• @[email protected]
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    8 months ago

    Steven Erikson: here’s a world that contains millennia of anthropologically grounded cultures that got spiced up by some interdimensional elves, orcs, gods & dragons that me and my buddy use to play D&D in, have fun reading through the eyes of over 1000 characters lol

    • TheLowestStone
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      158 months ago

      Erikson ruined fantasy novels for me. Book of the Fallen was the most challenging and rewarding read of my life. It made almost everything else feel like YA fiction.

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        58 months ago

        Seriously. I only finished the main Book of the Fallen series this early this year and just can’t get interested in anything else fantasy now.

        It’s one thing to make you feel something when a character you’ve been with for 10 books dies, but when an author can do the same with a character you’re with for a handful of pages, it’s something else.

        !Abasard’s death in Reaper’s Gale still resonates with me. !<

        • @[email protected]
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          78 months ago

          I assume you were trying to add a spoiler, but it did not come through correctly and is visible

      • Bebo
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        48 months ago

        Felt the same when I finished that series. Didn’t feel that I could read fantasy again.

    • Troy
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      18 months ago

      Currently in book 9. Moving ever so slowly so it doesn’t end too quickly, cause then what will I read? 😭