[/quote]You are well read. Those two books you mentioned from recluse are also my favorites. I particularly like the the crafting explanations for carpentry and engineering
Hmm, The Time God is a pair of books that ... I can't quite get into. They felt incomplete, as if there was more yet that more wasn't completed properly. Not sure if I'm making sense on this.
I believe the Crystal Shard is not from Ann McCafrey but from R.A. Salvatore. Ann did write the Crystal Singer?
I never thought I would find someone else who's read For Love of Mother Not, beyond some dedicated literary club or another.
The Sword of Truth ... it kind of got weird after a few books, don't you think?
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan is a good series with grand scope. I did finish it. The last 3 books were written by Brandon Sanderson. I would have agreed with you about the multiple points of view, except that I had no problem following it and the diverse points of view seemed to ADD to the story, not take away. There is 1 book I did dislike because Rand Al'Thor was nothing but a cameo in the entire volume. That one I did dislike, intensely. I suggest NOT reading David Weber's Safehold series if you did not like the character changes in Eye of The World. David Weber took that Safehold series and flushed it down a toilet after the 1st book.
I have NOT read My Crimson. I'll look it up.
If you haven't read anything from Jack McDevitt, John Scalzi (Old Man's War), Louis McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan series with Miles Vorkosigan is impressive). I recommend a look.
The Darkover books might be a good series to read as well. Their scope is impressive.
Listed above is the Malazan Book of the Fallen. It is ... huge. It is also VERY confusing and complex. It is more complex than any other series I have ever read. There were times I wanted to burn the darn books because they were so darn difficult to follow. If you're able to finally get the gist of it, the scope of that universe becomes breathtaking. One thing I like about this series is the original monsters that I find in it. Some of these monsters are actually pretty scary in the sense of their makeup and disposition.
There is a little known series called Evergence Trilogy. It is, at the time I read it, one of my favorite series of all time. I disclaim that I read it when i was a kid and not sure if it will be as awesome to me now as it was then. The book is about the revenge of a dead alien species on their murderers: Humanity.
One old and very powerful influencing sagas, in all of fantasy, is the Eternal Champion series by Michael Moorcock. I'm a huge Elric of Melnibone fan. The bastard is such a murderous SOB.
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rabidbiteThe dawns of paratime had the problem you are describing worse. I wish mr. Modesitt would have continued it to fill in some of the gaps after his revision with the time god. I still thought the time god was a good stand alone book even with some of the missing details.
I agree with that part.
You are correct it was crystal singer. Crystal shard was good book as well.
I was going off of memory. I was in Turkey last week on business.
I have read some of the malazon and elric books. So far so good.
I have read most of the darkover books from marion zimmer bradley. They were good.
Vows and honor and oathbound kicked off the valdemar series by mercedes lackey. They were interesting for the most part.
I will try some of the others you mentioned
The Pit dragon series by jane yolen was good too.
The mageborn series by michael manning was pretty good.
There are a bunch of others especially on my phone since i went all ebook lately.
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