The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian - yes, I know there's been a movie (Master & Commander with Russel Crowe and Paul Bettany) but the series is much richer and deeper than any single movie could be.
Also, Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings series. Concentrate on the Fitz storyline, maybe give the Liveship series a miss.
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle. I was expecting a trashy slasher with some queer elements and an autistic protagonist, what I got was a good supernatural thriller with some queer elements and a very believable autistic protagonist - I would genuinely recommend it.
The writing is the weakest part, it feels very kind of pedestrian, like "here's some words explaining what's happening" rather than being artistic or beautiful or evocative but it's good enough for the story and characters to come through, and they're great. So remove the writing quality from the equation and it could be absolutely excellent
The Sword of Truth series. My favorite series of all time. It had an attempt at a show, but I refuse to accept it. They took a story that's 10x more adult than Game of Thrones and made a CW show that had events from the 5th book in episode one.
No hate, but you’re the first person I’ve heard say it was their favourite. I enjoyed the first few books, but dude went off the deep end in later books. Became damn near unreadable for me. And I think majority of readers have similar views. I doubt any attempt would survive the hate and t would receive.
That's fair, I get it's not for everyone but I truly did enjoy it and the little book club my with my friends liked it. Granted I like those types of worlds. Mistborn, Wheel of Time, etc. But book 5 was by far my favorite entry, I've reread it by itself. I'm honestly curious what you started to dislike about them, just to understand that take on em, if you're willing to take the time.
No offense taken if it's not for you, or hell even most people, but man I would love to see it done justice in cinema, I just see so much potential there.
It’s been a long while since I read it, but each book got a little bit more pretentious with the author shoe horning his own world view into the readers face. That was annoying, but even more so because I recall disagreeing with his view quite a bit.
Also, each book was essentially the same plot. Universe works to keep the two protagonists apart, a bunch of fucked up shit happens, and at the end of the books they’re back together having learned nothing.
But the real issue I had with the later works was the very real Mary Sue of the two protagonists. Those characters just could do everything. It got boring and stale after a couple books of it.
I still hold Sword of Truth to be a good book by itself. And I do recall liking the next two books at least. But as a whole, I do not think it’s good storytelling.
Wow, thanks for taking the time and sharing all that!
The only thing I could think of is The Order and their concept that if you have and others don't you should be forced to give to them. I think it's an interesting political view, but I took at as the way the Dream Walker built and consolidated power, not a remark on the real world at all. But I could just be naive about it.
I would disagree about the second paragraph. I mean one book doesn't even have any of the main chars in it till the very end. Then you have a lot of content around multiple groups or people they are going after.
I can %100 understand the issue with the plot armor and ability to handle anything that comes up. Richard is made out to be this mega character that is essentially God, which does make some of the conflict feel weak. I can totally appreciate that.
Well thanks for typing all that out and talking the time to break down your feelings on it. I'm always curious about how others see things I've built an attachment to that can blind you a little sometimes. I still stand by loving them, warts and all, but I'd never cast shade on anyone who doesn't.
Nobody wants to mention the Malazan Empire series? That's probably fair since chances are good someone would screw it up royally.
I've been listening to Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds thanks to a recommendation I saw here on Lemmy. This is one that I'd like to see a movie or series adaptation.
The Bobiverse would be a fun series I think as well.
I bought it because I needed something to read on a flight, the cover looked cool for Black Sun Rising, and it blew me away.
The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.
The Gap Cycle series
LOL IDK how you would do the first book or even touch on that part of the books (because it makes them very very hard to suggest let alone reread) but once you got to the singularity bomb at the science space station deep in a dense asteroid field.... I wanna see that part. The emotions that the story creates in the characters is pretty primal and believable. Its an interesting story how each of the main characters goes through the same level of violation but in different ways
There's a book called Robopocalypse where an AI gains sentience and then takes control of basically all robotics/anything connected to the internet to take over the world and I'd love to see that as a mini series.
The Girl from Earths End By Tara Dairman
It's like Harry Potter if you replace magic with botany, and JK Rowling's shittiest values with the opposite of that.
Also fair warning it will make you cry
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