When you are into fantasy, "The Malazan books of the fallen" are the most intricate, intense, complex, insightful, aeon-spanning series I've ever read. And the

When you are into fantasy, "The Malazan books of the fallen" are the most intricate, intense, complex, insightful, aeon-spanning series I've ever read. And the author managed to finish it. After reading Malazan, the ASOFAIs story arch and character development seemed almost trival in comparison. I envy you, that you have not read it yet and have it all still before you :). If you are more into "novels" see this thread: "What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the US?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17381352 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17381352 My suggestions where Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities" [1] is by far the most outstanding novel i have read, as it stretches the limits of what language can express past anything i tought possible. The protagonist is a mathematician whose scientific mind applies allegorical dissections over a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. The polarity makes it for an extraordinary read. Hermann Broch "The Death of Virgil". The novel creates out of a dying poet a rich, profound vision both of civilization and of primal concerns of all mankind. Austrian authors where on another level in the late 30s and 40s of the 20th century. Finally, Victor Pelevin's "Empire V: The Prince of Hamlet" [3]. You gain instruction into the vampire life and by extension the humans which vampires feed and the nature of god and existence itself, with interesting meditations on existence, theology, matter, illusion and withering attacks on fashion, advertising, politics, the Davos elite, literature and particularly the nature of money. Finally, Karel Čapek "War with the Newts" is just great. === [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualities [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Virgil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Virgil [3] https://www.amazon.de/Empire-Prince-Hamlet-Victor-Pelevin/dp.. https://www.amazon.de/Empire-Prince-Hamlet-Victor-Pelevin/dp....