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Burkingam:
The black company.
The dark fantastic story of a mercenary company.
Best series ever!
Nikkoru:
--- Quote from: Burkingam on April 02, 2011, 11:04:13 PM ---The black company.
The dark fantastic story of a mercenary company.
Best series ever!
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You might like Chris Evan's Iron Elves books, I found them to be somewhat similar in style. Evans goes slightly more towards Robert Jordan in his style though. Evan's uses a Tolkien themed world, if it were dipped into reality during the historic height of the British Empire. The protagonist is one of my favourite characters, and is really reason enough to enjoy the book.
I'll also make a recommendation for The Magicians, Lev Grossman. It uses a number of popular fantasy tropes (namely C.S. Lewis and J.K Rowling) in what turns out to be a rather non-miraculous college-based, coming of age experience, despite all the trappings. You won't have an experience like Harry Potter or The Chronicles of Narnia with it, but rather something with more depth and greyness with part of the familiarity of those two literary worlds.
It had a resonance with me, it reflexively uses fantasy as a means of exploring the life of someone obsessed with fantasy when that fantasy world comes true, and is forced to deal with it as reality. If that makes any sense.
Gangster301:
--- Quote from: cursedpunk on December 18, 2008, 10:58:50 AM ---2.animal farm by george orwell funny and intelligent
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Gotta agree with cursedpunk, Animal Farm is an great, short book, which has a political history behind it.
Just like most of George Orwell's books it's a very politically inspired book, made to show the negative sides of commmunism. Which is funny, since George Orwell was a socialist.
On the mere story side, it's about a farm where the animals take over and try to run the farm without the humans.
Ixarku:
--- Quote from: Burkingam on April 02, 2011, 11:04:13 PM ---The black company.
The dark fantastic story of a mercenary company.
Best series ever!
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I'm probably going to read The Black Company next, after I finish book 10 of the Malazan. I picked up all of the BC omnibuses (omnibi??) on Amazon a month ago or so.
sspayne:
Robert Jordan -~-~-The Wheel of Time-~-~- is the most boring drawn out book series I've ever tried to read. And I love the Lord of the rings books.
Try reading
Cell Stephen King
Man With the Golden Torc Simon R Green
The Strain DelTorro
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