Just finished Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.
i found OandC pretty underwhelming, but it may have just been overhyped (to me)
in the same vein, sailor song by ken kesey is fantastic, deserves to be up there with 1984 and brave new world as a genre classic imo, though its a lot more fun. and i found the future-setting stuff in the new david mitchell book incredibly compelling
Stumbled across Fool's Assassin, Fitz and the Fool by Robin Hobb, checked it out online and found out that she has written quite a few - if she is good, I think I start at the beginning, Assassin's Apprentice which is the first part in a series that quite a few recommend before reading Fool's Assassin.
So…has one of you read one of her books? If so, what do/did you think?
i read the first assassin trilogy back in higschool/uni when i was really into fantasy, thought it was incredible. i recently found out she wrote a follow up trilogy, which i binge-read. i got a bit tired of her schtick, but honestly consuming that amount of any writer in such a short time is bound to have a similar effect. she's just released the first book of a third trilogy based around those two…
bottom line, the first set of books is great, genre classics and very unique, definitely worth a read. and if you love them, there's lots more to look forward to
seriously? holy shit how long is that, 10,000 pages? i read the first book back in 2000 and that was enough: while i enjoyed the story, there was no way i was sticking around for what promised to be the longest and most convoluted fantasy series of all time
AND
while we're on the subject/if you've read this far: check out the heroes by joe abercrombie. i read some of his earlier stuff which was fun and dark but nothing special. the heroes is an ass kicking story with killer characters AND really manages to turn the genre and a lot of its more tiresome conventions on their ears, in ways he flirted with in earlier books but absolutely nails in this one
"Nobody really gives a shit that you don't like the thing that you have no firsthand experience with." Dave