Want to recommend a book, or a series of books?

[ScrmWrtr42]

Didn't see if anyone else mentioned these...

I scanned many of the entries, and didn't see these, so if someone else already mentioned them, apologies...

Glen Cook's "The Black Company" series is one of my alltime favorites. Ten book series about a badass mercenary company set in a fantasy setting, but where the characters speak in a very modern style. Gritty and realistic. The first series are somewhat minimalist, in terms of description and character development...but when he gets into the second series, referred to as the Books of the South, or "The Glittering Stone" books, his writing evolves dramatically, and the size of the books doubles, or even triples in comparison to those in the first series. (Not that the size of a book is an indication of its quality, but the writing gets significantly better in the later books.)

Another series, although more Sci Fi oriented, with a definite fantasy aspect, is the "Many Colored Land" books by Julian May. Great, great books.

 

[mps42]

I didn't read through all the posts so, my apologies if someone had already mentioned the "Guardians of the Flame" series by Joel Rosenberg. I found these completely by accident and love them!

 

[PhoenixDarkDirk]

I recently started reading a book that's pretty good. It's called Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey. The first of a two-book series, it has a story like The Lord of the Rings in which the equivalent of Sauron is presented as the victim in the situation. Essentially, he refused to be pushed around by his older brother who then turned most of the world against him.