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YukonC:
I'm running through the entire series again on audiobook for about the 10th time and always enjoy the ride, but would like something else while I'm waiting for Peace Talks.  I've finished Working for Bigfoot, Brief Cases, Codex Alera series and Cinder Spires.  Audible.com suggested another character that was supposed to be "like" Dresden, but I couldn't even make it through the 1st chapter and returned the audiobook for refund.

What can you guys recommend to fill the void?  Thank you.

Ananda:
I’m listening to a series called Malazan, Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson right now and it’s really good. The first book is a bit of a drag, but it gets better and better. The writing is a lot better than the DF books, too. And, the series is complete, which is a big bonus. I listen to the series at night while my husband snores, so it has really been quite a lengthy experience with each book being 42 hours or more in terms of narration length.

Anne Rice’s vampire books are great, too. Well, not all of the books are great, but the earliest ones (Interview, Vampire Lestat, etc.) and a couple of the middle and one or two of the latter ones are superb. She started the books in 1976, so she went through many periods with her writing.

Her Witching Hour series was great, too.

JD Salinger wrote some really amazing shorts and a few brilliant books. My favourite is Franny and Zooey followed closely by the shorts, A Perfect Day for Bananafish and Teddy.

Another favourite book is Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Narcissus and Goldmund was also really good.

wardenferry419:

--- Quote from: Ananda on July 26, 2018, 02:47:25 AM ---I’m listening to a series called Malazan, Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson right now and it’s really good. The first book is a bit of a drag, but it gets better and better. The writing is a lot better than the DF books, too. And, the series is complete, which is a big bonus. I listen to the series at night while my husband snores, so it has really been quite a lengthy experience with each book being 42 hours or more in terms of narration length.

Anne Rice’s vampire books are great, too. Well, not all of the books are great, but the earliest ones (Interview, Vampire Lestat, etc.) and a couple of the middle and one or two of the latter ones are superb. She started the books in 1976, so she went through many periods with her writing.

Her Witching Hour series was great, too.

JD Salinger wrote some really amazing shorts and a few brilliant books. My favourite is Franny and Zooey followed closely by the shorts, A Perfect Day for Bananafish and Teddy.

Another favourite book is Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Narcissus and Goldmund was also really good.

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Witching Hour should have been a stand-alone. What follows is not so good.

Ananda:

--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on July 27, 2018, 01:11:44 PM ---Witching Hour should have been a stand-alone. What follows is not so good.

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Yeah, the first was the best by far, but the others have their moments. I didn’t like the taltos, so that aspect was not great to me. I loved the Uncle Julian character in the series and the Deirdre storyline was tragic. A lot of the Talamasca stuff was interesting, too.

She wrote a Lestat, taltos crossover book later in her career. That was awful. She really went off the rail for a period of her career. She even stopped writing any supernatural stuff because she’d gone religious crazy and would only write about the Jesus character. Fortunately, she got over that and wrote some okay books afterwards. She did a new one about Lestat et al to tie up the stories for all the major and a lot of the minor characters in the vampire books a few years ago and it wasn’t bad. It wasn’t great, but not terrible, either. Definitely worth a read if one enjoyed any of the series.

Fcrate:
How about The Demon Cycle? Awesome from start to finish. The last book in the original series was published a few months ago, so.... Complete! With 5 decent sized books, it'll take some time off your hands while you wait.

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