2012-07-02, 07:04 PM
sorry bro, my only forte is high fantasy, so unless you want a library full of magical politics, can't help ya.
Ah hell, everyone else is already doing it, I'll unload some of my favorite ones among those here.
Song of Ice and Fire has already been mentioned (Game of Thrones is the first book, why you callin' the series Game of Thrones ;_
Wheel of Time has already been mentioned, and it is my favorite series of all time; I've reread the entire series upwards of 5 times now, which may not sound like much, but it's 12 books at 1-1.5K pages in near magnifying glass font.
Sword of Truth is good if you can get past past the pretentiousness. Other than a few of the speeches, it's fine, but it can get annoying when everything is so black and white in terms of good and evil. incredibly good storytelling, mediocre premise, basically. They balance each other out to form a decent series.
Chronicles of Amber. GREAT storytelling, GREAT premise, great everything aside from a few very brief lowpoints in the storyline. Probably my second to third favorite series.
The "trilogy trilogy" (3 books 3 times, he was originally going to do 3 books but too many details for that, so expanded each book to 3) by R. Scott Bakker. It's...interesting. I really like it, but it's not much like the rest of what I'm listing, it's more of a psychological fantasy; main character has the ability to manipulate people using emotions he gathers from their body language and facial expressions, and the author is almost disturbingly good at writing a story about it.
His Dark Materials is always a good fallback if you are bored. Though even an atheist would get tired of how often god is demonized in it; I'm all for disliking the big guy, but man, every few pages angels are coming down to piss on the downtrodden and light orphanages on fire, so to speak.
Otherland by Tad Williams is pretty good...actually, he has quite a few good series.
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My opinion of you just went up 1000%, just so you know. I didn't even know anyone else had read those, that's awesome that someone else here has!
Ah hell, everyone else is already doing it, I'll unload some of my favorite ones among those here.
Song of Ice and Fire has already been mentioned (Game of Thrones is the first book, why you callin' the series Game of Thrones ;_
Wheel of Time has already been mentioned, and it is my favorite series of all time; I've reread the entire series upwards of 5 times now, which may not sound like much, but it's 12 books at 1-1.5K pages in near magnifying glass font.
Sword of Truth is good if you can get past past the pretentiousness. Other than a few of the speeches, it's fine, but it can get annoying when everything is so black and white in terms of good and evil. incredibly good storytelling, mediocre premise, basically. They balance each other out to form a decent series.
Chronicles of Amber. GREAT storytelling, GREAT premise, great everything aside from a few very brief lowpoints in the storyline. Probably my second to third favorite series.
The "trilogy trilogy" (3 books 3 times, he was originally going to do 3 books but too many details for that, so expanded each book to 3) by R. Scott Bakker. It's...interesting. I really like it, but it's not much like the rest of what I'm listing, it's more of a psychological fantasy; main character has the ability to manipulate people using emotions he gathers from their body language and facial expressions, and the author is almost disturbingly good at writing a story about it.
His Dark Materials is always a good fallback if you are bored. Though even an atheist would get tired of how often god is demonized in it; I'm all for disliking the big guy, but man, every few pages angels are coming down to piss on the downtrodden and light orphanages on fire, so to speak.
Otherland by Tad Williams is pretty good...actually, he has quite a few good series.
BlueRuin Wrote:The Name of the Wind,
The Wise Man's Fear.....both by Patrick Rothfuss.
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My opinion of you just went up 1000%, just so you know. I didn't even know anyone else had read those, that's awesome that someone else here has!