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Decent Fantasy series
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Looking for a decent fantasy series. I am in the middle of the Kingkiller Chronicles, like them for being a bit nuanced and having a bit of depth...didn't care for the Wheel of Time, just a pale LotR rip-off.
I try to avoid your cookie-cutter by the numbers orphan-with-hitherto-undiscovered-magical-powers type books
I try to avoid your cookie-cutter by the numbers orphan-with-hitherto-undiscovered-magical-powers type books
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I started that after I read the kingkiller chronicles as well so might have similar tastes
You might like China Mieville then- he deliberately avoids
those kinda "High Fantasy" cliches. His sequence-
"Perdido Street Station", "The Scar" and "Iron Council"
are set in an industrialised fantasy world.
yeah I was looking for that thread too as I have just finished the first law trilogy and was going to comment on it as it was on that thread I saw the recommendation
might be threads get binned if theres no activity for a certain period
No the threads are still there if you go to 'search this forum' at the top right and then just put in 'fantasy'. I did that and the following thread was thrown up:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1837388
Plus this long one from years ago:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=475755
The Watcher's Blade trilogy and the follow up Half Orc's series by David Dalglish is also good but quite light going.
I'm struggling to think of many others without the young hero.
I tend to like most of that.
I would guess you have probably read the Game of Throne's series by George RR Martin. If not they are great but very hard going.
yep and same with the kingkiller chronicles :mad:
If you like fantasy with depth you will love his recent novels.
He is a brilliantly creative wordsmith and I love how his books, the recent ones that I have read, have a philosophical thread running through them that offers insight and wisdom into the most relevant subject matter.