04-15-2008, 11:52 AM
|
#1
|
|
In the Sin Bin
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SW Ontario
|
Fantasy/RPG Novels
Always looking for more series to read so post your fav's and maybe I can find something new. I have read pretty much every Dragonlance novel, The Drizzt series in Forgotten Realms, The Sword Of Truth, The Wheel Of Time, and my favorite of all the Fire and Ice series by George R.R. Martin. I also have read the Deathgate cycle too. Can't think of any others off the top of my head. What have you read that is good?
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 02:40 PM
|
#3
|
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Calgary
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by troutman
CaramonLS and I can't recommend highly enough The Malazan Book Of The Fallen, by Canadian authour Steven Erikson. Best fantasy series ever - dark, funny, mature, grand military campaigns, complex plot and characters.
|
Thanks, I will be off to Chapters after work to buy this book!
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 02:50 PM
|
#4
|
|
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by flambers
Thanks, I will be off to Chapters after work to buy this book!
|
It's seven big books (so far), ten expected.
Start with Gardens Of The Moon to see if you like it.
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 02:51 PM
|
#5
|
|
Retired
|
Yep, Trout said it. Best Fantasy series ever. (and I've read Martin/Jordan). He blows Jordan out of the water.
The way Erikson explains battles and tactics is far and away better than any other author I've read in a fantasy novel. Very memorable characters.
I'm reading Thomas Covenant now, halfway through the first book.
Gardens of the Moon hooked me in the series and Deadhouse gates just blew me away (probably my favorite novel in the series).
Last edited by CaramonLS; 04-15-2008 at 02:53 PM.
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 02:55 PM
|
#6
|
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: CGY
|
Thanks for this. I really dig fantasy novels as well.
Hey trout, what did you think of Goodkind? Weis and Hickman?
__________________
So far, this is the oldest I've been.
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 03:01 PM
|
#7
|
|
A Fiddler Crab
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Chicago
|
Canadian authors do well at Fantasy, others worth checking out:
The Finonavar Tapestry
Guy Gavriel Kay
and
The Prince of Nothing
R. Scott Bakker
and I just finished Devices and Desires book 1 of The Engineer Trilogy by KJ Parker - which is rumored to be a pen name of Tom Holt.
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 03:06 PM
|
#8
|
|
Retired
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Thanks for this. I really dig fantasy novels as well.
Hey trout, what did you think of Goodkind? Weis and Hickman?
|
Which books specifically are you referring to for Weis/Hickman?
Their Dragonlance series?
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 03:07 PM
|
#9
|
|
Backup Goalie
Join Date: Aug 2005
Exp: 
|
My favorite author is David Gemmell. He is the best writer I have ever read. I have read better stories (the stories are still very good) but the storey-telling is excellent.
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 03:08 PM
|
#10
|
|
In the Sin Bin
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SW Ontario
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Yep, Trout said it. Best Fantasy series ever. (and I've read Martin/Jordan). He blows Jordan out of the water.
The way Erikson explains battles and tactics is far and away better than any other author I've read in a fantasy novel. Very memorable characters.
I'm reading Thomas Covenant now, halfway through the first book.
Gardens of the Moon hooked me in the series and Deadhouse gates just blew me away (probably my favorite novel in the series).
|
Thanks for the input guys, now I am off to go buy! 
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 03:11 PM
|
#11
|
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Chiefs Kingdom, Yankees Universe, C of Red.
|
Isn't there a new Dragonlance novel out by Weis and Hickman?
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 03:13 PM
|
#12
|
|
Retired
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn
Isn't there a new Dragonlance novel out by Weis and Hickman?
|
Yeah, book 2 in the Lost chronicles series.
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 03:16 PM
|
#13
|
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
|
If you want an easy read, Eddings The Belgariad series was good. You can rifle through them.
And I concur about Guy Gavriel Kay - he is an excellent author. Tigana, The Lions of Al Rassan, etc are all really, really good.
I really didn't care for the Covenant series but I have friends who absolutely love them. I've also read most of the Erikson series. They're definitely good, but I don't think I rate them as high as Troutman or CaramonLS.
As far as Jordan goes (may he rest in peace), the first 3 or 4 were good, then they really started to drag. I used to buy them as soon as they were published, but I still haven't bought the most recent one that was released a year ago.
Get the CP book club to do a fantasy book and I would be in (what ever happened with that?)
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 03:16 PM
|
#14
|
|
Uncle Chester
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by CaramonLS
I'm reading Thomas Covenant now, halfway through the first book.
|
Ditto! I picked it up based on what these guys recommended in a similar thread.
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 03:29 PM
|
#15
|
|
Retired
|
Bobble, he really stepped it up on Book 11. Well worth the read. Got the series rolling back on track.
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 03:34 PM
|
#16
|
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Bobble, he really stepped it up on Book 11. Well worth the read. Got the series rolling back on track.
|
Good to know. I actually haven't been reading that much lately; nothing has really caught my interest. I need a good few books to get me back in the groove.
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 03:35 PM
|
#17
|
|
Franchise Player
|
Read most of those recommended here.
A huge second or third for Guy Gavriel Kay. He is without peer, in my opinion.
So I will make recommendations that are not by Donaldson, Martin, Jordan, Eddings, or Goodkind (though I liked all of those).
Katherine Kurtz especially the first trilogy of Deryni books.
Robin Hobb start with The Assassins Apprentice trilogy
Tad Williams: The Dragonbone Chair
Robert Silverberg: Lord Valentines Castle (and all that follow) brilliant stuff
John Marco
Greg Keyes
Paul Kearney
Michael Moorcock: Elric series, Chronicles of Corum, etc.
For a lighter fantasy read, go for Robert Aspirin's Myth series.
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 03:48 PM
|
#18
|
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
|
Another:
Melanie Rawn Dragon Prince series.
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 03:48 PM
|
#19
|
|
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Thanks for this. I really dig fantasy novels as well.
Hey trout, what did you think of Goodkind? Weis and Hickman?
|
I don't know - those books (and Drizzt) seem written for teenage boys. Erikson writes for adults.
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2008, 04:15 PM
|
#20
|
|
In the Sin Bin
|
Michael Stackpole's DragonCrown War trilogy is very good, starting with The Dark Glory War as a prequel novel. His Age of Discovery trilogy was decent as well.
Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern series is an old classic. As was Peirs Anthony's Apprentice Adept series.
Naomi Novik's Temeraire series is different, albeit very light books. I like the idea of dragons in the Napoleonic Wars.
Last edited by Resolute 14; 04-15-2008 at 04:19 PM.
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 12:51 PM.
|
|
