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  • Your the Fantasybook you love the most

    My favorite book is "The Hobbit or There and Back Again" by J. R. R. Tolkien. I like it because of the incident with the trolls ... Everybody who read this book will know what I mean ^^

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  • 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

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    • Ago 6 2006, 23h21
    Tolkien is definitely the master (and creator) of the genre. I am also a big fan of The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.

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    • Ago 16 2006, 4h21
    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.

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    • Ago 16 2006, 14h59
    I've read a lot of books since, but my alltime favorite would have to be The Hobbit, the book that started it all for me.

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

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    • Ago 17 2006, 23h41
    The Unbeliever series by Steven R. Donaldson is another good one.

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    • Ago 18 2006, 8h42
    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.

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    • Ago 18 2006, 23h36
    What do you all think of George RR Martin? I've heard good and bad things... are his books worth checking out?

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    • Ago 19 2006, 15h47
    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.

  • The Hobbit, Otherland, and The Hawk Eternal by David Gemmell are my favorites for now. :)

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    • Set 23 2006, 12h30
    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. :-|

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    • Set 24 2006, 14h15
    Heh :) I love all books written by John Ronald Ruel Tolkien and by Terry Pratchett :) But I can read every fantasy book :) Just reccomend me :)

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  • to Seryn

    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.

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    • Nov 1 2006, 19h53
    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.

    Yeah. I've just finished 4th book about Midkemia. Really great, although somewhat different from most other authors. He turns more and more to religious and psychologic elements. The parts where Pug and Thomas have been in that nowhere and the whole story about Ashen-Shugar is likely to ask you some major questions of belief.

    Now I started "Die Tochter der himmelsscheibe" by W. Hohlbein. It's great, I can't stop reading. Yet, it is not really fantasy but more mystical history. The two major character so far seem to be true heroes. Not like other fantasy heroes, more like heroes of everyday.

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    • Nov 5 2006, 10h37
    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 :)

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    • Nov 6 2006, 17h08
    Some of my current favorite fantasy authors:

    Robin Hobb
    George R.R. Martin
    Steven Brust
    Steven Erikson
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    China Mieville

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    • Nov 10 2006, 2h08
    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.

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    • Nov 11 2006, 12h53
    I love Shannara books...beautiful universe.

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    • Nov 13 2006, 16h02
    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. :/

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  • The Farseer Trilogy

    I'll have to say Harry Potter or my fellow Quidditch members will kill me, lol! No, I'm going to be honest and say that I've been most impressed by Robin Hobb and her Farseer Trilogy. I also love Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. They're the best. But of course there's also Tolkien, Pratchett, Holdstock, Weis & Hickman...

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    • Dez 17 2006, 17h11
    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.

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    • Dez 22 2006, 14h09
    I love the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman too! And Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time series (though I'm still currently on The Dragon Reborn at the moment ;) but I'm already obsessed...), andnadna haha... I have to admit I do really, really love J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series... XD [covers head and awaits the first slap] >.<

    But nobody has mentioned Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles? :O Then again I guess they might not be much all that 'fantasy'-ish considering the types of books you're all mentioning... XD

  • 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.

    "A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day"
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    • Jan 3 2007, 11h40
    AylaMM said:
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    But nobody has mentioned Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles? :O Then again I guess they might not be much all that 'fantasy'-ish considering the types of books you're all mentioning... XD


    I've tried "The Mummy or Ramses the Damned" from Anne Rice but I gave up. It was somehow too strange and boring. I don't think I'll try again some of her books.

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