New books please!
Has anyone got any recommendations in terms of books I could read to entertain me whilst I'm on the tube? I'm a huge fan of the Wheel of Time as has previously been mentioned, though obviously it's hard to know what books are in the same vein from reading the blurb on the back.
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The Time Master Trilogy (The Initiate, The Outcast, The Master) by Louise Cooper if you can find it. Great books. I'm not very good with summaries, but I'll say it is basically a battle between the forces of Good and Evil. But the lines are kind of blurred and hard to see.
Runelords by David Farland is also a good series. The Sum of All Men, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Wizardborn and Throne of Bone is the first series of books. Those should be easier to find and they provide a longer read (each book is roughly two times the size of Time Master)
Um. The Highwayman by R.A. Salvatore is a great and enjoyable read. Pretty quick too, despite being a fairly decent length of pages. I recommend anything by Salvatore though.
I'm spent. I'll come up with a few more later. :P
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind, and the books that follow in the series.If you like WoT, you might just as well like this! Stuff by a guy called George R. R. Martin, the Shannara series by a guy called Terry...Brooks? (I'm not sure about this!)
The "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Phillip Pullman.
Also, Watership Down, and anything by Dostoyevsky (if you're feeling adventurous).
"Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak
George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, Stephen King's Dark Tower, or maybe The Lord of the Rings? Just the first fantasy suggestions that come to mind.
I demand you read the Rangers Apprentice and Bartimaeus Trilogy!
The Eragon books (2 out of three out so far) and the on-going "Wheel of Time" series are awesome reads, in my opinion
EDIT: Be warned though, the WoT series is in its 12th book at the moment and still going, plus the author has out a prequel and some other things I believe. The books are over 1,000 pages long the farther in the series you get*still on book #9*
It took me the better part of a year to read up to book nine on and off just to put it into perspective. It is a very good read however, I especially like the fact that it's about people first and the world second. There's a lot of deep description of people's thoughts. What's sad is that the author has a really terrible disease and may not personally finish the series off.Originally Posted by ~*~Celes~*~
EDIT: Be warned though, the WoT series is in its 12th book at the moment and still going, plus the author has out a prequel and some other things I believe. The books are over 1,000 pages long the farther in the series you get
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I still stand by this:
"On The Road" by Jack Kerouac
No book I have ever read has made such a profound impact on my life and from the feedback I've gotten from friends who read it on my recommendation, it's not just me.
Take care all.
Now, if it's fantasy/adventure you're looking for...
Artemis Fowl series
Five books in the series so far, and Eoin Colfer still can keep all of the characters with their personalities intact. It can be a serious do-or-die situation one second, then some sarcasm from Artemis, Foaly, or Mulch the next.
Redwall Series
Come on, it's Redwall!
Silverwing Sequence
Now, if you're a fan of the above series, you'll like this one. The book flows at just the right speed all the time, going fast and heart-pounding enough during action or suspenseful sequences, while flowing slowly the next.
It took me the better part of a year to read up to book nine on and off just to put it into perspective. It is a very good read however, I especially like the fact that it's about people first and the world second. There's a lot of deep description of people's thoughts. What's sad is that the author has a really terrible disease and may not personally finish the series off.EDIT: Be warned though, the WoT series is in its 12th book at the moment and still going, plus the author has out a prequel and some other things I believe. The books are over 1,000 pages long the farther in the series you getNo way! He can't die!
He has to make a movie out of his series...
The Sword of Truth series is in the same vein as WoT, and the first book is simply stunning. In my opinion that first book, Wizard's First Rule, is much better than most of WoT. However, as the series progresses the author, Terry Goodkind, starts to lose his descriptive, invigorating style. If you're prepared for the series to deteriorate somewhat like the WoT series eventually does, try the series.
At least read the first book, it's amazingly good.
I heard that he has a disease recently. If the series ended now due to his death, with this level of endless build-up, it would be terribly tragic and ironic.It took me the better part of a year to read up to book nine on and off just to put it into perspective. It is a very good read however, I especially like the fact that it's about people first and the world second. There's a lot of deep description of people's thoughts. What's sad is that the author has a really terrible disease and may not personally finish the series off.EDIT: Be warned though, the WoT series is in its 12th book at the moment and still going, plus the author has out a prequel and some other things I believe. The books are over 1,000 pages long the farther in the series you get
Anyway, if you like character interaction and inner dialogues like you said, you'll love the Sword of Truth series. I found Robert Jordan's characters to be very generic and akin to cardboard cut-outs, but Terry Goodkind's are much more fleshed out and layered; very realistic.
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Short Read:
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Long Read:
1984 (George Orwell)
Kaycee says (12:06 AM):
whos' obama?
yeah goodkind is good reading, but as his sword of truth series went on, i feel he shifted more and more internally into the characters and out of the world. not to say it wasn't a good series so far (i don't plan on reading phantom) but it just changed from the first book i picked up and fell into so easily.
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