Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

What are the top three books the whole world but you has read (specifically, ones that you're interested in reading)?

It's 10:55 on Thursday night in my time zone.. it counts. ;P

Let’s see...

The Lord of the Rings 🤦🏽‍♀️
East of Eden
And ...up until yesterday I could have said anything by Brandon Sanderson.

Sherlock Holmes
Don Quixote
Anything by HP Lovecraft

anything Sanderson :D

Malazan
Stormlight Archive
Anything by Joe Abercrombie

Kingkiller Chronicles
Game of Thrones

I dunno about #3... I read too much to know what I'm missing... seeing 500,000 ratings for Rothfuss rattled loose GRRM...

A Court of Thrones and Roses
Riyria Chronicles
Expanse

1. Malazan Book of the Fallen
2. Dune
3. The Black Company

1 - The Mistborn series - read the first book when I was younger
2 - Godblind
3 - The Tawny Man Trilogy

Kingkiller Chronicles
Malazan
Expanse

The Stormlight Archives
Expanse
Nevernight Chronicles

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "A Court of Thrones and Roses
Riyria Chronicles
Expanse"

I guess I could say Sarah J Maas... I've been on the fence so many times about trying them, since I generally like fairytale re-tellings... but there are so many polarized reviews that scare me away...

Silvana wrote: "Sherlock Holmes
Don Quixote
Anything by HP Lovecraft"

I'm reading The Necronomicon Loveraft collection at the moment.
Seriously heavy going but amazingly creepy!

Iain wrote: "Diana Stormblessed wrote: "A Court of Thrones and Roses
Riyria Chronicles
Expanse"

I guess I could say Sarah J Maas... I've been on the fence so many times about trying them, since I generally lik..."

Ditto. I even have book 1 and I'm still scared to start it.

COTAR was a DNF for me. I have a hard time with Maas' writing - too much erratic decision making by the characters. I can never follow the thought process. It drives me nuts.

Niki Hawkes wrote: "COTAR was a DNF for me. I have a hard time with Maas' writing - too much erratic decision making by the characters. I can never follow the thought process. It drives me nuts."

That's probably something that would annoy me. But I still feel like I need to read it since everyone I know has :-/

I had a difficult time coming up with titles for this list. It seems like I've dabbled in just about every popular author I was interested in. Even so, there's one obvious one: Malazan.

My other would maybe be Tad Williams.

I'm probably overthinking this.

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "COTAR was a DNF for me. I have a hard time with Maas' writing - too much erratic decision making by the characters. I can never follow the thought process. It drives me nuts."

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I went into it already annoyed from Throne of Glass books, so perhaps a fresh venture in could be the difference maker? :) There were a bunch of things I really loved about the book. The beginning was killer. Maybe I'll revisit eventually.

Niki Hawkes wrote: "I had a difficult time coming up with titles for this list. It seems like I've dabbled in just about every popular author I was interested in. Even so, there's one obvious one: Malazan.

My other ..."

Same... I've jumped on so many Buddy Reads in the past 6 months, that I've hit so many highlights... or am about to...

Here's a useful Listopia list I just found: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

#3/4 for me: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...

That's a helpful list. The only one I see that I haven't read yet that I have interest in is Dune... although I should've just taken inspiration from our thread Haha.

The Lord of the Rings
The Way of Kings

I can't really think of anything else that I would want to read that everyone else has read.

Niki Hawkes wrote: "My other would maybe be Tad Williams. "

You could still join us for the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series :)

For me it's also Malazan, then most of Sanderson's books and... hmmm maybe Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel?

Anni wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "My other would maybe be Tad Williams. "

You could still join us for the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series :)"

It's been eating at me that I haven't been able to make time for it haha. I'm hoping to catch up...

This is so tough. Like Niki said I’ve feel like I’ve dabbled in a ton of stuff. That said I’ll go with:

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Riftwar by Raymond E. Feist
The Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts

Planning to start them all over the summer.

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Anni wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "My other would maybe be Tad Williams. "

You could still join us for the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series :)"

It's been eating at me that I haven't been able to mak..."

That would be great! :) I haven't finished yet, but I really like it so far and would totally recommend it

Lord of the rings (hope to rectify this soon with my pocket leather box set)

Malazen (attempted but wasn't the right time)

Witcher series

@Niki What the hell are you waiting for?????? READ IT :) :) :) :)

When does your Lord of the Rings set come, Ahdam?

It has arrived already actually I just want to find the right time to start fellowship of the ring soon and I am honestly in love with it so cant wait to start it soon

I get that, Adham. I have to start a book at just the right time

Ahdam wrote: "
@Niki What the hell are you waiting for?????? READ IT :)..."

