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Title: high fantasy
Post by: Gridgm on 04 Nov 2006, 16:04: anyone got any recomendations for something that will take several months to read through from the high fantasy genre

i just finished working through the entire works of edding, feist and steven kings gunslinger
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Post by: alonelyargonaut on 04 Nov 2006, 22:38: well of course there is the Wheel of Time, the Sword of Truth, Xanth, Pern, Lord of the Rings, etc
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Post by: thepugs on 05 Nov 2006, 01:03: Was going to mention Piers Anthony's Xanth series, but argonaut beat me to it. Also, if you enjoy comic fantasy, Robert Aspirin's 'Myth' series is entertaining.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 05 Nov 2006, 05:50: THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT, UNBELIEVER
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Post by: Scytale on 05 Nov 2006, 10:57: Wheel of Time,

Damn that will take you a long time to read. It gets crap around book 7 or 8 but starts to pick up again in book 11.

I've heard good things about "A Song of Fire and Ice". I might start reading it over christmas
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Post by: supersheep on 05 Nov 2006, 18:17: It's really only book eight of the Wheel of Time that is particularly dull. The rest are rather tasty. And I've only read the first Song of Fire and Ice book, but it is also quite cool.
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Post by: redbeardjim on 06 Nov 2006, 07:34: It won't take a hugely long time, but "The Deed of Paksenarrion" by Elizabeth Moon is a great series.

(my personal recommendation for the Wheel of Time is to read up through The Shadow Rising and pretend the series ended there)

Another big fat series is "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" by Tad Williams.
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Post by: Valrus on 06 Nov 2006, 08:29: Don't read past the first book of the Sword of Truth series. It's linearly downhill from books two to four, and exponentially downhill after that.

A Song of Ice and Fire (or Fire and Ice, whichever) is pretty much great.
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Post by: Gridgm on 06 Nov 2006, 14:25: Quote from: Valrus on 06 Nov 2006, 08:29
Don't read past the first book of the Sword of Truth series. It's linearly downhill from books two to four, and exponentially downhill after that.

i was reading the website for that apparantly he comes up with the wizards rule for each book beofre he writes it...i'm almost as pissed off at him as i was with the matrix at the moment though because he wrote "to be concluded" at the end of the latest one
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Post by: mberan42 on 06 Nov 2006, 23:24: Yeah, I second The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Depending on how fast you read, it'll take you about 4 months to plow through the 11 books. The 12th (and final) book won't be out for at least 2 years, though, with RJ having that strange disease.

I also second A Song of Fire and Ice by George R. R. Martin. I wasn't a big fan of the 4th book, but GRRM did state that books 4 and 5 are pretty much the same book chopped in half. (I think book 5 will be out sometime next summer / fall.)

You mentioned Eddings - I'm sure you've read The Elenium and The Tamuli, as well as The Belgariad and The Mallorium along with Belgarath the Sorcerer & Polgara the Sorceress. I've also read The Redemption of Althalus, although I like the others much better.
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Post by: Gridgm on 07 Nov 2006, 06:17: Quote from: mberan42 on 06 Nov 2006, 23:24
You mentioned Eddings - I'm sure you've read The Elenium and The Tamuli, as well as The Belgariad and The Mallorium along with Belgarath the Sorcerer & Polgara the Sorceress. I've also read The Redemption of Althalus, although I like the others much better.
i don't think you understand what i meant when i said i'd read those few quthors...i meant i'd read everything...with the exception of the lsoers which i'm halfway through
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Post by: mberan42 on 07 Nov 2006, 20:15: Well excuse me.
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Post by: Gridgm on 08 Nov 2006, 07:20: Quote from: mberan42 on 07 Nov 2006, 20:15
Well excuse me.

i'll consider it but no guarentees
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Post by: Warshrike on 08 Nov 2006, 15:29: Dragonlance, Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman.
Each set is only 3-4 books long(Though they are now re-releasing some with 6) But there are[From memory] Chronicles, Legends, Preludes, Tales, and a few others I can't remember...

David Eddings.

Terry Brooks. For those of you that don't know, it was not Tolkein who spawned the Role Playing Game obsession last century, but this guy and his Shannara series's's's!!
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Post by: KharBevNor on 09 Nov 2006, 02:42: Well, not really, considering Sword of Shannara is a mind-numbingly blatant rip-off of Lord of the Rings, plot point by plot point and character by character, except undertaken with vastly less charm, grace and skill.
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Post by: Johnny C on 09 Nov 2006, 10:31: I'm all about the low fantasy, unfortunately.
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Post by: Gridgm on 10 Nov 2006, 17:35: Quote from: KharBevNor on 09 Nov 2006, 02:42
Well, not really, considering Sword of Shannara is a mind-numbingly blatant rip-off of Lord of the Rings, plot point by plot point and character by character, except undertaken with vastly less charm, grace and skill.

magic kingdom for sale, sold! i'm quite partial too however