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Books / Re: Fantasy girls, where are you?
« on: January 27, 2010, 11:57:35 PM »
Thanks for the responce everyone! I have a wonderful list to work with now, you've set me up for a good year of happy reading I think.

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As for the WoT using a lot of clichés: who do you think started most of those? That's almost (but not quite) like saying the Lord of the Rings uses a lot of fantasy clichés. It does...but that's not Tolkien's fault. The blame for that lies in his imitators.

Oh I came to this realization eventually too and I also realized clichés aren't necessarily a bad thing. But my sister was a big influence, for better or worse, on the media I liked growing up and thus the media I like now. I have half the WoT series so I will finish it eventually, but no need to rush, i'll come back to it when I'm ready.

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Books / Re: Fantasy girls, where are you?
« on: January 27, 2010, 01:32:17 PM »
Quote from: ryos on January 27, 2010, 12:22:33 PM
You need look no further than Brandon's own books. Elantris and Warbreaker both have very strong female leads.

Hrm, those seem good. But I should specify, i'm looking not just looking for strong female leads but strong female main characters. Though Warbreaker sounds like it fills criteria that that quite well.

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The Wheel of Time also has a lot of strong female characters. It's kind of hard to recommend without reservation because it's very long and slow, but if you're patient the payoff is worth it.

Got up to book 5-6 in WoT before my elitist older sister essentually shattered the fantasy genre for me by  describing the near entirety of first book using only fantasy cliche's (and having never read it). I was young and impressionable then but still I'm not sure if I'll ever pick up the ropes on that one.

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A lot of Terry Pratchett books - those about Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg; the Tiffany Aching saga; and the ones featuring Death's granddaughter - all have great strong female leads.

Pratchett is great but I've always found his works (when he's not paired with gaimen at least) to be a little fluffly for my tastes. Still i've always been interested in the Death's  granddaughter character.

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The Lord of the Rings has...heh. Heheh. I'm joking. That was a joke.

And Lord of the yeaaaaaah.... :P

So i'll definitly have a look into Warbreaker and probably have another go at Pratchett, though if there are any other recommendations then i'de appriciate em! i'm a fast reader :)

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Books / Fantasy girls, where are you?
« on: January 27, 2010, 12:07:02 PM »
I have just finished the reading the last Mistborn book, and while not entirely happy with the ending (bitter sweet I suppose) I still very much enjoyed the series. I was particularly impressed with our dear protagonist Vin.

I found Vin to be the most engaging female lead I have yet come across (though admittedly that isn’t many. Which is in fact part of the problem.) And now it seems I want more. I am unable, of course, to read another mist born book so I’ll have to go for the next best thing. A good female lead in a good fantasy book. This has been, in my experience, not an easy thing to find.

So, books with a solid female lead. Know any? ???

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