/lit/ - Literature

>>4241496
Discworld isn't a series but it's worth nominating because of the writing capability of Pratchett. These are the only books that made me laugh out loud physically when reading, it's wordplay after wordplay and interesting characters and stories on top of that.

Wheel of Time is pretty up there, it got a lot of people, including me, into reading, it's like a gateway drug for fantasy, which is a gateway drug for other genres.
>>4242564
>1st book so badly written and so badly presents the series that the author has to defend his shitty writing before the book begins
no

I'm a huge fantasy fan.

Overall right now I'd say Stormlight Archives (only 1st book is out at the moment, Way of Kings) can potentially be one of the best series ever.

“Departed.” Jezrien’s voice was calm, deep, regal. Though he hadn’t worn a crown in centuries, his royal manner lingered. He always seemed to know what to do. “You might call it a miracle. Only one of us died this time.”

“Talenel,” Kalak said. His was the only Blade unaccounted for.

“Yes. He died holding that passage by the northern waterway.”

Kalak nodded. Taln had a tendency to choose seemingly hopeless fights and win them. He also had a tendency to die in the process. He would be back now, in the place where they went between Desolations. The place of nightmares.

Kalak found himself shaking. When had he become so weak? “Jezrien, I can’t return this time.” Kalak whispered the words, stepping up and gripping the other man’s arm. “I can’t.”

Kalak felt something within him break at the admission. How long had it been? Centuries, perhaps millennia, of torture. It was so hard to keep track. Those fires, those hooks, digging into his flesh anew each day. Searing the skin off his arm, then burning the fat, then driving to the bone. He could smell it. Almighty, he could smell it!

“Leave your sword,” Jezrien said.

“What?”

Jezrien nodded to the ring of weapons. “I was chosen to wait for you. We weren’t certain if you had survived. A . . . a decision has been made. It is time for the Oathpact to end.”

>>4102255
nope, it was just me spamming way of kings in the several rec threads

fucking teen shitheads are worshipping the trash that Rothfuss is writing
>muh college fantasies, dinosaurs and ninjas! durr

this book is fantastic, the world is something you want to explore, it's as dark as Sanderson has ever gotten in terms of what happens, and most of all it has characters that are great unlike the meh ones from his other stuff

he writes decent, but with this series, supposedly what he's been planning for years, he's outdone himself

I will punch him in the gut if the quality in Words of Radiance drops, in 20 years it will be the next Wheel of Time for sure if it doesn't


if you want pure entertainment, read Abercrombie's First Law trilogy

if you want feels and great characters but not much action read Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

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Romanian, English, French
BA, Translator [not literature]
I'm not a faggot to think myself a writer just because I feel I have an original thought once in a while
see above
Dostoievski, Steinbeck, Sanderson, Hobb, a bunch of others
Terry Goodkind, Patrick Rothfuss
The Grapes of Wrath, Catch 22, Skeleton Crew
Grapes of Wrath [fiction], The Forever War [science fiction], Way of Kings [fantasy]

>>4058507
Good question, never heard of English nationals before, maybe a dumb brit?

Read Way of Kings already, I'm tired of fucking recommending it.

>>4047172
>>4047180
>>4047164
I will personally go to the US and choke his Mormon ass if he fucks up this series

well stop trying so hard to be good you faggot

even real authors wrote entire novels before getting them right, then came back and reworked them

have you read anything? do you even read?

you sound like you're trying to write The Way of Kings by the way , really really sounds like it
you won't do it with advice from this place and it's already been done by a real author, he worked on it for years


my advice is read Way of Kings, realize you can't write half that good a story, then fuck off

I need your help /lit/ and I need it fast.

Tommorow I leave for a week with my family, I want to stock up on some audiobooks, but I have only room for around 3 on my player.

So please tell me which are the best from the following list:


Prince of Nothing

Joe Abercrombie's First Law

Tad Williams' "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn"


Shadowmarch

Otherland

Hyperion (Simmons novel)

Wolf In Shadow by David Gemmel

The Princess Bride

Diskworld books

Good Omens

Farseer trilogy


Coldfire trilogy by C.S. Friedman

Magister trilogy by C.S. Friedman

Deeds of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon

The Steel Remains series by Richard K. Morgan

Rusalka series by C.J. Cherryh

Fortress in the Eye of Time series by C.J. Cherryh

Shadowmarch series by Tad Williams

Elric saga by Michael Moorcock

Solomon Kane stories by Robert E. Howard

Vampire Hunter D series by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Guin Saga

I honestly think the Stormlight Archive will be big, really major, like WoT or Lotr

At least if the author keeps up his quality, Way of Kings is best thing I've read in an epic fantasy