>last of us
The zombies were not an intelligent hivemind that committed tactical subterranean zerg attacks in the game. They also weren't hentai French kiss rapists. Neither of those additions changed or improved the story and the former arguably made it worse.
do people actually think to themselves "wow this is so beautiful" when they see this in the same way they do when heteros embrace in a romance movie? or are they just pretending so they dont lose social points?
>I assume there are no Black folk in it,
WRONG
the author takes great pains to tell you that several characters are Black folk and there's a fat white witch he tells you prefers fricking Black folk
is calot even black? and once he's dead doesn't she want to frick paran? he's not black either
but she is described the same way people describe thick b***hes who are "built for it" so i can see your logic
Harry Potter is for 12 yr olds and boring
Lotr is only good in the two towers 1 and 3rd book is boring
Got is pretty boring except for weird sex scenes in the book
I can only comment on the first two Stormlight Archive books (coming to a streaming service near you, watch), they were a bit young adult but very good. The third book Oathbringer, holy fricking shit, its the most boring fantasy I've ever read. 1200 pages long and literally nothing at all happens until page 497.
I can only comment on the first two Stormlight Archive books (coming to a streaming service near you, watch), they were a bit young adult but very good. The third book Oathbringer, holy fricking shit, its the most boring fantasy I've ever read. 1200 pages long and literally nothing at all happens until page 497.
I read the whole series and enjoyed it up to book 6. Book 7 (Reaper's Gale) was absolute shit and it only got worse through to the end.
Erickson is an extremely frustrating writer and is incapable of delivering a payoff after making you slog through 10 books and read about a thousand pointless characters. It had potential (Deadhouse Gates was my fave) but in the end it really sucks.
wtf reaper's gale is my favorite. i love the corruptive chaos sorcery the edur warlocks use and the conclusion (karsa vs rhulad then karsa goes through to intimidate the crippled god) is kino
plus it has beak lighting all his candles which is one of the best moments of the series imo
downloaded of zlibrary before it got shut down, has there been a successor yet?
I should note that while the standalone sequel books themselves are sort of self-contained if you want to read the sequel trilogy you should read them since otherwise a lot of things won't make sense.
this homosexual series is what Cinemaphile memers try to portray ASOIAF as. "the arc is that there is no arcs xd! xd i bought you from a prostitute for two coins!" even has a redditor cripple character for you guys to self-insert into
kinda weird to do best served cold without establishing caul shivers first, will make his arc less impactful without the character development from the trilogy
i hope they get ralph ineson (guy from the witch) for him though, love that dude
caul shivers doesnt really have much character development in the first trilogy he's the exact same guy going into best served cold as he was when we first meet him
well he comes to terms with the fact his dad and brother were buttholes and maybe he doesn't need to seek vengeance on their behalf and logen saves his life and says that he's trying to be a better man. clearly that resonates with shivers since he leaves (allowing him to be in best served cold..) instead of betraying logen with the others
i'd say he's more idealistic at the start of best served cold but obviously that doesn't last
most normies can barely follow got and hotd
malazan has alot more characters and multiple magic systems, timelines, and gods
it'd be impossible for a normal audience to enjoy even if somehow it had a good adaption
this is true sadly and it's why something like the Stormlight archive would have a higher chance of success, because it panders to normies and redditors like
I can only comment on the first two Stormlight Archive books (coming to a streaming service near you, watch), they were a bit young adult but very good. The third book Oathbringer, holy fricking shit, its the most boring fantasy I've ever read. 1200 pages long and literally nothing at all happens until page 497.
>So how are we supposed to depict Warren travel accurately when they're literal gateways into the veins and arteries of an elder god, who is also a recurring character?
Malazan would need i huge budget and when you have a huge budget the producers want the normie audience because it's the one that makes real money, they don't want the manchild who still watches cartoons audience
I was saying that a literal child created a power system that made more sense than Malazan's.
And so is the plotting, come to think of it. >people dying of thirst as they cross desserts >crawling over potshards because the planet is a hundred bajillion years old (while dying of thirst)
but there's dinosaurs with swords for arms!
The first book is... off compared to the rest. Iirc it was written a decade before the others and originally a screenplay. The second book is considered one of the best, it gets intense.
The second book is my favourite thus far. I just finished the 6th one. I would suggest finishing the second one, and if you do not like it, drop the series. The first one I think is the worst one and that seems to be the consensus from what I've read
I gave up after literally the first fricking sentence. It throws so many keyboard salad names with hyphens and apostrophes and diacritics at you it's just beyond farce. Like, you expect me to read and remember this unpronounceable, unmemorable slop?
Something that should be unnecessary within the first fricking SENTENCE of a book. An author should hook his audience with the story, not bore them with having to set up a fricking excel sheet to keep track of the times he banged his head against an Amharic keyboard layout.
i enjoyed it i didn't take much heed to all the spam in their names and pretty much associated the word with a name in my head, wasn't that difficult, didn't need a notebook
I just knew immediately that it'd rely on shitty keyboard salad names to seem "exotic" instead of actually giving shit memorable names and that I'd resent it for it, so I didn't bother.
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Anonymous
ok
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Anonymous
Not that anon but all the cultures and names are based on real historical paralels (mongols, bizantium, arabs, romans), to the point of it being almost an historical setting. Names themselves are kinda irrelevant.
Your loss for missing out for such a dumb reason. I guess you only speak English and get confused when you see anything beyond the basic english alfabet, Genius reading bro.
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Anonymous
I'm ETL, but nice ad hominem.
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Anonymous
Makes the reason even dumber. I guess you simply are an idiot, how's that for an ad hominem.
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Anonymous
what does ETL mean?
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Anonymous
English as a third language
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Anonymous
ok
Makes the reason even dumber. I guess you simply are an idiot, how's that for an ad hominem.
I recently re-read all ~20 Malazan books and enjoyed them but there are a lot of boring sections.
Too complicated to be adapted for npc consumption. If not for that Netflix would be all over it with MUH diversity; most of the characters are black and there are a weird number of lesbians kek.
