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Valmour
Acolyte
27 Posts |
 Posted - 09 Feb 2013 : 08:49:14
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I enjoy books that have great adventures with plot twists, but what I think makes a book exceptional is some good hardy banter within a party.
Examples like the Bouldershoulder Brothers, Pikel and Ivan, I remember laughing out loud multiple times, while my wife would be laughing at me for laughing at them . Also, the playful banter between Pavel and Will in the Year of the Dragon books.
So, what are some other Realms books that have made you laugh  ?? For myself, anything with the Pikel and Ivan; also, The Rage with Pavel and Will (just about finished with this book with the other two on the shelf).
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Anarchitect
Acolyte
Romania
6 Posts |
Posted - 09 Feb 2013 : 09:12:28
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| Almost every dialogue shared between Artemis Entreri and Jarlaxle Baenre in "The Sellswords" trilogy :D |
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Valmour
Acolyte
27 Posts |
Posted - 09 Feb 2013 : 10:26:49
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Ahh, I had forgotten about those two... I would also put Athrogate in the mix too.
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 09 Feb 2013 : 15:09:25
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| I haven't read a Realms book yet that really mad me laugh. All of the scenes which were supposed to be humorous fell short for me. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36803 Posts |
Posted - 09 Feb 2013 : 16:18:03
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Danilo Thann often makes me laugh. Ditto for Tzigone.
Those are the only ones that immediately spring to mind... I don't think I've laughed at an entire Realms novel, or considered one to be funny.
There have been a couple that I wanted to scream and throw them across the room, but that's certainly not the same thing!  |
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Entromancer
Senior Scribe
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 09 Feb 2013 : 18:24:28
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| Pavel/Will, of course. I laughed at the elves of Cormanthor as a whole in Elminster in Myth Drannor. I think Catti-brie gave Wulfgar a look when they chased that halfling through the bathhouse in The Halfling's Gem, which was funny. The whole scene, really. |
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Tanthalas
Senior Scribe
Portugal
508 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2013 : 00:05:41
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| City of Ravens was pretty funny with Jack's antics. |
Sir Markham pointed out, drinking another brandy. "A chap who can point at you and say 'die' has the distinct advantage". |
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Seravin
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1288 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2013 : 00:36:17
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Some of Ed's books with Torm and Rathan and various females who can match them (Storm, Jhess, Sylune, Sharantyr, etc.) make me laugh. I feel like Ed got away with more than most Realms author's could in terms of sex jokes. Elminster himself has his moments (In Ed's hands)
Jarlaxle and Kimmuriel's are written as very witty characters in their own way, more than most Drow and certainly more than the humourless Drizzt.
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2013 : 02:18:46
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Not book, but characters: Pavel, Will, Brightwing, Jet. And Devorast (in a horrible way).
(I suggested somewhere to have something like Realms of Humor.) |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31772 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2013 : 03:35:37
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quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Danilo Thann often makes me laugh.
It's the same for me as well.
Danilo's antics almost always bring a smile to my face. Even when he's deliberately playing the "dandy, foppish" noble. You, as the reader, know it... but often Elaine's writing style just helps to make it that much more believable, regardless. |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2013 : 05:08:46
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Ghostwalker, Bars and Derst........those two are nuts...and not given enough screentime!
And I dont remember which book(s), but Torm and Rathan have some funny scenes.
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2013 : 10:17:49
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Torm and Rathan are pretty funny.
They dont get enough screen time unfortunately.
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Tanthalas
Senior Scribe
Portugal
508 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2013 : 15:02:56
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| The scene with Manshoon's staff always makes me laugh. |
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swifty
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
517 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2013 : 19:19:36
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| Anytime I've ever laughed at a realms novel it's usually been unintentional like an especially bad plot. |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2013 : 20:07:02
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quote:
Originally posted by swifty
Anytime I've ever laughed at a realms novel it's usually been unintentional like an especially bad plot.
This |
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vorpalanvil
Seeker
USA
90 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2013 : 22:33:55
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| all of the campaign books published for the latter half of 3.5 and since gave me a pretty good laugh, until I realized they weren't a joke. |
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Delwa
Master of Realmslore
USA
1271 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2013 : 02:04:55
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Any of Elaine's books have been quite amusing. I really liked some of the humorous moments in Evermeet and Liriel and Zz'Pzora always made me smile. I loved the moment in the Sellswords when someone cast detect magic on Jarlaxle and got blinded. I still laugh out loud whenever that memory crosses my mind. I seem to remember a few moments involving a song dragon as wells as some involving an Avariel in the Year of Rogue Dragons series that made me chuckle.
