I'm in the mood for some High Fantasy, what should I read?

[Joe Molotov]

Moorcock? Feist? Martin? Somebody else? I've already read as much Jordan as I can stand back in high school, I bailed on the WoT after Book 5. I've got A Game of Thrones already from about 5 years ago when I meant to read it, but then I only read the first chapter and I never came back to it. I'm thinking about starting on it right now, but my brother has a bunch of Feist that I could borrow also.

[MrAngryFace]

Feist is entry level light stuff. I love it, but its for when youre too lazy to read better stuff like Erikson, Martin and the like

[Joe Molotov]

Too be honest, I kinda feel like something quick and dirty.

[MrAngryFace]

Feist is good for quick, you can burn through his stuff fast.

[MrAngryFace]

I hope its not as light as the sunwell manga lol

[MrAngryFace]

The manga isnt that good. Lots of empty pages with really manufactured manga art. Every once in a while someone goess ARGHHHHH or UNFFFF or STOP! or NO!. I bought the big Manga Sunwell Trilogy TOME ultimate hardcover edition just to have it cause I grabbed the two TCG Alliance/Horde full print releases as well as the official TCG Art Book

[MrAngryFace]

I dunno why I did it. I havent looked into the graphic novel versions of Magician yet. I've seen em but I dunno, I kinda like the stories without pictures working against my expectations.

[muckhole]

I tripped over this series a few years back:



It's pretty light reading, very pulpy, but pretty entertaining. It was the guy's first crack at writing and it shows, but he gets progressively better with each book. A bit more light sci-fi than fantasy, but really enjoyable if you want something with decent action that's a quick read.

[Cormacaroni]

The best non-Erikson fantasy I've read recently is The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Very approachable, fairly well-written, great characters and story.

[Joe Molotov]

I started reading Magician: Apprentice this afternoon.

[MrAngryFace]

Robin Hobb and Gregory Keyes are also very good authors

[Tauntaun]

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

 


DO IT!

[Phoenix Dark]

Martin (ASOIAF) is definitely fuck awesome

I'm gonna check out Feist. Something more light than Martin/Erikson sounds cool

[MrAngryFace]

Also check out Robin Hobb and Gregory Keyes

[Tucah]

Feist is nice and light, I breeze through the stuff quickly.

I love Martin though. He was my first exposure to fantasy stuff, and I just couldn't put A Game of Thrones down when I got it.

[MrAngryFace]

Feist rocks cause if you feel like skimming you can and it all still works, but if you feel like reading there's still a lot of detail to his scenes.

Robin Hobbs stuff is on par with Feist easily, and worth looking into.

Gregory Keyes I would say is closer to Erikson. Both write some hardcore fucking characters.

[Tucah]

Been craving some new fantasy, gonna look into those two authors.