What other fantasy books do YOU read?

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Galadriel

That, of course, is true. XD I keep trying to compare fantasy books to LotR, and so far most of them have been at least somewhat disappointing. Game of Thrones was the only one, for me, that came close to the standards I set.

For me Game of Thrones was like a mix between LOTR and HP - it had some of the depth of LOTR and addictiveness of HP.

[Galadriel]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

For me Game of Thrones was like a mix between LOTR and HP - it had some of the depth of LOTR and addictiveness of HP.

Good way of putting it. Though I didn't find HP 'addicting', I certainly found it entertaining. Well. At least books 3, 4 and 5. :P The others didn't appeal to me much.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Galadriel

Good way of putting it. Though I didn't find HP 'addicting', I certainly found it entertaining. Well. At least books 3, 4 and 5. :P The others didn't appeal to me much.

I found HP addicting because I couldn't put it down while I read it, but when reflecting on it later I wondered if it was worth reading. It is certainly entertaining while it's new. It has a way of making you read on.

I agree with you on books 3, 4, and 5. The first book was simple and a bit too straight-forward, at least compared with the rest, as first books of series are wont to be (compare: Game of Thrones, The Golden Compass/The Northern Lights). The second was plain boring. The sixth was quite overdone, and the seventh brought all the worst qualities to the highest level. The middle ones were the best.

You know, sometimes I want to ask Rowling if in our days one absolutely cannot write a book without any swearing in it. She made it until the end of book 7, but then what happened?... It's not like the swearing shows any insights into character, or society, or plot, or anything else.

She is good at making you wonder - at first. But then she is kind of, well, not obvious, but she does like to reuse her characters, so the reader knows much more than the people inside the book. For example, the reader can logically figure out that she wouldn't bring in a new character with the initials R.A.B in the last book, therefore it has to be someone mentioned earlier, and there is only one such person. She needs to read a bit more Sherlock Holmes.