Fantasy Recommendations for the Unenlightened 2

[daisybee]

it would take too long for me to read all these threads so here are some really good authors that i recomend:
stephenie meyer,
sergei lukyanenko,
christopher paoline,
michelle paver,
robert jordan,
wilbur smith,
ian irvine,
trudi canavan,
terry brooks,
william nicholson,
sarah zettel,
alison croggon,
carol wilkinson,
katherine langrish,
gabrielle zevin,
julie bertagna,
cornelia funke,
zizou corder,
darren shan,
jonathan stroud,
piers anthony,
catherine fisher,
eva ibbotson,
beth webb,
mary janice davidson,
robin jarvis,
terry deary,
marie louise jensen,
helen dunmore,
elizabeth knox,
garth nix,
philip pulman,
a.j.lake,
james patterson.

there are probably more ill remember later but those are some of the good ones that i really enjoyed.tell me what you think if any of you have heard of them.

Such a list deserves attention!! (my eyes are blurring now dude)

 

[Tansy]

*runs away*

already struggling to keep up with books already owned

needs more hours in day

 

[theophanides]

aww fanks daisybee,i guess i should have j.d.worthington...ill keep that in mind for next time i remember some more authors...lol..i know what you mean tansy...im constantly trying to read different books and keeping a list of what i have read..makes life a whole lot easier that wayeven if its not really cool

 

[Tansy]

Even though I buy books online elsewhere I tend to add any books reccommended on here to my Amazon wishlist to track them

think it's about £450 atm rofl

 

[daisybee]

aww fanks daisybee,i guess i should have j.d.worthington...ill keep that in mind for next time i remember some more authors...lol..i know what you mean tansy...im constantly trying to read different books and keeping a list of what i have read..makes life a whole lot easier that wayeven if its not really cool

pleasure. and thanks to you I now have a few more authors to check out.

 

[theophanides]

god thats a lot of money you now?!

well daisybee...i might have to add a few more...lol...

David Clement-Davies
G.P Taylor
Stephen moore
Jenny White
Enid Blyton
Edith Pattou
Nicholas Evans
Chris d'Lacey
Robert Harris
Sherryl Jordan
Sam Enthoven
Stuart Hill
Jenny Nimmo
Jeanne Willis
Libha Bray
Lene Kaaberbol
Lian Hearn
Melvin Burgess
Linda Newberry
Siobhan Dowd
Victoria Hislop
Steve Berry

that should do nicely

 

[Connavar]

OMG - nobody has mentioned Steven Brust Vlad Taltos serie here - I guess it's my job to promote him
Second author I couldn't find is Simon R. Green Forrest Kingdom, Shadows Fall, Hawk and Fisher and Nightside - are at least worth a mentioning.
Third author worth mentioning is Andrzej Sapkowski - who has been mentioned here and has written some very interesting fairy-tales with twists.

Im thinking about getting The Last Wish.

It reminded me of The Night Watch in a good way. I liked that kind of dark magic behind the scenes etc

What kind of story is it ? How would you describe ?

The synopsis of the book was very vague on evertything but The Wicther.

 

[GOLLUM]

Just spotted this list of the most signifacnt SFF books in the last 50 years. It's always subjective and I'm not clear as to why Shannara is there but they certainly have some good ones in this list.

So it may be helpful to some to peruse this...

Science Fiction Book Club

 

[Goosey54]

Ok So i've read a song of fire & ice, nearly everything of Salvatore, Dragonlance, Paul kaerney's Sea Beggers. some of David gemmell incl troy series. Oh and The Stormcaller is acutally my favourite book! by Tom Lloyd!

I've just ordered the 3 first books of Steven Erikson Malazan and the Farseer trilogy.

Any other recommendations what i should read?

 

[murphy]

Ok So i've read a song of fire & ice, nearly everything of Salvatore, Dragonlance, Paul kaerney's Sea Beggers. some of David gemmell incl troy series. Oh and The Stormcaller is acutally my favourite book! by Tom Lloyd!

I've just ordered the 3 first books of Steven Erikson Malazan and the Farseer trilogy.

Any other recommendations what i should read?

The rest of the Malazan books, there are four more. Hobb's Mad Ship trilogy and her Tawney Man trilogy. They finish up what started in Farseer.

