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Re: Next! ... Fantasy Book Must Reads
David Gemmell is also very gritty, you mostly don't know who might be brutally murdered the next page. Historically 'accurate' to boot. C.J.Cherryh. Morgaine series is very dark, partly sci-fi. The only female writer I've gotten along with. At least some Moorcock and Howard are must reads for anyone interested in fantasy,… -
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Steven Erikson - The Malazan Book of the Fallen. It's a 10 book series that finished this year. Spans an entire globe and has an incredible sense of depth and history to it. Probably my favorite series [ used to be R R Martin]. Glen Cook - The Black Company: The Books of the North Very very good 'black fantasy' series of… -
Next! ... Fantasy Book Must Reads
Ok, I just finished the Hedge Knight Novellas (prequel stories for A Song of Ice and Fire) after reading A Dance With Dragons and am still hungry for more!!!! So what should I check out next to keep me occupied until the 6th Book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series comes out? Fantasy Books/Series I've read and really… -
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Looove this series. Had it recommended to me by some random guy in a Chapters store and it easily became one of my favourites. Wizard's First Rule is the first one, if anyone's looking to get into it. I haven't had a chance to get into a new series in a while (I might have to check out some of these suggestions, too!) but… -
Re: Next! ... Fantasy Book Must Reads
No, but it does have a cheesy nigh invulnerable uber barbarian with a magical sword slaying gods. Karsa Orlong 4TW! MUST READS: Pat Rothfuss. Name of the Wind is exceptional, Wise Man's Fear is pretty good. Joe Abercrombie. First Law trilogy is excellent, stand alone novels are solid. Stephen Erikson. First four Malazan… -
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The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley pretty much anything by GRRM :) Windhaven - GRRM / Lisa Tuttle (I admit I loved the setting more than the story. but a good read anyway). Andrzej Sapkowski - The guy who's behind the Witcher. The Witcher books are okay, but I can really recommend Lux Perpetua and Narrenturm… -
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I generally stick to high fantasy with all the cliched trappings, but one of the better books I read recently was Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb: [ame]http://www.amazon.com/Assassins-Apprentice-Farseer-Trilogy-Book/dp/055357339X[/ame] I thought the first book was the best of the trilogy, but they're all great reads… -
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I really enjoyed "The Saxon Chronicles" by Bernard Cornwell more history than fantasy though also "The Arthus Books" by Bernhard Cornwell again only slightly fantasy, i mean the whole merlin stuff is somewhat fantasy but its not the kind of fantasy with orcs and trolls "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss ow awesome… -
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Just wanted to add a +1 to REH's Conan stories. I've reread the series about half a dozen times so far. REH really doesn't waste a word and he gets to the conclusions a lot quicker than in Martin's Ice and Fire series which I loved. It's a shame he shot himself in the head in his early 30's just as he was moving beyond the… -
Re: Next! ... Fantasy Book Must Reads
If you liked a song of ice and fire you might actually enjoy some historical fiction, or maybe even an actual straight up history book :) Real life is often times much more surprising and unpredictable than anything any writer could ever imagine :) plus there's always that "holy shit that really happened" bit. As for…
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