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This one time, at Honegger camp:
YES. I was utterly obsessed with those books when I was little.

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Black Mage's fortune cookie read:
Me too. I heard there was a book of short stories by the same author, and in there somewhere was one about the Enchanted Forest.

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Book of Enchantments, and there are two I believe, although it's been a while since I picked that one up and read it.

She also did Mairelon the Magician and The Magician's Ward, two of my favorite books of all time. I love the setting.

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Just checked my bookshelf.

Read the series by Lloyd Alexander starting with 'The Book of Three'. It follows a young lad named 'Taran'... 4 book series I believe.

The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of Llyr
The High King

Next are some Sci-Fi books. If it's not your thing, sorry. Tad Williams 'Otherland' series. Near-future setting. 4 books afaik.

City of Golden Shadows
River of Blue Flame
Moutain of Black Glass
Sea of Silver Light

Terry Brook's Magic Kingdom of Landover series.

Maigc Kingdom for Sale - Sold!
The Black Unicorn
Wizard At Large
The Tangle Box
Witches' Brew

And finally, Diane Duane's Wizardy series. (light reading)

And I thought I was the only person in existence who'd read So You Want to Be a Wizard

I've read up to The Wizard's Dilemma, but not A Wizard Alone yet.

The Wizard's Dilemma made me sad

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I haven't read A Wizard's Dilemnia. Been a long, long time since I picked up a Wizardry series book.

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Black Mage had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
High Wizardry was such a weird book.

I haven't read A Wizard's Dilemnia. Been a long, long time since I picked up a Wizardry series book.

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You'll want to read A Wizard Abroad, first. It's the fourth. Then The Wizard's Dilemma and the sixth in the series is A Wizard Alone.

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Lyinar Ka`Bael had this to say about Robocop:
You'll want to read A Wizard Abroad, first. It's the fourth. Then The Wizard's Dilemma and the sixth in the series is A Wizard Alone.

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Holy hell.

I read this, then had the STRONGEST feeling of 'deja vu'.

Oooo, psychic

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Lyinar Ka`Bael got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
Maybe you dreamed I was going to say that last night

Oooo, psychic

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Naw, Last night I dreampt about being outside in the middle of a mountain valley and firing a mini-cannon that would go about 500 feet (It was a pocket-sized cannon), but then I tried using it as a potato cannon and it got stuck so it wouldn't fire anymore, then I had this mario-ish jumping puzzle over a lake of fire and I had to race some chick to get there first to get the holy grail.

I never dream normal stuff.

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nem-x said this about your mom:
Get Timeline.

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I rather enjoyed that book.

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Check out the big brain on Demos!
The other books by Terry Brooks are great. I'm a big fan of Shanarra. Sword of Shanarra, Elfstones, and Wishsong are the original 3. They re-released em on regular paperback, so they aren't expensive either...though I still paid $30 for the hardcover copy of the newest one, Morgawr. Worth it though.

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Rainnos Chaini: Child of Baal had this to say about dark elf butts:
The Terry Brooks series is good. It starts with First King of Shannara. You can find most of the books at wal-mart for under six bucks. Good deal.

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DID YOU EVEN READ THE RULES?!

Very very good, as is the one after that.

The political aspects might interest you

Plus, dragons, magic, sexxay womens and guys with swords, how can you go wrong

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From the book of Caela, chapter 3, verse 16:
Melanie Rawn: The Dragon Prince series

Very very good, as is the one after that.

The political aspects might interest you

Plus, dragons, magic, sexxay womens and guys with swords, how can you go wrong

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Melanie Rawn needs to get the heck done with the 3rd book in her other series, 'The Cabital's Tower' or something like that :P

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Black Mage was naked while typing this:

Read the series by Lloyd Alexander starting with 'The Book of Three'. It follows a young lad named 'Taran'... 4 book series I believe.

The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of Llyr
The High King

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Oh, and Michael Moorecock's Elric Saga is pretty good, if short and somewhat expensive.

And BM's actually missing one

The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of Llyr
Taran Wanderer
The High King

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Lyinar Ka`Bael got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
He fights the Horned King in the first book, doesn't he? Maybe you remember a chapter name.

And BM's actually missing one

The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of Llyr
Taran Wanderer
The High King

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My favorite series of books in 6th grade, almost spooged myself when I saw the movie, Gurgi was the man.

I should go buy them some time.

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ACES! Another post by Lyinar Ka`Bael:
He fights the Horned King in the first book, doesn't he? Maybe you remember a chapter name.

And BM's actually missing one

The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of Llyr
Taran Wanderer
The High King

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This insanity brought to you by Katrinity:

Melanie Rawn needs to get the heck done with the 3rd book in her other series, 'The Cabital's Tower' or something like that :P

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I don't like the Mage books :/ They don't have the same feel to them that I liked so much about the Dragon Prince books. All of the sisters just get on my nerves

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From the book of Dr. Pvednes, PhD, chapter 3, verse 16:
David Eddings' Belgariad and Malloreon series are goooooooood.

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Yep.

Also check out The Elenium series and The Tamuli series also from David Eddings.

The Prydain Chronicles is a good read (The series starting with The Book of Three everyone is talking about).

The Enchanted Forest series is a fun one (Also mentioned already).

I've only read the first three in this series, but The Wars of Light and Shadow by Janny Wurts is a great collection.

There are different story arcs, but the sequence of the main series goes like this

Curse of the Mistwraith
Ships of Merior
The Warhost of Vastmark
Fugitive Prince
Grand Conspiracy
Peril's Gate

wow, that must be an xbox sized compialtion

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Check out the big brain on Black Mage!
Read the series by Lloyd Alexander starting with 'The Book of Three'. It follows a young lad named 'Taran'...

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Lyinar Ka`Bael impressed everyone with:
My favorite in sixth grade was the author I first started reading in sixth grade, John Bellairs

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John Bellairs' are the best 'scary' books I've ever read. Plus a lot of the artwork was done by Edward Gorey.

Not sure if anyone mentioned Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. Even if you don't like, or think you wouldn't like him, you should read the series. Some of the best/wierdest fantasy books I've read:
The Gunslinger
The Drawing of the Three
The Wasteland
Wizard and Glass

I concur on Dark is Rising, Enchanted Forest, Pratchett, Eddings, Martin, Pierce, Pratchett, Card, Goodkind, Pratchett, etc. etc. And Terry Pratchett

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Majox probably says this to all the girls:
John Bellairs' are the best 'scary' books I've ever read. Plus a lot of the artwork was done by Edward Gorey.

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Just about all the artwork, I believe. Or at least one edition of each of the novels was Gorey's work.

I like Brad Strickland, but he's not a good replacement for Bellairs. His books are flat and unexciting and kind of stupid compared to Bellairs.

Of course, who can replace an author like that?

Surprised nobody has mentioned the Earthsea novels or the Amber series yet.