Anyone read these books? Also general /tg/ book thread

>>55390020
Fucking lame, try the prince of fools trilogy.

If you are hell bent on reading pre-pubescent bullshit try the rangers apprentice

>>55390285
i enjoyed the blood and bone magic, even if the writing was less than stellar

I did a long time ago. Shame the movie sucked ass and barely had anything to do with it.

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Anybody read Assassin's Apprentice and all the other Realm of the Elderlings books ?

>>55390393
the movie was truly awful

>>55390020
I liked the concept, supernatural forces being inherently evil is something I'm generally a fan of (I like the whole 'using an evil weapon for good purposes' argument which tends to take place in such stories) and the idea of the Spooks having to rely on surprise and traps to counter magic users seemed more interesting than the usual fantasy stuff.

>>55390428
Yeah of course, I have a love hate relationship with it tough they are one of the few books than made me FEEL. Fucking weepy Fitz.

>>55390428
Yeah, they periodically annoy and amuse me in equal measure. I'll be rolling my eyes at the story and then Fits will go on a cocaine-fuelled stab-rampage or the incidental messages between a pair of Rain Wilds messenger bird tenders will blossom into a romance and I'll get into it.

So how many of you have read the Belgarath? Top tier series, after the hobbit, to start Fantasy.

>>55391047
Yeah they're good, decent bubblegum books for when you just want to read the fantasy equivalent of bolter porn.

I prefer the Elenium and the Tamuli though, I like the genuinely competent protagonists.

>>55391222
Bevier is best boy.
Tough Belgarath had better Woman, Polgara it's my waifu.

>>55391047
ce'nedra was my sexual awakening

>>55391222

That's a bit unfair. They aren't literature by any means but I'd say they're better than BL trash.

You know what is a cool setting, and even has had a few separate RPG campaign supplements published about it?

The Black Company by Glen Cook.

Good stuff. Magic is cool and FEELS magical, setting has unique villains and protagonists. Lot of room to make your own as well.

>>55391564
My nigger

Currently reading 'Who Fears Death' by Nnedi Okorafor. It's pretty legit. Post-apocalyptic sci-fantasy set in Nigera, about this girl born from a rape, who has powers over life and death, and has attracted the malevolent attention of a supernatural force that's trying to kill her.

WHEN THE FUCK IS BOOK THREE OF THE KINGSLAYER CHRONICLES?
I SWEAR TO GOD IF THAT FUCKING FAT FUCK DIES BEFORE HE OR HIS FUCKING TEAM OF SHITTERS FINNISH THE BOOK I'LL GO TO HELL AND FUCKING KILL HIM AGAIN.

I mean, the second book wasn't even good, but I just need to see and end to that story.

>>55390285
Ranger's Apprentice was THE SHIT
Except for that book where his girlfriend is taking care of him the whole time like what the fuck were you thinking

Edge Chronicles was top tier.

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Has anyone here read pic related?

I can't recommend it enough, it's great. Easily one of my favorite fantasy books of all time.

>>55390020
are there any manga one would recommend off the beaten path?

>>55394742
Reading Shindol's stuff is good.

>>55394742
Golden Kamuy is really good. Not sci-fantasy, its a historical fiction adventure about a veteran of the Russo-Japanese war and an Ainu girl teaming up to find a treasure hidden on a map tattooed on multiple convicts. So they have to collect the skins and put them together. Very odd sense of humour, but really cool.

Dungeon Meshi is pretty good (I'm assuming you haven't heard of it). Its about a group of adventurers trying to rescue the party leader's sister trapped in a magic dungeon, while living off the dungeon critters. Fantasy, humour, and a bit of cooking thrown in.

That's all that's springing to mind at the mo'

I'm about a third of the way through the last book of the Prince of Nothing trilogy. I started reading it because I was in the mood for fantasy that has lots of grotesque and spooky elements. I'm not exactly disappointed, but the big bad making an appearance in the epilogue of the second book fell very flat. I read an entire story about a crusade marching through a desert, including descriptions of the horrific effects of starvation and exposure, and then at the end of it all we cut to the big bad. All I could think at that point was "I've masturbated to this very scenario multiple times from multiple viewpoints."

I can't take the Consult seriously.

>>55394821
His second trilogy set in the same timeline/setting is much better, IMO.

It has everything that made Prince of Fools good but with less edgelording, more entertaining characters and a more coherent plot.

>>55392855
Read it, never seen why everyone raves about it, didn't finish the saga (when they go south basically).
The setting it's barely explored in the first books, the north could have been some part of the forgoteen realms and I woulnd't have been surprised.
The few interesting characters apart of croaker end ded, while the grating ones like raven or the heck it's called survive the worse odds.
The only part I liked was the weird desert where interesting stuff appeared, the rest was a mess.

>>55394673
You are a man of class and sophistication.