Recommend me some books!

Reggie_Rebel

The Warrior Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell or The Robin Hood series by Angus Donald. More sword than sorcery

Mr_Toad

Wheel of Time

Ames

Mr_Toad wrote: »

Wheel of Time

Didn't he die before he finished it, despite there already being dozens of titles in the series? I had book 1 on my shelf for years and finally got rid of it last year.

Wyre

His wife and editor took his huge amount of notes and gave them to Brandon Sanderson to finish the series. There are 14 books in the series and I loved them all.

Rambosmum

Poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Her other stuff is good too, but this is the best.

jackyann

Absolutely Ursula Leguin - way ahead of her time
Marion Zimmer Bradley (esp. Mists of Avalon)
Phillip Pullman - esp. the Dark Materials trilogy
Ariana Franklin's Mistress of the Art of Death series

Happy reading - and I'm taking not of some of the recommendations here - thanks!

onlyroz

Wyre wrote: »

His wife and editor took his huge amount of notes and gave them to Brandon Sanderson to finish the series. There are 14 books in the series and I loved them all.

I'm sorry, but there are far better fantasy novels than the Wheel of Time series. It might have started out being original but it meanders on and on, none of the lead characters are remotely likeable, the story is highly derivative and it follows all of the fantasy stereotypes going.

Modern fantasy authors like Joe Abercrombie and Scott Lynch beat Robert Jordan into the dust.

Having said the above about Robert Jordan, I do quite like Brandon Sanderson. I recently read the first Mistborn book and it was pretty good. The dialog was atrocious but his magic system is unique enough to make me want to read a few more.

Angry_Bear

onlyroz wrote: »

Modern fantasy authors like Joe Abercrombie and Scott Lynch beat Robert Jordan into the dust.

I was just about to suggest Joe Abercrombie. I've been enjoying his "The First Law", and find myself liking/rooting for some of the most descpicable characters in spite of myself - always a sign of a good book

Voyager2002

I loved every page of a very long book: "A Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth.

And something that I first read on a beach during a typhoon: "Castaways" by Lynne Reid Banks. Powerful and thought-provoking, in the same kind of way as "The Poisonwood Bible".

onlyroz

Angry_Bear wrote: »

I was just about to suggest Joe Abercrombie. I've been enjoying his "The First Law", and find myself liking/rooting for some of the most descpicable characters in spite of myself - always a sign of a good book

Sand dan Glokta is a work of genius. I'm hoping that he's going to crop up again in a future book. I also love Logan Ninefingers, particularly when he goes all Berserker on us.