Not to long i finished the best book series that i have ever read. It wasn't just slightly better than then many other books i have read, it was by far the best series i have read. The name of the series is "Malazan Book of the Fallen" - by Steven Erikson.
Steven Erikson does an incredible job of building the world in these books. The amount of history he has created and tied into the current time is amazing. As you read the series you'll learn things that don't seem important at the time, but a couple books later it will play an important role in in what happens, and i was blown away each time.
One of the greatest things that happens in this series is what the characters in the book call Convergence. Which is pretty much what the whole book leads up to, and each time i get to that point in the book i get drawn into the book and end up reading for six to eight hours straight. When the convergence is done i thought that that was the most amazing thing i have ever read, and don't think Steven Erikson could top himself. And of course he does.
The biggest problem with this series is the first book. Steven Erikson had wrote this book "Gardens of the Moon" ten years before the second book and it shows. Its not a bad book, in fact its one of my favorites in this series. But he doesn't do a great job of introducing you to things. But once you've read the entire series and go back and read the first book allot of things will make more sense. Now this lack of information isn't a bad thing. He does it throughout all his books. He'll have a character mention something important, and everyone around him already knows what it is, so they don't elaborate on what it is or what happened. To me this is a fantastic way to tell a story, because as you read you learn more about a past event or how something works. Its an amazing feeling when you do figure something out, and it makes the world seem more real and incredible.
I have never read another series that felt as real as this one does, or that has had such a big impact on my self.
