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And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
So, after finishing Worm for the 3rd time I pretty much have to mention it here.
Its a web serial (so if that's not your thing, definitely avoid; 1.6m words of a format you're not happy with will destroy your soul), but the characters/setting/spin on the genre are pretty outstanding, particularly for a first authored work. It is unquestionably pretty dark though, so if you're not someone who likes your dark fantasy, definitely avoid.
Now starting The Silence of Medair.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
Had this one for awhile but never managed to get into it. Story is magnificently grand though.
Children who kill, Profiles of pre-teen and teenage killers
Light reading, nice and cheerful.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
Tad Williams' Otherland series is also pretty good, if a little strange.
@Ahmet I did check the trilogy you mentioned, but the blurb from the first book sort of did not inspire me much...
Any other good Sci-Fi recommendations?
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
Have you read some of the more classic Sci-Fi? Childhood's end, the Sentinel, etc. by Arthur C. Clarke, for instance? Really good reads, and then you can go watch the movies/tv shows
The Hainish cycle by Ursula Leguin were also very absorbing. The Left Hand of Darkness and the Dispossessed are on any nerd's must-list, I think, and the short stories she's written are really, really great. In general, reading Ursula Leguin has always turned out rewarding (Earthsea books are so, so, so imaginative and evocative!).
What a life-changing literary experience!
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
It's almost cringeworthy. The book switches between really good plot/story line/character relations, to really childish/hollow relations/poor story line, and making characters instantly change their opinions of each other without offering any real reason as to why.
The characters seem to flit with no real sense of purpose between feelings, as well as not showing any rationale as to why they act a certain way to something that they are sworn to destroy, which is annoying, as well as having overly descriptive language for things that should be simple and simplicity of things you would consider to require more description.
All in all its not terrible, but not brilliant by any stretch of the imagination. I would say its a good story to listen to if you're working on other projects, ie at work and can drift in/out of concentration - you wont miss much.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.