EPTRecommend a book to a fellow TLer - Page 2
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Mothra
United States1448 Posts
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MajuGarzett
Canada635 Posts
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
Amazingly rich sci-fi universe and technologies. Mind blowing scenario. Great writing style. I've read it 4 times and I never get tired of it. | ||
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doubleupgradeobbies!
Australia1205 Posts
If your looking for a shortish series I suggest Hobbs (but not liveship traders series that was total trash), especially the assassin's series and the soldier's son stuff. Terry Brook's first 2 Shannara series were also very good, the later stuff sorta became repetitive though. Sara Douglass' Axis and wayfarer redemption and David Edding's Belgariad/mallorean were also fairly decent. If your looking for a longer series with more detailed mythos, I'd suggest R E Feist or the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan(now Brandon Sanderson). The Feist stuff is not in a single series per se, but the continuity is fairly, well, continuous nevertheless. | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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hyperknight
294 Posts
I've never read the books, but I've played the video games and they are absolutely fantastic. the setting and the mature theme behind the series is very gripping. The genre is fantasy-fiction & is a series as well, so fits in your criteria. The series has the following bookings: The Last Wish The Blood of Elves Times of Contempt Baptism of Fire The Swallow's Tower Lady of the Lake | ||
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Don_Julio
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It's more a science fiction thriller than fantasy fiction but it's awesome. It takes place in the present. The protagonist is a Norwegian scientist who discovers strange behaviour of a newly discovered species at the seaground. While trying to find out what's going on there are numerous reports of stange beaviour by sea animals all over the world. After several expeditions the bioligist comes up with a revolutionary theory that if true would end up in catastrophy.... . The point of view switches to other protagonists as well but the Norwegian is clearly the main character. The plot is very unlikely to be true but not entirely impossible. Everything that happens can be explained scientifically. It was an awesome read for me. I dont think that any book like this has ever been written. Just unique. No idea about the translation but since it's a thriller and not Shakespeare it should be OK. Check out the novels by Carlos Ruiz Zafon too All of them take place in the Barcelona of the 20th century adn reflect on the history of the city while telling a fantastic plot about literature, love, hate and big big tragedies. Hte books are related but totally stand alone. You want to read "The Shadow of the Wind" first. At least that's what I did. I guess you heard about the Millenium triloy by Stieg Larsson. Read the books. They are awesome. You shouldnt watch the movies before reading the books. It's a pure thriller, no fantasy though at all but still a must read. | ||
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khaydarin9
Australia423 Posts
The Wheel of Time would mostly fit all your preferences (except for those books in the middle in which nothing much happens), but there are a lot of them and it's a huge investment for something that is alternately really engaging and really boring. I didn't love Brandon Sanderson's books as much as everyone else seems to - I thought they had interesting ideas but there were so many plot twists that I found myself anticipating them all. There's a lot of good YA fantasy (and some science fiction) out - obviously it's not going to be as long or involved necessarily as traditional adult fantasy, but a lot of is definitely worth reading. I can give you some recs if you're interested (I was a bookseller for seven years, and I now work in publishing.) | ||
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Darkren
Canada1841 Posts
dectective sotry+ fantasy+ muder Fucking amazing | ||
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LunaSea
Luxembourg369 Posts
They inspired Dungeons and Dragons. There are probably more than 40 books of that particular serie. --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragonlance_novels | ||
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ShadowDrgn
United States2497 Posts
1. Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series. Babylon posted a nice summary already, but these books are essentially both of Butcher's series rolled into one. Each book is only 200-300 pages so they move fast, but there are enough of them to give you a lot to read. 2. Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. It's urban fantasy in a made-up world. Action-packed and fun, but still manages to be deep and insightful. It's probably my favorite trilogy ever. 3. Harry Potter? If you like modern day fantasy and you liked Twilight, HP is worth a shot. It gets a bad reputation for its popularity and marketing to kids, but they're fun books. Don't expect superb writing or anything of that nature, but it doesn't seem like that's high on your priority list anyway. Stuff you should probably avoid: 1. Kingkiller Chronicles - awesome books, but if you didn't like Game of Thrones, I don't think you're going to care for these either. They're huge and contain swaths of hundreds of pages with no forward movement of plot. The third book probably won't be out for 3-4 more years either. 2. Sanderon's Way of Kings - 1000 pages of boredom, and only the first book in a 10(?) book series. Won't be finished this decade. Read Mistborn instead. 3. Wheel of Time - I like the series, but it's excruciatingly slow for books at a time. Much worse than A Song of Ice and Fire in that regard. | ||
