Books you'd like to see get film/tv adaptations.
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DUDE BRIDGES
>>71462946
Bridgemen are top tier
>>71462919
Mistborn would probably be a better movie/tv show, but would probably be butchered into some hunger games esque female power trope instead of the power struggle that it actually is.
Even then, only book 1 would be particularly interesting when adapted.
They need more Bukowski movies. Barfly and Factotem were meh. Women and Ham on Rye would make good movies.
books are for faggots. Except comic books, they're cool cause you don't need to read them, just look at the pictures.
>>71463576
>books are for faggots. Except comic books, they're cool cause you don't need to read them, just look at the pictures.
None, I don't want to see my favourite books turn into meme garbage like GoT.
>>71462919
Sanderson is literally kiddy fiction tier, not kidding.
Malazan is where real high fantasy is at.
The Catcher in the Rye
>>71463772
>Malazan
That's the one with dinosaurs with swords for arms?
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>>71463796
That's the one.
>>71462919
It would have to be animated unless they wanted to spend 30 million an episode doing all the spren properly in CG. And good luck finding a good way to integrate the weird interlude chapters into the main show and getting normies to understand their meaning. Getting people to understand the Unmade / sharholders / Hoid / Worldhoppers / etc. in a 10 hour season would be harder than people trying to understand Robert's Rebellion from watching the show version of GoT.
Also the vital crossover stuff would be lost if they only did Stormlight archive and not the rest of Sandersons books with it. No one would even understand the importance of Nightblood or the story Rock tells about the white haired God at the bottom of the lake.
>>71463888
I've only read Stormlight Archive; what do you mean by this? I know about Hoid/shards/cosmere stuff, but what is nightblood and who is the white harid god
>>71462919
Sandman
>>71463965
Stormlight, Mistborn, Elantris, and Warbreaker all take place in the same universe called the Cosmere, but on different planets. The sword Szeth is given at the end of book 2 is called Nightblood, and it plays a central roll in Warbreaker. The white haired god story Rock tells in book 2 is tied in with Mistborn.
I highly recommend you read the other cosmere books, you start to notice huge underlying themes and constants in the cosmere that are really interesting. You only get a part of the story by reading one series.
One tip, don't read "Mistborn: A Secret History" until after you have read all the other cosmere books. It's mild blowing.
>>71463576
Maybe as a US/ Japan co production by studio Madhouse.
But probably not.
Directed by James Cameron
well, it has incest, devil worship and genocide
>>71463722
given how many idiots and children like got, the belgariad would be the perfect series to shit out for tv next
>>71463772
>Malazan is where real high fantasy is at
high fantasy is made for 10-14yo's? that magic stuff seemed extremely childish when I read it
This whole series would be good though it gets more wacky with each instalment
>>71462919
Brandon Sanderson is the worst fucking fantasy author I have ever read and that book is fucking Young Adult tier bullshit.
Fuck you.
Grow the fuck up.
>genre fiction
Try reading something a little less intellectually degrading
>>71464799
(You)
>>71464799
>here's a webcomic that parrots my insult without giving any sort of argument or evidence to back it up
I hate GoT and pretty much all fantasy and capeshit but you seem like a next level reddit fag
*downvoted*
How does that make you feel, sir?
>>71464799
Sandersons books are a very strange mix of young adult tier fantasy with a dose of fairly deep (by fantasy standards) underlying overarching story in spots. It's a very strange mix for sure. I never really understood the praise he gets for world building, I always thought it was average at best, along with the magic systems. I do however like that he doesn't use magic as a deus ex machina and is able to write it into the story fairly well.
I mostly enjoy the books because of the way the different series tie into each other in some very unexpected ways. The universe these books take place in quickly becomes much more than a young adult fantasy series when you get done with all the books and you read Mistborn: A secret History. That short story is a game changer and reveals a huge amount of depth to the universe.
>>71465144
Haven't read anything of his besides The Way of Kings, so my opinion may have been skewed. For me what did it was the edgy as fuck names he gave to everything. It was driving me nuts.
>>71462919
The X-Wing series. It'll never happen though.
Too bad he decided to go write some shitty YA after the last first law book.
>>71464786
>when they're in the Tower of Babel replica and they are being chased by those demons from Bosch's The Last Judgement
Scary shit man
>>71465175
Your missing out on a great deal of context as to what is happening in the cosmere. I highly recommend you read the first 3 Mistborn books and then Warbreaker and then go read book 2 of Stormlight. I guarantee you will love Stormlight 2 much more if you read the other series first. There are characters, artifacts, and magical constants that appear in multiple series, and they really give each other much more depth than if you just read a single series by itself.
