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[ex_pippin880]

Hi 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.

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[senmut]

I'm cheesy in my fantasy love. Various parts of the Forgotten Realms series, for instance. Saberhagen's Swords books. Dragonlance, the originals and a few extended novels/anthologies.

[holyschist]

Pratchett, definitely--I just finished Nation, which was amazing and very different from Discworld.

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!

[holyschist]

Oops, sorry, that was supposed to be a reply to the main post. This theme still confuses me!

[foxfinial]

Tamora Pierce is my childhood love too. I still have the Alanna and Daine books, though I tried reading the Trickster duology recently and found it quite uninteresting.

[holyschist]

Yeah, I...really didn't like it. And a lot of the racial aspects squigged me out (I know Aly-the-perfect is Alanna's daughter and all, but as a book...it really deserved to be Dove's story).

But I liked the first Provost's Dog book well enough.

[lian]

Tamora Pierce is the somewhat simplistic eternal feminist fantasy love of my childhood.

Oh, that sums it up just about perfectly :D

[ex_pippin880]

So much kids' fantasy I missed out on reading and now can't touch with a ten-foot pole! :(