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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Thank you for the suggestions. 
I've actually sampled most of the authors you mentioned, at one time or other, but I've not read them extensively. I wasn't too impressed with "The Sword of Shannara", but I'll try "The Elfstones", since you say it's much better. Salvatore, unfortunately, wasn't quite my cup of tea either (I read the Homeland trilogy, but was not interested enough to try more books from him). And I couldn't finish "Lord Foul's Bane", because of the unpleasant protagonist. I know, of course, that he's depicted that way intentionally and I plan to return to the books one day. I also plan to read the rest of Hambly's trilogy some day, since the first book, while not jawdropping, was quite ok. Ditto for Eddings.
So many plans and so little time... But I'll certainly put "The Elfstones" on my soon-to-be-read list. Thanks. |
Some of my favorites from the time period
Michael Moorcock - The Eternal Champion series. (I personally like the Corum books, the Count Brass books and the Elric books).
Brian Daley - His Coramonde duaology and A Tapestry of Magics are among my favorites.
Barbara Hambly - you already have
Katherine Kurtz - the Deryni series opened up a new style of fantasy. Really quite good.
Roger Zelazny - Lord of Lights was his masterwork, but the Amber series may have been his most popular. Creatures of Light and Dark, and the Dilvish the Damned stories were my favorite. His Changeling books were also good.
Raymond Feist - The first three books of the Riftwar saga (first published in 1982 - Magician, Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon) was excellent.