/lit/ - Literature

Never actually finished the series though.

>>5046645
Can't have been that good if you never finished them

Shit, I must have read every Raymond E Feist book back in the day.

>>5046658
It was still being written when I had caught up to the last book at the time.
You're right though, having gone back and read through some of them again, they're pretty shit.

>>5046636

shit was cash

>>5046636
Series of Unfortunate Events
Darren Shan Saga

>>5046680
>Cirque Du Freak
so good... fuck

Everything by David Eddings, but especially the Belgariad series. I still re-read these all the time.

>>5046715
I liked it but looking back the narrative was so fucked... Seriously I know it was supposed to be a journal he kept but the story was so disjointed and muddled sometimes it was hard to tell what the fuck was happening and why

>>5046665
The belt was good, but then there was all this other shit.

>>5046728
Yeah, and that ending. Jesus christ, what the FUCK happened.

I liked Dune. And Eragon. Yeah, I know.

>>5046726

You know, I loved the Belgariad as a kid, but I tried to read the Mallorean a couple of years ago and I had to give up after a couple of books. I first read the Belgariad before I'd read much fantasy, and now all of the tropes and cliches just seem so obvious and hackneyed that I can't enjoy it.

I don't mean to demean David Eddings' work. He did an excellent job of taking all the standard fantasy stuff and packaging it up into an engaging series. It just seems like something that can only be properly enjoyed by someone who hasn't read much similar work. I've considered trying to go back and reread some of the Belgariad, but I'm worried that I'll hate it and I don't want to ruin my childhood memories.

>>5046936
Not that guy, but The End was indeed a huge mindfuck. It was still brilliant and I cried for Count Olaf. Boor pastard

>>5046680
I don't think I ever read past the Grim Grotto

>>5046943
I understand completely. Most of Eddings' plots are really paper-thin and awfully pedestrian, especially for anyone who's read more than a handful of fantasy books these days. I mean the entire plot of the Belgariad surrounds how Garion is some chosen kid from some prophecy and he's destined to save the world.

As a kid they were wonderful adventures. As an adult now it's hard to appreciate the plot, but the one thing Eddings really nails is his characters. His characterization is pretty top notch and they've all got great personalities that bring them to life. Plus his writing style is just descriptive enough without being overly wordy that it makes reading his stuff a real comfort.

Then again, it could all just be nostalgia, I'll admit.

Famous Five
Pippi Longstocking
Der Räuber Hotzenplotz
TKKG
Three Investigators

I also loved the radio dramas of those, all in German of course.

>>5046943
I've read quite a lot of fantasy, but I still find Eddings work to be charming and satisfying, though not masterful. The Belgariad is like a cup of hot tea sipped at the end of a long day. You've tasted that blend dozens of times before, it's nothing new, but it still brings you pleasure.
It seems to me that the Belgariad was written with the aim to create a piece of work that is well-done *because* of its familiarity, rather than in spite of it. It's a story that doesn't pretend it is the best of its kind, or the most epic, and that sense of honesty is refreshing in the fantasy genre.

>>5046636
Fuck yeah, the the bartimaeus trilogy was amazing. I loved the dry comments of bartimaeus in the footnotes. Also in general I feel the characters were pretty fleshed out compared to other teen fantasy books.

I read this when I was 12 years old. It's what really got me into serious reading.

Also obligatory Goosebumps books.

The Shannara books, especially the Jerle Shannara. I liked airships.

I also read the Dhampir series by Barb Hendee, because Buffy was still airing at the time and I liked the whole comedy vampire thing.

>>5047391
i had to read it in school. never was there a book i hated more.

its all about artemis fowl

also darren shan

>>5048500
I liked it. I am very mildly autistic (I know that word gets thrown around a lot, but I really am), so I never really saw anything strange about his behavior or thoughts, which lead to some strange conversations between my teacher and me.

>>5046636
Weird, we have the exact same taste. Pullman and Stroud ftw
I'd add abhorsen series as well

>>5048719
See this guy right here is my nigger.
I need to re-read those books sometime.

>>5046931
>not liking the magic pipe and fucking dragons

>>5046636
This shit right here

Fuck the movie adaption though, that ruined it

Read these so many times

>>5051145
Dem undead. All I remember is magic and swords fucking shit up.

Rowan of Rin

>>5052546
That ending was a little depressing

>>5052047
This one time i liked the movie better than the book

Delta of Venus

>>5046636
>His Dark Materials
Sheeeeet man, i was visiting family for some holyday, and i just put it in my bag thinking "meh, I'll propably read some plages to kill time"' I ended up fucking glued to the thing, i was 14 at the moment, but i have never enjoied another book that mutch all my life

I loved the Chronicles of Narnia.
I was so happy to see the movies come out... and then got sad when they stopped making them.

>>5046665
I still have these on my shelves. They were a fucking great read as a kid.

13/14

Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.

10 years later they are still my favourite books

>>5046943
>>5047030
>>5047240
Eddings pretty much wrote it because he was fresh out of college and he wanted to use the tropes in fantasy not in a new or different way, but in a way that celebrated them. It's not about the destination, but the journey with those books. It's a foregone conclusion what will happen, ie Garion is the child of a prophecy, Ce'Nedra is going to be his wife, etc but it's how you get to see those things happen that's fun. The character moments that make you love seeing those tropes show up (Fucking Mandorellan choking out a lion was the best).

I still read the new ones coming out. For fun.

>>5052821
>forgetting your picture
>1096+918

Polish only. Still love it.