Yeah, I picked that up. I usually hate to start a series before it's done so may hold off on reading it for a while, though.

Finished the final book in Lev Grossman's The Magicians series, the Magician's Land.

Absolutely fantastic. The whole series. A lot of people call it Harry Potter in college, but that's a pretty poor generalization. It's such a smart series, and I think would appeal to anyone who is a fan of fantasy because of the sort of meta nature of it.

Glad you mentioned that. I need to finish that series up. Really liked the first two.

Also need to grab Brent Weeks' The Broken Eye, Daniel Abraham's The Widow's House, Abraham and Ty Franks' Cibola Burn, and get started on Mark Lawrence's Red Queen's War series and Joe Abercrombie's Shattered Sea series.

Reading all of the Recluse series and all of the Malazan series has taken up too much of my attention this year...

I started A Canticle for Liebowitz last night and got through the first act (out of 3 I think).

The end of the first act left me completely stunned and I had no desire to read on anymore.

I don't want to spoil it, but I'm sure a lot of you know what I'm referring to. I'm not a heavy reader, but I do t think I've ever read a book that used that specific plot technique before.

Spoilers for what I'm talking about below.

I'm having a lot harder time getting into the second Mistborn book. The first was really good but this one is pretty slow.

I am going to start the entire anne rice vampire chronicles for the second time after the game~

Finally finished Erikson's Malazan series, took me almost a year, although part of that was losing some steam during Dust of Dreams and spending a couple of months reading another fantasy series.

In the end, I thought the latter half of book 9 and then the final book did a really fine job at finishing up the series. Much better than, for example, Sanderson's work on The Wheel of Time. But of course Erikson finished his own series, so there's that distinct advantage. In any case, for the density of the writing, and the crazy number of plot threads, I thought he did a pretty amazing job at bringing everything together at the end. Actually a bit sad to be done with it.

Midway though the second book of this 3 part series and it has been pretty damn good. Like that it is more character and maneuvering for power driven while the fantasy elements work their way in. Reminds me a little of Game of Thrones in that aspect.

What kind of series is this? Is primarily a political fantasy?

Third one is even slower. There's a stand alone Mistborn book that's essentially a western that's pretty damn good though.

The first book was fun but the second has been all political maneuvering, which I find pretty boring.

As more warning then, both the second and third have a decent amount of that. I like it personally, but it's not for everyone.

I promise the endings are good though. :)

I'm not saying it's bad. I just want more magic, less politics.

I'm not sure how I'd define it to be honest. I don't think political is a word I'd use, although there are politics involved. It's about as epic as epic fantasy gets, covering thousands of years and a seemingly endless cast of characters. I'd relate it to Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series (much better than Covenant IMO) and Cook's Black Company series more than to, say, Tolkien or Wheel of Time.

Thanks. I ordered the first book. I'll probably start on it when I finish the Mistborn series.