OT - Books???

[Olm]

Tad Williams: Memory, Sorrow and Thorn

[sansanjuan]

Originally Posted by Executor

Thanks for the suggestions!
Started reading Mistborn yesterday but gave up after the first few chapters, didn't really catch my attention.
Hopefully these books mentioned here will keep me occupied for a while.

Almost put Mistborn down too but was glad I didn't. Certainly was a slow starter.. but a strong finisher imho.
-ssj

[Korwin]

Got Mistborn as an free eBook from Tor, bought the other two.
Tangential to Brandon Sanderson, do you know Wheel of Time? (Autor: Robert Jordan, RIP), because next year it will be finished (by Sanderson)
If you dont know it yet, be warned its very long winded (I like it anyway )
The Way of Kings is the start of Sandersons own epic fantasy series.

Authors I did not see in the thread and which I like.
(But those books are all much lighter (ie. not so depressing), than Song of Fire and Ice)

Jim Butcher
(two series out,
one fantasy: Codex of Alera [Pokemon + missing Roman legion] finished,
the other urban fantasy: Dresden Files[wizard + private eye] in work)
Sample Chapters - Dresden Files, book 1
I liked his fantasy serie, but the urban fantasy one I liked better.
To be honest, the first book in the serie is nice, but the later ones get better.

Wen Spencer - not really urban fantasy, more fantasy urban (a modern city got transplanted into the elf world, one day in the month it gets back to earth.)
Tinker - Sample chapters (1. Book)
Wolf Who Rules - Sample capters (2. Book)
Book 3 is - hopefully - soon available as eARC (electronic Advanced Reader Copy)

David Weber - only one fantasy serie (if you want science fiction, you get many, many more books)
Oath of Swords - First book for free as ebook.
If you dont know him, read it.
If you allready red all his other books, he gets a (IMHO) little predictable... (but I still read all his books, so it can't be sooo bad, right?)

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Almost forgot to second Steven Ericksons Books of the Fallen. Much nearer in tone to SoFaI.
And its finished. (There will be books in the same world, but the Books of the Fallen got finished)

[Executor]

Hmm, and how about The Name of the Wind?

The Black Company sounds very interesing.

EDIT: Wanted to give Wheel of Time a go, but it seems a bit too long and I not all chapters can be found where I live.

[Korwin]

The Name of the Wind is good, but it was almost 3 years between book 1 and book 2.
You where warned

Some other ebooks from Glen Cook (with sample chapters):
http://www.webscription.net/s-157-gl...aspx?pagenum=2

[Knai]

Originally Posted by Korwin

The Name of the Wind is good, but it was almost 3 years between book 1 and book 2.
You where warned

I'd consider The Name of the Wind a bit of a different genre. Plus, the series is nowhere near done, and I suspect we are going to see the Jordan/Martin book release schedule with it. Rothfuss is a good enough writer to be worth putting up with that (unlike Jordan), but the OP has suggested that he prefers finding finished series and reading them then.

[Anaconda]

Jordan should be mentioned in past tense, he is resting in peace.

[Knai]

Originally Posted by Anaconda

Jordan should be mentioned in past tense, he is resting in peace.

The Jordan Release Schedule is still in use, if not by Jordan. It is part of his legacy. It's much how Tokenien Fantasy is a genre, despite Tolkien being long dead.

[Edi]

Peter V. Brett's The Painted Man and The Desert Spear are excellent reading.

I second the Black Company and also Glen Cook's Tyranny of the Night series is quite a good fit for a Dominions type of story.