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Originally Posted by DaFace
I'm about 20 years too late, but I just finished up the Wheel of Time series and am starting in on the Song of Fire and Ice books. I was never much of a fantasy reader (or a reader, period, for that matter), but epic fantasy is nice when you're sitting on a bus for 45 minutes every day.
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The Wheel of Time series still has one left to go. Some stuff I'd recommend for after you're finished with GRR Martin's (new one out in July so you're timing it right):
Glen Cook's
Black Company (10 novels, hasn't been a new one in over a decade, but I think another is due sometime soon)
Joe Abercrombie's
First Law Trilogy +
Best Served Cold &
The Heroes
Adrian Tchaikovsky's
Shadows of the Apt (Currently at 5 novels, I've read 4 and they're fantastic - 6th coming out this year)
There are a metric ton of other series out there that I need to start reading. I've just begun listening to Ken Scholes'
Psalms of Isaak.
Other people have mentioned them at times in the thread, but for lighter reading I'd recommend both Jim Butcher's
Dresden Files series (he lives in Independence IIRC - his
Codex Alera series is also good) and Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries. Both are urban fantasy (Codex Alera is epic fantasy, actually begun, as I recall, when somebody dared Butcher to base a fantasy series on Pokemon
).