Thursday, February 2, 2012

Fantasy book help :)?

I'm looking for books simlar to these. They are my favorites.

Sword of truth series.

Wheel of time.

Eragon.

Game of thrones.

I've read top 100 fantasy book websites. But these are my top 4. I'm looking for books of simlar taste. Please and thank you.Fantasy book help :)?
Try the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Tadd Williams. His world and character building are excellent.
If you haven't read the Belgariad and the Mallorean, along with the Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress, you should try them as well. The are page turners. David Eddings did a great job with them, but the are not as adult, as GoT or SoT. Eddings is about as prissy as Tolkein and while he acknowleges that women do exist "below the neck", the characters, their romances, the fight scenes, everything is PG rated at the worst so there's alot of imagination but not nearly as much realism as there is in GoT.
Same goes with the first 7 books of Terry Brooks' Shannara books. The first three are The Sword of Shannara, The Elf Stones of Shannara, and The Wishsong (if I remember correctly). These three are stand alone volumes. The Scions of Shannara is a four book series. Again, PG, but page turners. Alot of people think the Sword of Shannara is a Tolkein rip off--the similarities are there, but Brooks comes into his own as the books progress.
I'm in the middle of The Runelords by David Farland right now. Can't say I'm enjoying it but I'll finish it. It's too choppy, the worlds are limited and the characters are forgettable. By the time you really start to like a character he's killed or dies and then all of a sudden, theirs another incarnation of him. Meh, you might like it though so I won't throw too many rocks at it.
Hope this helped!!
**Wait, I forgot all about RA Salvatore's Drizzt books. Icewindale Trilogy was ok but really, you should read the Dark Elf Trilogy and the books that immediately follow it. (The Legacy, Starless Night, and Siege of Darkness) then skip a few then jump into it again with his latest installment the Hunter's Blade trilogy. Drizzt is an awesome character and the worlds, the fight scenes, the character building are all great. Drizzt may be a cash cow, but Salvatore has managed to keep him refreshing. ** Ok. That's it for now. ;-DFantasy book help :)?
Have you read the Dragonlance series? They're like Wheel of Time and Eragon mixed together--the world is as big as Wheel Of Time and it has the fast pace of Eragon.Fantasy book help :)?
The Hobbit?

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