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The Lies of Locke Lamora The Stainless Steel Rat series (note that it's science fiction but has a lively, rollicking feel that I associate more with YA fantasy) For more YA stuff, the Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends series have a character that is an interesting twist on the D&D notion of a rogue. In Chronicles, he's a featured supporting character that would probably be 4th billed in a movie. In Legends he's promoted to co-lead. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Aug 2, 2022 |
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Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows is pretty good in the fantasy heist line. It's not strictly about thieves, but Roger Zelazny's Jack of Shadows might work as well.
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for a good fantasy book that is about thieves. Does anyone have any recommendations? The Lies of Locke Lamora is good. If you're looking for a comedy heist, you could do much worse than Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures series, starting with Another Fine Myth. I'd be surprised if your library doesn't have at least part of the series. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are the classic fantasy thief duo. They've aged a fair bit, but I think they're still worth reading to see just how much stuff later writers borrow from them.
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for a good fantasy book that is about thieves. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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Aug 2, 2022 18:26
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Fantastic, thanks for the great recommendations everyone.
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I'm looking for a recommendation for someone else. She just finished reading Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Overall she really liked it, but she didn't like how rushed the final chapters and ending felt. She thought the resolution between the central relationship between Howl and Sophie, from antagonistic to in love, was cheap and unearned. She would like another book that's similar to Howl's, but more adult or thoughtful about the actual characters relationships, and not as "simple and unrealistic". I don't read much fantasy, and none of the ones I've read have any relationships like the one in HMC, so hopefully someone here can give her a rec for me? She's a big fan of the Studio Ghibli adaptation. She is not interested in the "sequel" book, "Castle in the Air".
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Franchescanado posted:I'm looking for a recommendation for someone else. dunno if there's a novelization, but porco rosso is the best i can think of from ghibli
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Franchescanado posted:I'm looking for a recommendation for someone else. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, by Patricia McKillip? Carry On, by Rainbow Rowell? Deathless, by Catherynee M. Valente?
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The Tombs of Atuan by Le Guin has a similar sounding relationship between Tenar and Ged. It's the second Earthsea book, but you don't need to have read the first. e: just remembered that it was also quasi-adapted into a lesser Ghibli movie rollick fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Aug 4, 2022 |
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Aug 4, 2022 20:09
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Definitely seconding The Tombs of Atuan
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Maybe Robin Mckinley's "The Blue Sword "and "The Hero and the Crown"? Possibly "Dragonslayer" by Barbara Hambley.
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rollick posted:The Tombs of Atuan by Le Guin has a similar sounding relationship between Tenar and Ged. It's the second Earthsea book, but you don't need to have read the first. Yeah this is a great rec
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Strangely obscure, specific request but I've used TBB for a few research jumping points and I figured if anyone could help, they're all here. I'm looking for non-fiction (or semi-autobiographical fiction) about growing up as a teenager in the 90s, in the midwest. Grungy, cynical and punk scenes would be ideal but anything about growing up from the 90s to the Myspace era, in the middle of nowhere. The kind of stories about regular non-famous people who couldn't wait to leave. I know that's probably a tall order but it's worth a shot. I took a look through Goodreads lists and it's garbage. There are projects dedicated to preserving old abandoned diaries and journals from everyday people but google is giving me journals from ages past in Britain, and not in Nowheresville Ohio. Those would be 100% what I'm looking for though and I'm going to continue my search for something like that but I'm not super hopeful. A lot of what I've looked at so far are mostly pre-war, which doesn't help either. Any help is much appreciated. Even stuff like old angelfire pages are primo. Thank y'all for coming through for me before for weird obscure poo poo, hopefully this one isn't too strange either.
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Any military fiction written by someone who served on board an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer?
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R.L. Stine posted:Strangely obscure, specific request but I've used TBB for a few research jumping points and I figured if anyone could help, they're all here. https://geocities.restorativland.org/
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R.L. Stine posted:Strangely obscure, specific request but I've used TBB for a few research jumping points and I figured if anyone could help, they're all here.
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Thanks for both recommendations, I've ordered a copy of After Yesterday's Crash, and those archived Geocities pages are an absolute goldmine, holy poo poo.
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neurotech posted:I'm looking for a good fantasy book that is about thieves. Does anyone have any recommendations? Late to this one, but I didn't see it mentioned The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn
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Azhais posted:Late to this one, but I didn't see it mentioned Thank you, I'll check it out.
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Anything similar in tone and content to Netflix's Castlevania? Dark, medieval, high fantasy with vampires as major characters or even protagonists.
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Senjuro posted:Anything similar in tone and content to Netflix's Castlevania? Dark, medieval, high fantasy with vampires as major characters or even protagonists. Maybe try the original Dracula? I was surprised to enjoy it as much as I did. Coldfire Trilogy by C. S. Friedman
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LLSix posted:Not sure if you're looking for books or TV shows, but this is the book barn so I'll give book recommendations.
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Senjuro posted:Anything similar in tone and content to Netflix's Castlevania? Dark, medieval, high fantasy with vampires as major characters or even protagonists. Kim Newman's Anno Dracula books might be worth looking into, but they're not really high fantasy and they're of very varying quality.
