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Well, in that case, I guess I can describe them a bit, though if you check my Anti-Fantasy thread in the book forum (which is what I call these books, even though they're firmly fantasy books) I went over them a lot there.

The Prince of Nothing is about a sociopathic monk who feels no emotions and is a genius at manipulating people inserting himself into a crusade and slowly convincing the crusaders that he's a god and taking control of the entire crusade for his own ends. Very dark, very psychological.

A Song of Ice and Fire is a medieval succession crisis/ power struggle sort of story with lots of scheming and backstabbing and main characters getting killed. There's no real good guys in it, everyone has their own agenda.

And The Malazan Book of the Fallen is just the biggest story I've ever read. I think it has over 1,000 characters, all told. It spans an entire world, with the various books jumping between continents and storylines. It's insanely epic with high-powered magic and gods playing a major part in the story. It's just... all kinds of awesome. I've never read anything else like it, and I highly recommend it to anyone who has the time to read a 10,000 page series.

Anyway, for Dragonlance the original Chronicles and Legends trilogy are great, but everything after that just kind of fell apart, I felt. And for Forgotten Realms, the Dark Elf trilogy was probably my favorite, especially Homeland for the way it sets up the Drow culture, but that series got old fast for me. Drizzt is just too invincible.
Cold silence has a tendency
to atrophy any sense of compassion
between supposed lovers.
Between supposed brothers.
Old Posted 05-29-2011, 11:14 PM Reply With Quote