Looking for a book to read

[ProtoKun7]

Where did I insult any religion? All I have said is that the book is not entirely true, which it isn't...

Maybe not in your opinion.

 

[monkat]

......Seriously, guys? Why does a topic like this have to blow up into a religious argument? Sigh...

 

[SirCB85]

I´d recomment the Shannara Series by Terry Brooks.

 

[Depravo]

How about the Discworld series?

 

[GundamXXX]

Darren Shan are good books

Eragon book series are pretty good

the Tomorrow series by John Marsden - PS they made a movie of it but appearantly its crap so read the books

and ofcourse The Dark Tower

 

[HaniKazmi]

How could this thread get this far without the wheel of time?
A 14 book fantasy epic with each book being at least 800 pages, with hundreds of charcters and dozens of interwoven storylines.

 

[user0002]

The Just Assassins by Albert Camus.

 

[xist]

The Wheel of Time is soooo over rated.

Try The Lies of Locke Lamorra. It's ace! Also as mentioned previously The Night Angel Trilogy is pretty good, as is George RR Martins Song of Ice and Fire, The Dragonlance series and anything by Robin Hobb.

In reality the Dragonlance series (Chronicles then Legends) are probably your best bet for the sort of thing you're looking for.

 

[hullo8d]

You should checkout John Dies at the End; the e-book used to be free, but was taken down sometime ago. It shouldn't be to hard to locate with some simple searching.

Edit: Forgot to mention Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, if you enjoy John Dies at the End you'd probably like this book as well.

 

[Hells Malice]

A cool series that is fantasy, but tries to stay quite realistic ( and does a great job) is the , ahem, "Monster blood tattoo" series.
3 books, Foundling, Lamplighter, and Factotum
Author is D.M Cornish

Really well written, I really enjoyed the series. Dunno how hard it is to find though, it's not hugely popular to my knowledge.

 

[Shinigami357]

some other books:

Let The Right One In - A vampire story. And, no, not the "twilight" breed of vampire story that's so nauseatingly popular nowadays. The description doesn't do it justice but it's about a boy who is bullied at school and then meets this young vampire.
Trapped - A story about an island, some campers and a pack of cannibals. Oh, and a mad scientist-esque doctor, too.

 

[KingdomBlade]

Forgot about The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan. Amazing books with great stories. It's like about vampires. (not Twilight, but not necessarily Dracula)

 

[GundamXXX]

Havent read it but I heard from my sisterinlaw the Artemis Fowl series are pretty good aswell

 

[HaniKazmi]

Havent read it but I heard from my sisterinlaw the Artemis Fowl series are pretty good aswell

They were good, but they seem to be getting worse. Every second book is almost pure filler, with new characters being introduced and plot lines develping which are then simply ignored after the end of the book.

 

[GundamXXX]

I just remembered, they are fantastic books!

Anything from Matthew Reilly
Fast paced good action books, I loved every single one of them

 

[Ethevion]

So many choices, not sure which one to pick.

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

also an awesome techno-fantasy series is Tad Williams' "Otherland" saga.

 

[Arch Feline]

The Unwritten by Mike Carey and illustrated by Peter Gross is a current fantasy graphic novel. Crossing Midnight is a different story arc by Mike Carey and Jim Fern.

The Elf Chronicles by Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton begins with the Elvenbane. It is a great fantasy if you like elves and dragons and do not mind some twists.

I want to point out that there are many graphic novels that are cutting edge literature.

 

[Rogue_Ninja]

The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazney is a great series and has a bit of everything.

The Chronicles of Amber is group of novels that comprise a fantasy series written by Roger Zelazny. The main series consists of two story arcs, each five novels in length. Additionally, there are a number of Amber short stories and other works.

The Amber stories take place in two, true worlds: Amber, and the Courts of Chaos. Other worlds, including our Earth, are but "shadows" of the tension between the two true worlds. The Courts of Chaos is situated in Shadow at the very edge of Chaos itself. Royals of Amber who have negotiated the Pattern, can travel freely through the shadows. By shifting between shadows, one can appear to alter reality by choosing which elements of which shadows to keep, and which to move between.

Also the Disc World and Xanth series are great. Harry Potter, Eragon,Dune. Are all other examples of great series.

 

[Rhulqdahr]

You should give "The Witcher" saga a try. Written by Andrzej Sapkowski, he is a very popular novelist in Poland. If you'd like to see the universe he's created before taking a book into hands or grabbing an ebook, then try out the computer game (which is also good, but not as good as the books).

It consists of 7 parts so there's a lot to read. Two of them are collections of short stories, and the rest form the main plot. There is everything a good fantasy book should have: interesting characters, dragons and other monsters, wizards, sword-killing and the most important element that makes you don't want to stop reading - great, bawdy sense of humor

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Try it out if you want, as far as I'm concerned, the book was translated to other languages, English as well.