Jesus christ. There's nothing wrong with asking. But check the catalog. Go to the sffg. And don't ask people to give you information about several hundred series.

Ya what this anon said >>8245436

Also, just a warning, Stormlight was so good that I had to stop reading for 1 week because everything else paled in comparison.

>>8245436
Sorry, I wasn't expecting people to give me feedback on EVERY series I listed. I just wanted feedback on the series that they have read, or at least heard of. Didn't mean to overwhelm anyone, just if you read the series then some feedback on it would be good, that's all.

I don't come on /lit/ whatsoever so I didn't think to check the catalog first, my mistake.

>>8245446
Yeah I've also heard that Stormlight is a phenomenal fictional/fantasy work, just sucks the first book is over 1,000 pages or something like that.

>>8245446
What did you like about Stormlight so much?

>>8245455
>just sucks the first book is over 1,000 pages
Why?

>>8245483
Oh, is 1,000 pages not as intimidating to others as I thought? I'm actually not an avid reader, I guess that much is obvious but usually 600 page books were plenty for me. I've never attempted to read a book that had 1,000 pages, it's not that I can't read 1,000 pages, it's the just the number is intimidating. I'm sure 1,000 pages for an avid reader is nothing, but as I stated, I don't read a lot of books unless they strike my interest.

Some people read a new book every week, it's a big hobby for some and I understand that.

>>8245459
A lot of things really. If I had to choose one, it would be how connected I got towards the characters and the goosebumps from certain events.

Though, the common concern with first-time readers is the length and the slow beginning. But once the plot gets rolling, I actually got sad that there were only 1000 pages.

>>8245416

Not read a lot of these.

>The Gentleman Bastard series by Scott Lynch

The fourth book is coming out soon, personally at this moment in time I would only read the first book and wait to see is the fourth any good, his books got progressively worse and I will probably drop the series if book 4 is mediocre

>The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson

Great books, first is slow for most people thought

>The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie

It's entertaining but it's sort of slow and it honestly feels that the first 2 books don't really matter only some moderate character growth, haven't read the 4 novels after the trilogy though.

Read the Drenai series from David Gemmell instead. It's perfect entry-level fantasy and incredibly consistent across many books.

>>8245571
Well you don't necessarily have to recommend me "entry level" it's not like I haven't read a fantasy series before, all I said is that I'm not an avid reader. Meaning I don't read a new book every week like a lot of people do.

>>8245603
I only referred to those books as entry-level because they were my first fantasy reads. But Gemmell is still highly recommended if all you're looking for is solid fantasy storytelling with a lot of the fluff that unfortunately plagues most fantasy novels cut out.

>>8245416
Gentleman Bastard is great fun if you like in-depth weird city-exploration (different city for each book so far) and endlessly over-complicated schemes.

>>8245826
Someone said to read the first book and see if I like the author's writing style and what not, they all said the books are getting progressively worse but I'll at least read the first one.

>>8245835
Fair enough, and yes, the first book is the best, but I have still enjoyed the others, personally. Thorn of Emberlain out in Sept (book 4)

>>8245416
I've enjoyed the entire Malazan series a lot. It quickly became a favorite series. Great story that's wonderfully deep and Erikson has a writing style I really enjoy.

Demon cycle:

First book is great.
Second book is great
Third book is good with some eh
Fourth book is bad and goes terrible at the end.

Observations from it:

-Warded man (The character) is great, watching is evolution in the first book is fantastic, aside of being a little bit fedora towards prophecy and religion and so on he's a perfect protagonist. The biggest complain I have for the series is that he ends up being sidelined in favor of other characters. But jesus, it's like doomguy for how much he kicks Demon shit.
-The author ends up favoring in plot and attention the 'spartan ninja jihadists' from the 2nd book onward. It's disappointing as that part suffers from the usual fantasy exotic pitfalls (lots of foreign sounding unnecessary words, ditto for names). It's good in the first, 2nd and some of the 3rd book but in the 4th it gets too cumbersome and you just want to gloss over it with your eyes.
-Leesha Papers is annoying as shit and her only value is big fat titties.
-The demon fighting is almost totally dominant in the first book, fairly dominant in the second, starts to be marginalized in the 3rd and it's practically nonexistent in the last. The fifth and final book in the series yet to come out should switch it back.
-The 4th book does this stupid shit in the 2nd half where it suddenly turns into ASOIAF and characters are being killed off left and right.

I really enjoyed it and can recommend it but if you're like me you'll be disappointed in the way the series steadily loses the visceral man-vs-demon emphasis in favor of man-vs-man.

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>>8245416
>I really would like a book series that can rival the Kingkiller Chronicle series by Patrick Rothfuss, I absolutely adored that series

>>8246590
Just out of curiosity what didn't you like about the series? I rarely meet people who hated the series that much, if anything it was met with high praise from most people. It seems like 95% loved it and 5% hated it, so you're in a more marginalized group. It's kind of like you'll either love it or hate it, there is no gray area with that series.

>>8246599
Because it's a mastubatory self-insert power fantasy, were all the characters either suck kvothe's dick at every opportunity or they're bad people. Of course it hides it's true nature under pretentious music wankery, constant poverty porn, and the vague implication that everything is leading up to some sort of unreliable narrator twist despite there being no evidence presented that Kvothe is anything but truthful.

Other issues include the utterly forgettable supporting cast (Elodin being the one exception), the lack of worldbuilding and societal depth, the retarded fairy sex and the equally retarded weeaboo ninja land that seems to only exist so that kvothe can learn to fight.

Also fuck off with your Ad Populum bullshit.

>>8246844
Thanks for giving me your feedback, always interesting to hear from someone who didn't like a highly popular fictional series. It's nice to get the other side's opinion on things like that, I personally though the worldbuilding was fine, I enjoyed Kvothe as a main character and also I'm a massive "weeaboo" so maybe I didn't mind the whole "retarded weeaboo ninja land"

Sounds to me like you just couldn't really relate or get into the series because it didn't resonate with you, which is fine. Also I'm aware a lot of readers are bias against "self insert power fantasies" but hey, escapism is popular among lots of people. That's one reason I read fiction, is to sometimes self-insert myself in the book and get drawn away out of reality.

We all like our own things when it comes to books, you and I are a prime example of that, especially when it comes to the Kingkiller Chronicle series.