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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5677267" data-attributes="member: 54877">The Vlad Taltos books by Steven Brust fit your criteria to a T.  Start with Jhereg, though note that the series is not done yet, and is not written in chronological order.  If this bothers you, you may want to wait for it to be done. I happen to like his other series, set in an earlier time in the same world.  But these are deliberately written flowerly, in the voice of a pedantic scholar imitating the supposed words of the historical period that he chronicles.  One of the reasons that I like it is that it is a parody of other authors writing that way. (That isn't all it is, but it is that.)  But I'll grant this kind of sideways criticism mixed in with an actual story is rather an acquired taste. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Stay away from Harry Turtledove.  His stories are sweeping "histories" of whatever world and period he wants to convey.  His dialogue stinks.  I like alternate history, and don't mind reading narrative history (real or imagined), but his dialogue is to be endured, not enjoyed.  Eddings one good skill is dialogue.  It is best shown in the Belgariad.  If you want to finish the story (some say "repeat the story") with the Mallorean after that, you know what you are getting.  The two three book series (Elenium?) after that are more of the same--with better dialogue and characters in some places, but also starting to show Eddings distressing lack of imagination elsewhere.  It's a wash if you like the Belgariad.  But after those stories, Eddings goes downhill so fast you'll need a parachute to survive the fall. Prachett is great.  Period.  Douglas Adams is most known for Hitchhikers, which is better than I remembered.  I'm rereading it right now.  But his best, to my mind, is still the two Dirk Gently detective novels.</blockquote>

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