Darth Richard II Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Yeah see now I'm going to have to buy it and I will either love it and freak out that the author responded to my post or hate it and feel bad because the author responded to my post. Or in the rare third case find out it's filled with weird bizarre sex and just feel uncomfortable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Well, I make a point of buying the books of the folks that post on here.. .so Boom! Got a sell Hope it's good. Stanek briefly posted on here... :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benpeek Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Yeah see now I'm going to have to buy it and I will either love it and freak out that the author responded to my post or hate it and feel bad because the author responded to my post. Or in the rare third case find out it's filled with weird bizarre sex and just feel uncomfortable. Maybe it'll be a combination of the first two that will result in the third. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 My dream is to someday get a female author to join here and not scare her off in the first 12 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Yeah, Robin Hobb should totally come here. She'd get mad love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Stanek briefly posted on here... :PAnd I've bought and read his first book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Yeah, Robin Hobb should totally come here. She'd get mad love. Yeah...well...this board has a..uh..rep for not being uh, kind, to the female authors. I believe there was a post along the lines of LOL FEAMLE AUTHORS AL SUXOR WHY THEY WRITE that got some, eh, traction on certain female authors blog sites a while back. :P tl;dr: We scares away all the womens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgambino Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Yeah...well...this board has a..uh..rep for not being uh, kind, to the female authors. I believe there was a post along the lines of LOL FEAMLE AUTHORS AL SUXOR WHY THEY WRITE that got some, eh, traction on certain female authors blog sites a while back. :P tl;dr: We scares away all the womens. Maybe Vox Day should start posting here then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Selig Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Yeah...well...this board has a..uh..rep for not being uh, kind, to the female authors. I believe there was a post along the lines of LOL FEAMLE AUTHORS AL SUXOR WHY THEY WRITE that got some, eh, traction on certain female authors blog sites a while back. :P When there is more discussion here of the works of a single male author who is a midlister than on all female authors in SFF combined, can you blame them? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 When there is more discussion here of the works of a single male author who is a midlister than on all female authors in SFF combined, can you blame them? ;) Oh goodness no, I commend them for not sinking to our level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Malice / Gwynn got a big thumbs up from Conn Iggulden ... described in the promo as "master of epic historical fiction himself" ... which some would think bodes badly .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Yeah that uh, doesn't exactly sell it to me. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Wanderer Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Promise of Blood is on the "to read" list - hoping it's good. The Thousand Names was solid. The attention to historical detail was great, the three main characters were solid, but the plot is predictable. The sequel was a lot better. Great female characters, a lesbian centric love story, and a lot of discussion on social issues ... plus all the good things from the first book. Blood Song was as good as The Thousand Names - it had a decent main character, but it told a pretty straight forward story and a lot of the secondary characters don't feel too inspired. I'm not finished with the sequel, but so far it hasn't been too good. Most of the newly introduced narrators are really struggling. From what I've read, go with Wexler - the payoff's in the sequel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Malice / Gwynn got a big thumbs up from Conn Iggulden ... described in the promo as "master of epic historical fiction himself" ... which some would think bodes badly .... George Martin and Gardner Dozois invited Iggulden to write a story in Down These Strange Streets anthology. So they must have enjoyed his fiction. I might be the only one on this forum who likes Iggulden's novels... I'm currently reading Stormbird, first book in Wars of the Roses series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Or one of them knows him in real life.Or they wanted him for name recognition because his books sell.Or the published told them to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 George Martin and Gardner Dozois invited Iggulden to write a story in Down These Strange Streets anthology. So they must have enjoyed his fiction.I might be the only one on this forum who likes Iggulden's novels... I'm currently reading Stormbird, first book in Wars of the Roses series. Which is so awful as to make Phillipa Gregory's novels look good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Which is so awful as to make Phillipa Gregory's novels look good. I agree. And I hate me some Gregory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Yeah...well...this board has a..uh..rep for not being uh, kind, to the female authors. Apart from KJ Parker, JK Rowling (more back in the day than now, but still), JV Jones, Robin Hobb and Lois McMaster Bujold, you mean? And we've had some interesting - if relatively brief - discussions about the likes of Janny Wurts, Kameron Hurley and Anne Leckie as well. We do skew a bit more to talking about male authors, but it's not quite as bad as you make out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I was thinking of a couple threads from way back that were along the lines of 'why do all female authors suck'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 I was thinking of a couple threads from way back that were along the lines of 'why do all female authors suck'. Yeah, but to be fair, most of the responses were something along the lines of 'what the fuck, dude? They don't'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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