Who are your absolute favorite adult fantasy authers (both older and more modern), why and what do you think is their best work?
Who are your absolute favorite adult fantasy authers (both older and more modern), why and what do you think is their best work?
Roger Zelazny – read the Chronicles of Amber and you will understand why.
Mercedes lackey, brandon sanderson, and brent weeks. Night angel trilogy is one of my faves.
What is Lackey’s best?
The obsidian books.
Michael J Sullivan
Tad Williams
I dislike Sullivan’s writing. Want to try out Williams
Robin Hobb & Joe Abercrombie
Man, didn’t like either. I guess it’s a matter of taste
Wow !! Really !!
@Magpie yep I tried Hob’s AA and finished it. Felt very YA and just not that gripping
YA !?! Really!?
In my opinion there is nothing YA in Hobb’s books.
I had that feeling when I re-read Trudi Canavan’s Black Magicians trilogy after discovering Hobb’s work.
Matter of taste indeed !!
I read Hobb’s first trilogy and was very disappointed in it
Mark Lawrence and Joe Abercrombie are the best I’ve read.
I love so many Michelle Sagaura, Barb Hendee, Anne Bishop. Terry BRooks Terry Pratchett Robin Hobbs. And about 50 others. I literally have 1700 fantasy books on my kindle. Yes I know real books are better but I don’t have a big enough house for them
Wow, 1700 is enough for a couple of lifetimes
E readers ftw! I have no space either!
@Yaniv I’ve read almost all of them. I read 2 books a week for the last 20 years. It was kind of a way to check out. I took care of my mother for 7 years. It was my sanity. I’ve really cut down on reading since I got married and finished my masters and am working. But I guess reading was my addiction.
@Spencer I wish we could do like a library where we could borrow books electronically!
@Jean wow, you are good. I’m slower
@Jean totally about the library
I have everything from vampire to urban to classics but then I love historical fiction as well plus lol…addiction and mindfulness I’m a counselor and see slit of addicts I fit right in I guess..lol
I think some books can be but onto a borrowing library but not really any of the good books.
JRRT…Tad Williams…and Brent Weeks definitely knows how to tell a story!
Steven Erikson….lots of imagination in the scene so a reader understands what the protagonist(s), antagonist, and foil characters are facing.
Terry Brooks David Eddings
Brent Weeks and Robin Hobb ❤ Lightbringer for Weeks is my favorite, and I like everything by Hobb but especially Liveship Traders and Tawny Man
For the life of me I could not get into Lightbringer or Assassin’s Apprentice
Ursula Le Guin, George Martin, Susanna Clarke.
Brent weeks and Brandon Sanderson
Robin Hobb is my absolute favourite. I’m yet to find characters or plot that I love more.
I wish I could get into her world or writing
Jim Butcher, Harry Dresden series start at 1.
Patricia Briggs, Mercy Thompson series, start at 1.
I love love love all if those!!!!
I think ill start Dresden Files again.
@Jean I just started 1 again. You get to see parts of characters and details you missed the first time.