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fantasy books with actual endings?

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by fuddy duddy, Oct 16, 2005.

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  1. Chandos the Red

    Chandos the Red This Wheel's on Fire

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    _The War of the Flowers_ is a stand alone novel, which is actually pretty good. The first half of the book is much better than the second. IMO, the story hinges on how the reader feels towards its main protagonist, Theo.

    At the beginning of the story it's easy to sympathize with Theo as the "average Joe" for whom nothing ever goes quite right. But as the average Joe who is forced into the role of reluctant hero, his responses to the unfolding events and Theo’s character are often a bit too pedestrian, IMO. But that may have been by design on William's part.
     
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  2. Dice

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    I really loved The Dragonbone Chair series by Tad Williams. The character started out very young and the series took him and several other characters through an epic adventure. It definatly had an ending as well.
     
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    As someone has already mentioned, David Gemmell is good for wrapped up endings. Read his first book, Legend. It's full of passion, and the ending (particularly one very very epic part) made me tingle all over. Heh, books excite me too much...
     
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    I'd pick Gemmel's Drenai series up (especially with the cheaper reprints that have come out) but for the fact that no bookstore here has a full collection of them. there are how many books? 11?
     
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    IMO - The War of the Flowers was good before anything of note happened. As soon as the plot began it turned dull and boring and I quickly came to not give a damn about the main character.

    The same goes for Perdido Street Station by China Mieville - quite possibly the dullest most standard plot was implimented in a quite interesting setting, making it mediocre.
     
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    I kinda liked the War of the Flowers. it did get draggy once or twice but a pretty good read imo.
     
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    The Hobbit.

    One of the few stand alone fantasy books written where the author wasn't hoping for a franchise book deal.

    A series witha decent resolution in each book? Kind of makes the point of a series moot doesn't it?

    Those series that are close:

    Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
    Mars Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
    The Champion Eternal Cycle by Micheal Moorcock (a lot of miniseries, with a total of forty or fifty books -- Elric of Melnibone is the most famous).
    Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony
    Wizard of Earthsea Series by Ursula LeGuin
    Both of the Amber Series by Roger Zelazny
    The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson
     
    T2Bruno, Nov 28, 2005
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