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The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
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I didn't like Earthsea very much. I just didn't care much about the characters. IMO the 3rd book "Wizard of Earthsea" was the best, while the 2nd book (forgot the name) was the worst. BTW, I can see how people could dislike Shannara. I read it when I was 12 and thought that it was simple and too derivative. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed Sword of Shannara.Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny
Second is Ursula Le Guin's Eartsea quartet."The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is to have with them as little political connection as possible... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, so far as we are now at liberty to do it." George Washington- September 19, 1796Comment
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LoTR
WoT - the only series that took me a whole week to read when I had the books
Discworld
the George RR Martin series (song of ice and fire or something)
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville was good
Stardust by Gaiman
the Morgaine cycle by Cherryh (as weel as the Ealdwood novels)
Mordant's Need by Donaldson
The Amber series (first) by Zelanzie
I am sure I am missing some of my favorites
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I haven't read most of the books mentioned so far, but I did find LOTR very draggy and the Eddings books only slightly less so. My favorites are Joel Rosenberg's Guardians of the Flame series and Lawrence Watt-Evans' Ethshar books."THE" plus "IRS" makes "THEIRS". Coincidence? I think not.Comment
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It only took you a week to read the 9 WOT books? Did you read them non-stop?Originally posted by Jon Miller
WoT - the only series that took me a whole week to read when I had the books"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is to have with them as little political connection as possible... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, so far as we are now at liberty to do it." George Washington- September 19, 1796Comment
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can't believe you have forgotten the best of all
Weis/Hickman's: DragonLance!
Howard's stories are also great.My Words Are Backed With Bad Attitude And VETERAN KNIGHTS!Comment
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The Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, damn good dark bloody low-magic political fantasy, best fantasy I've read in years.
Zelazny's Amber series and Moorecock's Elric series definately also deserve a nomination.Stop Quoting BenComment
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The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the worst anti-hero ever. Agreed. Run away. But there is noone better at wrapping up a 350 page book in 3 paragraphs like silverberg. wam bam thank you mam.
The Wheel of Time, Like most series, loses it after the forth or fifth book. Like the Belgariad Series. I loved the first few but then the same ole tired formula got more and more boring.
The same could be said of Zelanys (sp?) Princes of AMBER series. The first few books kicked butt, but then again the same ole tired formula killed it.
My favorites, LOTR, it did set the standard, and is not really a trilogy but one long book. (which is the major weakness of most new series.)
Another was Pier Anthony's the aspects of fate or something, where one book was about death, etc. Since each book was about a different character, it didn't fall into the same ole same ole pattern.
RAH
Damn, zhu, you beat me to the amber reference by one minute.
must learn to type fasterIt's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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Originally posted by Zhu Yuanzhang
The Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, damn good dark bloody low-magic political fantasy, best fantasy I've read in years. Reminds me a lot of some of Bug's history posts
Zelazny's Amber series and Moorecock's Elric series definately also deserve a nomination.Stop Quoting BenComment
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I didn't like Earthsea very much. I just didn't care much about the characters. IMO the 3rd book "Wizard of Earthsea" was the best, while the 2nd book (forgot the name)
IIRC Wizard of Earthsea was the first, Tombs of Atuan the second, and Farthest Shore the third, I didn't know there was a fourth. My favorite was Tombs but I only read it and wizard. Easily better books than Shannara.Accidently left my signature in this post.Comment
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while I beat you by 10 minutesOriginally posted by rah
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the worst anti-hero ever. Agreed. Run away. But there is noone better at wrapping up a 350 page book in 3 paragraphs like silverberg. wam bam thank you mam.
The Wheel of Time, Like most series, loses it after the forth or fifth book. Like the Belgariad Series. I loved the first few but then the same ole tired formula got more and more boring.
The same could be said of Zelanys (sp?) Princes of AMBER series. The first few books kicked butt, but then again the same ole tired formula killed it.
My favorites, LOTR, it did set the standard, and is not really a trilogy but one long book. (which is the major weakness of most new series.)
Another was Pier Anthony's the aspects of fate or something, where one book was about death, etc. Since each book was about a different character, it didn't fall into the same ole same ole pattern.
RAH
Damn, zhu, you beat me to the amber reference by one minute.
must learn to type faster
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At least noone has mentioned Anne Macaffreys (sp?) Dragon lore series
RAH
Moorcock's Elric series was good but it too fell into the same ole same ole, highlighted by that one scene that seemed to appear in every book from a different perspective. Always amused me.
But a fun read none the less.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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Tried those, got be bit turned off after the rape scene though and ended up dropping it not much past that...Originally posted by rah
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the worst anti-hero ever. Agreed. Run away. But there is noone better at wrapping up a 350 page book in 3 paragraphs like silverberg. wam bam thank you mam.
I read three of those, very good light reading, definately better than all the Xanth stuff...Another was Pier Anthony's the aspects of fate or something, where one book was about death, etc. Since each book was about a different character, it didn't fall into the same ole same ole pattern.
That's what I'm here forDamn, zhu, you beat me to the amber reference by one minute.
must learn to type faster
Oh and I remember really liking Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy but I read 'em a looong time ago (early HS I think) so its hard to tell if they're really good or if I was being a stupid kid (I was even dumb enough to read some of the WoT books three times
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Originally posted by Jon Miller
while I beat you by 10 minutes
Jon Miller
Yes you are correct, don't know how I missed that one. I bow to your analness.
RAHIt's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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Oh, one more, Brust's Taltos books are pretty good cloak and dagger fiction, but they're way too magic heavy-for my tastes (I'm on the fourth book a the moment).Stop Quoting BenComment
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