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Post by wilsonthenarc on Sept 20, 2017 16:56:02 GMT
I have had 3 or 4 friends recommend THE NAME OF THE WIND. I tried, I tried. I couldn't get into it. Made it 30 pages in and gave up.
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Post by knoffles on Sept 20, 2017 18:12:55 GMT
Has anyone read Malice, by John Gwynne. I love the cover of it and the follow ups but don't know anyone who has read it.
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Post by TheREALricksalamone on Sept 21, 2017 1:30:19 GMT
A Song of Ice and Fire, Chronicles of Narnia, and the first 3 Black Library books about the Empire (ones about reiksguard, state troops, and war machine crew).
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Post by wilsonthenarc on Sept 21, 2017 14:30:04 GMT
If we’re talking pure Fantasy… Obviously, Dragonlance is a big part of this discussion. There are just so many books (300+). There was one 3-parter that I always loved. They call it: Defenders of Magic. Actual titles are: Night of the Eye + The Medusa Plague + The Seventh Sentinel Maybe it was well written, I dunno. I took it out at the local library about a year ago, and re-read all three books. I think this one falls more under “Emotional Attachment” because I clearly remember being old enough to gather money (birthday, chores, mowing lawns, etc) and then using that money to purchase books at Barnes & Nobles. And of course, I spent my loot on Dragonlance books. Anyone else remember Defenders of Magic? Guerrand? Esme? Anyone else want to go on a deep dive today? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragonlance_novels
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Post by gjnoronh on Sept 21, 2017 16:58:38 GMT
I'm not clicking that link afraid I'll lose time I don't have this afternoon The original Weiss and Hickman trilogies that launched the share world really are good reading.
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Post by strutsagget on Sept 21, 2017 17:57:28 GMT
So my list of book I have read. 1. Hobbit and lord of the rings 2. Song of Ice and Fire 3. The magician by R E Feist 4. The warded man/painted man (not sure why there is two english titles). 5. A bunch Belgariad, deverry series, wheel of time not sure what order to put these as I rate em about same. Still have Ericsson on my list to read but will not read fantasy again before my children gets older and I get my sleep back. Right now wfb rulebooks and miniwargaming videos is enough none programming books I have time to read/watch.
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Post by gjnoronh on Sept 21, 2017 19:19:23 GMT
Read to them mind you! Exciting how soon they can get into it. My daughter who is 8 recently said how her favorite genre is fantasy. No prodding mind you and she likes books I'm not so excited about like this series in particular wingsoffire.scholastic.com/books
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Post by Bureaucrat of Chaos on Sept 21, 2017 20:23:07 GMT
Edit: I completely left out the Fighting Fantasy Series, particularly Deathtrap Dungeon. Had a huge influence on me as a kid. Steve Jackson then published a series of novels based in the world starting with the Trolltooth Wars, I still reread that occasionally. He also produced the first 'source' book I ever read called Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World. It was a history of all the lands and people that made up the majority of the fighting fantasy adventure books. It is still one of my favourite books of that type as the illustrations are classic early GW and there is loads of detail in it. OK I also forgot gamebooks. However, I was much more into Lone Wolf than FF. Lone Wolf should have been on my list instead of Conan. There are some great apps with classic gamebooks out there! The whole Lone Wolf series for free, for example. I plowed through at least 9 books last summer. You should probably check out Sorcery! with early John Blanche illustrations.
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Post by knoffles on Sept 21, 2017 21:16:23 GMT
Edit: I completely left out the Fighting Fantasy Series, particularly Deathtrap Dungeon. Had a huge influence on me as a kid. Steve Jackson then published a series of novels based in the world starting with the Trolltooth Wars, I still reread that occasionally. He also produced the first 'source' book I ever read called Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World. It was a history of all the lands and people that made up the majority of the fighting fantasy adventure books. It is still one of my favourite books of that type as the illustrations are classic early GW and there is loads of detail in it. OK I also forgot gamebooks. However, I was much more into Lone Wolf than FF. Lone Wolf should have been on my list instead of Conan. There are some great apps with classic gamebooks out there! The whole Lone Wolf series for free, for example. I plowed through at least 9 books last summer. You should probably check out Sorcery! with early John Blanche illustrations. Ah damn forgot about the Legends of Lonewolf novels (never did the game books) and Darksword series as influential teen reads. And Katherine Kerr, it's what you get for having them in the 2nd row of the bookshelf 😉
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Post by henning on Sept 22, 2017 15:27:16 GMT
Wheel of Time
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Post by wilsonthenarc on Sept 22, 2017 16:23:38 GMT
This thread inspired me to go to my local library last night. I browsed and I found: "Dragon Champion" by E. E. Knight.
New stuff, only like 330 pages, seems like an easy read, we'll see. Cheerio.
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Post by knoffles on Sept 22, 2017 18:52:59 GMT
Because it seems appropriate. My mainly fantasy bookshelf (with some Tom Clancy thrown in). If it looks light, it's all double layered! Dragonlance and all younger such books are on a different shelf elsewhere.
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Post by gjnoronh on Sept 23, 2017 1:43:50 GMT
Nice. I bought one of the Abercrombie books based on the strong recommendation here.
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Post by grandmasterwang on Sept 23, 2017 3:32:15 GMT
Edit: I completely left out the Fighting Fantasy Series, particularly Deathtrap Dungeon. Had a huge influence on me as a kid. Steve Jackson then published a series of novels based in the world starting with the Trolltooth Wars, I still reread that occasionally. He also produced the first 'source' book I ever read called Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World. It was a history of all the lands and people that made up the majority of the fighting fantasy adventure books. It is still one of my favourite books of that type as the illustrations are classic early GW and there is loads of detail in it. OK I also forgot gamebooks. However, I was much more into Lone Wolf than FF. Lone Wolf should have been on my list instead of Conan. There are some great apps with classic gamebooks out there! The whole Lone Wolf series for free, for example. I plowed through at least 9 books last summer. You should probably check out Sorcery! with early John Blanche illustrations. Wow... I thought the illustrations in Sorcery had a familiar style! I'm probably a bit of an outcast for this but I did not enjoy Tolkien's works so much. Not bad but they didn't really grab me. I love the Drizzt series but not Drizzt himself, it's the sub and more evil characters which keep me reading. For Warhammer, loved the Witchhunter trilogy, Skarsnik was gold. Enjoyed the Gotrek series as a light hearted read.
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Post by gjnoronh on Sept 23, 2017 7:57:53 GMT
Actually one more I should mention Harry Potter Honestly I think the series by Rowling is really good literature. She grows a lot as a writer during the series starting with very child focused books and ending with very adult themes. It's not sword and sorcery type stuff but it's definitely fantasy and I think really good writing.
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