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Mordack wrote:

Finarfin wrote:

Mordack wrote:

Finarfin wrote:A Song of Ice and Fire (Very well written series, but the author seems to kill off his main characters with ease - sign of a good writer)..

I'm a huge ASoIaF fan. George R.R. Martin is a vastly underrated writer, in my opinion. I rate him right up there with Tolkien and the greats.

I also like;

H. P. Lovecraft - Cthulhu Mythos
Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Stephen King - The Dark Tower
Raymond E. Feist - The Empire Trilogy

I'm an on and off "Wheel of Time" fan. I sometimes feel the last few books have been sub par, and that Jordan has begun to lose the plot slightly. We should make allowances for the fact he's been ill though, I suppose.

Cthulhu! Lol.

What's so lol worthy about the Cthulhu books? They're a good read!

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu

Everything by

Patricia McKillip
Juliet Marillier
Jacqueline Carey
Anne Kelleher

Apadamek Sokar Sneferu wrote:His Dark Materials Trilogy By Phillip Pullman

They're making a movie out of The Golden Compass. Supposed to come out in 2007. I'm dubious about it, as I usually am about all movies made from fantasy/sci-fi books I love, but I'm willing to give it a chance and go see it.



A lot of the books and series already mentioned are good ones, like Redwall and the Wheel of Time...

-Anything by Anne McCaffrey (The Dragonriders of Pern series (here's the wiki entry) is probably my favourite, but literally anything she's written or even co-written is stunning.)
-Anything by Piers Anthony (same thing - brilliant stuff)
-The Kushiel's Legacy series by Jacqueline Carey (first book is Kushiel's Dart) (Tita made a thread about it)
-The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon (first book is Outlander)
-The Symphony of Ages series by Elizabeth Haydon (first book is Rhapsody)
-The Runelords series by David Farland (first book is The Runelords)
-Lord of the Isles series by David Drake (first book is Lord of the Isles)
-Don't Bite the Sun by Tanith Lee
-The Battleaxe trilogy by Sara Douglass (first book is Battleaxe) (gumbi mentioned her Troy Game book, which is also very good.)
-The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (here's a review.)

yeh i hope his dark materials isnt dissapointing. the 1st book is called northern lights here, not the golden compass. thats weird. they really should make more fantasy books into films after how well LOTR did. magician should be top of the list im thinking.

a few good b00ks:
any thing by raymond e feist (epic scale and amazing descriptive writing)
'midwinter'
'eragon' etc
'playboy fantasy edition' (a classic read for the educated elite)
raymond e feist (so good he has to be mentioned twice)
ian irvine (all good)

Finarfin wrote:

Mordack wrote:

Finarfin wrote:

Mordack wrote:

Finarfin wrote:A Song of Ice and Fire (Very well written series, but the author seems to kill off his main characters with ease - sign of a good writer)..

I'm a huge ASoIaF fan. George R.R. Martin is a vastly underrated writer, in my opinion. I rate him right up there with Tolkien and the greats.

I also like;

H. P. Lovecraft - Cthulhu Mythos
Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Stephen King - The Dark Tower
Raymond E. Feist - The Empire Trilogy

I'm an on and off "Wheel of Time" fan. I sometimes feel the last few books have been sub par, and that Jordan has begun to lose the plot slightly. We should make allowances for the fact he's been ill though, I suppose.

Cthulhu! Lol.

What's so lol worthy about the Cthulhu books? They're a good read!

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu

Whoa whoa whoa...we cant talk Cthulhu with out me being here....

Anything by Lovecraft is great, but hes very hard to real because theres so little diolog in his books.

Well alot of the series that i have read have already been mentioned here but a few of those deserve another mention since they are just such good reading.

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman ( too many books to name going back to about 1988 till present)
L. E. Modesitt jr. Magic of Recluse series and Spell Song Wars
R. A. Salvatore most notably The Dark Elf Trilogy but all the books are good even the few star wars books this author writes
Raymond E. Feist GREAT BOOKS all 18 of them

The Mortal Engines Series by Philip Reve
The Wind on Fire series by William Nichilson

i also reccomend the Aubrey-Maturin or Master & Commander series by Patrick O'Brein.

LotR is an obvious choice...Come to think of it anything by J.R.R Tolkien is obvious as he is grandpa of the fantasy genre

The EarthSea Triliogy by Ursula K LeGuinn

Discworld series

Harry Potter Series (Yes yes I know)

Robert E Feist..Anything he does

and yeah thats pretty much it

Most of my favorites have been mentioned.

Watership Down is a great book.

The Otherland series by Tad Williams is a good read also.

...Everville, Imajica...anything by Clive Barker is pretty good.

EVERYTHING by Robin Hobb, David Gemmell, and David Eddings (The younger gods series are really bad dont read them )

pog

your read the great and secret show
good book (preceads everville)

I'm surprised nobdy has mention this yet:

Pendragon.

It's a series by D.J. MacHale, and probably the best series I've ever read in my life. Within 3 chapters of the first book, I was absolutely hooked.

So far, there are 7 books:
1. The Merchant of Death
2. The Lost City of Faar
3. The Never War
4. The Reality Bug
5. Black Water
6. The Rivers of Zadaa
7. The Quillian Games

SSG EnterTheLion wrote:Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan


Ea series by David Zindell


The Prince of Nothing series by R. Scott Bakker


The books on Midkemia by Raymond E Feist

wheel of time is bloody genius!! amazing series, and im dying for the 12th one to come out! i havnt read the prologue, is it any good? (a new spring)

EDIT- also i recommend Robin hobb books, she is a good writer