So, looking for a good fantasy series to read...

[The Night Angel]

Two people have already mentioned it, but the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks is a very good read, definitely worth a go

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Whenever these fantasy recommendation threads appear there's always a lot of praise and love for Jordan's saga. That being said, I always feel the need to ask how you fought through the middle books where he went so far off track. In trying to juggle so many different plots and characters they all felt a bit lost. I think I made it to around book seven. After that I just kinda gave up and moved on.

You mean when he lost the plot entirely in favor of self-indulgent fantasy where he by proxy got with three hot women who were totally okay with sharing and a couple might even be ok with double-teaming him?
You get through that with the power of lulz, and trying not to imagine his old, fat, wrinkly, gray-haired self plowing them. The middle's a little soggy, but it comes back around, and the towers of midnight made things cool again, despite the book being named for objects that do not appear in the book until mentioned offhand by a character that's only been mentioned, never written for, in the novel on the very last page. I mean this literally.
Lucky's wife is alluded to through all his chapters, but we dont get any from her perspective. Then the very last chapter brings it to her, and on the last page, she mentions the towers offhand, and reveals they are located in irish japan, where none of the book takes place.
Also a touch more Rover/eagle angst than i'd like. It seems like the new author forgot it had been mostly resolved, and threw it back it.

also, there needs to be a WoT movie, PURELY so the opening scene can be the Opening of the Bore. I envision it as a soft-mute scene where a circle of euphoric-looking mages use the Power to make an invisible drill chew into the earth.

The scene takes on a darker look and score, then finally snaps to the opening of the book, where the Whaler finds Louie in his hall. If i could, I would make the movie myself, and it would be AWESOME