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Old 11-10-2005, 06:02 AM
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By fantasy I'm thinking mainly of Tolkein-ess, knights-in-shining-armor, Dungeons & Dragons type books. I love the Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and I'm currently reading Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time series (for the 2nd time). At the top of my list also is Dragon Lance. Caramon and Raistlan (sp?) were probably the greatest pair of characters ever.
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Old 11-10-2005, 06:17 AM
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Lord of the rings. It's about the only fantasy book I've read. Love Dean Koontz, but that's not really fantasy. Loved 'Strange highways' and 'Dragon tears'
There was another fantasy book I read about 10 years ago, but cannot for the life of me remember the title or who wrote it. About a mentally handicaped child with special powers.
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I like the Thomas Covenant books by Stephen Donaldson.And, of course, I love Tolkien - most modern fantasy, though, leaves me cold.

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If you love fantasy, then read one of JRR Tolkien's homies: CS Lewis. His space trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength) and the Chronicles of Narnia are exceptional reads. Be prepared to gain insight into the human psyche as you read them though!
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If you love fantasy, then read one of JRR Tolkien's homies: CS Lewis. His space trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength) and the Chronicles of Narnia are exceptional reads. Be prepared to gain insight into the human psyche as you read them though!
I have ploughed through 'lord of the rings' even though I can only rtead a little at one sitting, and I would love to read the Chronicles of Narnia; but it would have to be a book borrowed from the library. My 'stong' woman (from another thread) tells me I have enough reference books, without adding any more to the collection................Which is a fair point.
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By fantasy I'm thinking mainly of Tolkein-ess, knights-in-shining-armor, Dungeons & Dragons type books. I love the Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and I'm currently reading Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time series (for the 2nd time). At the top of my list also is Dragon Lance. Caramon and Raistlan (sp?) were probably the greatest pair of characters ever.
I can't stand any of that sort of writing, personally, It doesn't appeal at all. I do like fiction of course, anything from Martin Cruz Smith to Christopher Pike ( Adult Fiction), and Zola, Flaubert, Balzac, Maupassent, Gide, Camus etc so much more an exploration of human nature than any fantasy. Hmm, yes, I like French Literature...

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Some of my favorites are: Dave Duncan's quadrilogies A Man of his Word and A Handful of Men; Raymond Feist's Midkemia; Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series; David and Leigh Eddings' work; Michelle West's Sun Sword series; Robin Hobb's several series; Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion works; and probably more.
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I'm a fan of Mercedes Lackey... other than that I don't have any specific authors I like. I think I'm so attatched to her because she was the first author I'd read from that had gay/lesbian characters for a reason other than having gay/lesbian characters in a book.

It doesn't have knights in shining armor, but the Bartimaeus trilogy is interesting.
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Although I love a lot of the older writers like Le Guin, Brooks, Tolkien and Martin, i'm currently more interested in the new weird writers China Mieville and Steph Swainston.
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