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Old 07-28-2016, 10:53 AM
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Name of the wind, heroes die, mistborn, steelheart are all first books in good series

Lies of locke lamora wasnt bad, but book 2 and 3 got boring for me. Cant think of any others atm but high fantasy is in a pretty shitty place with tons of bad authors besides a handful of them

E didnt see kingkiller chronicle in op
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Old 07-28-2016, 11:01 AM
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Has anyone read the Dark Tower series by Stephen King?
I have read the Dark Tower Series, and it is pretty awesome. The ending certainly surprised me, but I thought it fit. A lot of memorable scenes and plots. My friends who have read the series make references to it all the time. They are even coming out with some kind of movie and/or tv series about it in the near future.

I would recommend the Gotrek and Felix series from Warhammer Fantasy. It is more a of wizards and dragons type of series. A human swears an oath to a dwarf slayer to chronicle his adventures until he meets his doom. The dwarf turns out to be nigh unkillable, and kills a lot of cool things along the way.

Horus Heresy books from Warhammer 40k are awesome as well. Super elite post human warriors being commanded by even more elite demi-god creations start to conquer the galaxy in the name of human kind. Then they turn on each other and set the galaxy on fire.
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Old 07-28-2016, 11:55 AM
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The Talisman by Stephen King sounds like it might be up your alley, it's a departure from his typical horror books and closer to a fantasy novel (but not really). One of my top 3 favorite books.
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Old 07-28-2016, 12:31 PM
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Hmm for something sword and sorcery like I would recommend the Elric Saga. Basically a drug addicted (keeps him alive) elf with a sword that drinks souls and shit. They are short books but a pretty decent little series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric_of_Melnibon%C3%A9

The Farseer Trilogy is pretty decent. Its medieval but not all that high fantasy but basically centers around a character who is being apprenticed as a royal assassin. There is more going on but thats the basics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farseer_Trilogy

If you want something different with a fantasy bent I would recommend the Dresden series of books the show the Dresden Files was based on. Modern setting but dude is a detective/magician wizard what have you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dresden_Files


If you want some non fantasy recommendations I would go cyberpunk with the Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson starting with Neuromancer or you could give Neal Stephensons Snow Crash a read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprawl_trilogy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
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Old 07-28-2016, 01:08 PM
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Sorry last book i read was Lord of the Flies back in 10th grade 17 years ago and all my wife reads is those what i like to call "girl porn" books. You know like Fabio books but with bikers or shit like that lol.
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Old 07-28-2016, 01:11 PM
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Sorry last book i read was Lord of the Flies back in 10th grade 17 years ago and all my wife reads is those what i like to call "girl porn" books. You know like Fabio books but with bikers or shit like that lol.

Legitimately LoL'd on that one.
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Old 07-28-2016, 01:54 PM
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Old 07-28-2016, 02:03 PM
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Swore off non-fiction after college... Only thing I would be interested in is maybe something about outer-space, and even then I don't really want to read about physics and math... Plus TV is a better medium for that type of thing.

Real life is better in documentary form IMO
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Old 07-28-2016, 02:04 PM
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Sword of Truth series from Terry Goodkind was pretty good.
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Old 07-28-2016, 02:06 PM
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Swore off non-fiction after college... Only thing I would be interested in is maybe something about outer-space, and even then I don't really want to read about physics and math... Plus TV is a better medium for that type of thing.

Real life is better in documentary form IMO
You could try the warhammer 40k books or even Shadowrun. Combines sci-fi and fantasy.
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