PlaneShift

Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Zaknafein on December 12, 2003, 05:56:34 am

Title: Who Likes it?
Post by: Zaknafein on December 12, 2003, 05:56:34 am: Who likes books written by R.A. Salvatore?
Title:
Post by: Tyriel on December 12, 2003, 12:48:06 pm: well thats a wierd question...and I havent even heard of such writter..what kind of books does he write.or hes dead..??Or what the hell is this all got to do with PS??
Title:
Post by: lynx_lupo on December 12, 2003, 12:55:50 pm: Tyriel cool off, this is the hydlaa plaza, we can talk about anything we want here.
He\'s an author of fantasy books AFAIK, but I haven\'t read any, so I can\'t give you my opinion.
Title:
Post by: Tyriel on December 12, 2003, 01:19:45 pm: Relax...Im cool..for the record Im having best time of my life...girls,money,alcohol,sex,friends...Right now im sitting home surfing in the web and planning my next place to crash:) and It that sounded for u like I was mad at zaknafein then Im sorry ..didnt mean to..
Title:
Post by: Darkmoon on December 12, 2003, 01:28:09 pm: I\'ve read most of his works in the Forgotten Realms vein. Just finished The Thousand Orcs, and looking forward to reading The Lone Drow. Not many people talk about his series The Cleric Quintet, as most focus on his Drow stories with Drizzt (very famous, very popular among D&D fantasy readers). My favorite characters from TCQ series would have to be the Bouldershoulder brothers - Ivan and Pikel. The antics of those two usually get me laughing out loud. :)

Doo-dad! Oo, oi. *wiggles fingers*
Title:
Post by: Xalthar on December 12, 2003, 02:31:31 pm: very good fantasy author... Even though I prefer Elaine Cunningham, he has made some of the best stories of the forgotten realms..
Title:
Post by: AendarCallenlasse on December 12, 2003, 04:21:54 pm: I\'ve read Dissention (I think that\'s the name of it....the first on the Spider Queen series) good book. That\'s Salvatore I think...
Title:
Post by: Jessyn on December 12, 2003, 05:58:27 pm: I\'ve read a couple of Salvatore books, and they were pretty good, but i tend to prefer Piers Anthony and Anne Mcaffrey n\'stuff

Jessyn
Title:
Post by: Yann on December 12, 2003, 09:36:38 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Darkmoon
Doo-dad! Oo, oi. *wiggles fingers*

... dee da doo ?

Ok, forget it...
Title:
Post by: Kiern on December 12, 2003, 10:10:42 pm: I\'ve read some, and I will say this, they are probably the better regular fantasy books.

But also, they are exactly what I don\'t like about fantasy books (which is also what most people like).

I need more common interests....
Title:
Post by: Davis on December 12, 2003, 10:36:35 pm: Everyone, Jeff Grubb is the best game novel author ever, and you all know that. He also writes some of the D&D rulebooks, which, therefore, are really cool.
The only Forgotten Realms novels I\'ve read are by Ed Greenwood (and he seems like a perv) but a trip I will soon be making to Barne\'s and Noble\'s will be fixing that.
Title:
Post by: Boldstorm on December 12, 2003, 10:37:07 pm: I have read some of the books but I wasn\'t able to get into them as much as other Fantasy Books I have read. Some of my favorites have been The Shanara books by Terry Brooks or the Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind.
Title:
Post by: Kiern on December 12, 2003, 10:44:35 pm: Yeah, Brooks is one of the few (and the best of them) authors of fantasy books I actually read and enjoyed, I always finish books, even terrible ones...it\'s annoying :P
Title:
Post by: Niber on December 13, 2003, 12:35:44 pm: I have read,, ehh what\'s it\'s name again, hmmm.. something about Cat-the-stray and the mad frier but I can\'t remember the title.
Title:
Post by: Kixie on December 13, 2003, 05:18:08 pm: cant say much about the guy so if someone could direct me to some links to read up on the guy that would be great.. :)
Title:
Post by: Wynona on December 13, 2003, 09:12:04 pm: Ihave read some of the Forgotten Realms Books by him. I like thousand Orcs. I also enjoyed The Sword of Shanara Trilogy by Brookes.
Anyways, Doesn\'t Salvetore also do Star Wars books.
I like his fantasy writing much better than his sci fi.
Title: R.A. Salvatore
Post by: Antium on December 13, 2003, 09:22:51 pm: I think he\'s a pretty good writer. Then again, I\'m not a huge fan of his books. ;)
Title:
Post by: Xordan on December 13, 2003, 09:58:23 pm: The Shannara saga is brilliant, but the best saga I\'ve read is the Wheel Of Time, by Robbert Jordan. :D
Title:
Post by: Caldazar on December 13, 2003, 10:30:36 pm: WoT is awesome, I really enjoy those books.
But still, Tolkien was, is, and will always be the master.
Title:
Post by: dfryer on December 13, 2003, 10:42:23 pm: Word to the Tolkien.

