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No, not that....I'm looking for books! (And not dirty ones!)
Finish the following sentence:
"If you like George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, you might also consider reading the following while you wait for A Feast For Crows to be released..."
I've covered a lot of Sci Fi but not much fantasy...I've read Jordan (blah) and the first in Goodkind's series (but haven't as yet been motivated to read the second one).
Any thoughts/recommendations?
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Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams. It's an epic trilogy, with the last part being split into two books.
The good thing about it, unlike Song of Ice and Fire, is that it's finished.
I would also recommend the assassin trilogy by Robin Hobb, which also comes highly recommended by OSC and George RR Martin himself. The followups are also quite good.
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When I was in your particular situation, I took this board's recommendation and started the MST series by Williams. I hated it with a passion. I was halfway through book one, and nothing of interest had happened yet. I am totally serious. I think that it is quite possibly the worst book to follow ASoS with. I hear that the series gets better and everything, but I had such a bad experience with it that it will probably be years before I try it again.
The next one I started was Robin Hobb's Farseer series based on Mr. Martin's suggestion himself. These are actually pretty good. Not perfect, but quite enjoyable. The primary relationship that the main character gets into I had a personal investment in even. The Bingtown Trader series I think was also good, and the concluding trilogy that follows that and links the two series is also enjoyable. Theres only one book left, and I'm looking foward to it.
My personal recommendation would be the Hyperion novels by Dan Simmons, if you haven't read them yet. Its the only series that approaches aSoIaF in my mind that I've read so far.
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Mists of Avalon! I'm not much for Fantasy but I enjoyed that, and I guess Anne McCaffery is pretty good; I read one of her books about 10 years ago. Posts: 2064 | Registered: Dec 2003
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I suggest Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun tetralogy. They're not really that similar, but they're both fantasy series (though BOTNS is also sf, if that makes sense) and I know a lot of people who like both, so it might be worth a shot.
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Philip Pullman's "The Golden Compass" It's half fantasy half sci-fi...sorta. And then there's Terry Pratchet... Satyagraha
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I'm much more a Science Fiction fan than Fantasy. In fact, Tolkien and Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea trilogy (now five books) were pretty much the only fantasy I had read until recently. But I highly highly recommend those. Particularly the second book of the Earthsea series, The Tombs of Atuan. It is wonderful.
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You just can't beat a rvolving cycle of Tolkiens complete works, George R. R. Martins works, and a few Morgan Llewellyn books. Chiefly, Lion of Ireland.
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A thread I started a while ago, titled My slowly disintegrating stigma against non-Tolkien fantasy, addressed the same question. Don't hold my then-fandom of Robin Hobb against me -- hell, I think it was in this thread that I first expressed my disillusionment with her writing.
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My only fantasy recommendation is that you use plenty of Cool Whip. Really, you can never use too much.
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You so wanted to type "Hobbits", but didn't out of fear that if you brought your Frodo crush out of the LotR threads, you'd be branded a pedophile.
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Hey, now, I'm not ashamed of my utterly normal crush on Frodo. I'm just worried that if I sic my hobbit boy-toy on Kasie, she'll be sexually sated and thus never require Mexican minstrations.
Am I using minstrations right? No! That's the kind of sexy roguish rebel I am!
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Raymond Feist's books are also very good, though he seems to have caved into pressure to continue his Midkemia series endlessly. Start with the magician series and see where they go.
I also enjoy the banter in the Belgariad by Eddings, or any of his series, but there are people here who have read them and have some valid critiques.
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David Farland's Runelords series, now four books strong. An innovative magic system that is basically an extension of the most painful parts of feudalism Posts: 1907 | Registered: Feb 2000
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If you're looking for something a little lighter, there's Barbara Hambly's Darwath Trilogy, that I thought was quite good. It starts with A Time of the Dark.
There's also Brightness Falls from the Air for a bit of SF/Fantasy mix in a one-shot book, by James Tiptree, Jr.
For humor, I'd go with Robert Asprin's Myth books, anything by Tom Holt, Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman, or Lamb: the Gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal by Christopher Moore.
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memory, sorrow, and thorn, by tad williams. I'm gonna second that series. excellent, excellent books.
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