maikkun
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Post by maikkun on Jul 21, 2020 13:52:54 GMT
I'm interested to hear what other's favorite fantasy and sci-fi book series are. My first series that i ever really got into as a kid was the Dark-Elf Chronicles by R.A. Salvatore and all the subsequent books there after (and the ones that were before it).
As a teen, I got into Sword of Truth and then Wheel of Time. Sword of Truth really takes a weird turn and the fact that the author seems to be a real dipshit stops me from rereading the series.
Wheel of time might be my favorite series of all time. great writing, great story lines. i know there;s a lot to pick apart in there and some parts really draaaaaaaaagggggg but its still my favorite.
what about you all?
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Post by Grackle Wizard on Jul 21, 2020 16:13:15 GMT
Those Salvatore books were my favorite in High School, I read them over and over.
My favorites:
Joe Abercrombie - Any of his series are great, probably my favorite fantasy author
China Mieville - Not exactly a series but any of the books set in the same world (Perdido Stree Station, the Scar, Iron Council)
Roger Zelazny - Amber Chronicles (especially the first one)
Glenn Cook - The Black Company
George RR Martin - Song of Fire and Ice - Maybe one day he will finish it but the books are great
Tamsyn Muir - The Locked Tomb - OK, only the first one is out but I liked it so much I am sure I will love the series
James SA Corey - Expanse series
V. E. Schwab - Shades of Magic
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Post by metaldipshit on Jul 21, 2020 17:05:40 GMT
I dearly love both of NK Jemisin's trilogies. The Broken Earth garnered a lot more commercial and critical success, but I think overall I prefer the earlier Inheritance Trilogy for how it managed to tell an overarching story through three distinct novels that each stood on their own with unique self-contained characters and arcs.
The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer is also brilliant and mind-bending. Annihilation is the gold standard, but both follow up books are well worth diving into as well.
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Post by kay double you on Jul 21, 2020 17:10:40 GMT
i will scream it until my lungs are broken and bloody.
Brandon Sanderson's cosmere books. specifically the Mistborn series & the Stormlight Archive. they are the benchmarks for which i hold everything to in fantasy.
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Post by Grackle Wizard on Jul 21, 2020 17:37:02 GMT
i will scream it until my lungs are broken and bloody. Brandon Sanderson's cosmere books. specifically the Mistborn series & the Stormlight Archive. they are the benchmarks for which i hold everything to in fantasy. I need to give these a try. I read one of his early books which I liked, then I started reading another one and didn't really connect with it. Can't even remember which books but I think probably the first few he wrote. |
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Post by lordbeavis on Jul 21, 2020 17:49:31 GMT
Those Salvatore books were my favorite in High School, I read them over and over. My favorites: Joe Abercrombie - Any of his series are great, probably my favorite fantasy author China Mieville - Not exactly a series but any of the books set in the same world (Perdido Stree Station, the Scar, Iron Council) Roger Zelazny - Amber Chronicles (especially the first one) Glenn Cook - The Black Company George RR Martin - Song of Fire and Ice - Maybe one day he will finish it but the books are great Tamsyn Muir - The Locked Tomb - OK, only the first one is out but I liked it so much I am sure I will love the series James SA Corey - Expanse series V. E. Schwab - Shades of Magic
I LOVED The Black Company series.
George RR Martin has done a lot of cool stuff, I kind of gave up on the rest of Song of Fire and Ice since the series ended on HBO. I really enjoyed that Wild Card series he edited.
The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross. It's a fun Cthulhuish British Spy Agency series if you a haven't read it, very entertaining.
The King Killer Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Even though he's not done yet, the first two books are really good.
When I was younger I loved reading the Myth Adventures series by Robert Asprin
I'm in the middle of the latest Dresden Files book Peace Talks by Jim Butcher. They have always enjoyed reading them.
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Post by Grackle Wizard on Jul 21, 2020 17:54:35 GMT
Those Salvatore books were my favorite in High School, I read them over and over. My favorites: Joe Abercrombie - Any of his series are great, probably my favorite fantasy author China Mieville - Not exactly a series but any of the books set in the same world (Perdido Stree Station, the Scar, Iron Council) Roger Zelazny - Amber Chronicles (especially the first one) Glenn Cook - The Black Company George RR Martin - Song of Fire and Ice - Maybe one day he will finish it but the books are great Tamsyn Muir - The Locked Tomb - OK, only the first one is out but I liked it so much I am sure I will love the series James SA Corey - Expanse series V. E. Schwab - Shades of Magic
I LOVED The Black Company series.
George RR Martin has done a lot of cool stuff, I kind of gave up on the rest of Song of Fire and Ice since the series ended on HBO. I really enjoyed that Wild Card series he edited.
