Your the Fantasybook you love the most

I can't resist readind Silmarilion over and over again. it must be thanks to the overall atmosphere of the book and the amount of unique and butiful characters...it's a mastrepiece

The books I love most are the Otherland books, by Tad Williams.
Of course I'm rather fond of Tolkien too, and David Eddings, Terry Pratchett, Dan Simmons (Ilium might even have been as good as the Otherland series, I'm waiting for Olympos to get translated to decide), Marion Zimmer Bradley (historical fantasy is still fantasy), Julian May (thin line with sci-fi, but hey, most sci-fi actually evolved towards fantasy), Weis & Hickman, Dave Duncan and, why not, Rowling.

I am between The Silmarillion and Wheel of Time. I also love Lovecraft.

Otherland is my favourite too, alongside Terry Pratchett as you can likely guess from my display pic :D
Robert Jordan, Robin Hobb, David Eddings, Raymond Feist and Tolkien are all amazing too.

I really like GRR Martin. A Song of Ice and Fire is a really good series. The books are really realistic and can take a little bit to get into but there's a lot of memorable characters and plot twists.

sataf said:
What do you all think of George RR Martin? I've heard good and bad things... are his books worth checking out?
Truely he is a master! I haven't finished his "Song of Ice and Fire" but so far I've read 5 books and they are really the among the best fantasy books I've ever read. The characters are all different and even even though they sometimes fight each other you will like all of them. So far my favorite is Arya ;)

Anyway I started fantasy quite early with a youth's fantasy series: the books about Alanna (by Tamora Pierce). I guess these ones are the books I like best, even today.

After them I got a bit more into science fiction and X-Files stuff. Reading the "Enwor" saga I returned to fantasy. Yet I cannot recommend evrything W. Hohlbein has created since he seems to repeat his ideas a little bit too often.

Another great fantasy author (maybe the very best) is, of course, Tad Williams. Although he might take quite some time to get into his stories they are just bombastic and take you away into another world.

I've also read both, the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, yet I guess there is better stuff out there. There's not as much depth in it as there is in Tad Williams stuff and still he takes quite long to tell you his story. :-|

i have chosen one of your recommendations and laid my hand on Ray Feist's Magician...the first part of The Riftwar saga (for those who cannot recall immediately)....i am astonished and deeply impressed. beautiful story, very interesting plot, strong characters,...the author realy is a talent for laying right words in right places....well, what should i add, cannot wait for pay-day to go and buy the 2nd part ;).
THANK YOU SERYN.

Losthiliel said:
i have chosen one of your recommendations and laid my hand on Ray Feist's Magician...the first part of The Riftwar saga (for those who cannot recall immediately)....i am astonished and deeply impressed. beautiful story, very interesting plot, strong characters,...the author realy is a talent for laying right words in right places....well, what should i add, cannot wait for pay-day to go and buy the 2nd part ;).
THANK YOU SERYN.

No problems, but i don't even remember recommending Raymond Feist specifically. Well I did mention him but other authors such as Tad Williams are so much better in my opinion. I still havn't read the rest of the series myself, only the first, though I do own all the books at least. I'll have to delve into them in my upcoming 3 month holiday from university :)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Terry Brooks! I personally love his Shannara trilogy. Has anyone here read anything by Brooks? Just wondering, he seems to be an underrated author.

I personally don't have a favorite fantasy book. But I do have my personal treasures. Like a signed copy of Terry Pratchett's "Moving Pictures", that I've owned for a little over 10 years now. I love Terry Pratchett's writings. That's a man that knows a lot about even the most obscure things. :)

I have "A Game of Thrones", "A Clash of Kings" and "A Storm of Swords" and am planning to get the following books sooner or later as well. My favorite character is also Arya as someone before me mentioned. Very different writing and you can never be sure that the main characters actually survive, which I love and hate at the same time since often times my favorite characters end up dying.

On top of that I have a rather extensive collection of Forgotten Realms novels. I can't help it, I love the setting and the world and love reading those novels. For that universe some of my favorite writers are Ed Greenwood, R.A. Salvatore, Elaine Cunningham and Richard Baker.

I have Lord of the Rings standing here and have read it but it's not really my favorite. It's a good trilogy that employs the English language in a wonderful way but just not amongst my favorites. It's much better in English than the first time I tried to read it (I didn't get past the first 80 pages) and only had in German.

But I'm not surprised since a tale ALWAYS loses something when it's being translated into another language. I stopped reading books in German about 13 years ago and thanks to Amazon.de it's not as difficult to get books in a decent language as it used to be.

Uhm... And now I stop writing since this has already become a rather long post. :/

I really enjoy reading erikson's malazan books,but its not a favourite of mine.Im also keen on the Traxas series and a book by Paul Kirni called gods monarchies.
There also was a book about swords with souls but unfortunately I cant translate the name and dont remmeber its author.

Ive read a lot of the stuf already mentioned, but all my favourites seem to be obscure, widely unknown books

Phillip pullman is brilliant
Everything tolkien did is Amazing. Respect to him

but my favourites have to be authors like Ursula le Guin (the earthsea quartet) which is brilliant. Ive read it countless times. Also Susan cooper is another favourite (The dark is Rising Quintet) I guess i just like longer stories heh.