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Originally Posted by Connavar  I love heroic fantasy and fantasy adventure of that kind cause of DG books.
But the reason i fell for Gemmell's fantasy is that i was so awed by his many interesting characters. All his characters from heroes to villains,supporting cast feel like real people of that would be like in a world like that. They arent faking beeing gray characters like those you see in less good works of fantasy.
Yeah Biodroid he can right fight scene better than anyone i have read.
I aslo think the thread maker would like Rigante next cause its the most epic of his works and still has all his strenghts. If you dont like it you will never like anything written by him. |
Well, perhaps I will give him another try, although it wont be anytime soon as I have a list of books to read before I would consider another of his.
I will grant you that he can write a good fight scene. The scene where an injured Druss throws the enemy's giant warrior over the wall was the highlight of the book for me. I cant remember the other characters name off the top of my head, but he was the one that used the poisoned sword.
It just made difficult reading for me do to what I found to be next to no character development, not to mention the major plot points that seem to spring up and then disappear just as quickly. I like to understand what is going on in a characters head when they make a major decision, and I didn't feel that was the case with Legend.
Perhaps I will try the Rigante book you suggest if I ever get back to Gemmell. I do prefer more of an epic story, so that may be more to my tastes.