In short, most of the Realms books I've read make me laugh at points. Even "darker" series', like the Erevis Cale series. Jak always made me laugh.
I can't think of a book that I'd define as a "comedy" book, but I haven't read them all yet. I don't really expect to find one, though, unless they make a book of Realms Jokes or something. (Which I think would be awesome, but hard to present another culture's humor to people from an alien culture.) |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2013 : 23:59:04
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quote:
Originally posted by swifty
Anytime I've ever laughed at a realms novel it's usually been unintentional like an especially bad plot.
Ahh...its always good to meet a fellow survivor of the Waterrcourse trilogy. |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 12 Feb 2013 : 02:03:23
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| Rosemary Jones's stuff are the funniest fantasy novels I've read that were not written by Terry Pratchett. |
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Aulduron
Learned Scribe
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - 15 Feb 2013 : 04:05:58
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| Athrogate and Jarlaxle are an amusing duo. |
"Those with talent become wizards, Those without talent spend their lives praying for it"
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Entromancer
Senior Scribe
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 15 Feb 2013 : 04:24:28
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| Athrogate and Pwent in The Ghost King; mostly Bruenor's comment about them while the two were setting up the log trap. |
"...the will is everything. The will to act."--Ra's Al Ghul
"Suffering builds character."--Talia Al Ghul |
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Captain Grafalcon
Learned Scribe
Brazil
129 Posts |
Posted - 17 Feb 2013 : 18:56:57
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| Its not that funny, but Pharaum´s banter with Quentel and other females in War of the Spider Queen saga makes me laugh. |
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zenmichael
Seeker
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - 19 Feb 2013 : 14:43:40
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| For me it's really only been the clever wordplay in the Finder's Stone trilogy ("the only difference between the contents of the pockets of wizards and small boys is that small boys tended to have more gum in theirs" or something like that), and Chet Williamson's "Murder in" book, whichever one that was. Neither were exactly LOL funny, but definitely witty. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 19 Feb 2013 : 15:04:24
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quote:
Originally posted by Captain Grafalcon
Its not that funny, but Pharaum´s banter with Quentel and other females in War of the Spider Queen saga makes me laugh.
Pharaun's sense of humor is one of the things (if not the only thing) that made a lot of people love him, even those who hated the series itself. |
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 19 Feb 2013 : 18:28:46
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Originally posted by Kajehase
Rosemary Jones's stuff are the funniest fantasy novels I've read that were not written by Terry Pratchett.
^^ This!
Comedy writing is difficult, and generally outside the scope of the Realms anyway. As a writer, I usually like to add a little here and there, but the one time I actively attempted to write a *comedy* was my Realms of the Dead story, "Body in a Bag."
It's a romantic comedy. With ghouls.
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'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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Aulduron
Learned Scribe
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - 19 Feb 2013 : 19:10:46
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| If we're going outside the FR, I found the Myth Adventures by Robert Asprin to be quite funny as a kid. Of course, those books are more comedy than fantasy. |
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Caladan Brood
Senior Scribe
Norway
410 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2013 : 10:11:58
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| I think there's plenty of room for humor in the Realms but so far I haven't been particularly amused by anything (but I have read very frew Realms novels: perhaps five). Now if you want to witness truly great droll humor and banter, try out Steven Erikson's "Midnight Tides". |
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swifty
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
517 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2013 : 13:42:45
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
quote:
Originally posted by swifty
Anytime I've ever laughed at a realms novel it's usually been unintentional like an especially bad plot.
Ahh...its always good to meet a fellow survivor of the Waterrcourse trilogy.
I actually quite enjoyed it bar the highly annoying protagonist and psycho heroine. |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
1714 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2013 : 19:22:03
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Originally posted by zenmichael
For me it's really only been the clever wordplay in the Finder's Stone trilogy ("the only difference between the contents of the pockets of wizards and small boys is that small boys tended to have more gum in theirs" or something like that), and Chet Williamson's "Murder in" book, whichever one that was. Neither were exactly LOL funny, but definitely witty.
Yeah, that was Murder in Cormyr, which is the same one I was talking about. I was very pleasantly surprised.  |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 21 Feb 2013 : 12:06:50
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quote:
Originally posted by swifty
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
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Originally posted by swifty
Anytime I've ever laughed at a realms novel it's usually been unintentional like an especially bad plot.
Ahh...its always good to meet a fellow survivor of the Waterrcourse trilogy.
I actually quite enjoyed it bar the highly annoying protagonist and psycho heroine.
I would probably have enjoyed it myself if those aforementioned fools didn't exist. |
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