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<blockquote data-quote="small pumpkin man" data-source="post: 4850197" data-attributes="member: 57910">I'm currently reading it too, it's quite interesting. Personally I couldn't get through Robin Hobb's &quot;Soldier's Son&quot; trilogy, I found it too depressing, significantly more so than than a Song of Ice and Fire, although I did enjoy the Assassin's Quest, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man books (even though I didn't read them in order). I also enjoyed the earlier Ki and Vandian Quartet written by the same author under a different pseudonym (Megan Lindholm), even though they are quite different, more low key and not really &quot;heroic&quot; fantasy like the books with FitzChivalry, but then again, neither are the Liveship Traders books.I'd also recommend some older stuff not really mentioned, Poul Anderson's &quot;The Broken Sword&quot; and &quot;Three Hearts and Three Lions&quot; are both very good, and a lot more tied into mythological roots than modern fantasy. The Howard Conan stories are very enjoyable if you're into that sort of thing. There's a lot of short stories so you can find you fairly easily if you are. Micheal Moorcock wrote huge piles of Fantasy/Sword and Sorcery of various levels of quality, my favourite being &quot;The War Hound and the World's Pain&quot; although the Hawkmoon books &quot;The History of the Runestaff&quot; are very good and probably closer to traditional fantasy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="small pumpkin man, post: 4850197, member: 57910"] I'm currently reading it too, it's quite interesting. Personally I couldn't get through Robin Hobb's "Soldier's Son" trilogy, I found it too depressing, significantly more so than than a Song of Ice and Fire, although I did enjoy the Assassin's Quest, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man books (even though I didn't read them in order). I also enjoyed the earlier Ki and Vandian Quartet written by the same author under a different pseudonym (Megan Lindholm), even though they are quite different, more low key and not really "heroic" fantasy like the books with FitzChivalry, but then again, neither are the Liveship Traders books. I'd also recommend some older stuff not really mentioned, Poul Anderson's "The Broken Sword" and "Three Hearts and Three Lions" are both very good, and a lot more tied into mythological roots than modern fantasy. The Howard Conan stories are very enjoyable if you're into that sort of thing. There's a lot of short stories so you can find you fairly easily if you are. Micheal Moorcock wrote huge piles of Fantasy/Sword and Sorcery of various levels of quality, my favourite being "The War Hound and the World's Pain" although the Hawkmoon books "The History of the Runestaff" are very good and probably closer to traditional fantasy. [/QUOTE]

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