Can someone please recomend me an Epic book to read!!

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  • ForestBrain
    ForestBrain Posts: 460
    I can't believe nobody mentioned this...
    "The Bourne" series by Robert Ludlum. TEN times better than the movies.
    And there's:
    "The Lord of The Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
    "The Obsidian Trilogy" by Andre Norton and James Mallory
    Then there's Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs.
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  • Spot In The Sky
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    Sword Of Truth series by Terry Goodkind....on book 6 of 11...best investment of my life. First fantasy series, too. Really changes your life. Start with the first, Wizard's First Rule
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  • prljmngrl
    prljmngrl Posts: 320
    "The Bible" written by God
    thats about as epic as you can get
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    prljmngrl wrote:
    "The Bible" written by God
    thats about as epic as you can get


    I am not sure... as far as epic fiction goes I am more into Stephen King.
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
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    Here ya go....not sure how epic it is

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_(novel)#Plot_summary
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  • merkinball
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    DeLukin wrote:
    I just finished Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell. It's the last in a series of 3 historically-accurate fictional books about the Saxons and their battle to rid England of the Danes in the 800's or so... Very good stuff. I'm moving on to his series about King Aurthur.

    The King Arthur series is my favorite Bernard Cornwell series so far. One of those books that I always recommend. Haven't read Lords of the North, but the first two books in that series are very good. The Sharpe series got a bit repetitive for me though.
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  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    If you like fantasy try David Gemmell, Raymond Feist and Trudi Canavan
    Also the Dark Tower series by Stephen King has already been mentioned, but try Eyes of the Dragon and Talisman also by him.
    Neil Gaiman is a fantastic writer, also Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks and if you want a good laugh and like fairy tales with a humourous twist try Terry Pratchett... not exactly epic, but still awesome :)
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  • Julien
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    urbanhippie wrote:
    If you like fantasy try David Gemmell, Raymond Feist and Trudi Canavan
    Also the Dark Tower series by Stephen King has already been mentioned, but try Eyes of the Dragon and Talisman also by him.
    Neil Gaiman is a fantastic writer, also Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks and if you want a good laugh and like fairy tales with a humourous twist try Terry Pratchett... not exactly epic, but still awesome :)
    amen to that post.
    YOU MUST READ TERRY GOODKIND's sword of truth saga. Those are the best books I've ever read.
    Feist is also one of my favorite. Some really good stuff.
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  • Heineken Helen
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    juliefer wrote:

    And the Stand too. Other Stephen King stuff = not so good, in my opinion.
    the stand was the first book to spring to mind when I read the first post. Excellent book! Although I disagree with the second part of your post - there are about 4 or 5 of Kings earlier stuff that I absolutely loved... none of them really epic though so let's just start with the stand :)

    OP can you elaborate on what are your favourite authors, favourite books, etc. and it may help to recommend something similar.

    Another author I never see mentioned is Peter James... he's fantastic... alchemist and host are two of my favourite books:

    http://www.amazon.com/Alchemist-Peter-James/dp/0752817299

    http://www.amazon.com/Host-Peter-James/dp/0679437339

    They're both certainly epic.... anyone who's into King or Koontz will LOVE them!
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  • Heineken Helen
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    imalive wrote:

    I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb. The best book I have ever read.
    One scene in that book helped me out of a very very dark time in my life so I agree it's worth a read... but overall I found it a bit boring :o
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    ForestBrain wrote:
    Then there's Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs.
    I don't think they fall into the 'epic' category... but I love them two... really simple easy to follow and get into for when you really don't want to concentrate too much... and I don't mean that in a patronising way... I mean it in a really good way.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • BinFrog
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    Lizard wrote:
    yep. but if you are as bad as me re finishing a book, you better set aside 6 mos. of your life!!! ;)


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  • Hitch-Hiker
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    prljmngrl wrote:
    "The Bible" written by God
    thats about as epic as you can get
    He had to use ghost writers thoug, coz he's a bit shit at writing himself :p
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  • Inhiding230
    Inhiding230 Posts: 362
    Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It is the first book I think of when I think of epic. It is historical fiction which I usually never read but it is an amazing book.

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