The best fantasy writer

[disco]

Since I've been young starten with the lord of the rings I have always loved fantasy and Si Fi for Star Trek. Most people I know like one one or the other.
I love Assimov and before this site I loved Ramond E Feist and Robin Hoob but since I've started to read Geeorge RR Martin and he is ******* superb.

 

[j d worthington]

Question: What of Ike's have you read? (If it's an easier question, cosidering the sheer volume of his stuff, what haven't you read? I don't want you to have to be hitting the keyboard until all hours!!!)

And there are no few of us, I would imagine, that have a fondness for both; we just tend to have a bit more fondness for one than the other. I know I have a love of sf (early, Golden Age, New Wave, Cyberpunk, hard, soft, what have you, as long as it's well done), but for a while now I've been going through much older writers, and that tends to leave sf out for a bit.

As for GRRM (and this is not meant in any way to derogate from GRRM) -- if you think he's great, oh, have you got some treats comin'!!!!

 

[kyektulu]

I have not read any GRRM, he is on my to-read pile, but after reading this post, I am going to start reading his books alot sooner!

 

[the smiling weirwood]

start immediately and don't leave your house until you're done.

 

[j d worthington]

start immediately and don't leave your house until you're done.

Not even for food????

*looks at the size of GRRM's books, then says in a very quiet voice*

they're gonna get awfully hungry.....

 

[Koopa]

Maggie Furrey is oke as well not great , far from it but readable, like the Sparhawk books from Eddings and the Belgariad and Mallorean, Hobb and Martin are in a league of their own though.

I liked JKR story, especially its depth and background (Numenor, Silmarillon,...) but the story itself was sometimes a little boring, namely many of those bloody songs of his, some where okay, i like the return of the king verse and all that, but when Boromir died it was just awful and soo soo long, i mean whre it three or four pages cant remember exactly.

 

[Wiggum]

Coolests thing about your original post Disco is that you mentioned Robin Hobb off the bat. Wayfarers Redemtion and the [/i]Liveship Trader[/i] series are on the top of my all time list.

Tolkien is going to hold the top spot, barely, until I get to the end of Martin's books.

Goodkind would be on this list except fo the fact that after the first three wonderful books he turned his series into an anti communist diatribe.

I won't even address Jordan.

There's a vague opinion, of which I share, that this series may spin out of control. Dear Lord! God Almighty Up On High! Testify! I hope not, but until it's done, Tolkien reigns supreme.

 

[Koopa]

Depending on how Martin is going either he or Hobb will be the best, Tolkien to me is not as good as either one.

The thing is, an i am probably a great minority here, is that i liked the assassin series better then the liveship traders, lastly was the fools series, whom i found a good ending to the series of that world, but a bit less then the first two series, still better then the rest, or most of the rest.

Feist has become a bit too repetetive, and he's got a lot high and lows, i liked his first three books (till sethanon), the rest was not of the same quality, though talon of the silver hawk was amazing as well, but the following books went down again.

 

[Frozeninja]

Hmm.... Right now I think Erikson has my vote for the top spot. But saying that, Martin comes a definite second.

Although i'm yet to read Hobb, and my knowledge of Tolkien is currently limited to LotR. Jordan doesn't even come close to this level though in my opinion, and while I liked the riftwar trilogy, I don't think Feist is at the same level either.

And after the reviews i've read on here, I don't think i'll even try Goodkind

 

[the smiling weirwood]

Erikson? Martin is way better. That may just be be personal preference, but I thought the divinity and magic thing in Erikson's books was way overdone. Martin's characters are better too.

 

[aemon]

i thought hobb's writing was really good, but i didnt like the story so much, tolkien was ok but way to long, martin is really good. have any of you read a book called brightly burning, cant remember who its by, but it was really good.

 

[j d worthington]

It's by Mercedes Lackey.