The first book must be the most forgettable fantasy I've ever read. Aids tbh
I found The Darkness That Comes Before to be MUCH more interesting/compelling
than Gardens of the moon. Kellhus, Achamian, and Cnaur are all very entertaining characters to follow around, but I guess it isn't everybody's cup of tea.
I gave up after literally the first fricking sentence. It throws so many keyboard salad names with hyphens and apostrophes and diacritics at you it's just beyond farce. Like, you expect me to read and remember this unpronounceable, unmemorable slop?
It's okay anon you can go back to reading fantasy where everybody has names like "stormblade" or "treewatcher"
Enjoyable. I stopped at White Luck Warrior when I found out he'll never finish the series
I have hope Bakker is going to finish it before he dies. There is no way in hell he doesn't lose sleep every night knowing that the series he spent his whole life planning still has loose threads. [SPOILER] There is a head on a stick behind you [/SPOILER]
he completely recused himself from society and the internet and became a hermit. don't get your hopes up for the No-God books.
besides, the series are already finished. they end in salt and butchery, as is only fitting
>If not for that Netflix would be all over it with MUH diversity; most of the characters are black and there are a weird number of lesbians kek.
You know they'd just be making additional changes. Hell, current empress is a literal blue woman.
I gave up after literally the first fricking sentence. It throws so many keyboard salad names with hyphens and apostrophes and diacritics at you it's just beyond farce. Like, you expect me to read and remember this unpronounceable, unmemorable slop?
Sci-Fi story where the solar system has been colonized but humanity is spread into caste systems based on colors. Protagonist is a Red (lowest color slave cuck caste system) who goes undercover as a Gold (highest color ubermensch who lead) to try to overthrow them.
First book is honestly kind of similar to Hunger Games without all the YA melodrama stuff but tbh it gets a lot better after that. Becomes sort of like The Expanse crossed with Dune.
It's great. Not particularly deep or unique but a lot of fun with quick pacing. Also nice to have a hyper competent MC that the author doesn't feel the need to really neuter in anyway.
There were actually rumors of a TV adaptation for a while but seems like that's dead. Probably for the best, current Hollywood wouldn't be able to cast so many gigachads ans stacies.
What is this about and is it any good? Is it about some qt warrior woman protag like the cover seems to imply?
Looks fricking kino.
ever been to Cinemaphile?
the series can do no wrong, whereas Sanderson is basically a hack and you might as well be reading Marvel movies
What makes it so? I was under the impression
[...]
predominantly thinks of genre lit as beneath them.
Malazan would need i huge budget and when you have a huge budget the producers want the normie audience because it's the one that makes real money, they don't want the manchild who still watches cartoons audience
>Bro, what if we turn our legally distinct RPG about dragons and shit into an interminable series of novels about people walking through deserts and dying of thirst. >Brooo what if sometimes they're walking through snow and dying of starvation! >Broooooooo that's awesome, you write the first 10 and don't really end it >Broooooooooooo then you write the next ten and...
There's enough interesting shit in there for maybe three books. At Chain of Dogs I thought it was as brilliant as everyone kept saying. By the end I hated everyone involved in writing it and everyone involved in recommending it.
the first few books are about specialist soldiers with squad mages and high explosives going up against incredibly powerful monsters and beings they really have no business fighting
then it starts meandering all over the place
>What is this about
A ten book series that that gives you ten-ish year window into various world conflicts from literally hundreds of first hand perspectives from peasants to soldiers to kings. It's high fantasy with a lot of magic and fantasy races. Pic related is the best image I can find to visualize the races. It is unofficial fan art. I'm not crazy about pic related's art style and I visual a lot of these races differently, but I couldn't find anything else that displays the variety. > and is it any good?
Yes. But it is divisive. The people that hate it really hate it. It is one of my favorite series but I generally don't recommend it. The first book is simultaneously formulaic and confusing. It doesn't actually get good until the second book. On top of that you don't realize the second book is as good as it is until you are 2/3 of the way through it. Books 2-10 are all excellent and book 3 kicked my ass. >Is it about some qt warrior woman protag like the cover seems to imply?
Yes and no. The cover art is vague and misleading. There are qts. There are qt warrior women. But the closest thing to a main character isn't a qt warrior woman.
>Karsa Orlong
Amusingly enough finding out Malazan was based on tabletop roleplaying campaign makes sense perfect when you read about Karsa Orlong. He screams "player deciding to pull a 180 and elevate his character in the process".
>Bro, what if we turn our legally distinct RPG about dragons and shit into an interminable series of novels about people walking through deserts and dying of thirst. >Brooo what if sometimes they're walking through snow and dying of starvation! >Broooooooo that's awesome, you write the first 10 and don't really end it >Broooooooooooo then you write the next ten and...
There's enough interesting shit in there for maybe three books. At Chain of Dogs I thought it was as brilliant as everyone kept saying. By the end I hated everyone involved in writing it and everyone involved in recommending it.
>There's enough interesting shit in there for maybe three books
Reminder that Lord of the Rings is only about 1100 pages combined. Good authors don't need tens of thousands of pages spread over multiple volumes to tell a compelling story.
It has a prestige tv literary quality but much of it would translate very silly on screen like the character designs alone would read pretty goofy and be prohibitively expensive to animate
Script wise it'd take a lot of rejiggering of arcs and condensing characters for anything faithful. But you make a pretty great film about The Chain of Dogs or Midnight Tides, maybe even a Karsa Orlong flick.
For TV I'd try to narrow the scope to a kind of Band of Brothers series following The Bridgeburners and Tavore/Felisin
>Band of brothers style miniseries about the Bridgeburners
Nice idea, I'd agree, keep it focused on relatable people. Later as things go along the scope gets so vast it'd be hard to keep ahold of thr plot. Bouncing around continents and millennia.
Chain of Dogs would be a good single series following Coltaines March through the eyes of thr imperial historian.
