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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Tree" data-source="post: 2541897" data-attributes="member: 1455">I'll third Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos books.&nbsp; They're a lot of fun, and an interesting and internally-consistent take on a high magic world.&nbsp; The smartass internal dialogue between Vlad and his familiar Loiosh alone are worth it, even without the great plots, dramatic action, and style.&nbsp; Best of all, all of the books are self-contained novels.&nbsp; The series is a serial of self-contained books, not some sprawling epic story that never ends.&nbsp; So if you want you can sit down and read a great 250 page book and get a complete story.I also recommend Brust's The Phoneix Guards, which the author describes as &quot;a blatant ripoff of The Three Musketeers&quot;, written in a hillariously long-winded writing style.If you like dramatic fiction, I can't recommend Guy Gavriel Kay's books enough.&nbsp; Tigana is one of my favorite books of all time, a self-contained book about loss, sacrifice, and conflict.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you're interested in the Byzantine empire, Sailing to Sarantium (and its followup, Lord of Emperors) are also fantastic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Tree, post: 2541897, member: 1455"] I'll third Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos books. They're a lot of fun, and an interesting and internally-consistent take on a high magic world. The smartass internal dialogue between Vlad and his familiar Loiosh alone are worth it, even without the great plots, dramatic action, and style. Best of all, all of the books are self-contained novels. The series is a serial of self-contained books, not some sprawling epic story that never ends. So if you want you can sit down and read a great 250 page book and get a complete story. I also recommend Brust's The Phoneix Guards, which the author describes as "a blatant ripoff of The Three Musketeers", written in a hillariously long-winded writing style. If you like dramatic fiction, I can't recommend Guy Gavriel Kay's books enough. Tigana is one of my favorite books of all time, a self-contained book about loss, sacrifice, and conflict. If you're interested in the Byzantine empire, Sailing to Sarantium (and its followup, Lord of Emperors) are also fantastic. [/QUOTE]

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