Books for nerds

[Spyder73]

So I have a couple of series I have been reading and a couple I have finished. I would mostly recommend any of these aside from Wheel of Time (it's too long)

READING NOW

“The Night Angel Trilogy” – This is what I’m currently reading, on book 2. So far I am very impressed by the series and all 3 books are already released so you can burn through them all (not terribly long books). I bought all 3 books from Halfpriced books for less than $10

“The Stormlight Archive” by Brandon Sanderson has 2 books released and the third slated for this winter. Very good series with a new release this year. However, I think there are 10 planed books, so this one will be a 20 years in wait progression. #BridgeFour

“The King Killer Chronicles” by Patrick Rothfuss – Trilogy series with 2 released and the 3rd probably coming out in 2018. They are also making a TV series and/or movie out of this. It’s pretty good, definitely worth the read.

Game of Thrones – If you have not read these you should, there is a reason the series is so popular. Need GRRM to finish the f#cking series so I can move this to the completed section.

COMPLETED SERIES

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan– stay away, it’s too long. I read all 13 books (1000+ pages per) and while I am happy I know of the adventure of Rand Al’thor, it still wasn’t worth it in the long run.

The Malazan Book of The Fallen by Steven Erickson– Similar to WoT series in its length (10 books) but I enjoyed the series more than WoT. Criticism is it can be very disjointed at times. There are too many characters and the books jump all over the place. Karsa Orlong is one of the best characters of all time though

The Malloreon Series by David Eddings – Solid series, one of the first fantasy novels I really got into – 5 books


From reading some "old fantasy" books versus some newer releases, I would definitely recommend going with the "new". There are a lot of really great fantasy writers out there today who are building on older series such as MBoTF and WoT