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[Citizen Bleys]

I'll second Hobb, she's a very entertaining writer.

[Kes]

Originally Posted by Germ Hamee ^

Originally Posted by Kes ^

I like about half of Robin Hobb's stuff. Her first and third trilogies, but not so much with her second and latest. The Fool was just a really great character.

Oh dear, I'm almost the complete opposite. The Liveship Traders completely floored me, and remains one of my all-time favorite set of books along with ASoIaF. Her latest trilogy was pretty slow moving but won me over with the last book. On the other hand, I found The Tawny Man trilogy to be underwhelming in comparison, though the final book was pretty much amazing. But yes: Fool > all, and even at her lowest, I find Robin Hobb to be far more readable than a majority of the competition.

I didn't hate The Liveship Traders but I was kind of just reading through them to get to The Tawny Man because I'm a very character driven person, and I really wasn't a fan of any of the main characters. As for the latest (Soldier Son?) I'll admit I prejudged after the first book and have had the second just sitting around waiting for me to read it.

The character thing is why I have such a hard time reading some of this stuff. Not only do the characters have to capture my attention, but once you start killing their dogs, chopping off their limbs, blinding them and getting them eaten, I get a bit overwhelmed. Not that I want nothing but fluffy bunnies and happy endings, but sometimes a few here and there are nice. Assuming you don't kill the bunny.

[Citizen Bleys]

Originally Posted by Kes ^

Not only do the characters have to capture my attention, but once you start killing their dogs, chopping off their limbs, blinding them and getting them eaten, I get a bit overwhelmed. Not that I want nothing but fluffy bunnies and happy endings, but sometimes a few here and there are nice. Assuming you don't kill the bunny.

You'd like C. J. Cherryh

*serious face*

[rubah]

holy crap, I just finished Chronicles of the Witch World and omp, it was amazing.

Spoiler: hilarion definitely makes me think of Hyde though and I prefer kaththea to whatshername. hooooooooooooooly crap! I am such a girl!

[Garnie]

harry potter obviously! but i have read memouirs of a geshia i dunno if thats really fantasy but i will say its a great book! well worth reading!
lord of the rings confuses meh! but im still trying to read it!

[Bashini]

Seconds Robin Hobb (Farseers, Live Ships, and all) and Stephen R Donaldson (although I am having trouble getting into his latest Covenant novel)

I love Tolkien, Le Guin, & Pratchette.

I enjoyed Garth Nix's Sabriel series. Robert Aspin had some pretty cool concepts in the 'myth' series. Redwall was a pretty good series, but I got bored after the third or fourth book.

Harry Potter was pretty good.

[DK]

Originally Posted by Germ Hamee ^

Originally Posted by Ouch! ^

The love for ASoIaF makes me exceptionally happy. Unfortunately, that series and its awesomeness has just about ruined every other fantasy novel. For someone who writes fantasy, I tend to hate just about every series I read. xD

I agree with everything you just said. I find it nearly impossible to be affected by the "usual" fantasy novel shocker after the jarring events in A Storm of Swords. It's kind of hard to beat the tragedy that is the Stark family. Unfortunately, after A Feast for Crows, I worry that even GRRM will have difficulty topping that in the future.

I don't know, I actually read Feists Magician trilogy after reading ASoIaF and still enjoyed it thoroughly, although I guess it was sort of broken for me in that I kept expecting all the likeable characters to die, or get raped and kidnapped, or some sort of generally horrific thing happen to them. When things kept going well I was utterly lost and confused.

[rubah]

about a Game of Thrones
Spoiler: smurf GRRM ;.; I loved ned ;.;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; I cried so hard over him ;o

The only bad thing about the books is that if you go a year between reading them, you can't really pick up with the next one and carry on x.x; and I don't feel like rereading a million pages so I can read a second million pages ;o

Apparently Ann C. Crispin the star wars author collaborated with Andre Norton (the witch world author) on a witch world book. I find that funny because I was/am reading AC crispin's han solo trilogy while I read CotWW xD

andre norton also has a book called Gods and ANDROIDS. I recommend that you take a look at the text on the cover. I laughed really hard when i saw it xD

my mom apparently has the first eight wheel of time books. or so she claims.