Your opinion please

Ragnarok · 04-02-2003, 08:38 PM

I finished The Hobbit, LotR, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. I'm not sure that I want to get HoME yet so what other fantasy books would you recomend? (Just a few that you really enjoyed)

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-02-2003, 09:05 PM

Brooks "Shannara" books, or Eddings "Belgariad" series; after that, the "Malloreon". That's my recommendation.

Lief Erikson · 04-02-2003, 09:07 PM

Or The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Those books are really awesome.

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-02-2003, 09:28 PM

Or you can read MY books. Once I write them, that is.

Linaewen · 04-04-2003, 07:41 AM

The 'Bitterbynde' series by Cecilia Dart-Thornton. I love it, and the critics love it too. She gets compared to JRRT so much.

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Or you can read MY books. Once I write them, that is.

Ahhhh... So that's why I could find any books in my library by Gwaimir Windgem!

Grey_Wolf · 04-04-2003, 12:23 PM

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Originally posted by Ragnarok
I finished The Hobbit, LotR, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. I'm not sure that I want to get HoME yet so what other fantasy books would you recomend? (Just a few that you really enjoyed)

Pierce Anthony's 7-part-series Incarnations of Immortality.
(Fantasy/scifi)

Melko Belcha · 04-04-2003, 01:14 PM

RA Salvatore: Demon Wars Saga (favorite next to Tolkien), The Icewind Dale Trilogy, The Dark Elf Trilogy

Terry Brooks: The Shannara Series

Spock · 04-06-2003, 10:31 AM

How about the "witch world" trilogy by Andre Norton. The first two are fine while the last is a bit much but hey we're talking far out type stuff here.

Ninquelote · 04-06-2003, 02:04 PM

Read something by Elizabeth Haydon.

Aralyn · 04-06-2003, 02:16 PM

If you like Japanese type Fantasy, Wind Child, Dragon Sword was Very good. It's a little bit hard to explain but its about a boy and a girl and one Serves the supposedly all powerful light god until she is challenged. Then she finds out she's is the bearer of the Dragon Sword held by the Light. V Good.

Ninquelote · 04-07-2003, 07:31 PM

The Redwall series is also horrendously good.

Agalayth · 04-07-2003, 09:06 PM

I didn't like Shannara as much as some people. A bit too long, and too much happening so soon. Then again, that's just my opinion.

I've only read two of the Redwall books (Martin the Warrior and Mossflower). I remember them being very good, especially Mossflower.

Elf Girl · 04-08-2003, 03:59 PM

Read His Dark Materials. As long as you aren't strongly religious. Even then, you would find it interesting, even if you don't agree.

Linaewen · 04-11-2003, 09:19 AM

I love His Dark Materials as well. Yeah, the religious aspects in there kind of shocked me, but they were still good.

If you can get your hands on it, try reading the Heaven and Earth (I think) series by Garth Nix, an Australian author. Dark fantasy- great stuff.

Lief Erikson · 04-11-2003, 06:37 PM

I really enjoyed His Dark Materials a lot. The religious assumptions and things didn't bother me at all, even though I'm a Christian, because they just seemed so far out! I mean, they ignored most of the Bible and brought back incorrect religious villains from the past. It was only Christianity by a hair, and I didn't mind them twisting around their make-believe Christianity. So it felt like just felt like what it was. Fantasy. And I read it as fantasy and loved it

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Anglorfin · 04-12-2003, 12:59 AM

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Originally posted by Lief Erikson
I really enjoyed His Dark Materials a lot. The religious assumptions and things didn't bother me at all, even though I'm a Christian, because they just seemed so far out! I mean, they ignored most of the Bible and brought back incorrect religious villains from the past. It was only Christianity by a hair, and I didn't mind them twisting around their make-believe Christianity. So it felt like just felt like what it was. Fantasy. And I read it as fantasy and loved it .

I agree. And I posted this in some other thread as well concerning the use of Christianity. It isn't anything like blatant Bible-pushing. Pullman just takes an aspect of a well-known folk-tale and creates his own story around it.

Linaewen · 04-12-2003, 05:03 AM

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Originally posted by Anglorfin
I agree. And I posted this in some other thread as well concerning the use of Christianity. It isn't anything like blatant Bible-pushing. Pullman just takes an aspect of a well-known folk-tale and creates his own story around it.

And in doing so, he creates a very interesting and worthwhile read.

gandalfstormcrow · 04-15-2003, 12:02 AM

Terry Goodkind: Sword of Truth

Stephen King: The Dark Tower

Elbereth Gilthoniel · 04-19-2003, 03:53 PM

hhmm I don't think someone is really going to read all of those books.

okay, I recommend on the sieri of Amber by Roger Zelazni (or something spelled similar, I can't spell and I didn't read those books in English).

