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The Way of Kings?
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If you are wanting something similar to GoT, take a look at <strong>The Stormlight Archives</strong> by Brandon Sanderson.
I just picked up the first book. I bought it based on the 5,000+ 4-5 star reviews on Amazon. I didn't realize the books in the series are all 1,000+ pages, so I was a bit surprised when it arrived. People are liking it more than Fire and Ice and even LotR, so it's got to be worth a shot.
I haven't started it yet as I'm reading through a few other books first, so I can't personally comment on the writing quality.
Ahhh!!! This is from my favorite series! I can say that the first book in it singlehandedly ended a depressive episode I was having. The fandom is great, too! Here’s a link to obtain the first book from Amazon for those of you who, like me, hate tasks with steps
The Way of Kings https://www.amazon.com/dp/0765365278/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_X25M2EJD0468YCSA0EWE
- For anyone with an encyclopedic knowledge of the book - have >!the other two parts of the first oath!< come up yet in the book? I actually thought they were all on the back cover, but turns out the passage I was remembering is actually from the various book synopses on Amazon and the like (example) - I'd rather not quote that part here without being certain that they were actually up before Book 1's release though.
- Laral is Wistiow's daughter.
- I don't know what is mentioned about the timeline of the Silver Kingdoms so I'll avoid commenting on that. Question to others: >!do we even know the timeline of when the Silver Kingdoms were around?!<
- Here's an interesting quote from Chapter 7:
>As always, thinking of her father made her feel ill, and the pain started to constrict her chest. She raised her freehand to her head, suddenly overwhelmed by the weight of House Davar’s situation, her part in it, and the secret she now carried, hidden ten heartbeats away.
- Chapter 45... yeah that is quite the interesting chapter.
- I'll point out that you're making the assumption that the symbolheads are necessarily only around because of a single person.
- Oh, this is where the "Child of Tanavast" line is (that's the way I tend to remember the scene since someone brought up that line for certain reasons). Eventually, the name Tanavast will be connected to the person who once went by that name.
- Chapter 11 epigraph: "Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns".
- Spren and stormlight... quite the topic.
- At one point, the name of Book 2 was going to be The Book of Endless Pages. Sanderson ending up changing it, on the reasoning that naming a 400k word book with that title would be a little on-the-nose.
- Oh, Interlude 7 is coming up. One of the Part 4 epigraphs is relevant to this interlude.
If you're at all into epic fantasy, Brandon Sanderson is known for his "plot avalanche." I've only read the Stormlight Archive, but I can tell you if you do choose to start there, you've just found yourself three thousand pages of awesome.
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
This is the first book of the Stormlight Archive.. so if you enjoy it, good news! There’s more!
E: fixed a typo
The Stormlight Archives! By god, read The Stormlight Archives! I tell people to read stuff from Brandon Sanderson more often than I talk to my parents. It's good. And then it gets better. Then it becomes the best story you've ever read.
And then you're fucked because there's no way out and the series is ongoing. Then, when you're caught up, you realize there's a multi-series story going on behind the scenes. A secret story within a story, across like 14 books and counting! And they all tie in to events across each series! And then you're furiously researching lore at 4 in the morning, simmering like a fucking kettle because the next book comes out in one month and two days and you're dead inside until then.
I'll just leave a few links to the first book in the series so others can commiserate in the existential Hell-prison that is waiting for more SA:
HELP ME.
Here's the goodreads page on the series. And here's the Amazon page for book 1 (The Way of Kings).
It's epic fantasy, and the world building is amazing. :) It's hard to fully explain because the world Sanderson has built is so complex.
Essentially, it's about a world where a group of people (called the Heralds) wage war against these monsters (called Voidbringers) in order to protect humanity. If a Herald dies, they always resurrect and come back (bc the monsters keep coming back in cycles after many years). It's part of an oath they make.
After countlessly dying, they decide - screw this. We're tired. And they leave.
The book is about what happens thousands of years later, when people have forgotten what the Voidbringers are (or believe that the war is done). It follows multiple characters (none of which are Heralds) and the adventures/politics/learning of magic and war, etc.
There is magic, but it's sooo unlike any magic (in function and description), that it's absolutely intriguing. :)
Try it! If you're interested, PM me!
Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive.
Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards.
Peter V. Brett's The Demon Cycle is just ok, nothing amazing.
Phenomenal book. I've read the first one, I think there are two.
> introverted N-types even more so are apt not to have grown up knowing many people substantially like themselves, so they are more interested in participating in groups comprised solely of people who feel the same kind of alienated in daily life
This makes sense to me, and is exactly why I'm here.
Ok, so as far as fantasy goes, Simmons hasn't written too many, if any. Illium and Olympus perhaps, but those are definitely scifi, not fantasy. I'd actually suggest Way of Kings, a series by Brandon Sanderson. You'd probably also find the Mistborn Trilogy highly entertaining.
Skyrim is a great game. I've not had a chance to play it much in the last year or so, because I really prefer to devote at least a couple hours to it, or I feel like I get nothing accomplished, and it seems like I haven’t had more than a few minutes to myself in that time.
Jareth is fantastic!! It would especially poignant now that Bowie has passed.
> What are some of your other favorites
Do you mean other iterations of Star Trek, or other scifi in general?
Yeah, I'm gonna take a break from the series to try The Way of Kings which was recently made very cheap on amazon.
Pretty standard recommendation around here, but your request definitely fits The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Takes place in a world some people wield giant magic swords that can cut through anything. Main character is pretty much unparallelled in wielding a spear and [minor spoilers that are pretty much already implied by the fact I'm recommending it](#s "starts gaining magic powers, which is something not known to have happened to anyone in thousands of years." )
Speak again the ancient oaths,
Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before destination.
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