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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 10:25 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 10:48 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 11:45 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 6/20/17 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 6/23/17 at 3:28 pm to kicker22
Sigma Force by James Rollins
Posted on 6/26/17 at 12:12 am to kicker22
The Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Liu Cixin beginning with The Three Body Problem. Amazing books. Go read the reviews on amazon.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 3:08 pm to kicker22
I just finished up The First Law Trilogy by Abercrombie and I can't recommend it enough. Great books.
Posted on 6/29/17 at 1:49 pm to kicker22
Brad Thor
Posted on 6/30/17 at 7:46 am to kicker22
The Necroscope Saga by Brian Lumley. An interesting mix of horror, fantasy and espionage. The first 8 books are really good.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 1:01 am to kicker22
The Game of Thrones series
The Saxon Chronicles
The Dark Tower series
But for something a little different check out the Station Series by David Downing. Five books in total that are set in Berlin before, during and after the War. Can't recommend it enough.
Just FYI, I just about do audiobooks exclusively.
The Saxon Chronicles
The Dark Tower series
But for something a little different check out the Station Series by David Downing. Five books in total that are set in Berlin before, during and after the War. Can't recommend it enough.
Just FYI, I just about do audiobooks exclusively.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 3:14 pm to kicker22
quote:Madeline L'Engle's 3 books known collectively as The Time Trilogy would be in the ballpark. Excellent reads.
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?
Posted on 7/6/17 at 11:39 am to kicker22
Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly
Posted on 7/7/17 at 11:50 am to kicker22
Tana French
Murder Squad series.
Would be the most amazing Amazon/Netflix series as well.
Murder Squad series.
Would be the most amazing Amazon/Netflix series as well.
Posted on 7/8/17 at 11:52 pm to kicker22
Southern lit a la John Grisham meets James Lee Burke (sorta):
Greg Iles Penn Cage series begins with The Quiet Game. If you're from the rural south, you'll recognize all the players.
Greg Iles Penn Cage series begins with The Quiet Game. If you're from the rural south, you'll recognize all the players.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:01 pm to kicker22
daniel silva and vince flynn
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