New book : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Sun May 29, 2011 1:37 am

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Souls-Elder-Scrolls-Novel/dp/0345508025/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1305405494&sr=8-3

The new Elder Scrolls Novel "Lord of Souls" comes out on Sep 27th 2011!!:) Thought everyone should know, hell I still need to finish the first book

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» Sat May 28, 2011 10:58 am

Thanks for posting this! I'm definitely going to check it out.

» Sat May 28, 2011 11:30 am

Not sure if this is the place to ask this either... but was the first book (Infernal city) good? Forget the fact that it was about TES for one second and just try and think of how well-written it was.

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:12 pm

Can someone please post a full list of all of the books?

I would like to build a collection

» Sun May 29, 2011 12:50 am

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Souls-Elder-Scrolls-Novel/dp/0345508025/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1305405494&sr=8-3

The new Elder Scrolls Novel "Lord of Souls" comes out on Sep 27th 2011!!:) Thought everyone should know, hell I still need to finish the first book

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ill purchase it on its release, but i still need to finish reading the infernal city :read:

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:51 pm

Not sure if this is the place to ask this either... but was the first book (Infernal city) good? Forget the fact that it was about TES for one second and just try and think of how well-written it was.

I would say it was at the level of a well done fan fic with a slow pace and a lot of attention to quirky details.

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:48 pm

Must... get...

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:53 pm

Can someone please post a full list of all of the books?

I would like to build a collection

I can list all the books!

The Infernal City, Greg Keyes, 2009
The Lord of Souls, Greg Keyes, 2011

» Sat May 28, 2011 11:39 am

Thanks for posting this! I'm definitely going to check it out.

Ya you are welcome

I just came across it when I was putting things up for sell on Amazon *none have sold yet

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ill purchase it on its release, but i still need to finish reading the infernal city :read:

Same here on both accounts O__O

» Sat May 28, 2011 1:14 pm

Not sure if this is the place to ask this either... but was the first book (Infernal city) good? Forget the fact that it was about TES for one second and just try and think of how well-written it was.

It wasnt bad, I think I notices a few typos but it had a good plotline and style if not fairly typical for a scifi/fantasy story. Id say the writing is average. The best part of it was the fact that it was TES and hearing the lore referenced, however there are more entertaining and creative in-game books.

with that said, I'll definitely get the new one :]
I wonder if anything in the books will carry ramifications into Skyrim or if the events in the books will be referenced in-game..

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:34 pm

Thanks for posting this! I'm definitely going to check it out.

+1, I liked the first book and I am sure I will like the second one also.

» Sat May 28, 2011 11:40 am

It wasnt bad, I think I notices a few typos but it had a good plotline and style if not fairly typical for a scifi/fantasy story. Id say the writing is average. The best part of it was the fact that it was TES and hearing the lore referenced, however there are more entertaining and creative in-game books.

with that said, I'll definitely get the new one :]
I wonder if anything in the books will carry ramifications into Skyrim or if the events in the books will be referenced in-game..

Agreed which confuzed me since I thought that you had to have it proof read before you could get anything published but guess not, its still a good read where I got up to it but if it wasn't TES related i doubt I would read it

+1, I liked the first book and I am sure I will like the second one also.

:)

bliviongate:

» Sun May 29, 2011 12:05 am

Hmm okay, thanks for telling me your opinions about the first book. I don't think I'll read it (or new second one), because I'm kinda tired of reading. My studying already forces me to read thousands and thousands of pages.

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:14 pm

Hmm okay, thanks for telling me your opinions about the first book. I don't think I'll read it (or new second one), because I'm kinda tired of reading. My studying already forces me to read thousands and thousands of pages.

well reading a novel and reading a textbook are kinda diffrent. if ur a huge TES fan than you would read it, not saying ur not because it was hard for me to even read the few chapters i did.

» Sun May 29, 2011 2:20 am

It wasnt bad, I think I notices a few typos but it had a good plotline and style if not fairly typical for a scifi/fantasy story. Id say the writing is average. The best part of it was the fact that it was TES and hearing the lore referenced, however there are more entertaining and creative in-game books.

with that said, I'll definitely get the new one :]
I wonder if anything in the books will carry ramifications into Skyrim or if the events in the books will be referenced in-game..

I look forward to Lord of Souls as well.

Personally, I didn't enjoy the Infernal City. The chapters set in Cyrodiil were very cool, but the chapters set on Umbriel were too "Alice in Wonderland"-ish for my tastes. Very fantastical, more Shivering Isles than Oblivion.

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:30 pm

That cover artwork is such a joke. The reflections in Cyrodiil were way worse than that!

» Sun May 29, 2011 1:10 am

I moved this to Elder Scrolls general discussion, as this is not a Skyrim specific topic.

Carry on.

» Sat May 28, 2011 9:38 pm

I moved this to Elder Scrolls general discussion, as this is not a Skyrim specific topic.

Carry on.

thank you

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:38 pm

Well frankly I read a lot and overall if you aren't a fan of TES then Infernal City was not very good. Having said that, the caveat here is being a fan of TES. I am a rabid and obnoxiously obsessed fan, so for me I freaking LOVED IT. Which is why I have already pre-ordered this one. If you have spent any time in Tamriel then you should get both books because you know as well as I do, that it is just a wonderful place to spend some time...

» Sat May 28, 2011 11:18 am

Personally, I didn't enjoy the Infernal City. The chapters set in Cyrodiil were very cool, but the chapters set on Umbriel were too "Alice in Wonderland"-ish for my tastes. Very fantastical, more Shivering Isles than Oblivion.

I'll be skipping Lord of Souls myself. Infernal City was, for me...definitively 100% "pinnacle of mediocrity" sums it up. Not bad per se...but nothing to recommend it aside from the TES tie-in, and even then it felt burdened by "forced product tie-in" writing. Even the parts in Cyrodiil, for their coolness, sort of beat you over the head with descriptions of gameplay mechanics that felt forced.

Which is to say, I found it to be a typical videogame-based book overall. Fun for the tie-in, and otherwise utterly unremarkable at best. :shrug:

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:34 pm

I ordered Infernal City on bookdepository last week... still hasn't arrived <_< I think it might have got strayed or something. I will order again I guess, and complain.

Only after reading it will I know if I'll buy the 2nd one

Being a book inspired in games kind of makes me afraid of the quality...

» Sat May 28, 2011 11:10 pm

There's a few other threads of this around, but they've all sort of died off since the last time we got information.

I enjoyed Infernal City. It was no Lord of the Rings, but it was a fun way to spend two hours.

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:19 pm

There's a few other threads of this around, but they've all sort of died off since the last time we got information.

I enjoyed Infernal City. It was no Lord of the Rings, but it was a fun way to spend two hours.

Two hours?

Is it a short book, or do you hold the world record for reading speed?

» Sat May 28, 2011 1:01 pm

I'm loving the cover.

» Sat May 28, 2011 8:19 pm

Two hours?

Is it a short book, or do you hold the world record for reading speed?

It's a shade more than 200 pages, with pretty wide line spacing and fairly large font. But I am a fast reader, don't doubt that. I took down Goblet of Fire in two days when I was in my young or mid teens, whenever it came out. Stephen King said a writer has to read, but with so few hours in the day I had to either not read or read real fast. Take a guess which one I picked?