EPToh also, the ender's game series.
speaker of the dead and xenocide were better than i expected, although not as good as ender's game.
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ghostWriter
United States3302 Posts
oh also, the ender's game series. speaker of the dead and xenocide were better than i expected, although not as good as ender's game. | ||
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decafchicken
United States20173 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21248 Posts
On December 20 2009 07:52 decafchicken wrote: Eragon/Eldest/Brisnger series is a good read. Please tell me you're trolling ._. | ||
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zerglingsfolife
United States1694 Posts
No other series compares, seriously. Dark, gritty, awesome characters, and no idea what's going to happen next. They are making a HBO series after the show. They just filmed the pilot. HBO Series!!! | ||
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exeprime
United Kingdom643 Posts
At least check out the first book of the series, Nine Princes in Amber - it's not very long and it'll leave you hungry for more. My favourite fantasy ever, and i read stuff like LotR, Dune, some Terry Pratchett, aaa... and more, i guess. The Amber books are my favs by far. | ||
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Loanshark
China3094 Posts
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Nyovne
Netherlands19141 Posts
Anything by Glen Cook really sf and fantasy. A Malazan Tale of the Fallen series Lord of the Rings with everything around it The First Law trillogy sucked imho but alot of people recommend it The Name of the Wind The Prince of Nothing trillogy with the Aspect Emperor trillogy after it The Ender's game series Dune saga A Song of Ice and Fire series The Gone Away World Foundation series Chris Wooding is okeish Salvatore is ok as well I guess Stuff by George Vance is good too I got so much more stuff on my shelves but I'd have to go check than instantly have it from memmory. edit: I personally really like Warhammer 40K novels and E.V.E. setting novels as well. | ||
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Sadist
United States7328 Posts
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Han Solo
United Kingdom199 Posts
I'd say Malazan has also gone down the road of being amazing at the start but just getting worse as it goes on. They are both still great reads, and I'd reccomened them in a heartbeat, but I don't think they satnd on their own as the best of the fantasy genre as many say them to be. Outside of thse two, 3 writers stand out especially. Robin Hobb, Joe Abercrombie and R. Scott Bakker. R. Scott Bakker is the author of the Prince of Nothing trilogy and some other books. His strengths lie in his ability to add intruiging levels of psychology and philosophy without being obnoxious or overbearing, but I think he is somewhat weak in being able to fully and completely draw people into his books. They are just a little to cold and clinical in nature. Joe Abercrombie is the author of the First Law trilogy and Best Served Cold, which takes place withing the same universe as the First Law trilogy. He is great at drawing you in to his works, has good wit, good action, but most of all, excellent characterization and character development. I guess he could be called somewhat predictable in a certain way, but it's nothing to worry about. Robin Hobb is the author of the The Farseer trilogy, Liveship Traders trilogy, The Tawny Man trilogy and the Soldier Son trilogy. Frankly the Soldier Son trilogy is not that good, so don't bother reading it, at least not as a first book from her. Her best ability as a writer is without a doubt characterization. She places far more emphasis on how certain events will effect characters and how the develop around that than the actual events themselves. Shes's does the the tendancy to repeat things too much though, which can be somewhat grating. | ||
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XinRan
United States530 Posts
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Horiz0n
Sweden364 Posts
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Dark.Carnival
United States5095 Posts
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ecDIESEL
United States132 Posts
and House of Leaves if you feel like becoming schizophrenic. | ||
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Kazius
Israel1456 Posts
2) Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (aka Blade Runner when in movie form) 3) Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers 4) Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series 5) Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama, and to a lesser extent 2001: A Space Odyssey The amount of awesome in these books cannot be contained, and each is considered a masterpiece... even though some tend to be dark and somewhat harsh (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Starship Troopers), some overly philosophical (Stranger in a Strange Land), if you like sci-fi even a little and missed some of these, you have some catching up to do. | ||
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Fontong
United States6454 Posts
On December 20 2009 08:46 Nyovne wrote: The Wheel of Time series Anything by Glen Cook really sf and fantasy. A Malazan Tale of the Fallen series Lord of the Rings with everything around it The First Law trillogy sucked imho but alot of people recommend it The Name of the Wind The Prince of Nothing trillogy with the Aspect Emperor trillogy after it The Ender's game series Dune saga A Song of Ice and Fire series The Gone Away World Foundation series Chris Wooding is okeish Salvatore is ok as well I guess Stuff by George Vance is good too I got so much more stuff on my shelves but I'd have to go check than instantly have it from memmory. edit: I personally really like Warhammer 40K novels and E.V.E. setting novels as well. Oh man don't read Glen Cook. It's horrifically bad ;_; | ||
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nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
i myself loved "the daughter of the empire" series by raymond e.feist and janny wurts. i've always been a sucker for politics and intrigue (: | ||
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ghostWriter
United States3302 Posts
Brisingr was crap. | ||
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DocHoliday
Germany25 Posts
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uberMatt
Canada659 Posts
it hasn't come out in canada yet, and erikson is canadian what is this bullshit i also recommend george r r martin and zelanzy also, the fionavar triology, tigana and the lions of al-rassan by guy gavriel kay the problem i had with bakker's series is that the main character should be relatable, when he is a super-human genius, and able to manipulate people it just becomes silly and uninteresting to read ah, i am repeating what han solo has said though if i could add one thing on george r r martin, it seems to me that his books are becoming more epic(not in the 4chan sense of the word, but in the traditional fantasy sense) and he is much more adept at writing some scale, brilliant fantasy. the series has definitely gone downhill and i think it can be the attributed to the fact that more characters and settings are being introduced, and his storytelling does not scale well. | ||
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Radfield
Canada2720 Posts
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