Just finished Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8. I also read LotR this year. I am on the waitlist for Red Rising and Mistborn at my local library. Any other book recommendations from the nerds?
fantasy/sci fi book recommendations
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...go to half-priced books and spend $5 on a copy of the first Mistborn book, lol.
Yeah the line for the ebook is really long but I may never financially recover from the DCC books so need to be frugal. I'm reading True Grit right now and rereading the Rangers Apprentice books because I wanted to see if they hold up since I recently found out he wrote like two more series and they definitely do.
I did not finish the George Lucas biography because it felt like a book report and very boring
I did not finish the George Lucas biography because it felt like a book report and very boring
Go ahead and get in line for all of the Mistborn and Stormlight Archive books now. They are all pretty long, so it'll be a while.
Fantasy: Robert Howard's Conan stories are foundational to the sword and sorcery genre; Glen Cook's Black Company books offer a gritty, grunt's eye view of a mercenary company in a fantasy world; Steven Erikson's Malazan series tells a huge story hundreds of thousands of years in the making; Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles are the epitome of YA fantasy while still being a great read for adults; Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels are loosely connected whimsical British fantasy that conceal core messages that pack a surprising punch.
Sci-fi: Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers is a meditation on citizenship wrapped in power armor; Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is a space opera with some hefty philosophical underpinnings; Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn books are James Bond if he was a secret agent wizard serving a galactic theocracy; Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is genius child soldiers training to fight space bugs; and Dan Simmons's Hyperion is…tough to describe.
Sci-fi: Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers is a meditation on citizenship wrapped in power armor; Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is a space opera with some hefty philosophical underpinnings; Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn books are James Bond if he was a secret agent wizard serving a galactic theocracy; Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is genius child soldiers training to fight space bugs; and Dan Simmons's Hyperion is…tough to describe.
Fantasy-
Assassins apprentice series
Ice wind Dale trilogy
Any book written by RA Salvatore containing Drizzt
Robert Jordan's Wheel of time series
The Blade Itself
The Witcher series - GOAT
Sci-Fi-
The Expanse
Old Man's War
Armor by John steakly
Forever War
Battletech: Twilight of the Clans series
Assassins apprentice series
Ice wind Dale trilogy
Any book written by RA Salvatore containing Drizzt
Robert Jordan's Wheel of time series
The Blade Itself
The Witcher series - GOAT
Sci-Fi-
The Expanse
Old Man's War
Armor by John steakly
Forever War
Battletech: Twilight of the Clans series
Vae Victis
Lucifer's Hammer - apocalyptic times after comet hits earth
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Moon - Earth conflict in Heinlein's unique style.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Moon - Earth conflict in Heinlein's unique style.
Read all 14 Wheel of Time books
if you were amazed at how main characters died in Game of Thrones, Jordan has some interesting ways of making main characters meet their end as well.Ozzy Osbourne said:
Read all 14 Wheel of Time books
Ozzy Osbourne said:
Read all 14 Wheel of Time books
Hear hear! I'm on book 7 of a reread of the series right now.
Drundel said:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/185650-expeditionary-force
I highly suggest the audio book version of this series rather than the text version. Amazing voice acting and you don't have to read through numerous typos since the early ones were self-published.
Sun Eater series
Children of Time
Children of Time
BamaAg25 said:
Just finished Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8. I also read LotR this year. I am on the waitlist for Red Rising and Mistborn at my local library. Any other book recommendations from the nerds?
If you like litrpg theres a ton i can recommend.
He who fights with monsters
Noobtown
Primal hunter
Defiance of the Fall
Good Guys / Bad Guys, same world, 2 different protagonists perspectives.
Divine Apostasy
The Completionist Chronicles
Mark of the Fool
Cradle series
Awaken Online
Two week curse
Rise of the Cheat Potion Maker
Stray Cat Strut (some parts not for kids)
The Path of Ascension
Heretical Fishing
Beware of Chicken
Unbound
Somnia Online
The Perfect Run
Magic 2.0
Got plenty more too if you run out lol
I read Stinger by McCammon after enjoying "Teacup" before it was canceled on peacock and hearing it was based on stinger. Really not very alike (the book and the show) but I really enjoyed the both.
Definitely recommend the book.
Definitely recommend the book.
Sword of Truth series
I figured out my local library will transfer books so I think I locked down a copy of mistborn but also added a bunch of these to my to be read and holds at the library
Is Red Rising worth a read? I have heard mixed reviews, but seems very popular.
Artorias said:
Is Red Rising worth a read? I have heard mixed reviews, but seems very popular.
My daughter (HS SR) really liked it and recommended it to me. I read a few chapters but then had to pivot to some other ones that are due back at the library soon, but it was good so far.
Artorias said:
Is Red Rising worth a read? I have heard mixed reviews, but seems very popular.
One of my favorite things I've ever read but take a break after 1-3 if you want a simple happy ending. 4-7 jump ahead 10ish years, have multiple viewpoints that you may not enjoy as much, is much much darker, and also 7 isn't out yet. I didn't love 4 and 5 due to darkness but 6 felt like a really strong Darrow is back book.
I can't imagine someone not being entertained by the books tbh.
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Martha Wells....she's an aggie
Martha Wells....she's an aggie
Madmarttigan said:Artorias said:
Is Red Rising worth a read? I have heard mixed reviews, but seems very popular.
One of my favorite things I've ever read but take a break after 1-3 if you want a simple happy ending. 4-7 jump ahead 10ish years, have multiple viewpoints that you may not enjoy as much, is much much darker, and also 7 isn't out yet. I didn't love 4 and 5 due to darkness but 6 felt like a really strong Darrow is back book.
