Recommend a fantasy book

bakes0310 · 10 Dec 2009 at 19:09

As title im after a fantasy book and i dont want no LOTR clone or similar heres what i'd like from the book:
Sort of an asian history to it
lots of battles and blood being spilled
it can have mythical things in it like undead or dragons ect
samurais dynstastys huge wars you get the picture.

Makunouchi · 10 Dec 2009 at 20:22

There was a pretty big 'recommend me' thread about fantasy a while back, lots of decent recommendations and discussion. I'll see if I can find it.

Edit: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18038702&highlight=fantasy

You probably could have done that yourself

Meridian · 10 Dec 2009 at 21:23

Pretty certain none fall into the category he describes though. Epic battles are ten a penny, bloody violence is surprisingly rare (Joe Abercrombie is probably the most bloody, along with George R R Martin, and the first fantasy by Richard Morgan has his usual trademark sprays of blood), but fantasies set in the far east are rare, and all the ones I know are only semi-serious, so fail all the other criteria.

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AGD · 10 Dec 2009 at 21:51

Some of the riftwar saga takes place in an asian military society. Much of it is set in forests with elves and stuff though

uk_unbeliever · 10 Dec 2009 at 21:58

Not Asian themed but the Malazan Book of the Fallen (Steven Erikson) series has epic battles and a seriously huge scope- reasonably graphic in places. Good time to start the series though as it's almost complete. You could probably start with the second book 'Deadhouse Gates' if you want 'epic battle'- half of the book is an on-going battle (and it is awesome!)

manic111 · 10 Dec 2009 at 22:01

What about Conn Iggulden's Conqueror series, focussed around Genghis Khan?

Amazing series of books.

bakes0310 · 11 Dec 2009 at 08:13

manic111 said:
What about Conn Iggulden's Conqueror series, focussed around Genghis Khan?

Amazing series of books.

I got his emperor books there brilliant i might have to look at his genghis khan books. Also ill have a look at Malazan Book of the Fallen .

manic111 · 11 Dec 2009 at 09:14

The Genghis Khan ones are better in my opinion; the Emperor ones were fantastic, but the Conqueror series just works more nicely!

derkaderka · 11 Dec 2009 at 09:17

Magician - Raymond E Feist ( best fantasy book I have ever read)

SteveOBHave · 11 Dec 2009 at 09:25

derkaderka said:
Magician - Raymond E Feist ( best fantasy book I have ever read)

Aye - but for the immersive side of the stories go with the following books:

Daughter of the Empire
Servant of the Empire
Mistress of the Empire

Excellent books.

I would also strongly recomment The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

Makunouchi · 11 Dec 2009 at 11:51

derkaderka said:
Magician - Raymond E Feist ( best fantasy book I have ever read)

High five me brother!

Same here, I have a copy of that book that's so well read I've had to rebind it

Nullvoid · 11 Dec 2009 at 12:56

Maybe the two Shike books by Robert Shea would interest you?

I have to admit I didn't even realise there were two until googling it just now but I've read the second and it was decent enough. Getting hold of them might be a bit more of a challenge though since I don't think they've been reprinted all that recently.