I can’t believe no one’s said ‘‘Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines’’.
It’s set in modern day los angeles and it’s an awesome FPS about vampires and their political tension and stuff. It’s not like most vampire stories, it’s kind of unique while still fitting within the vampire realm. You’re not a pale european with a cloak, you’re more like a human with magic powers who can use guns. Look it up on wikipedia or something, it’s amazing.
Well, you really need to download the patches for it not to be all buggy and stuff, but none-the-less, it’s an awesome game.
It’s easily the best combination mentioned here so far.
“ok, I’ll take a lot of Tolkien, a lot of McCaffery, a good amount of Leguin, some Dragonlance, some Star Wars, etc. It will be a can’t miss book.”
The story is cliched, formulaic and barely passable as are the characters and the language is simply what you would expect from a17 year old. If you have any experience in the field of fantasy at all, reading Eragon will feel like a visit to Las Vegas --sure you can see New York and Paris and Italy, but they are mere shadows of the real thing.
McCaffrey’s telepathic link between dragon and rider is here, but not the powerful emotionality of her works.
LeGuin’s idea of one true name and one true language forming the backbone of magic is here, but not her masterful sense of order and balance and restraint, not to mention the sparse beauty of her language. And of course, the graceful, bow-carrying elves, the gruff and secretive mentor with magical powers, the withdrawn dwarves, etc. all show up in their correct place and time.
If you have little experience in fantasy and so won’t be bothered by the obviously derivative nature of this book, you’ll probably enjoy it but there are far better works to begin a lifetime of fantasy reading with and even if you start with Eragon, I hope you quickly move onto them
I have read quite a lot of fantasy series by many different authors. While I will agree that there are quite a lot of similarities between other series and the Inheritance Cycle, calling it complete shit is beyond overkill. But still, you have your opinion, and I have mine. I think they are good books, you don’t.
Lucas’ biggest offense in the prequels was definitely explaining the Force away with scientific technobabble and make it lose its mystical status.
No one asked him to reveal the true nature of the Force but he did it anyway and by doing that he made the Force as wondrous as someone having double-jointed fingers.
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