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I have a soft spot for Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality because they were the first grown-up fantasy books that I read. Definitely not something I'd recommend to someone as an introduction to the genre, but it worked for me at the time. The first few Xanth books were good, but I had to eventually give up on them.

Mercedes Lackey. I read all of those too. Even her Bard books from Baen. She's someone who appeals to a certain demographic; talking white horses are like crack to teenage girls. But once you get older you grow out of them really quickly.

A quick comment on Christopher Stasheff - someone mentioned his wizard/warlock books very early on in this thread. In the mid-90s I actually wrote to him and asked him if he was ever going to write another book in a different series that seemingly had been left hanging, and he (or his assistant) told me that no he wasn't because his wizard/warlock series sold better and he was concentrating on those. And that's when I stopped reading his books.