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Recommend me a good fantasy novel series!

DVad3r

DVad3r

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I haven't been doing much reading lately but I've been itching for a good fantasy these past few days. The only two that I have read are Lord of the Rings and The Wheel of Time series. I really enjoyed WoT and look forward to the final book, but in the meantime I'd like to get started on something else.

So what's good out there?
 
Dennis McKeirnan has a couple short series on par (IMHO) with LoTR and his other books are usually set in his "persistant" universe.

David Eddings has several series that have been out long enought to mostly be in paperback.
 
Originally posted by: joshsquall
Dark Tower
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Screw that! I read that series for years, it was awesome -- and then with the LAMEST cop out ending ever in literature. I would say it's comparable in anticlimax as if Frodo had passed off the One Ring to some random traveler and just walked off into the woods on his own. If you do read it, just pretend the last book doesn't exist and never will. I refuse to read Stephen King because of that last book. /rant

Years ago, I read some Ravenloft books about travel between two worlds, they were pretty good.
 
Although it kind of strings you along, the A Song Of Ice and Fire (George R R Martin) series is pretty good.

Also, I would recommend the Dark Tower (Stephen King), Sword of Truth (Terry Goodkind), and the Malazan Book of the Fallen (Steven Erickson) series.

I am reading the 5th of the Malazan series now and it is an awesome series.

 
David Eddings Belgariad series.
Raymond Feist Riftwar series.
Steve Erikson Malazan series.

Avoid Martins ASOIAF for now. It's brilliant, but there's no evidence to suggest that he's ever going to finish it and you'll be left hanging like the rest of us.
 
supposedly, GRRM is gonna be Author Guest of Honor at LepreCon 36 next year in Arizona.

details at leprecon.org
 
oh yeah, the Discworld set of books by Terry Pratchett, a bit "tongue in cheek" but fantasy none the less.
 
Originally posted by: Blunc
supposedly, GRRM is gonna be Author Guest of Honor at LepreCon 36 next year in Arizona.

details at leprecon.org
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One more thing he can blog about instead of writing a book.

 
Originally posted by: Blunc
supposedly, GRRM is gonna be Author Guest of Honor at LepreCon 36 next year in Arizona.

details at leprecon.org
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I shoulda posted in the Year 2020 thread that we eagerly await book 6 in SoIaF
 
Originally posted by: Mide
Dragonlance
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ROFL!

I second (third?) Erikson. I'm on #3 now and the series is outstanding. GRRM is a tool and I will only read another book from him if he somehow manages to avoid death long enough to finish the series.


Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Originally posted by: Blunc
supposedly, GRRM is gonna be Author Guest of Honor at LepreCon 36 next year in Arizona.

details at leprecon.org
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One more thing he can blog about instead of writing a book.
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:frown:
 
Originally posted by: dainthomas
Originally posted by: Mide
Dragonlance
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ROFL!

I second (third?) Erikson. I'm on #3 now and the series is outstanding. GRRM is a tool and I will only read another book from him if he somehow manages to avoid death long enough to finish the series.
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I don't see what's funny about this, the original DL trilogies (Chronicles and Legends) are fantastic. I can't speak for any of the later stuff though.
 
Tee hee, Harry Potter won awards because the Wizard's First Rule is right, people are stupid. I remember being at work in the early new millennium and taking my lunch break at a fast food place. A female employee was cleaning tables and asked me if I was going to go see the new (first) Harry Potter movie. I said no and went about my business. But somehow in my mind's eye I could picture her going to see it straight after her shift was over, probably with 6 or 8 kids in tow.
 
Originally posted by: Pheran
Originally posted by: dainthomas
Originally posted by: Mide
Dragonlance
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ROFL!

I second (third?) Erikson. I'm on #3 now and the series is outstanding. GRRM is a tool and I will only read another book from him if he somehow manages to avoid death long enough to finish the series.
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I don't see what's funny about this, the original DL trilogies (Chronicles and Legends) are fantastic. I can't speak for any of the later stuff though.
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The original 3 I read as a teen, and agree they were great fun. The hundreds that followed from authors of varying degrees of talent, not so much. Even W&H's later DL series were not so good. I've read a few of their other non-DL series. Rose of the Prophet was blah. DeathGate Cycle was quite good.

 
Originally posted by: Pheran
Originally posted by: dainthomas
Originally posted by: Mide
Dragonlance
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ROFL!

I second (third?) Erikson. I'm on #3 now and the series is outstanding. GRRM is a tool and I will only read another book from him if he somehow manages to avoid death long enough to finish the series.
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I don't see what's funny about this, the original DL trilogies (Chronicles and Legends) are fantastic. I can't speak for any of the later stuff though.
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I also thought they were quite good when I was in junior high/high school. Now, they're just meh.

The last series (War of Souls) is also OK.
 
Originally posted by: Dorkenstein
Tee hee, Harry Potter won awards because the Wizard's First Rule is right, people are stupid. I remember being at work in the early new millennium and taking my lunch break at a fast food place. A female employee was cleaning tables and asked me if I was going to go see the new (first) Harry Potter movie. I said no and went about my business. But somehow in my mind's eye I could picture her going to see it straight after her shift was over, probably with 6 or 8 kids in tow.
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So I'm curious, have you ever read a Harry Potter book or are you just spouting an uninformed opinion because it's cool to go against the mainstream?
 
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