Lyanna<3Rhaegar Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 So I couldn't purchase the Dunk & Egg books separately & had to buy them in the Legends & Warrior books. I also bought Dangerous Women for The Princess & the Queen (haven't got to Rogue yet for the next one)Now I have these books with tons of other stories in them & I don't know which to read first!I was wondering if some of you would be so kind as to tell me which of the other stories from these books are your favorite? Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motherofkitties Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 I have not read many, but a lot have a series connection, so I would go with sny familiar authors and take it from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 I bought collections for the first two Dunk&egg stories and while I am not sure if I read all the other stories from those volumes, I do not remember anyone I found really good. Even Pratchett (Granny whatever the witch is called story) was decent, but not much more. Among the weak ones were two from historical fantasy, one with a gay vampire (or so) in an 18th century war in Prussia and one on an antebellum Mississippi riverboat. Tastes differ, but I really got bored by most of the Non-GRRM-Stories in these collections I tried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howdyphillip Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 So I couldn't purchase the Dunk & Egg books separately & had to buy them in the Legends & Warrior books. I also bought Dangerous Women for The Princess & the Queen (haven't got to Rogue yet for the next one)Now I have these books with tons of other stories in them & I don't know which to read first!I was wondering if some of you would be so kind as to tell me which of the other stories from these books are your favorite?Thanks in advance!Did you get Legends II as well as Legends? There is one of the three D&E stories in it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyanna<3Rhaegar Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 Thanks for the replies! I was really hoping to find something good in them :-/Did you get Legends II as well as Legends? There is one of the three D&E stories in it as well.Yes I did. Both Legends, Warriors, & Dangerous Women Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yersinia Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 From the Warriors book, I particularly liked And Ministers of Grace, by Tad Williams and Seven Years from Home, by Naomi Novik. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyanna<3Rhaegar Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 From the Warriors book, I particularly liked And Ministers of Grace, by Tad Williams and Seven Years from Home, by Naomi Novik.thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Weirgaryen Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Warriors is great. More of a leap into reading in the future: Dangerous Women is supposed to be good, it was only recently returned to me. Will read it soonsh. Dreamsongs I & II: have to say that is the best I've read since Tolkien and T.H.White. Also Rogues (am still reading) is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyanna<3Rhaegar Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 Warriors is great. More of a leap into reading in the future: Dangerous Women is supposed to be good, it was only recently returned to me. Will read it soonsh. Dreamsongs I & II: have to say that is the best I've read since Tolkien and T.H.White. Also Rogues (am still reading) is great.Any of the individual stories in Warriors or Rogues stand out to you? I'm trying to figure out which to story to read first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Weirgaryen Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Any of the individual stories in Warriors or Rogues stand out to you? I'm trying to figure out which to story to read first. Read cover to cover, first to last. eta: and start with Rogues :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Arryn Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 I got one from the library, and although I never read it, there was an historical author I like I meant to read. I think it was S.K. Penman.Dangerous Women, A Queen in Exile.She's not an amazing author, just really really solid, well researched, readable. Her best is IMO the Sunne in Splendour, which comes close to great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyanna<3Rhaegar Posted August 15, 2014 Author Share Posted August 15, 2014 Thank you! I'll let you all know how it goes :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyanna<3Rhaegar Posted August 21, 2014 Author Share Posted August 21, 2014 I got one from the library, and although I never read it, there was an historical author I like I meant to read. I think it was S.K. Penman.Dangerous Women, A Queen in Exile.She's not an amazing author, just really really solid, well researched, readable. Her best is IMO the Sunne in Splendour, which comes close to great.I read A Queen in Exile last night. Thanks for suggesting it. It was very enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Dreamsongs is good, i'm a big fan of the Tuf series, so give them a shot. Much has been made of sandkings and night flyers, but they aren't my favorite in the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night's_King Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Read every single story in Legends. It's probably the best anthology I've ever read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beniowa Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Like someone else said, pretty much every story in Legends and Legends II are written in an universe the author has already written in so it'll probably depend on which ones you've already read. I liked pretty much every story in Warriors except for the Weber and the Gabaldon. Those two are the only ones I couldn't get into. All the rest are on the top of their game. Haven't read Rogues yet so I can't comment. I was rather disappointed with Dangerous Women. I like GRRM's and a couple of others like the Penman. I had such trouble with every other author I hadn't previously read that I started skipping and only doing the ones I had already read. Even then the stories felt really weak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 I was rather disappointed with Dangerous Women. I like GRRM's and a couple of others like the Penman. I had such trouble with every other author I hadn't previously read that I started skipping and only doing the ones I had already read. Even then the stories felt really weak. I agree. There were one or two I enjoyed in Dangerous Women, but for the most part I was disappointed. Luckily I'd only borrowed it from a friend. Rogues was much better imo. Sure, there were some I didn't enjoy, but I loved the majority of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Read every single story in Legends. It's probably the best anthology I've ever read. cough cough GOODKIND cough cough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veltigar Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 If you have a copy of Rogues at hand, then check out 'The Lightning Tree' by Patrick Rothfuss. When you have read that, go and read Rothfuss' novels, they are great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Weirgaryen Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Dreamsongs is good, i'm a big fan of the Tuf series, so give them a shot. Much has been made of sandkings and night flyers, but they aren't my favorite in the book. Yeah. And meet Robb and Lyanna in "A Song for Lya" there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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