 

[nj1]

Ok So i've read a song of fire & ice, nearly everything of Salvatore, Dragonlance, Paul kaerney's Sea Beggers. some of David gemmell incl troy series. Oh and The Stormcaller is acutally my favourite book! by Tom Lloyd!

I've just ordered the 3 first books of Steven Erikson Malazan and the Farseer trilogy.

Any other recommendations what i should read?

I really enjoyed Stormcaller aswell, but preferred the Twilight Herald which is the second book in the series, very dark in parts and an excelant plot. Can't wait for the Grave Thief (Jan 09 I think).

 

[GOLLUM]

Ok So i've read a song of fire & ice, nearly everything of Salvatore, Dragonlance, Paul kaerney's Sea Beggers. some of David gemmell incl troy series. Oh and The Stormcaller is acutally my favourite book! by Tom Lloyd!

I've just ordered the 3 first books of Steven Erikson Malazan and the Farseer trilogy.

Any other recommendations what i should read?

Yep quite a few. You seem to read similar books to me so I'll happily suggest:

Crown Of Stars - Kate Eliott *7 book EPIC, excellent.
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn - Tad Williams *Magical trilogy
Prince of Nothing trilogy - R Scott Bakker *One of the best modern EPIC series.
Lankmahr - Fritz Leiber *Classic S&S
Kingdom Of Thorn & Bone quartet - Greg Keyes

All high quality series, so enjoy...

Plenty more but that should keep you busy for a while.

 

[Simian]

Just spotted this list of the most signifacnt SFF books in the last 50 years. It's always subjective and I'm not clear as to why Shannara is there but they certainly have some good ones in this list.

So it may be helpful to some to peruse this...

Science Fiction Book Club

Interesting list that Gollum, probably worthy of a thread in itself. Although somewhat placated by the presence of The Demolished Man, I would argue until I was blue in the face that any list without The Stars My Destination in the top five (let alone the top fifty) is seriously missing a trick.

 

[GOLLUM]

I'm happy to have Demolished Man there, this is by no means a "list of the best", really just some additional works that are smilar in style, type (eg EPIC fantasy ) and quality to the ones gossey54 listed. If I had a fav list it would be quite a bit different to that.

EDIT: OOPS I thought you meant the short list for Goosey but i see now what you mean. YES, that list is quite good but by no means what I would have.

 

[Goosey54]

Yep quite a few. You seem to read similar books to me so I'll happily suggest:

Crown Of Stars - Kate Eliott *7 book EPIC, excellent.
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn - Tad Williams *Magical trilogy
Prince of Nothing trilogy - R Scott Bakker *One of the best modern EPIC series.
Lankmahr - Fritz Leiber *Classic S&S
Kingdom Of Thorn & Bone quartet - Greg Keyes

All high quality series, so enjoy...

Plenty more but that should keep you busy for a while.

Thanks alot ill keep an eye on those. However Prince of nothing was abit to hard for me to read as im not native english!.

And i would recommend the book The Lies of Locke Lamora, i finished it in 3 days, couldnt put it down!

Thanks everyone!

 

[Ice fyre]

Crown of Stars is an excellent series I remmeber reading the first one years back its like she took a long time to finish it.

If your looking for something darker I dont know if anyone has mentioned the Scar by China Mellville? Brilliant book, but extremley adult and dark.

 

[Connavar]

Interesting list that Gollum, probably worthy of a thread in itself. Although somewhat placated by the presence of The Demolished Man, I would argue until I was blue in the face that any list without The Stars My Destination in the top five (let alone the top fifty) is seriously missing a trick.

Agree fully you dont have TSMD in even top 50, then its a list not to be taking seriously !

 

[Theo Hart]

Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers (translated from German to English).

The book's a tome, but it's one of the few in my collection that I re-read. Incredibly entertaining. Hints of parody. Helmet-wearing, wussy, dino-poets.

Has a few minor, isolated, translation issues, but it's still an incredible book.

 

[Hilarious Joke]

Or The 13 and a half Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers, which might be easier to obtain, and I haven't read Rumo, but this one's fantastic.

 

[Theo Hart]

Or The 13 and a half Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers, which might be easier to obtain, and I haven't read Rumo, but this one's fantastic.

That one's right up at the top of my "WANT" list.