Charles G. wrote:I'll put in Silmarillion and (I expect) the to be released tomorrow Children of Hurin by Tolkien. Amazing how much this guy has written since he died in 1973...
gyg wrote:I've still never read the Silmarillion (or any of the latter Christopher edited stuff) - like the sound of this though so I'm now on the lookout for a charity shop Silmarillion!
FormCritic wrote:Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series: Tedious and illogical. Pap. Drivel.Robert Jordan's Horseclans novels: Stop after the fourth book.The Gor novels: How to make sex boring in only 40 books. Stop after book five.
Charles G. wrote:Next would be George R.R. Martin's "Ice and Fire" series - great stuff but I have to agree that he is a little too eager to drop the hammer on characters that I like... but overall its very well written...
bombadil wrote:I love the Robert Asprin novels about Aahz and Skeeve. Funny and vivid.
gyg wrote: essential reading, but leave your brain at the door!!
Munafik wrote:My favorite fantasy novel of all time is Sax Rohmer's Brood of the Witch Queen, with Abraham Merritt's The Moon Pool a close second. The former revolves around the resurrection of an ancient Egyptian queen and the latter around the discovery of a lost colony of Atlantis situated beneath the real-life island of Ponape. Both are brimming with prismatic prose, inventive plots, and exotic locales. However, for those who are interested, these are _not_ sword and sorcery fantasies ala those of R.E. Howard and C.L. Moore, but, rather, are lost race romances similar to those penned by H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs. N.B. The Rohmer novel is a bit hard to find, being as it was last printed, to the best of my knowledge, in the early twenties. The Moon Pool is more readily available, being is it has been in print, more or less, since its original date of publication in the early teens of the previous century.