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Void Dragon · 6th May 2006, 06:38 PM

My personal must reads (I won't elaborate on them, because it's been done in posts above)

Mind you: they're only books I've read, so, too bad if Erikson or George R. R. Martin aren't included, it's not that I don't like them, just that I haven't read them...

J.R.R. Tolkien: This was my start in the fantasy-genre, and I think it's the only author you should in fact start with...

Tad Williams' "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn": very good book, with much different people, whose storylines all come together pretty nicely.
The cultures of Osten Ard however are, in my taste, sometimes bases too much on real cultures from real history (cfr. Nabban = Rome, Hernystiri = Scottish, The Viking-like people of the nord)

6th May 2006, 06:38 PM	#12 (permalink)
Void Dragon Science fiction fantasy Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Belgium Posts: 80	Re: Fantasy Recommendations for the Unenlightened 2 My personal must reads (I won't elaborate on them, because it's been done in posts above) Mind you: they're only books I've read, so, too bad if Erikson or George R. R. Martin aren't included, it's not that I don't like them, just that I haven't read them... J.R.R. Tolkien: This was my start in the fantasy-genre, and I think it's the only author you should in fact start with... Tad Williams' "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn": very good book, with much different people, whose storylines all come together pretty nicely. The cultures of Osten Ard however are, in my taste, sometimes bases too much on real cultures from real history (cfr. Nabban = Rome, Hernystiri = Scottish, The Viking-like people of the nord)