does anyone read fantasy books?

I'm reading the robert jordan series, the terry goodkind series and the george r.r. martin series

I loved them all and I'm waiting for the next ones to come out!

can anyone recommend any fantasy books that I could read? :D

I love fantasy novels, but I'm a bit picky, cos I reread things. A lot. Some books are fine the first time, but seem to get worse with each successive read. However, I found that these have all stood up to a dozen or more readings...

 

The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien are without doubt the high-water mark for fantasy novels. Anything by Neil Gaiman is great (so far, anyway). Stardust and his short story collection, Smoke & Mirrors are my favourites, but Neverwhere and American Gods are just as good. Also, The Lyonesse Trilogy by Jack Vance is superb, but it's out-of-print. (I think it's worth looking around for, though.) The Dune Chronicles would perhaps be considered closer akin to sci-fi than to fantasy, but they're still pretty fantastic. And, of course, there's always Harry Potter. Seriously.

I WROTE ONE..... l was supposed to have it published...hmmm

 

it never happened, l fell sick, got lazy and then went to edit it and... IT WENT ALL WRONG..cuz l started to REWRITE the whole goddamn novel AGAIN..bahh

 

but l will DEFINATELY release it someday :smug:

i dont....wow you wrote one...awsome :wink3:

What's it called?

thats wicked!

I'm actually writing one too, but its going very slowly.... :lol:

:dozey:

I just started a new one actually

I had this dream and I thought it would make a perfect book....so I'm basing the book around my dream :D

and I'm using peoples name from the board for the characters :lol:

aww vinita i'll buy your book! i'm reading the Illustrated Man! its soo good! this man has tattoo and one day they come to life and tell stories! its very interesting!

dude man...l STILL HAVE TO EDIT IT..ITS SOOO LONG...l cant even find it in my house lol..l printed it out..it was like over 600 typed pages..this thing is fooking SOLID :stunned:

tell me if you do get it published!

I want to read it!

whats the title?

Juliana

 

its soo good...damn...if only l could get someone to write it for me lol..like *type it* l wanna REWRITE IT...lKNOW i would get published if l did so..cuz l already got an OK from a guy at Puffin Boooks

I luff fantasy books

 

for heroic fantasy i recommend David Gemmel

 

for traditional Tolkien

 

for modern traditional its got to be Weiss & Hickman

 

:D

i cant really get into tolkeins books. :confused:

I used to read this one author, Francesca Lia Block. Not all her books were fantasy but she had a couple and I really liked them. But, then again, I liked everything she wrote. :) :)