Fantasy Novels and D&D
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just wanted to thank everyone for their awesome suggestions. the reason i havent been here is because last week i picked up jim butcher's dresden files series, after many of you suggested it. after 6 days i am up to book 9. i barely sleep anymore. 
i haven't been this stoked on a series since like 1994, when i blitzkrieged through the first books in the wheel of time series, when i should have been reading law school books. its a great feeling to be that addicted to a great series.
i can't wait to read the rest of your suggested books and authors.
i haven't been this stoked on a series since like 1994, when i blitzkrieged through the first books in the wheel of time series, when i should have been reading law school books. its a great feeling to be that addicted to a great series.
i can't wait to read the rest of your suggested books and authors.
I couldn't get into Gardens of the Moon as much as I wanted to. I just couldn't get an idea what was going on.
I read the book Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss last year and it was my favorite book of the year. Imagine the magical whimsy of Harry Potter but with a real story that flowed and shifted like a George Martin yarn (without all the death and incest).
I read the book Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss last year and it was my favorite book of the year. Imagine the magical whimsy of Harry Potter but with a real story that flowed and shifted like a George Martin yarn (without all the death and incest).
Obryn
Hero
It's odd... But I think it's Erikson's deliberately chosen style to never explain anything. This is hugely disorienting at first, but the whole series becomes very rewarding, IMHO.
Another big thing to remember is that Erikson wrote GotM about 10 years before he wrote any of the other books... and a lot of stuff just changes from that book to the other ones. The series picks up more consistency by then. Also, I think he actually explains what a "warren" is by ... maybe book 5 or so?
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Cam Banks
Adventurer
Nellisir
Hero
Some, but not many, authors do this. I generally don't like CJ Cherryh's fantasy, but I love her s-f books, and she's not much for explaining. You have to work out for yourself what alot of her references are. Glen Cook is the same way, particularly in the later Black Company books.
Nellisir
Hero
Thank you, and I'd be happy to. What have you already read?
The Human Target
Adventurer
Wheres the fun in that?
AdmundfortGeographer
Getting lost in fantasy maps
I get that. Gardens of the Moon was tough to chew through for me as well. The second book, Deadhouse Gates, by FAR the best of the Malazan books in my opinion. A complete out of the park grand slam that has propelled me through the rest of the book and made my "meh" response to Gardens of the Moon worthwhile. Try Deadhouse Gates, it is like a entirely new novel in a barely similar world with only few minor characters from the GotM crossing over.
I'm now up to Toll the Hounds. I've also grabbed all of the spinoff books about Korbal Broach and gang, as well as the books by the setting's co-creator Ian Cameron Esselmont.
WayneLigon
Adventurer
I was very pleased with it as well. The second book is probably the thing I'm looking forward to most in the new year, after the new Harry Dresden book.