>>71465350
you're*
>>71465350
Mistborn was shit. He creates these wonderful worlds then shits on them with crap story telling.
The only piece of literature worthy enough of further immortalization in the visual arts is pic related.
>>71465463
I thought the first book was really good but the series kind of lost its direction a bit in the second book.
Sandersons books are flawed gems for sure. Individually they are average, but when you read all of them and look at the bigger picture you can see the underlying "epic" story take shape, and it's an interesting effect once you read a certain number of them and you start to notice this huge story stretch across multiple different series and having parts of the big story weaved into all of the individual stories of each book, with the characters in the book being oblivious to what is actually happening around them. It's an interesting way to tell a story for sure.
The major gripe I have about his books is his flat story telling and flat descriptions of things. There isn't any 'spice' to his writing style, it's very flat.
>>71464799
Why has Penny Arcade's artwork actually gotten WORSE over the past couple years?
>>71465344
I still need to read the 3 standalone books, are they as good as the trilogy?
I tried reading one of Sanderson's book once. The first couple pages were about pale eyes versus dark eyes and I guess he switched things so that black people were the most advanced race or something, then the main character started eating fire so that he could reverse gravity and starting flying around stabbing people. Then I stopped reading.
I know this series isn't well liked at all on /tv/. But it has huge potential if picked up and put together as in Game of Thrones. Each book is capped by a major battle that would easily serve for material throughout seasons. One season for book 1, one for 2-3, one for 4-5, one for 6-8, one for 9-11, and one for 12-14.
>>71465934
The 4th book is a revenge book, the 5th book is literally about one giant battle over a 3 day period, the 6th book is a western that brings back everyones favorite northman. I would say book 4 and 5 are as good if not even better than the trilogy but Red Country is not.
Why? They're just going to fuck it all up.
I hate these fantasy books. I feel like they're just vehicles for cucks to pander their feminist worldviews on young adults. For every one good male role model you have 2 female ninja warrior wizards who never fail and beat up all the men.
>>71465350
If you need to read 6 other books just to enjoy another one, maybe that book isn't worth reading.
>>71465989
>I guess he switched things so that black people were the most advanced race or something
Not true. There really isn't a clear cut 'best race' in Roshar, and there really isn't african black and european white skin tones like on Earth. The races are more alien than that, with some races having snow white / blue skin, etc. I never noticed any overt jewish subversion tactics like you described in any of his books. Instead, the hierarchy is all about eye color. Light blue eyes are of noble birth, dark brown eyes are of low birth.
>the main character started eating fire so that he could reverse gravity and starting flying around stabbing people
That wasn't the main character. That chapter is one of those that isn't really supposed to make a huge amount of sense at first, but it explains itself by the end of the second book.
I don't blame you for dropping it, I dropped it at chapter 5 for about 3 months, then picked it back up and was hooked by chapter 20.
>>71466104
They are all worth reading individually. All of them tying together into one big story is just an added bonus.
>>71466072
>>these
are we including the Amber Books or ANY Moorcock books in this or only "fantasy books aimed at young adults.
I'd say Dresden Files for some pulpy schlock, but then I remembered how badly they fucked it up last time
Reading Ready Player One right now, pretty cool book. Can't see it working well as a movie though, probably going to suck.
>>71469307
can't be done
>>71464786
Oh shit, this is that one by the Animorphs woman.
>>71465576
There are a bazillion Chinese flicks of these already though.
>>71462946
DUDE GATEWAYS WITH LAVA
Mob-like assassin in a fantasy setting. Read Jhereg, shit is amazing and short.
>>71466002
A 200+ page chapter of the last battle would need more than to be lumpped together with book 12 and 13. Also I feel they would fuck up the channeling hard and make it look like shit.
>>71466002
I love WoT but I am realist enough to know that there is almost zero chance it will become a good tv series.
Too much worldbuilding, too much inner monologue; which IMO make it a great series. But it does not work well on television.
Quite a lot of buildup, too much "filler" between occasional large events (work well as books) and maybe too much politics for the average tv watcher.
"Normies" (those who do not read the books) have already hard time grasping what is happening in GoT when the show itself simplifies and removes tricky content in an attempt to make things easier for the audience...
If they ever make WoT into a tv-simplified series, the fans of the books will rightly hate it.
>>71464453
Most of Amber could easily be live action. Also Merlin > Corwin
