Rate fantasy novels/series that you've read out of a score of 10 (best to worst)

[Dust253]

Please rate it in order from best to worst. Thank you.

My rating:

Lord of the Rings/Hobbit Series 9.6
A song of Ice and Fire Series 9.5
Malazan: Book of the Fallen Series 9.2

Wheel of Time Series 8.9
Dark Elf Trilogy 8.8
The Black Company Series 8.6
Vlad Taltos Series 8.5
Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone Series 8.4
The Chronicles of Amber Series 8.3
Rigante Series 8.1

Paksenarrion Series 7.7
Corum Series 7.6
DragonCrown Saga 7.1

For Sci-Fi:
http://www.chronicles-network.com/forum/40446-rate-sci-fi-novels-series-that-youve-read.html

 

[Rane Longfox]

An intruiging first post... you rate the WoT as very nearly as good as Malazan?

Teehee, that's funneh

 

[Dust253]

An intruiging first post... you rate the WoT as very nearly as good as Malazan?

Teehee, that's funneh

How would you rate WoT and Malazan out of 10? Give us a list.

I'm intrigue in the trend. The "trend" is the most useful part about these lists. If a poster gives high rating to Book A-B-C-D and I also rate A-C-D highly, I will go to Amazon and check out Book B. Similar taste. If I like what I see, I would buy it.

Oh. Here are some replies I got from a similar thread last year at another forum.

The Corwin cycle - 9

The Farseer trilogy - 8.7
Lord of the Rings - 8.5
His dark materials - 8.3
Majipoor - 8

Tales of the King's Blades - 7.8
The Empire trilogy - 7.8
The Discworld - 7.6
Les Trois Lunes de Tanjor - 7.5
Arcadia - 7.5
Winterheim - 7.2
La Pierre de Tu-Hadj - 7
The Riftwar saga - 7
Les Chroniques des Crépusculaires - 7
Drenai - 7
Les Chroniques des Féals - 7

The Belgariad - 6.7
Krondor's sons - 6.5
The dark elf trilogy - 6.3
Chronicles of the Raven - 6.2
The Elric saga - 6.1

Le secret de Ji - 5.4
La Moïra - 5

Shannara - 2

..........

Malazan Book of the Fallen, Steven Erikson: 10
A Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin: 10
The First Chronicles of Amber (Corwin), Roger Zelazny: 10

The Bas-lag trilogy (PSS, TS, IC), China Miéville: 9
The Prince of Nothing, R. Scott Bakker: 9
The Liveship Traders, Robin Hobb: 9

The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan: 8 (I have faith in the last book)
The Dark Tower, Stephen King: 8
The Farseer Trilogy, Robin Hobb: 8
The First Law, Joe Abercrombie: 8 (This might easily turn to nine when the series is complete.)
The Second Chronicles of Amber (Merlin), Roger Zelazny: 8
The Tawny Man, Robin Hobb: 8
The Gentleman ******* Sequence, Scott Lynch: 8
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien: 8

The Coldfire Trilogy, C.S. Friedman: 7
The Black Jewels Trilogy, Anne Bishop: 7
The Soldier Son Trilogy, Robin Hobb: 7
The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes (only read the first two books yet): 7
Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling: 7
The Serpentwar Saga, Raymond E. Feist: 7

The Riftwar Saga, Raymond E. Feist: 6
The Conclave of Shadows, Raymond E. Feist: 5

...............

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings 9
Roger Zelazny: Amber series 9

George R. R. Martin: A Song of Ice and Fire 8
Raymond E. Feist: The Riftwar Saga 8
Zelazny: Changeling/Madwand 8

Fritz Leiber: Lankhmar series 7
Robin Hobb: The Farseer Saga 7
John C. Wright: Everness 7
John C. Wright: Chaos 7
Fred Saberhagen: The Books of Swords 7
PC Hodgell: God Stalk etc. 7
Zelazny: Amber-2 7

Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders of Pern 6
Fred Saberhagen: The Books of Lost Swords 6
Raymond E. Feist: The Serpentwar Saga 6
Janny Wurts & Raymond E. Feist: Empire series 6
Dave Smeds: The Sorcery Within 6
Jordan: WOT 6

Laura Resnick: In Legend Born etc. 5
Master of the Five Magics -- Lyndon Hardy 5
David Eddings: The Belgariad 5
Robert Don Hughes: Lamath 5

L.E. Modesitt, Jr: The Recluce series 4
Katherine Kurtz: Deryni series 2

...........


