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On February 14 2011 01:00 Euronyme wrote:Show nested quote +On February 14 2011 00:44 KasPra wrote:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - one of my absolute favourites. Idk what people think about it but i love it. It's not serious at all though, mostly full of humor and satire. You should check out some Terry Pratchett books m8  The best of the 'Guide' is like the average in Terry's books in my opinion. They've got the same kind of humour as well. My favourite part of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy was like the first 20 or so pages, with the jingis khan stuff ^^ Litterally laughed out loud (no pun intended).
This is absolutely true. Not to take anything away from Hitchhiker's Guide, because that is an amazing series, but the Discworld stories blow it completely out of the water. You can start with nearly any book and be able to pick it right up, with only a few being direct sequels to one another.
All the books are great, but my favorite has to be Thief of Time. I think at last count I've got 19 books from that series, I've still got a ways to go.
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The Belgariad and the Elenium series by David Eddings Only read the two series that coincide with those
Raymond E Feist - Krondor Series
Robin Hobb - The Farseer Trilogy
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld - Just started reading this, seems like a great Steam-punk fantasy series with a world war I background. Easy read, definitely for a younger audience but still very enjoyable.
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On February 14 2011 03:23 blamous wrote:
I just started the Song of Fire and Ice books but have not been drawn is as of yet. I'm hoping it's just a slow developer.
The first book is really slow, yeah.
It's an introduction (of 1000 pages, no kidding), not that good.
But once the plot begins, roughly at the end of those 1.000 pages, the story becomes deeper and deeper. The second book is quite good and the third one (i'm reading it right now) is even better.
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"The Name of the Wind" by patrick rothfuss should have been reccomended so far. In case it somehow hasn't, it's probably the best fantasy book to be written in the last 10 years, and unlike G.R.R.M this guy actually writes books (given up hope for a dance with dragons here).
And apparently the followup "A Wise Mans Fear" is either out, or about to be. Hopefully it is as awesome as the first book is.
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The Malazan Book's of the Fallen are the best fantasy books i've read.
I own about 400+ fantasy books, if that gives you an idea.
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On February 14 2011 04:35 Twistacles wrote:
The Malazan Book's of the Fallen are the best fantasy books i've read.
I own about 400+ fantasy books, if that gives you an idea.
100% agreed. By far the best series I've read, and I've read 90%+ of the books mentioned in the thread.
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The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. As well as Best Served Cold, and The Heroes. Probably not for everyone, but he's one of my favorite authors.
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. Takes forever for this man to write anything, but the series is some of the best fantasy out there.
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Wasn't overly fond of Sanderson's stuff before the Way of Kings, but this book I found excellent.
Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, it's a wonderful series, and really what got me into reading fantasy in the first place.
Some other fantasy authors I like reading. J. R. R. Tolkien, Jim Butcher, Peter V. Brett, Robert E. Howard. And I'm not sure if he's considered fantasy, it's probably sci-fi, but I found Jasper Fforde rather good.
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Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen - 10 book series by Steven Erikson (really dark humor)
Night Angel Trilogy and The Black Prism - Brent Weeks (also really dark humor)
The whole Drizzt series, beginning with Homeland - R.A. Salvatore
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss (Probably the bet book I've ever read)
The whole Shannara series, beginning with The First King of Shannara - Terry Brooks
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Sword of Truth is great, also wheel of time.
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13 and a half lives of captain blue bear
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I would recommend you the Dragonlance series. It's great fun if you're into general fantasy(dragons,magic etc). Most importantly the wizard character(Raistlin) is so insanely interesting it's beyond words.
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I'm surprised noone mentioned "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. He is a new but amazing writer. I couldn't put his book down.
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On February 14 2011 05:17 LookinOjiz wrote:
I'm surprised noone mentioned "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. He is a new but amazing writer. I couldn't put his book down.
It's been mentioned twice before already, but yeah, it was a good read. Problem is that it was barely more then an introduction to the story and the author is sure taking his sweet time with the sequel. 2nd one should be out soon though :D
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Gonna bump George RR Martin real quick because he writes some of the most amazing fantasy I have ever read.
Seriously, you will not regret reading those books, they are fucking great.
Now I'm gonna go back and check out what other people recommended. Cool thread.
edit/ LOL! This thread is 7 years old? Oh well, still worth a bump from whoever did it.
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These are must read!
Ringworld by Larry Niven
2001: A space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Rendez-vous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
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Don't forget "Althalus's redemption" also by David Eddings.
Otherwise my favorites are still :
Belgariad / malloreon by Eddings too (so much humor)
Wheel of time by robert jordan (even if tomes 5 to 8 are a little let down, the rest is pure epic)
The Dark tower by Stephen king.
I also approve of Neil Gaiman (stardust , american gods, neverwhere....) and Douglas Adams !
also Terry goodkind..
omg i want to read them all all over again now, audiobooks are an epic win by the way
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I like fantasy book a lot, I suggest the Demon War saga by R.A. Salvator.
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Brent Weeks' The Black Prism is a must read. His Night Angel Trilogy is good too, but honestly TBP ranks up there with all the big fantasy greats.
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Wise Man's Fear is coming out on March 1st over here in Toronto =). Only like 2-3 more weeks of waiting,
The Name of the Wind is one of my favourite books and I enjoyed it more than GoT tbh,
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Angus Wells: Lords of the Sky
My favourite book.
Nobody knows it but is just awesome.
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