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| Philby |
| ok so ive been reading a lot of star wars novels and comics recently since i love star wars but at the moment i feel like something slightly more fantasy. i loved the lord of the rings movies but i tried reading the books a couple of times and well just couldn't get into it. i think 1 page of "frodo and sam walked some more" could have done but tolkien though 10 pages would be better. oh well. ive read the song of fire and ice series by george martin and while they had good bits too they seemed to go on forever without much happening, i was kinda waiting for the point. which nearly came but then somebody died and the cycle began again. so i was wondering if anyone has any reccomendations? i like the dragonlance series and have a bunch of those but was looking for something else. i might try 'white tiger' by kylie chan, it seems interesting. any ideas? |
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| Beat Blog |
The Magician series by Raymond E. Feist.
Truly stunning scope; most fantasy novels talk about such and such world/planet/city, this one is set over two planets and deals with the creation of the universe and a whole lot of other "blow your mind" stuff.
Some of his other books are ok too, but I'd stick to the ones which are in trilogies, as he has written a few one off novels which are complete and were obviously a money making exercise.
They should make a Magician movie, it would be a hell of a lot better than that bore-fest Lord Of The Rings.
Oh, and if you like Star Wars, ya big geek, read the series written by Michael Stackpole. I read them in year 8 and they were great. |
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| Philby |
| cool, i was thinking of getting the magician, never tried any raymond e feist stuff. and i like the cover of 'flight of the nighthawks' too haha |
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| Taranis |
If you don't like Song of Ice and Fire, you should just give up on fantasy, it's pretty much the best the genre has to offer :p I can sympathise with your complaint about it though, as far as 'long stretches of nothing much happening' goes, I really think the series would be much improved by eliminating some of the more boring character storylines, less Bran/Arya/Brienne, more Daenerys/Jon/Tyrion/Cersei/Jaime please.
Actually I take that back, have you tried Robin Hobb? She's got 4 trilogies currently released, 2 of which (Liveship Traders and Soldiers Son), are decidedly mediocre, but the other two (Farseer Trilogy and Tawny Man Trilogy, both of which follow the same character, with a 15 year gap in between), are easily up there with Martin as some of the best fantasy I've read. If you're looking for action packed, dragons and wizards and gods everywhere, Dragonlance style fantasy, you probably won't like it, but for a deep, realistic, character driven story set in a fantasy universe, you really can't go wrong.
Or Terry Pratchett, though how much his books are fantasy stories, and how much they're parodies of fantasy stories is open to debate, Discworld is still an amazing series. Fun, funny, and sometimes deeling with rather deep concepts at the same time, just bear in mind that his first few books, imo, really don't do justice to what the series later evolves into, they're decent in their own right, but it's not until several books into the series that he really settles into his style. |
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| FiK |
alright magician is ing awesome, if you arent into that then yeah pretty much give up on the genre.
the wheel of time series are awesome as hell also, prob my favourite books ever.
otherwise could hit up sword of shannara by brooks or the diamond throne by eddings, endless options really :) |
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| Teflon_Teapot |
robin hobb - assassins apprentice
really good series of books
and philby you dont know what you're talking about regarding a song of ice and fire, the whole point is its not predictable fantasy where everything happens like clockwork and follows a formula. its unique that is what makes it so good. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| yeah, i was gonna recommend magician too. |
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| Fledz |
Fiest is good but he looks like a teen fiction writer compared to Steven Erikson.
Steven Eriksons "Malazan - Book Of The Fallen" is by far the best series of books I have ever read. It's so unbelievably detailed it's amazing and you read things in the first book which then tie to things in like the 6th book, while he didn't even write that one earlier. I believe he's still writing the 8th book now (there will be 10 in total).
Grab the first one: 
Gardens Of The Moon
Here's the wiki link to his series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen
I loved Feists books but they don't compare to the sheer scope of Eriksons intricate worlds and literally thousands of characters.
Really, really, really detailed but if you can get past the first 100-200 pages and get into it, I guarantee you will go out and buy the next 6 copies which are already out and read them as fast as you can.
One of the only books that genuinely made me sad and even shed a tear for a few characters. |
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| tathi |
if you like Sci Fi and Fantasy a great book to read is Frank herberts Dune - http://www.amazon.com/Dune-Chronicl...1/dp/0441172717
one of my all time favorite books, i can also vouch for Magician, Assasin Series, a great Fantasy series by australian author Jennifer Fallon is the Second Sons Trilogy, couldnt put that one down |
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| Philby |
yeah i might give dune another go, tried when i was younger but didnt get very far. i loooove terry pratchett, have a lot of his books. he was here last year i think, or 2006, but it was like $150 to go to the convention or something. i bought magician last night, as well as a starcraft book which im reading first :p
mark, my point was not that i want everything like clockwork or predictable or with a formula, but that the series to me just seemed to be going kinda sideways in a way. i mean there seems to be things that go on for ages and then finish and end up being kinda useless in the overall story. this is just based on my idea that danareys coming back to reclaim the throne with an army of dragons is like the 'end game' kinda thing, that you could predict as soon as you started reading her sections, but it seems to be taking forever to get to that point. maybe im just impatient :p as an aside, arya is probably my favourite character so i dont mind her chapters hehe
i really liked the first book in the star wars republic commando series, waiting to get the next couple. its different in the way that its not really about a hero jedi saving the day against the empire, its in the clone wars so the sides are a little different and its more focused on the military side, less than the jedi side, and how the clones cope with being what they are. i thought it was really good. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| the amtrak wars by patrick tilley is also excellent. easy reading too. |
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