A Song of Ice and Fire
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A couple of years ago, I decided that I would try and hunt down some current fantasy novels. Little did I know how difficult it would be to find anything interesting, intelligent, or containing any literary merit. I read thousands of wasted pages. Eventually I stumbled upon a few works worth noting. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin is one of them. It’s very gritty and occasionally brutal, with tasteful allusions to the supernatural. [see also Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception]
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Design Dyke Wednesday 12 December 2007
Robert Jordan (RIP) is my favourite fantasy author – have you read the Wheel of Time series?
Tom Wade Thursday 13 December 2007
Susanna Clarke’s ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell’ is one of the best books I’ve read in a very long time, fantasy or otherwise. It comes highly recommended from Neil Gaiman (nb. check out Neverwhere) with one of the most spot on comments on the cover: ‘my only regret is that it’s not twice as long’. At over 800 pages, that’s saying something. It’s about the resurgance of magic in 19th C England; so a bit more modern than most fantasies but worth a peak even for die-hard Tolkien/Brooks/E. Fiest-ians.
holly Monday 9 January 2012
That art is AHH-MAAZING… who did it?