Need a Book

[Gizmo1990]

I resently lost my job (cutbacks), and due to the economy being more screwed than a ice cream van that has broken down outside a fat camp I am having difficulty getting a new one. As such I have played every game, watched every movie and read evry book I own, and as I love reading and thanks to Amazon it is the cheaper of those three things I could use some suggestions.

All suggestions are welcome but I prefer fantasy. My favorite series include The Dresden Files, Codexd Alera, The Night Angel Trillogy, the Nightside series, the Secret Histories series and The Lord of the Rings.

And please no A Songs of Ice and Fire suggestions. I really tried but I got half way into A Game of Thrones but I hated all the characters and found it to be really boring.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Try the First Law series by Joe Abercrombie. Its awesome yet brutal at the same time. Don't get attached to anyone. You have to be realistic about these things.

 

[Aris Khandr]

Try the Myth series, by Robert Asprin. And if you haven't read it yet, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Myth is fantasy, HHGttG is sci-fi, but both are light-hearted and humorous, which is something that helps when getting your fifth rejection this week.

 

[A Satanic Panda]

"You know if you wanted to kill all of mankind your free time, you couldn't do better than Andromeda."

Andromeda Strain. It was pretty interesting.

 

[RenatoLF]

Ever read The Dark Tower, from Stephen King? Is totally different from his other books, and a fantasy story.

It's... kinda complicated to explain about what it is, but it envolves a gunslinger that's trying to reach the tower that is the center of all the universes.

Some love it, some hate it (mainly because is 7 books long), but I think is worth trying.

 

[Athol]

Anything Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchet is a good bet.

 

[Quaxar]

Soooo... Discworld? Huge supply for relatively easy money per book and a quality that is beyond this realm. And also, it was written by a person who owns his very own sword smelted from a meteorite; not directly related to the books but certainly neat to throw in there.

And you could try looking into Sergej Lukianenko, who is a Russian sci-fi writer and has a tendency to have very Russian-y main characters and somehow a lot of his lesser-known stories tend to have a very similar plot change but you could try Knights of Forty islands which is about 40 groups of kids and teens on 40 islands fighting each other for I-forgot-why.
Or, my main suggestion, <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_%28Russian_novel%29>Night Watch and the other following books, which are a brilliant fantasy story with good vs. evil but in a Soviet Russian setting.

 

[Sigma Castell]

Peter F Hamilton is a pretty solid author to go for if you like sci-fi. Gaiman, Pratchett, also good. Chine Meiville is someone you definatly want to read, if you can handle the grimness.

(On a side note, anyone know how the Don't Read This thread managed to post the Red Button?)

 

[SomeLameStuff]

The Wheel of Time will probably take your time away, considering it has 13 books currently out.

Also, Brandon Sanderson's books, such as Elantris, Way of Kings, Warbreaker and the Mistborn series. All are brilliant.

The Painted Man/The Warded Man (depending on where the book is sold) by Peter V. Brett is also a good pickup, as is the sequel Desert Spear.

 

[twistedmic]

I would be remiss if I didn't suggest the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Ten books in the main series (the shortest book being four to five hundred pages long) and a handful of side-story novels that I have yet to read.
And the Safehold series is pretty good so far (I've read two of the six) with an interesting mix of Science fiction and Fantasy.

 

[mitchell271]

[HEADING=2]Mogworld![/HEADING] I know it's kind of a plug considering this the escapist but it's a genuinely good book. I do recommend the audiobook over the original print edition just because Yahtzee does decent voices and he's a good narrator.

The Seeker of Truth series is also quite good up until the 7th book, then they start to get shitty.