Fantasy Junkies discussion

List your top 5. =D

I have to think about mine...hehe, I know, I know...I made the thread. But I'm just wondering what are all your fav fantasy books.

His Dark Materials
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Lord of the Rings
Xanth series
The Dark Elf Trilogy

yes I know thats cheating :oP

umn...
Legend of Drizzt ((Cause in a way they're all one big story))
DKP's Dragon series
Farseer trilogy
The legend of fire and ice
and... let me think on the fourth one.

Ahhh...I have yet to read The Legend of Fire and Ice.

I expected many people to have Harry Potter on their lists =P. Though I myself didn't actually finish reading Harry Potter (it's hard for me to get into).

I started reading the first one... but never got past chapter one... and My fifth one is the legend of the Necromancer.

Legend of the Necromancer or Chronicals of the Necromancer? I liked Harry potter but not one of my favorites. I'm still thinking on my top 5. I'll get back to you.

Drizzt
shadow moon
sabriel
incarnations of imortality(its kindof fantasy...)
forgotten realms in general

hm.. I think it was Chronicles.

Wait, correction, replace His Dark Materials with The Dark is Rising series. I can't believe that I overlooked those! I've read and reread those books a billion times since I was in 5th grade. Love 'em!

Chronicals of the Necromancer by Gail Z. Martain? I read the first one but have only gotten that far. I loved it too.

I love the mayfair witch chronicles

The second one's good. But I can only wonder what the third one's going to be aboutt.

Ok I think I'm ready, but reserve the right to change my mind.
- Legend of Drizzt series
- Night Angel series
- Starlight and Shadows series
- Chronicals of the Necromacer
- "The Hobbit"

I realized I need to read more fantasy books!

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. =D

we all do! thats why we are here!

Yep! That's the idea!

Hello My name is Eliza, and I am addicted to reading. *grins*

I need more books to i go to the library every weekend and i have cleaned out all the interesting books i swear

You could start on Salvatore.

Legends of Drizzt
demon wars saga
on a pale horse (I need to read the rest of that series some time)
Lord of the Rings
Magician - Feist

not fantasy, but Ender's Game is one of the best books ever written.

Ender's Game was alright. I thought the plot could've moved faster...but I enjoy the protagonist's characterization. =]

Never read it. I've heard of it though, but know nothing about it.

I liked the book. It was very... unique compared to some.

Oops, I meant I read Ender's Game not wrote it. he he.

I think the moderate pace of the book was required to develop the characters properly and set up the twist at the end.

I have a class set of Ender's Game but have yet to read it.

My five in no particular order:

The Hobbit, Tolkien
Tigana, Kay
The Mirror of Her Dreams, Donaldson
Perdido Street Station, Mieville
A Wizard of Earthsea, LeGuin

you need to read it eliza!
what do you like better: enders series or the shadow series?

I think that that's a very hard question to answer.

I think Ender's Game is more Sci-fi than actual fi. XD

for me the lines blur into "FICTION"

practically everything is fiction. The only things that aren't really fiction are information textbooks and the books called non-fiction.

I might read Ender's Game during the Christmas break. That and a book a student lent me - Crank. What is the Shadow Series?

I just read enders game-actually i listened to the audio and I loved it. I am ready enders shadow right now and it is equally as good.

Since then I have also got into Orson Scott Cards Alvin Maker series and I like those a lot too.

I do a lot of audio books because I can download them from the library and listen to them at work...now its kind of an addiction:)

Crank? That horrible book? Ugh... I never liked those books. They were just bad.

i despise sci fi usualy so when my sister tried to get me to read the enders game i refused. i read the first two chapters

It isn't my favorite but I do enjoy some of them.

there is Ender Wiggin, Eliza, then there is Enders shadow, a kid named Bean. he is shorter, weaker, and a lot, lot smarter. he is also what passes for a "best friend" to Ender, and he has his own series.

Read a bit of Crank last night. Story sounds okay so far, but the format is killing me. I might pick a few "poems" off of it to use for U.I.L. though. Why didnt you like Crank, Kataury?

So Olin, is Ender's Game part of the Shadow series then?

Enders game is about the same plot as enders shadow, it is the same story from two different perspectives. But i think the rest of the two different series kind of drift apart, like they are about the same world situation, but different topics i guess...thats what I have gathered so far but I have only read two short stories that came before enders game, enders game and im in the middle of enders shadow.

I have never been into sci fi at all either and would have never read this book, but it was the only book that the library had on audio that my book club at school was reading. As soon as I started reading it I was hooked.

yeah, "game" and "shadow" take place at the same time, and the same place. but follows two different people. i don't think that anybody eles could pull it off, but o.s.c. did. i sujest you read "game" first.

Yes! Somebody is on other than me! I've been rather bored for quite a while...

nice

I know, but then I was alone again.

sorry

hello randomity!

Yes! Wait, no... *sigh* there's never a time when all of us are on at once it seems....

darn

1 Harry Potter Series
2 Hobbit
3 LOTR
4 Crown Conspiracy
5 Mistborn

and again.

hi im on but not for long. sorry !