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Hey /lit/ do you guys know of any other fantasy books that focus on assassins?
So far I have read
Robin Hobb's series which I liked
Brent Week's series which was pretty crappy
Steven Brust's which I liked
Brandon Sanderson's mistborn

Anything else I missed?

>> No.540581

Terry Pratchett has a couple
Pyramids and Night Watch, to some extent.

>> No.540594

>>540581
Also read those.

>> No.540597

>>540594
oh.
well fuck.

>> No.540621

The Death Gate Cycle by Weis and Hickman has the awesome Hugh The Hand who's in the first and fifth books particularly (the novels hop between different elemental worlds and he becomes a major character on one of them).

>> No.540627

The Waylander series by David Gemmell.

>> No.540796

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. The protagonist is a headsman and a torturer. Not an assassin, but close. Is real good!

>> No.541227

>>540796
Not OP but Gene Wolfe is a crazy fuck and he needs a new editor or something because his books just seem like crazy ramblings.

>> No.541236

OP your pic makes me think you don't believe that extraterrestrials have already visited? You know that's bullshit, right?

>> No.541248

>>541227
>Gene Wolfe is a crazy fuck and he needs a new editor or something because his books just seem like crazy ramblings.

I hate to tell you this, but that's called "utilization of an unreliable narrator," which he does expertly. Far from being "crazy ramblings," he has the narrator craft lies, carefully omit, downplay the importance of important things, and simply not witness certain things so you read carefully, and the story requires proper inference on your part.

His books are like traps, really. You may need to go through them more than once to see the whole mechanism at work.

>> No.541262

>>541248
Stfu I bet he just has Alzheimer's like Terry Pratchett.

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541269

>>541262

Sorry, but no. Gene Wolfe is one of the greatest living authors, and he's most certainly not senile.

>> No.541272

>>541269
>implying Gene Wolfe is one of the greatest living authors, and he's most certainly not senile.

>> No.541277

>>541269
All I can think about when I see a picture of Gene Wolfe is he a walrus??? Anyone else think Gene Wolfe is some mutant walrus???

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>>541277
'Fraid so.