Now I need to find myself another book to read. I'm only into Fantasy (Tolkein style for the most part, and I hate Robert Jordan). Any suggestions?
Oh wait...that's autobiography.
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Delyl Caledor attempted to be funny by writing:
Tolkein style for the most part
You mean books where the writer spends ten pages describing one hill, and then less than one paragraph describing what the characters DO on that hill, only to start over again with a brand new hill?
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A sleep deprived Comrade Snoota stammered:
You mean books where the writer spends ten pages describing one hill, and then less than one paragraph describing what the characters DO on that hill, only to start over again with a brand new hill?
Got any proof to back up those words?
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demon kung fu girls
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Delyl Caledor obviously shouldn't have said:
I don't like to read about Kung Fu, I just like to see it.
The demon kung fu girl is actually a relatively small part of the story, and a lot of it revolves around futuristic chinese nobility anyway, plus this crazy, crazy form of magic that spawns the demon kung fu girl. 'Sides, she's incredibly cool so that makes up for it.
Sean Stewart's stuff isn't so much high fantasy as it is the modern or futuristic day set with fantasy elements, most notably magic... the way he describes and does magic in his books is just un-fucking-believable. It's more than just a wizardly tool, it's a mysterious, DANGEROUS force that acts on it's own whims and is more something to be feared and locked away than wielded with wild abandon. All those weird things... demon kung fu girls, crazy gods, attacking forests, grim reaper type guys, those are all products of that magic. Even in a faintly sci fi environmnt, it all FITS.
If you want more fantasy-ish works by the same author, Clouds End and Nobody's Son are there, though Clouds End isn't his best work it's heavily Tolkien-influenced (as you can tell by the ending bit), and Nobody's Son has a rather neato, "after the happily ever after" thing that still has it's magic, freaky old guys and cursed swords with wicked names.
)Glen Cook's 'The Black Company' series
Tad Williams 'Green Angel Tower' series (and even though its not medievil-ish fantasy, try out the Otherworld series, its about in the not so distant future about a neural VR internet and a game world that starts sucking the minds of children who play them into it.)
Melanie Rawn's 'Dragon Prince' series
Michelle West's 'The Sun Sword' series
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance Chronicles or their Death Gate Cycle series
George R. R. Martin's 'Song of Fire and Ice' series
and many more I can't remember off the top of my head
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Katrinity had this to say about Cuba:
Even though you bash RJ...(bastid)
Tad Williams 'Green Angel Tower' series
Very good series, pretty unknown but well done. Doesn't get the credit it deserves. Not as good as Eddings, but good enough in its own right.
Some people don't like it but I found all except Pillars of Creation to be good books.
"Chronicles of an Age of Darkness", all by Hugh Cook.
There's ten books in the series, and they're extremely hard to get hold of, but they're possibly the best written books I've ever read. They have comedy, epic storylines, battle, and all the good stuff you'd want and hope for. The characters don't continue from book to book, each one is a self-contained storyline set in the same world. That world just happens to be far in the future.. but at the same time.. medieval, since it fell back into the realm of magic and swords.
The time they stumble onto an ancient floating "sea ship", and think the repair droids are some kind of elves, is hilarious. The group sets traps to try and catch one, and cleaning droids simply pop out and clean it away.
The series even has it's own form of the "ancient evil" that always appears in fantasy books. There's an AI complex deep in the south, past the forbidden zone and the wall of fire that the wizards created, that controls genetically-altered creatures known as the swarm.
It's a damn good series, and not cheesy in the slightest. Extremely well-written. 
Sign me up!
Her's is more celtic fantasy about some witches, accursed winged men trying to regain the throne that's rightfully his, and evil sorceresses.
Your common fantasy novels, but I enjoyed them. The series is of 3 books, The Witches of Eilannane, The Pool of Two Moons and I forget the name of the last one... Sorry if I spelled stuff wrong. ^^;
Also, Bernard Cornwell's Arthur trilogy was excellent. The Winter King, Enemy of God, and Excalibur. Flew through those in about a month, and wished there was more when I closed the last book.
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Katrinity was listening to Cher while typing:
George R. R. Martin's 'Song of Fire and Ice' series
This is what I was going to say. Great series! He writes on the sort of scale Jordan does, but without getting caught up in the nitty-gritty and losing control of it. I am waiting with baited breath for the next one.
Love the characters and the world in it.
This is a gritty, epic fantasy.
The Starks of Winterfell are pulled into the politics of the Seven Kingdoms. It's thirteen years after a civil war deposed the Targaryen Dynasty from the Iron Throne, and after years of summer, winter is coming.
King Robert Baratheon, who was once strong in battle, is proving to be a poor ruler. Queen Cersei and her family, the Lannisters, are grabbing what power they can. Lord Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died suddenly and mysteriously. Lord Eddard Stark is asked personally by his old friend King Robert to become the new Hand. Reluctantly he accepts the position and takes part of his family south to King's Landing.
Meanwhile across the sea, the head of the Old Targaryen Dynasty, Viserys, sells his sister Daenerys into marriage to Khal Drogo, a Dothraki horse lord, for armies to reconquer the Seven Kingdoms.
This book is told from multiple points of view: Lord Eddard (Ned) Stark, his wife Catelyn, and their son Bran, their daughters Sansa and Arya, Eddard's bastard son Jon Snow, Tyrion Lannister, and Daenerys.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Delyl Caledor said:
Whats the book about? I remember reading the back of the book but don't remember what I read lol.
Kat beat me to it.
Though I don't think she managed to express just how MANY characters are in this series. It's easily the largest cast of characters I can remember reading in one series.
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Rodent King enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
It's not really Tolkien's style of writing, but a very good story nonetheless. Dive right in if you think you can remember all the names that'll come at you throughout the book.
After reading the Silmarillion and keeping track of all those details, I feel like I'm ready for anything Lol.
I just started reading the Dark Tower series, and that is really good too, though its not really fantasy fantasy, more like a mix of fantasyand... I dont know, kind of indescribable really..
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Zair stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
A Song of Ice and Fire is my favorite book series, I highly recommend it.
Whats it about?
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Rodent King obviously shouldn't have said:
It's not really Tolkien's style of writing, but a very good story nonetheless. Dive right in if you think you can remember all the names that'll come at you throughout the book.
The names aren't really too difficult to keep straight, there is even an appendix type listing of all of the people from the different houses.
His writing style is a lot more captivating than Tolkeins (in my controversial opinion) because it doesn't suffer from the long windedness Snoota described, while still being descriptive and vived. There is a lot of action and a lot going on. The dialogue is clever, humerous, and suberb to any other fantasy I have read.