Definitely not if they start with Gardens of the Moon. Talking about 300,000 year old undying Neanderthal zombies. Warrens of Chaos fueling magic spells which are attuned by a physical tarot dec cards. Sorta elf guys from other planes of existence. About a dozen different unfathomably ancient and inscrutable alien species. Imperial wizards with weird fricking names who get slaughtered only to be brought back as an animated puppet that goes crazy and turns into a fireball casting chucky doll, and the other is resurrected into an 5 year old goat herder girl. Thr main big bad is a guy entombed in a tree who gets accidentally released and is super pissed all his people are dead and has a genetic compulsion to kill anybody who won't follow him unconditionally.
Oddly later books in the series like Memories of Ice or Midnight Tides have much more linear and easy to follow plots.
Chain of Dogs is a great story but Jesus is it grim.
Chain of Dogs is based on a british retreat from Afghanistan. whether or not there were really child magicians sacrificing a horse for a stat boost is unknown to historians
SAAR PLEASE SAAR DO NOT REINCARNATE ME AS A DOG OR A MONKEY DO NOT FRICKING DO IT DO NOT REEDEM MY REINCARNATION
I think there could be a kino adapation of this, but I'm not sure any studio is based enough to get it made.
it could work because it has lgbt characters the main villain is a female to male transdudel ol >inb4 chuddies saying "woke culture would never let a lgbt person be a villain!!!!"
The main antagonist of mr.robot was a asian troony and no one complained
What was confusing about it? The only thing I can think of is that it's structured kind of oddly with the whole middle of the book being disjointed flashbacks to Sam's past quarrels with his former crewmates who set themselves up as gods.
For me? The part when the pseudo-Hindu deities destroy a city for the high crime of re-discovering the flush toilet.
I really do love it though because it reminds me of the RPGs I used to play as a kid where you were in a medieval world but there were some buttholes in a high tech dome city or on a satellite or something pulling the strings.
yeah. It's kino. >harbor opinions that progress = good >this gets picked up on your brain-tapes when you check in for reincarnation >get forcibly reincarnated into the body of a dog and forced to spy for a lifetime (or more) in penance
What was confusing about it? The only thing I can think of is that it's structured kind of oddly with the whole middle of the book being disjointed flashbacks to Sam's past quarrels with his former crewmates who set themselves up as gods.
he probably got put off by the names changing as the characters change bodies and roles. Either that, or the first chapter being out of place.
i would love to see all the stuff with the marines and perhaps the tiste edur + karsa adapted but there are so many side characters and plots which don't really go anywhere it'd make a fricking mess
I know nothing about this series, but I've tried to read Rejoice, a "sci fi epic from le great author of Malazan series Steven Erikson" and it was a cartoonish, grotesque anti-trump rant disguised as book where aliens come to earth teamining up with a leftist activist to save earth from right wingers (all leftists are beuatiful, diverse and intelligent, right wingers are all ugly old and cartoonishl villainous). The alien give the woman a starship shaped liek a klingon ship and project forcefields that create lanes filled with food and water that allows minorities from 3rd world to walk toward western countries, disabling all weapons and paralizing all armies.
Ever two chapters there is non-trump pashing his fists on the desk screaming orders to his evil incompetent consultants.
It's literally what I described and worse. The guy got so unfathomably mad at elections that he had to write a book about it to not explode. All I could think reading that shit is "this author is a toddler and wrfites like a teenager"
I am a big fan of the main series and your take is still something I find believable about Rejoice. People change. He has various short stories about a pair of necromancers and their manservant which are mostly just shitposts about some of his gripes, I still find them great as well, especially the Healthy Dead.
In the main series, if there is an evil Erikson bashes on its different kinds of real tyranny, genocide-levels of intolerance, wilful ignorance and self-righteousness. Or at least those are the traits most of his villains have, and there are obviously some rants about human short-sightedness. If you can't get past that you probably shouldn't try, if not give the first three books a go
I've noticed a lot of these people tend to go completely unhinged as they get older. There's a real sweet spot for talent and it's gone for a lot of these dudes after a certain age.
For example, I am not excited about winds of winter because I know George has fallen off a cliff, and he did that years ago, the first 3 books shit on the last 2.
Doesn't matter if they suck, they have to suck so much people cancel amazon.
As long as it has name value every year they'll drag another IP to be raped just so people have something to "look forward too"
They will die off after the next HBO spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms which normies will drop because all the dragons are dead in it and there are no battles.
Catholics in space to investigate alien singing broadcast, land on planet, come into contact with herbivore aliens, start to teach them agriculture, leads to population boom, alien babies get harvested by the actual source of the signal who are predators, sole surviving Jesuit priest is taken into sexual slavery and tortured and mutilated, somehow escapes but faith is shattered, causes societal upheaval on earth with report. And that's just the first book.
>mfw no Siege of Capustan/Pannion kino >mfw no Bridgeburners >mfw no Chain of Dogs series >mfw no Bonehunters kino >mfw no Bugg and Tehol omegakino >mfw no Beak supremekino >mfw no kino
>mfw no Siege of Capustan/Pannion kino >mfw no Bridgeburners >mfw no Chain of Dogs series >mfw no Bonehunters kino >mfw no Bugg and Tehol omegakino >mfw no Beak supremekino >mfw no kino
wtf reaper's gale is my favorite. i love the corruptive chaos sorcery the edur warlocks use and the conclusion (karsa vs rhulad then karsa goes through to intimidate the crippled god) is kino
plus it has beak lighting all his candles which is one of the best moments of the series imo
>be low IQ autist born to a rich family >be beaten and called stupid by your tutors >be sexually assaulted by your own mother as a child, together with your brother >be beated half to death when you try to stop it >be very good at magic however, pretty much an autistic savant >magic is "the lone candle in the dark" of your mind >your brother breaks, you find him trying to hang himself >you're too stupid and young to realise what is going on, you can only hold on to his legs while he dies in front of you >eventually burn your house down and kill everyone because you're tired of the beatings >join the army >your squad mates are the first people to accept you since they themselves are outcasts and loonies >not only do they accept you, they also start loving you and relying on you heavily since you're so incredibly talented at magic >you find a purpose >you're happy >eventually you're surrounded and your friends are dying all around you >you decide to do everything in your power to help them >you use every little power you have to create a barrier around them >you burn and die protecting them and killing the enemies >your magic changes the color of their hair to white, heals their wounds and repairs and polishes their armor >you're happy >the god of death himself comes and takes your soul, congratulating you and praising you for your deeds >the same god of death that doesn't even take a look at the most important and powerful people in the world, the same god comes and receives you like a friend >he brings you to your brother >the survivors erect a monument to you made of important trinkets they've cared about >only be present in 1(2?) books >steal the show and be remembered as one of the most interesting characters in the books
The problem with adapting Hyperion is how wildly different each pilgrim's story is. If you just read each on in isolation, they would not appear to be in the same franchise, much less the same book. Such extreme shifts in genre, setting, and tone are no problem to accomplish in a novel, but as a series I'd almost say you'd have to make it an anthology and give each section aside from the premiere and the finale to a different studio.
