The one good thing covid did for me was make it to where I work from home most of the time which gives me more time to read. After I finish some borrowed books and other books in my immediate stack I was thinking I’ll read either the Elric books or the Witcher books. I’ll eventually read both but which one should I start with?
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Is Raymond Feist still okay? I haven't kept track. I read his books because of Betrayal at Krondor and they seemed okay at the time. He eventually killed off all his main characters and jumped forward into the future and I lost interest, but it seemed like rollicking good fantasy tripe to read on the train.
Cool. I’ll check it out. I’ve most read sci fi and the first long series of fantasy I read was Ice and Fire. Got me wanting to read more. Well fantasy that’s actually finished.
I think you could call it finished enough, in that there are big obvious points at which you can quit and call it finished. Think "And then 200 years later" and you can just nah.
Nobody ever talks about it anymore, and I find this surprising. It was rollocking good fantasy, and (I consider this a positive) never got optioned into a telenovela or a movie or whatever. One of the early books got turned into a (very good) PC game and that's it. The PC game eventually had a shit sequel that had nothing to do with either the first game or the books but that's it.
The Krondor books were a damn sight better than the GRRR MARTIN stuff that caught on so much later.