nikkodemus
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Please, for the love of fiction, can somebody please recommend a good fantasy series (preferably) or single novel even. I have 2 weeks of holidays and need something to hold me until... Now, I've already read the Song of Ice and Fire, and Name of the Wind, I have Wheel of Time and Malazan, but really am thinking twice about them, because they don't start very well. If by page 50 or two chapters in the book is drawling with no sign of imminent development, that's where i leave off.
Please, something gripping - captivating - with a 'best-book-I-ever-read' feeling. Nothing ancient and sleep-inducing like LOTR/Dune. I don't mind the Sci-Fi, if it's not too Sci. Nothing for children(twilight), please, like HP or Percy J or Earthsea... No romance (sword of truth - richard-kahlan)
Doesn't have to be very long. Doesn't have to be epic fantasy. Modern fantasy is good, if it's good. With some comedy, doesn't have to be funny ha-ha, sarcastic funny or ironic funny is good too. Some politcal intrigue is nice, (still nothing like Dune where I feel like I'm memorizing a constitution of intergalactic relations), elves are always good, no dwarfs/gnome/goblins as main protagonist.
Some violence... gore...so on is good but not cumposlory... I should probably give a list of things i've tried...
GRRM; Rothfuss; Mistborn; Runelords; Gunslinger; tithe; Anne Rice before she went religious/blasphemous; wilbur smith; the briar king thing...sword of red ice or the books about the different colour ice with Rafe; coldfire...
Near the bottom line - anything approaching song of ice and fire goodness to hold over till when? 25/12/2012? Please!
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!! Help Me!! Not twilight! And not Vampire diaries neither!
Please, something gripping - captivating - with a 'best-book-I-ever-read' feeling. Nothing ancient and sleep-inducing like LOTR/Dune. I don't mind the Sci-Fi, if it's not too Sci. Nothing for children(twilight), please, like HP or Percy J or Earthsea... No romance (sword of truth - richard-kahlan)
Doesn't have to be very long. Doesn't have to be epic fantasy. Modern fantasy is good, if it's good. With some comedy, doesn't have to be funny ha-ha, sarcastic funny or ironic funny is good too. Some politcal intrigue is nice, (still nothing like Dune where I feel like I'm memorizing a constitution of intergalactic relations), elves are always good, no dwarfs/gnome/goblins as main protagonist.
Some violence... gore...so on is good but not cumposlory... I should probably give a list of things i've tried...
GRRM; Rothfuss; Mistborn; Runelords; Gunslinger; tithe; Anne Rice before she went religious/blasphemous; wilbur smith; the briar king thing...sword of red ice or the books about the different colour ice with Rafe; coldfire...
Near the bottom line - anything approaching song of ice and fire goodness to hold over till when? 25/12/2012? Please!
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!! Help Me!! Not twilight! And not Vampire diaries neither!