@Silver Snake the first three trillogy seem to be twice as long(word count wise) as the second and generally better and all encompassing story. The second trilogy is disapointing but still decent to good, although i have to say i like a lot more characters in it.
I was 2/3 of the way through Six of Crows and dropped it. It's a great book, but it's mostly a romance and heist story, not counting flashbacks which are amazing, making the characters truly well-defined.
Name of the wind is next on my list. It's fair to drop a book after 66%, right?
And here I am still waiting for the 3rd book <.<
Its a great series but the first is certainly the stronger of the two even thought they're both amazing.
I truly don't know. I don't think I've read enough. I know what I don't like, though. I dropped Assassin's Apprentice 2/3 of the way through too. I'm not sure what I didn't like about it, but I didn't like it. It think it was the disappointing magic that only allowed force pushing and telepathy.
Yeah, the Farseer Trilogy is okay, and a bit slow for my tastes. It doesn't have the epic fantasy page-turning excitement of some other series. Out of Robin Hobb works, I prefer the Liveship Traders trilogy purely because of how good the third book in the trilogy was.
I was fine with the pacing. Once you read a 1,000 page book, 500 page books feel like 200 page books. It's weird. I'm still not sure what I disliked about that book specifically. I think the only thing I was interested in in the story was the romance, and the romance was pretty sparsely spread. I think that's why I dropped it.
Anything good. But for sci-fi/fantasy, I like Brent Weeks' stuff, Stormlight Archive, Codex Alera, Mistborn, the Broken Earth trilogy, Ender's Game, and Red Rising.
The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks is mindblowingly good. It's like Brandon Sanderson stuff, but slightly more mature and gritty. The plot twists are insane. The romance is solid. The magic system is cool as hell, and the last book of the series is coming out this fall.
I know the answer is why not read them all but I'm impatient and think it's possible to read the best first, although my experience well probably be different since enjoyment is heavily dependent on taste. Idk, I just want some order in the madness of this world
One series: Not sure... Hmm. I'm hesitant to recommend incomplete series because a bad ending could ruin the whole series (like in Game of Thrones). I think Codex Alera is a really solid fantasy series in general.
One book: The Stand
I don't really have a series. I get bored of them around the third book. Too formulaic for me. Or I get bored of the writer's style and want something new.
You see, I wouldn't call it a horror book. Sure, a lot of people die at the start, but after that it's story about a group of strangers coming together to defeat the man in black. I loved the premise and the characters.
Oh, how I loved the characters. And the post-apocalyptic setting was so cool, it really made the characters appreciate the new family they found; both because of how empty the world became and from watching their original family die
It's my favorite book of all time. I tried read to 11/22/63 a newer Stephen King book, but the premise of timetravel assassination didn't grab me like the premise in the stand. I need a good premise and execution to like a novel. I've read a bunch of good books that I just didn't have any taste for, the premise, that is
I can't remember if I was ever actually scared while reading it. But that might be because I was so scared I don't want to remember it. But it is hard to get scared from reading a book, I think. Or to write something that is scary. It's more like a constant sense of dread. Like a feeling you know something is going to happen, but not exactly when
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