Shouldn't you just play a videogame at this point?
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does this series have good romance? I need my scifi/fantasy with good romance
Not really. What little "romance" it has is pretty bad.
The Malazan books are at their best (IMO) when they're painting with broad strokes. Battles, disasters, divine plots, political shifts, etc. The kind of stuff that shapes the world's history. The stuff that focuses more on one person, like the couple of romantic subplots it has or the endless wank about Karsa Orlong (or worst of all, Karsa Orlong's romantic subplot) is all mediocre to bad.
Anon I'm sorry to say but generally people read because they enjoy reading, not because they think it's a superior activity or that they're more sophisticated for doing so
The person who reads fantasy like this does so because they enjoy reading, not because they actually hate it and would prefer to play video games but oh they were told growing up that reading was something smart kids did
You don't have to apologize. I am personally unable to understand why you would want to read 8000+ pages of wizard battles and zero dimensional character development when you could just play Super Dragon Quest Turbo XVI. The advantage books have over other media I think is that you can deal directly with internal states, ideas, and things that can't really be represented visually. But if you are just going to have magic sword fights and magic explosions and demons chopping people in half, it seems like almost any other medium would do it better. Is it just to be able to say "I'm reading"?
Are you stupid or just baiting?
>goyslopers already seething
You're a pseud who is wasting his life on shit he doesn't enjoy
Nta but you sound like a man of low intellect projecting
>Nta but you sound like a man of low intellect projecting
Because it's entertaining and immersive in a way that video games or film could never capture since the imagery is based on the output of your mind's eye
Compare the Witcher books to the Witcher video games or the television series, there is no comparison
Compare the LOTR books to the LOTR films, the LOTR books are a far more fulfilling and entertaining experience than the films
LOTR is actually really good, has all kinds of world building and detail that the movies can't recreate, which is why everyone in IQfy complains how boring it is. These books ... not so much. It's like reading the novelization of someone's playthrough of Witcher 3, except Witcher 3 actually has interesting characters. Idgi.
>LOTR is actually really good, has all kinds of world building and detail that the movies can't recreate, which is why everyone in IQfy complains how boring it is
But no one does, though?
The thing is - LOTR books and the first book of Witcher are actually good.
The Witcher games are unironically better than the Witcher novels in every possible way. You could watch a montage of every TW2 cutscene and it would still be miles above the The Tower of Swallows (which sucks and swallows).
>Super Dragon Quest Turbo XVI
Are you pretending to be a boomer? That's hilarious anon.
books have longer gameplay time, when you think about it
I purchased the first volume a few weeks before something very specific spewed out of a Chinese lab and have yet to read it. I must admit, I'm not sure whether I'll ever give it a shot. Can't say how many times I was told to read The Malazan Book of the Fallen.
The issue is, as I've grown older, I've lost a sizeable deal of patience for fiction books (especially those with more than 500 pages), which is a tad distressing because I love reading (I still read 3 to 5 non-fiction books per month). I need to choke the life out of this reluctance and go back to my old habits of devouring large fiction books. I'm only reading 3 to 5 fiction books each year currently.
> as I've grown older, I've lost a sizeable deal of patience for fiction books
Same here, I’m 30 and haven’t enjoyed a novel for years. Maybe because I have less time, both free time and time left. And I know more about the world, so one guy’s creation is less interesting than the infinite variations of real life. It seems to be a common thing to go through.
Luckily plenty of historians are downright masters of prose, perhaps more than novelists. Gibbon, Tuchman, Morris are all titans of literature who get overlooked because they wrote non-fiction.
No.
no, it's not substantial and i need substance. in fact this is the only thing i give up on naturally, despite my worst proclivities.