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fantasyHi and welcome to fantasy!
Why don't we start off with introductions and favourite books and authors?
I am going to be disgustingly unoriginal and say I love the Discworld series to death. I also crush on Lieber's Lankhmar stories pretty hard.
fantasy!Why don't we start off with introductions and favourite books and authors?
I am going to be disgustingly unoriginal and say I love the Discworld series to death. I also crush on Lieber's Lankhmar stories pretty hard.
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Date: 2009-04-14 10:46 am (UTC)Cuz, if you are, my fav books are the Jasper Fforde ones. Specifically Thursday Next. Get lost in a good book, indeed.
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Date: 2009-04-14 01:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-14 02:28 pm (UTC)And then I found out what her books were actually about, and figured I was a few years too old to appreciate them anyway. ;)
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Date: 2009-04-20 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-29 08:36 am (UTC)Never read Lackey, save for her Elfquest short stories, which I found a cut above the rest.
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Date: 2009-04-14 01:24 pm (UTC)Current favorite series is The Second Apocalypse, by R. Scott Bakker. Thoroughly disturbing in a way that makes me want to both run away screaming, and keep reading forever. Simultaneousley. I haven't gotten to read the most recent one yet as I am currently in Japan, which is not very near to Canada, where it was published... sad. But I will get to read it in June! Happy!
Other favorites include pretty much any and all short stories by Neil Gaiman, as well as the Graveyard Book, and Good Omens. Mirrormask and Sandman too, if we're allowed to delve into non-novel fantasy here. ^_^"
Speaking of Good Omens, I love me some Pratchett. Discworld, gotta love it.
Favorite of all time though still stands as His Dark Materials, by Terry Pratchett. I like his newer spinoffs on the series too, especially Once Upon a Time in the North.
Oh, and like every unoriginal fan out there, I followed the Harry Potter series obsessively. Yay!
Recently I've also been into more magical realism type fantasy, like books by Haruki Murakami and Randy Taguchi. I guess maybe you could slip Wickett's Remedy into that category too, but it's only barely outside regular fiction. Still, good book!
I look forward to talking with everyone and eventually being able to make posts when I manage to get an invite. (^_^)v ::peace::
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Date: 2009-04-14 02:33 pm (UTC)Have you read the Lucifer comic?
(Are you on anyone's invite list yet?)
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Date: 2009-04-15 12:06 am (UTC)(No, but apparently all us Open ID people get an invite on the 30th, so I should be good.)
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Date: 2009-04-14 04:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-15 12:03 am (UTC)Can Open ID people edit our comments?
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Date: 2009-04-20 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-15 12:05 am (UTC)So, I somehow managed to write Terry Pratchett instead of Phillip Pullman, even though I know who I meant. X_x
Sorry, was sleepy at the time and writing fast!
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Date: 2009-04-14 02:36 pm (UTC)Current favourite fantasy books include A Song of Ice and Fire (get on with writing, George!), quite a lot by Neil Gaiman, Pratchett (obviously), Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and I will happily admit that I love David Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean, those books were an excellent introduction to the genre.
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Date: 2009-04-14 02:41 pm (UTC)oh hai
Date: 2009-04-14 02:54 pm (UTC)Re: oh hai
Date: 2009-04-14 02:57 pm (UTC)Your pimpage is rusty.
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Date: 2009-04-14 07:48 pm (UTC)Re: oh hai
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Date: 2009-04-14 06:16 pm (UTC)Also a fan of Naomi Novik and Neil Gaiman. Tamora Pierce is the somewhat simplistic eternal feminist fantasy love of my childhood. I still have a big soft spot for Darkover, although I haven't read any in a long time.
Catherynne M. Valente is great, too!
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Date: 2009-04-14 08:19 pm (UTC)But I liked the first Provost's Dog book well enough.
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Date: 2009-04-14 08:55 pm (UTC)Oh, that sums it up just about perfectly :D
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Date: 2009-04-14 08:55 pm (UTC)GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire -- love, love, love
Melanie Rawn's Sunrunner books
Virtually anything by Charles de Lint
The two original DragonLance trilogies (I had such a thing for Raistlin)
David Eddings's Belgariad/Mallorean
Michelle West's Sun Sword books
Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar and Empire series
Two series I love that are fantasy and scifi:
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's Keltiad books
C. S. Friedman's Coldfire trilogy
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Date: 2009-04-14 09:12 pm (UTC)Apart from that, off the top of my head -- favourites include Ursula K. LeGuin, Barry Hughart, China Miéville, Tad Williams and Steven Brust. (but to be honest, I'm a super-lazy reader! it's kinda anathema to say this in a book community, though, isn't it?)
