Hype your favorite book series

[Admiral Yi]

You stole my thunder

YOUR thunder?? I've been hyping those books since the dawn of recorded history.

[Malthus]

Fantasy with a lot of tropes.

http://riyria.blogspot.ca/p/books.html

Buy them, it's good fun reading.

You want fantasy with lots of tropes, huh? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alera

The inspiration for the series came from a bet Jim was challenged to by a member of the Delray Online Writer's Workshop. The challenger bet that Jim could not write a good story based on a lame idea, and Jim countered that he could do it using two lame ideas of the challenger's choosing. The "lame" ideas given were "Lost Roman Legion", and "Pokémon".

[merithyn]

You want fantasy with lots of tropes, huh? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alera

The inspiration for the series came from a bet Jim was challenged to by a member of the Delray Online Writer's Workshop. The challenger bet that Jim could not write a good story based on a lame idea, and Jim countered that he could do it using two lame ideas of the challenger's choosing. The "lame" ideas given were "Lost Roman Legion", and "Pokémon".

that series, too.

[fhdz]

One of my favorites is a trilogy - The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deptford_Trilogy

[fhdz]

Fantasy with a lot of tropes.

http://riyria.blogspot.ca/p/books.html

Buy them, it's good fun reading.

You want fantasy with lots of tropes, huh? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alera

The inspiration for the series came from a bet Jim was challenged to by a member of the Delray Online Writer's Workshop. The challenger bet that Jim could not write a good story based on a lame idea, and Jim countered that he could do it using two lame ideas of the challenger's choosing. The "lame" ideas given were "Lost Roman Legion", and "Pokémon".

...is it actually any good?

[Grey Fox]

Fantasy with a lot of tropes.

http://riyria.blogspot.ca/p/books.html

Buy them, it's good fun reading.

You want fantasy with lots of tropes, huh? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alera

The inspiration for the series came from a bet Jim was challenged to by a member of the Delray Online Writer's Workshop. The challenger bet that Jim could not write a good story based on a lame idea, and Jim countered that he could do it using two lame ideas of the challenger's choosing. The "lame" ideas given were "Lost Roman Legion", and "Pokémon".

That, that looks awesome!

My favorite series doesn't need no hype.

[crazy canuck]

One of my favorites is a trilogy - The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deptford_Trilogy

Fhdz is hereby an honourary Canadian 

[Malthus]

One of my favorites is a trilogy - The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deptford_Trilogy

You are, by chance, Canadian? 

[Malthus]

Fantasy with a lot of tropes.

http://riyria.blogspot.ca/p/books.html

Buy them, it's good fun reading.

You want fantasy with lots of tropes, huh? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alera

The inspiration for the series came from a bet Jim was challenged to by a member of the Delray Online Writer's Workshop. The challenger bet that Jim could not write a good story based on a lame idea, and Jim countered that he could do it using two lame ideas of the challenger's choosing. The "lame" ideas given were "Lost Roman Legion", and "Pokémon".

...is it actually any good?

Surprisingly, it is. 

It is pretty obvious that the authour deliberately crammed every trope he could think of into it, but it is nonetheless good rollicking fun.

[The Brain]

1632 series by Eric Flint. What a wordmeister.

[Scipio]

Gormenghast, allegedly.

Although I think the prose is turgid as hell.  If you want to read the work of Tolstoy and Dickens's love child, this is it.

I would have to, myself, promote the Temeraire books or the Hornblower books.

Also, absolute best strange fantasy books of all time: Master Li and Number Ten Ox series by Barry Hughart.  Just flat-out ossum.

[Capetan Mihali]

I beg you all, please read anything by Charles Willeford.  I don't think anyone here will be disappointed.  Exquisitely literate pulp with the darkest humor.  If only it were set in the 1600s instead of the 1980s, I could money-back guarantee it to this crowd.  But he is an overlooked genius.  And a super-decorated WWII tank commander.

Sav, it is to be marked MUST READ for your Florida sojourn.  The Shark-Infested Custard before the Hoke Moseley novels, though.

[Malthus]

I beg you all, please read anything by Charles Willeford.  I don't think anyone here will be disappointed.  Exquisitely literate pulp with the darkest humor.  If only it were set in the 1600s instead of the 1980s, I could money-back guarantee it to this crowd.  But he is an overlooked genius.  And a super-decorated WWII tank commander.

Sav, it is to be marked MUST READ for your Florida sojourn.  The Shark-Infested Custard before the Hoke Moseley novels, though.

Looks good. Reminds me of Lawrence Block.

Of which, the best is the Hit Man series, about a stamp-collecting New York single guy likable nerd ... who kills people for a living. Probably lives in the apartment next to garbon. 

[garbon]

Of which, the best is the Hit Man series, about a stamp-collecting New York single guy likable nerd ... who kills people for a living. Probably lives in the apartment next to garbon. 

[Capetan Mihali]

I beg you all, please read anything by Charles Willeford.  I don't think anyone here will be disappointed.  Exquisitely literate pulp with the darkest humor.  If only it were set in the 1600s instead of the 1980s, I could money-back guarantee it to this crowd.  But he is an overlooked genius.  And a super-decorated WWII tank commander.

Sav, it is to be marked MUST READ for your Florida sojourn.  The Shark-Infested Custard before the Hoke Moseley novels, though.

Looks good. Reminds me of Lawrence Block.

Of which, the best is the Hit Man series, about a stamp-collecting New York single guy likable nerd ... who kills people for a living. Probably lives in the apartment next to garbon. 

Only L. Block I've read is Eight Million Ways To Die (picked up at a used sale with "1982" written in huge Sharpie across the bottom ).  Honestly, I bought it for the title alone, but I recall it being a good read, especially with the protagonist's struggle against his alcoholism worked in.  Haven't heard of his Hit Man series, though, but will check it out.