I agree, insomuch that they're great books (though I don't entirely agree with his representation of Alexander the Great... too cuddly for my liking), but I wouldn't really call it a 'series' per se, since they're all standalones that you really don't need the other books to get what's happening. *shrug*BathorysGraveland2 said:I also really like Steven Pressfield's ancient Greek series of books, my favourites being Gates of Fire and Virtues of War.
For a second there, I was going to rail at you for being [insert intellectual insult here], but I just misread your phrasing. I find The Three Musketeers very silly... but that may have been the point, but le Comte de Monte Cristo is fucking epic, no question about it.TheKaz said:Uh,everything that Tolkien has written, Le Comte De Monte Cristo,The Three Musketeer's,The Walking Dead,The Night Angel Trilogy,Conan Saga,various webcomics.
Oddly, though it's just as far out in terms of mythology and hocum, I preferred the Macedon pair, and as ever: RIP David Gemmell, you died before more works of literary brilliance could be presented before mankind.MetaKnight670 said:My favourite series is the Troy trilogy by David Gemmell. I must have read them at least 4 times over, but I still keep coming back to them anyways.
DeeWiz said:The Sword of Truth seres - can't really pick only one book out of it. A close second would be Sword Art Online, not the anime but the books, which are much better.
Matthew Reilly is my idol, the Jack Jr books are fantastic - dare I say better than the Scarecrow books...though they need a crossover one eventually...StormShaun said:And the "Jack Jr" series by Matthew Riley. (Just got into it)
I guess you're right. It's less a series and more of a shared setting, I suppose. While we're on the topic, what did you think of Tides of War? I found it to be pretty lackluster compared to his other ones. It just seemed to be too wide and complex an event for it to be put down into a single book, and it left me confused in places. Furthermore, he went just a tad crazy with the narrations. I believe it was a narrator narrating a narrator who was narrating the narrator of the whole story, or something to that degree. It felt less focused than Gates, Virtues or even Amazons.SckizoBoy said:I agree, insomuch that they're great books (though I don't entirely agree with his representation of Alexander the Great... too cuddly for my liking), but I wouldn't really call it a 'series' per se, since they're all standalones that you really don't need the other books to get what's happening.
Agreed. One simply doesn't.SomeLameStuff said:
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I tried reading Interview with The Vampire as an adult and found it intolerably melodramatic. All of these characters seem to want to 'possess' Louis but its never fully explained to what end. Its not like anyone was having sex... I understand this is supposed to bluid to some kind of unreliable narrative but I couldn't bring myself to read the second book.Angie7F said:Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles was one series I was totally into as a teenager.
I was into vampires way before twilight...