(Also, why are there hardly no female authors in this list? DD: sad.)
(since a few people mentioned him here: David Eddings, hee! I started out with straight-laced fantasy à la David Eddings and loved the Elenium saga to tiny bits!... but sadly, these days, straight-laced non-ironic medieval fantasy makes me want to spork my eyes out. I'm wishing you all the fun in the world with it! but overdose can do that to a person. >_>;)
Currently, I'm reading the Doctrine of Labyrinths series by Sarah Monette and am (pleasantly) surprised that it's so openly and clearly slashy (as in, reads like actual slash! how interesting.) Have just ordered book three of four.
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Date: 2009-04-15 04:46 am (UTC)Isn't LeGuin a lady? ;)
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Date: 2009-04-15 09:52 am (UTC)and, well, she's the *only* lady in that list. Which is weird, since I like to think I read a lot of woemn authors! *adds Ellen Kushner for good measure*
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Date: 2009-05-19 01:45 pm (UTC)Yay! Another Monette fan. I just finished the last book earlier in the month. It's probably one of my favorite series. I love the characters and all of their issues (which she has absolutely no problems talking about).
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Date: 2009-04-17 08:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 07:24 pm (UTC)Tamora Pierce, Neil Gaiman - Good Omens, Philip Pullman, Jasper Fforde - Thursday Next series (do these count as fantasy?), Ursula K Le Guin - only just started reading the Earthsea books over the last few months and love them, Karen Miller, obviously HP, CS Lewis... I could go on!
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Date: 2009-04-21 03:43 pm (UTC)We obviously must never meet, or the universe might be destroyed.
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Date: 2009-04-21 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-01 04:56 am (UTC)Naomi Novik
Charles DeLint
Neil Gaiman
Harry Potter
Tamora Pierce
CS Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy and Magister series
The original Dragonlance books
RA Salvatore's Drizzt series
Robin McKinley
Patricia McKillip
LOTR
CS Lewis
And there are about a million more, but my brain is too tired to think at the moment.
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Date: 2009-05-01 08:56 pm (UTC)I also love Charles de Lint's Newford books, Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy, ASoIaF by George R.R. Martin, most series by Robin Hobb, Guy Gavriel Kay's alterna history/fantasy (The Sarantine Mosaic, The Lions of Al-Rassan, A Song for Arbonne), and I have an everlasting weakness for Anne Bishop's Black Jewel Trilogy. Straight to the id, that goes. Much love for Discworld, especially the books with the witches. Granny Weatherwax is my hero.
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Date: 2009-05-03 01:08 am (UTC)Favourite fantasy writers and books? Diane Duane, Lois McMaster Bujold, Terry Pratchett, Guy Gavriel Kay, David Gemmell, David Eddings (earlier books anyway! *g*), Tamora Pierce's Circle series and her Aly books (I don't like Alanna a whole lot), Tolkien, and I will admit to liking Harry Potter, but only as a sort of looking-back-on-childhood thing, since I was 11 when the first one came out. I read Scott Lynch's "The Lies of Locke Lamora" over the last couple of days, and I love that, too! I'm also mad on fantasy and SF in other media.
*uses shiny Elenium icon* :D
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Date: 2009-05-03 05:26 am (UTC)Naomi Novik would have to rank up there, and I've just discovered a series I'm really enjoying: Michelle Sagara's Chronicles of Elantra. It's a bit more plotty and intricate than a lot of epic-style sword and sorcery, and the magic is incredibly complex.
And of course, the standards: George RR Martin, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett etc.
(Sorry, reposting for html screw up. . .)
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Date: 2009-05-05 02:43 am (UTC)I also love Sergei Lukayenko's Night Watch series
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Date: 2009-05-19 01:50 pm (UTC)I have a new interest in the steampunk genre as well, but I've yet to find any books I really enjoy.