Looking for a specific book title
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Posted on: 2010-11-30 08:55 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Generic indeed. I don't remember any books like this featuring a wolf girl or a guy with a sword hilt that becomes a sword. As for books where real people wind up in a fantasy world the only ones I can think of off the top of my head are Quag Keep and the Guardians of the Flame series.
Edit: You should have gone with your first thoughts because there is indeed a book called Heroes of Zara Keep by Guy Gregory.
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Dunno, and Mandu, you can add "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" to that list, among a buncha others I can't remember now...
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Oh yeah, forgot about Covenant. That bleak and disturbing series definitely doesn't fall anywhere near the description though. I'm pretty convinced that it is Heroes of Zara Keep which doesn't seem available anywhere.
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Originally Posted by galadiman
Dunno, and Mandu, you can add "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" to that list, among a buncha others I can't remember now...
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it's been a decade or so since I read 'em, but the Guardians of the Flame series by Joel Rosenberg might fit the bill.
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Originally Posted by Soulwind
OK, I need to access the collective super-mind to get some assistance.
I'm trying to find a book that I read literally decades ago. My brain wants to keep calling it "Heroes of Zara Keep", but I know that's not right. (and I think I'm mixing in Andre Norton's "Quag Keep" - which is not the book I'm looking for). Anyway, I can't remember much, but I think I've got a few tidbits dredged up correctly from the cesspool of my memory. There's a bunch of folks from the "real world" who, at the moment of thier untimely deaths, are transported to a fantasy realm. Each of them is placed under the care of different people and are trained in the realities of the fantasy realm. There's one guy who is placed under a master swordsman and is trained as a warrior. He's given a special (ie magical) sword and I seem to remember that the first time he tries to pull it from the scabbard, there's nothing but a hilt. The blade being manifest only when needed or something? And I definately remember that there's a girl who is sent off to live with a colony of wolves who gains shapeshifting/werewolf type powers. (there are other characters, but I can't remember them...although I assume they follow the standard fantasy archetypes) Eventually, all of them gather up and go on some kind of big quest. |
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Originally Posted by Mandu
Oh yeah, forgot about Covenant. That bleak and disturbing series definitely doesn't fall anywhere near the description though. I'm pretty convinced that it is Heroes of Zara Keep which doesn't seem available anywhere.
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Wow, for once my brain was actually right...and my search skills failed 
After finding Quag Keep, I was certain that I had just mis-remembered the name
and didn't actually go through a full search for "Heroes of Zara Keep" (getting lazy in my old age I guess )
Yep, that's the book I've been trying to remember...
Thanks folks!
PS: Wow, I'm really out of touch with Donaldson's stuff. I didn't even realize he had written MORE of the Covenant series after White Gold Wielder. If there's ever been a more "unlikeable hero" in a series, I don't think I've ever encountered it. I'm not sure I'll be able to force myself to read any more....well I'm guessing Covenant himself isn't actually in the new books.
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The Covenant series sucked so bad I stopped reading about 3/4ths of the way through book one even though I'd bought a boxed set of the first trilogy. And this was back when I was young, poor and would soldier through to the end of anything I paid money for...no matter how awful.
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Originally Posted by Soulwind
PS: Wow, I'm really out of touch with Donaldson's stuff. I didn't even realize he had written MORE of the Covenant series after White Gold Wielder. If there's ever been a more "unlikeable hero" in a series, I don't think I've ever encountered it. I'm not sure I'll be able to force myself to read any more....well I'm guessing Covenant himself isn't actually in the new books.
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Same here. Now if a book is bad I abandon it in place immediately and go on to the next one. My "to read" pile is gigantic and life is too short to waste on bad books.|
Originally Posted by Nethergoat
The Covenant series sucked so bad I stopped reading about 3/4ths of the way through book one even though I'd bought a boxed set of the first trilogy. And this was back when I was young, poor and would soldier through to the end of anything I paid money for...no matter how awful.
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I did always wonder whatever happened to Vain (is that his name?) but never enough to actually go look it up. That was a tiny bit of coolness that came way too late in an endless slog of tedium.
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Same here. Now if a book is bad I abandon it in place immediately and go on to the next one. My "to read" pile is gigantic and life is too short to waste on bad books.
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(in defense of my quick hook if an author can't manage a compelling first paragraph it's doubtful they can sustain my interest for 300+ pages...)
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Originally Posted by Ironik
I did always wonder whatever happened to Vain (is that his name?) but never enough to actually go look it up. That was a tiny bit of coolness that came way too late in an endless slog of tedium.
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They were the first serious fantasy series I've ever read since I preferred SciFi. I only read the first two series, I have little interest in the third series that came out 20 years later and isn't done yet.
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I never could decide if it all happened or it was all in his mind as a way of dealing with his diseased body. The first time he went there was after a head injury.
OK, I need to access the collective super-mind to get some assistance.
I'm trying to find a book that I read literally decades ago.
My brain wants to keep calling it "Heroes of Zara Keep", but I know that's not right.
(and I think I'm mixing in Andre Norton's "Quag Keep" - which is not the book I'm looking for).
Anyway, I can't remember much, but I think I've got a few tidbits dredged up correctly from the cesspool of my memory.
There's a bunch of folks from the "real world" who, at the moment of thier untimely deaths, are transported to a fantasy realm.
Each of them is placed under the care of different people and are trained in the realities of the fantasy realm.
There's one guy who is placed under a master swordsman and is trained as a warrior. He's given a special (ie magical) sword and I seem to remember that the first time he tries to pull it from the scabbard, there's nothing but a hilt. The blade being manifest only when needed or something?
And I definately remember that there's a girl who is sent off to live with a colony of wolves who gains shapeshifting/werewolf type powers.
(there are other characters, but I can't remember them...although I assume they follow the standard fantasy archetypes)
Eventually, all of them gather up and go on some kind of big quest.
Yeah, pretty generic in the description there, but I'm hoping somebody might have a clue as to the book I'm trying in vain to remember . . .
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