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My all time favorite is Michael Moorcock. His was a more dark, adult fantasy. Elric is of course his most well known work, but all his Eternal Champion titles are money. His concepts of the E.C. and law v chaos are very appealing to me. Both are capable of good and bad, and are both unpredictable in their own ways.
Also liked his story "Behold the Man"....excellent.
Other than that. I love Piers Anthony's Xanth for light-hearted fun reads. I mostly gear toward Sci-Fi as opposed to fantasy though...but love it all!
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I think the reason there are so many series' in the fantasy genre is due to the fact that the author is not simply telling a story but is creating a whole world and 1 book is simply not enough for that... imo.
My favourite fantasy series' are the assassin and liveship trader books by Robin Hobb and also the Wheel of Time series, I am looking forward to the publication of the final book(s)!
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Re: What are some of your favorite fantasy books?
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As I've said in other threads I really am not fond of how all the best fantasy books seem to come in long series. I'll be in a book store looking at what appears to be a really great fantasy books, only to learn that it is Book 4 out of a 6 book series.
I agree. I hate it when that happens - you know the story's good and you want to get the whole pack, but you'd have to hunt for the rest of the books in the series.
Although I read a variety of books, I'm really a fantasy-fiction lover. I like Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan (although it's a series AGAIN - with 12 books no less), The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub, Weaveworld by Clive Barker, some Lloyd Alexander books, Lynne Reid Banks books, Phantoms by Dean Koontz - and some of his books, too.
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Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
Wolf and Iron by Gordon R. Dickson
River world series (First book was the best)Philip Jose farmer
Live ship and assassins apprentice series Robin Hobb
Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
omg so many more its kinda painful to not post them.
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Leeann1980 wrote:
I think the reason there are so many series' in the fantasy genre is due to the fact that the author is not simply telling a story but is creating a whole world and 1 book is simply not enough for that... imo.
My favourite fantasy series' are the assassin and liveship trader books by Robin Hobb and also the Wheel of Time series, I am looking forward to the publication of the final book(s)!
yes i do agree with that.. with every ending, the author unlocks so much more discoveries and imaginations which is good, if the make-believe world is interesting.. lol
truthfully though, i have never read fantasy before, until stephenie meyer came along ... and yes i am a female teenager lol ..
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As I am a child, modest adventure fantasy stories seem to please me enough. I enjoyed the Percy Jackson series and the Warrior Cats series. They were both very interesting, fun to read, and yet they were detailed and they seemed to be able to reach out to those in college or maybe after. They both definately stretch the reading levels.
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I really like anything about vampires . As for a specific book, I think that my favorite vampire book (it's actually a series) is Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz. I also loved the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld and I'd like to read some more books he's written.
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i agree about series
Worse is when you find one book that's really a series and didnt notice when you got it. And to top it off you got it at a booksale or used bookstore and you cant find the ones before it but i digress fav fantasy is pratchett robert asprian who both do series. I really enjoy anything humor in scifi or fantasy fields.
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George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series and Jennifer Fallon's Hythrun Chronicles.
I love Martin's work because it's a very epic fantasy novel with many complex story lines weaved in. His writing is detailed but not in the way that I find pulls from the story. His characters, while some are quite bad, are full of complexities that make it hard to call them completely "good" or "evil". I can really only think of maybe one (at most, two) exceptions.
Fallon's books are epic and funny. She has strong characters, both male and female. There are plenty of scenes that make me laugh loudly (often causing people to stare at me in horror) but there are just as many scenes that make me sad on the character's behalf.
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My favourite science fiction/fantasy book is The Forgotten Planet by George Henry Smith. The artwork on the cover of the book is quite strange and it has long been out of print. It is a great read, one of those where it all comes together at the end with a twist!! I am yet to meet anybody else who has read this book.
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George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series and Jennifer Fallon's Hythrun Chronicles.
I love Martin's work because it's a very epic fantasy novel with many complex story lines weaved in.... His characters, while some are quite bad, are full of complexities that make it hard to call them completely "good" or "evil".
Hey, that's cool. I like books where the characters aren't so stagnant. It makes them look real. I mean no one is indefinitely good or evil. I'll check this book out.... [/i]
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In truth I'm quite picky about my fantasy.
I was a big fan of Robert Jordan, but I found that WHEEL OF TIME really just played out and sank into redudancy after book five or six.
Terry Goodkind is absolute trash, his rampant misogny and ugly fascism make me amazed that he can even go out in public without being tarred and feathered. And this is to say nothing of his painfully bad prose.
Martin simply left me cold, no pun intended.
Piers Anthony is clever and talented, but I've never had much patience for comedic fantasy.
Really, with the exception of the classics and Gaiman (the latter of whom I'm awfully hard on as well), I'm really at a loss for fantasy that will pass the muster with me. Perhaps I'm just being unreasonable.
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an angel emoticon wow! haven't seen this...
but i digress fav fantasy is pratchett robert asprian who both do series. I really enjoy anything humor in scifi or fantasy fields.
I like books where the characters aren't so stagnant. It makes them look real. I mean no one is indefinitely good or evil. I'll check this book out.... 
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