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It's an amazing series! I'm on book five and it just gets better with each book, very complex, gritty, great characters and plot. And there's a lot of material so you can spend a lot of time with it until Winds of Winter finally gets released... sometime in the future.


It's an amazing series! I'm on book five and it just gets better with each book, very complex, gritty, great characters and p..."
Agreed this is a great series.










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Does anyone have any recomme..."
The books by David Eddings. Start off with the Belgariad series or the Elenium series:-)





All who dare come ye hither into the dark woods where danger lies. The theme of dangers lurking in the green forest is ancestral, species long, it scares us and fascinates, us, both. Come with me and enter the woods.
A boy once his father is murdered seeks escape amongst the wilds riding deeper and deeper into the green. He is the son of a noble Earl, the great-grandson of a king, and marked for death. He is the last of his line. Alone in the trees bar for one friend who has forsaken him not.
A forest has haunting power. You need God's power and protection in the shadows. And, in the deep dark mysterious forest-shadows nothing ... nothing ... protects ... you.
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That good, for a series of 10 books the guy doesn't loose his steam so it seems. He wrote Gardens at the beginnings of the 90's but it wasn't published until 99. In that decade he worked on Deadhouse and you can see the change of almost ten years of practice. The learning curve of the 2nd book forwards is less strong. Many people leave at Gardens, too confusing, etc.


An easier book to get into would be Promise of Blood in the Powder Mage Series.

YES! Definitely worth finishing, especially now that all the books are out. My favorite series ever, next to ASOIAF.


i would say theres about a four book cycle. the first four are amazing. then is lulls for a book or two cuz he has to set up a ton of stuff. don't get me wrong. they are still good. just not as fast paced and engaging as the first four. then it pics up again for another four books. then lulls again. but once you get to the last three its an unstoppable steam roller all the way to the finish. and its a great ending. brandon sanderson did a great job. if his name hadn't been on the cover i doubt i would have noticed it was a different author.

Does anyone have any recomme..."
Check out Martin's anthology dangerous women, he wrote a story about the war called the dance with dragons, called the Princess and the Queen, it's really good!






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