Fantasy books

Rygar

BinauralJam wrote:

Drizzt book's by R.A. Salvatore, about a black elf in the forgotten realms universe, kind of a mixture of Wolverine and Captian America, 20 or so books, kicks ass! Salvatore writes fights scene's like nobody else.

These! Excellent books. I'm halfway through the new one now.
Start here: http://www.amazon.com/Homeland-Trilogy-Forgotten-Realms-Legend/dp/0786939532/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319051127&sr=1-1

tremors

intodeep wrote:

@tremors- I want to read the Chonicles of Thomas Covenant and the Earthsea at some point, i just have so many others i want to read first :( but they are on the list just not the short list
i am not familar with the other two

I don't read fiction all the time, but I go through phases - and in those phases I want to read books like these. Thomas Covenant is a true classic of the field - I would say any Fantasy lover would get a hell of a lot from these. Earthsea is a bit tamer in way - but spiritual, philosophical, thoughtful, magical, pretty deep. When I read some fantasy books I get put off by too much occult or fucked up content, which sometimes creeps in - so sometimes if I want something new I look at what the kids are reading. Philip Pullman His Dark Materials is one of those - I think it's better than H Potter, which I never really got on with - His Dark Materials seems that much more 'grown up'. Another interesting series which works for both young people and adults is 'Mortal Engines' by Philip Reeve - very imaginative kind of steam cyber punk, with London as a huge mobile city - I like that series too.

eMMI

Anything by Douglas Adams! :thumbup: Sure, it's got the sci-fi-ness, but it's all very fantastic.

tybird

tremors wrote:

Series that I have read and enjoyed from this genre:

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen Donaldson

That was going to be my first suggestion....Watership Down is another winner.

merkinball

tybird wrote:

tremors wrote:

Series that I have read and enjoyed from this genre:

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen Donaldson

That was going to be my first suggestion....Watership Down is another winner.

I'm going to have to go back and re-read Thomas Covenant. I read it as a teenager, and really grew to hate it by the end. Be interesting to go back to it and see if my perspective has changed, from what I remember that one was pretty deep.

Watership Down is a classic. Seconded.

tremors

merkinball wrote:

tybird wrote:

tremors wrote:

Series that I have read and enjoyed from this genre:

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen Donaldson

That was going to be my first suggestion....Watership Down is another winner.

I'm going to have to go back and re-read Thomas Covenant. I read it as a teenager, and really grew to hate it by the end. Be interesting to go back to it and see if my perspective has changed, from what I remember that one was pretty deep.

Yeah, I read it when I was about 17 - I loved the whole thing - the ending was fabulous. I think if I re-read it today I might find some parts of it a bit more dubious (morally?) - especially the whole premise at the beginning. I don't know really.... it was very powerful writing overall!

TheBeardedFellow

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind is pretty excellent. 11 books, a complete series; gets better and better the deeper it goes. Stay away from the tv show after reading.

I often wonder how The Wheel of Time would hold up to new reader blind (or deaf) of the criticizms that older readers (like me) have of it. I started reading it when Lord of Chaos was in hardcover, and by the time I got to it it was in paperback. Up until that point, the books were yearly releases. Soon after 2,3,4 year waits were the norm (hell, I even bought the coffee table book, i was so starved for material). The characters split 9 different directions. Mat was left out of a novel. The characters that were in, only got a couple chapters each because there were so many in so many different areas. Hardly fullfilling after a long, long wait. I never finished Knife of Dreams and it still bothers me, but i have no will to finish it. I wonder if someone started it fresh now, without having the long delays, if the story would seem to bog down to the slow crawl I feel it ended up in. Which is a shame, because I think the first 7 books have great momentum and are tremendous reads (I've probably read them all each 5 times).

intodeep

I only read teh first book. Which i liked, but then i got into a "not reading mode" and by the time i was back in a reading mode i had read so much bad stuff about a lot of the middle books I just thought there has to be better stuff out there to occupy my time.

Maybe someday but I think there is a lot of other stuff i want to read first.

tybird

While it's not everybody's cup of tea, I enjoyed the collections of Robert E. Howard's works....three Conan book...Solomon Kane....Kull....his collected horror stories.....and Bran Mak Morn...all foundation work for most today's fantasy work.

Horos

Indifference wrote:

Dragonlance - the chronicles trilogy then legends trilogy - best ever.

Margaret Weis has co-authored numerous great series. The Deathgate Cycle is also a great one. I have a copy of the first one if you'd like to borrow it(541)579-4347.

Can't go wrong with any Asimov but that Sci-Fi as opposed to Fantasy.