Recommend me a fantasy book/series

[Jon Miller]

terry goodkind is garbade, worse than Jordan

I copuld read up through book 10 in Jordan's series, couldn't read past book 3 in Goodkinds

and the Thomas Covenant Series soem people like and others don't I personally like the mirror series better

Jon Miller

[SpencerH]

Boris since you dislike Jordan from the get-go I've looked through my stacks and pulled out a few unusual authors/series. Some may be very hard to find though.

Kate Elliot - the kings dragon-
1st of 4 books in the series - have a unusual 'gritty' feel to the writing

Barbara Hambley- The time of the dark-
Unusual situation and characters but the first book starts a little slow

Glen cook -The Black company-
1st of a long series about them. Many other great series.

Roger taylor -The Call of the sword-
1st of four books very different

David feintuch -The Still-
1st of 2 so far. Actually has, dare I say it- :whisper: homosexuals :whisper:

Elizabeth Moon -The Sheepfarmers daughter-
1st of 3 with two prequels. Written by an ex military (female). In a later book it actually deals with the importance of latrines.

[Ramo]

Yep, Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series is awesome. I've read no other fantasy books like the ones in this series. It's also very loosely based on the War of Roses, if you care about that kind of thing.

It's taking him far too long to write A Feast of Crows (the fouth book) though.

I'd also recommend Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea series, which has a good bit of Jungian psychology behind it.

Pratchett's also great, of course. He's to fantasy what Vonnegut is to fiction.

[Makeo]

Magician - Raymond E Feist

Obviously doesn't have the depth of LoTR but similarish.

[TCO]

1. Give Potter a chance. Yes, they are written towards younger kids. But they get more interesting as they go on. and the "world created" is very fun. The school is neat and the kids are cool. I avoided it from the hype as well. But I liked it when I got into it. And it is not like a Jordan thing being stretched out. It is fun. But read in order.

2. Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

3. Prydain books (5) by Lloyd Alexander. (Newbury medal award winners.)

4. The Once and Future King by TE White

5. Any other book by White (Stuart Little, etc.)

6. The Wind and the Willows.

7. The Ursala K. Leguin stuff (EArthsea trilogy I think.) Like Potter, but much shorter books and more of an older student and darker issues. cool world.

[Snotty]

The author that Jon Miller was looking for was Tad Williams. He wrote the memory, sorrow and thorn trilogy starting with the dragonbone chair. Thoroughly enjoyable fantasy series although each of the 4 paperback books run to over 800 pages each truly making this an epic, with all the pros and cons that brings. Although it is wrapped up well rather than dragged out. He also did a quite passable near future series called 'Otherland' that might be worth checking out. The VR internet backdrop allows him to create all manner of fantasy worlds and other funky settings.

Katherine Kerr did a good series starting with 'Daggerspell'. Rather convoluted at first but when you get your head around the time line jumps and which reincarnation each spirit is, it makes for a very unique fantasy experience.

If you like something more violent pick up pretty much anything by David Gemmel. Legend and Waylander would both be good places to start.

And finally. I dredge this up from memory so anyone feel free to correct me. I think the author is called Robin Hobb (?) and he (she?) wrote the assassins (?) trilogy and another trilogy called the liveships (?). All based in the same universe, deep, dark and with fantasic use and explanation of the magic in the world.

[Proteus_MST]

Raymond E. Feist.

This brings his Midkemia Saga into my mind.

Another very extensive Fantasy-Series which I liked.

It is bout the Kingdom of Krondor (with Similarities to the medieval Europe), Children becoming magicians and later in the Series about the preence of a rift which Connects Midkemia to anothr Planet inhabited by Tsuranis (which much resemble Samurai and use vry sharp Swords made of wood).

Maybe you should try this.

Another good Book:

Wolfgang Hohlbein: The Dragons Daughters (or The daughters of the Dragon, duno how the exact Title is in english, as I´ve got this Book in German)

And of course (for another great Fantasy-Series):

Anne Mc Caffrey: The Dragonriders of Pern

[Rogan Josh]

Transformation by Carol Berg

http://www.sff.net/people/carolberg/

[TCO]

The Dragon and the George (but not any of the follow ons) by Gordon Dickson

The Compleat Enchanter (or follow on books) or (part of books) by Pratt and DeCamp

The Land of Unreason by Decamp

[Verto]

Have you read the Belgariad or The Mallorean series (both connected) by David and Leigh Edding? They were good books, IMO, to read and enjoy.

[Makeo]

I made a civ2 scenario based on midkemia world way back when.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Makeo
I made a civ2 scenario based on midkemia world way back when.

I didn't know you knew how to make scenarios...

[Makeo]

I don't.

[Asher]

Recommend me a fantasy book/series

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[monolith94]

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I'd like to mention the golden compass, a book I had heard much about, so I just went ahead and bought it. At first, I couldn't see what all the fuss was about, but as I continued into it, I got hooked, and it was a pretty interesting read, even if I find the high-minded literary and academic message of dubious strength.