What should I read after I've finished A Dance with Dragons

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After months of re-reading the book series I'm now down to the final chapters, and fear I may even start at the beginning and read them for a third time. What other book series should I be reading to cure my addiction to ASOIAF. Please help wanted?
 
Sry, good link.

Groot, if you browse all sixty-one pages of the GRRM forum, you'll find more threads on recommendations. Also, if you explicitly state why you enjoy ASOIAF, then you might get responses that point you exactly where you want to go.

I read AGOT, ACOK, and ASOS back to back to back fifteen years ago. Since then, the most enjoyable fictions I've read are Ilium by Dan Simmons, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber, The Curse of Chalion by Lori McMaster Bujold, Legend by David Gemmell, and JK Rowling's chart busting series. I like them all for different reasons, but they all sucked me into their stories.

If you want a coming of age tale told as a memoir, the go with Rothfuss. If you want mythology, philosophy, sci-fi, time travel, Shakespeare, and war, then read Ilium. If you want sci-fi, politics, international intrigue, the Reformation, and a huge series, then Weber is your man. If you want straight forward fantasy, then you might like Legend.

I'e also enjoyed, but not flipped over Robin Hobb, Joe Abercrombie, and Steven Erikson, but many people have.

If you've never read Tolkien, Lewis, Howard, Herbert or even Burroughs, then you should partake of their works so you can know the stories that influenced Contemporary authors.
 
Thanks for the suggestions.

As to why I think I like ASOIAF, I'll try and explain and hope it makes some kind of sense. First it's because there is alot going on and there is lots of plot, but most of all I think it's because I can read the chapter, and visualise the scene almost at the same time without getting bogged down in who's saying that, where am I again etc. I think GRRM and JK Rowling do this the best, and is a big reason they are more successful than others.

If that makes some sense, what authors would you suggest? I'm a bit nervous about starting a series and then thinking I wasting my time, but I suppose I can always stop reading it!
 
We have a "similar authors" thread in case of interest:
https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/536438/

Groot said:
First it's because there is alot going on and there is lots of plot, but most of all I think it's because I can read the chapter, and visualise the scene almost at the same time without getting bogged down in who's saying that, where am I again etc.
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Have you read Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth? That might appeal on what you've said, and it is an excellent book.
 
Brian Turner said:
Have you read Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth? That might appeal on what you've said, and it is an excellent book.
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I'l second this recommendation. If you like a big story with engaging characters that manages to keep things moving with a clean narrative, then Pillars of the Earth is an excellent choice.
 
Pillars of the Earth was well researched and well thought out... but I never identified with a single character.

Groot, Fevre Dream by GRRM was also enjoyable. It's clear in character and plot, but man, oh man does Martin ratchet up the tension.
 
I like Abercrombie a lot. I especially like how characters from previous books appear in future books. Sometimes seemingly minor totally irrelevant characters become main characters in later books.

I personally hated Erikson and stopped after the third book in that series (the one that every review said was as good as or better than ASOS). The big "shocking" "death" (no one appears to stay dead in that series) is so heavily foreshadowed that I actually laughed when it happened. Don't even get me started on the Myhbe and the way people suddenly fall in love out of completely nowhere. But most other people love the series so who knows.

I really like Brian Sanderson. But Boaz hates him so, again, who knows. I think Sanderson's Stormlight Archive is great but it's only two books in. However, I believe he'll actually finish it which I can't say about GRRM. I liked the Mistborn books, too. I think the magic systems that he creates are very unique and interesting, especially hemalurgy from the Mistborn series.

I'm currently looking for another epic fantasy series to get into as well. I read the first book of Robin Hobb's Farseer series and it was ok but not something that made me care enough to keep going.

I'm really interested in Rothfuss but he seems to take years to write his books like GRRM and I've had enough of that garbage. I'll start reading them when he finishes the series.
 
nobody's mentioned Scott Lynch yet - The Lies of Locke Lamora was an outstanding debut. Going darker, grittier, more medieval and complex, Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series will eat a good year of your life (in a good way :) )
The Throne of the Crescent Moon (Saladin Ahmed) is also wonderful. alas the sequel is not yet published.
Also, try Anne Lyle's Night's Masque trilogy for very good Tudor-age shenanigans.
 
Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

I read the beginning of the blade itself, gardens of moon, and pillars of the earth, and liked them all. So still undecided, but I think I asked to early. Back to a dance with dragons first.
 
I personally love David Gemmell, his Drenai series isn't exactly linear, but he has a ton of books that take place in the same land and he is incredible. Gemmell, Robert Jordan, and George RR Martin are the three main reasons I got into writing myself.
 
first 6 of the 9 robin hobb farseer books are great. the next 2 are good, last one is a letdown.
fitz is portrayed too much of a bumbling fool right up until the end, and too little interaction between Bee and Fitz
 
Thomas Storm said:
I personally love David Gemmell, his Drenai series isn't exactly linear, but he has a ton of books that take place in the same land and he is incredible. Gemmell, Robert Jordan, and George RR Martin are the three main reasons I got into writing myself.
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Personally, I been reading a lot of SOIAF fan fiction. I’m still waiting to someone to write one where Druss The Legend and Skilganon The Damned are Robb Stark’s sworn shields :)
The Damned would eat the Kingslayer for breakfast
 
i have been thinking of reading axe and throne, as well as the greatcoats. But as i have not read them, i can't comment. I liked the first books of the tearling books, but the third one was a complete letdown. For me one of the worst endings of a trilogy i have read so far.
 
Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series was really good, the sequel trilogy not so much :(

Fred Saberhagen's Books of Swords are one of my favorite series, an interesting blend of Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga is and always will be in my top 3 favorite series,the others being Dune and Tolkien. The whole Riftwar Cycle is about 30 books, enough to keep some people occupied for years (Or a few months if you read like i do), but it's the original trilogy that I highly Recommend.
 
i liked magician from feist, as well as some other books. but once you read a certain number of books of him. Feist tends to become repetitive. I am certain i have read the exact same line being written in quite a few of his books for example when characters meet up and inform each other of their tidings. Feist is a recommendation in tolkien storylike books but in moderation for me.
 
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