nope because its inherently woke. >muslim bad ass soldier >israeli professor whos daughter is BBC hungry >le strong woman detective >cowardly christian >reddit tier drunk poet >woman leader of earth
the sequel is even more pozzed.
Started reading this series a couple of months ago I just finished the 5th book Midnight Tides and while I think most of the books (except House of Chains) so far are 10/10 masterpieces they absolutely will never get adapted and probably shouldn't. Things as small as Iron Bars bashing the wolf God's brains out against a wall to things as big as Karsa Orlong's entire character arc you just can't get away with in mainstream media. Not to mention all the child abuse and rape, literal tens of thousands of body count in every single battle, over 100,000 crucifixions in Deadhouse Gates, hell the entire emotional impact of Memories of Ice is lost if you cut even a single thing from that book. I'm bit saying it's impossible because a lot of the books are very cinematic, but it would require an astronomical budget and an unrealistic amount of risk.
Anything to depict my fiercely horny zombiefu on screen.
It has a prestige tv literary quality but much of it would translate very silly on screen like the character designs alone would read pretty goofy and be prohibitively expensive to animate
Script wise it'd take a lot of rejiggering of arcs and condensing characters for anything faithful. But you make a pretty great film about The Chain of Dogs or Midnight Tides, maybe even a Karsa Orlong flick.
For TV I'd try to narrow the scope to a kind of Band of Brothers series following The Bridgeburners and Tavore/Felisin
This anon gets it. Maybe you could do individual movies and scale things down a shit ton. But there's already so little exposition in the series so this would probably just make things more confusing. If you were to adapt Malazan it would have to be a huge multimedia franchise. Multiple movies, TV shows, etc and somehow you'd have to generate enough hype to justify adapting the later half of the series as huge convergence stories bringing everything together.
Also I think animation would work better for Malazan. I'm a huge fan of Dejan Delic's fanart and think the whole series could be depicted like this. Kinda like the original Clone Wars show.
Continuing from this
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This anon gets it. Maybe you could do individual movies and scale things down a shit ton. But there's already so little exposition in the series so this would probably just make things more confusing. If you were to adapt Malazan it would have to be a huge multimedia franchise. Multiple movies, TV shows, etc and somehow you'd have to generate enough hype to justify adapting the later half of the series as huge convergence stories bringing everything together.
Also I think animation would work better for Malazan. I'm a huge fan of Dejan Delic's fanart and think the whole series could be depicted like this. Kinda like the original Clone Wars show.
Good, there were plans a few years ago to produce a tv series, I couldn't be happier to see it be forgotten. Frick having anything you love adapted these days.
>film
Maybe.
>tv
Please, no.
No. My proof? Name one good adaptation in recent history.
Dune and Last of Us were both faithful to their respective sources
>the last of crust
>last of us
The zombies were not an intelligent hivemind that committed tactical subterranean zerg attacks in the game. They also weren't hentai French kiss rapists. Neither of those additions changed or improved the story and the former arguably made it worse.
>Last of Us
do people actually think to themselves "wow this is so beautiful" when they see this in the same way they do when heteros embrace in a romance movie? or are they just pretending so they dont lose social points?
the left hates beauty as it's satanic i'd assume so they are taught to like/embrace ugly things
No they weren't wtf. dumbass
why would you lie about that
who did you think was going to believe that
is this just for (You)s
>crusty
lol no
>Dune
They did some things great and others too fricking awful.
Dune 1 is like 75% faithful and Dune 2 is less than 50% faithful
never read the book but I assume there are no Black folk in it, so when I saw them in the trailer I never gave the show a shot. am I correct?
More like Slavs everywhere.
>I assume there are no Black folk in it,
WRONG
the author takes great pains to tell you that several characters are Black folk and there's a fat white witch he tells you prefers fricking Black folk
Then it's shit and anon above was right.
>muh multiethnic fantasy
kek
bye bye
is calot even black? and once he's dead doesn't she want to frick paran? he's not black either
but she is described the same way people describe thick b***hes who are "built for it" so i can see your logic
It's normie proof
In the style of Game of Thrones, maybe, the books are way too long with way too much happening to be condensed into a films
They honestly kinda suck too, they’re a slog to get through
>kinda suck
It is inarguably one of the 3 best fantasy series ever written?
This week's edition of
>L'Opinion Redditaire
is brought to you by... Tampax.
You really don't know what you're talking about.
No, it’s not.
>Lord of the Rings
>Harry Potter
>Game of Thrones
all more revered than your complete mess of a book series
Harry Potter is for 12 yr olds and boring
Lotr is only good in the two towers 1 and 3rd book is boring
Got is pretty boring except for weird sex scenes in the book
No there not. There better then got and the wheel of time. Fiddler and hedge are kino as frick
Fricking Malaslop man. Too many characters nobody will care about, too many plotlines going nowhere, too many stupid names to remember.
