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I actually just started to listen to the first book in the Mistborn series last night! I hear great things about it and so far so good! Gotta love Michael Kramer!

Name the series that, for you has the best use of magic. Also, does this series immerse this system of magic into the plot really well? For me, and this is going to be a popular one as this is a Sanderson fan site, it has to be by far the Wheel of Time (I know I'm guilty and this seems cliche) I just absolutely LOVED Aes Sedai, their politics, the white tower, channeling and the black tower! Name your favorite magic system and why!

I am surprised that only one person has mentioned the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind! I agree in part with the persons assessment that the first four books were amazing, then the series going downhill after that. Here is the order in which I rank his books: 1-4 were amazing. The fifth is one of the most painful books that I have ever read due to the fact that it is 600 pages of almost nothing to do with the main characters at all. The sixth book redeems the fifth and is IMO one of his best works. The seventh and eighth are much like the fifth book in the series in that they have little to do with advancing the main plot line and in part are a massive waste of time. Then he made the Chainfire story arc (books 9-11) which is the trillogy that ends the main story line of the sword of truths main story arc and they are really incredible. Since then he has started to write a new story arc in which he calls the Richard and Kahlan story arc which is where we are now. The first book in the new arc is alright and his newest book (the 13th in the series and is called The Third Kingdom) I really enjoyed. He also wrote a novella and a prequil to the series and they are both really well done IMO. The prequil in particular was incredible because it answered a lot of nagging questions about the Sword of Truth story arc. A lot of people really dislike Goodkind because he has a really bad tendency to beat the reader over the head with his views of Objectivism. Some times I feel like I am reading Ayn Rands Atlus Shrugged and NOT a high fantasy novel. Well if you can get through these parts and some of the more pointless novels I think you would enjoy the series quite a lot! So I really like a high fantasy writer that makes long series, Wheel of time, Sword of Truth, aSoIaF, Stormlight Archives. I like it a lot when an author writes long series and stays with his/her characters. I dislike series that are one or two novels and are finished. Trillogies are alright but I prefer a really long tale, a la robert Jordan or terry goodkind. Does anyone have a suggestion on a really good long series? I tried Terry Brooks first few novels in the Sword of Shannara (spelling?) I liked it but hated it at the same time because every book all the characters were either old from the previous book or were dead (minus one of course). So suggestions? Thanks!