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Just curious. I haven't read a lot of Fantasy books, pretty much only read The Hobbit and LOTR before I picked up ASOIAF. I really am not interested in corny ' Disney style' fantasy novels. I like dark, gritty, and realistic, adult humour, great personalities and incredible dialogue......does anyone have any suggestions for a noob to the Fantasy Genre?

Thanks in advance.
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Just curious. I haven't read a lot of Fantasy books, pretty much only read The Hobbit and LOTR before I picked up ASOIAF. I really am not interested in corny ' Disney style' fantasy novels. I like dark, gritty, and realistic, adult humour, great personalities and incredible dialogue......does anyone have any suggestions for a noob to the Fantasy Genre?

Thanks in advance.

 

Dark , gritty and adult humor try the Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks.

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Since reading ASOIAF I've read the Wheel of Time series (14 books) and the Sword of Truth series (11 books, plus a couple prequel books, and a trilogy set after the main series). Both seem a bit more of a high fantasy setting, compared to ASOIAF more realistic, low fantasy setting.

The Wheel of Time is a bit less dark, and not anywhere near as casual with foul language and overly brutal violence. The Sword of Truth, in comparison, is very casual with language and brutality, at times even more so than ASOIAF
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Since reading ASOIAF I've read the Wheel of Time series (14 books) and the Sword of Truth series (11 books, plus a couple prequel books, and a trilogy set after the main series). Both seem a bit more of a high fantasy setting, compared to ASOIAF more realistic, low fantasy setting.
The Wheel of Time is a bit less dark, and not anywhere near as casual with foul language and overly brutal violence. The Sword of Truth, in comparison, is very casual with language and brutality, at times even more so than ASOIAF

I recently picked up Wizards First Rule....it didn't grab me right away, but I will keep at it. Thanks.
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Just curious. I haven't read a lot of Fantasy books, pretty much only read The Hobbit and LOTR before I picked up ASOIAF. I really am not interested in corny ' Disney style' fantasy novels. I like dark, gritty, and realistic, adult humour, great personalities and incredible dialogue......does anyone have any suggestions for a noob to the Fantasy Genre?

Thanks in advance.

 

You mean during the four years since ADWD came out?

 

Countless books.  But the only fantasy besides this was The Wheel of Time.  I mostly read romance.  The trashy kind. 

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I've been reading mostly WWII nonfiction for some reason. 

 

But I'm going to buy and read The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. I've read reviews that say the world-building and exposition is very thick in the first book... and its over a thousand pages (I think). Its the first book in a planned ten book series so I'm hoping that, from his experience finishing WoT, and with ASOIAF past its half-way point (books wise), Sanderson will be able to bring some fresh ideas to fantasy. 

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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (if you haven't guessed by my avatar) and the Kingkiller Chronicles are super fantastic. I honestly can't recommend the last one enough. It hooked me faster than asoiaf did and the world building and word play is amazing. The only problem is, the trilogy isn't finished. So now I'm waiting for WoW and Day Three which are both supposed to be released sometime next year...

 

I adore JS/MN, but it's not for everyone. The first part can drag if you're not immediately in love with the parallel, historical world as well as the less than heroic characters. But it becomes super, special, awesome the further along you get in the story.

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Since reading ASOIAF I've read the Wheel of Time series (14 books) and the Sword of Truth series (11 books, plus a couple prequel books, and a trilogy set after the main series). Both seem a bit more of a high fantasy setting, compared to ASOIAF more realistic, low fantasy setting.
The Wheel of Time is a bit less dark, and not anywhere near as casual with foul language and overly brutal violence. The Sword of Truth, in comparison, is very casual with language and brutality, at times even more so than ASOIAF

I recently picked up Wizards First Rule....it didn't grab me right away, but I will keep at it. Thanks.
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The Ravens Shadow trilogy, Anthony Ryan, First in series, Blood Song, imo, is as grand in story, world building and scale as aGoT.
Another favorite, The Broken Empire trilogy, Mark Lawrence, nothing is as gritty or has such beautiful prose in a violent, bleak world.
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