08-23-2014, 01:07 PM | #1 |
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Fantasy Books I Haven't Read
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Please could someone recommend me some fantasy that I may not have read. To help, I'll give the authors I have read and like or disliked or found meh: David Gemmell - Liked Joe Abercrombie - Disliked Raymond E. Feist - Disliked Mark Lawrence - Liked Jim Butcher - Liked Kevin Hearne - Liked L.E. Modesitt Jr - Liked George R.R. Martin - Meh (Good story but unlikable characters and too long) Neil Gaiman - Liked J.R.R. Tolkein - Liked James Barclay - Disliked Markus Heitz - Meh (Good narrative setting but cardboard characters) Steven Erikson - Disliked Brandon Sanderson - Liked Brent Weeks - Liked Peter V. Brett - Liked R.A. Salvatore - Liked Jennifer Fallon - Liked Robin Hobb - Disliked Mike Carey - Liked Brian McClellan - Liked Robert Jordan - Total Meh (Boring, badly written and shallow 2-D characters) Paul Kearney - Liked Naomi Novik - Meh Anne MacCaffrey - Meh Glen Cook - Meh (Didn't get on with the writing style) Elizabeth Moon - Meh (Characters didn't interest me) Philip Pullman - Liked Guy Gavriel Kay - Disliked Paul Hoffman - Meh (Depressing) David Weber - Disliked (Clunky and long-winded) Tom Lloyd - Meh (Boring to me, not necessarily to other people) Patrick Rothfuss - Meh (but could like him if tried again) I don't know whether anyone has any ideas about fantasy authors I may like that I haven't tried? Last edited by Waylander; 08-25-2014 at 07:15 AM. Reason: Added Authors |
08-23-2014, 01:36 PM | #2 |
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How about Richard K. Morgan? I haven't read any of his Fantasy, but I enjoyed his SF, so your thoughts after you've read it would be appreciated.
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Guy Gavriel Kay (The Lions of al-Rassan),
Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials), Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan), Roger Zelazny (the Amber books), L. Sprague de Camp (The Incompleat Enchanter), Michael Moorcock (the Elric of Melniboné books), Stephen Donaldson (Thomas the Unbeliever), Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn), Michael Chabon (Summerland), or David Eddings (The Belgariad). |
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Huh, looks like we have similar tastes. I may move Dresden up on my list.
Recommendations: Elizabeth Moon's Paksenarrion books. If you like Tolkien and Salvatore, you'll really like Moon. Here's the first trilogy: http://www.baenebooks.com/p-100-the-...senarrion.aspx You can also get it at Amazon, B&N, etc. Andre Norton. Try her Witch World series for epic fantasy. For standalones, I like Scent of Magic or the Mirror of Destiny. I also especially like Year of the Unicorn or Key of the Keplian. If you like Tolkien and Gemmel she could be right up your alley. Roger Zelazny is also good. Darker than either Moon or Norton. |
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Glen Cook has two good series.
The Black Company and Garrett P.I. Apache |
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I'd recommend Scott Lynch but since you didn't like Hobb or Abercrombie and was meh on Martin, I'm pretty sure you have the opposite taste that I do. |
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Thanks WillAdams and everyone here for the suggestions. I will definitely give Moorcock and Zelazny a go, and will probably give some of my "meh's" another go, as my tastes may have changed. It's not that I don't like dark fantasy, as I love the Broken Empire trilogy by Mark Lawrence, but Abercrombie et al just don't do it for me, probably because the characters are so unsympathetic.
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The Garrett P. I. series a blending of Fantasy and Murder Mystery. I like to think of them as Nero Wolf Fantasies.
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08-25-2014, 09:33 PM | #12 |
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You could look at R A Lafferty. A prolific short story writer, but also several novels, often intricately interconnected.
Nine Million Grandmothers (short stories) Tales of Chicago (part of the Melchizedech series) Look him up on the Internet Speculative Fiction database. |
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Terry Pratchett.
He co-wrote Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch with Neil Gaiman. He also wrote the Discworld series, which is kind of like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but with fantasy, and less depressing. |
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I too would recommend books authored by Elizabeth Moon.
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10-15-2014, 01:35 PM | #15 |
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I would add Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series to your list.
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