I haven't finished Golden Fool yet, because I just couldn't get through it. I have to be hooked fast or I don't bother. I haven't read any of the Soldier Son books because I've heard they aren't great.
You basically started on the 5th book in a 6 book series with Golden Fool. There's another trilogy in the same world but it's not as closely tied to the others so I'm skipping it in the numbering.
These are the best books she's written, IMO, and they're really really good and make her one of my favorite authors.
Assassin's Apprentice
Royal Assassin
Assassin's Quest
You basically started on the 5th book in a 6 book series with Golden Fool. There's another trilogy in the same world but it's not as closely tied to the others so I'm skipping it in the numbering.
These are the best books she's written, IMO, and they're really really good and make her one of my favorite authors.
Assassin's Apprentice
Royal Assassin
Assassin's Quest
Not only is the Assassin series the best, but chronologically its the best to start with. The Liveship Series is technically stand-alone, but works best if you have read the Assassins books, and the Fool books are only readable IF you have read the Assassin books.
I would compare them to Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card. Good books, but only if you read Ender's Game.
In this case, read the Assassin's books. I believe its called the Farseer trilogy if my memory is correct, but it has been several years.
Six best fantasy novels?
04/12/2009 05:54:54 AM
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Best fantasy authors
04/12/2009 07:01:48 AM
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Have you read Robin Hobb? *NM*
04/12/2009 04:01:23 PM
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I have, and wasn't really impressed
04/12/2009 10:08:25 PM
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You definitely read the wrong stuff first
05/12/2009 12:12:07 AM
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Agreed.
09/12/2009 09:55:12 PM
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Only read two. Book of the New Sun definitely deserves that spot. Mieville, not so much.
04/12/2009 08:06:45 AM
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Interesting.
04/12/2009 05:21:04 PM
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Why Mieville, if I may ask? *NM*
04/12/2009 08:33:43 PM
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I didn't mean that to be a reply to you, but still
05/12/2009 03:15:36 AM
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No worries.
05/12/2009 03:52:11 AM
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But the list was for favorite books, not favorite or most important authors
05/12/2009 10:25:13 AM
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It was for "best" books. I realize that has a lot of meanings, though. *NM*
05/12/2009 08:37:01 PM
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Glen Cook is radically overrated.
05/12/2009 04:09:07 PM
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Well, he's at least part of the wave that humanized fantasy.
05/12/2009 08:36:29 PM
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In the US, yes. Elsewhere, no, because they didn't know about him.
06/12/2009 04:36:31 PM
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You know I directly added almost all of those Wolfe quotes there, right?
06/12/2009 05:26:40 AM
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I just find Mieville's prose exceptionally standard.
06/12/2009 07:25:05 AM
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Isn't that almost a contradiction of terms there?
06/12/2009 07:45:47 AM
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It's remarkable for its normalcy because so many people praise it?
06/12/2009 09:11:18 AM
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Who the heck are these people? *NM*
04/12/2009 12:46:48 PM
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Literati
06/12/2009 05:27:28 AM
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Yeah you're so much better than us *NM*
06/12/2009 12:00:27 PM
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Well, you can hardly expect a group to go around calling themselves "elitist snobs." *NM*
07/12/2009 02:16:16 AM
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Is he trying to be cool by listing stuff that 90% of fantasy readers have never heard of?
04/12/2009 04:05:46 PM
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Actually, several of those books have been bestsellers and/or won several genre awards
06/12/2009 05:28:18 AM
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My Best Six best fantasy novels
04/12/2009 07:44:12 PM
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Re: Six best fantasy novels?
04/12/2009 09:06:18 PM
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I really need to get around to reading Mists of Avalon.
04/12/2009 09:50:54 PM
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Calenture
05/12/2009 12:44:14 AM
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That... sounds so cool. I'm going to check it out as soon as I get home.
05/12/2009 03:53:55 AM
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I'll eventually get to those in the near future
06/12/2009 05:31:29 AM
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Okay, I'll give it a shot
04/12/2009 10:12:47 PM
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You might more mythopoeic material in your fantasies, don't you? *NM*
04/12/2009 11:22:33 PM
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The Blogger Seems to Agree With You.
05/12/2009 10:10:07 PM
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Book of the New Sun is very early 80's and is almost inarguably a classic of the genre.
06/12/2009 12:26:55 AM
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Here are mine, but I probably haven't really read enough fantasy to have a top 5
05/12/2009 12:16:13 AM
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Have you tried any standalones recently?
06/12/2009 05:33:41 AM
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I always end up wanting more
06/12/2009 05:53:11 AM
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What if there were 50 more standalones that you could read that likely would be quite good?
06/12/2009 06:12:53 AM
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The only one on his list I would think about agreeing with is Meiville.
05/12/2009 03:11:25 AM
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No list is complete without Goodkind *NM*
05/12/2009 07:59:22 AM
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Sorry, I can't help it- no *porn* list is complete without Goodkind... *NM*
06/12/2009 02:21:22 AM
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