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Recommend a book series
Posted on 6/15/17 at 9:30 pm
Posted on 6/15/17 at 9:30 pm
Hello book board! I was very excited to see Chicken add this great board right as my summer break began. I'm looking for a solid book series to get hooked on while my momentum to read aligns with extra free time. I'm currently finishing up C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, and I'm a big Tolkien fan as well. I can do anything from sci-fi, fantasy, military, etc. What y'all got for me?
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Posted on 6/15/17 at 10:12 pm to kicker22
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sci-fi, fantasy, military
Red Rising Trilogy
Posted on 6/15/17 at 10:15 pm to kicker22
Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown is a nice page turner.
Saxon Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell is a very good series
Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCollough is good reading, especially the first couple of books.
Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice is underrated. When she's on her writing is excellent. Some of the portions, especially in characters' pre-vampire lives, I'd put up against fine literature.
Saxon Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell is a very good series
Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCollough is good reading, especially the first couple of books.
Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice is underrated. When she's on her writing is excellent. Some of the portions, especially in characters' pre-vampire lives, I'd put up against fine literature.
This post was edited on 6/15/17 at 10:18 pm
Posted on 6/15/17 at 10:21 pm to Methuselah
What's the deal on the saxon chronicles? I went to the thread but ducked out for the spoilers. Is it like game of thrones? Does it got wizards?
I'll second the Vampire Chronicles.
I'll second the Vampire Chronicles.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 10:25 pm to kicker22
quote:The books are like James Bond set in the 19th century -- and hilarious to boot. Flashman experiences (always against his will) The Charge Of The Light Brigade (which he somehow ends up leading!), The Sepoy Mutiny, the Taiping Rebellion, Little Big Horn and other great moments of history, all the while getting mixed up with Queen Victoria, Bismarck, Wild Bill Hickok, Lola Montez, Lincoln, The Empress of China, Oscar Wilde, John Brown the abolitionist and other such immortal personages.
Brigadier-General Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser, but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes.
In Hughes' book, Flashman is the notorious bully of Rugby School who persecutes Tom Brown, and who is finally expelled for drunkenness. Twentieth century author George MacDonald Fraser had the idea of writing Flashman's memoirs, in which the school bully would be identified with an "illustrious Victorian soldier": experiencing many 19th century wars and adventures and rising to high rank in British army, acclaimed as a great soldier, while remaining by his unapologetic self-description "a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward—and oh yes, a toady." Fraser's Flashman is an antihero who runs from danger or hides cowering in fear, betrays or abandons acquaintances at at the slightest incentive, bullies and beats servants with gusto, beds every available woman, carries off any loot he can grab, gambles and boozes enthusiastically, and yet, through a combination of luck and cunning, ends each volume acclaimed as a hero.
My favorite book in the series is the third, Flash For Freedom (which takes place in pre-Civil War NO and Mississippi), but I'd start out with the first, Flashman. After that you can really read them in any order. There are 12 books in the series; I reread them every 4 or 5 years.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 10:29 pm to hogNsinceReagan
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What's the deal on the saxon chronicles? I went to the thread but ducked out for the spoilers. Is it like game of thrones? Does it got wizards?
Nah, it's pretty much straight historical fiction. Set in the times from the early Viking incursions into Saxon Britan through the struggles between the Saxons and Danes for control of the island. The main character was born the son of a Northumbrian Saxon Lord but was captured I battle when young and raised as a Dane. So both points of view are presented.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 10:39 pm to Methuselah
Right on. 
Posted on 6/15/17 at 10:48 pm to kicker22
Fantasy:
Ravens Shadow
Chronicles of the Black Company
Night Angel
Lightbringer
Gentlemen Bastards
Kingkiller
Draconis Memoria
SciFi:
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Slab City Blues
Starship Troopers
Red Rising
Military:
Fighter Pilot
Bloodlands
Storm of Steel
War of the Rats
City of Thieves
The Things They Carried
Gates of Fire
Band of Brothers
Ravens Shadow
Chronicles of the Black Company
Night Angel
Lightbringer
Gentlemen Bastards
Kingkiller
Draconis Memoria
SciFi:
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Slab City Blues
Starship Troopers
Red Rising
Military:
Fighter Pilot
Bloodlands
Storm of Steel
War of the Rats
City of Thieves
The Things They Carried
Gates of Fire
Band of Brothers
Posted on 6/16/17 at 11:17 am to Kafka
Read the 1st book in the Flashman series per recommendation from this board. Great book. Easy short read and extremely funny. Have already ordered the next two or three from Amazon.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 11:33 am to LoveThatMoney
quote:
Fantasy:
Ravens Shadow
Chronicles of the Black Company
Night Angel
Lightbringer
Gentlemen Bastards
Kingkiller
Draconis Memoria
I'll add The First Law Trilogy and any of the 3 Fitz & Fool Trilogies.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:23 pm to MSMHater
the Luke Stone series by Jack Mars.
political thrillers. currently 5 books available with the 6th book due out in September.
i believe the first book is free for Kindle right now.
political thrillers. currently 5 books available with the 6th book due out in September.
i believe the first book is free for Kindle right now.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:03 pm to LoveThatMoney
quote:
Fantasy:
Ravens Shadow
Chronicles of the Black Company
Night Angel
Lightbringer
Gentlemen Bastards
Kingkiller
Draconis Memoria
Add in Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Especially if you like The Black Company.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 4:15 pm to Centinel
The Asian Saga by James Clavell
It includes:
Shogun
Tai-Pan
Gai-Jin
King Rat
Noble House
It includes:
Shogun
Tai-Pan
Gai-Jin
King Rat
Noble House
Posted on 6/16/17 at 4:27 pm to hogNsinceReagan
Cornwell has a King Arthur trilogy that's somewhat similar to the Saxon chronicles. Gritty historical fiction, no dragons or anything but a dash of ambiguous magic.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 11:45 pm to kicker22
While agree with the recommendations made, based on what you describe, the best book series for you to read is The original Conan series by Robert E. Howard.
Easily one of the best series of novels ever written.
Easily one of the best series of novels ever written.
Posted on 6/17/17 at 8:51 pm to LoveThatMoney
quote:
Fighter Pilot
I have two books with this title. Which one?
Posted on 6/20/17 at 6:18 am to kicker22
Safehold series by Dave Weber.
Best series I've read. Armageddon Reef is the first book.
Best series I've read. Armageddon Reef is the first book.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 9:09 am to kicker22
The Master and Commander series by Patrick O'Brian is good stuff. It also works very well on audiobooks.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 6:18 pm to SLafourche07
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Red Rising Trilogy
Alright, so I found a free copy on the internet. I'm about 5 chapters deep. The Laurel was just awarded to gamma, AGAIN, and the helldiver kids hotty gf just brought him to the grassy garden outside. Here's my question:
Is this book going to ratchet up? I read Ender's game about a year ago. I enjoyed it but the target audience was a little younger than me. Am I gonna be cringing all through this bad boy when the worst cussword they can muster up is "bulldamn," I think it was?
This isn't a knock on the book and I'm excited to maybe see where it goes but I need some bloody arms severed with ion blades and maybe ol helldiver reminiscing about the feel of Eo's soft breasts when he's knee deep in the rebellion. Thanks in advance. Again, it's no knock, just not what I was hoping it would be.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 6:35 pm to hogNsinceReagan
Read about 50 more pages, then come post again. Though nothing in that series can scratch that erotica itch you have, the action picks up.
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