No worries, my best friend likes Koontz and though the first Fury book was good too. :)
I didn't hate the first book, it's just clear how significantly better his writing is in the Dresden Novels (and in the second Fury book too by the way).
As for Koontz. I dunno man, I've read two of his books now and they were both just awful to me. This last one had all these blurbs about how it had one of the greatest villains ever in it, it was his best book since "something or other" and on and on. I literally read it in about 3.5 hours...and was like "Uh..that was it?" The characters were like cardboard cutouts and the villain was a joke. But hey at least it didn't take me long to read. :)
I first read Feist's magician series when I was in High School. I've read almost all his books. They are all good, with the exception of the novels he wrote based on the games..oh man those were bad. Magician series is still the best though.
Oh man, the Otherland series is just amazing. You can't even describe it. I'd say it's sort of like The Matrix, but that's a serious injustice as it was written well before that movie ever came out. It's about virtual reality, it's fantasy, it's historical fiction, it's sci-fi, it's cyberpunk, it's about life, it's about African Bushmen...it's just... Epic! And Tad Williams is a master storyteller and writer.
I had no idea that they were doing comics on the Magician series...I need to check those out!
Next Dresden novel is White Knight. It's out now in Hardback...unless you mean the next one after that.
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Date: 2007-07-17 03:36 am (UTC)From:I didn't hate the first book, it's just clear how significantly better his writing is in the Dresden Novels (and in the second Fury book too by the way).
As for Koontz. I dunno man, I've read two of his books now and they were both just awful to me. This last one had all these blurbs about how it had one of the greatest villains ever in it, it was his best book since "something or other" and on and on. I literally read it in about 3.5 hours...and was like "Uh..that was it?" The characters were like cardboard cutouts and the villain was a joke. But hey at least it didn't take me long to read. :)
I first read Feist's magician series when I was in High School. I've read almost all his books. They are all good, with the exception of the novels he wrote based on the games..oh man those were bad. Magician series is still the best though.
Oh man, the Otherland series is just amazing. You can't even describe it. I'd say it's sort of like The Matrix, but that's a serious injustice as it was written well before that movie ever came out. It's about virtual reality, it's fantasy, it's historical fiction, it's sci-fi, it's cyberpunk, it's about life, it's about African Bushmen...it's just... Epic! And Tad Williams is a master storyteller and writer.
I had no idea that they were doing comics on the Magician series...I need to check those out!
Next Dresden novel is White Knight. It's out now in Hardback...unless you mean the next one after that.