I get a 1 dollar notebook and keep notes on all the books and films I enjoy. page number and definitions along with sentences that stand out.
no
it would require an unimaginable budget
and a dozen seasons at least
Sounds like a good investment. What are you, a fricking homosexual israelite Black person?
netflix throws billions at shows that are objectively moronic so I could see a reputable company actually picking this up
same homosexual, happy pride month with your gay bait
This series is the epitome of fart-sniffing redditorism.
ever been to Cinemaphile?
the series can do no wrong, whereas Sanderson is basically a hack and you might as well be reading Marvel movies
Cinemaphile is too busy still circlejerking themselves over blood meridian
>Cinemaphile
huh
Intentionally writing things out of order, even between books, to avoid having to make arcs is a true living example of the phrase, "based moron".
I prefer Brandon Sanderson
Is this stuff worth reading? You can only reply to my post if you are white and not a pride homosexual
I can only comment on the first two Stormlight Archive books (coming to a streaming service near you, watch), they were a bit young adult but very good. The third book Oathbringer, holy fricking shit, its the most boring fantasy I've ever read. 1200 pages long and literally nothing at all happens until page 497.
That is not even the same series, what the frick?
???
OK, now is any one of those titles the one in the OP?
lmao moron
Yes. I frick fat b***hes tho.
I read the whole series and enjoyed it up to book 6. Book 7 (Reaper's Gale) was absolute shit and it only got worse through to the end.
Erickson is an extremely frustrating writer and is incapable of delivering a payoff after making you slog through 10 books and read about a thousand pointless characters. It had potential (Deadhouse Gates was my fave) but in the end it really sucks.
the neal stephenson effect for snow crash and the diamond age.
And Cryptonomicon
crypto was good but yeah his other books i didn't find that enjoybale
>the neal stephenson effect for snow crash and the diamond age.
Readme is good and easy to adapt. Anathem is very good and a bit harder.
Why the god went back and the oteral dragon was freed for 2 seconds... best ending. Plus dancer stayed based and karsa got his blood throne
wtf reaper's gale is my favorite. i love the corruptive chaos sorcery the edur warlocks use and the conclusion (karsa vs rhulad then karsa goes through to intimidate the crippled god) is kino
plus it has beak lighting all his candles which is one of the best moments of the series imo
I just want to see the First Law stuff by Joe Abercrombie.
the guy who did his high school senior year 4 times that worked on jimmy kimmel recommended this book series. Does anyone remember his name?
this series was pretty awesome
downloaded of zlibrary before it got shut down, has there been a successor yet?
Yeah there's 3 standalone books and a sequel trilogy after that.
I should note that while the standalone sequel books themselves are sort of self-contained if you want to read the sequel trilogy you should read them since otherwise a lot of things won't make sense.
Anna's archive, or zlib is still up with download bots and tor. For audiobooks, there's audiobookbay and myanonamouse.
thanks, anon. I have lots of books but crave the need to download more and collect. I always stave it off by reading books in the backlog.
>zlibrary before it got shut down
Literally downloading from it as we speak.
the one on the clearnet? Or the one you need a special app?
the one you access through the browser
this homosexual series is what Cinemaphile memers try to portray ASOIAF as. "the arc is that there is no arcs xd! xd i bought you from a prostitute for two coins!" even has a redditor cripple character for you guys to self-insert into
Well they're both stealing shit from historical wars and reskinning them into their homebrewl TTRPG worlds, then novelizing it.
>teehee I'm being contrarian on Cinemaphile
on Cinemaphile people actually see abercrombie for the worthless hack he is because they're not 80 IQ subhumans like this board
not everything has to be shakespeare, son. There is also FUN!
They're good books based on a fairly simple deconstruction and are thoroughly entertaining.
>AHHHHHH IM SUBVOOORTING
Enjoy your goyslop I guess
who cares? all Cinemaphile does is circlejerk over moby dick and blood meridian
We also abuse booktubers
Cinemaphile are a bunch of pseuds who cannot math.
isnt this rebecca fergussons next big project?
one of the standalone books set after the series is yes
kinda weird to do best served cold without establishing caul shivers first, will make his arc less impactful without the character development from the trilogy
i hope they get ralph ineson (guy from the witch) for him though, love that dude
caul shivers doesnt really have much character development in the first trilogy he's the exact same guy going into best served cold as he was when we first meet him
well he comes to terms with the fact his dad and brother were buttholes and maybe he doesn't need to seek vengeance on their behalf and logen saves his life and says that he's trying to be a better man. clearly that resonates with shivers since he leaves (allowing him to be in best served cold..) instead of betraying logen with the others
i'd say he's more idealistic at the start of best served cold but obviously that doesn't last
most normies can barely follow got and hotd
malazan has alot more characters and multiple magic systems, timelines, and gods
it'd be impossible for a normal audience to enjoy even if somehow it had a good adaption
this is true sadly and it's why something like the Stormlight archive would have a higher chance of success, because it panders to normies and redditors like
>multiple magic systems
>So how are we supposed to depict Warren travel accurately when they're literal gateways into the veins and arteries of an elder god, who is also a recurring character?
use your imagination?
People were able to follow Axe Cop, though i guess those power scales were more coherent than Malazan's.
Malazan would need i huge budget and when you have a huge budget the producers want the normie audience because it's the one that makes real money, they don't want the manchild who still watches cartoons audience
I was saying that a literal child created a power system that made more sense than Malazan's.
And so is the plotting, come to think of it.
>people dying of thirst as they cross desserts
>crawling over potshards because the planet is a hundred bajillion years old (while dying of thirst)
but there's dinosaurs with swords for arms!
I've been trying to read this series and honestly I'm struggling to get into it.
I finished the first book and it was okay but kind of whatever, nothing really memorable and the second book is boring me to tears atm.
have I just been filtered?
The first book is... off compared to the rest. Iirc it was written a decade before the others and originally a screenplay. The second book is considered one of the best, it gets intense.
The second book is my favourite thus far. I just finished the 6th one. I would suggest finishing the second one, and if you do not like it, drop the series. The first one I think is the worst one and that seems to be the consensus from what I've read
A challenger appears.
Enjoyable. I stopped at White Luck Warrior when I found out he'll never finish the series
I gave up after literally the first fricking sentence. It throws so many keyboard salad names with hyphens and apostrophes and diacritics at you it's just beyond farce. Like, you expect me to read and remember this unpronounceable, unmemorable slop?
what is a notebook?
