I'd point you in the direction of Joe Abercrombie, Paul Kearney, Chris Wooding, Scott Lynch and Pat Rothfuss if you haven't tried them out already.
Can't believe I haven't read any of those guys. You willing to share a bit more about what they've written that should be read?
Does Erikson get better?
- 12/01/2010 05:29:51 PM
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I read somewhere that reading Erikson involves being completely lost for the first half of the book-
- 12/01/2010 05:41:35 PM
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I agree with the Brandon Sanderson suggestion.
- 12/01/2010 05:43:27 PM
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You didn't like Robin Hobb?
- 12/01/2010 05:49:19 PM
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I don't.
- 12/01/2010 05:55:25 PM
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I think Liveship is the best of her series, so you should give it a try
- 12/01/2010 06:40:51 PM
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Her strength is her characters, IMO.
- 12/01/2010 07:44:23 PM
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See, I think her characters are weak, at least the main characters.
- 12/01/2010 08:48:10 PM
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LIVESHIP isn't first-person, which is a big plus in its favour. *NM*
- 13/01/2010 04:19:42 AM
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Beat you by a second. *NM*
No. Burn it. Erikson is horrid. Read Sci-Fi instead. Start with KSR and Alastair Reynolds. *NM*
- 12/01/2010 07:49:14 PM
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i couldn't read erikson. same reasons. i read about a hundred pages and was like screw this...
- 12/01/2010 11:06:04 PM
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He gets a lot better and then worse
- 13/01/2010 12:42:10 AM
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Abercrombie, Kearney, Wooding, Lynch and Rothfuss
- 14/01/2010 08:02:37 PM
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Keep in mind that Erikson was an archeologist and anthropologist.
- 13/01/2010 02:06:01 AM
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