Fantasy books, stories, ＆c

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2389013

Hey, everyone.

Start listening to the unofficial audiobooks through this link here.

I suggest reading along the first audiobook A Game of Thrones and then the second audiobook A Clash of Kings and so on and so forth from that link onward.

Either patronize your library by getting a book from there, a copy of A Game of Thrones and its subsequent sequel novels, or get a PDF from Z Library or Anna's archive.

Reek, reek, it rhymes with leak...

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2388856

Start here.

Read along while you're listening, using perhaps a copy from your library or a PDF version of A Game of Thrones from Z Library or Anna's archive; best way to read this series.

Who is your favorite character from the books? (Not the dumb show.)

Better than Roy Dotrice's version (which is the official audiobook version).

This is the unofficial audiobook version.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2388667

Start here.

And read a book PDF of the first book (A Game of Thrones) from Z Library or Anna's archive.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2354122

Start listening here.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2353956

Start here and read along to the book.

Grab a PDF if you have to or patronize your local library.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2319702

Davos best character, imho.

Start here to begin reading the books (while you listen to this, of course).

Grab a PDF of A Game of Thrones and start. Move on to A Clash of Kings and so on and so forth.

See my other posts here and then here.

Ciao!

@GinAndJuche@hexbear.net

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2319326

The best audiobook version of A Song of Ice and Fire.

Better than Roy Dotrice's version, imho.

You can start here.

I suggest reading along with the actual book.

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.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2205934

Reek, reek, it rhymes with freak...

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2190427

Starting this up right now.

Also, you can start listening from A Game Of Thrones onward right over here.

@GinAndJuche@hexbear.net

Don't forget to read Dunk & Egg.

I don't know whether or not I should watch House of the Dragon. I hated the Game of Thrones TV show (much prefer the books) and I'm afraid that it will be just as bad (and just as overrated).

Also:

DavidReadsAsoiaf (unofficial narrator) > Roy Detroyce (official narrator for A Song of Ice and Fire)

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2156473

The Widlings bend the knee to Stannis Baratheon.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2129517

I really, really suggest this audio-book version of A Song of Ice and Fire over Roy Dotrice's official version (which sucks, btw).

Listen to this version.

Not to the official version.

Dewit, if you like A Song of Ice and Fire.

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.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1967643

20 minutes or so.

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

Seen on this comment.

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?