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supersheep:
It's really only book eight of the Wheel of Time that is particularly dull. The rest are rather tasty. And I've only read the first Song of Fire and Ice book, but it is also quite cool.
redbeardjim:
It won't take a hugely long time, but "The Deed of Paksenarrion" by Elizabeth Moon is a great series.
(my personal recommendation for the Wheel of Time is to read up through The Shadow Rising and pretend the series ended there)
Another big fat series is "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" by Tad Williams.
Valrus:
Don't read past the first book of the Sword of Truth series. It's linearly downhill from books two to four, and exponentially downhill after that.
A Song of Ice and Fire (or Fire and Ice, whichever) is pretty much great.
Gridgm:
--- Quote from: Valrus on 06 Nov 2006, 08:29 ---Don't read past the first book of the Sword of Truth series. It's linearly downhill from books two to four, and exponentially downhill after that.
--- End quote ---
i was reading the website for that apparantly he comes up with the wizards rule for each book beofre he writes it...i'm almost as pissed off at him as i was with the matrix at the moment though because he wrote "to be concluded" at the end of the latest one
mberan42:
Yeah, I second The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Depending on how fast you read, it'll take you about 4 months to plow through the 11 books. The 12th (and final) book won't be out for at least 2 years, though, with RJ having that strange disease.
I also second A Song of Fire and Ice by George R. R. Martin. I wasn't a big fan of the 4th book, but GRRM did state that books 4 and 5 are pretty much the same book chopped in half. (I think book 5 will be out sometime next summer / fall.)
You mentioned Eddings - I'm sure you've read The Elenium and The Tamuli, as well as The Belgariad and The Mallorium along with Belgarath the Sorcerer & Polgara the Sorceress. I've also read The Redemption of Althalus, although I like the others much better.
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