04-02-2003, 08:38 PM | #1 |
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Your opinion please
I finished The Hobbit, LotR, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. I'm not sure that I want to get HoME yet so what other fantasy books would you recomend? (Just a few that you really enjoyed)
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04-02-2003, 09:05 PM | #2 |
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Brooks "Shannara" books, or Eddings "Belgariad" series; after that, the "Malloreon". That's my recommendation.
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04-02-2003, 09:07 PM | #3 |
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Or The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Those books are really awesome.
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04-02-2003, 09:28 PM | #4 |
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Or you can read MY books. Once I write them, that is.
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04-04-2003, 07:41 AM | #5 | |
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The 'Bitterbynde' series by Cecilia Dart-Thornton. I love it, and the critics love it too. She gets compared to JRRT so much.
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04-04-2003, 12:23 PM | #6 | |
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Re: Your opinion please
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04-04-2003, 01:14 PM | #7 |
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RA Salvatore: Demon Wars Saga (favorite next to Tolkien), The Icewind Dale Trilogy, The Dark Elf Trilogy
Terry Brooks: The Shannara Series
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04-06-2003, 10:31 AM | #8 |
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How about the "witch world" trilogy by Andre Norton. The first two are fine while the last is a bit much but hey we're talking far out type stuff here.
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04-06-2003, 02:04 PM | #9 |
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Read something by Elizabeth Haydon.
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04-06-2003, 02:16 PM | #10 |
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If you like Japanese type Fantasy, Wind Child, Dragon Sword was Very good. It's a little bit hard to explain but its about a boy and a girl and one Serves the supposedly all powerful light god until she is challenged. Then she finds out she's is the bearer of the Dragon Sword held by the Light. V Good.
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04-07-2003, 07:31 PM | #11 |
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The Redwall series is also horrendously good.
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04-07-2003, 09:06 PM | #12 |
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I didn't like Shannara as much as some people. A bit too long, and too much happening so soon. Then again, that's just my opinion.
I've only read two of the Redwall books (Martin the Warrior and Mossflower). I remember them being very good, especially Mossflower.
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04-08-2003, 03:59 PM | #13 |
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Read His Dark Materials. As long as you aren't strongly religious. Even then, you would find it interesting, even if you don't agree.
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04-11-2003, 09:19 AM | #14 |
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I love His Dark Materials as well. Yeah, the religious aspects in there kind of shocked me, but they were still good.
If you can get your hands on it, try reading the Heaven and Earth (I think) series by Garth Nix, an Australian author. Dark fantasy- great stuff. |
04-11-2003, 06:37 PM | #15 |
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I really enjoyed His Dark Materials a lot. The religious assumptions and things didn't bother me at all, even though I'm a Christian, because they just seemed so far out! I mean, they ignored most of the Bible and brought back incorrect religious villains from the past. It was only Christianity by a hair, and I didn't mind them twisting around their make-believe Christianity. So it felt like just felt like what it was. Fantasy. And I read it as fantasy and loved it .
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04-15-2003, 12:02 AM | #18 |
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Terry Goodkind: Sword of Truth
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04-19-2003, 03:53 PM | #19 |
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hhmm I don't think someone is really going to read all of those books.
okay, I recommend on the sieri of Amber by Roger Zelazni (or something spelled similar, I can't spell and I didn't read those books in English).
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04-19-2003, 06:04 PM | #20 |
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the wheel of time
the earthsea chronicles (sp) Redwall Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emporers The Last Unicorn The Riftwar Legacy
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