Re: Some of my favorite books, but you're spot on with your caution about Dragon Star. *spoilers*
Myrdhyn Send a noteboard - 14/04/2011 06:36:39 PM
Dragon Star trilogy is good as well, but the ending of the first book is depressing.
*spoilers*
You aren't kidding about that. Rohan's death and Sioned's subsequent reaction is probably the saddest thing I can remember reading. Things don't exactly get better, either, what with Meiglan kicking the bucket as well. Don't get me wrong; I loved the trilogy, but it had some very unhappy parts.
I agree 100%. It ends on a bittersweet note, but things never really got cheerful again like the first trilogy. I've literally read this whole series more than two dozen times. That's no exaggeration. To this day when I do a re-read, occasionally I get so distressed/depressed by the end of Stronghold that I can't pickup the next book and finish the series, sometimes for months.
The author, Melanie Rawn, went through a long period of extreme clinical depression mid-writing-career. In fact, she's just getting her feet back under her the last few years. I've long suspected that the last three books were, at least in part, either the product of or the cause of that depression.
I need a book with a happy ending.
12/04/2011 02:14:15 PM
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The Princess Bride?
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12/04/2011 03:07:22 PM
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Already read it.
12/04/2011 06:34:05 PM
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Re: Already read it.
12/04/2011 06:37:46 PM
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I'll be honest; I'm looking for mind candy.
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12/04/2011 06:40:54 PM
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The Scarlet Pimpernel?
12/04/2011 06:44:54 PM
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Haven't read Wodehouse. *NM*
12/04/2011 06:48:51 PM
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He is funny.
12/04/2011 06:57:34 PM
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WHICH book? *NM*
12/04/2011 04:22:29 PM
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Well, you've read it, but it's huge spoilers for people who haven't!
12/04/2011 06:38:08 PM
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I don't know, dude...
14/04/2011 03:23:35 AM
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I seem to remember Modesitt's Towers of the Sunset had a romance element and a happy ending. *NM*
12/04/2011 05:23:39 PM
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Or Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, perhaps?
12/04/2011 07:11:30 PM
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I was gonna suggest JS & MN as well. And Christie generally cheers me up as well, true. *NM*
12/04/2011 07:20:44 PM
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While not a bad read I don't even know what feeling that book caused in me
12/04/2011 07:47:08 PM
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I don't really count that as a happy ending, myself...
14/04/2011 09:03:53 AM
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You know, I do not remember how it ends...
14/04/2011 02:10:45 PM
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The ending is admittedly disappointing.
14/04/2011 07:53:29 PM
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Re: The ending is admittedly disappointing.
14/04/2011 10:00:52 PM
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Temeraire by Naomi Novik
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Room is great, but hardly qualifies as mind candy if you ask me...
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The Secret History of the Pink Carnation?
12/04/2011 07:30:18 PM
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The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell.
13/04/2011 09:09:09 AM
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Dragon Prince trilogy
13/04/2011 06:25:14 PM
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Some of my favorite books, but you're spot on with your caution about Dragon Star. *spoilers*
14/04/2011 06:12:16 PM
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Re: Some of my favorite books, but you're spot on with your caution about Dragon Star. *spoilers*
14/04/2011 06:36:39 PM
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