I recently finished The Hobbit, and now a few chapters into The Lord of the Rings, after having only read Fellowship when I was around 11 or 12. I'm really amazed at the jump from more a children's novel (a really good and deep one, mind you) to a big boy fantasy story. Also, Tolkien really packs a punch into every sentence.

I was thinking of going into The Prince of Nothing series or the Malazan Book of the Fallen novels and was wondering if any of you into fantasy have heard of them...