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Adamsm
Which series, from the list you've recommended, would you recommend that I start with?
The 'small' ones are Dragon Jousters (4 books) and Elemental Masters (6); of course, nearly all of the books are between 250-400 pages so yeah heh. Dresden Files is on book 12 now. Potter has the 7 books (and probably the easiest to find). There are 11 actual Warcraft books, and 10 manga books for them right now. And there's 9 books for Young Wizards, which started small, but each book got bigger lol; first book was only about 200 pages, newest one was nearly 500.
But, probably Potter is your best bet, then onto either Dresden or the Lackey books, and if you don't like those, I'd go for the Warcraft ones, then Young Wizards at the end.
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Laihendi
well obviously he does, he's the person being referred to, and you know too.
No they don't.
Post by
Fathios
Going to read
Lord of the Flies
soon. :)
Still surprised the family friendly church groups leave that book readable in school libraries: after all Beelzebub = Lord of the Flies.
That's nothing. My Catholic school literature class
made
us read it. Yeah....
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Queggy
I read a lot of manga, but I want to start to read fantasy novels. With that being said, does anyone know of a series of fantasy novels that would be a good series for a beginner, like myself?
I would highly suggest some of Brandon Sanderson's work, also. Mistborn is a superb series and only 3 books long. Warbreaker is a single book, but still an excellent story. If you are at all intimidated by larger series, that would be a good place to start.
Elantris is also fun.
I also highly recommend The Desden Files by Jim Butcher. It may not be "true" fantasy in what you're thinking of in the fact that it's not sword, sorcery, princesses, and dragons. Think of it as Harry Potter meets Sherlock Holmes. The books are very short and are HUGE page turners.
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Adamsm
Again, I only suggested the smaller series first because of the fact that there are 12 Dresden Files books at the moment heh.
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Monday
I'm going to hurry and slide one or two series in there...
The Shannara books by Terry Brooks are amazing. They are all pretty long, but get amazing.
And the other are the Forgotten Realms novels written by R.A. Salvatore. The man is a fight scene genius.
And as mentioned above, Brandon Sanderson is the man. Warbreaker, Elantris and Mistborn have been some of my favorite books of all time.
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Fathios
just one more:
read anything by Terry Pratchett.
they aren't serious fantasy, being comic in nature, but they are awesome, quick to read, and quite funny.
plus, you don't really have to read them in any particular order, though it does help with certain ones, because most of them are stand-alone but with the same characters, and the rest explain anything you need to know about previous books.
Love Discworld <3
Also, I just got Ender's Game from my friend. I plan to read it, not sure about the sequels.
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Queggy
The Shannara books by Terry Brooks are amazing. They are all pretty long, but get amazing.
*twitch*
Funden. I thought we were friends. But no more. I can not respect someone that loves the Shannara Series.
:(
To give you an idea of why I dislike it so much, my Junior Research Paper topic was comparing the Sword of Shannara to The Lord of the Rings. Terry Brooks plagiarized Tolkien. I have no respect for him as an author. I've heard he got better later on, but I refuse to read any more of his books after I read The Sword of Shannara. It's sad, just sad.
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Adamsm
I liked the Shannara books... have pretty much all of them, plus all the Word and Void series as well. Of course, I don't like Tolkien so take from that what you will.
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Monday
The Shannara books by Terry Brooks are amazing. They are all pretty long, but get amazing.
*twitch*
Funden. I thought we were friends. But no more. I can not respect someone that loves the Shannara Series.
:(
To give you an idea of why I dislike it so much, my Junior Research Paper topic was comparing the Sword of Shannara to The Lord of the Rings. Terry Brooks plagiarized Tolkien. I have no respect for him as an author. I've heard he got better later on, but I refuse to read any more of his books after I read The Sword of Shannara. It's sad, just sad.
Oh, yeah. The first time I read that I thought exactly the same thing.
But later in the series it introduced my favorite thing EVER. AIRSHIPS. MANY OF THEM. I love the new books. And I hardly ever read the old ones.
Perhaps this will make you think better of me... I have Blood Rites coming in sometime in the next two weeks.
I liked the Shannara books... have pretty much all of them, plus all the Word and Void series as well. Of course, I don't like Tolkien so take from that what you will.
Word and Void were some of my favorite urban fantasies (besides Dresden Files/Nightside). Genesis of Shannara were good too.
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Adamsm
I liked the Shannara books... have pretty much all of them, plus all the Word and Void series as well. Of course, I don't like Tolkien so take from that what you will.
Word and Void were some of my favorite urban fantasies (besides Dresden Files/Nightside). Genesis of Shannara were good too.
Genesis wasn't bad... but it wasn't as good as the original works; I mean it was nice to see the actual combination of the two and showing finally how Shannara was formed and all the rest, but it was really jerky and jumped around way too much.
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Adamsm
Plague of the Dead
by Z A Recht, I just finished reading it, and it's an excellent Zombie read, with a twist to the infected, and a very well done one too. They come in two stages; Sprinters, which are berserk humans infected with the virus who are still alive, and the Shamblers, the zombies who reanimate after a Sprinter goes down.
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