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by nemexy 4073 days ago
The Night Watch by Sir Terry Pratchett. I have always liked his Discworld series, though two books had a bigger place in my heart : The Small Gods and The Night Watch. The first book was given to me as a young teenager, looking through his way to live and I am pretty sure that it took a huge part of my religious beliefs later(not exactly atheism, but agnosticism mostly).

But The Night Watch... It's a book, that I have rereaded over ten times in the last 3 years and will continue reading it. It is a time travel story, where the main commander of police forces goes back in time and has to be a part of a revolution. I mean, I can talk about it for ages, but I really don't want to spoil it, so go ahead check it out(although to fully grasp the ideas of the book you should read the first few books of the Watch series, but believe me all of them are worth it).

Something else that I loved to read when I was younger(12-14) was Winnetou, but my tries to check it again once I get into my 20s wasn't successfull, so maybe it was just a phase.

Chronicles of Amber is another great fantasy series which I would love to recommend, although the series wasn't finished and is left in a pretty huge cliffhanger, but yet the 10(shortish) books are all awesome and the world, that Zelazny has built is easily one of the best built world in fantasy scene.