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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 3597666" data-attributes="member: 259">I just read my first O'Brien recently, and it was pretty great.  My wife is a huge fan of the series.If you like that, here are a few others you might enjoy:-The Count of Monte Cristo.  I've heard it called the best adventure novel ever written, and if it's not the best, it's pretty close.  My mom printed out a cheat-sheet of characters for the book, which is a pretty good idea.  It's convoluted, gripping, emotional, and everything a book oughtta be.  Also it's really long, but I never got bored while reading it.  Find it and enjoy it!-The Three Musketeers.  It's also by Dumas, and honestly I didn't like it as well, but it has some tremendous action sequences--and the musketeers are such thorough louts (they kinda make Belkar look like a good guy) that they're a lot of fun to read.-The Phoenix Guard, by Stephen Brust.  It's simultaneously an homage to and parody of Dumas's writing, and once you realize what he's doing (and give up on trying to understand everything at the beginning), it's utterly hilarious.-Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.  Another modern book that pays homage to 19th-century novels, although these are more the Bronte-type novels (only with adventure).-Flashman books.  Kinda like O'Brien, if Captain Jack Aubrey were a racist, sexist coward and scoundrel, and were dedicated to teh funny.Daniel</blockquote>