MB: Out of all the books in the world, what made you decide to read Darkstalker?+

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𓀐 @uyHEbmw+: I just reread Mistborn. It's been a few years since I read it, but it was one of my first modern "adult" fantasy novels. I remembered it being better. With all the emdashes and "it's not x -- it's y" in the book, if it came out today I'd start a witch hunt. I guess this book was in the training data. For the book being 500 pages, the side characters feel simplistic and made of cardboard; everyone has only a couple defining desires. I'd forgotten all the side characters except Breeze, Sazed, and Kelsier. The plot itself is probably the best part, and it's what I remembered the most from before.+

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𓀐 @ENMY=r=u: The Magic Kingdom of Landover is good and I'm tired of pretending otherwise+

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𓀐 @M4xH8s2*: PRAISE THE PROSE!!!+ 1

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𓀐 @gGpE5kRA: Mashallah+

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𓀐 @v8Jb*y3*: Reading The Last Wish (Witcher). Not sure why my impression going in was that Geralt is an anti-hero because he's the most morally black and white character I've read in a while. He also seems to have zero agency in several of the stories, the plot just sorta happens to him and then something solves the central conflict and he moves on. Idk it's been fine so far but I'm probably not going to read the next book.+

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𓀐 @WwUmh~Xz: >Do you ever go back and reread books from when you were younger? Yeah, I bought the Delatora Quest books and loved the reread, though I don't remember the books being so short.+

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𓀐 @+gk3Eor8: >Do you ever go back and reread books from when you were younger? I haven't. I read slop like Ranger's Apprentice and The Last Apprentice in my elementary years. I think the "best" book I read as a child was The Thief Lord.+

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𓀐 @uAWdMsf=: Why is it always Science Fiction "AND" Fantasy? We all know these two genres are not equal. I hate that they are completely grouped together as if they have anything to do with one another.+

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𓀐 @RHzSD27p: Judt finished The Stars My Destination. Amazing book, I wish I had read it when I was young.+

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