Please give this another chance - it and the others in the trilogy are excellent. What made you give up?
Malazan - Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson - all ten of them are superb
Missing out man! It gets better. But if you don't like that stuff then meh
Two books that come to mind are Swan Song and Boy's Life both by Robert R McCammon.For those who enjoyed Stephen King's The Stand, you should read Swan Song, it's just as good IMO.
Wow that is quite a recommendation, the stand is in my top 5 books of all time, so will definitely check it out data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Swan Song was the first book of McCammons that I read.It was recommended to me a few years back in a 'Books similar to The Stand' thread.Stephen King is my favourite author so I didn't think anything would come close to The Stand, but Swan Song is right up there.Ive since read all of McCammon's books and loved every one.I'm sure you'll enjoy Swan Song, McCammon is a very underrated author imo.
Thanks for reminding me - yet another addition to my list is Banks's wonderful "The Crow Road".The book was brilliant; the TV adaptation was sublime.
Have to thank you for this post as I to found the 1st 300 pages hard going of the lightbringer.
Stuck with it because of your post and boy I'm I glad I did, turning into quite a page turner data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Admit I didn't quite understand most of the start of Lightbringer first time around. Required a sizeable amount of effort. But I knew that Weeks wouldn't let me down data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Check out his Night Angel Trilogy too. Just as good.
You should try reading Paulo Coelho's books if you are into philosophy n stuff....recently I read the book 'The Kite Runner' and I thought it is amazing!