Anyone read any good books recently?

[blaydcor]

themanwithnoname said:

blaydcor said:

Vertigo-X said:

weaveworld said:

If anyone in this thread is looking for some series that beat Goodkind's by a longshot it's Jordans'  The wheel of time!

Care to give a quick synopsis? I really enjoyed Sword of Truth series so it'd have to be earth-shattering to be better in my mind.

Sword of Truth is basically (in some documented cases, exactly so) a rip-off of Wheel of Time and a few other major fantasy series. 

Wheel of Time is a landmark fantasy series, probably only eclipsed in the past two decades in genre significance by George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire'--which was a complete game changer and ushered in a new age of "gritty, realistic" fantasy, as opposed to the previously-dominant swords-and-sorcery fantasty of the 80's/early nineties.

Anyway, The Wheel of Time has been around since the early 1990's and is set to (finally) conclude next year in volume 14. There's also a prequel. So, reading it is a big commitment, but it's totally worth it. Some of the later books drag if your read them on their own, but if you plow through the series in one straight shot they hold up pretty well.

Imagine Sword of Truth without all the philosophical pandering, poorly disguised parables, and much more well-drawn, memorably characters. It takes place in a very-elaborately detailed pre-industrial fantasy world. Grab the first book, "The Eye of the World', and trust me, you won't be disappointed. 

Funny. I've heard just as much negativity on the Wheel of Time as you seem to be laying on the Sword of Truth. I have no problem with you having an opinion, but please stop acting like you're stating facts.

What are you talking about? Bold the parts where I ''act like I'm stating facts" erroneously.