several comments to get out of the way first:
1) I've enjoyed pretty much all the David Weber novels I've read, and he has quite a few besides the Harrington series. 'Empire From the Ashes', the omnibus collection of the Dahak trilogy, is pretty good for example.
2) I'll second the rec for Alan Dean Foster's 'The Damned' trilogy. I also enjoy the various books in his Commonweath universe (the Pip&Flinx novels and various trilogies and one shots)
3) seconding/thirding/ect for the 1632 series, The Wildcards series, the Wiz books (hmm, I think I only have 4 of them...), and The Dresden books (just finished the first one the other day)
4) I don't mind Jordan's writing, but I stopped reading him cause I got tired of trying to keep track of 200 characters spread across an entire continent and more, each with so much happening and so many scene changes back and forth that after 1000 pages, the storyline has only progressed a week. :roll:
Now (finally) on to a new recommendation. "Villains By Necessity' by Eve Forward. The war is over and Good has won. Now, a ragtag group of minor villains join forces to restore the balance and save the world.
Another author I enjoy is L. E. Modesitt, jr. His biggest series is the Saga of Recluse, where the Order Mages wear Black, the Chaos Wizards wear White and the protagonist tries to find his own path between them.__________________
I bet that if you cooked an elephant, you'd have a lot of leftovers.
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin
1) I've enjoyed pretty much all the David Weber novels I've read, and he has quite a few besides the Harrington series. 'Empire From the Ashes', the omnibus collection of the Dahak trilogy, is pretty good for example.
2) I'll second the rec for Alan Dean Foster's 'The Damned' trilogy. I also enjoy the various books in his Commonweath universe (the Pip&Flinx novels and various trilogies and one shots)
3) seconding/thirding/ect for the 1632 series, The Wildcards series, the Wiz books (hmm, I think I only have 4 of them...), and The Dresden books (just finished the first one the other day)
4) I don't mind Jordan's writing, but I stopped reading him cause I got tired of trying to keep track of 200 characters spread across an entire continent and more, each with so much happening and so many scene changes back and forth that after 1000 pages, the storyline has only progressed a week. :roll:
Now (finally) on to a new recommendation. "Villains By Necessity' by Eve Forward. The war is over and Good has won. Now, a ragtag group of minor villains join forces to restore the balance and save the world.
Another author I enjoy is L. E. Modesitt, jr. His biggest series is the Saga of Recluse, where the Order Mages wear Black, the Chaos Wizards wear White and the protagonist tries to find his own path between them.__________________
I bet that if you cooked an elephant, you'd have a lot of leftovers.
___________________________
"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin