Yes, I've heard of Lions of Al-Rassan. I spent a couple months in southern France, Spain and Portugal back in 2010, and became interested in the Islamic influence in the south (Cadiz was so cool). Thanks for the recommendation!
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Two of my favourite books:
+The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
+Fevre Dream - George R. R. Martin
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Good suggestions! I've heard of Fevre Dream, I'll have to look into it further.
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Yup, I was talking to my brother a couple of days ago about Armada and he told me he thought Ready Player One was better. For some reason the description reminded me of Sword Art Online (not sure why). Thanks!
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For something completely off the wall try Captain Jack Zodiac by Michael Kandel. It is an oddly structured book following multiple characters and stories in post WWIII America, in an insane sci-fi (ish) world. You can get it for cheap online and I recommend it to anyone I can. I randomly picked it up at a used book store ages ago after reading the back cover, and since then have bought 3-4 copies after loaning it out/giving it away multiple times. Here is the LA Times review from it, back when it came out in 1992.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-04-12/books/bk-13_1_captain-jack-zodiac-by-michael-kandel
Terry Brooks is one of my favorite authors and he has some great series. Shannara is his main series and the original trilogy is well worth a read (Sword, Elfstones, Wishsong). Here is a read order list for that series.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/99160-shannara---terry-s-suggested-order-for-new-readers
It has the Running with the Demon series in there but that could be read as a separate trilogy (imo).
Not listed in that link is his Magic Kingdom For Sale series, which is really good. It is about a widowed lawyer who purchases a magic kingdom in a specialty catalog and goes there to escape his life. It is better than it sounds.
I am a huge DragonLance fan so the original Chronicles trilogy is where you would start with that massive series. After that there are prequels for every major character, many of which are amazing stories that make the original trilogy better as you read them. If you get going on them and like the series then there are dozens (hundreds?) of books in that world.
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Haha, I totally forgot about Magic Kingdom for Sale. I quite enjoyed that one. :) I did read most of the Shannara series, although to be honest, most of the details escape me at this point.
I like the sound of Captain Jack Zodiac! I'll add it to the list, thank you!
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From your list of recents you seem to be a patient reader. Last spring I read "Anathem," by Neal Stephenson, and although it was mighty slow going in spots - it's a big enough book that it has the leisure of setting the scene for a couple of hundred pages before it ambles around presently to the plot - once the foundation-building is done, the results are spectacular. A truly remarkable book that rewards attention.
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I've read a few books by Neal Stephenson, he writes some pretty cool sc-if/techy stuff. I'll look into Anathem(I love a good slow build). Thanks a lot!
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I agree - and the detail of the philosophical stuff is amazing. I keep wanting to use Diax's Rake in conversation! (Diax's Rake: "Never believe a thing simply because you want it to be true.") The only regret I have is that so much of the detail slipped away so quickly. There is something very perfect about his formulation of the Hylaean Theoric World (pun both accidental and intentional).
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Yes, oh hell yes. That is a great series! Frank Herbert is awesome.
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Fables - The comic that inspired The Wolf Among Us.
Eden: It's an Endless World - Post-apocaliptic sci-fi manga based on Gnostic mythology.
Courtney and Ancient Egypt's series by Wilbur Smith if you want something slightly similar to A Song of Ice and Fire but set in the real world.
The Culture series by Iain M. Banks - A sci-fi series about a post-scarcity, utopian, anarchist society.
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I've heard of Fables previously, sounds pretty cool. Haven't heard of the rest, but they all sound worthy of consideration. Thank you very much!
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If you like comics. give it a shot, it's a great series and the first arcs have kind of different genres.
Also ones I hear are good:
Monstress
Birthright (it's pretty sweet)
Rat Queens
Saga
I just started reading a series called Dwarves where each volume is a different story. it's quite good and there are some for Elves as well.
There's also Dungeons and Dragons, Skullkickers, etc.
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Dune (Frank Herbert)
The Mortality Doctrine series (James Dashner)
Lord of the Rings trilogy
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Good Omens - Terry Pretchett and Neil Gaiman, amazing book.
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I would recommend the following graphic novels from DC comics.
The Book of Magic
Fables
Kingdom Come
Starman (1994)
Hitman
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Greetings! I recently finished Ernest Cline's Armada and it reminded me of how much I love reading. When I was much younger I would tear through multiple books in a week. Now I'm lucky if I finish a couple books a year.
I'm heading on a 5 month vacation in January, so I thought it may be a good time to pick up some decent reads and load up my Kobo Aura. I'm looking for recommendations of your must read/favorite novels/short stories/manga/graphic novels, etc.
A quick round up of some of my favorite books that I've read (in no particular order):
Ender's Game
A Song of Ice and Fire
Tigana
Oryx and Crake
Preacher
LOTR
Maus
Day of the Triffids
Alas Babylon
The Sandman
The Watchmen
Dune
Thank you kindly for your help and here's a little train (closed for now!)for your troubles.
I'll add some flash giveaways randomly over the next few days as I'm able to:
Thanks for the quick responses. I already have some great suggestions! Flash Gib #1 <-over (I'll add some more tomorrow!)
Flash Gib #2 - LV3 <-over!
Flash Gib #3 -LV3 <-over!
Flash Gib #4 - LV4 <- A shadowy gib! (Closed)
*Edit 2 -> Thank you everyone for the amazing suggestions! It's going to take me some time to follow up and make a master list, but I definitely will. I really appreciate the time everyone took so far. I'll add some more gibs as soon as I'm able, as a token of my appreciation.
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