Yeah, big SF&F reader. Not so much recently due to job and other commitments. Haven't read the AD&D/ licensed stuff for a while. Current favs in the genre would be Steven Eriksons Malazan books and George Martins Song of Ice and Fire books. Discworld is a perrennial favourite as well of course.
Back when I did read the TSR books, the only ones that were good were the Legends, Chronicles, the trilogy that started with Azure Bonds and RA Salvatores stuff, upto Starless Night (at which point I pretty much gave up on Faerun).
-- Sometimes, the path less travelled is less travelled for a reason.
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R.A. Salvatore seems to be the forerunning author in TSR, but funny I have not read any of his books. I don't think I avoided his books because I thought he was any bad, but I think his plot settings and character classes did not attract my attention.
By the way did you know that Wizards of the Coast is the new publisher for the books that used to be under TSR.
Wizards of the Coast bought TSR a long time ago. That's why the Planescape setting was introduced to AD&D. WOC being a strongly Christian company did not approve of the references to angels and devils etc in the game, so they created planescape to address that issue. That's why the whole Baatezu and Tanarri thing was invented. I used to work for a gaming store a long time ago, and during the dead times I would occassionally read some of the novels. The Dragonlance series was definately the best.
"If it were beneficial, their father would produce children already circumcised from their mother. Rather, the true circumcision in spirit has become profitable in every respect." -Jesus, from the Gospel Of Thomas
Yes, I agree, the DragonLance series are the best. The tales are so yummy. The Forgotten Realms are good too, they're basically in the same parameters as DragonLance, since they're both AD&D.
Oh, WOC kinda sucks with the printing with some of the books, though not all. TSR had better prints on some of the trilogies in the Forgotten Realms series, better artwork, better cover (even if it's still paperback), AND most importantly, bigger FONT size! Man! LOL! When I bought the WOC print of the Moonshae Trilogy, the font was probably like 5 times smaller than on the TSR print. I literally had to squint.
Current favs in the genre would be Steven Eriksons Malazan books and George Martins Song of Ice and Fire books
MMMMM yes. So in love am I with the Malazan books. I've only been able to get my hands on them through the fourth one (I think). I wish they would just be rereleased as a giant set.
GRRM is good too, but I had to wait so long for this most recent one that I had forgotten much of what happened before, and I didn't really feel like rereading the 5000 pages of previous books to remember.
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Warriors. Written by Erin Hunter. Okay, I DONT CARE WHAT YOU OTHER PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THE SERIES, Warriors ROX! Even though I am a bit old to read them...
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Originally posted by GamerQueen Of the GamerNerds: Warriors. Written by Erin Hunter. Okay, I DONT CARE WHAT YOU OTHER PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THE SERIES, Warriors ROX! Even though I am a bit old to read them...
I saw a dood in his 40s reading a DragonLance novel in the subway the other day. Nobody's too old to read fantasy novels in my opinion.
He just might. But it does look like he's wrapping things up.
My personal favorite fantasy would be Tad Williams' trilogy "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn." Unlike most other fantasy epics, it had a beginning, a middle, and most importantly, an end. More fantasy authors should look beyond their paychecks and their overactive imaginations and see that sometimes a well-written, shorter epic is best.
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Snowcrash my friend, I noticed that you said that you like Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. Well, here's a little taste of things to come, enjoy
