What other fantasy books do YOU read?

[ninja91]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

I have heard this kind of comments about Salvatore before. So do you think I should give Salavatore a try? If yes, which book you would recommend for me to read first?

If you do not plan on reading Salvatore's whole Drizzt saga from the beginning and would just like to get a good glance at his writing, I would recommend reading The Thousand Orcs or The Crystal Shard. These two are the first of two of his trilogies. The whole Drizzt saga (if you want to start to read from the very beginning) is below.

The Dark Elf Trilogy (Homeland, Exile, Sojourn)
The Icewind Dale Trilogy (The Crystal Shard, Streams of Silver, (The Halfling's Gem)
Legacy of the Drow (The Legacy, Starless Night, Siege of Darkness, Passage to Dawn)
Paths of Darkness (The Silent Blade, The Spine of the World, Servant of the Shard, Sea of Swords)
The Hunter's Blades Trilogy (The Thousand Orcs, The Lone Drow, The Two Swords)

Right now, I am on Sojourn, book 3 of the first trilogy. I hope you enjoy them, Thinlomien!

Just a heads up: The Dark Elf Trilogy is a really, really dark story. But its good.

[shieldmaiden4xsword]

i've been reading Roverandom, and Smith of Wootton Major.

I enjoyed them alot.

[Thinlómien]

Thanks for advice, ninja. Having thought of it, I'll probably still start with the dark Elf trilogy, being the most famous one. If I get hooked and have to read that load of books... my own fault I guess. And you can always stop reading a series if you dislike it.

[Břicho]

I don't read much fantasy nowadays, though I just can't get away from Tolkien. I've read...The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen r. Donaldson
The Earthsea Trilogy
The Mists of Avalon
Lots of Arthurian books, come to think of it.
And, gee, that's about it.

[Wayland]

Originally Posted by B?icho

The Earthsea Trilogy

Very nice - now where did I put mine? The Narnia books got me hooked as a kid. Apart from these I tend to like ancient folk lore and sagas; Beowulf, the Mabinogion and other Celtic stuff, the Viking Sagas etc. The source material for much of the genre, which makes me quite critical of a lot of it.

I have read Conan and Elric, but gave them away - okayish but...

I refuse to touch a Potter book. I don't know why. Snobbery probably.

[Lathriel]

George R.R. Martin is really good. Nowadays I despair when i see all the junk in the fantasy section. I swear the books are full of Mary-Sues and Stews!
Luckily George R.R. Martin writes intelligent fantasy. You can see that he put a lot of thought into his world, characters and plot. So I am really enjoying those books.

[Oddwen]

I read the first two books of the dark elf trilogy...I've got the third requested. They were okay - I was rather disappointed in the Zaknafein character, I thought they'd at least make him a light-elf in disguise or something. Since when did opinions become genetic? Though zombifying him was cool. (I have an innate fondness for it now because it introduced me in a roundabout way to "The Order of the Stick")

I'm re-reading His Dark Materials, I remember they bothered me for some reason but I don't remember why.

I also picked up Pratchett's latest in the Tiffany Aching series, "Wintersmith". It's good. Nothing really special, I think though.