Finished The Wheel Of Time

Rue

<div class="IPBDescription">need more books... :P</div> I finished reading Robert Jordans seires of books 'The Wheel of Time' at the end of University last year. I have just started back at uni today, so I have alot of free time <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->.

I was wondering if some of you could give me a few sugestions of books that I could read that are similar(better?) than this series.

Ps. For anyone who has not read WoT, go get it an read all 10 books and the epiloge(sp?) after you read the first 10.

The books are only ?5 on amazon.co.uk

RustySpoon

I'm still reading the sixth. Very goo books, you just need a lot of concentration and patience with them IMO.

Better than tolkien too. You dont need to learn any new imaginary languages or read anything that makes you want to keel into a fetal position and die. (Tom Bombadil anyone?) And also much more mature.

NumbersNotFound

ANY book by Douglas Adams.

I;m working on my 6th.

Gadzuko

Raymond E. Feist and Terry Goodkind both write some good stuff, enough to keep you busy for a while. Feist writes lots of short books and Goodkind writes a few long ones, like Jordan.

Rue

K, I just ordered the first book of 'the sword of truth'

It was a huge 75pence from amazon <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> it better be good cause that was a good 3 weeks food money <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

brute_force

Stephen King, man. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Gay_Parrot_of_Doom

Iain Banks. Fiction or Sci-Fi, both genres are absolutely excellent.

Try Espedair Street for fiction, or Consider Phlebas for sci-fi. You will not be disappointed.

Ashaman_Joe

Welcome to the club, Rue. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Caboose

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My personal favorate.

Note, I don't do much reading, but I did read the stand. <3 that book.

Gay_Parrot_of_Doom

Also, 'Carrion Comfort' by Dan Simmons is an astoundingly good book, its basically about an elite group of people who have the ability to control other humans with nothing but their minds.

Its absolutely brilliant, the plot is amazing.

Geminosity

hmmm... maybe michael moorecock's hawkmoon? Wheel of Time was great though =o

I'd absolutely love to recommend James Herbert's Rats Trilogy (Rats, Lair and Domain... you can skip lair really; it's good but the first and third are better =3 ). Alas it's horror adventure rather than fantasy adventure <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

eediot

Sci-fi:

"Ender's game" series by Orson Scott Card [from memory, i think that's it]
"Footfall" by Niven & Pournelle
"Battlefield Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard

Other books [i dont know enough books to bother classifying each of them]:

"Dune" series by Frank Herbert
"The Blue Nowhere" By Jeffrey Deaver [and pretty much any other book by this guy]

Then get most Tom Clancy books, and all of Dan Brown's books

Yes, most/all of these books are easy reading, but i'm guessing some other people are going to be checking out this thread for some books to read.

Also, I read "magician" by Raymond E. Feist, but I couldn't get into the second.. it seemed boring?

Edit: edited author of ender's game series.. right you are pjofsky

Gliss

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Orson Scott Card*

Make sure to read the sequels, too, Speaker For the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind.

Additionally, The Firm by John Grisham (I think) ftw.

That_Annoying_Kid

richard marcinko, the rogue warriors strategy for success. Fntastic book that actually makes sense

Thansal

Well, as WoT is not over yet (as book 11 is not released, and there needs to be atleast book 11, posibly 12 to actualy end the series), I would suggest the rest of those <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

There is also a prolouge that is the story of Moraine Sedai and Lan (pardon spelling, havn't read anytihng in a while)

People have listed some good things:
Terry Goodkind
Ramond E Faust
Heinlien, specificly Stranger in a Strang Land, Starship Troopers. You could also try his other books though many people don't like them (I do) like Friday.

*Starts looking around room for discarded books*
Juliet E. McKenna's Einarinn serries (Thief's Gamble, Swordsman's Oath and the rest of em)
The Harry Potter Series if you have not already
Daniel Hood's Familiar Dragon Series (and then you will know where Redford got his name <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
Anne McCaffrey's Pern books (alot of her other stuff sorta sucks)
Kate Elliott's Crown Of Stars series (starts with King's Dragons, Prince of Dogs.
Alan Dean Foster's Journeys of the Catechist (wondefuly amusing book)

Ok, well those are all the books that I can reach from where I am sitting <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

yah, I read alot

Testament

Dan Simmons Hyperion, and Dan Simmons Ilium. Ilium is...wow. Not only is it awesome, it's the size of a large text-book. Hyperion is like...my all-time favourite book, too. And if you haven't read it, 1984 of course.