Fantasy books, stories, ＆c

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5600161

Thoughts on this book?

Thoughts on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit?

I might watch The Rings of Power but I've heard mixed things on it. What do you all think of it?

Mostly though: I'm hoping that some people here can expand on what I'm reading so far.

'Cause honestly, I do like what I'm reading, I do, and that's because I genuinely like the mythological tone that the world-building takes. And Numenor as an "Atlantis" is a fine way to do things, but honestly, I doubt they'll be able to do much with it in whatever Amazon property they decide to make of it (which, I mean, is fine). I wonder if there are other shows or serials besides The Rings of Power that are coming out? Either way: I really like the beginning and how everything started with music and song.

Your thoughts?

39 titles for $18 and up. Good for another ~2 weeks. DRM'd but, uh, doesn't Calibre just have the neatest plugins?

So there is a loud party near my house and I can't sleep so I decided to see how many books I have in my house. There is this trend that says that 1.000 books make a library and I wanted to see if I have more. I am at 1.697 books and I haven't counted 14 shelves, a bookcase, some books that are just hanging around the house (You know the ones you read at the same time and the books that you may want to read next) and some books that we have in closets and boxes cause we were out of bookcases 🤣🤣

I really want to find and count the rest!

Want a great book to get someone reading again. Thornhedge is a good one to try. I think it’s a good gateway book to fantasy books as well.

What books do you think would be good? To get someone into a new genre or back into reading?

Good deal and great series. Just bought and redeemed it using Kobo, very smooth experience.

Maybe this is inappropriate, but I’ve been working on a fun story maybe someone might enjoy. It’s paranormal and a little ridiculous. It’s about an overly cocky Esper that tries to return from the afterlife. A resurrection kind of thing. Any critiques about the story would be cool. Even if it’s harsh. I’m trying to learn.

Hey everyone. My wife wrote her first book. An urban fantasy meets Scifi book about a doctor who develops telekinetic powers after an accident and then finds out magic is real.

Pre-orders are up on Amazon for both digital and physical copies. We are still working on getting it on more storefronts before launch.

No plans for the audiobook until we can get some proceeds from the book sales. Because it's her first book, we don't have the money to pay an audio book narrator.

I'd you buy it and like it please leave a positive review. Those go a long way on getting new authors off the ground.

This will be a series. My wife is already near finalizing her final draft of the second book and has started on a third. I think she has something like 7-9 books planned so far.

Check it out.

Get the first book from your local library or for free as well from Z Library (PDF version).

First book in the series is A Game of Thrones.

Wow after about a year and a half from Storm Front to Battle Ground I feel like I have been on a journey. The growth of the characters and expansion of the world really feels like we have come a long way. The loss of Murphy is going to hurt in the next few books as I am sure Harry will take a long time to get over that if he even can. I'm not sure what is next but I am hear for it.

Maybe is just sifi, but since is a quest i though is good to share here

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/WanderingInn/comments/hy1r3v/spoiled_readers/

I really liked the Black Magician trilogy. I'd love to read more books that have 'evil' magic as a major component of the plot, preferably with some kind of trope subversion.

Hi, I am on a driving trip and downloaded a recommended books, "Best Served Cold" and then the reviews say read the original trilogy first. After several hours of "The Blade Itself" there is no sense of a plot or where the characters are going, they are just meeting up.

I understand that this is a common criticism of his early works. Should I finish the Blade Itself or go on to the sequel standalone novel? I got a bit of the sense of the world.

Incidentally, I loved "Project Hail Mary" and started "Three Body Problem", but the pronunciation of the chinese names turned me off, so I'll read the book instead.

Will Wight's cradle series is one of my all time favorites. It got me to then binge read every other book the man has written.

The best part of this Kickstarter (IMO) is while reading his books the first time I just kept thinking how AMAZING the series would be as an animation and even talked with my friends about how we really wanted something like ATLA for this series.

But if I'm honest, if that show or movie was made by the normal folks who always seem to destroy my favorite pieces of literature when adapting them to film, I'd be sad. So I'm really glad that this is being done straight by the author.

This month I've been rereading Halo: Primordium. Good book but just as depressing as I remember. I've also started working my way through the OpenLDAP Admin manual trying to wrap my head around LDAP.

So what have you all been reading? What did you think of it?

Top-10 books I read in 2023 (links lead to goodreads). Ordered by date read.

1. The Weirkey Chronicles by Sarah Lin
2. The Captain by Will Wight
3. The Last Echo of the Lord of Bells by John Bierce
4. Scion of Storms by Samuel Hinton
5. Waybound by Will Wight
6. Mark of the Fool by J.M. Clarke
7. Harper Hall of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
8. Mother of Learning by Nobody103 (Domagoj Kurmaić)
9. Silvers by Brian J. Nordon
10. A Coup of Tea by Casey Blair

My reviews can be found in the article link.

Got my badge today for Dragonsteel 2023. I hope anyone else that is going has a great time as well. This is our first time attending any sort of convention so really not sure what to expect.

I hope this is allowed here, if not, feel free to remove my post, mods

My name is Richard Silva, I'm a young Brazilian writer(17) who just published their first book. Since I was a kid I wrote things, but for the first time, I made something I am going to share with the world. Currently, I'm finishing Brazilian integral high school, which in other words, wastes 9 hours of my day with mostly nothing. It's very stressful, and leaves me with not much appropriate time for actually writing quality content, so you might imagine how many reviews this book had to get before I felt like I was satisfied.

I would like to encourage you to read my book, and share your thoughts on it, of course, it's me first one, so constructive criticism is very welcomed. My desire is to be able to make a living out of my art, and when reading this book, you are helping me make this dream possible :)

And please, if you did enjoy it(even if it's a little bit), leave me a review on google play saying how much you like it, and why you like it. As for you, fellow Brazilians, a version in Portuguese is coming soon!

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/14974738

Anybody who uses the Internet should read E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops. It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, it's as relevant today as the day it was published. Forster has several prescient notions including instant messages (email!) and cinematophoes (machines that project visual images).

-Paul Rajlich

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I stumbled upon this story ages ago and I can't remember the name of the website anymore. It was a collection of fantasy stories taking place in the same world written by two people. The story I started reading starts with a man waking up in a field with a dagger wrapped in silk laying on his chest. When he looks around he sees other people laying in the field as well with similar bundles on their chests. He gets up and walks to a nearby tree row. As he is looking in the trees someone else comes to tell him that the others are waking up too. As they start talking and forming small groups a wizard appeared and announced to everyone that "the trial" was beginning. A large tower had also appeared behind him. The people were then teleported into a dark room that was presumably inside the tower. The people started calling out to each other and fumbling around in the dark and that's where I stopped reading. I was really excited to read those stories because it seemed like there would be a lot of world building. I would very much appreciate any help finding the story or the website it was on.

Was just checking to see if anyone else is going to be attending Dragonsteel in a couple weeks. The better half and I are going and this will be our first convention of any type.

Does anyone have any pointers or thoughts on how to make the most of a convention like this?

Side note if anyone knows SLC we booked for a few extra days so always looking for recs that way as well.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/948134

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Trying to help 'em out.

I just finished Death Masks by Jim Butcher, 5th book of The Dresden Files. Really enjoying the series.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening?