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So I am wanting to start a new series of books. Need some recommendations, here is what I am looking for,

Action, can't stand slow books,
Epicness, much like LOTR, Iron Tower Trilolgy, Wheel of TIme.
A few books in the series, like to continue to read about the same characters or at least in the same world.

some books I liked to compare
LOTR
Wheel of Time series
quite a few from Dennis L Mkernian
Dragonlance: Chronicles
ect...

Prince of nothing series by R Scott Bakker. Though philosophically, it's very confronting. He used to play D&D as a teen and describes himself as a world builder. Basically take a cult of monks hidden away for two thousand years after the 'last' apocalypse, breeding themselves for intellect, physical perfection and the merciless pursuit of 'the shortest path', then see just one individual sent out, whose shortest path is taking control of the armies of a holy war to completing his mission, which is finding his father, who left the monks thirty years prior, amongst the heathens and assasinating him. All as the next apocalypse begins and the 'no god' is returning.

I'd second the "Prince of Nothing" series. It's a tough read some times, and there are a lot of characters to keep track of, but it's an amazing story. I've only read the first series (3 books) but there is a followup series being released currently.

I've just finished reading the Song of Ice and Fire books by George R.R. Martin. The series isn't finished, and nobody is sure if or when it will be, but the 4 books that are out now are awesome! If you like political intrigue and don't mind stories where anyone and everyone can die at any time (even main characters), then check these books out. HBO is currently filming the first book for a series starting to air early next year.

interesting.... one thing I hated about Wheel of Time was the super boring parts that lasted forever. It took FOREVER for one of the books to get good, but when it did it was great. I like books with start to finish action...

I really like the books written by author Patricia Briggs.

Two books that I really enjoyed were Dragon Bones and the second book in the series Dragon Blood. Check out the reviews these are really interesting books.

Another good series from her is Raven's Shadow and Raven's Strike. I also read Hob's Bargain which was also pretty good. Her books are fast paced and she creates very interesting characters.

She has other books that may be good too. I just mainly stick to the sword and sorcery fantasy style books so I haven't read the other books that she has written.

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thanks will check them out, I noticed allot of her books are about werewolves and vampires.

On a side not I hate all vampire and werewolf books. I have yet to find a single author that portrays them properly. They are always making them too mushy or too goth. Drives me nuts!

Best epic fantasy series ever is A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin. Brutal, sexy, epic... and recently picked up by HBO. GRRM isn't afraid to do bad things to good people, and every character, whether "good" or "evil", is fair game to have horrible things done to them.

First book is A Game of Thrones... it starts off slightly slow, establishing setting and characters, but it's worth the wait.

Best overall fantasy though, has to go to the man who created the sword and sorcery genre, Robert E. Howard. Go read some Conan yarns for some quick action and great story telling. Get chills every time when I read the opening of Tower of the Elephant:

"Torches flared murkily on the revels in the Maul, where the thieves of the east held carnival by night. In the Maul they could carouse and roar as they liked, for honest people shunned the quarters, and watchmen, well paid with stained coins, did not interfere with their sport. Along the crooked, unpaved streets with their heaps of refuse and sloppy puddles, drunken roisterers staggered, roaring. Steel glinted in the shadows where wolf preyed on wolf, and from the darkness rose the shrill laughter of women, and the sounds of scufflings and strugglings. Torchlight licked luridly from broken windows and wide-thrown doors, and out of those doors, stale smells of wine and rank sweaty bodies, clamor of drinking-jacks and fists hammered on rough tables, snatches of obscene songs, rushed like a blow in the face.

In one of these dens merriment thundered to the low smoke-stained roof, where rascals gathered in every stage of rags and tatters – furtive cutpurses, leering kidnappers, quick-fingered thieves, swaggering bravoes with their wenches, strident-voiced women clad in tawdry finery. Native rogues were the dominant element – dark-skinned, dark-eyed Zamorians, with daggers at their girdles and guile in their hearts. But there were wolves of half a dozen outland nations there as well. There was a giant Hyperborean renegade, taciturn, dangerous, with a broadsword strapped to his great gaunt frame – for men wore steel openly in the Maul."

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Read Discworld

awesome list everyone, I am going to try either Discworld book 1, or Wizard's First rule. Have heard great things about both sets.

Halls I've got the perfect series for you then. Its epic like LOTR and very very good! Its the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. The first book in the series is called Wizard's First Rule. There are 11 books in the series, along with a prequel book called Debt of Bones. I highly recommend this series if your looking for something good to read/review.


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