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Eragon - Don't worry, I mean the books!
Surgoshan:
It's not a series; it's a collection of several much smaller series. There are several good standalone books as well. I recommend Small Gods as a good standalone and my personal preference in series is the Night Watch series; Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, and Thud!.
Dimmukane:
Yeah, I do have to say Night Watch is my favorite. Not that I don't like Pratchett's satire, on the contrary, I love it, but I liked it more because of its' serious moments.
I basically don't have time for reading books right now, but I will come back to this thread, because like I said, I haven't read a good fantasy novel by a new author for over a year. Perhaps this should be repurposed as the fantasy books discussion thread instead of Eragon?
Tom:
--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 20 May 2008, 08:41 ---I'm rereading Gaiman's Anansi Boys. Neil Gaiman's made of win.
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I just got my 13yo brother onto that and he is absolutely loving it.
CamusCanDo:
--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 21 May 2008, 18:16 ---It's not a series; it's a collection of several much smaller series. There are several good standalone books as well. I recommend Small Gods as a good standalone and my personal preference in series is the Night Watch series; Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, and Thud!.
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With any series that's set in the same world I consider that to be part of an over all series. I'm really anal about having to start at the beginning of anything and following it all the way through. I was given this link http://www.flickr.com/photos/briantrease/68310110/sizes/o/ quite a while ago (I actually had to look that one up since I couldn't find the one I thougnt I had in my favourites) which has always encouraged me to not completely give up on it.
--- Quote from: Dimmukane on 21 May 2008, 20:58 ---Perhaps this should be repurposed as the fantasy books discussion thread instead of Eragon?
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Eragon - Don't worry, I mean other books!
If you want to take it one step further it could become the speculative fiction thread, that way it includes other genres like horror, science fiction, magic realism, etc...
Surgoshan:
The thing is that you don't have to read the Witch series to get any sense out of the Night Watch series. That's like insisting that you have to read the Foundation Trilogy to make sense of Caves of Steel.
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