Recent content by Ainulindale

Considering that itseems you have enjoyed juvenile fantasy titles in the past you would probably enjoy Dragonlance.

Jeffrey Thomas's Punktown work shoud be looked into. As noted above for one to start with China Mieville's Perdido Street Station is to start on a great path. M. John Harrison's Light is one of the best SF novels in recent memory IMHO. But I think you'd love visitng Mieville's New Crobuzon.

I got Armageddon's Children today, against my wishes!

Jeff Vandemeer recently put out a phenominal list of works. He just forgot to include himself. A any rate, The Hugo is a fantasy award as well so should be helpful as well.

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake, and I'd consider Edward Whittemore's Jersusalem Quartet and M. John Harrison's Viriconium to be up there as well.

I think most would say The Book of the New Sun or the The Fifth Head of Cerebrus.

I said: Otherwsie he would be #1, because nobody is better.

I think Martin is the best epic fantasy author IMHO, which perhaps puts him in the top 25 overalll curently IMHO. If we are talking current author's, here are the 20 who I think are the best: Jefrey Ford Lucius Shepard Jeff Vandermeer Michael Chabon China Mieville Graham Joyce Hal Duncan Kelly...

I think by far the best work ever written in Realms is being written right now by Paul S. Kemp, and can be found in his Ervis Cale Trilogy. Note, while I do like some of RAS's work, I'm generally not a fan of any Wizard's of the Coast products (to put it mildly), but Kemp is a talented writer...

I like both quite a bit, but I'd say A Game of Thrones. Really no wrong choiec which is a enviable position to be in.

I don't equate complex with boring either, in fact I think quite the opposite. :)

I'm assuming you mean Robert Jordan (if I'm wrong, my apologies), who I find completely lacking regarding any complexity :D. Being long-winded doesn't equate to complexity in my opinion.

Well, to be honest I find Feist to be even less appealing than Wurts. :)

I stcuk with this series several years ago (still ongoign I believe) but I really didn't like Janny Wurt's Wars of Light and Shadow (through 5 long-winded books). I'm usually not the one that complains about methodical writers, description, or wasted pages of do-nothing narrative, but this...

This is basically what one comes to expect when they pick up a book by David Eddings. There has certainly been no evidence to suggest otherwise.