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Great deal for a highly rated DRM-free collection of fantasy books

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[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If anyone's on the fence: hell yes these are good. Probably the best fantasy writing you'll encounter anywhere. Massive in scope, beautiful prose, dark and literary and philosophical and awesome, occasionally funny as hell.

There's ten brick-thick volumes in the original series, and they are not crispy popcorn reads; they'll take a bit of investment of time and energy, but they pay off enormously once you get hooked in. It's an emotional rollercoaster; it will alternately swell your heart to bursting then stomp on it when you're not ready, and it will leave you wrung out like a rag. And if you thought GRRM was a bastard to his characters, hold onto your hat.

Trigger warning: everything. Every damn thing. Including that, and that. If you're at risk of someone ruining your week with a harrowing representation of... just about anything... then you may want to tread carefully.

Personally I enjoyed the hell out of the original ten by Erikson; the separate set by Ian Clare Esselmont... I'm sure are great, but ICE just doesn't have the writing chops that Erikson does.

I've read through the series a few times, and honestly I'm a little burnt out; I don't think I have the strength to go back there again. But my god, it's one hell of a trip.

Stupidly worth it at the price. There's a whole lotta book here.

Get.

[–] brenticus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I would say there are better individual books or shorter series, at least if you're looking for different things, but if you're looking for a big, complex narrative in a detailed world with an epic scale? This is far and away the best. Toss in remarkably grounded characters, bombastic climaxes, and weirdly hilarious comedy, and I've never read anything quite like it.

I just finished The God Is Not Willing a couple of months ago and it reminded how amazing these books are. Definitely snagging this bundle to reread everything on my kobo.

[–] CaptFeather@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Recently started reading The Way of Kings by Sanderson which is it's own journey but now you got me convinced to buy this series lol.

[–] brcl@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I purchased these because I had just started the series. Any idea how to fix the covers of some of the books? They come out with a strange cover and not what was advertised on the website.

Edit: Figured it out: -Change the file type to .zip -Decompress -Replace the “cover.jpeg” file with your preferred cover -Compress -Send to Kindle

All done on my iPhone or iPad.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can also use Calibre (or calibre-web) to fix the covers.

[–] brcl@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So calibre-web is online based? I don’t have a personal laptop to install calibre on.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

See reply I made below.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's meant to be self hosted on one of your own devices (or a VPS). And the initial setup requires a calibre DB file. So yeah, probably won't help in your situation.

[–] brcl@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the reply!