fantasy novels

[Gold Streaks]

anyone else on this board read this stuff?

my favorites are the song of ice and fire series by george r.r. martin and robert jordan's wheel of time series.

anyone who likes to read books, whether into romance or horror or whatever, i think could get into these stories.

[Sykonee]

I used to read a lot of R.A. Salvatore and Hickman & Weis (not just their D&D novels but other works as well). Kinda lost touch with it, though, once I discovered Acid House Literature.

Oh, and of course, Tolkien. Heh...can't forget the granddaddy of 'em all ^_^

[Gold Streaks]

keep an eye out within the next couple years for Dark fantasies. by Oliver Ogilvie and Tim Morton, a.k.a. Gold streaks and crookedking. :195: :365:

[diva]

You guys should read the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.

The first novel's called Wizard's First Rule.

[Gold Streaks]

Originally posted by diva:
You guys should read the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.

The first novel's called Wizard's First Rule.

read it. not bad but copies a lot of the wheel of time series. i stopped reading it after book three. i strongly suggest u pick up a game of thrones by george rr martin.

[crookedking]

three rings for the elven-kings under the sky,
seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone,
nine for mortal men doomed to die,
one for the dark lord on his dark throne
in the land of mordor where shadows lie.
one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,
one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
in the land of mordor where shadows lie.

i love that saying...anyways ollie...before you go any further...my last name is spelt MORTEN...we are not some common morton family...sheesh.

sword of truth is good, and hickman and weis have several other good series besides the dragonlance stuff...but i'm more into historical military fiction right now...although i am reading dune house harkonnen now...
dune is the lord of the rings of sci fi man.

[Gold Streaks]

i knew it was spelled morten. sorry bout that.

[diva]

Originally posted by Gold Streaks:

read it. not bad but copies a lot of the wheel of time series. i stopped reading it after book three. i strongly suggest u pick up a game of thrones by george rr martin.

I'm only on book three of the Goodkind series. I haven't really felt the urge to pick up the fourth yet...
I'll give the Wheel of Time series a shot..

=)

[Gold Streaks]

much better series. what bothers me about goodkind is that he tries to make up for all his cornyness with brutal violence. if u like the violence then read a game of thrones. the wheel of time starts out with a lot of fun, kinda innocent but gradually over the course of the first seven books turns into a fantasy/horror. it's sweet.

[MC Hammered]

Originally posted by Sykonee:
I used to read a lot of R.A. Salvatore and Hickman & Weis (not just their D&D novels but other works as well). Kinda lost touch with it, though, once I discovered Acid House Literature.

Oh, and of course, Tolkien. Heh...can't forget the granddaddy of 'em all ^_^

The Hickman and Weis compliations are great.

The Death Gate 7 book series is fantastic D&D type fantasy while their space novels, Star of the Guardians and Mag Force, are good reading as well.

You can also pick up Orson Scott Card's Ender series. Very well written as well.

[bob]

i have never been able to understand the appeal of fantasy novels...
someone wanna explain to me?
my only guess is that reality isn't good enough for you or it isn't good enough to you...

i'm not criticizing, i just wanna know what the craze is all about... i know a lotta ppl that collect fantasy/sci-fi novels, and they harsh obsess over them...

[bob]

PS everyone i see reading fantasy/sci-fi novels are either really scrubby or really nerdy

...but that's just an observation

[rawb]

when i was in grade school i was really into dragonlance. i also finished all of david eddings' books before grade 8 i think. since then i've never really had the drive to pick up any fantasy.

[crtl.alt.del]

ooo, I love reading sci-fi/fantasy novels!

Started reading Elvenbane - Halfblood series by Andre Norton, Mercedes Lackey
Really Good.

Finished one called Blood Music - Greg Bear.
Quite intense!

Piers Anthony, his Xanth series are all worth reading.
Puny and satrical.

Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat series is another.

Robert Asprin's M.Y.T.H Series and Phule series is wonderful.

:D

[crtl.alt.del]

I am not scrubby but as for being geeky...maybe
nor a collector.
But why should that even matter at all?!
I read other novels too.

[Sykonee]

Originally posted by werdyboy:
when i was in grade school i was really into dragonlance. i also finished all of david eddings' books before grade 8 i think. since then i've never really had the drive to pick up any fantasy.

EDDINGS!!! I used to bang his books a lot too! heh...I knew I was forgetting a series.

[Gold Streaks]

Originally posted by werdyboy:
when i was in grade school i was really into dragonlance. i also finished all of david eddings' books before grade 8 i think. since then i've never really had the drive to pick up any fantasy.

that is because u read david eddings. he does not represent the fantasy genre.

[Gold Streaks]

oh ya i am neither scrubby nor nerdy.

ok after work in the morning i can look pretty scrubby some times. but it has nothing to do with fantasy reading.

what is the thing with fantasy? sort of what u said bob. an escape from reality. doesn't mean the person is unhappy with their life, it's just that anything can happen in a fantasy novel. i can't understand how someone could read the shit and not write it though.

when it comes to my books i like the huge complex story lines with many many different characters.