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There really needs to be revenge/protect the heir type fantasy books.
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
There really needs to be revenge/protect the heir type fantasy books. | ||
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Syn Harvest
United States191 Posts
On December 15 2012 04:20 {ToT}ColmA wrote: How is forgotten realms, can u go into a bit more details, which is the first book to start etc, would be cool cuz i am interested in a series which is longer (like the malazan storyline) I haven't read it. If you go onto the website I posted they have reviews of most fantasy series. If you want something long read A Song of Ice and Fire would most certainly fit the bill and is probably the best Fantasy Series around. Malazan of course but since you mentioned it I take it that you have read it. Not many fantasy series are on the epic level of Malazan and ASOIF. The Black Company is long its about 10 books in total but each is only about 300 pages so it isn't as epicly long as ASOIF and Malazan. There arent many seires that are that long. If you find one you really should judge if you should read it or not. It will certainly take a long time and if it is written well you could get disenchanted midway through. | ||
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{ToT}ColmA
Japan3260 Posts
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Syn Harvest
United States191 Posts
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ggbro
United Kingdom7 Posts
On December 15 2012 04:31 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Read both Kingkiller Chronicle books just waiting foe the third like everybody else seconded. | ||
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Microchaton
France342 Posts
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decado90
United States480 Posts
On December 15 2012 04:20 {ToT}ColmA wrote: How is forgotten realms, can u go into a bit more details, which is the first book to start etc, would be cool cuz i am interested in a series which is longer (like the malazan storyline) Written on a middle school level. The adventures are fun, albeit predictable and the world is cool. Not a big fan myself. | ||
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revel8
United Kingdom3022 Posts
On December 15 2012 04:31 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Read both Kingkiller Chronicle books just waiting foe the third like everybody else There really needs to be revenge/protect the heir type fantasy books. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie is a fantasy book about revenge. | ||
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Kaal
Djibouti2570 Posts
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Dacendoran
United States825 Posts
Female main character who isn't a useless prissy girl, deals with demons and gods and war in a "medival pagan god type setting". | ||
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revel8
United Kingdom3022 Posts
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soullogik
United States1171 Posts
few have matched up to it for me | ||
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revel8
United Kingdom3022 Posts
You get classic quotes such as ... "The very mountains may tremble when Ulric breaks wind. But these are Drenai lands. And as far as I am concerned, your lord is just another pot bellied savage who couldn't wipe his own arse without a map tattoed on his leg."  Such poetry! | ||
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Just_a_Moth
Canada1970 Posts
The Shadow of the Torturer The Claw of the Conciliator The Sword of the Lictor The Citadel of the Autarch Probably the best series I've ever read. Fantasy/sci-fi is probably the best description for them, but they're pretty weird. | ||
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Kabezon
United States11 Posts
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xpldngmn
Austria265 Posts
Of course the two gods of sci-fi Phillip K. Dick and Stanislaw Lem have been mentioned, but i command you to read ALL OF THEIR BOOKS! no bad apples, all killers, no fillers. PKD has some very good "not too hard sci-fi" books too, i can recommend "VALIS", I got a way better understand what "going insane" means while reading that book. Lem does great work at both his more serious and his satirical works. You can't go wrong with "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub" (hilarious!), "Peace on Earth" and "The Futurological Congress" (even more hilarious!). His fictitious criticism of nonexisting books is excellent as well: "A Perfect Vacuum" and "Imaginary Magnitude". I read all of those in german, but I can't imagine them being bad, the translations by Kandel seem to be good. The little backstory between Stanislaw and Philip is good too. Lem hated US-sci-fi for being dumb, nevertheless he tried to help Dick sell his books in Poland. Problem was Dick got paranoid, and wrote a letter to the FBI, basically saying that one man alone can't be such a genius, it got to be a communist conspiracy. http://english.lem.pl/index.php/faq#P.K.Dick Did I overread it? Why noone mentioned "The Eternal War" and "Forever Peace" by Joe Haldeman, both a must read for all fans of "military sci-fi". No mention for "The Stars my Destination" by Alfred Bester? You saw that stupid movie "Jumper"? Go read "The Stars my Destination" and find out what a writer with imagination can do with the same premise. Never forget Ray Bradbury! | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
On December 15 2012 10:54 xpldngmn wrote: Phillip K. Dick [...] no bad apples, all killers, no fillers. You, my friend, have clearly not read all of his books | ||
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xpldngmn
Austria265 Posts
On December 15 2012 15:12 sam!zdat wrote: You, my friend, have clearly not read all of his books Maybe not ALL of them, please name one that was really bad. Are you referring to some repeating/recurring ideas like in "The Simulacra" and "We Can Build You"? I'd agree on "most movie adaptions are shit", though. | ||
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n3m4n
Bulgaria2 Posts
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