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Looking for a new series to read..
I am looking for a new series of books to read. I enjoyed the dresden files, wheel of time, and a few others anyone got any ideas?
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11-19-2010
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Re: Looking for a new series to read..
Try butchers codex Alera series. I found it a great fantasy series with some neat twists to the conventional fantasy writing.
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Re: Looking for a new series to read..
If you haven't read Terry Goodkind, do it. Don't watch that god awful mockery of a TV series they made about his fantasy series though
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Re: Looking for a new series to read..
Yes. One must read Terry Goodkin so that one can properly bash him.
Note that I have only read the first book, so I'll leave the bashing to the experts: http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php...word-of-truth/ |
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Re: Looking for a new series to read..
hahahaha opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. I personally loved it and have similarly turned on many friends to the series.
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Re: Looking for a new series to read..
Assuming you've read The Hobbit + LotR?
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11-27-2010
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Re: Looking for a new series to read..
Some basic fantasy:
The Complete Book of Amber By Roger Zelazny Magician: Apprentice (first book of series) By Raymond Feist David Eddings: Belgariad and Malorean The Dragon Riders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey Jhereg by Steve Brust (if you like Dresden, you'll like Vlad) More complex stuff: The Black Company by Glen Cook Garden of the Moon by Steve Erickson Sci fi ish? Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, the Baroque Cycle by Neil Stephenson TITAN, WIZARD, DEMON by John Varley |
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11-27-2010
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Re: Looking for a new series to read..
I've read just about everything on Maniacles' list and recommend most of it. Amber is especially good, though I didn't like the followup series as much. Same with David Eddings: the Mallorean really felt like a rewrite of the Belgariad. Steven Brust writes all kinds of good stuff, and I enjoy a lot of Glen Cook, Black Company included. Neil Stephenson ranks among my favorite authors; I recommend Snow Crash and The Diamond Age to start (but if you are frustrated by books that end at the climax, Stephenson will give you fits).
Another classic fantasy series I enjoyed was Saberhagen's Books of Swords, but skip the Books of Lost Swords that came after. |
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Re: Looking for a new series to read..
Saberhagen's Berserker Wars series. It's what Battlestar Galactica was all about.
Stephen Donaldson's "Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" Brian Lumley's "Necroscope" series Clive Barker and H.P. Lovecraft: any of the numerous compilations of short stories; i.e., 'At The Mountains Of Madness', 'The Books Of Blood', etc.
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