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  • #32
    nesf
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    Taltos wrote: »
    Mmm - new 10 book series - might try it out, as above liked his Mistborn, but lost a bit of faith in his WoT wrap up. Might be too much airport popcorn for nesf though ;)

    Indeed, only serious fantasy from the likes of Feist and Gemmel are acceptable here.


    With Sanderson though, I'm not sure any second book of a series disappointed me more than the second in the Mistborn series. I enjoyed the first one quite a lot but the second killed it for me. A Night's Dawn trilogy discussed above is a fairly close second though. :P


  • #33
    Thargor
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    Is that the one with the currency bubble things that you need to recharge?
    Do you mean the characters having to consume and burn metals in his Mistborn series?

    Cant wait to read Way of Kings and Radiance now, everyone that reads it is raving about it, although I found Mistborn a bit meh to be honest, only slightly higher quality than the usual dross, seemed to be a lot of repetition aswell, especially in the characters inner monologues.


  • #34
    Thargor
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    Also what are the problems with Nights Dawn? Must reread it sometime, too many characters?


  • #35
    Thargor
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    Triple post!

    Do the stormlight Archive books stand on their own or should I leave it until the series is finished?


  • #36
    hidinginthebush
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    Is that the one with the currency bubble things that you need to recharge?

    the concepts he comes up with are unreal. there was another one that was about colours as well...

    It's the one with the bridge crews and lads who can walk on walls. Absolutely brilliant!


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  • #37
    hidinginthebush
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    Thargor wrote: »
    Triple post!

    Do the stormlight Archive books stand on their own or should I leave it until the series is finished?

    They stand in their own in the sense that they don't end on big cliffhangers, but read them in order. The good thing about Sanderson is that he can throw them out with relative frequency. We won't be seeing a song of ice and fire treatment here.


  • #38
    ExcaliburRisen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭ExcaliburRisen


    OP - For military Sci Fi I highly recommend the Lost Fleet series by John G. Hemry (under pen name Jack Campbell).
    6 books in the original series and currently 4 in the follow on Beyond the Frontier series.


  • #39
    Brianna Embarrassed Second
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    Thargor wrote: »
    Do you mean the characters having to consume and burn metals in his Mistborn series?

    Cant wait to read Way of Kings and Radiance now, everyone that reads it is raving about it, although I found Mistborn a bit meh to be honest, only slightly higher quality than the usual dross, seemed to be a lot of repetition aswell, especially in the characters inner monologues.

    No mistborn was okay but not his best by a long shot. He has a whole new magic system set up in another series, it might be way of kings.
    I highly recommend the colour system one
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warbreaker

    and this is the one with the currency bubbles stuff
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_of_Kings


    recommend these very much


  • #40
    Brianna Embarrassed Second
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    oh my god nights dawn is amazing too. absolutely at the top of my favourite books/trilogies ever


  • #41
    nesf
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    Thargor wrote: »
    Also what are the problems with Nights Dawn? Must reread it sometime, too many characters?

    You'd have to read them. A lot of good and bad mixed in together, some things will probably really grate on you whilst you really enjoy other parts of his writing. Very annoying! :P


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  • #42
    nesf
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    oh my god nights dawn is amazing too. absolutely at the top of my favourite books/trilogies ever

    Mao or similar would have been more interesting than Capone. ;)


  • #43
    Brianna Embarrassed Second
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    nesf wrote: »
    Mao or similar would have been more interesting than Capone. ;)

    We're not friends anymore, nesf
    :pac:


  • #44
    nesf
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    We're not friends anymore, nesf
    :pac:

    Sorry, Rand would have been more interesting. Is that better? :)


  • #45
    Thargor
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    ExcaliburRisen wrote: »
    OP - For military Sci Fi I highly recommend the Lost Fleet series by John G. Hemry (under pen name Jack Campbell).
    6 books in the original series and currently 4 in the follow on Beyond the Frontier series.
    Holy crap thanks for this, how have I never heard of this series? This is my absolute favourite kind of sci-fi and I was just thinking the other day that nobody seems to write this kind of stuff anymore.


  • #46
    Nody
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    ExcaliburRisen wrote: »
    OP - For military Sci Fi I highly recommend the Lost Fleet series by John G. Hemry (under pen name Jack Campbell).
    6 books in the original series and currently 4 in the follow on Beyond the Frontier series.
    I hate you; now I've got another 6 books to read in my ever growing pile of "this stuff sounds good so lets buy it and read it one day" :P


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