Book recommendation based on "The Name Of The Wind"

[Notoriousgod]

Just recently read titled book by Patrick Rothfuss, really enjoyed it. While I'm waiting for the next to come out I need something to sate my Sci-Fi/Fantasy desires.

Am a huge fan of The Dark Tower Series and Arthur C Clark.

Amazon recommended "The Farseer Chronicles".

[Captain Kirk]

A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin.

You won't be disappointed.

[EmptySet]

Amazon recommended "The Farseer Chronicles".

Is that the Farseer Trilogy, by Robin Hobb? It's pretty good.

[novax6]

A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin.

You won't be disappointed.

+1 billion.

As much as I enjoyed The Name of The Wind, A Song of Ice and Fire is still the best fantasy series out there IMO.
Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series is pretty decent too, as long as you can get past the slow beginning.

I just started reading The Blade Itself, by Joe Abercrombie (sp?), which I hear gets very good, but I haven't got far enough into it to say.

[Notoriousgod]

As much as I enjoyed The Name of The Wind, A Song of Ice and Fire is still the best fantasy series out there IMO.
Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series is pretty decent too, as long as you can get past the slow beginning.

I just started reading The Blade Itself, by Joe Abercrombie (sp?), which I hear gets very good, but I haven't got far enough into it to say.

I'm sold, I'll pick it up at Barnes & Noble then. I started "Assassin's Apprentice" by Robin Hodd, but it's not really doing it for me.

[Zohar]

Notoriousgod, I would suggest only getting the first book for starters. The series has received a lot of praise but I couldn't read it - the story was insanely slow (for me) at first. Just plain boring. Similar experience with reading LotR. Most people I talked with say "read the first 100-300 pages and you'll be hooked". That may be true, but right now I've got other things to read.

For fantasy I would recommend Across The Nightingale Floor (first of a trilogy which was then expanded to a pentalogy called "The Otori Tales"). It's sort of like Shogun (amazing book if you haven't read it) with some fantasy elements. That's the first thing that pops to mind as far as series go. Well that and His Dark Materials, which is also wonderful.

[novax6]

Notoriousgod, I would suggest only getting the first book for starters. The series has received a lot of praise but I couldn't read it - the story was insanely slow (for me) at first. Just plain boring. Similar experience with reading LotR. Most people I talked with say "read the first 100-300 pages and you'll be hooked". That may be true, but right now I've got other things to read.

I didn't think it was that particularly slow at starting out. The first intro chapter did a good job of giving you some intrigue and mystery, and then the actual plot begins in earnest from there. It's less then a hundred pages before serious events start happening, and the characters and plot get progressively more and more interesting.
I've read a ton of books that took forever to get going, some quite good, but I wouldn't put A Song of Ice and Fire in that list.

[Ulc]

Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series is pretty decent too, as long as you can get past the slow beginning.

Personally I enjoyed the first book, more or less, wasn't impressive, but entertaining none the less. But anyway, somewhere in third book I put down the book in disgust and vowed never to read anything Tad Williams have touched, ever again.

I mean, how many subplots can the man introduce, and then instead of resolving them, letting them fade from existence? How many times does each character have to start evolving - then have it undone and start evolving (from scratch) in a new direction? How many times does he need to describe a prophetic dream that the character then can't remember when he wakes up? Apparently a lot, since he spends two pages doing so, out of each 15 pages. And how come that the supposedly most intelligent people in the world can't figure out simple puzzles, such as inconsistencies in a short text?!

I usually try to finish a series if I've started it (sword of truth being another of the few rare series I've put away), but Tad Williams managed to make me break this rule.

My little angry rant aside, if you liked Name of the wind, you should most definitely pick up A Song of Ice and Fire, IMO the best book series I've ever read.

Joe Abercrombie's First Law series, starting with The Blade Itself is pretty cool too - Bloody Nine is a extremely cool character, though he gets slightly disturbing when you start learning how he earned that nickname. He later wrote "Best Served Cold" (guess what that one is about?) which are also really good, if slightly depressing, due to the whole "There is no such thing as a good man, only shitty ones that doesn't know themselves yet"

The two series I've read by Trudi Carnivan (Black Magician & Age of the Five) are quite good reads too, not as dark in style as Name of the Wind or aSoIaF, but well written, entertaining and throws some surprising twists in the plots for your enjoyment - if you're a little used to the genre clichés and styles you can probably see them from a mile away - but it's fun to watch it unfold