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PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:36 pm 
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Yep, a place to say what your favorite fantasy books are and why! This is mostly a way to share your favorites with others, in hopes that they might read the books you talked about. Here are my favs:

The Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce. An uplifting book for girls that shows the women have power and are strong at heart.

The Dalemark Quartet by Diana Wynne Jones. The tales of youngsters in the land of Dalemark as they try to avert Civil War, stop a power-hungry mage, and bring Dalemark a King again.

The Halloween Tree and Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Some truly dark and wonderful stories.


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I like the The Wizard Knight series. I've only read the first one called Knight, and hope to read Wizard soon. Despite the cheesy names, it was a really good book. There is no set pace so you can never tell what will happen next. It left me at the end of the book answering my first questions, but bringing up a dozen new ones. Makes me want to read the next so it makes sense. Only thing I don't like is that the main character starts off as a 10 year-old, and gets changed into a 6'5" tall man by magic. Gets repect for being big, but is still an ignorant kid. Other than that, I havent read any good fantasy books lately. Hopeful someone will post one that interests me


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The Chronicles of Narnia. No contest. =D


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Though DUNE is technically science fiction, I'd say that did a good job writing DUNE. Also considering DUNE came long before D&D so it's not inspired by that, it's also extremely original and has a simple title without all the BS. Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time, all these good books with overly decorated titles.


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The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, all by Phillip Pullman. These books are great! The settings are really original. The story takes you to a whole new world that's seemingly part fantasy and part historical simultaneously, with bizarre magic and unique scientific advancements. I would have read it for that alone, but everything else about these books is first-rate. Go pick up a copy of The Golden Compass and enjoy it!

Dune kicked [censored] btw


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Though DUNE is technically science fiction, I'd say that did a good job writing DUNE. Also considering DUNE came long before D&D so it's not inspired by that, it's also extremely original and has a simple title without all the BS. Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time, all these good books with overly decorated titles.


The movie DUNE is in my chocolaty drink...
The Karazan Quartet series is one I like. Although sometimes it says things happen and I'm thinking "since when?" Probably because of the large amount of time there was between reading each book. :o


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delusionalKangaroo wrote:
The Chronicles of Narnia. No contest. =D


I KNEW I was forgetting something in my first post. Anyways, here's another I think is good: Pendragon. It has nothing to do with King Arthur Pendragon, so don't confuse it with that. It's about Bobby Pendragon, a normal, modern kid who has been chosen as one of many different dimensions to travel through time and space and keep the all of Halla (the universe) from collapsing. Sounds strange, I know, but it's good. The first book (Pendragon; The Merchant of Death) starts with a kiss, and suddenly he's off on a wild and dangerous adventure. Wooo. I love that series. Bobby Pendragon is mah snuggle muffin. *snuggles Pendragon book*


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Well, if you want to read some books that are a little more adult based, you can read the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. It starts out nice enough, but soon the main characters are on the run from the Dark One's minions, trying to get to the safety of White Tower. They don't make it to their destination however because of some twists along the way, and right now there are 10 main story books and 1 prequal availible. Also, the 11th book in the series is coming out this October. So there is plenty to read, and more on the way.

Here is the official discription from the website. They discribe it better then I do. And here is the site for anybody that want's to take a look around. http://www.tor.com/jordan/

The Wheel of Timeâ„¢ Series
"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose.... The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of time.
But it was a beginning."

With this phrase, millions of readers have entered a world strikingly real, rich in detail and complexity—the world of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time. A world of kings, queens, and Aes Sedai—women who can tap the True Source and wield the One Power, which turns the Wheel and drives the universe: a world where the war between Light and Shadow is fought every day.

At the moment of Creation, the Creator bound the Dark One away from the world of humankind, but more than three thousand years ago, Aes Sedai, then both men and women, unknowingly bored into that prison outside of time. The Dark One was able to touch the world only lightly before the hole was soon sealed over. But the Dark One's taint settled on saidin, the male half of the Power, and every male Aes Sedai went mad. In the Breaking of the World they destroyed civilization and changed the very face of the earth, sinking mountains beneath the sea and bringing new seas where land had been.

Now only women bear the title Aes Sedai. Commanded by their Amyrlin Seat and divided into seven Ajahs named by color, they rule the great island city of Tar Valon, where their White Tower stands, and are bound by the Three Oaths, fixed into their bones with saidar, the female half of the Power: To speak no word that is not true, to make no weapon for one man to kill another, and never to use the One Power against another except as a weapon against Shadowspawn or, in the last extreme, of defending her own life or that of her Warder or another sister.

Men still are born who can learn to channel the Power, or worse, who will channel one day whether they try to or not. Doomed to madness, destruction, and death by the taint of the saidin, they are hunted down by the Aes Sedai and gentled, cut off forever from the Power for the safety of the world. No man goes to this willingly. Even if they survive the hunt, they seldom survive long after gentling.

For more than three thousand years, while empires rose and fell, nothing has been so feared as a man who can channel. But for all those three thousand years there have been the Prophecies of the Dragon, that the seal of the Dark One's prison will weaken and he will touch the world once more, and the Dragon, who sealed up that hole, will be Reborn to face the Dark One again. A child, born in sight of Tar Valon on the slopes of Dragonmount, will grow up to be the Dragon Reborn, the only hope of humanity in the Last Battle.

A world of kings and queens, nations and wars, where the White Tower rules only Tar Valon but even kings and queens are wary of Aes Sedai machinations. A world where the Shadow and the Prophecies loom together.

This is the world Robert Jordan invites all to enter. This is the world of The Wheel of Time.


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The Sight by David Clement-Davies. An exiled she-wolf who possesses the Sight, a power to touch and control minds, seeks revenge and the return of the demon wolfbane. Her evil plans involve the young pup Larka and maybe even the creatures wolves fear most - Man.

The Revealing of the White Wolf by Annie Weatherholt. The story of a young girl's comming to age and dealing with what she truely is.
(This one isn't so much a book as a story posted online, I made a post about it in the story board a while back. Also, I made the name of it a link if anyone wants to read it.)


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I think I mentioned in another thread that I very highly recommend the "Symphony of Ages" series by Elizabeth Hayden. It starts with "Rhapsody," I believe. It is about a group of three strangers who get stuck together under unusual circumstances (even for a fantasy world). They of course become friends and develop their powers as well as gain new ones. There's a big evil to fight, as well, and many many amusing marching songs from the orc-like character. All around, good fun and very engaging. :)


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i thought that the Eragon book by Christopher Paolini was pretty good not the best but still worth checking out.


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Yeah, Eragon was pretty good, Deamos. The sequel is coming out very soon, too. It was written by a teenager, too...he is very talented, I must say.


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