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Zaranth
United States345 Posts
Anne McCaffery's early books are very good. I really like her Dragonriders of Pern series - but don't waste your time on anything with her son's name on it. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. Gene Wolfe wrote a series starting with Shadow and Claw. I didn't get too far in this one because the author (imo) does not do enough to inform the reader about the world. It's all very vague. Maybe if I'm in the right mood I'll pick it up again. Edit: So basically, refer to Endymion's post. That should just about cover you. *dashes off to library* | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
On January 14 2012 04:38 Zaranth wrote: Terry Pratchett is one of my all-time favorite authors. Anne McCaffery's early books are very good. I really like her Dragonriders of Pern series - but don't waste your time on anything with her son's name on it. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. Gene Wolfe wrote a series starting with Shadow and Claw. I didn't get too far in this one because the author (imo) does not do enough to inform the reader about the world. It's all very vague. Maybe if I'm in the right mood I'll pick it up again. Edit: So basically, refer to Endymion's post. That should just about cover you. *dashes off to library* I would've written a rec of Terry Pratchett too, but I've only read a few of his books, so I don't feel as if I'm qualified to speak about him. Men at Arms is great though. He does really clean satire work; if you appreciate good, well-written humor, you should pick his Discworld series up, OP. His pacing's a little "eh" at times -- sometimes nothing really happens for 75% of the book, and then shit just starts happening really fast -- but if you're fine with that, I'd definitely give them a go. GGK is amazing if you like his sort of writing, but he can be a little off-putting at first. I'd describe GGK as Tolkien's protege, to be honest -- he helped Tolkien's son edit The Similarion, after all -- and he has a similar sort of writing style, though perhaps a little more lyrical. His primary genre is historical fantasy. If you were to pick up a book by him, I'd say that starting off with Lions of Al-Rassan would be a better introduction; then you can move into Tigana or the Sarantine Mosaics series, then if you really like him and are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, hit the Fionavar Tapestry series (which are some of the easiest books to misinterpret if you don't know what exactly Kay is trying to do). I typically wouldn't rec GGK to anyone who doesn't like GRRM though, because they're both pretty meticulous with their plotting, but I dunno what his specific objection to GRRM's books are besides the fact that they're boring and even then I don't know what he thinks makes them boring, so. | ||
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lac29
United States1485 Posts
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MutatedMiracle
Canada80 Posts
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ggggbabybabybaby
Canada304 Posts
On January 13 2012 13:16 bITt.mAN wrote: The Shannara series by Terry Brooks, read ALLL of the books! (: Either that or the Belgariad Series. Belgariad is 10 books split into 2 series of 5. First is called Belgariad second Mallorean. A decent amount of reading if that's what you're looking for. Also the Sparkhawk series by the same author (David Eddings). It's 6 books split into 2 series, Elenium and Tamuli. None of them are particularly difficult so pretty good if you read through books really fast without pondering much. | ||
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metbull
United States404 Posts
Pure Fantasy This is a really long series that spans a book numbers at 21 (as of now). So if your looking for a really really long series to read there you go. Though the entire series is broken into smaller segments that follow a story arc over the course of 3-4 books. Personal favorite trilogy of the entire series is The Dark Elf Trilogy. This is the "origin" story of Drizzt Do'Urden. Ender's Game Series - Orson Scott Card Sci-fi The first book in the series Enders Game won both a Hugo and Nebula awards. A story about a genius kid and the pressure of being the "messiah." There is a reason this book is on nearly every "must read" Sci-fi list from anyone who knows good Sci-fi. Be sure to follow Enders Game with Enders Shadow. Don't read Speaker for the Dead immediately after Game. | ||
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Atreides
United States2393 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Edit: I hadn't read page 2 so this finally got mentioned right above me lol. | ||
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Tamiel
United Kingdom18 Posts
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