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Joe Abercrombie's books (the First Law trilogy and three semi-sequels) hit some of the same notes. If anything, even grimmer in outlook, and with a substantial
by tragic 12y ago
Joe Abercrombie's books (the First Law trilogy and three semi-sequels) hit some of the same notes. If anything, even grimmer in outlook, and with a substantial dose of dark "British humour". Richard Morgan's The Steel Remains is alright, dude tries a little too hard though.
In general - you didn't do too bad just by asking on here... Find places where relevant people (in this case, let's be honest, nerds) congregate and pipe up. People love to talk about their favourite books, bands, etc. You can normally skim some pages on Amazon to see if the prose style's going to be gratingly irritating to you or something.
- ndrake 12y ago+1 for the First Law books. The Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey are great. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake The first 6 books in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan are very enjoyable. EDIT: The Bas-Lag books by China Miéville are wonderful.
- will_work4tears 12y agoSandman Slim was surprisingly good. His attitude did start to get on my nerves near the end, but not enough to ruin the series. It's also free on Kindle Unlimited. The whole series IIRC.
- abakker 12y agoI'll do the obligatory chime in to say that final books of WoT make the series worth it. Not the most perfectly executed series, but a good read, nonetheless. Mostly, its quite a bit of fun. books 7-10 are tough, but if you are a fast reader, it'll go by quick enough. Note: Don't do 7-10/11 on audio, thats a sure way to get tired of it.