Something that should be unnecessary within the first fricking SENTENCE of a book. An author should hook his audience with the story, not bore them with having to set up a fricking excel sheet to keep track of the times he banged his head against an Amharic keyboard layout.
i enjoyed it i didn't take much heed to all the spam in their names and pretty much associated the word with a name in my head, wasn't that difficult, didn't need a notebook
I just knew immediately that it'd rely on shitty keyboard salad names to seem "exotic" instead of actually giving shit memorable names and that I'd resent it for it, so I didn't bother.
ok
Not that anon but all the cultures and names are based on real historical paralels (mongols, bizantium, arabs, romans), to the point of it being almost an historical setting. Names themselves are kinda irrelevant.
Your loss for missing out for such a dumb reason. I guess you only speak English and get confused when you see anything beyond the basic english alfabet, Genius reading bro.
I'm ETL, but nice ad hominem.
Makes the reason even dumber. I guess you simply are an idiot, how's that for an ad hominem.
what does ETL mean?
English as a third language
ok
he could be asian and not a euro tbh bro
>what is a notebook?
A smaller laptop.
what's the first sentence?
Worthless piece of garbage
I recently re-read all ~20 Malazan books and enjoyed them but there are a lot of boring sections.
Too complicated to be adapted for npc consumption. If not for that Netflix would be all over it with MUH diversity; most of the characters are black and there are a weird number of lesbians kek.
The first book must be the most forgettable fantasy I've ever read. Aids tbh
I found The Darkness That Comes Before to be MUCH more interesting/compelling
than Gardens of the moon. Kellhus, Achamian, and Cnaur are all very entertaining characters to follow around, but I guess it isn't everybody's cup of tea.
It's okay anon you can go back to reading fantasy where everybody has names like "stormblade" or "treewatcher"
I have hope Bakker is going to finish it before he dies. There is no way in hell he doesn't lose sleep every night knowing that the series he spent his whole life planning still has loose threads. [SPOILER] There is a head on a stick behind you [/SPOILER]
bakker is young enough that theres a good chance he'll finish it
he completely recused himself from society and the internet and became a hermit. don't get your hopes up for the No-God books.
besides, the series are already finished. they end in salt and butchery, as is only fitting
>he completely recused himself from society and the internet and became a hermit
kinda based
>If not for that Netflix would be all over it with MUH diversity; most of the characters are black and there are a weird number of lesbians kek.
You know they'd just be making additional changes. Hell, current empress is a literal blue woman.
COLONIZED
>series that filtered thousands of redditorss
I mean it shows how fake abrahamic Faith's are... but not really much else
extremely based, came here to post this
filtered
i'm sure it's called reddit here or something but I recently finished this series up to what's out and enjoyed it
qrd? the blurb comparing it to ender wiggins really is high praise.
Sci-Fi story where the solar system has been colonized but humanity is spread into caste systems based on colors. Protagonist is a Red (lowest color slave cuck caste system) who goes undercover as a Gold (highest color ubermensch who lead) to try to overthrow them.
First book is honestly kind of similar to Hunger Games without all the YA melodrama stuff but tbh it gets a lot better after that. Becomes sort of like The Expanse crossed with Dune.
i'm in.
It's great. Not particularly deep or unique but a lot of fun with quick pacing. Also nice to have a hyper competent MC that the author doesn't feel the need to really neuter in anyway.
he's competent but also kind of moronic and gets fricked up plenty of times so he doesn't feel like a jack reacher tier mary sue or anything
There were actually rumors of a TV adaptation for a while but seems like that's dead. Probably for the best, current Hollywood wouldn't be able to cast so many gigachads ans stacies.
someone working for the author confirmed this week that red rising has been optioned and is in pre production. My guess is probably apple tv
Between Two Fires and The Shadow Campains for me.
I want my Mistborn movies.
it's not even a good book series, so no. dnd campaign fantasy slop.
In a perfect world, with unlimited budget..yes
is there really a floating castle? I have been enamored with floating islands since beast wars and tomb raider 2?
What is this about and is it any good? Is it about some qt warrior woman protag like the cover seems to imply?
Looks fricking kino.
What makes it so? I was under the impression
predominantly thinks of genre lit as beneath them.
I can't wait for ai to hopefully fix this issue.
see
>Is it about some qt warrior woman protag like the cover seems to imply?
No, it's about a fat sorceress
the first few books are about specialist soldiers with squad mages and high explosives going up against incredibly powerful monsters and beings they really have no business fighting
then it starts meandering all over the place
>What is this about
A ten book series that that gives you ten-ish year window into various world conflicts from literally hundreds of first hand perspectives from peasants to soldiers to kings. It's high fantasy with a lot of magic and fantasy races. Pic related is the best image I can find to visualize the races. It is unofficial fan art. I'm not crazy about pic related's art style and I visual a lot of these races differently, but I couldn't find anything else that displays the variety.
> and is it any good?
Yes. But it is divisive. The people that hate it really hate it. It is one of my favorite series but I generally don't recommend it. The first book is simultaneously formulaic and confusing. It doesn't actually get good until the second book. On top of that you don't realize the second book is as good as it is until you are 2/3 of the way through it. Books 2-10 are all excellent and book 3 kicked my ass.
>Is it about some qt warrior woman protag like the cover seems to imply?
Yes and no. The cover art is vague and misleading. There are qts. There are qt warrior women. But the closest thing to a main character isn't a qt warrior woman.
Yeah the happy sephiroth character lives there with tons of dragons and a death ray
I'm imagining some writer kvetching about Quick Ben sounding like a slave name, and Karsa Orlong being buckbroken because he's a chud.
>Karsa Orlong
Amusingly enough finding out Malazan was based on tabletop roleplaying campaign makes sense perfect when you read about Karsa Orlong. He screams "player deciding to pull a 180 and elevate his character in the process".
>Bro, what if we turn our legally distinct RPG about dragons and shit into an interminable series of novels about people walking through deserts and dying of thirst.
