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TeCh)PsylO
Profile Joined October 2002
United States3552 Posts
Last Edited: 2004-10-26 15:19:21
October 26 2004 15:19 GMT
#21
The only fantasy book I have read outside the Dune series(which is highly recomended) was Wizards First Rule of the sword of truth series. It is fairly simply written but imaginitive and a good read. I have friends who have read the hole series and think its great.
People change, then forget to tell each other - Susan Scott
Danka
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Peru1018 Posts
October 26 2004 20:01 GMT
#22
Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

I read it when i was younger but i loved it.
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Taguchi
Profile Joined February 2003
Greece1575 Posts
October 26 2004 20:16 GMT
#23
gotta go with testie, get martin's a song of ice and fire series, its high quality and very entertaining writing
wheel of time is very good but not really adult fantasy and the writing's not on the level of martin

and wheel of time is currently 10 books long, each 800 or so pages, with the ending not that close, while martin's books push the action forward much faster
Great minds might think alike, but fastest hands rule the day~
Arbiter[frolix]
Profile Joined January 2004
United Kingdom2674 Posts
October 26 2004 20:21 GMT
#24
On October 26 2004 22:00 supraboytt wrote:
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

I finished all 400 pages in three sittings over a 2 day period.

Synopsis:
When Richard stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself propelled into an alternate reality that exists in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations below the London. A city of monsters, saints, murderers, and angels.



Have you ever seen the television series?
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Arbiter[frolix]
Profile Joined January 2004
United Kingdom2674 Posts
October 26 2004 20:23 GMT
#25
I would recommend anything by Philip K Dick, his novels and his short story collections. One of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
We are vigilant.
Capulet
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Canada686 Posts
October 26 2004 20:24 GMT
#26
On October 26 2004 20:58 Locked wrote:
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman is a good choice
(includes The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass)

and of course Lord of the Rings =D

can't think of any others you didn't mention right now, also what you mentioned sounds more like sci-fi than fantasy to me, the ones i mentioned were more fantasy -_-


Read them, LOVED them!
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JazZ[AutO]
Profile Joined November 2003
United States558 Posts
October 27 2004 10:03 GMT
#27
Anything by Asimov, i love his books. Foundation series was the best.
subtle
Profile Joined August 2004
United States187 Posts
October 27 2004 10:09 GMT
#28
On October 27 2004 05:01 Danka wrote:
Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

I read it when i was younger but i loved it.


That is a very good series of books. It's fantasy of the old school- epic.
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rplant
Profile Joined May 2003
United States1178 Posts
October 27 2004 10:19 GMT
#29
I used to like Arthur C. Clarke's stuff a good bit. Find it easier to recommend Childhood's End or Rendezvous with Rama (or even A Space Oddyssey) than any of the fantasy junk I read--went through a lot of it and it was virtually all masturbatory commercial trash, if fun at the time (imHo). Probably the same deal with Clarke's fiction but I don't remember feeling duped after those. Maybe because I didn't read too many of his books.

Oh and the Earthsea books (Ursula Le Guin) had a pretty interesting, unique tone. You might like them if you liked A Wrinkle in Time.

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Hot77.iEy
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Finland1486 Posts
October 28 2004 01:20 GMT
#30
R.A Salvatore's Dark Elf Trilogy + Ice Wind Dale Trilogy.
-.-
IDWIJNI-
Profile Joined February 2003
Mexico332 Posts
October 28 2004 01:35 GMT
#31
On October 27 2004 05:23 Arbiter[frolix] wrote:
I would recommend anything by Philip K Dick, his novels and his short story collections. One of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.


Totally agreed. But he wrote Sci-Fi. Not the same right?
Ceril
Profile Joined April 2003
Sweden1343 Posts
October 28 2004 01:44 GMT
#32
Game of Thrones have been mentioned already, but I have not seen Janny Wurts: War of Light and Shadow to be mentioned.
Just because you can now store where everyone was and is, what they like, what they fear who they talk to and who they love. It does not mean we should so spy upon our fellow man in a dystopia far worse then 1984
ChApFoU
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
France2983 Posts
October 28 2004 01:51 GMT
#33
Michael Moorcock, Elric saga ( 9 books ) really roxx
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fanta[Rn]
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Japan2465 Posts
October 28 2004 02:28 GMT
#34
don't know if anyone recommaned it so far, didn't read the answers but if u dont mind reading books which arent that hard too read i recommand you: Timeline and Prey both from Michael Chrichton
Redcloak
Profile Joined December 2002
United States530 Posts
October 28 2004 06:48 GMT
#35
RA Salvatore, David Eddings, and Robert Jordan I all support.

Throw in Ed Greenwood for good measure.
Just Some Old Man
mmm.beer
Profile Joined March 2003
Canada412 Posts
October 28 2004 06:54 GMT
#36
-sword of shannara series
-wheel of time
T-bone
Profile Joined December 2009
United States7 Posts
December 19 2009 20:52 GMT
#37
The Bible

Sorry for bumping but I thought this post made the thread bumpworthy
Give a dog a bone.
Headlines
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States482 Posts
December 19 2009 21:58 GMT
#38
Cold Mountain

W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War who walks for months to return to Ada Monroe, the love of his life; the plot shares several similarities with Homer's The Odyssey. The novel alternates chapter-by-chapter between Inman's and Ada's stories.

reference

Redwall

Mice!!!

reference

The Little Prince

The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince), published in 1943, is French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's most famous novella. Saint-Exupéry wrote it while living in the United States. It has been translated into more than 180 languages and sold more than 80 million copies making it one of the best selling books ever.

An earlier memoir by the author recounts his aviation experiences in the Saharan desert. He is thought to have drawn on these same experiences for use as plot elements in The Little Prince. Saint-Exupéry's novella has been adapted to various media over the decades, including stage, screen and operatic works.

reference

Just the books I can think of that haven't been mentioned yet (or have... but I didn't see).
Matoo-
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
Canada1397 Posts
December 19 2009 22:34 GMT
#39
Btw I think the Wheel of Time has been finished now. Did anyone here read it entirely? How good is the end, since it's not RJ who wrote it? I had to stop about 2/3rds into the series some years ago because the next books weren't released at that time, but I would certainly resume reading if the end is worth it. The series does have its shortcomings but overall I still found it very rich and interesting.

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Dark.Carnival
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States5095 Posts
December 19 2009 22:37 GMT
#40
last book was split into three, first one was released in october, other two coming out next year/year after(i think). Brandon Sanderson wrote them, but jordan had a ton of notes for him to use
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