Your FAVOURITE fantasy novel or series o' novels...

[slimykuotoan]

Mine's the Dragonlance Chronicles. Hands down.

[Go0gleplex]

David Eddings Elenium and Mantherion series (Sparhawk) The knight's knight!

[narpet]

My favorite series is Saberhagen's Swords books. The First Book of Swords is my favorite, but I like them all. I love a lot of series, but this was one I read when I was around 12 years old, and it just really worked for me, at the time.

Also love Saberhagen's Berserker series (sci-fi).

[slimykuotoan]

Hmm, I picked a few of the berserker novels up some time ago, but haven't read them yet.

[narpet]

Hmm, I picked a few of the berserker novels up some time ago, but haven't read them yet.

I love the berserker stories. The great thing is that you don't have to worry about reading them in any specific order because most are self-contained. It's a great universe where just about any type of story can take place, and Saberhagen makes great use of that. I do recommend reading the novel "Berserker Wars" if you can get it. It's a really good place to start.

[slimykuotoan]

Cool, thanx narpet. Yeah, I held off from reading them, not knowing if I'd be able to follow the story with later books in the series.

I'll give 'em a go now.

[Go0gleplex]

Read the All the Book of Swords books except the last two of the forgotten swords. His writing for the series after the first five started going downhill and by that time I just could not force myself to follow the disjointed mess he was producing. The swords themselves were awesome as was his weird of the 12 swords. Coinspinner, Stonecutter, Blindsight, Farslayer, etc. (been over 20 years and still remember some of the swords )

[Rigon]

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams and Silmarillians.

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[Go0gleplex]

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams and Silmarillians.

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Those were another set of good books. Bilibiquoc (spelling?) was quite the character with his wolf. Being the hero isn't always as advertised.

[Tadhg]

Gary's first Gord book - the name escapes me at the moment.

Tolkien, somewhat.

But, I really enjoyed Terry Brooks ~ Shannara series.

[Go0gleplex]

Gary's first Gord book - the name escapes me at the moment.

Tolkien, somewhat.

But, I really enjoyed Terry Brooks ~ Shannara series.

Gord the Rogue I think it was Rhu.

[Rigon]

I forgot, Dragonriders of Pern.

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[Rigon]

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams and Silmarillians.

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Those were another set of good books. Bilibiquoc (spelling?) was quite the character with his wolf. Being the hero isn't always as advertised.

I reread the series every few years. It always shows me something new.

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[narpet]

Read the All the Book of Swords books except the last two of the forgotten swords. His writing for the series after the first five started going downhill and by that time I just could not force myself to follow the disjointed mess he was producing. The swords themselves were awesome as was his weird of the 12 swords. Coinspinner, Stonecutter, Blindsight, Farslayer, etc. (been over 20 years and still remember some of the swords )

I agree that the quality went downhill as he went on. The first 3, before he got into the lost swords, were the best.

[clavis123]

Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" (although technically its a novella).

As far as fantasy series, Tanith Lee's "Tales from the Flat Earth".

[Jyrdan Fairblade]

Yikes, asking a tough question. Perhaps Lord of the Rings? I’ve certainly read and re-read those books more than any other. But then there’s Discworld, Pullman’s His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Craft Sequence, The Night Watch series.

[maximus]

The Hawkmoon Series by Moorcock, with Elric a close second.

[Tadhg]

Gary's first Gord book - the name escapes me at the moment.

Tolkien, somewhat.

But, I really enjoyed Terry Brooks ~ Shannara series.

Gord the Rogue I think it was Rhu.

Just found it . . . Saga of Old City

[serleran]

The Dark Tower.

[lobocastle]

David Gemell the Drenai Series and Terry Brooks the Shannara Series

[Fosco]

It always has to go back to the first one, The Hobbit. (Special thanks to my 8th grade English teacher that gave me her personal copy of the Lord of the Rings to read over the summer!)

More recently, the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson.

Also, the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss.

[narpet]

The Hawkmoon Series by Moorcock, with Elric a close second.

Great, great stuff!

[Buttmonkey]

Tolkien for obvious reasons.

Elizabeth Moon's Paksenarrion series (especially the first 3 books, collected as The Deed of Paksenarrion. The last 5 books in the series barely involve Paksenarrion and are not as good as the original trilogy).

Glen Cook's Black Company series, especially the first trilogy.

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time (Crossroads of Twilight sucked and was legitimately reviled, but the series is spectacular as a whole).

Glen Cook's Garrett, P.I. series.

Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern.

[Lurker]

It always has to go back to the first one, The Hobbit. (Special thanks to my 8th grade English teacher that gave me her personal copy of the Lord of the Rings to read over the summer!)

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My intro was my 7th grade summer, but other than that, same same here .... and that set me on the long road that winds throughout my life.

More recent .... good lord, it just hit me that I really haven't dug into any series in over 7 years, .... stupid real life getting in the way of all the fun things!

That said, has to be 'The Wheel of Time' at least up till which ever book came out before 2010/2011ish ... haven't read any of the ones after that .... stupid real life, oh wait I already said that ...

Another that is up there is 'The Walking Drum' ... but it still hurts to much to read it again. I was re-re-rereading it in the hospital with my dad fighting cancer, and couldn't bring myself to finish it after he passed ...

[finarvyn]

Always hard to pick a single one, since my mood changes a lot.

Maybe Zelazny's Amber series?

Other top mentions have to be Howard (Conan, Solomon Kane, Francis X Gordon). Moorcock (Elric, Corum), Tolkien, Burroughs (Barsoom), and Leiber (Fafhrd & Grey Mouser). So hard to pick only one...

[clavis123]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Vance yet!

[serleran]

Really, though, I like Edgar Allan Poe and Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley and Ambrose Bierce, and of course Clark Ashton Smith.

Not sure one could say they had a "series" necessarily.

[Tadhg]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Vance yet!

Right.

And Poul Anderson.

And more that peeps are mentioning!

[Buttmonkey]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Vance yet!

Ugh. I personally am not a fan. I just don't get the appeal.

[Zudrak]

Favorite: Gord the Rogue series by E. Gary Gygax (Saga of Old City, Artifact of Evil, Sea of Death, Come Endless Darkness, Dance of Demons, Night Arrant, City of Hawks)

Just getting into (in the last 5 years) but have enjoyed:
Lankhmar series by Fritz Leiber (I've read Books 1 & 2)
Amber series by Roger Zelazny

Bought, have not read, but longing to read:
Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Conan anthology by Robert E. Howard
The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance