[quote]krazylarry wrote:
Any one have any books that has a badass Viking like main charterer, like Conan? I read all the Conan books. [/quote]
Me too.
You should see my nice hardcover of all Robert E. Howard’s stories.
I only have a few of the books about Conan by other authors and I look for them when I can.
The thing I like is that following Conan books is easy, the stories that try to have 200 characters and 500 place names annoy me.[/quote]
Read Legend by David Gemmell[/quote]
I went to my local bookstore and they only had one Gemmel book, White Wolf but I got it. I’m assuming he doesn’t have this as a series…I mean where you need to read book one first sort of thing. Sure I’ll check on wikipedia first to get the idea, but I’m guessing I can just jump right into this book and not be lost.
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Most of the Drenai Saga are stand alone books. White Wolf is a good read.
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Everything you say you say about Gemmel is bang on dude. My favorite swords n’ shit author by far.
There was a Dragon Gate series I read years ago that was really good. The good guy was named Haplo. Can’t remember the author though.
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Actually on the Third book of the Troy series now by Gemmel, like the way he writes. Also great series by the way.
I don’t know about vikings, but Bernard Cornwall (‘Sharpe’s’ series) has supposedly a series about Saxons. His ‘Warlord Saga’ was King Arthurian stuff and therefore not interesting for me, but he’s good, so a saxon might be a poor man’s viking?
[The belgian comic series ‘Thorgal’ is a beautifully illustrated epic about a viking outcast. If you americans could bear the thought of non-gay, non-superhero protagonist who does not trade quadruply retconned wise-ass japes while swinging superhaymakers at other fabulously dressed superqueers, then this might be your best shot.
The albums started thirty years ago, a bit low-key, but 5 albums in, story arcs get pretty epic. Many are just one shots.]
John Maddox Roberts had a nice, conanesk series, ‘the Stormlands’ or somesuch, about a barbarian warrior of a culture similar to the Massai, who decide to shake their (fantasy) world up a bit.
Too bad it ends cliffhangin’, so to speak, and is still unfinished, to my knowledge.
Seems that I must check out Gemmel asap.
I can’t wrap my head around so many ‘wheel of time’ fans here.
THE worst, most 2-dimensional, boring, joyless fantasy series in an already not too original genre (although Germany has still the worst fantasy writer in W. Hohlbein).
Compared to that crap, Salvatore would be Mark Twain and Tolkien Shakespeare.
[quote]triskele wrote:
Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun (a 4-part series) is incredible. I’ve read it through 4 times and still get more out of it each time.[/quote]
This. Seriously. Deep. Haunting. I can’t believe how few sci-fi/fantasy readers have read his work. Wolfe is the master of the field.
[quote]triskele wrote:
Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun (a 4-part series) is incredible. I’ve read it through 4 times and still get more out of it each time.[/quote]
This. Seriously. Deep. Haunting. I can’t believe how few sci-fi/fantasy readers have read his work. Wolfe is the master of the field.[/quote]
Is that the Severan the Torturer one? There is a fifth book I believe, kind of like an extened epilogue. I really enjoyed the first two in that series, but I guess I just lost interest in them halfway through the third. You might want to check out the Dark Tower series, I found it quite similar.
And for the OP, I really enjoyed the Prince of Nothing series by Scott Bakker. It’s basically about an emotionless human, trained to be the ultimate manipulator of humans, and he starts off as nobody, but soon becomes something like a Messiah during a war. Kind of a bad description haha, but it’s the best I can do.
I really like Tad Williams as a fantasy author… he can be a bit slow at times as he delves really deep into “world building” - as a note he is one of GRR Martins favorite authors.
Don’t want to parrot the other posts, but Patrick Rothfuss’s two books are both really great.
I enjoy song of ice and fire, but in my opinion it REALLY ups the suckage in books 4 and 5.
I enjoy almost all of Brandon Sanderson’s work. The mistborn series has awesome action and pace. Alloy of Law was alot of fun… obviously you’re familiar with his writing if you’ve read the wheel of time so far… (last book is out soon!!)… And i felt as though The Way of Kings, is the strongest opening to a series i’ve ever read! Very unique and memorable.
Oh and i really enjoyed Robert Jordans 6 Conan books. basically hack and slash, but well written hack and slash.
[quote]triskele wrote:
Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun (a 4-part series) is incredible. I’ve read it through 4 times and still get more out of it each time.[/quote]
This. Seriously. Deep. Haunting. I can’t believe how few sci-fi/fantasy readers have read his work. Wolfe is the master of the field.[/quote]
In 1998, Locus magazine ranked the book of the new sun number three among all-time best fantasy novels - placing only after lord of the rings, and the hobbit.
[quote]FISCHER613 wrote:
Nards chk this/these books out
The Book I just purchased by the Author Chris Wraight is Swords of the Emperor. (2 books plus 2 short stories)
Suprisingly a very good read so far. Most of the stuff by Black Library is mediocre at best but well I found a gem in this author. This book is tied to the Warhammer world but in how he writes if you knew nothing about the background he fills in the Backstory verywell. Good character development as well.
The books on their own are called: Sword of Justice and Sword of Vengeance
Hope this helps.
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I’ll be starting it tomorrow as I need to finsih another book first.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
I don’t know about vikings, but Bernard Cornwall (‘Sharpe’s’ series) has supposedly a series about Saxons. His ‘Warlord Saga’ was King Arthurian stuff and therefore not interesting for me, but he’s good, so a saxon might be a poor man’s viking?
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I’ve read most of Cornwells stuff and love it. His battlefield scenes in particular are fantastic.
His Saxson and Sharpes series are his best imo but he does have some one off books that are excellent as well.
Oh man I’m only on page 80 of White Wolf and I love it.
A good story so far (Druss hasn’t even shown up yet!) and the characters so far are all so bloody likeable!
I mean Skilgannon is a great as one of those warriors that so deadly he needs to become a monk till he needs to fight again, and the kid,Rabalyn , feels like a Dickens character.
Just good quality storytelling. I’m excited about finding more of his books.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
I don’t know about vikings, but Bernard Cornwall (‘Sharpe’s’ series) has supposedly a series about Saxons. His ‘Warlord Saga’ was King Arthurian stuff and therefore not interesting for me, but he’s good, so a saxon might be a poor man’s viking?
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I’ve read most of Cornwells stuff and love it. His battlefield scenes in particular are fantastic.
His Saxson and Sharpes series are his best imo but he does have some one off books that are excellent as well. [/quote]
The Viking, Saxon (with Uther) series he did was great! I’ll second the battlefield scenes, good stuff! I’m trying to find some Viking-esque series to replace it and everything else is coming in second rate.
