The Wizard Knight
 

Any of you read this? I did last year, it still sticks in my mind.



Try to imagine every cliche of high fantasy, now rewritten to be entirely new and mind blowing.
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http://www.sfsite.com/07a/tk179.htm
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http://www.bewilderingstories.com/is...night_rev.html

If you don't read this book you'll have missed out on something important and wonderful and all the cool people will laugh at you. Neil Gaiman

no sorry :(

I'm used to the cool people laughing at me. :(

I'm also a sucker for fantasy fiction. I think that I've read just about every D&D novel that's ever come out.

how does Mr. Gaiman compare to RA Salvatore?

Salvatore writes for media licenses, Wolfe and Gaiman write original works.

I'm ok with media licenses if they are done well.

and...you'll have to pardon me, I'm multi-multi-tasking this morning:

I've read American Gods and liked it a lot. I knew that I knew the name, but was having trouble pushing through my hypo-caffeinated state. I've heard that Anansi Boys was good too.

and there I go again. I just googled Gaiman. so, I guess I still don't know who Gene Wolfe is. ok no holding out. it's coffee time.

American Gods was good. Gaiman is perhaps most famous for the epic comic book The Sandman though ;)

Gene Wolfe wrote The Book of the New Sun

so is The Knight the first in the series?

I'll pick it up when I'm done with what I'm reading.

we went to the bookstore a few days ago and I just didn't know what to get. it's all really hit and miss in the sci-fi/fantasy category (although I'll even read the shit ones just for easy digestion).

I was tempted to read The Dresden Files, but the "as seen on sci-fi" sticker scared me off. fucking SyFy.

The Wizard Knight was first published in two parts: The Knight, The Wizard.

well that's rather confusing then, isn't it?

calling it "The Knight Wizard" would have made things much clearer.

Gaiman and Pratchett's Good Omens was one of my favorite books I read last year.

not really that sort of fantasy 37

why do you judge it poorly?

Yeah, I know. Gaiman was mentioned, so I made the post. I've never read any of this "high fantasy" or whatever stuff.

i might give this a try, i've been curious about fantasy lately, the only things i've read have been by tolkien, i loved that stuff when i was a teenager but now i find it pretty dull, but i'm curious to find out what is of interest in this whole genre that has sprung up in his wake.

Well this harkens back to the medieval romances and earlier fantasy of guys like Lord Dunsany.

I thought this was going to be a spoof on Batman.

Oh well.

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