robin hobbs liveship traders and farseer trilogies are good, david farlands runelords is good...harry turtledoves earthgrip is absolutly great...
"I always reccomend the DUNE books written by FRANK HERBERT (not the prequels written by his son after Frank's death.. his son cant write worth snot). "
uggg, nooooo...the DUNE books are horrible, the only decent characters got killed early on, the main characters that were not abhorrent were merely disgusting, the plotline was dry at best, and the only conclusion that would have been appropriate was the planet getting deathstarred in slow motion.
his sons prequels are pretty damn good though, most characters were likeable, or at least decent enough to be indifferent. the plots are interesting. the only thing i didnt like (about the first book anyway, havent read the others) was the ending, but that was merely because i'm used to multi book stories being reasonably self containing.
oh, and you can never go wrong with a encyclopedea
