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I think fans getting into a tizzy about whether a particular story is canon or not is silly. But then I don't read many series. Even in comics, I always preferred indie comics and limited series where canon is no biggie.
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Fair enough. It was a legacy of my youth and I will never allocate so much mind space to a single franchise again.
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As to recommendations I forgot to mention Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. The series provides thousands upon thousands of pages to read, involves a bit of action (not as much as Drizzt) and social commentary that adds depth Tons of good quotes that nobody can fail to appreciate: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quote...ord-of-truth-1 Last edited by Pizza_Cant_Read; 12-07-2017 at 09:23 AM. Reason: didn't want to seem derogatory towards OP |
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I'm going to suggest the following books by Stephen R. Donaldson.
Thomas Covenant 1. Lord Foul's Bane 2. The Illearth War 3. The Power That Preserves Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant 1. The Wounded Land 2. The One Tree 3. White Gold Wielder Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant 1. The Runes of the Earth 2. Fatal Revenant 3. Against All Things Ending 4. The Last Dark |
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Here you go:
Roger Taylor - The Call of the Sword [The Chronicles of Hawklan, Book 1] Not many people know about this series, but it's great. https://www.amazon.com/Call-Sword-Ch...+taylor+kindle and the series listing: https://www.amazon.com/Roger-Taylor/..._cont_ebooks_1 |
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Also, I think it's safe to say at best, the OP is unlikely to read half the recommendations here. But hey, Pajamaman and I had a nice talk about the Sunset Warrior books and I learned that the Discworld books are more action packed than I thought. |
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But is that all there is? (Not to say that's limited) If we knew what elements of EF appealed to him, perhaps we could make other recommendations. That's all. HOWEVER, everybody here has pretty much recommended what I would have, (within the stricture of EF), so...I'll shaddup. ;-) Hitch |
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^ There's one writer I have yet to read, someone yet to be mentioned, I think:
Guy Gavriel Kay Perhaps someone can comment on this author? He looks 'appropriate' for the thread, but is he? |
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Guy Gavriel Kay is certainly epic in scope. Most of his fantasies are thinly-veiled takes on real life history, tending to focus on pivotal events and personalities. I'm not sure how over-descriptive they might be considered, since he does tend to go on narrative tangents telling the entire future of some minor character who has a brief but life-changing encounter with the leads. But IIRC he isn't quite as fond of expository infodump as many other sfnal writers. Generally when he describes something, ISTR it tends to serve an immediate storytelling purpose to keep a plot/character development thread going or explain some scene-relevant worldbuilding. YMMV. If it's any help to the OP, apparently GGK got his start as a fantasy author helping out Christopher Tolkien do some stuff with J. R. R. Tolkien's literary estate, so if they enjoyed The Hobbit/LOTR, they might wish to give him a try. Out of the ones I've read, I'd personally recommend as the best bets for their criteria:
Also possible, but perhaps less to the OP's taste:
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