>Brooo what if sometimes they're walking through snow and dying of starvation!
>Broooooooo that's awesome, you write the first 10 and don't really end it
>Broooooooooooo then you write the next ten and...
There's enough interesting shit in there for maybe three books. At Chain of Dogs I thought it was as brilliant as everyone kept saying. By the end I hated everyone involved in writing it and everyone involved in recommending it.
>There's enough interesting shit in there for maybe three books
Reminder that Lord of the Rings is only about 1100 pages combined. Good authors don't need tens of thousands of pages spread over multiple volumes to tell a compelling story.
I though of starting malazan or book of the new sun
It has a prestige tv literary quality but much of it would translate very silly on screen like the character designs alone would read pretty goofy and be prohibitively expensive to animate
Script wise it'd take a lot of rejiggering of arcs and condensing characters for anything faithful. But you make a pretty great film about The Chain of Dogs or Midnight Tides, maybe even a Karsa Orlong flick.
For TV I'd try to narrow the scope to a kind of Band of Brothers series following The Bridgeburners and Tavore/Felisin
>Band of brothers style miniseries about the Bridgeburners
Nice idea, I'd agree, keep it focused on relatable people. Later as things go along the scope gets so vast it'd be hard to keep ahold of thr plot. Bouncing around continents and millennia.
Chain of Dogs would be a good single series following Coltaines March through the eyes of thr imperial historian.
Definitely not if they start with Gardens of the Moon. Talking about 300,000 year old undying Neanderthal zombies. Warrens of Chaos fueling magic spells which are attuned by a physical tarot dec cards. Sorta elf guys from other planes of existence. About a dozen different unfathomably ancient and inscrutable alien species. Imperial wizards with weird fricking names who get slaughtered only to be brought back as an animated puppet that goes crazy and turns into a fireball casting chucky doll, and the other is resurrected into an 5 year old goat herder girl. Thr main big bad is a guy entombed in a tree who gets accidentally released and is super pissed all his people are dead and has a genetic compulsion to kill anybody who won't follow him unconditionally.
Oddly later books in the series like Memories of Ice or Midnight Tides have much more linear and easy to follow plots.
Chain of Dogs is a great story but Jesus is it grim.
Chain of Dogs is based on a british retreat from Afghanistan. whether or not there were really child magicians sacrificing a horse for a stat boost is unknown to historians
huh, I just learned about Afghanistan reading Flashman. It's even more grim than Chain of Dogs
dialogue/writing/characters for me
Sadly I don't think so. I love the series but there's so many characters every other cool person would be cut or merged into 1 like GoT.
Only animated series format can do it justice.
Also post your casting choice.
Anya Taylor Joy as Tattersail
SAAR PLEASE SAAR DO NOT REINCARNATE ME AS A DOG OR A MONKEY DO NOT FRICKING DO IT DO NOT REEDEM MY REINCARNATION
I think there could be a kino adapation of this, but I'm not sure any studio is based enough to get it made.
it could work because it has lgbt characters the main villain is a female to male transdudel ol
>inb4 chuddies saying "woke culture would never let a lgbt person be a villain!!!!"
The main antagonist of mr.robot was a asian troony and no one complained
Nobody want to see trannies, unless it's Ace Ventura
I read this and was about as lost as when I read dune as a kid.
What was confusing about it? The only thing I can think of is that it's structured kind of oddly with the whole middle of the book being disjointed flashbacks to Sam's past quarrels with his former crewmates who set themselves up as gods.
For me? The part when the pseudo-Hindu deities destroy a city for the high crime of re-discovering the flush toilet.
I really do love it though because it reminds me of the RPGs I used to play as a kid where you were in a medieval world but there were some buttholes in a high tech dome city or on a satellite or something pulling the strings.
yeah. It's kino.
>harbor opinions that progress = good
>this gets picked up on your brain-tapes when you check in for reincarnation
>get forcibly reincarnated into the body of a dog and forced to spy for a lifetime (or more) in penance
he probably got put off by the names changing as the characters change bodies and roles. Either that, or the first chapter being out of place.
>The part when the pseudo-Hindu deities destroy a city for the high crime of re-discovering the flush toilet.
So it's kinda Dragon Ball Super
no
40k lore is good but any given individual book is shit-tier, reads like a middleschooler's fanfic and riddled with typos
No. It doesn't even make a good book series
I am a huge giant malazangay. The answer is no. Not in the current year.
It was fun, but I've read it twice and still don't understand why most things happened or the goal of most characters. Tehol and Bug were great.
Is any of the new stuff worth reading?
The series suck ass as books, no way they can make a good series out of it.
i would love to see all the stuff with the marines and perhaps the tiste edur + karsa adapted but there are so many side characters and plots which don't really go anywhere it'd make a fricking mess
I know nothing about this series, but I've tried to read Rejoice, a "sci fi epic from le great author of Malazan series Steven Erikson" and it was a cartoonish, grotesque anti-trump rant disguised as book where aliens come to earth teamining up with a leftist activist to save earth from right wingers (all leftists are beuatiful, diverse and intelligent, right wingers are all ugly old and cartoonishl villainous). The alien give the woman a starship shaped liek a klingon ship and project forcefields that create lanes filled with food and water that allows minorities from 3rd world to walk toward western countries, disabling all weapons and paralizing all armies.
Ever two chapters there is non-trump pashing his fists on the desk screaming orders to his evil incompetent consultants.
It's literally what I described and worse. The guy got so unfathomably mad at elections that he had to write a book about it to not explode. All I could think reading that shit is "this author is a toddler and wrfites like a teenager"
I am a big fan of the main series and your take is still something I find believable about Rejoice. People change. He has various short stories about a pair of necromancers and their manservant which are mostly just shitposts about some of his gripes, I still find them great as well, especially the Healthy Dead.
In the main series, if there is an evil Erikson bashes on its different kinds of real tyranny, genocide-levels of intolerance, wilful ignorance and self-righteousness. Or at least those are the traits most of his villains have, and there are obviously some rants about human short-sightedness. If you can't get past that you probably shouldn't try, if not give the first three books a go
>If you can't get past that you probably shouldn't try
Rejoice was just a schizo political rant, not an allegory or anything
I've noticed a lot of these people tend to go completely unhinged as they get older. There's a real sweet spot for talent and it's gone for a lot of these dudes after a certain age.
