List your favorite genre/selections

Not really like the ones you mentioned, but I really like the Red Rising series.

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Stormlight is my favorite right now.

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Did you pre-order yet? And what's up with edgedancer?

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Did you pre-order yet?

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No, but I did just recheck the release date. Still November.

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And what's up with edgedancer?

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I haven't read all the novellas. But I like that side plot. The bounty hunter fascinates me. I know they expanded on it in the archanum, which I still need to read.

I'm trying to get through Robin Hobb's collection at the moment. The female author in this genre has been a different experience for me.

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but wonder about how well a female does heroic male fantasy characters

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Emotionally. Stubbornly. Fitz has had the same character flaws from a teenager to 60 years old. It's frustrating at times to read how he comes to his decisions through the same flawed logic. But her overall character development is great. She weaves relationships brilliantly and focuses on those far more than the male writers we mentioned. There is never going to be intense, dramatic battle scenes or the like. But she still creates tension and foreboding well.

Her prose is just below Rothfuss, IMO, but better than the others. She can have pacing issues b/c of the constant relationship building, but I would still recommend all the Fitz/Fool stuff. Last one comes out next week.

Fantasy is probably my favorite genre to read, but to me, when done correctly, nothing beats a good horror. The problem: there's way more trash horror out there and the truly transcendental stuff is super rare.

Even with Stephen King, out of everything he's written, the only books that hit that mark are It, Shining, and his masterwork The Stand. Outside of those you have stuff like Swan Song, House of Leaves, Watchers, a few Barker novels and not much else.

Ugh, I love horror, but the quality varies way too much.

Science Fiction is right there with Horror, but with a better top tier, I just enjoy horror more.

I don't know that I have a genre, per se. I'm pretty all over the map.

Currently in my queue to read:

1) Finishing the Sackett series by Louis L'amour (this is my fourth of fifth time through this Western series).

2) I'm currently listening to The Stand on audiobook.

Last time I went to Books-a-Million, I bought the following:

1) The Mayfair Witch Chronicles (Anne Rice)
2) Dune
3) Natchez Burning (Greg Isles).

I really want to get into a sci-fi/fantasy series (read all of ASOIAF), but I just don't know where to start.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Sci Fi

Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons
Old Man's War series and Redshirts by John Scalzi
Red Rising series by Pierce Brown

Redshirts is the best book

I love Fantasy as well but most of what I would mention has already been posted.

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Malazan Books of the Fallen - still haven't finished past 7th book but its all incredible

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I"m interested in these as well. Can you compare it to something for me?

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Can you compare it to something for me?

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It's like nothing i've read before. The first book is confusing and has lots of magic. I think the writer is an anthropologist or something so it has an interesting tone to it. It picks up lots of steam in the ongoing books and you can't put it down.

He does like to introduce lots of new characters with very in depth back stories though.