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Originally Posted by fresnelly
An excellent example of what I AM looking for is Joseph Abercrombie's The First Law Trilogy. It has offbeat characters that turn the stereotypes on their heads and focuses on the action with tight pacing and a minimum of exposition and description. I'm waiting for the final book to come in at the library and it's made hunger for more.
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He's got a new book coming out soon...."Best Served Cold" or something such, which I believe is due out next month.
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In the mean time I picked up the first book of Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time and it has an OK balance of action and backdetail but it's sooo loooong. I just don't know if I can commit to 11 weighty tomes; especially since the plot doesn't seem to be straying much from the standard hero journey.
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Then don't read anymore...Jordan is the Tom Clancy of fantasy novels. Unless you are interested in the minute details of the wall treatment of a sitting room, the accompanying tea set and the history of a "magical" comb that sits in the hair of one of the stories secondary characters (at best...), then you should jump ship whilst you still have fond memories of that world.
As for suggestions...I don't really know. I was always fond of the "Deathgate" books and the Nicholas Flamel books by Michael Scott, even though they're a bit more for the young adult. Brandon Sanderson's stuff is pretty good with some interesting ideas (it's still the basic young one grows into big hero stuff, don't let me fool you, but fairly well written). I've always thought that George R. R. Martin's stuff to be of the same vein of Abercrombie, although he, too, gets bogged down in the details from time to time.