ArwenEvenstar · 04-19-2003, 06:04 PM

the wheel of time
the earthsea chronicles (sp)
Redwall
Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emporers
The Last Unicorn
The Riftwar Legacy

04-02-2003, 08:38 PM	#1
Ragnarok Rohirrim Warrior Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: PA Posts: 590	Your opinion please I finished The Hobbit, LotR, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. I'm not sure that I want to get HoME yet so what other fantasy books would you recomend? (Just a few that you really enjoyed)

04-02-2003, 09:05 PM	#2
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Brooks "Shannara" books, or Eddings "Belgariad" series; after that, the "Malloreon". That's my recommendation. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-02-2003, 09:28 PM	#4
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Or you can read MY books. Once I write them, that is. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-04-2003, 01:14 PM	#7
Melko Belcha Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Behind the Walls of Night Posts: 286	RA Salvatore: Demon Wars Saga (favorite next to Tolkien), The Icewind Dale Trilogy, The Dark Elf Trilogy Terry Brooks: The Shannara Series __________________ "....rapturous words from which ultimatley sprang the whole of my mythology" - JRR Tolkien Hail Earendel brightest of angels, over middle-earth sent unto men Crist by Cynewulf (lines 104-5)

04-06-2003, 10:31 AM	#8
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	How about the "witch world" trilogy by Andre Norton. The first two are fine while the last is a bit much but hey we're talking far out type stuff here. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

04-02-2003, 09:07 PM	#3
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	Or The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Those books are really awesome.

04-06-2003, 02:04 PM	#9
Ninquelote Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Here. For the time being. Posts: 336	Read something by Elizabeth Haydon. __________________ XIAN- for hating Wiccans. MURDERER- for hating vegetarians. PREP- for hating Goths. These are a few of my favourite things, the hypocritical stylings of the most "liberal" groups.

04-06-2003, 02:16 PM	#10
Aralyn FloraAzul Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Anywhere as long as there is a library in a one mile radius of here Posts: 751	If you like Japanese type Fantasy, Wind Child, Dragon Sword was Very good. It's a little bit hard to explain but its about a boy and a girl and one Serves the supposedly all powerful light god until she is challenged. Then she finds out she's is the bearer of the Dragon Sword held by the Light. V Good. __________________ Atheism: A Non-Prophet Organization Yet many shall be amazed when they see Him-yes even far off foreign nations and thier kings; they shall stand dumb-founded, speechless in his prescence. For they shall see and understand what they had not seen before-Isaiah 52:15a Civil War- 498,332 dead WWI-116,708 dead WWII-407,316 dead Korean War-54,246 dead Vietnam War-58,665 dead Persian Gulf-372 dead War on The Unborn=35,000,000 dead and counting

04-07-2003, 07:31 PM	#11
Ninquelote Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Here. For the time being. Posts: 336	The Redwall series is also horrendously good. __________________ XIAN- for hating Wiccans. MURDERER- for hating vegetarians. PREP- for hating Goths. These are a few of my favourite things, the hypocritical stylings of the most "liberal" groups.

04-07-2003, 09:06 PM	#12
Agalayth Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 215	I didn't like Shannara as much as some people. A bit too long, and too much happening so soon. Then again, that's just my opinion. I've only read two of the Redwall books (Martin the Warrior and Mossflower). I remember them being very good, especially Mossflower. __________________ Chickens at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road.

04-08-2003, 03:59 PM	#13
Elf Girl Lurker Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlórien Posts: 3,419	Read His Dark Materials. As long as you aren't strongly religious. Even then, you would find it interesting, even if you don't agree. __________________ There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium...

04-11-2003, 09:19 AM	#14
Linaewen Fair Dinkum Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,319	I love His Dark Materials as well. Yeah, the religious aspects in there kind of shocked me, but they were still good. If you can get your hands on it, try reading the Heaven and Earth (I think) series by Garth Nix, an Australian author. Dark fantasy- great stuff.

04-11-2003, 06:37 PM	#15
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	I really enjoyed His Dark Materials a lot. The religious assumptions and things didn't bother me at all, even though I'm a Christian, because they just seemed so far out! I mean, they ignored most of the Bible and brought back incorrect religious villains from the past. It was only Christianity by a hair, and I didn't mind them twisting around their make-believe Christianity. So it felt like just felt like what it was. Fantasy. And I read it as fantasy and loved it .

04-15-2003, 12:02 AM	#18
gandalfstormcrow Enting Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Ridding Middle Earth of Sauron before bedtime. Posts: 58	Terry Goodkind: Sword of Truth Stephen King: The Dark Tower

04-19-2003, 03:53 PM	#19
Elbereth Gilthoniel Enting Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: israel Posts: 80	hhmm I don't think someone is really going to read all of those books. okay, I recommend on the sieri of Amber by Roger Zelazni (or something spelled similar, I can't spell and I didn't read those books in English). __________________ O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees, thy starlight on the Western Seas.

04-19-2003, 06:04 PM	#20
ArwenEvenstar Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: and why do YOU want to know? Posts: 685	the wheel of time the earthsea chronicles (sp) Redwall Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emporers The Last Unicorn The Riftwar Legacy __________________ The only thing active about me is my imagination!

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