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    MyClipboardIsMyViolin replied to the topic Fantasy/Sci-Fi Book Recommendations in the forum General Writing Discussions 7 years, 7 months ago

    @myclipboardismyviolin I’m an adult (technically), but YA is still my favourite genre and the one I usually read.

    No worries, that was me for awhile. I still go back there for all of my old favorite authors like Garth Nix and Shannon Hale, but I have ran out of Garth Nix books to read: send help. 😛 Basically anything by those two authors is really good – I particularly like Across the Wall by Garth Nix and the Books of Bayern series for Shannon Hale. The Princess Academy series by Shannon Hale is good, but Bayern has better characters and more spiritual depth, so yeah.

    Pendragon Cycle by Stephen Lawhead. I’ve just started these, which I think are probably leaning more toward historical than fantasy, but they’re retellings of King Arthur and involve a lot of mythology/psuedohistory.

    I’m going to assume that this is different from the Stephen Lawhead who wrote Empyrion I and Empyrion II (hopefully that isn’t out of print, heh). I kinda remember that series name –  I remember considering in and rejecting it for some reason. Might be worth another look.

    Also I remember another author who did a very good King Arthur retelling thing – I need to look that one up. I do like the Howard Pyle Version, but there’s another one I like…

    Anything by J.R.R. Tolkien

    Yes, I read that. 😛 I have not read the Simdrillion, however – I understand it to be a reading exercise on the order of Infinite Jest and Mason and Dixon, neither of which I have finished (i.e. Moby Dick).

    Books need to emotionally engage me to push me through them, and if you have a long work with no engagement, what happens to me is that I stop every 5 pages and go do something else, and then I incur library fines for not finishing it and endless renewals and finally I get tired of it and give up, in which case that is the end. Beings who wish me to read the Simdrillion will have to make the case to me that this will not happen.

    The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. I haven’t finished this yet and its not entirely clean, with a lot of language, but still has really good prose, in my opinion.

    This never bothered me, but I don’t write work with it – I find that those words have an emotional impact that isn’t what I want in my work. However, I have a high tolerance of it in the works of others. Very high.

    Thank you very much all, I have plenty of new titles to investigate! I will be putting Brandon Sanderson on the list, @i-david @daeus-lamb

    @myclipboardismyviolin I’m trying to find some good ones myself. There aren’t many from my experience. <span style=”-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);”>:P</span> 

    This topic is free, man. I shall not be offended if you steal some – I can’t stop you. 😛

    Oh, and this isn’t fantasy proper, but you should really read Till We Have Faces by C.S.Lewis.

    I have not read this book, but I have listened to the Red album based on it, [i]Until We Have Faces[/i]. Does that count? 😛 (Okay, sure thing, I’ll go order it off Amazon, but I am not paying for rush shipping! Actually I have a hoard of CBD gift-card money that I might be able to use for that…)

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