Chompa’s Comments (group member since Feb 16, 2015)

Chompa’s comments from the Grimdark Fantasy group.

I read Blood Song and also found that it dragged about 3/4 of the way through, but it did recover. I've not read others in the series yet.

I don't recall Vaelin really doing that myself. Book blurbs are sometimes kind of stupid. I'm glad they don't appear on e-books.

A side note: Blood Song is a book I read and enjoyed, but totally forgot that I read for some reason. About two months ago, I saw the title and said, "Oh yeah, I was going to read that." Then I saw my review of it and everything came flooding back. I'm not sure if it was the title that slipped my mind or what the deal was.

Cool. I'm going to check it out.

Go for it, Terrica. I know at least a few of us have read it.

I am a fan of Star Wars the Old Republic, but haven't played in a bit. Lately I've been playing a lot of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, which is a very old school game and very Grimdark in that I've NEVER won. Hundreds of attempts and zero wins.

What do you play, Deborah?

I agree. the palette cleanser is a great idea.

A Crown for Cold Silver has intrigued me from the start of hearing about it. I love the concept of the main character. Very outside the norm.

I'm all about Low Town too.

The Chronicles of Amber are great. Especially the original series. I read those many times in after first discovering them in the library.

Sounds good to me.

I'm having a blast just seeing who was picked. Melina - I love that you picked three characters with serious health issues who are still total bad-asses.

Crap... I forgot about Locke!

That was way too hard. I went with Logen Ninefingers, Druss The Legend and Tyrion Lannister.

Honorable mentions to Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Croaker, Drizzt, Conan, Elric and Belgarath. I must dispute adding Harry Dresden and other Urban Fantasy characters as I feel that is a whole different genre.

I've never watched The Road, but I thought No Country for Old Men was a good adaptation of the book.

I agree Deborah. I've not read all of his books, but The Road and No Country for Old Men were amazing.

Seriously, The Road makes The Grapes of Wrath look like a sitcom. It is the post apocalypse Grimdark.

I have a feeling that if I gave it time, I'd eventually adapt to the way Stephenson writes. When I read Cormac McCarthy's The Road, I found it very hard to read at the start, but once I became acclimated to that style, I loved it.

My trouble with Snowcrash was how Stephenson wrote it. If I recall it was all in present tense and really messed with my head. I could not finish it.

I was able to fix it. It is now ASOIAF.

I read the first book of ASOIAF when it first came out. My recollections are a bit dim after all this time. I did enjoy it quite a bit, but recall wanting to move on from some characters to others. I recall not being a fan of the chapters featuring the Stark girls, but absolutely loving Tyrion and Jon Snow.

One of these days I would like to sit down and reread this book and continue the series. Now, if we can just get George to finish writing them.

Deborah - Thanks for the link to Mark Lawrence's blog. It was interesting to read his take on things. The events in India are abhorrent.

Regarding books written in First Person, I'm normally a fan. The Jorg books continue to be something I have failed to connect with. That said, I still have plans to read the third book at some point.

I did read Marko Kloos's books earlier this year. I thought he was pretty good - especially considering I believe he is self published.

I'm now seeing that the 3rd book of the Frontlines series is out. Adding that to the never ending list.