The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross. It's a fun Cthulhuish British Spy Agency series if you a haven't read it, very entertaining.
The King Killer Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Even though he's not done yet, the first two books are really good.
When I was younger I loved reading the Myth Adventures series by Robert Asprin
I'm in the middle of the latest Dresden Files book Peace Talks by Jim Butcher. They have always enjoyed reading them.
Oh man, those Myth Adventure books were another favorite when I was a kid. I remember reading several of them when my family took a cross country trip. I really liked the first Patrick Rothfuss book but I thought the second was a bit of a mess (even though I still enjoyed it).
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maikkun
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Post by maikkun on Jul 21, 2020 17:54:49 GMT
i will scream it until my lungs are broken and bloody. Brandon Sanderson's cosmere books. specifically the Mistborn series & the Stormlight Archive. they are the benchmarks for which i hold everything to in fantasy. yes! Sanderson has done some incredible world building! not to mention finishing the wheel of time series. Mistborn was so unique and strange. i loved a lot of the characters. i have only finished the first 2 stormlight archives books but i have the third, i will finish that now that you reminded me haha! |
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Post by maikkun on Jul 21, 2020 17:57:02 GMT
I LOVED The Black Company series.
George RR Martin has done a lot of cool stuff, I kind of gave up on the rest of Song of Fire and Ice since the series ended on HBO. I really enjoyed that Wild Card series he edited.
The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross. It's a fun Cthulhuish British Spy Agency series if you a haven't read it, very entertaining.
The King Killer Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Even though he's not done yet, the first two books are really good.
When I was younger I loved reading the Myth Adventures series by Robert Asprin
I'm in the middle of the latest Dresden Files book Peace Talks by Jim Butcher. They have always enjoyed reading them.
Oh man, those Myth Adventure books were another favorite when I was a kid. I remember reading several of them when my family took a cross country trip. I really liked the first Patrick Rothfuss book but I thought the second was a bit of a mess (even though I still enjoyed it).
thos rothfuss books are perfect for me. the most exact, pinpoint type of story i like. hopefully he finishes the series in his lifetime. haha! i also love how salty he gets online. |
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Post by lordbeavis on Jul 21, 2020 17:58:09 GMT
oh, I totally forgot
Steven Brust - The Dragaeran books. There's like 17 now, I don't even think I've read them all haha. I have to go back and check, I lost track. I've been really bad about reading the last few years
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Post by lordbeavis on Jul 21, 2020 18:03:31 GMT
Robin Hobb (Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden)
- The Farseer Trilogy
- The Tawny Man Trilogy
I read these in the mid 2000s. I guess she has three new ones now too
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Post by kay double you on Jul 21, 2020 20:41:11 GMT
i will scream it until my lungs are broken and bloody. Brandon Sanderson's cosmere books. specifically the Mistborn series & the Stormlight Archive. they are the benchmarks for which i hold everything to in fantasy. yes! Sanderson has done some incredible world building! not to mention finishing the wheel of time series. Mistborn was so unique and strange. i loved a lot of the characters. i have only finished the first 2 stormlight archives books but i have the third, i will finish that now that you reminded me haha! Fourth is out in November and I'm foaming at the mouth for it |
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Post by lordbeavis on Jul 21, 2020 22:34:54 GMT
oooh, I didn't even realize there were new books in the Mistborn trilogy. I have to check those out, the original trilogy was really good.
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Post by bibimbaptist on Jul 22, 2020 18:22:45 GMT
When I was a kid, I was reaaally into Animorphs, The Seventh Tower, and His Dark Materials (plus the obvious ones like LOTR and HP). I got pretty far into The Wheel of Time as a teen but never finished. I also loved Asimov's Foundation series and the Dune series, although Dune got pretty weird by the end. Once I got to college though I didnt have time to read for pleasure - I was an English major/philosophy minor, so that took up all my reading time. After I graduated I was kinda burned out on reading for a while and only just got back into it a year or so ago.
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Post by maikkun on Jul 22, 2020 20:52:07 GMT
When I was a kid, I was reaaally into Animorphs, The Seventh Tower, and His Dark Materials (plus the obvious ones like LOTR and HP). I got pretty far into The Wheel of Time as a teen but never finished. I also loved Asimov's Foundation series and the Dune series, although Dune got pretty weird by the end. Once I got to college though I didnt have time to read for pleasure - I was an English major/philosophy minor, so that took up all my reading time. After I graduated I was kinda burned out on reading for a while and only just got back into it a year or so ago. Honestly, there's a few books in the wheel of time series that drag for a while, but the series goes to pretty cool places. it's awesome. i'd say its worth finishing at some point. i wish i had read the animorphs stuff when i was a kid, maybe i'll get my oldest child to start reading them, so i can read them too... haha! |
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