For example, I am not excited about winds of winter because I know George has fallen off a cliff, and he did that years ago, the first 3 books shit on the last 2.
>mfw more people find out about children of the dead seed
>you will never have a woman jump on your dick as you're dying to make sure your seed gets to live
J U S T
Is the time of big fantasy adaptations finally over?
No? What gave you that idea.
Maybe Wheel of Time and Rings of Power being unwatchable failures
Doesn't matter if they suck, they have to suck so much people cancel amazon.
As long as it has name value every year they'll drag another IP to be raped just so people have something to "look forward too"
>people wanting free shipping means the show is successful
Agreed that these people don't really care about views though
They will die off after the next HBO spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms which normies will drop because all the dragons are dead in it and there are no battles.
how many are in it for fictional politics, though?
Would this make a good film/miniseries?
highlights?
Catholics in space to investigate alien singing broadcast, land on planet, come into contact with herbivore aliens, start to teach them agriculture, leads to population boom, alien babies get harvested by the actual source of the signal who are predators, sole surviving Jesuit priest is taken into sexual slavery and tortured and mutilated, somehow escapes but faith is shattered, causes societal upheaval on earth with report. And that's just the first book.
>sole surviving Jesuit priest is taken into sexual slavery and tortured and mutilated
cool, will definitely read.
It's a bit of a mindfrick, but it's very well written, you're going to have a good time
>wanting books you enjoyed reading to be adapted by modern day hacks
Frick no, gatekeep everything.
>mfw no Siege of Capustan/Pannion kino
>mfw no Bridgeburners
>mfw no Chain of Dogs series
>mfw no Bonehunters kino
>mfw no Bugg and Tehol omegakino
>mfw no Beak supremekino
>mfw no kino
imagine a big cgi budget for beak's big moment it would be fricking glorious
>be low IQ autist born to a rich family
>be beaten and called stupid by your tutors
>be sexually assaulted by your own mother as a child, together with your brother
>be beated half to death when you try to stop it
>be very good at magic however, pretty much an autistic savant
>magic is "the lone candle in the dark" of your mind
>your brother breaks, you find him trying to hang himself
>you're too stupid and young to realise what is going on, you can only hold on to his legs while he dies in front of you
>eventually burn your house down and kill everyone because you're tired of the beatings
>join the army
>your squad mates are the first people to accept you since they themselves are outcasts and loonies
>not only do they accept you, they also start loving you and relying on you heavily since you're so incredibly talented at magic
>you find a purpose
>you're happy
>eventually you're surrounded and your friends are dying all around you
>you decide to do everything in your power to help them
>you use every little power you have to create a barrier around them
>you burn and die protecting them and killing the enemies
>your magic changes the color of their hair to white, heals their wounds and repairs and polishes their armor
>you're happy
>the god of death himself comes and takes your soul, congratulating you and praising you for your deeds
>the same god of death that doesn't even take a look at the most important and powerful people in the world, the same god comes and receives you like a friend
>he brings you to your brother
>the survivors erect a monument to you made of important trinkets they've cared about
>only be present in 1(2?) books
>steal the show and be remembered as one of the most interesting characters in the books
*be beaten
Is it possible to not frick up Hyperion?
No.
The problem with adapting Hyperion is how wildly different each pilgrim's story is. If you just read each on in isolation, they would not appear to be in the same franchise, much less the same book. Such extreme shifts in genre, setting, and tone are no problem to accomplish in a novel, but as a series I'd almost say you'd have to make it an anthology and give each section aside from the premiere and the finale to a different studio.
nope because its inherently woke.
>muslim bad ass soldier
>israeli professor whos daughter is BBC hungry
>le strong woman detective
>cowardly christian
>reddit tier drunk poet
>woman leader of earth
the sequel is even more pozzed.
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It would need to have some kind of coherent plotline that makes sense, and it doesn't
Would love to see this as a live action series, or even a movie. 1 movie per book could work just fine
>inb4 reddit
dont give a frick
If it true malazan author pulled an grrm and will never finish the books
Started reading this series a couple of months ago I just finished the 5th book Midnight Tides and while I think most of the books (except House of Chains) so far are 10/10 masterpieces they absolutely will never get adapted and probably shouldn't. Things as small as Iron Bars bashing the wolf God's brains out against a wall to things as big as Karsa Orlong's entire character arc you just can't get away with in mainstream media. Not to mention all the child abuse and rape, literal tens of thousands of body count in every single battle, over 100,000 crucifixions in Deadhouse Gates, hell the entire emotional impact of Memories of Ice is lost if you cut even a single thing from that book. I'm bit saying it's impossible because a lot of the books are very cinematic, but it would require an astronomical budget and an unrealistic amount of risk.
Anything to depict my fiercely horny zombiefu on screen.
Continuing from this
This anon gets it. Maybe you could do individual movies and scale things down a shit ton. But there's already so little exposition in the series so this would probably just make things more confusing. If you were to adapt Malazan it would have to be a huge multimedia franchise. Multiple movies, TV shows, etc and somehow you'd have to generate enough hype to justify adapting the later half of the series as huge convergence stories bringing everything together.
Also I think animation would work better for Malazan. I'm a huge fan of Dejan Delic's fanart and think the whole series could be depicted like this. Kinda like the original Clone Wars show.
Meant to attach this pic
I hate this artstyle.
My brother, it's better than Netflixvania Texas fake anime Slop, which you know is the only alternative nowadays. Get real.
I don't like how that looks.
I enjoyed the first two books, but I hate how much he uses the word "grunted".
I would like to see a good Earthsea adaptation. Please god let me watch a good Earthsea adaptation before I die.
>Ctrl-F "The Black Company"
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Good, there were plans a few years ago to produce a tv series, I couldn't be happier to see it be forgotten. Frick having anything you love adapted these days.