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#1 What do you like to read? (Idea stolen from Stofsk)
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:58 am
by Lord Stormbringer
Recommend a fantasy book that you consider one of the best you've read.
A Game of Thrones by G.R.R. Martin. The start of a brilliant series and probably the pinnacle of Post-Tolkien high-fantasy. Great cast, brilliant story, and a fully realized and totally believable world. The very epitome of what good fantasy should be.
The Black Company by Glenn Cook. A great, dark, and unrelenting peice of fantasy. Despite them being a rather vicious and unlikely sort of heroes the bunch have a way of growing on one. Great stuff that's not particularly well known.
#2
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:14 am
by Cynical Cat
Beside endorsing Stormbringer's picks
Steven Erickson The Malazan Books of the Fallen. High fantasy with gods, Black Company level sorcerers, and grunt level perspectives. Really good.
R. Scott Bakker The Prince of Nothing. A wanderer who claims to be the prince of a distant land and his barbarian companion join a fantasy version of the First Crusade. Only the sorcerer Akka of the feared and riddiculed Mandate School can see that the events around them may herald the coming of the Second Apocalypse.
#3
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:28 am
by B4UTRUST
Of course you have to go with the nigh classic fantasy:
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Dragonlance (Chronicles and Legends) - Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen R. Donaldson
#4
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:20 pm
by The Grim Squeaker
The Hobbit and Lotr- First and best fantasy books I ever read.
#5
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:02 pm
by Anonymous
I can't just have one favorite but I'll give you a list of my most enjoyable authors and perhaps a book or two I've read, besides Tolkien:
1. Terry Brooks (I can burn through a Shannara book in less than 24 hours...on a rainy day mind.)
2. Anne McCaffery (before she got old and started ranting too much)
3. Duanna Durgin:
Touched by Magic and
Wolf Justice
4. Robert Knaak (various Warcraft books namely the Well of Eternity trilogy)
5. Christie Golden (Warcraft book #2...I love chain lightning
)
6. Ed Greenwood's Band of Four novels were pretty good in my opinion but then I suck when it comes to writing battles and sieges.
7. Dennis McKiernan's Iron Tower trilogy and subsequent books on Mithgar (kinda like LotR but with a different twist) I can blast through a book in no time...their just so much fun.
Soon I'll be starting on R.A. Salvatore's
Legacy of the Drow trilogy.
