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Posted 2016-06-30 10:30 AM (#13869 - in reply to #13868)
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Weesam - 2016-06-29 1:57 PM

I kinda feel embarrassed that I have finished the challenge already. High Fantasy is easy for me to read, I just gobble it up. Another High Fantasy challenge next year? I still really need to get to Song of Ice and Fire, after all.


Oh Weesam! You make the rest of us look like rank amateurs! How was that Michael Scoot Rohan series? I noticed you didn't do any reviews though . . .

I like seeing what other people are reading because it gives you ideas. I see that Kabouter is going to town on some Terry Goodkind. Do you know, in all the years I've been reading the genre, I have yet to read Terry Goodkind? I'm not sure why I haven't gotten around to it yet; just haven't. How is he as a writer? Just because everyone's read him doesn't necessarily mean that he's really good; we sci-fi and fantasy geeks sometimes collect series for the sake of collecting series, you know? Forgotten Realms books are an occasional guilty pleasure of mine, but let's face it; most of their writers are not that good, I just like the world, probably because I'm a gaming geek.

On the other hand, I thought the Kingkiller Chronicles were spectacular! I'll be reading book 2.5, The Slow Regard of Silent Things, for one of the books in my challenge; it sounds more like this particular one would read as fairytale fantasy rather than High Fantasy, but I'm counting it anyway because the rest of the series is High Fantasy. I'm frothing at the mouth waiting for the final book; Rothfuss has been taking his sweet time with that one, eh? I try not to agitate because I'm aware of how long a book takes to write, and when they're complicated they can take more time than others, but still . . . arrrgggghhhhhh!

Yes, there will be another High Fantasy challenge next year, you bet.

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