Anyone read any good books lately?

Welp my last couple of days i've been reading alot of my older books, since the authors of the two main series I read are coming out with thier next book soon. I was wondering if anyone had some comments on some other good fantasy series out thier. Currently I'm stuck on the "Wheel of Time" Series by Robert Jorden, and the "Sword of Truth" Series by Terry Goodkind, both of which a4re very good series i'd recomment to anyone.

Here of late, though I read so fast that I have finsihed both series, in under 7 days. Which is quite fast, the wheel of time series is about a 9000 page series and the sword of truth is more or less the same, but now i'm going to be bored to oct, till the next book of the WOT comes out....

So any suggestions or comments for some good fantasy series?

yes the shannara series by terry brooks, theres like 12-15 books... if your short on time these books are the best "the sword of shannara" and "the vorage of jerle shannara"(witch has 3 books in it- the isle witch, antrax, morgawr)

well firstly theres alrdy a book thread but more importantly i JUST finished the book i was currently reading a few hours ago... and i need a new book too... but i cant just get a random book, i need something id like, the problem is only i know what id like and i cant explain it to others... imma goto the library in the next week and try to get them to help me find a new book(i currently own all the books i read, i got a library card but the library kinda creeps me out)

any suggestions for me? from what yall know about me... (no books on weed you hypocrtical lamers)

DemonBob :The "Song of Ice and Fire" series by George Martin is great.

Thee : Hmm, you might like the Dragonlance stuff.

I've finished reading the last of the Halo series. Fairly good sci-fi books, although what I REALLY want to know is if Halo 2 is coming out for the PC. But overall, pretty good books. I'm gonna start up with Mechwarrior: Dark Age books.

Anybody here interested in Classic Battletech/Mechwarrior?

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any suggestions for me? from what yall know about me...

Comic books?

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Comic books?

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Assassin's Apprentice and the eight subsequent books by Robin Hobb
Daggerspell and the ten subsequent books by Katharine Kerr (the series isn't finished yet, though)
Anything by Michael Stackpole

These are my three favorite fantasy series/authors. The first because it's just such a dark series with the hero getting beat down a lot, which I like in a story. The second because it's a complicated story that spans across thousands of years with multiple reincarnations of the souls of characters trying to settle ancient fueds and troubles. The last because Stackpole is a great technical writer with lots of attention to detail concerning fighting, magic, strategy and politics, but he doesn't write ungodly long series like most of the more popular fantasy authors.

I just started rereading Kerr's series to pass time because I won't have internet access or television at my new apartment until next week. I forgot how much I enjoyed this series.

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson.

Well I can second any recommendations for Lord of the Rings (Tolkien) and A Song of Ice and Fire (Martin).

If you are interesting in series try

The Dragon Knight series by Gordon R. Dickson. The first book is The Dragon and the George and it is complete so far as Mr Dickson died a few years ago. Medievel fantasy with a sense of humour.

For Terry Brooks, you can read The first three Shannara books, The Sword of Shannara, The Elfstones of..., and The Wishsong of.. These first three are more or less standalones and I consider Elfstones to be one of the 10 best books ever written. Also great by Mr Brooks is the Word and Void triliogy which may turn into Shannare prequels...

For a long series, their is the Eternal Champion series by Michael Moorcock. It is at 50 books and counting. Start with the Elric, Corum or Hawkmoon subscycles and things should be ok.

For a standalone trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gauriel Kay.

By Tad Williams, the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy. First book The Dragonbone Chair. Also by Tad Williams, a new series with the first novel called Shadowmarch

By Stephen Donaldson, Runes of the Earth has begun the third and final chronicle of Thomas Covenant. Read the first chronicle if you haven't already

By Barbara Hambly, the Windrose Chronicles (first book The Silent Tower) and the Asher Chronicles (first book Those Who Hunt the Night)

Standalone scifi and fantasy novels

Hellspark by Janet Kagen
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (sci fi)
The Forge of God by Greg Bear
The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke.
The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams.
The Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson.

great resources for sci fi and fantasy readers
http://www.scifan.com/
http://www.fantasyessentials.net

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I have read a bunch of battletech novels including the first of the new ones, I have enjoyed most of them, especially those by Stackpole. Go read the Warrior trilogy or the first clan trilogy (forgot the name).

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Snape kills dumbledore

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I started reading Freakonomics today. Awesome book.

I started reading "Mijn moeder was een rode vlam" that means "My mother was a red Flame".
that books starts in the dark ages about William Outlaw who lives in Ireland. In the town Kilkenny are alot of rumors that William Outlaw's mother is a wich. she got caught and they burned her. and the story continues but I still have to get through those pages but it's a nice book.

the title, Dutch? because there should have been no way i could understand what it said... yet i did

yay, pidgin!

Intensity by Dean Koontz, im reading Velocity by Dean Koontz at the moment. both good reads if you like the Steven King-type genre.