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I need an epic fantasy book or series to read. Any recommendations?

By Krupps4

3 years ago


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#4 3 years ago
 
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I absolutely adore the “Dark is Rising” books.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Is_Rising_Sequence

Like the Hobbit/LOTR, Book 2 is really the start of the main story - but the characters in Book 1 come back later on. At the time I had connected them more with CS Lewis’ stuff, but they are way more folklore-based, like LOTR.

They are supposed to be Teenager/high school books but they are just as involved and deep (and dense) as Tolkien. Not George R R Martin level - I’ve never been able to get into his pace... of... needing... 15 ... pages... to write ... what... could have ... been .. conveyed .. in ... 2 ... sentences...

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#23 3 years ago
 
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Quoted from tpoeckh:

Big, long, epic and full of detail...The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.

Any idea what’s going on with the tv series ?

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#43 3 years ago
 
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Shoutout to Dan Simmons for his Hyperion series. Killer stuff

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#48 3 years ago
 
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Quoted from guitarded:

First book is among the best ever...after that it starts sliding downhill until it completely falls off.

Messiah and Children are pretty good -

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#62 3 years ago
 
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Quoted from bobmathuse:

In addition to much of the preceding, but more fun and less dark than some, try Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series: the protagonists "become" Death (On A Pale Horse), Time (Bearing an Hourglass), Fate (With A Tangled Skein), War (Wielding A Red Sword), Earth (Being A Green Mother), Evil (For Love of Evil) and Good (And Eternity) in this 7-book-arc. Each aspect of reality is a cosmic senior responsibility ... but you might not have applied for the task!

I remember that series from when I was in (high school? I think?). Those books have some STRONG NSFW content lol

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