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Post by Trent Lawless on Feb 13, 2007 5:12:12 GMT -5
Pern was hard for me to get into, as well. Although I had a friend in high school who raved about the series. Eh...chicks.
Anyway, at least it proves that some people will get hooked by them.
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Post by Darth Turkish on Feb 13, 2007 7:50:25 GMT -5
Pern was hard for me to get into, as well. Although I had a friend in high school who raved about the series. Eh...chicks. Nice! I felt the same way about Melanie rawn- well written, but too "soft" of a touch. |
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Post by Wildfire on Feb 13, 2007 21:50:27 GMT -5
If you enjoy a good Dragon story read the novels of Pern by Anne and todd McCaffey...a mother and son duo...Im reading Dragon' s Fire and though its not my cup of tea...u might enjoy it The Pern series is a bit played out, IMO.. the first few (writting by Anne McCaffrey only) are fairly innovative in their take on Dragons, and are definately a good read... Once they started re-hashing old stories, adding Dolphins, and the like, it kinda went down hill. I'd recommend the orignal trilogy though |
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Post by Wildfire on Feb 13, 2007 22:11:31 GMT -5
Pern was hard for me to get into, as well. Although I had a friend in high school who raved about the series. Eh...chicks. Nice! I felt the same way about Melanie rawn- well written, but too "soft" of a touch. Melanie Rawn is definately "chick fantasy" I'd put most of Marion Zimmer Bradley with her too... McCaffrey, not as much, but maybe... As enlightened as I think I am, I do admit to having trouble identifying with a female lead in alot of cases. |
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Post by steelthunder814 on Feb 13, 2007 22:30:33 GMT -5
Has anyone read Blood Knight by Greg Keyes? thats next on my list
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Post by Darth Turkish on Feb 14, 2007 7:45:08 GMT -5
Has anyone read Blood Knight by Greg Keyes? thats next on my list If it's two predecessors, The Briar King and The Charnel Price are any indication, it should be very good. |
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Post by Wildfire on Feb 14, 2007 10:06:36 GMT -5
He has an alternative history series that centers on Ben Franklin that's pretty good too... I can't remember the name of the series, but two of the books are "Newton's Cannon" and "Calculus of Angels"
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Post by BDS on Feb 14, 2007 14:40:40 GMT -5
Melanie RawnMelanie Rawn is definately "chick fantasy" I'd put most of Marion Zimmer Bradley with her too... McCaffrey, not as much, but maybe... As enlightened as I think I am, I do admit to having trouble identifying with a female lead in alot of cases. I really like the Melanie Rawn books. There are a lot of concepts and perspectives in it that you just don't get in standard fantasy, especially in her use of color and in strong female leads. Yeah, it might be a bit soft, but it's different, and in a genre where every third offering brings nothing to the table that wasn't in Lord of the Rings, different is good. The random and nonsensical deaths of some of her major characters was a nice touch, too. Seriously. People don't always die at dramatically appropriate moments, and she manages to reflect that while still telling a good story. Life is very fragile in her books, and I enjoyed that (once I got past the shock of it). Oh, and the cover of Sunrunner's Fire might be my favorite piece of fantasy art of all time. Michael Whelan FTW. Raymond E. FeistFeist is my favorite modern fantasy author, bar none. Start at Magician and work your way up. Lots of big magic in a world where, more often than not, the normal people are the the heroes. J.R.R. TolkienStart with Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit if you've never read them. Simply put, these books are the reasons that modern fantasy literature exists as we know it today.
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Post by Aquinas on Feb 14, 2007 14:46:47 GMT -5
My absolute favorite fantasy works are the Amber books from Roger Zelazny. I re-read them every couple years. 10 books total, a series of 5 as told by one character, the next 5 told by his son. Great, great stuff.
You can get all ten in one big volume now too. Otherwise, since they are pretty old now (written in the 70s and into the 80s), they are easy to find at used bookstores too.
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Post by Wildfire on Feb 14, 2007 22:02:09 GMT -5
I got the Amber collection (incidently, its titled "the great book of Amber", runs $24.95 ret. with all 10 books) and re-read them.. definately a cool series, and not your standard fare. There are prequel out there now, writing by someone else (sorta like the recent Foundation stuff) anyone read them?
I'm in the midst of reading the Feist series about the other side of the rift, and I've definaely enjoyed it.. hopefully I'll be able to find the original trilogy at some point soon.
Edit: I just want to agree with BDS that Michael Whelan is the man when it comes to drawing dragons.
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Post by dukedave on Feb 19, 2007 23:27:18 GMT -5
My absolute favorite fantasy works are the Amber books from Roger Zelazny. I re-read them every couple years. 10 books total, a series of 5 as told by one character, the next 5 told by his son. Great, great stuff. You can get all ten in one big volume now too. Otherwise, since they are pretty old now (written in the 70s and into the 80s), they are easy to find at used bookstores too. Better be good, I bought the collection to read on vacation in Jamaica. It must've sucked to be a fan when these books were coming out, the first was published in 1970, the last in 1991. A person had to be a true fan to wait that long for a series to pan out, man. |
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Post by dukedave on Mar 1, 2007 17:32:02 GMT -5
My absolute favorite fantasy works are the Amber books from Roger Zelazny. I re-read them every couple years. 10 books total, a series of 5 as told by one character, the next 5 told by his son. Great, great stuff. You can get all ten in one big volume now too. Otherwise, since they are pretty old now (written in the 70s and into the 80s), they are easy to find at used bookstores too. Better be good, I bought the collection to read on vacation in Jamaica. It must've sucked to be a fan when these books were coming out, the first was published in 1970, the last in 1991. A person had to be a true fan to wait that long for a series to pan out, man. Thanks aquinas, I picked them up. They are all in one huge 1200+ page book, I wish they were 10 seperate ones it would've been easier to read on the beach. I've finished three of them already. |
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Post by blueraider2 on Mar 1, 2007 17:36:22 GMT -5
gotta any cheese to go with that whine dukedave ?
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Post by dukedave on Mar 1, 2007 17:44:11 GMT -5
gotta any cheese to go with that whine dukedave ? It's just that I look a big dork as it is but then I'm trying to hold up this 1200 page fantasy book while lying on the beach. I had to use two hands which didn't allow me a free hand to remove sand from my crack. |
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Post by blueraider2 on Mar 1, 2007 18:02:42 GMT -5
damn that sand.  |
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IPPON!!
