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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...

Stick with the Weis & Hickman books IMO. I like Chronicles, Legends, etc quite a bit - but the other misc Dragonlance is kind of hit and miss.

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...

Dissenting opinion. 1 vote for "The Door Into Summer"

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. A-

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...

Robin Hobb floated to the top of my fantasy list at this point, following a 2nd re-read of the original Farseer trilogy about 2 years ago...which I hated the ending of back in high school (I think I read it like sophomore year), but now that I am older, I find that I liked it more than most of...

My favorite Heinlein book is "The Door Into Summer", hands down.

I grew out of the Dragonlance books - except for the ones by Margaret Weis/Tracey Hickman. I still love Raistlin's journey into darkness and Caramon's journey out of it and feel it is a great character story, despite the trappings of typical D&D that plague it at the beginning. I grew out of...

I would recommend Orson Scott Card's "The Redemption of Christopher Columbus". It is more in the line of time-travel sci-fi altering timelines, but it is fascinating.

Yah, personally Robin Hobb is my favorite, but I'm not sure if jumping from Salvatore's action to Hobb's political intrigue is a great idea :D