I know I could always count on you when it comes to the Dragonbone Chair :D

#SHAME #DISGRACE

Woe is me!!

LOTR

Bastard Gentlemen

An original Shakespeare's (Didn't have an original one in my syllabus ever. I have read only the abridged ones.)

I guess I'd better read the Dragonbone Chair too or incur the wrath of Ahdam

Sharene wrote: "Malazan book of the fallen ..

Harry Potter

Lord of the rings ...

I know ! I am the worst case .. like who doesn’t read Harry Potter ? But for now I am only planning on malazan and in future m..."

I get what you mean about Harry Potter! If you hadn't read it before the movies, the motivation must be hard to find. I'm not a fan of starting a book knowing exactly how it will go.

Three books that everyone has read and I haven't...

The Name of the Wind
Throne of Glass - or any Sarah J Maas
The Hunger Games

And technically The Way of Kings as I've just started. :)

Considering I’ve been talking about the book for the past year you probably should 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I still haven't started 1. Stormlight (cunningly stalled till I could make this post)
2. Book of the Ancestor...altho' any frontrunning series would count. There's so much I haven't read in fantasy that I could just keep listing.
And for 3. I'll say Riyria since I'm rebooting it from next month, and have only read one book outta the lot so far....
Haven't read Strange and Norrell either...nor any Sarah J Mass....

Non-fantasy edition
1. One hundred years in Solitude. I swear, I swear the number of times I have started this EVIL book #booknemesis and just can't finish...and i can't even blame the genre or the texture of the writing because I'm doing the same with *yerk* Eat, Pray, Love.
2. Anna Karenina. But I will this year #promise
3. Wolf Hall and BUtB

@Ahdam....cheers on the leatherbound editions of LoTR.
We will want a picture ok?

Zaara wrote: "I still haven't started 1. Stormlight (cunningly stalled till I could make this post)
2. Book of the Ancestor...altho' any frontrunning series would count. There's so much I haven't read in fantasy..."

Get started on Stormlight miss, everyone else is miles ahead of me! 😭 haha.

I will do also I think I’ll switch out lord of the rings with Harry Potter since I’m reading it now 😂😂👍🏽👍🏽

@Siobhan. Yeah. Monday. I'm giving myself this one day to catch up on KoT and then it'll get more manageable. Yeah.

@Ahdam...I JEZZT commented on your status update 😂

Anni wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "Zaara wrote: "I still haven't started 1. Stormlight (cunningly stalled till I could make this post)
2. Book of the Ancestor...altho' any frontrunning series would count. There's so ..."

Can't be too far, I'm only 150 pages in! 😂

That's cool, Zaara. No rush really, I'm only joking :)

Hey I'm happy you care :-) Ssssssssiobhan 😘 I'll start moro. But Ima take it slooooooow so don't you worry about being left behind. I will do 50 pages a day max and finish in twenty odd days, just before Riyria.
Bcuz cheers hunnyluvduckstoots....you'z talking to the geniass who started both Malazan and Stormlight the same year 😃

Zaara wrote: "Hey I'm happy you care :-) Ssssssssiobhan 😘 I'll start moro. But Ima take it slooooooow so don't you worry about being left behind. I will do 50 pages a day max and finish in twenty odd days, just ..."

Yep you've certainly put a lot on your plate! But I bet you can make it work xD
I ideally need to finish before Best Served Cold. That gives me about 12 days?! I'd better up my pages per day a little!

Well here is my leathere lord of the rings books as well as the memory sorrow and thorn trilogy because I love it so damn much

image:

You know your annoyed when your phone can take better pictures than your camera...... I need to get back into photography this summer

Harry Potter
The faithful and the fallen
Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy

Zaara wrote: "I still haven't started 1. Stormlight (cunningly stalled till I could make this post)
2. Book of the Ancestor...altho' any frontrunning series would count. There's so much I haven't read in fantasy..."

What BUtb?

Ahdam wrote: "Well here is my leathere lord of the rings books as well as the memory sorrow and thorn trilogy because I love it so damn much

image:

You know your annoyed when your phone can take better pictur..."

I stared at this picture for a while and it doesn't make sense to me... If these are the bookspines of Memorry, Sorrow and Thorn, shouldn't there be pages on the right side and not your room??? What magic are you working Adham? :O

And a friend of mine has the same LotR edition :) It's very beautiful, but also a pain in the ass reading it, because the letters are quite small...

@Ahdam...thanks, you!
@Manju....sequel