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Books..yes..books
timeraider
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I yust wanted to ask...who has read the alrdy 2 published guild war books? i yust ordered both destiny's edge and ghost of acalon....ofc i ordered at dutch company named bol.com ....was the right choice..instead of getting 2 books for 18 euros including shipment...i got 3 :P but now i have edge of destiny double :P
ah well..at leats..ive started reading and i must say these are by far the best books ever made under inspiration of an game...and thats said by an guy who didnt even play guild wars 1.
So..have you read the books and did you like them to?:D
sorry..cant change the poll anymore so cant add: yes, but i didnt like them :P
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I think the first book was the better written of the two...I liked it better...but the second one was ok. I think it's a really great way to indroduce the lore and the world to players who didn't play the first game. I'm looking forward to reading the third one when it arrives.
You probably should have also included an option in your poll for - Read it, but didn't like it.
yeah..alrd said that at the end but cant change it anymore :P
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I liked them for the lore but I did not like the way they were written.
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Gives some decent background lore, but are nothing special overall.
Didn't like the seccond as much as I liked the first, to the point of being about 100pages short to finish it and havent managed to bring myself to finish them in the last 3 weeks
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Not really first-class literature, but fun books, well-written for the most part. And great to introduce people to the world and show GW fans what sort of things have been going on between games. And especially for introducing us to Destiny's Edge, so there is more of a feeling of story behind them when we have to deal with them in game. Not to mention keeping my hype level near maximum. But I think all this has been said before.
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WTF? No subscription fee?
I enjoyed both books and I look forward to meeting the characters from the books in game. I would also add that Snaff completely changed my outlook on Asura and I will make one in his honor.
If youd like some lore setup or just a fun and quick read, then I would suggest getting them. They are well written for the most part and do a nice job of setting up the events that happen before Guild Wars 2 will start and after Guild Wars ended. You can get through them pretty quick too, I got through them in a couple of days just reading them between classes.
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GoA was decent, EoD was somewhat dissappointing.
Just finished the first one. Meh... it was OK, I guess. Not "good" but not "bad" either.
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They were pretty typical game novels. They are decent if are into the game but if you are looking for just a good read or novel then they are mediocre at best. I can't think of one good novel that is based on a game.
I liked both but I preferred the first one to the second.
The first one had no agenda except to just show off the lore and what happened since the first game so it could have any characters and have anything happening to them.
The second one had the agenda of explaining what happened to Destiny's Edge. I think it suffered because we pretty much knew the ending. I also think there were some deus ex machina and plot holes. Don't want to get into any spoilers though.
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I haven't read them yet, but I see they are available for kindle, so I'll grab them as soon as I'm done with my current reading list.
I noticed that all three books (including the third yet to be released) all have different authors, so it's understandable that reactions and opinions would vary from volume to volume.
It's sort of a shame that they decided to only tap authors who have produced little other than game related books. There is no reason that novels based on game worlds can't transcend the fan base of those games and appeal to the wider Fantasy Novel audience, but the sub-genre has gained a reputation of most often producing works that rely on the added value to players of the game's detailed in order to overcome more general shortcomings.
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Poll is wrong, if you ask "did you read gw2 novels" you should not include just two of these "Yes, liked them" and "no, didnt read them". You exclude those who read them and disliked them and those who just read 1 and liked it or those who read 1 and disliked it. So from rules of making proper polls you get the worst note :>
Anyways that being said, i read both of them and enjoyed them both. More pulled in by Edge of Destiny tho. Bought them mainly to get in feel again with GW2 world and immerse myself. Great chunk of lore, gameplay hints and other stuff that i found interesting. Definitly worth the read.
Now i wait for the 3rd.
jesus..you guys ever read first post...i alrdy said there i couldnt change the poll anymore..stop screaming about it :P
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My thoughts exactly. The prose was kind of dry and uninspired. There was no poetry to it at all. But they were good for the lore ... kind of like Tyrian almanacs. The good news is the third book is being written by Ree Soesbee herself. That's something I'm really looking forward to because I absolutely love her style.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Although, at least they did have a fair amount of comedy to them as well. The writing wasn't the best, but I've read many fantasy novels that were written in an even more adolescent tone.
All in all, I enjoyed them both.
They were computer game novels. Hardly high art or massively inspiring, but a very handy way to get a bit more involved in the lore and pick up more of the background for GW2.
If you're expecting Tolkien, you'll be disappointed, but they're entertaining enough. I enjoyed them. The first more than the second.
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Third one (sea of Sorrows) should be the best, since its being written by Ree Soesbee.
Interestingly enough, each book gets further away from Guild Wars 2 time.
Ghosts of Ascalon - 1 year before the events of Guild Wars 2.
Edge of Destiny - 6 years before the events of Guild Wars 2.
Sea of Sorrows - rougly a century before the events of Guild Wars 2.