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10 Great Fantasy Series to Read While You’re Waiting for George R.R. Martin’s Next Book
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I've just finished reading Storm of Swords Part 1 - will I be able to read part 2, Feast for Crows and Dance with Dragons all before his next book comes out?Including reading loads of other stuff mind. :D
Any surprises in that list? Note I haven't looked at it yet, I'm on my phone and sites like io9 really don't do well no matter which phone you're using.
It's the usual suspects. Jaqueline Carey's Sundering was a bit of a surprise.
Fantastic group of books. They will definitely keep you busy. Malazan book of the Fallen series is at least 10,000 pages with the 10 books and they are dense - worth it but dense. If you can read all of this before the next George R.R. Martin book I salute you. Granted that might be 6 - 100 years from now.
Very nice. Several of them I expected, but I'd never even heard of Sundering before. I've added several of them to my to-read list.
Considering how slowly I read normally I doubt I'll get to all of them before Winds; but it's worth a try.
Didn't read the article, but i read the thread title out loud, and my wife immediately quipped "Wheel of Time"
Jim wrote: "Didn't read the article, but i read the thread title out loud, and my wife immediately quipped "Wheel of Time""I still think it's a shame they chose Brandon Sanderson to complete WoT. Instead they should have chosen George R.R. Martin.
If they'd chosen Martin, the series would never end.
The only one I haven't read or on my to-be-read pile is The Night Angel Trilogy. And I noted that one down as to buy. :)The rest was pretty obvious. It's basically all the top-fantasy that's out there at the moment.
And like Andy said: The page count on some of those books (especially if you count the whole series/trilogy/duology) will keep you busy for quite a while. :)
Jim wrote: "Didn't read the article, but i read the thread title out loud, and my wife immediately quipped "Wheel of Time"""Wheel of Time" is not on the list, neither is "Sword of Truth". Tad Williams "Shadowmarch" is there, but he also wrote "The Dragonbone Chair" trilogy which might qualify too.
Linguana wrote: "The only one I haven't read or on my to-be-read pile is The Night Angel Trilogy. And I noted that one down as to buy. :)"Great books, they are actually on on "read me again" pile. I just finished the first book in his next trilogy The Black Prism which is phenomenal.
Joseph wrote: "Jim wrote: "Didn't read the article, but i read the thread title out loud, and my wife immediately quipped "Wheel of Time""I still think it's a shame they chose Brandon Sanderson to complete WoT...."
I couldn't see Martin ever agreeing to it. He's got enough people harassing him about his own books. Sanderson's writing style is closer to Jordan's, and much of the remaining books were at least partially done, some parts of all of three books were finished before he passed away.
The obvious pro to reading WoT is that you'll finish about the time the next GoT book is out.
If only I could slow down time so I could find the time to read through all of these this year!