The Farseer: 10.0
The Liveship Traders: 10.0

The Malazan Book of the Fallen: 9.8
A Song of Ice and Fire: 9.6
The Tawny Man: 9.4
The Prince of Nothing: 9.2
Lord of the Rings: 9.0

The Gentleman Bastards: 8.9
Discworld: 8.9
Soldier Son: 8.8
Bas Lag: 8.8
The First Law: 8.6
Deepgate Codex: 8.4
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn: 8.2
Riftwar Saga: 8.2
Serpentwar Saga: 8.0

Kingdoms Of Thorn and Bone:7.5
Drenai: 7.5
Rigante :7.5
Fools Gold: 7.5
Book of Words: 7.5
Godless World: 7.3
Legends of the Raven: 7.0
Hawkqueen: 7.0

Black Company: 6.9
Conclave of Shadows: 6.9
Wheel of Time: 6.5
Krondor: 6.5
Legends of the Riftwar: 6.0
Shannara: 6.0

Heritage of Shannara: 5.9
Conan the Barbarian (Jordan): 5.6
The Shadowleague: 5.2
Deverry: 5.0
The Westlands: 5.0

The Belgariad: 4.0
Saga of Recluce: 4.0

............

Le Guin - Earthsea: 10
Tolkien - Lord of the Rings: 10

Kerr - Deverry: 9.5
Donaldson - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: 9
Hobb - Realm of the Elderlings: 9
Vance - Lyonesse: 9
Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun: 9
Zelazny - Amber: 9

Donaldson - Mordant's Need: 8.5
Jordan - Wheel of Time: 8.5
Kearney - The Monarchies of God: 8.5
Keyes - The Kingdoms Of Thorn and Bone: 8.5
Flewelling - The Tamir Trilogy: 8
Park - Roumanian Quartet: 8

Feist + Wurtz - Empire: 7.5
Friedman - The Coldfire Trilogy: 7.5
GRRM - A Song of Ice and Fire: 7.5
Hughart - Master Li: 7.5
King - The Dark Tower: 7.5
MacKillip - Riddlemaster: 7.5
Russell - The Swans' War: 7.5
Siegel - Fern Capel books: 7.5
Berg - The Rai Kirah: 7
Butcher - The Dresden Files: 7
Card - Alvin Maker: 7
Fforde - Thursday Next: 7
Flewelling - Nightrunner: 7
Hearn - Tales of the Otori: 7
May - The Saga of the Exiles: 7
West - The Sun Sword: 7

Brenchley - Outremer: 6.5
Erikson - The Malazan Book of the Fallen: 6.5
Kurtz - The Chronicles of the Deryni: 6.5
Arden - The Orokon: 6

Duncan - A Man of His Word: 5
Eddings - The Belgariad: 5
J. V. Jones - Book of Words: 5
Hambly - The Darwath Trilogy: 5
May - The Boreal Moon Tale: 5
Williams - Memory, Sorrow and Thorn: 5

Eddings - The Malloreon: 4
Modesitt - Recluce: 4

Brooks - Heritage of Shannara: 3
Lawhead - Song of Albion: 3
Lynn - The Chronicles of Tornor: 3

Furey - The Artefacts of Power: 2.5
Eddings - The Elenium: 2.5
Zindell - The Ea Cycle: 2
Goodkind - Sword of Truth: 1
Irvine -The View from the Mirror: 1

 

[Hilarious Joke]

Tawny Man Trilogy: 10

Assassin Trilogy: 9.5
Lord of the Rings Series: 9

A Song of Earth and Fire Series: 8.5
Bitterbynde Trilogy: 8.5
Dragonlance Chronicles: 8
Discworld Series: 6-8 (they vary quite a bit)

Soldier Son Trilogy: 7.5
Death Gate Series: 7.5

Wheel of Time Series: 6 (most of those points because the first book was so good)

Trinity Trilogy: 5

Axis Trilogy: 4

 

[Somni]

Deathgate cycle 8.5
Mist wraith series 7.9
Discworld 9.5
Dragonlance 8.1

 

[Connavar]

Rigante series - David Gemmell 9.5
Jon Shannow series -David Gemmell 9.8
Drenai tales - David Gemmell 9.5(so far have read only two books of 11)


Lian Hearn - Tales of the Otori 8.5

Steven Erikson - Malazan: Book of the Fallen Series 7.5

Assassin Trilogy - Robin Hobb 5.5
Black Company - Glen Cook 6
The Riftwar saga - Raymond E Feist 6.6


R.A Salvatore - Demon Wars series 4

 

[Dust253]

Deathgate cycle 8.5
Mist wraith series 7.9
Discworld 9.5
Dragonlance 8.1

I'm not picking on you. Just using your post as an example. If it is in numerical order, it is easier to analyze the data and see the trend.

