Oh, I agree. The Black Company got better as Cook developed as a writer (I wasnāt sure about progressing into the series after the first book, but all in all, a good read).
The Book of the Fallen is a LOT of words and sprawls. But very good, especially the last few books.
Maybe the author was having fun:
During the 1600s, people connected the ornamentation of embroidery with the flourishes and embellishments found in writing and speech, and the verb embroider began being used to refer to the act of embellishing with florid or exaggerated language or with details that stretch the truth.
Been cranking my way through a movie list- I havenāt seen anything. Saw girl with the dragon tattoo last night. Personal recent favorites are Sicario and Fantastic Mr Fox
The Boxley Book Club is largely sci fi and fantasy
Canāt recommend either knowing the series will never be finished. And I say that having read all of both.
The site is crawling with F&SF geeks? NOW you tell me.
May I please recommend last yearās Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner, Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman, set in a near-future climate-changed world where corporations trade in āextinction credits,ā which come in handy when your business practices result in the extermination of an endangered species? The āheroā is a skeevy arbitrageur who faces personal ruin unless he can either A) persuade a marine biologist to downgrade the eponymous sea critter from āintelligentā to ānon-intelligentā status, or B) track down a live specimen of this seemingly defunct species. High-tech international intrigue ensues.
There is either a really big yock or a really cool idea on almost every page. Unfortunately, the story resolves itself quite nicely in a single volume, so you should not expect to immerse yourself in the usual 17 sequels. However, when your friends ask you what youāre reading, you will have the extreme pleasure of answering: Venomous Lumpsucker.
Iād recommend:
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Expeditionary Force
The Bobiverse
All amazing!
I agree with the Expanse tooā¦ the authors new series the Swarm is off to a good start with its first book.
I do like the Noobtown series as wellā¦
So many good options here. Iāll recommend The Will of the Many as a fantastic read. First in a series so will be waiting to see how the rest of it turns out,
You know what? I never read the 4th book. After 3 I threw in the towel. If its actually good, maybe Iāll give it a shot.
Oh, another book I really enjoyed, but Iāll admit its gotten a mixed reception among folks Iāve recommended it to, is The Library on Mount Char. Apparently its horror/fantasy, and while parts of it are pretty dark I never thought of it as horror and parts of it are quite funny. The world building is tremendous and the plot has layers and layers which you slowly work through (it does take a bit before the reader has any idea whatās going on, which is unfortunate, but the reveals are tremendous once you do) as the characters discover what exactly is going on and why.
Do these books have pictures and are they over 300 pages long?
Library on Mount Char isnāt 300 pages long, but its not much longer. Maybe 350? No pictures, though. 
The pictures form in your mind as you read, Fresh.
Ok @you and @JoeBoxley and @AdventiveQuasar
Yall tell me one I should read and I will
As we know those are the best books
In real life, Fresh belongs to a book club where heās known as Douglas. Heās Tugarding you guys.
Here you go:
More heist than straight fantasy, but itās a good one.
Damn HGN knows me somehow
Also my mom is the only person that calls me Douglas outside of my ex wives from Brasil
Thank you. I already started Mount Char but will try this. Also @chavlicek15 was a verocious reader in college. And I am not kidding
Yeah, Fresh tried that āOh, I donāt anythingā shtick but it was right after heād remembered my favorite beer after Iād mentioned it once like 6 months before so I wasnāt buying it.
What was that thing we used to have that allowed us to read so muchā¦ā¦? Oh yeah, I think it was called āfree timeā. Plus our 9 PM-6 AM hotel āSecurityā job each summer was conducive for reading. That job was our version of NIL which is hilarious in retrospect.