Posted this before and deleted because the price went up. Now it's down again.
The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker is $2.5 on
Amazon.com
Has been mentioned in these forums before, but it's been a long while since the last sale, and maybe this is the lowest price it reached in the US.
This is grimdark, first in a completed trilogy. Some people seem to love it, some hate it.
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Strikingly original in its conception, ambitious in scope, with characters engrossingly and vividly drawn, the first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a remarkable world from whole cloth-its language and classes of people, its cities, religions, mysteries, taboos, and rituals-the kind of all-embracing universe Tolkien and Herbert created unforgettably in the epic fantasies The Lord of the Rings and Dune. It's a world scarred by an apocalyptic past, evoking a time both two thousand years past and two thousand years into the future, as untold thousands gather for a crusade. Among them, two men and two women are ensnared by a mysterious traveler, Anasūrimbor Kellhus—part warrior, part philosopher, part sorcerous, charismatic presence—from lands long thought dead. The Darkness That Comes Before is a history of this great holy war, and like all histories, the survivors write its conclusion.
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