Please rate it in order from best to worst.

Discworld 9.5
Deathgate cycle 8.5
Dragonlance 8.1
Mist wraight series 7.9

FIXED.

 

[Rane Longfox]

Any Robin Hobb - 3
Hal Duncan - Vellum/Ink - 4
WoT - 5, maybe. Crossroads of Twilight? Kill me now.
Malloreon/Belgariad - 5
LotR - 6
Chris Wooding - Braided Path - 7
China Mieville - Bas-lag - 8
Scott Bakker - Prince of Nothing - 8
Terry Pratchett - Discworld - 8
Sergei Lukyanenko - Night Watch Trilogy - 8
GRRM - A Song of Ice and Fire - 8 (would have been higher, except for A Feast for Crows, which was simply awful)
Scott Lynch - Locke Lamora - 9
Erikson/Esselmont - Malazan Book of the Fallen - 9

 

[TK-421]

Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire: 10
Tolkien - Lord of the Rings: 9
Erickson - Malazan Book of the Fallen: 8.5
Kerr: Deverry Series: 6.5
Jordan: Wheel of Time: 2
Goodkind: The Sword of Truth: 0

And Rane: AFFC simply "awful"? Unfortunate you feel that way but you are the first reader of GRRM I have come across that has used that harsh word to describe an otherwise brilliant continuation to the best fantasy series, period.

 

[Rane Longfox]

And Rane: AFFC simply "awful"? Unfortunate you feel that way but you are the first reader of GRRM I have come across that has used that harsh word to describe an otherwise brilliant continuation to the best fantasy series, period.

Yeah, I was thinking about starting a thread about it... I could hardly believe it was the same author who wrote the previous books, all of which were brilliant.

 

[TK-421]

The conversation on the merits of AFFC is done. See these (and I really dug up some old ones...so that horse is long beaten to death):

Overview of his Song of Fire and Ice series?

AFFC take two

Was it a Feast or a snack?

ASoIaF weakness(es)?

AFFC - afterthoughts

[SPOILERS] AFfC General Discussion

ASOI&F Going Downhill?

A Feast For Crows - The split, the reasoning doesn't make sense!

 

[Somni]

I'm not picking on you. Just using your post as an example. If it is in numerical order, it is easier to analyze the data and see the trend.

Sorry, was not paying attention when I posted that.

 

[Jack]

Cannot manage all of them, but that should be a good spread.

Malazan Book of the Fallen – 10 (Love this series)
H.P. Lovecraft - 10
The Worn Ouroboros- 10
The Elric saga/Moorcock in general – 9 (Classic)
The First Chronicles of Amber – 9
The Book of the New Sun - 9
Dragonriders of Pern – 9
Gormenghast – 9
Black Magician Trilogy - 9
Lyonesse - 9
Shaddowmarch – 8.5
Bitterbynde Trilogy – 8.5
Dragon Prince – 8.5
The Anubis Gates - 8
Robin Hobb trilogies – 8
A Song of Ice and Fire – 8 (Plot can get stupid at times)
Arcadia – 8
Deverry - 8
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn – 8
Spellsinger - 8
Drenai/Gemmell – 8
Shannara – 7.5
Darkness – 7.5
Corean Chronicles - 7.5
The lightbringer series – 7.5
Well of Echoes – 7.5
The Recluce series – 7.5
Bridei Chronicles – 7.5
Book of Words – 7.5
The Spellsong Cycle – 7.5
Black Company – 7
Crown of stars – 7 (The rush ending knocked it down from 8)
Earthsea - 7
The Coldfire Trilogy – 6.5
The View from the Mirror – 6.5
The Riftwar saga – 6 (A bit childish)
Tornor Trilogy - 6
Discworld – 5 – 7 (Like others have said they vary)
The Artefacts of Power – 6 – 4.5 (The ending stank)
Chronicles of the Raven – 5 (A bit childish)
The Death Gate Cycle – 5
Dragonlance – 4 (Childish)
Lord of the Rings – 4 (About as exciting a read as a shot in the head)
The Deed of Paksenarrion – 3 (Thank the lord for her space series)
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant – 3 (Dark for all the wrong reasons)
The Belgariad/Eddings in general – 2 (How remarkable)
Goodkind – 1 (Ghastly, the 1 is for the women in red leather)
The Wheel of Time – 0 (Lost the plot)
Harry Potter - 0 (hate, with vengeance)