On 29 Apr 2007 10:48:42 -0700, Toby <tobyboreham@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm new here and was wondering when people started reading David
>Eddings' books. I was 14 when it all started for me. I haven't re-read
>the books since then, but as soon as I finish Terry Goodkind's Sword
>of Truth I am going to start again.
I first read the Elenium (the all in one volume edition) when I was
about 13 or 14 I guess (I can't remember exactly when). I'd been
reading Fantasy for at least a couple of years before then (Lord of
the Rings, Feist, Weis & Hickman, Julian May, Anthony Swithin), but at
the time thought that the Elenium was one of the better series I'd
read. I've had vauge intentions to re-read the books (at least the
better ones, anyway) for a few years now, since I think the last time
I read most of them was when I was about 17 or 18. I'm curious to see
what I'll think of them if I do re-read them.
>What other fantasy series have people read/reading?
Some I particularly like:
George R.R. Martin - "A Song of Ice and Fire" (my favourite fantasy
series at the moment)
Guy Gavriel Kay - I've not read "Fionovar" yet or his latest book but
I've read all the others, "Tigana" and the "Sarnatine Mosaic" duology
are particularly good.
Tim Powers - I've read all his fantasy books, all of them are good to
some extent, "The Anubis Gates", "Declare", "On Stranger Tides" and
"Last Call" are probably the best.
Susannah Clarke - "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell"
Scott Lynch - "The Lies of Locke Lamora"
Raymond E Feist - most of the earlier Riftwar books were very good,
particularly "Magician", "A Darkness At Sethanon", "Servant of the
Empire"
Steven Erikson - "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series, which reminds me
I'll have to pick up the new book sometimes since it is out this week.
The most recent fantasy series I've read are Terry Brooks' "Word and
the Void" series and Joe Abercrombie's "The First Law" series.
The Brook swas reasonably entertaining but nothing special, the first
book was definitely the best and both the protagonist and villains had
a tendency to do pretty stupid things. It also featured one of the
most blatantly obvious plot twists I've seen in the second book.
I really enjoyed the first two books in Abercrombie's series, it's a
fairly traditional fantasy series but the author is making a concious
attempt to partially subvert and satirise the usual cliches. It does
have good characterisation and an interesting plot. I'd say it's
possibly the most Eddings-like of the books I've listed so far.
>Toby
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