[quote]florelius wrote:
another great fantasy series is “wheel of time” by robert jordan.[/quote]
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I can’t believe I am writing this, but I am a total closet nerd…luckily it is just the internet.
Wheel of Time is a great series and books are still being published for it…although Robert Jordan has written everything, it is being put together by someone else now that he has passed on.
Also I really enjoy:
The Dark Elf series by RA Salvatore
The Belgariad and The Mallorean by David Eddings
Lord Of The Rings
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
I was a total fantasy geek when I was a teen Lol. I read a lot of fantasy novels and I played magic and warhammer. but I lost my interest in it when I was 17-18 years old. I started then to read marxist theori and more political novels. and I started to train. so now I am a marxist geek who lifts hehe.
RA Salvatore and James Rollins are my two favorites. Salvatore is a great fantasy writer and Rollins has some great action novels. Rollins’ books are very interesting because they are a fictional story and characters based mixed in with real history and technology that borders science fiction. I have read all of his books and haven’t been disappointed yet.
Actually, it just occurred to me, the answer to the OP’s original question.
Richard Matheson. You want vampires, you’ve got “I am Legend,” you want haunted house, you’ve got “Hell House,” heck, you want a feel good christy story, you’ve even got “What Dreams May Come.”
His short stories, though, are where all the good stuff is. Half of the good twilight zone episodes were based off his stories.
Stephen King’s The Stand is still one of the best books I’ve ever read. The walking dude shows up in another one of his books, Eye of the Dragon…I think.
The Strain by guillermo del toro is brilliant and a proper vampire story.
The latest Stephen King book, Under the Dome was quite good as well - best thing he’s written in the past 10 years in my opinion.
If you’re going to read the Dark Tower series, pretend that its only 4 books long and that the author died after the end of Wizard and Glass - the last three utterly kill the series.
Check out Let the Right One In, by John Lindqvist. Great take on the vampire, but is definitely more than a “vampire novel”. I like to think of it as the cure for Twilight.
If you are looking for good vampire books that don’t suck like Twilight, I would check out the ‘Vampire Chronicles’ by Anne Rice. Very well written and enjoyable.
Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn is a recent favorite for me. It’s a fantasy, but it has some macabre elements to it, and it’s far from the standard elves shit (although I like that stuff too).
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Ooooh, the shivers![/quote]
You know, this man logged onto T-Nation and posted a thread about getting his fiction on and you come with Scooby Doo? If you can’t take made-up stories about vampires seriously … is there anything you will take seriously?
[quote]redstar144 wrote:
try the turn of the screw by henry james, mary shelleys frankenstein, bram stokers dracula or dorian grey by oscar wilde[/quote]
…addendum…if you are over the age of 55.[/quote]
Well, they are good books, at least Dracula and Frankenstein are…
[quote]florelius wrote:
another great fantasy series is “wheel of time” by robert jordan.[/quote]
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I can’t believe I am writing this, but I am a total closet nerd…luckily it is just the internet.
Wheel of Time is a great series and books are still being published for it…although Robert Jordan has written everything, it is being put together by someone else now that he has passed on.
Also I really enjoy:
The Dark Elf series by RA Salvatore
The Belgariad and The Mallorean by David Eddings
Lord Of The Rings
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
Yep I am a total closet nerd.[/quote]
x2 Emders game. The whole saga actually.
you want sci-fi, heinlein is good. Larry Niven’s Ringworld series.
