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I don't thing Raymond E. Feist has been mentioned - if not I shall. Raymod E. Feist...
The Magician is a good read, the other two of the nominal trilogy are not good too, but not so as the first. I haven't read any of his later books though.
A good take on the swords & sorcery genre can be found in Heinlein's "Glory Road", which is one of my favourites.
Therd is some good stuff on this list - I feel a trip to Amazon coming on...
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Victoria Hanley's works Gail Levine's Ella Enchanted, Two Princesses of Bamarre, and Fairest The Witches of Karres Enchantress from the Stars b Engdahl Katherine Kurtz's Deryni books (there are some implied, though not approved sexual themes in these) Robert Asprin's Myth books
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Welcome to the board, Scarlet! I haven't heard of any of those but Gail Carson Levine's work. Very cool.
quote:There is some good stuff on this list - I feel a trip to Amazon coming on...
I'm having the worst time not buying a zillion books right now. The problem with lots of fantasy is that it's in multiples. (Kate Elliot's SEVEN books!) That gets wildly expensive. I'm going to have to set a budget and a time limit. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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Zal, I know. I'm such a junkie, though. The library to me is like borrowing cocaine...but I'll use it if I have to. *gulp*
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What I do is use the library to slake my addiction and to find out what is worth owning. Then I cruise used book stores, library sales, garage sales, and the internet to find them cheaply. If all else fails, I'll wait until I get a books gift card from someone (and I usually get at least one per year) to buy it new. We've acquired a good portion of our multi-hundred-book library that way.
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I'm going to have to go ahead and sort of, um, disagree with you, Snail, about the Robin Hobb stuff. The Farseer Trilogy is very good, I agree, and I admit I have not yet read the Liveship Traders, but I enjoyed the Fool books. They weren't quite as good as the first three but I didn't think they were "downright bad". Different strokes, I guess. And I loved the first two Soldier Son books. The second is unrelentingly bleak, but for some reason I thought it was captivating. In a whole different way that the Farseer Trilogy was captivating.
I'll second whoever said that Mistborn was better than Elantris. I thought Mistborn was much better, actually.
For Merlin/Pendragon books, Mary Stewart's were pretty good (for some reason, they felt like they started very, very slow, but it warmed up), I didn't care for the Stephen Lawhead books, I liked Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles (which were really historical fiction and much darker and earthier (for lack of a better term)) and I liked Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles a lot too. Those are really historical fiction and Arthur/Lancelot don't really get introduced into the story until the last books. In fact, my favorite books in that series are probably the first few, when it's just a book about Romans in Britain. Hmmm.
Tim Powers's The Anubis Gates is kind of historical fantasy/sci-fi and I thought it was very weird but in a good way. So I read another of his books, Dinner at Deviant's Palace, which is weird, but in a different and not such a good way.
Peter David's Sir Apropos of Nothing is very funny, kind of anti-hero fantasy book, with the title character being, well, kind of a cowardly bastard (literally). I loved it. Apparently, David is known as a comic book writer and Star Trek novelist, but I just picked this book off the shelf because of the cover and the interesting title.
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Ok I have to bump! I'm excited so many people like Garth Nix. I have daughters named Sabriel and Lyriel ( I changed the spelling) and I've only had two other people recognize where the names came from!! I'll have to look up alot of your suggested books. What I like about OSC (besides the brilliant writing) are the moral questions. It's hard to find authors who really satisfy that for me. I think Sherri Tepper has interesting questions, but I don't like her answers. I love Brandon Sanderson. I can't wait for him to finish his new series. It has a really awesome magic system where one "burns" metals internally to produce magical effects. He's very creative. Has anyone read Sharon Shinn?
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Talon by Adrian Ward. No smut, lots of great adventure, fascinating fantasy world with magic and best of all some real characters to care about, not 2 dimensional cardboard cutouts.
Oh wait, sorry, it's not finished yet.
Apologies, I just decided to take the advice of those who posted in Christine's thread about shameless self-promotion to heart and start early. Posts: 14428 | Registered: Aug 2001
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