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Yep not much more than a fun read. His orginal Icewind Dale trilogy and Dark elf treilogy are IMO his best efforts. There's no doubt Slavatore is very good at describing both battle sequences and one-on-one fight scenes but his charaters are fairly predictable and there's certainly nothing too...

Sadly I'd have to agree with you. I rather gather a lot of the hype surrounding the release of this book centered around the age of the writer rather than it being of any great quality per se. It is highly generic, containing many of the fantasy tropes I've come to dislike in recent years....:(

Well I've bascially read everything by Tad Williams including his current Shadwomarch series. For me his best work is the M,S,T trilogy already mentioned. It starts off a bit slowly but it soon quickens in pace. Whilst it's reasonably generic fantasy some of Tad's prose is very good and the...

Well I'm fairly new here so be gentle...:p For me Tolkien was essentially the single most major influence on the modern fantasy genre. I've read LOTR probably 3-4 times and for me it holds a certain nostalgic quality. Perhaps becasue I first read it more than 20 years ago when we didn't have...

Only having currently completed 31 of the 44 titles in the excellent Fantasy Masterwork series, sad isn't it!...:p What do you hope to receive for Christmas?

Well as a big fantasy fan, especially of EPIC fantasy I have to say Steven Erikson is the best I've read. His prose isn't as brilliant IMO as Gene Wolfe, M. John Harrison, China Mieville or Italo Calvino and I hear Jeff Vandermeer (one of my authors to target for 2006) but his worldbuidling is...

Hi all, be gentle 'cause I'm a newbie here although I'm quite active on several other forums. I'm a big fantasy fan and to a lesser extent SF. My top 11 reads of 2005 (not all necessarily published in 2005) in no particular order: Runes Of The Earth - Stephen Donaldson Dance Of The...

Thanks for the welcome all and I plan to post more in the New Year and nice to see another Erikson fan on the forums Sell Sword...;) Halo, do try Meiville, one of the greats of the New Weird vangaurd and a great writer of the imagination full stop. Sergo, good to see another reader of the some...

Hi all...:D I'm a member of several book forums so some of you will probably recognise my call sign and I've already noticed a few familiar user names already. I've been reading mainly fantasy style books plus some so-called Old Weird, New Weird and horror for about 25 years now both...