rumple9 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I loved ASOIAF series - the first fantasy books I've ever read. However on recommendation of the classic fantasy books to read I tried the Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb and the Magician - Raymond Feist and hated both. In fact I gave up on magician halfway through. So what is a really good read other than Lord of the Rings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russjass Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I would say that on a forum with more than one person on you are going to get more than one answer to that. check out the rec threads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Attempting some kind of objective measure yields Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie to be the best fantasy novel given that it won the Booker and Booker of Bookers.One of my personal contenders would be Beloved by Toni Morrison.Best fantasy series...haven't read enough Murakami, but aren't some subset of his books interconnected?ETA: My person contender would be Moorcock's Eternal Champion Series.ETA II: Also, don't know if it counts as a series, but the Bas Lag novels of China Mieville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rumple9 Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 What I cant understand is books like Magician and assassins apprentice come so highly recommended as a fantasy classics but I found both frankly boring, coming no where near ASOIAF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reposado Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 What I cant understand is books like Magician and assassins apprentice come so highly recommended as a fantasy classics but I found both frankly boring, coming no where near ASOIAFlike anything else, YMMV. But I think there are several series better than those two, there's like six rec thread stickied with a variety of opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errant Bard Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Read this thread first: But given that you seem to think objective truth does exist and that those who don't share your opinion are wrong, I recommend The Sword of Truth series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 :bang:Dragonlance of Course! :bang:Ewww really, Eternal Champion, sci? I can't stand that man's prose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagilki Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Sometimes I think Grack is really Margaret Weiss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 God know, she's actually had a terrible terrible life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 God know, she's actually had a terrible terrible life.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagilki Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 I think he meant "god no" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Jesus Grack, learn the fuck how to spell. ;-)eta: Ha, and it just hits me that the no/know error has no mispellings invovled misspellings involved. Looks like we've both been reading too many damn tie-ins. ;-Peta II: Did I just misspell two words while complaining about spelling? Fuck I just got served. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reposado Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 God know, she's actually had a terrible terrible life.you know an awful lot about her life for someone that's not tracy hickman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 you know an awful lot about her life for someone that's not tracy hickmanThere is so much wrong with that comment I don't know where to begin.And I don't know what the hell is wrong with my..er...grammar lately.But yeah, she's a breast cancer survivor, been married/divorced at least twice, and her son died unexpectedly(that's all thats publicly known) back in 2002ish, so, yeah, her life has been shitty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Black Library, Fuck the World! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reposado Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 STANEK! STANEK! STANEK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Black Library, Fuck the World!This made me laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 STANEK! STANEK! STANEK!How did i forget that bad ass!Read away: http://www.robertstanek.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frodostark Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 What I cant understand is books like Magician and assassins apprentice come so highly recommended as a fantasy classics but I found both frankly boring, coming no where near ASOIAFI really like ASOIAF and Hobb's Farseer, but they are very different so I'm not surprised that you'd have this reaction. I haven't read Feist and won't, but it sounds even less GRRM-esque, to me.Perhaps you should consider Scott Lynch's Lies of Locke Lamora? Certainly less "high fantasy" than Martin, but gritty with very real-world stakes and some nice plot twists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanczyk Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Gene Wolfe's The Wizard Knight is a contender (Though the title and the rough plot outline would probably have people turning up their noses at it...just trust me). Anything by Lord Dunsany as well. The first three Earthsea books have some beautiful writing in 'em. Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner is also a favourite, though it's only just barely a fantasy novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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