Omie, those are children's fantasy books.
Definately at least read Magician.
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If you have the time, read Robert Jordans Wheel of Time series, best fantasy series I've ever read, and im still only half way through (theres 13 books, i think).
stop there, it goes downhill from book 6 or so onwards- meandering, spiralling story. perfect example of jordan biting off more than he could chew.
The Nightrunner Series by Lynn Flewelling are good, the first book is Luck In The Shadows
If you haven't read any of Tolkien's work, you should get into that.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight is the first book in a series that i'm addicted to, it's by Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman
Damn - i have so many fantasy books but i don't want to list them all here because it would take too long!
lynn flewelling is quite good.
avoid anything by weis and hickman- its sword and sorcery fantasy at its epitome- complete with every cliche known to fantasy.
artemis fowl series is epic win
yeah, if you're 12.
ditto, cept a few years younger.
Anyone heard of the "Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin? Every book in this series so far has been great (maybe because he takes like 4 years to write each one - grrr). They're quite long though; each one would be about as long as all three LOR books.
fan fucking tastic- words cannot describe how good this is
The last book is being split up into 3 seperate novels as Robert Jordan died 2 or so years ago.
@ Omie, those are children's books....
Read anything by Sara Douglas or better yet;
The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
stop talking out of your ass, the final book of WOT (book 12) is being released as 1 book by Brandon Sanderson- so i'm expecting something decent because sanderson is a brilliant writer.
sara douglas is a very ordinary writer.
terry goodkind is complete trash- his works are full of cliches, zero characterisation, not to mention they're highly misogynistic plus preachy as fuck- goodkind spreads his philosophy liberally in the sword of truth.
not to mention goodkind's an absolute cretin- he refuses to label his books as fantasy.
Terry Pratchett is also good. Light, funny fantasy.
yes.
The Shannara trilogy, and the Chronicles of Narnia. I'm really looking to dig into some of the others mentioned so far, thanks guys.
shannara represents everything that is bad about fantasy- its written soon after LOTR's success and basically brooks tries to emulate everything that tolkien did- it is a blatant ripoff and basically was the forerunner of the hundreds of fantasy books today which are nothing but cheap lotr clones.
narnia is decent- more for a younger audience.
