Thread: Looking for sci-fi/fantasy recommendations
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Old 12-31-2014, 07:56 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by OverHaze View Post
I have read many books over this last year (including the first six Malazan books) and I have come to the annoying conclusion that I have loved none of them. I liked some of them, I really liked a few of them (Tigana, Memories of Ice, Midnight Tides) but not loved.

So I am looking for recommendations! I want something I will look forward to reading at night, not something to merely help me sleep.

My four favourite books of all time are in order, Anathem, A Deepness in the Sky, A Fire Upon the Deep, Let the Right One In.

I like big concepts, interesting likeable and outsider characters.

Any recommendations?
One of the problems is that one person's treasure is another person's drek. Given that I'm not a huge Stephenson or Vinge fan, I don't know that my recommendations would do a lot of good. I assume that you have read the other books by those authors?
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