Good fantasy books for reading?

[Karyuu]

Originally posted by Caldazar
Jordan has written a prequel to the WoT, which tells the tale of Lan and Moiraine (sp).

I know, that\'s why I said \"latest book.\"

[Wormtail_]

I have heard the prequel is to be the first of a trilogy of prequels...

The Seventh Tower series by Garth Nix is short (6 books, ~ 200 pages each), but keeps me reading until the end. Interesting concept of magic usage through manipulation of light, as well as bonding creatures as \"Spiritshadows,\" where your shadow becomes that of a creature and can defend you, aid you, etc. Of course, some object to the bonding...

The Blue Sword  and The Hero of the Crown, by Robin Mckinley, are also fascinating reads. I read it a looong time ago, so I can\'t remember much else other than it was interesting.

[Davis]

Wow... there\'s a lot of them... I should start reading some.

Anyway, there are a lot of different types of fantasy. Some is closer to the real world, some is very Tolkienesque, and some is closer to scie-fi than anything else. Personally, I like all of that.

Anyway. If you play Magic: The Gathering, I suggest the books. Not the recent ones, they are complete crap. Jeff Grubb is the best author, so I suggest the Artifacts Cycle and Ice Age Cycle (the two cycles with Jeff Grubb, of course). If you don\'t play MtG, then you could be reading other stuff, but they are still great books.

If you really liked Tolkien, then I suggest Wheel of Time. I don\'t suggest reading them all, though. How many thousands of pages is that? By the same author? Ugh.

His Dark Materiels trilogy was awesome... umm... well, I don\'t recognize most of the names here, so, I really can\'t give any opinions.

[The Gumster]

i would suggest Terry Pratchett\'s Discworld series, (looks like im not the only one ) they are ca. 30 books, and are very good.

[Dalec]

I am currently reading Wheel of Time. Im on book #5 or so, and I find the series dull, repetetive, and not very innovative, in fact often frustrating. The constant switching between characters is EXTREMELY annoying. Every time I begin to get interested with the current characters (which usually takes a while for them to do anything interesting) it changes over to someone across the continent! Nynaeve (sp) is one of the most annoying and boring characters to read about. The best thing Ive read is the fight Perin lead against the Trollocs and Whitecloaks in Two Rivers, which I thought was better than all the rest of the books I\'ve read.

I know of a good Sci-fi trilogy. The Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher is a VERY good read. Not quite fantasy, but almost is, just no one has magic The big evil guys have technology though, so its kinda similar. Highly recomend it - though don\'t read his other crap. Picked up another book by same author and it was almost the same trilogy re-written in a different setting.

[snow_RAveN]

IF you want Sci-fi heres some tips find the short storys ! not novels but their eye candy !

any way you want to read alastair reynolds revelation space series real good stuff

[Rageburst]

Currently on book 7 of WOT series after a week of reading... lots of wasted time reading, but at least entertaining.

The first five books were really good, but from there it goes downhill. It takes soooo long for anything to happen. I find myself skimming through those parts. For example, nothing happens for a while until finally Nynaeve did ........ Then it goes downhill again and we go into a state of useless limbo.

It still makes me continue reading, but I really hate how everything is dragged out. If only he wrote his later books like the first four instead of inserting useless events where everyone does nothing special.

I\'m sure many of you will also agree. Anything to do with Children of the Light is *snore...*

...Post edited although I can hardly see how I gave any spoilers.

[Vassago]

I have to mention the excellent Discworld Books by Terry Pratchett, they are, short, humorous and they have the far coolest main characters than in ny other books I have ever read! Im actually translating one of them to swedish,to gain extra grades in english!

[Dalec]

Was waitin for you to edit

[Rageburst]

Perhaps you should edit the quote as well.

[Isgrimnur]

These are my favorites:

Pratchett (Everybody seems to love those): All his books
Tad Williams : Memory,Sorrow and Thorn (4 books; Draganbone Chair, Stone of Farewell, To Green Angel Tower: Siege & To Green Angel Tower: Storm) is exellent as is Otherland (4 books; City of Golden Shadow, River of Blue Fire, Mountain of Black Glass & Sea of Silver Light)
David Feintuch: If you like SF you may like the Seafort saga (not for everybody though)

[Xalthar]

my favourite writer is Elaine Cunningham.. I simply love her extremely \"lifelike\" characters! They\'re the best I\'ve ever experienced! I especially like her \"Songs & Swords\" saga, and also love the \"Starlight & Shadows\" trilogy... truly awesome writing, those books have had me up for countless hours in a state of dazed enchantment where i just had to read on and on and on.. just couldn\'t stop

fantastic writer

[Rageburst]

I\'ve finally read all of the wheel of time books including the prequel....

The tenth book had a lot going for it with Mat\'s situation, Perrin\'s dilemma, and Rand\'s stuff...  the problem was that Robert Jordan decided to stretch out events that happened BEFORE the end of the ninth book.

I would be okay if it was full of Mat\'s adventures who maintains the most of my interest, but instead, RJ decided to describe Cairhenien (sp?) politics, made Perrin\'s dilemma longer than it should be, and added in completely uninteresting/uneventful meetings between Darkfriends and the likes.

Politics were bad enough... It\'s hardly interesting keeping track of which house supports who.

.... On the other hand, the prequel, albeit short, was interesting and provided a break from the tenth book.

Now that I\'m done with all the current books, I have a void of anxiety awaiting the next prequels and two (or three) final books.

I ended up wasting two weeks doing little work because of these books (can you believe RJ took 20 years thinking/writing this stuff?). I only suggest getting all the books at the same time if you can cope with living like a hermit in your room, and getting up only for food.

[vector212]

Well for all of those forgotten realms fans out there might I suggest you try out books from the Dragonlance series? I suggest you start with the Chronicles trilogy which contains \"Dragons of Autum Twilight\", \"Dragons of Winter Night\"  and \"Dragons of Spring Dawning\".

[Levski]

Well, I just remembered a good series and didn\'t feel like opening up a new thread, so I\'m going to bump this thread up   .

Has anybody read the Sorceror from Earthsea by Ursula Leguin?  Or any of the books after that?  AMAZING!  Must read if you\'re going to become a mage   .