It\'s been argued that he\'s not a great storyteller, and a better encyclopedia writer, but I enjoy Tolkien.
Title:
Post by: Xordan on December 13, 2003, 10:50:51 pm: Tolkien\'s LotR wasn\'t the best story ever written as it\'s been hyped up to be. But if you put together everything he\'s done on Middle Earth, then he\'s the God of Fantasy. :D
Title:
Post by: Boldstorm on December 13, 2003, 10:51:37 pm: WOT kept me intrested for the first eight books but then I felt like it was just getting dragged out too far. I know everyone argues that the stuff added after that point was needed but it really just lost my intrest I pretty much wanted him to just end it at that point.
Title:
Post by: Xordan on December 13, 2003, 11:36:32 pm: lol, after reading 9 and 10 I realised that it was very much needed, 9 and 10 fill in gaps, ready for the final battle. Also I read very quick, so I don\'t get bored of the books. I can read a wot bk in just over a week usually. :D
Title:
Post by: Boldstorm on December 13, 2003, 11:41:52 pm: Speed of reading was never much of an issue. I just felt like it was getting dragged out way too much. I have been thinking about picking it up and reading the rest of the books I haven\'t because I have heard that a lot was fille in in 9 and 10. Who knows have a bunch of other things I am reading right now so maybe when I get done with those I will get back to it.
Title:
Post by: Xordan on December 13, 2003, 11:56:26 pm: Ah, well u should read them, there\'s lots of good bits concerning Rand and his sex life in them. :D
Title:
Post by: Xalthar on December 14, 2003, 12:54:09 am: Quote
Originally posted by Davis
Everyone, Jeff Grubb is the best game novel author ever, and you all know that. He also writes some of the D&D rulebooks, which, therefore, are really cool.

Ah yes, I loved the brothers war MTG novels... they rocked!! he wrote one or two, if not all of them :P

But my fav one is still Elaine Cunningham.. her characters just feel so lifelike, and that adds a great deal to a story to me...
Title:
Post by: Zaknafein on December 14, 2003, 06:05:50 am: That is your Opinion that Jeff Grubb is the best game novel writer. I like William C. Dietz and Eric Nylund. The creators of the Halo series.
Title:
Post by: Boldstorm on December 15, 2003, 08:20:43 pm: Went out and picked up book 9 of WOT. I am going to attempt to get back into it. Hope it hasn\'t been so long that I feel I have to reread all of the other ones to get caught up again, wow that would be a lot of rereading lol.
Title:
Post by: Zaknafein on December 16, 2003, 05:10:37 am: WOT? Can you define that please?
Title:
Post by: Ghostslayer on December 16, 2003, 06:21:41 am: Quote
Originally posted by Zaknafein
WOT? Can you define that please?

I\'m assuming that its the Wheel Of Time series that Xordan mentioned earlier.
Title:
Post by: Dexlan on December 16, 2003, 03:11:09 pm: So many Wheel of time, the Shannara series, the Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind this series of books is impressive cool story.
Lord of the Rings of course.
I also liked the Dragon lance books.
But i think The Cronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever By Stephen R. Donaldson are near the top of my list.
Terry Brooks also did a series of books Magic Kingdom for sale, sold! which are really good too!
Title:
Post by: Boldstorm on December 16, 2003, 06:28:03 pm: Yes WOT = Wheel of Time.
Also I have read the Magic Kingdom For Sale stuff and it was a good series. Definetly something diffrent after readinf Shanara but itwas still very enjoyable.
Title:
Post by: Xordan on December 16, 2003, 07:06:21 pm: lol, I\'m reading The Sword of Shannara now, it\'s really good. :D

If u read the blerb of bk 8 then move onto bk 9 u should remember what\'s just happened. :D U know that Robbert Jordans\' just written the prequil to the Eye of the World... He could have writtn it first... :P It\'s all about Lan and Moiraine. ;)
Title:
Post by: Boldstorm on December 16, 2003, 09:29:09 pm: GRRR. That just means more books I need to read I better hurry because once CB comes out I am sure I won\'t have any extra time to spend reading.

The whole Shanara series is great you should really enjoy them if you haven\'t read them already.
Title:
Post by: Xordan on December 16, 2003, 10:25:24 pm: I\'ve read Jerle Shannara Trilogy. That was really good. :D
Title:
Post by: Kiern on December 16, 2003, 10:59:32 pm: Yeah, it is, and that is supposedly the worst of them :P

I forget what the 4-book series is called, but that one is just great.
Title:
Post by: Boldstorm on December 16, 2003, 11:06:52 pm: The 4 book series was the The Heritage of Shannara.
The trilogy was the Sword of Shanara both great series.

There was also I think it was three books total for the series The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara.
Title:
Post by: druke on December 17, 2003, 04:06:07 am: i\'ve read most of his books, one of my favs (right beside Goodkind)

he has more the hmm... whats a good word for it...dnd type and more out there type fantasy as compared to gookind where magic is rare and some aspects aren\'t so fake and fantasy, and everything is kinda scientific
Title:
Post by: Dexlan on December 17, 2003, 11:14:06 am: But has anyone read \"The Cronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever\" By Stephen R. Donaldson
there is also a second series of Cronicles.

It is a great set of work!!
If you havent then maybe you should consider,
It is a bit dark however!!
Title:
Post by: Boldstorm on December 22, 2003, 11:25:50 pm: I hadn\'t read Voyage of Jerle Shanara yet but I did pick up the first book in the series so right now I am reading that and book 9 of the Wheel of Time. I have read most of Goodkind\'s books and they are great, I think I still need to read the last 2 in the Sword of Truth.

Just wondering I was also looking for a book or series to read with an evil type character as the main character anyone have any good suggestions?