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Can anyone please recommend some books like Between Two Fires? Haven't been able to read since finishing it a couple weeks ago. Nothing i've picked up has filled the void.

>> No.23463143

do what I am currently doing: allow the void to exist so between two fires gets its due respect. begin reading again only once you've properly processed it.

>> No.23463146

>>23463128
This book is ass

>> No.23463186

>>23463128
His Black Tongue - M Luthi is fairly similar
there's a collections called Howls From the Dark Ages with an intro but no story by Buehlman; it's overall decent, some very good stories couple of duds

>> No.23463366

>>23463128
we are not your google bish
do internet searching for - books like..........

>> No.23463367
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>>23463186
>Howls From the Dark Ages
I was going to post this as well

>> No.23463390

>>23463128
A little apples to oranges, but The Fisherman By John Langan. Has a nice mixture of historical fiction and apocalyptic horror.

>> No.23463406

>>23463128
People recommended The Stand by Stephen King but I haven't read that yet so I dunno

>> No.23464864

>>23463186
Seconding both of these suggestions

>> No.23464886

>>23463146
>Filtered

>> No.23464890

>>23463390
>The Fisherman By John Langan
>Boring
>Predictable
>Written by a shitlib
Don't waste your time.

>> No.23464909

>>23464890
Every book in the last 70 years worth reading was written by a shit-lib.

>> No.23466078

>>23464909
not my diary desu

>> No.23466313
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I will never forgive /lit/ for recommending this YA-tier novel to me. Total dogshit

>> No.23466718

>>23463128
GBH by Ted Lewis

>> No.23467776

>>23463128
Vermis, by Plastiboo. Very atmospheric guide to a Dark Souls like dungeon crawler video game that doesn't exist. The art is phenomenal, definitely check it out!

>> No.23467998

>>23464909
>Every book in the last 70 years worth reading was written by a shit-lib.
not true but it's a problem they're pushed into the forefront. You still got CS lewis, Lovecrafts circle, Ray bradberry, and I wouldn't call hemmingway apart of either side. I mean Ernst Junger, Spengler, Tolkien, ezra pound, hesse, jung, F fitzgerald, McCarthy, and I don't know if you can stomach it the people that are centrist to not that political to begin with. If you think one of them here is somehow a "shitlib" like anyone contemporary now you're insane even shitlibs like orwell and huxley are pretty marginally different from those today and are actually hated by those today.

>> No.23468202

>>23463390
>The Fisherman By John Langan
Book is nauseatingly shit. Couldn't even make it past the first page.

>> No.23468280

>>23466313
Same. Shelved at page 80 or so because...

• No attempt to render dialogue as anything but modern-sounding. Lots of modern slang that rips me out of the book.

• MC is just another Conan type. Too comic bookish.

• Extended 'fight scenes' very annoying. Shit's boring. Violence happens fast and brutally IRL, I like authors who work within that instead of describing an anime battle with words.

• Plot caught lacking. "Now we're going this way!" type story telling.

>> No.23468397

>>23468202
>Barely reads a page
>Says the whole book is shit
Never gonna make it

>> No.23468494

>>23468202
Anyone who think this can be safely ignored on all opinions with regards to modern literature.

>> No.23468559

>>23468280
Damn I wanted to give that book a try but I recognize these points of critique too well, they always make fantasy unreadable.
Does anyone disagree with this anon? The setting did sound neat...

>> No.23468570

>>23468559
Same anon as made the comment you replied to, so no help with a 2nd opinion on Two Fires.

But if you haven't read Throne of Bones by McNaughton, or Mask of the Sorcerer by Schweitzer, they're ultra dank horror/fantasy tales. Jelly of anybody reading them for the first time.

It was those 2 authors that soured me to Two Fires by comparison, once I tried to read it earlier this spring.

>> No.23468606

>>23468570
Thanks mate I'll check them out.
Would probably have judged them by the cover if I came across them otherwise, desu.

>> No.23468624

>>23468280
I was going to order a second-hand copy on the basis of what I've read above, but you've convincingly made it sound utter shit. Shame, because the blurb sounds great.

>> No.23468868

>>23468280
These criticisms are just as trite as the book itself. Between Two Fires is dogshit because it has terrible prose and the subject matter is puerile. It's a books for tweens. Good literature doesn't need "non-comic bookish fight scenes" or "good story telling". This place has gone to hell, I miss when people at least pretended to like serious literature and gate kept dogshit genre fiction like this.
For the record, Conan an entirely higher caliber than trash.

>> No.23469130

>>23463390
>>23464890
>>23468202
anyone here read House of Windows and The Fisherman? I hated HoW and don't want to bother with Fisherman if it's not significantly different/better

>> No.23469232

>>23466313
It was a great book, Berserk-tier.

>> No.23469286

i looked up the synopsis and it sounds exactly like a screenplay im writing right now.
except the knight is a woman and the kid is a boy