I can't imagine someone not being entertained by the books tbh.
I know its generally considered the weakest of the series, but i hated the first book. Enough that i really have no desire to continue the series.
Madmarttigan said:Artorias said:
Is Red Rising worth a read? I have heard mixed reviews, but seems very popular.
One of my favorite things I've ever read but take a break after 1-3 if you want a simple happy ending. 4-7 jump ahead 10ish years, have multiple viewpoints that you may not enjoy as much, is much much darker, and also 7 isn't out yet. I didn't love 4 and 5 due to darkness but 6 felt like a really strong Darrow is back book.
I can't imagine someone not being entertained by the books tbh.
Red Rising was good. The followup books were decent but I found them incredibly predictable. And I'm one who hates trying to predict outcomes in movies or books. I much prefer to just live in the moment and be surprised.
Artorias said:
Is Red Rising worth a read? I have heard mixed reviews, but seems very popular.
Man that one is interesting.
I read 1-3 when that was it, it was done... then years later (like 1 year ago) I saw someone reading book 5 and I thought WTF, there is no book 5. So I found out he wrote more and read 4, 5, 6. Man.... so very different and dark.
A co-worker who likes the same type of books refuses to read the new ones, he considered books 1-3 a complete series and done, no need to write anymore.
I predict book 7 is going to be dark, like genocide level dark.
I remembered one more series.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/51166-troy-rising
and another.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/250573-the-burning
I mean there was already genocide numbers on one planet.
Drundel said:Artorias said:
Is Red Rising worth a read? I have heard mixed reviews, but seems very popular.
Man that one is interesting.
I read 1-3 when that was it, it was done... then years later (like 1 year ago) I saw someone reading book 5 and I thought WTF, there is no book 5. So I found out he wrote more and read 4, 5, 6. Man.... so very different and dark.
A co-worker who likes the same type of books refuses to read the new ones, he considered books 1-3 a complete series and done, no need to write anymore.
I predict book 7 is going to be dark, like genocide level dark.
I remembered one more series.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/51166-troy-rising
and another.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/250573-the-burning
One of my all time favorites! Had to try to start 1 several times before getting into it. Same thing happened with 4 one time because it is pretty different. Just did a reread through 4 thinking that 7 was coming out at the end of this year. Stopped when I found out it is going to be next year.
7 is going to be diabolical
Lots of great recommendations in the thread already. But I'd want to know what kind of sci-fi and fantasy intrigues you next. DCC is farce, so maybe you're looking for more serious fare for a change? LotR is classic fantasy of course. Are you wanting the same feel but lighter in tone? David Eddings' Belgariad series is a good fit there. Are you interested in unique magic systems? Mistborn is perfect for that. If you liked Harry Potter's incantation based magic and want more of that with a side of Catholicism, check out the Camber of Culdi series. How do you feel about gods and demons? Bujold's Chalion and Penric series are fantastic. Do you like "soft" or "hard" sci-fi? Stories with BDO (Big Dumb Objects, like Rendezvous With Rama or Ringworld) or economic political conflict (The Dispossessed)? Maybe some theological sci-fi (Stranger in a Strange Land, A Case of Conscience)?BamaAg25 said:
Just finished Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8. I also read LotR this year. I am on the waitlist for Red Rising and Mistborn at my local library. Any other book recommendations from the nerds?
True, but man what he is going to do to Atalantia and Lysander is going to be epic.
Drundel said:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/45262-the-kingkiller-chronicle
That should keep you waiting forever.
FIFY
Lots of good recommendations but I would advise against the Kingkiller Chronicle.
And don't anybody bump that thread!!!!
Man the first one had promise and the second one had me going, what in the self-insert am I reading here?
G Martin 87 said:Lots of great recommendations in the thread already. But I'd want to know what kind of sci-fi and fantasy intrigues you next. DCC is farce, so maybe you're looking for more serious fare for a change? LotR is classic fantasy of course. Are you wanting the same feel but lighter in tone? David Eddings' Belgariad series is a good fit there. Are you interested in unique magic systems? Mistborn is perfect for that. If you liked Harry Potter's incantation based magic and want more of that with a side of Catholicism, check out the Camber of Culdi series. How do you feel about gods and demons? Bujold's Chalion and Penric series are fantastic. Do you like "soft" or "hard" sci-fi? Stories with BDO (Big Dumb Objects, like Rendezvous With Rama or Ringworld) or economic political conflict (The Dispossessed)? Maybe some theological sci-fi (Stranger in a Strange Land, A Case of Conscience)?BamaAg25 said:
Just finished Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8. I also read LotR this year. I am on the waitlist for Red Rising and Mistborn at my local library. Any other book recommendations from the nerds?
Man! An old school fantasy reader like me.
AtlAg05 said:Drundel said:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/45262-the-kingkiller-chronicle
That should keep you waiting forever.
FIFY
Lots of good recommendations but I would advise against the Kingkiller Chronicle.
And don't anybody bump that thread!!!!
Have to put in agreement here. No one should ever recommend starting this series now, knowing Itl never end. It's a pretty ****ty thing to do to someone, and might even deserve a permaban.
Ha, what has Denna done to you guys?
The way I see it, if and when the 3rd one is ever written, I'll most likely forgot everything from book 1 and book 2 and I can listen to them all back to back to back. If not, I'll still have forgotten what's in the 1st and 2nd.
The way I see it, if and when the 3rd one is ever written, I'll most likely forgot everything from book 1 and book 2 and I can listen to them all back to back to back. If not, I'll still have forgotten what's in the 1st and 2nd.
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