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain books, maybe?
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Jack of Shadows, by Roger Zelazny, is not actually a vampire but has many similarities to one.
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Senjuro posted:Anything similar in tone and content to Netflix's Castlevania? Dark, medieval, high fantasy with vampires as major characters or even protagonists. I mean, maybe you’d like Blindsight. It’s dark and kind of hard sci fi’s version of fantasy, and vampires…
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I liked Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Lathe of Heaven (I also liked the weirdness in Lathe of Heaven). Anything else worth reading from her?
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PRADA SLUT posted:I liked Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Lathe of Heaven (I also liked the weirdness in Lathe of Heaven). Anything else worth reading from her? All of it? Especially The Dispossessed.
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PRADA SLUT posted:I liked Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Lathe of Heaven (I also liked the weirdness in Lathe of Heaven). Anything else worth reading from her? There's no bad Le Guin, just stuff that doesn't work for various people.
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PRADA SLUT posted:I liked Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Lathe of Heaven (I also liked the weirdness in Lathe of Heaven). Anything else worth reading from her? Yeah my personal favorites are The Dispossessed, The Tombs of Atuan, and The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. I thought The Lathe of Heaven would probably be better as a novella but still good.
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PRADA SLUT posted:I liked Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Lathe of Heaven (I also liked the weirdness in Lathe of Heaven). Anything else worth reading from her? The Unreal and the Real is a nice, big collection of her short stories that covers a huge range of her writing that will probably give you a nice way to find places you'd like to dig deeper. There's some Hainish stuff (same universe as TLHoD), Orsinia (a made up real world country), bit of early Earthsea, and lots of thoughtful goodness. And others have already mentioned The Dispossessed but yeah that's real good.
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I've been reading Commonweal Series. I can thoroughly recommend the first two books in the series. I didn't enjoy the viewpoint characters as much for the 3rd or 4th books (and the sequence of events in the 4th book felt contrived to me). I haven't tried the fifth yet, but since I already bought it, I probably will eventually. The thing I liked best about them is that they're a fantasy setting with a communal form of government. It's a refreshing change from the usual sort of vaguely feudal/authoritarian settings. Are there other (fiction) books with similarly communal or benevolent cultures? I guess Beta Colony from the Vorkosigan Saga would be a partial example of this. It didn't seem very communal to me, but it does have a universal safety-net and education.
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Wow I get to recommend The Dispossessed twice in a row.
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LLSix posted:The thing I liked best about them is that they're a fantasy setting with a communal form of government. It's a refreshing change from the usual sort of vaguely feudal/authoritarian settings. Are there other (fiction) books with similarly communal or benevolent cultures? Seconding The Dispossessed as above; Le Guin is an absolutely amazing writer by any standard. Also, you're definitely going to want to check out The Culture in Iain M. Banks's books. (edit: that thread is a little weird; here's the author's own explanation) Vienna Circlejerk fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Aug 13, 2022 |
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My wife and I read The Anomaly by Michael-Rutger and we enjoyed its creepiness. Any recommendations for something similar?
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Any good horror books recs? I really liked the movie/tv adaptations of Annihilation and The Terror, especially the "people out of their element and something is hunting them" bit. Same with stuff like The Thing or Alien.
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Azran posted:Any good horror books recs? I really liked the movie/tv adaptations of Annihilation and The Terror, especially the "people out of their element and something is hunting them" bit. Same with stuff like The Thing or Alien. We have such sights to show you
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I'm looking for audio books, that have protagonists who are already in a relationship, like a married couple fighting crime, or a fantasy epic with two people in love. It's been so incredibly long since I read a book though, that I don't even really remember what I super liked. I more just want to get better at writing fiction so wanted to get back into reading fiction. I liked A series of Unfortunate Events, Harry Potter, Animorphs, and the first couple of maximum ride books, but never got into the rest of the series. One of my Favorite Stephen King books was about this evil rear end cop that terrorized a town in a bubble, well until the end of it at least. My favorite series of all time, was about a kid who wanted to be an evil wizard, tried too hard at it, and ended up falling in (familial) love with a Djinni and tore down the system of djinni oppression (I forget what it's called. It's by Stroud.) I don't really think I enjoy stories with high stakes anymore though, I like sweet things, just kind of warm soft stories, and if it's a bit meandering but has a lot of great character moments, that's a real plus for me. Like honestly even a short story anthology but with characters I really like would be Ok, as long as it's strong. I've been told Terry Pratchet is good over and over, but I'm not sure he's what I'm looking for right now, though if there's a really good story or set that is a must read I'd be down to try it. I think I'd prefer shorter stories that are less of an investment until I really get used to reading regularly again.
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All of the Amelia Peabody books after the first one have her solving mysteries and doing archaeology with her husband, and the audiobooks read by Barbara Rosenblat are great.
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Rand Brittain posted:All of the Amelia Peabody books after the first one have her solving mysteries and doing archaeology with her husband, and the audiobooks read by Barbara Rosenblat are great. Seconding this! It's a very warm series with interesting plots. Peters was a trained egyptologist so there's a lot of actual knowledge that went into the books.
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