[Severian]

Bernard Cornwell - Sword Song

[Dancer+]

The Black Company (Glen Cook)
The Skinner (Neil Asher)
Reality Dysfunction (Peter Hamilton)
Consider Phlebas (Iain M.Banks)
The Farseer 1: Assassin's apprentice (Robin Hobb)
The Gormenghast Trilogy (Mervyn Peake)
The Great Hunt (Robert Jordan)
The Darkness That Came Before (Bakker)

Any idea which I should read first?

[Pig Iron]

Dancer;313758 said:

The Black Company (Glen Cook)
The Skinner (Neil Asher)
Reality Dysfunction (Peter Hamilton)
Consider Phlebas (Iain M.Banks)
The Farseer 1: Assassin's apprentice (Robin Hobb)
The Gormenghast Trilogy (Mervyn Peake)
The Great Hunt (Robert Jordan)
The Darkness That Came Before (Bakker)

Any idea which I should read first?

Nice books!

[Cougar]

Bernard Cornwell - Winter King

[paladin]

Dancer;313758 said:

The Black Company (Glen Cook)
The Skinner (Neil Asher)
Reality Dysfunction (Peter Hamilton)
Consider Phlebas (Iain M.Banks)
The Farseer 1: Assassin's apprentice (Robin Hobb)
The Gormenghast Trilogy (Mervyn Peake)
The Great Hunt (Robert Jordan)
The Darkness That Came Before (Bakker)

Any idea which I should read first?

you could read all the frustratingly long books first(jordan, bakker) and then read black company to recouperate... but id just read the black company first so you dont get burnt out after the first book

[Werthead]

In the last few weeks I have received:

ARCs of Neuropth by Scott Bakker, The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway and Return of the Crimson Guard by some geezer.

I also bought, with real money, Lord of Light and The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny; Storm Front and Fool Moon by Jim Butcher; Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber; The Praxis by Walter John Williams; The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons; andThe Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon. This brings my 'to-read' pile up to the biggest its been in years.

[Obdigore]

Briar, I read the first 5, they were pretty good, but I got kind of worn out on the series and Didn't read the next 5, although they are all together in one big omnibus.

I just purchased:

Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher
(The one after above) also by Jim Butcher
Player of Games by Ian M Banks (If I still don't like Banks much, I shall hate brood and those who suggested I purchase it FOR ALL TIME. (or just until they recomend a good book))

[caladanbrood]

Heheh, hope you do enjoy it then! It's quite a different story to Consider Phlebas, and I think gives a much better idea of what the Culture, and particularly Special Circumstances, is about

[Fist Gamet]

The Vampire - Tom Holland, Wolf In Shadow - Gemmell, and Viriconium - M.John Harrison

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

The nearby store finally started carrying Abercrombie, so I picked up The Blade Itself, and Glen Cooks' Black Company Chronicles.

[Werthead]

A review copy of The Edge of Reason by Melinda Snodgrass just turned up. Interested in this one, as Snodgrass is co-creator of the Wild Cards universe and was a writer on ST:TNG and did some good work there.

[Zanth13]

I bought via amazon the first 3 black company books...

also I purchased Piers Anthony's newest edition to the incarnations of immoratlity series Velvet dreams (or something close to that)

The incarnation books I thought were awsome when I read them back in High school...though I got weaker and weaker as they went along, with the first "on a pale horse" being the best....though "For Love of Evil" was interesting...

I bought the newest one just because it was never ever suppose to be published and it finally was... so i did it for nostalgic reasons... I was suprised as hell to see it on amazon out of now where...

[acesn8s]

Zanth13;327650 said:

I bought via amazon the first 3 black company books...

also I purchased Piers Anthony's newest edition to the incarnations of immoratlity series Velvet dreams (or something close to that)

The incarnation books I thought were awsome when I read them back in High school...though I got weaker and weaker as they went along, with the first "on a pale horse" being the best....though "For Love of Evil" was interesting...

I bought the newest one just because it was never ever suppose to be published and it finally was... so i did it for nostalgic reasons... I was suprised as hell to see it on amazon out of now where...

Weren't the "god & devil" books, the same plot told from different points of view?

I loved On a Pale Horse, the rest were just okay.

[Zanth13]

acesn8s;327735 said:

Weren't the "god & devil" books, the same plot told from different points of view?

I loved On a Pale Horse, the rest were just okay.

If i remember right "For Love of Evil" the book about the incarnation of Evil covered alot of the same material as the earlier books just from the point of Satan.

the last one And Eternity i think is what it is called may have had some cross over but wasnt exactly the same as the one before and it ended up tying all the books together into a nice little tanged web...

i dont think under a velvet cloak (the new book) will fit into any of the main series.... from what i understand its gong to be about a lesser incarnation.

[Obdigore]

I purchased the 'Books of the South' by Cook. It is Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel, and The Silver Spike.

The back also has a thing from SE!

"With the Black Company series, Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy---something a lot of people dind't notice and maybe still don't. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliche archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote."

[Astra]

I bought The Lord of the Rings - 3 book boxset by J.R.R. Tolkien (Author) and Alan Lee (Illustrator) when the price dropped to 45 quid

[Werthead]

My ARCs of Paul Kearney's The Ten Thousand, Greg Bear's The City at the End of Time and Melinda Snodgrass' The Edge of Reason turned up.

[Astra]

Werthead;328598 said:

My ARCs of Paul Kearney's The Ten Thousand, Greg Bear's The City at the End of Time and Melinda Snodgrass' The Edge of Reason turned up.

Do you actually pay for them??

[thrinidir]

ARC's are a courtesy of Publishers or authors themselves in some cases, so the answer would be no.

I bought Jack Vance's Lyonesse and Old Man's War by John Scalzi

[Durhang]

CS Friedman, Black Sun Rising, Coldfire Trilogy