Some Reading Time

[streak101]

I'm positive there's a thread already about this here somewhere, but I'm a tad too lazy and hurried right now to care :)

I'm looking for a good Fantasy/Sci-Fi book to read, any titles/authors anyone can suggest?

[Calx Vir]

As some people may know, if you pay attention to me at all, I'm a die-hard R.A. Salvatore fan. I love his books, more specifically anything of the Forgotten Realms series.

If you don't know, this is series in which the famed Drizzt Do'Urden, one of my favorite charatcer, was spawned. I recommend any book with the "Forgotten Realms" banner on it. The author isn't always Salvy, though, since the world became so big that it has been branched out between many different authors.

[Doomsday]

As some people may know, if you pay attention to me at all, I'm a die-hard R.A. Salvatore fan. I love his books, more specifically anything of the Forgotten Realms series.

If you don't know, this is series in which the famed Drizzt Do'Urden, one of my favorite charatcer, was spawned. I recommend any book with the "Forgotten Realms" banner on it. The author isn't always Salvy, though, since the world became so big that it has been branched out between many different authors.

Ed Greenwood is the other Forgotten Realms Author to read^^

Also on D&D, Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman (They usualy work together on the same bood) are great with Dragonlance.

for non D&D I suggest Steven Brust. He's a great author that does the best first person fantasy. I really can't think right now so that's it for now.

[Calx Vir]

Yeah I forgot about the Dragonlance series. Also a good one, though I love the Realms over all.

Richard L. Byers, another good Realms author.

[Winterhair]

Terry Goodkind.
Thats all I have to say.

[Jasmine]

David Eddings is good author, I'm currently reading his "Dreamers" sequence.

The Dragon Lance books are awesomeness and since reading the Crystal Shard and 2 other Salvatore books, he's become my new favorite author

[Ataraxis]

Steven Erikson if you're into series of action-packed bricks with incredible stories, and amazingly well-made world and the funniest duo you'll ever find in serious fantasy books.

Elizabeth Haydon's Trilogy of Rhapsody if you like pretty, pretty literature.

Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality. Quick, nice read.

I remember starting Eddings with Belgariad and liking it, but I just forgot to get the rest at the library. In any case, good read if you can overlook the typos.

Terry Pratchett for humorous fantasy. And I mean humorous.

[Thursday]

Look into reading some Conan stories if you can. There's collections out of Robert E. Howard's works that you can get for not too much.

Michael Moorcock's "Elric Saga" is another one you may want to check out.

[Canen Darkflight]

Terry Pratchett for some of the best reading material you'll ever get. Failing that, off the top of my head, Douglas Adams. You'll never stop laughing.

If you want a serious fantasy book, try and get the Chelsea FC season review 2008.

[Caden Law]

Thirding Terry Pratchett. He's an excellent author and for more than just humor. A lot of the times there's some Serious Business tucked away just beneath the top layers of laughter. Thud! is an orgasmically awesome example of this.

Jim Butcher's Dresden Files are pretty good if you've got time and money to spare. They take about four or five books to really hit their stride, but all the preceeding ones ('cept maybe #3) have their high spots. He's also done some high fantasy writing(?) with the Fury books. Never read 'em myself, though.

If you're looking for hardcore, unrepentant pulp fiction with a fantasy/scifi/what-the-fuck? bent, Simon R. Green's Nightside books are pretty damn good too. They're all light reads, they don't take themselves too seriously, and in general they read like Dresden Files without the character abuse fetish of Jim Butcher. The first book is pretty slow, but the second in particular is like a nonstop orgasmapocalypse. He's also written, among other things, the Deathstalker books.

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books are also pretty good. Anyone saying otherwise is generally in one of four camps: Put off by fandom, put off by the popularity of it, rarely put off by the actual series itself, or just fucking stupid and wanting to troll people. If you get into it though, word to the wise: Avoid the fandom like a fucking plague.

Sandy Mitchell's Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium books are also pretty good from what I've heard. Good enough to motivate me into buying the series in volume format, though I haven't actually started reading it yet.

[Canen Darkflight]

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books are also pretty good. Anyone saying otherwise is generally in one of four camps: Put off by fandom, put off by the popularity of it, rarely put off by the actual series itself, or just fucking stupid and wanting to troll people.

GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!

Nah, he's right. It's all good with the JKR.

[Skie and Avery]

Terry Pratchett and Jim Butcher are my favorite authors. There are over thirty Pratchett books just in the Discworld series, so if you get hooked I can guarantee you'll be reading for a while.

If you like darker twists on fairy tales, I'd reccommend anything by Gregory Maguire. Wicked was great, but I liked Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister a bit better.

If you can get into the high school mindset, Marked by P.C. Cast and Don't Die Dragonfly by Linda Joy Singleton are good.

I've also both recently finished and immensely enjoyed Dog Days by John Levitt and Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

[Saxon]

Try James Axler/Jack Adrian's Deathlands series. Probably one of the better survivalist/post-apocolyptic series I've ever read. The first book is called Pilgrimage to Hell, and the books usually range from about 250 pages to about 340+, so they aren't that long to read. The only downside there is to it is that a lot of the original books are no longer in print, so Amazon.com has just become your best friend in getting access to them. ;)

[Veatrix]

Mad props to any and all who mention Terry Pratchett.

[streak101]

wow, all those books just filled up my list for summer reads ^^

Terry Pratchett got 5 recommendations so thats a must :P

Thanks everyone!

[Winterhair]

Thirding Terry Pratchett. He's an excellent author and for more than just humor. A lot of the times there's some Serious Business tucked away just beneath the top layers of laughter. Thud! is an orgasmically awesome example of this.

Jim Butcher's Dresden Files are pretty good if you've got time and money to spare. They take about four or five books to really hit their stride, but all the preceeding ones ('cept maybe #3) have their high spots. He's also done some high fantasy writing(?) with the Fury books. Never read 'em myself, though.



J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books are also pretty good. Anyone saying otherwise is generally in one of four camps: Put off by fandom, put off by the popularity of it, rarely put off by the actual series itself, or just fucking stupid and wanting to troll people. If you get into it though, word to the wise: Avoid the fandom like a fucking plague.



Agreed with all of these. Terry Prachett ftw! I just read THUD! and was seriously impressed, although I loved Good Omens.
Dresden Files I also second. Good stuff, but the TV show is meh.
And again about the fandom. We're serious. Its that bad.