Fantasy litterature

[WeekendWarrior]

are you guys into fantasy litterature?
if so, what fantasy book is your favorite? favorite writer?

 

[ATHALLUS]

Dragon Lance (which I heard that somebody I can't remember who is supposedly doing a concept album based on those books.) D & D and Stephen King used to be my favorite writer, but now I'd have to say George Lucas.

 

[ATHALLUS]

Oh yeah, I almost forgot J.R.R. Tolkien and anything he wrote.

 

[dragonmaiden]

Apart from Tolkien..of course...I too love the Dragonlance books. Alot of BG fans do I guess as they voted for them to write a song based on them for Night at the Opera... The Soulforged was the result!
I am also into David Eddings and Raymond Feist..have read all their stuff.

 

[WeekendWarrior]

personally i like the lord of the rings trilogy by john ronald reuel tolkien. i think it is the best book trilogy out there. it's a masterpiece. it's a HUGE story, and it is so well written.
i love the way tolkien writes.
tolkien is just incredible!
i love the book "silmarillion" as well, but the story is very complicated and difficult. some people will say it is a "heavy" book to read.

 

[Symphony]

I'm currently reading the " Sword of Truth" series of books by Terry Goodkind. I'm on the 2nd book "Stone of Tears"

I'm also a fan of David Gemmil, David Eddings, Raymond Feist and others too!

 

[dragonmaiden]

I agree The Silmarillion is very difficult to read...I persevered but it took me ages and unlike Lord of the Rings I've never read it again
Symphony...what do you think of the Sword of Truth series so far..my mate has just lent me them all...I haven't started them yet

 

[Symphony]

Wizards First Rule is a really good start to a series. One of those "can't put the book down" jobs, if you know what I mean.

So far the second one is also a pretty good read.....early days in this one though.

 

[Metal-Adam]

I can't say I read much other than medical textbooks at the moment.

When I get the chance I tend to read horror. Guy N. Smith has written some trashy classics like "Night of the Crabs", "The Undead" and "Throwback".

I even went as far as naming my first band "Black Fedora" after one of his books!!

 

[Symphony]

Good afternoon Dr. Adam!

 

[Metal-Adam]

Hi Steve,

It's a bit quiet on the wards today so I thought I'd catch up with the forum.

It's growing by the hour!

 

[Symphony]

It's the place for intelligent metal discussion matey....just the way we like it. Incidentally....we should be on the guest list for the Threshold gig next week

 

[Metal-Adam]

Guests at the gig - wahey! It's almost like being famous!

There are some great threads up here. I just have to watch my typing errors.

 

[Symphony]

Just returning to the "fantasy literature" thread again.....another author worth taking a look at is Elizabeth Haydon. I picked up a book of hers called...wait for it...."Rhapsody" (no prizes for guessing what drew me in!). Needless to say it's not an adventure about Luca and Fabio but it's an interesting read nonetheless!

 

[ATHALLUS]

I neglected to say this earlier but I remembered, so, here goes: I've read the entire serires of "The Chronicles Of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis. Very good too! Did anybody know that he and J. R. R. Tolkien were very good friends? As a side note, I also like the Power Metal band Narnia too!

 

[Symphony]

I can't believe we didn't mention Narnia.....The Lion. the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, Magicians Nephew etc Fantastic stories!

 

[ATHALLUS]

I agree. I just had to read one book then another then another to see what happened.
Before I knew it I had finished the entire series in about 3-4 days!!!! Very good and classic fantasy literture!!!

 

[Symphony]

Excellent.......they certainly capture the imagination don't they?

 

[ATHALLUS]

Oh yeah. Very much.

 

[WeekendWarrior]

yeah. the narnia books are great, and the television serie too!
i must say that i very much enjoy the narnia tv serie. got to love the theme!


NP: narnia - trapped in this age