NEED A BOOK!!!!

[David Boyle]

Ok, i need a new series to read and i hope you guys can help!

 

Im mostly into Fantasy books but i like horror and sci-fi aswel, books based on reality not so much :D

 

the one thing that really annoys me in books is over complicated names, it just annoys me!ie Stephen Ericson/R. Scott Baker

 

my faveroite series to date are:

 

A Song of Ice and Fire

LOTR

His Dark Materials

Feist's books are good.....

like Irvine aswel.

 

Any sugestions would be great!

[Cadsuane]

For ideas, try looking here:

 

http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,21595.0.html

 

:D

[Kadere]

well there are a million of these threads on here so you could just glance in one of them, but authors to look into would be:

 

Tad Williams: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, Shadowplay

 

Roger Zelazny: The Chronicles of Amber, Lord of Light

 

Frank Herbert: The Chornicles of Dune

 

C.S. Friedman: The Coldfire Trilogy

 

Issac Asmoiv: Foundation series

 

Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun, The Book of the Long Sun

 

Stephen Lynch: The Lies of Locke Lamora

 

Stephen R. Donaldson: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

 

Daniel Abraham: The Long Price Quartet

 

Start by looking through some of those.

[lou]

has the second book been released in donaldson's "last chronicles"?

 

 

also in addition to that list look at melanie rawn.

[Werthead]

Ok, i need a new series to read and i hope you guys can help!

 

Im mostly into Fantasy books but i like horror and sci-fi aswel, books based on reality not so much :D

 

the one thing that really annoys me in books is over complicated names, it just annoys me!ie Stephen Ericson/R. Scott Baker

 

my faveroite series to date are:

 

A Song of Ice and Fire

LOTR

His Dark Materials

Feist's books are good.....

like Irvine aswel.

 

Any sugestions would be great!

 

I can understand Bakker (his names are mostly real, btw, they're lifted from Greek/Persian history) but Erikson? He often gets dissed for having silly but easily understandable and short names (Hedge, Picker, Blend, Tattersail etc). They're the two best epic fantasy writers working today (after Martin), but not everyone gets on with them.

 

Guy Gavriel Kay is probably the other author on a par with those three. Check out The Lions of Al-Rassan.

 

has the second book been released in donaldson's "last chronicles"?

 

Check Amazon.com (or .co.uk). I think Fatal Revenant is out in the next few weeks.

[The Blue Melon]

My first fantasy series was the Shanara series by Terry Brooks. It's a great series though it runs on a bit. The first few books are the best in my opinion.