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[Master Zimmy]

So um, anyone read any good books lately?

A series that i really enjoyed was the Left Behind series (definately not pushin anything as that would violate forum rules. just want to make that clear)...but I think there are like 12 books in that series and I read them over a 2 month period. That for me is an accomplishment :happy53: and says something for the books as I am a tremedously slow reader.

[IBeJebus]

Cantos, anything by R.A. Salvator... check it out if you like fantasy (Drizzt FTW!)

Good man. I just finished reading his new one, Promise of the Witch King(no Drizzt, just follows the assassin Artemis Entreri) and its really good. Salvatore always keeps me coming back for more. :happy34:

Also one of my favorite series is The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (creators of Dragonlance world). Its a very good 7 book series.

[Parker Bsb]

Good man. I just finished reading his new one, Promise of the Witch King(no Drizzt, just follows the assassin Artemis Entreri) and its really good. Salvatore always keeps me coming back for more. :happy34:

Also one of my favorite series is The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (creators of Dragonlance world). Its a very good 7 book series.

I like the death gate cycle... found that they kind-of gave up near the end of the story tho... just kept introducing more powerfull creatures. The ending was a total cop-out .

Gotta love the idea behind the whole series tho... apparently we have similar taste in books :happy34:

[Zero]

Ian Irvine, View from the mirror series (in order they are: A Shadow on the Glass, The Tower on the Rift, Dark is the Moon, The wya between the Worlds). Has to be my favourite series to date. There's then a followup series of which starts with the book Geomancer.

I'm after a new series after I re-finish this one, maybe I'll look into Salvator....

[IBeJebus]

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I'm after a new series after I re-finish this one, maybe I'll look into Salvator....

youll have a lot to look into... hes written close to 16 books about Drizzt alone, plus a few other Forgotten Realms books and a few others.

[Cantos]

Well so far Zero is the only one who has recommended something I havent read already. :(

[1SG Bowie]

Well so far Zero is the only one who has recommended something I havent read already. :(

Not a great series but, I liked them; if they can be found.
E. C. Tubb
Dumarest of Terra series
Published in the 70's (I don't know if they have been reprinted.)

[Mordakai Slivermoon]

Well so far Zero is the only one who has recommended something I havent read already. :(

You might want to check out Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series. Quite an interesting 7 book series. You might also like his Bio of a Space Tyrant series as well. Then there is his Xanth novels which are also pretty good. :happy34:

[Kirsty]

I liked the Coldfire Trilogy by C.S.Friedman

- Black Sun Rising
- When True Night Fallss
- Crown Of Shadows

[Minelle Tempest]

Ah, books - finally a topic I can post an opinion on. ;)

Authors I've really enjoyed reading are:
- Steven Erikson: Malazan Book of the Fallen series (I think that's what it's called). - Wonderfully complex with many plots and subplots, but without the tales being messy or hard to follow.
First book: Gardens of the Moon.

- Melanie Rawn: Exiles series. - Set in a world where women are the dominant gender. About two mage factions at odds, sort of.
First book: Ruins of Ambrai.

- Janny Wurts: Wars of Light and Shadow series. - Beautifully spun tale about two brothers and matters of what is good vs evil.
First book: Curse of the Mistwraith.



Those are books that I wouldn't hesitate to suggest to anyone, the following only for those that don't mind graphic descriptions about, uhm, (painful) physical experiences of a professionally amourous nature (oblique, I know - ask me ingame or something for more details).

- Jacqueline Carey: Don't think the series has a name, but the books are, in order: Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen and Kushiel's Avatar. - Set in a country where "love as thou wilt" is the general motto, an unlikely heroine becomes involved in a political plot against the throne.