Recommend some Fantasy BooksFollow

Well, Dune was in the op's post, so SF was slightly implied, no?

Fantasywise, I'ld like to add Jack Vance as a suggestion. The Lyonesse trilogy is (for me anyway) Vance at his best. As with more of his stories, the ending is rushed, but everything before that is most enjoyable. It's more in line with your examples than his older (and perhaps more popular): 'Tales of a Dying Earth'.

'Sovereign Stone' trilogy by Weiss & Hickman. My personal favourite of theirs. The first part reads as a fairly standard and cliché story, but it's done well and remains interesting. It really picks up at book two.

'The Birthgrave' trilogy by Tanith Lee. Dark stuff though, not sure if she's ever written anything 'happy'. (mostly good books though, don't get me wrong, but often pretty depressing)


I can't advice any series longer than a trilogy myself that haven't been mentioned already (definitely Discworld, the first fifteen books or so are brilliant), I tend to lose interest after the third or fourth book. (Jordan and Martin for instance)

I only skimmed the other posts because I'm very busy and important.

Guesses on what might not have been recommended yet:

-Freedom series by Anne McCaffrey (First one is Freedom's Choice) I think
-World of Tiers series by ...Farmer maybe? I'm not looking it up, see above
-Not a series, but "The Wind-Up Girl" - fantasy/sci-fiish, more grown up than the other stuff (well, except SoIaF) you listed but I think you can handle it
-Also a fantasy and not a series, "The Night Circus"
-Also a fantasy and not a series and very short and very new "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Gaiman
-Have you read Sandman? Even if you don't usually go for graphic novels, you should this time, it's worth it, I cried and I'm heartless
-I assume you've read The Chronicles of Amber, but if you haven't do that
-You very likely haven't read the Daughter's of the Sunstone trilogy, but it's also hard to find since it's been out of print forever
-Read the Earthsea Trilogy if you haven't. Yes, I said Trilogy...it was a Trilogy and it should have stayed a Trilogy, just pretend it still is.
-His Dark Materials? - The first one is the Golden Compass

-Sword of Truth goes off the rails into silly town after the first one, I pretend that just the first on exists. Same deal (nearly) with WoT - I stopped reading either series after one or another book. Well, it was five for SoT, I remember clearly throwing that one down and saying "fts".

-The Thomas Covenant books are awesome if you greatly enjoy being depressed and constantly questioning why you keep reading them.

Nexa

Death Gate Cycle was really enjoyable. Fairly easy read, interesting characters but not over done.

I'm just finishing up book 2. I'm kind of pissed that I let myself onto yet another waiting list for the climatic finish of a make-believe story as imagined by a chubby, bearded fantasy nerd.

There's probably a support group...

But, hey, at least this series is far more likely to be finished than Martin's.

Well at this point the series is definitely going to need to manage its own plot at some point, so yeah, no worries there. Live or die, they'll have to leave Martin's canon behind.

I'm still rooting for Sansa to win the game of thrones. Though I'll settle for Arya or Dany.

I don't... think... so...

I could accept Gendry.

Or Jon.

White Walkers

I just hope Jaime makes it through to the end. With Arya my favourite character in Fire&Ice.

My assumption is (and don't read further if you don't want to hear assumptions/guesses about what will happen in GOT):
Spoiler

Not really a spoiler since it's just me hypothesizing, but whatever -

1. We'll find out that Jon is the son of Rhaegar and Ned's sister and not Ned...and Ned hid him and brought him back.
2. Jon marries Dany - cause that's the way that family "swings"
3. They rule together.

I want this to be true because 1. I want both Dany and Jon to win and this allows that and 2. because I want Ned to have not cheated on Cat.

Also, I think eventually, Arya kills just about everyone. Or at least I hope she does. I channel my rage at all injustice through Arya, haha. I also don't care about Dorne, because **** Dorne.

Nexa

Might as well take the half second to point out that Spoilerthe series IS called A Song of Ice and Fire.

SpoilerI do think it's probably that Jon is actually a Targaryen. The whole "I'll tell you about your mother some day..." thing was just too weird. Ned had scruples, but scruples so thorough that he would leave his son in such limbo? That's crazy...

As for Cat, Spoilerthere were some aspects of her character I loved. That one, I did not. If you're going to punish someone for not being faithful, you do NOT punish the child. They can't help that they exist, and they shouldn't be ashamed of it.

It's not the fact that she carried the grudge that bothers me. It's the fact that Jon is the one who had to pay for it, not Ned.

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragon Lance series is pretty good. Specifically The War of Souls trilogy. I quite enjoyed it.

Also, just as a friendly reminder the Dragonlance Chronicles is one series I do NOT recommend. Nothing like finishing the first book on an epic high note, having the characters mention the fight through the mountains they will have to go through to get to their destination, only to find they are at said location at the start of the second book.

Not going to get into too much spoilers but Caraman only makes a short appearance at the beginning of the first book of War of Souls and Raistlen is much later on. They were much more active in the Dragonlance Chronicles though.

Just finished The Name of the Wind. Really good read, though it meandered around a bit towards the end. Already ordered the next book in the trilogy.

Until then, I'm taking a break from fantasy to read 12 Years a Slave.