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Well, I was highly disappointed with the last Shanarra trilogy (the wrap up was awful).
Read the new book, Armageddon's Children...not bad, not bad. A bit of the formula quest-to-find-a-talisman schtick but otherwise the post-apocolyptic world is pretty cool.
Hitting threads quite a bit tonight as this forum isn't that active, so I only hit it every few months.
Hobb is my favorite author at this date...with Martin pulling in at #2 depending on how the rest of Ice&Fire go.
Hobb writes realistic characters who don't always do the right thing -...
Brooks is OK
His early stuff was a bit too Tolkien-recycled, but I really enjoy the books between Elfstones and the Heritage of Shanarra series. And the Word/Void books, which I do enjoy.
Hit and miss IMO
Agreed
I enjoyed the Belgariad/Mallorean back in the day, and even the almost-identical Elenium. But the Elder Gods - ugh, I can't believe I wasted $17 on the hardcover of the first one. Not only recycled, but thinly written characters. The worst fantasy I had read in years.
Read the...
My current favorite is Robin Hobb. Depending on how the rest of Ice & Fire go GRR Martin might capture the #2 spot.
The rest of my list tends to include the authors elitist fantasy folks make fun of. Raymond Feist, R.A. Salvatore, etc.
Agreed
Empire trilogy is probably on my top 10 list.
I was trying to get through the light and shadow books, but I keep ending up putting them down and not getting back to them for a few years. I find the big wizards kinda lack description & personality for the most part, and sometimes...
Just thought I would update this thread.
Picked up and absorbed Shaman's Crossing. More quality Robin Hobb writing :D
Like Fitz, I found myself sometimes frustrated with the character's stupidity. Very realistic character for how he was raised from birth: to be a soldier son.
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Feist is really figuring out how to write at this stage. When he wrote Magician IIRC he was in college and just wanted to see if he could do it. He's learning, getting his footing, so to speak. His characterizations are weak, his concentration is more on the history/epic.
The next 2 books...
I feel the same way about WOT. I got through the first 4-5 but I can barely remember what little happens past about halfway through book 2. Don't get what people see in this.
Then again I like Terry Brooks (particularly the Word & Void and Heritage of Shanarra). He is guilty of...
I just read Magician again the other day.
Personally it seemed kind of un-Pug-like for him to lose his temper and get spectators killed - but not liking what was going on was totally in character.
I liked every suggestion in the thread up to this (Weis, Feist, Terry Brooks, Eddings Belgariad, etc). Stick with the Belgariad/Mallorean IMO as far as Eddings, all his other books are poor clones of it (the Sparhawk books are also a clone of the Belgariad, better or worse I haven't concluded)...
If you like actiony fantasy, I would recommend R.A. Salvatore's Dark Elf books. Starting with the Dark Elf Trilogy (homeland). FYI Salvatore wrote one of the Star Wars novelizations.
I agree, as a fan of Weis & Salvatore, and of George R.R. Martin. I wouldn't advise jumping from them to Martin.
I would advise Terry Brooks (Start with the Sword of Shanara), David Edding's Belgariad/Mallorean. But I wouldn't recommend much Eddings, his newest series was a really...