Really good books

Okay, I've been reading too much ASoIaF by G.R.R.Martin and Nick Perumov books etcetera. So now I can't read any decent books without dropping them.

Can you recommend me some really good books?  Preferably not too cliché.

If not, I might really have to resort to reading R.A.Salvatores Road of the Patriarch.

I reallly liked ASoIaF, but I don't understand why people thinked no one else compares after reading him.

Anyway, The Last Unicorn is some really awesome fantasy.

The Last Unicorn.

Robert Jordan's (r.i.p. ;A;) The Wheel of Time series.

>>1

Well, if you like Forgotten Realms novels and haven't read the Erevis Cale trilogy, you may wany to give that a go. It's surprisingly good.

Also, if you want something that compares well to ASoIaF, check out the Malazan books by Steven Erikson.

That's it? Well I guess it's a start.

>>2
>I reallly liked ASoIaF, but I don't understand why people thinked no one else compares after reading him.

It's not really that, but I've grown tired of all the cliché stuff  that is present in most Fantasy.

>>5
>Well, if you like Forgotten Realms novels and haven't read the Erevis Cale trilogy, you may wany to give that a go. It's surprisingly good.

Not really that much of a FR fan, but I'll give it a go.

>Also, if you want something that compares well to ASoIaF, check out the Malazan books by Steven Erikson.

I'll do that.

For some reason, I loved ASoIaF but HATE Erikson.

Even if you have an allergy to epic fantasy, I'd suggest Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy, because it's really, really good.

Joe Abercrombie's debut books were a very pleasant surprise.

Glen Cook writes tight, gritty fantasy. I'd personally suggest the first three Black Company books and Tower of Fear. Well, maybe Swordbearer too, which was a nice soul-eating sword story, though the ending was lacking.

Donaldson's Covenant series and the Gap sequence.

Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond series.

Eric Eddison's the Worm Ouroboros.

Of course Howard's and Leiber's sword and sorcery stories.

Barry Hughart's Master Li books and Ernest Bramah's Kai Lung books.

J.V. Jones has finally got back on track with her sword of shadows series, so you might want to check on that. I also enjoyed her Book of Words trilogy but there's a surprising (to me) amount of people who didn't so I wouldn't know

Paul Kearney's Monarchies of God, Guy Gavriel Kay's Sarantine, Arbonne & Lions.

Julian May's Saga of the Exiles

John Myers Myers's Silverlock

Christopher Priest, I've only read the Prestige but I've heard his other work is excellent too.

Tim Powers's Anubis Gates

Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, Latro books

Roger Zelazny's first five Amber books, Lord of Light, Jack of Shadows

Practically anything by Jack Vance, though I admit I've only read Demon Princes, Suldrun's Garden and the Cugel stories, but they were all fantastic to various degrees.

Incidentally, everything is SFF except for Dunnett who writes historical fiction. The list was supposed to be tighter but there were a lot of names that occurred to me, so I opted for the middle road. I guess you can sort out what interests you anyway.

>>6
so, so true .. I wish I wasn't so jaded already. By now 95% of all sf/f books piss me off just after reading the back cover, because it's either the same shit I read 50 times already or is of the happy flower wonderland fantasy style for kids.

Try some Abercrombie like that ^ anon said, though, it's very good and has a "fresh" feel to it (Glen Cooks Black Company is fine too). Also, The Name Of The Wind by Rothfuss (it is clichéd but the quality made up for it for me) and the Locke Lamora stuff by Scott Lynch. Furthermore, try David Gemmell, Steven Brust, Matthew Woodring Stover.

About Bakker ... be careful with those, buy only the first at once tbh. It's either love or hate with them, no middle ground. If you need likable characters to enjoy a story, you'll feel like burning it. They're fine books nevertheless, but for me they just didn't work, after only half of the first book I was hoping everyone would die a slow, agonizing death.

Oh, also, Erikson. (it's made of win, srsly.)

The Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe)
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (Stephen Donaldson)
The Death Gate (Weiss/Hickman)
The Rose of the Prophet (Weiss/Hickman)
Lyonesse (Jack Vance)

>>9
Well, there's that. PoN has excellent characterization but if you like to read about characters you'd maybe like to take a pint with, then no. They're bastards the whole lot of 'em. Personally I couldn't get without my sociopathic messiah figure and the psychopathic rapist barbarian. The most violent of men fuck yeah.

Oh, and the world's a complete shit hole too.

I've heasrd some good stuff about "Magician" by Raymond E. Feist, are they true?

How are the books by Brandon Sanderson?

The Sword of Truth Saga by Terry Goodkind is pretty awesome for the first 5-6 books. Lost interest after that. But deff the first 4 are amazing.

The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss, is a good new one too.

>>14
I like Goodkind, but just the same, don flame protection.

I agree about Name of the Wind too, that was great.

>>13
I've only read the first Mistborn, it was decent. Nothing especially great like Abercrombie or Rothfuss, but worth a read if you're out of books.

The Great Gatsby.

Wait, did I say Gatsby? I meant Gor.

You may also like Dragonlance books, because they have dragons =)