Got any recommendations on book purchases?

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David Gemmel's Lion of Macedon and Dark Prince are good books with plenty of action and some great fantasy in Dark Prince. Another Gemmel recomendation is his Rigante series (the first two) which is based in a sort of fantasy Roman Europe.

I'm afraid I haven't read any books based during the Crusades but I'd be interested in any fiction based at the time. I have read one based just before the Hundred Years War with Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.

 

Glen Cook - The black company books
Sara Douglas - The starman trilogy
Simon R Green - The deathstalker series
J V Jones - the book of words
Allan Cole -the Timura trilogy
david Gemmell - The dreani chronicles

 

Also The Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan
Terry Goodkind - First wizard's rule etc.
Guy Gavriel Kay - most of his books are based in historic/mythic situations from our world e.g. spanish/moorish, celtic and other pre- and medieval cultures.

 

past book 6 or 7 goodkind and jordan's series get... old/irritating...specially nynaeve..

i would recommend hobb's series... david gemmel has lots of good work.

raymond e. feists magician series is good...

gary grygax's(sp?) gord of greyhawk series is good, although in the last book they are ridiculously overpowered.

 

KC, if you're interessted in Somewhat Crusade based fiction, try Jan Guillou's: "The Road to Jerusalem", "The Templar Knight", and "The Kingdom at roads end" (Translated from Danish, so might hold some flaws in the tittles).

Theese books really is about the creation of Sweden, by combining the three "kingdoms" Vestra Götland, Östra Götland and Svearige (Hence Sverige = Sweden). All persons in this books series are person who actually lived, everyone despite the head person Arn, iirc. Great Books

 

Cernak mentioned "I Claudius" by Robert Graves which I agree is excellent, and tells of the life of Claudius and those around him in the time of the Emperors Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula.

Do not forget the follow-up "Claudius the God", by the same author on Claudius' life after he surprisingly became Emperor himself.

A third book by Graves is 'Count Belisarius', a story of a superb fighter and tactician in about 500 AD, who gave everything he had for Rome and got so much less than he deserved in return.

Darkstrider mentioned Glen Cook's 'The Black Company' series, about a mercenary company of soldiers in a magical world. Although there are 10 books in the series, the first three stand alone. 'The Black Company', 'Shadows Linger', 'The White Rose'

Did you ever got irritated at Robert Jordan's style ('Wheel of Time' series). You can see where the finish line is, the final confrontation, early on. However, the journey there lengthens with every book you read due to endless padding, and every book is a biggie (he is up to about book 10 now, and no end yet) ? If so, you will marvel after reading book 1 of 'The Black Company', which is an object lesson in how to pack bucketfulls of goings-on in one standard sized (about 300 pages) book.