Your top five fantasy books/series

**Malcor Sylverwood** · May 6th, 2003

I think mine are...

1. Hobbit/Lord of the Rings -- Tolkien
2. Dark elf trilogy -- Salvatore
3. Wheel of Time -- Jordan
4. Sword of Truth -- Goodkind
5. Dark Tower -- King

So, what about the rest of you?

**dark fuschia** · May 25th, 2003

Mine are the following, although it's always subject to change:

Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
Sogn of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin
Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan
Stardust, Neil Gaiman
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

**Cloric the Cleric** · June 20th, 2003

Hm....Let's see...In no particular order....

Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan
The Axis Trilogy (don't know the actual name of it), Sara Douglas
Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien (Shut up, Malcor)
The Rhapsody Books, Elizabeth Hayden
The Spellsong Cycle, L E Modesitt, Jr.

There are many, MANY others, but those are some of the ones I think I could read and re-read and be happy.

**epiph** · June 24th, 2003

also in no particular order:

the darkangel trilogy -- meredith ann pierce
lord of the rings/hobbit -- jrr tolkien
chronicle of narnia -- cs lewis
the heralds of valdamar -- mercedes lackey
and, grudgingly, the wheel of time -- robert jordan

**LaughingTurtle** · June 25th, 2003

WOT - RJ
Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin
Farseer/Live ship trilogy(s) - Robin Hobb
LOTR - J.R.R. Tolkien
(can't decide on a fifth, got a bunch of stuff that's really good...but well can't make up my mind)

**Anita Blake** · June 25th, 2003

Originally Posted by epiph

also in no particular order:

the darkangel trilogy -- meredith ann pierce

that name sounds hauntingly familiar. did she write a cool book about unicorns? a unicorn named Jann, maybe? with wyrms and such, it was really good, i remember reading it a million times when i was young, but i sem to have lost it since my childhood....

*goes off to look that up*

i can't think of any favorites ATM. maybe later....

edit: ahhh, found it, it was called Birth of the Firebringer, and apparently it's part of a trilogy. i must track that down. it was a really really good book, and i'd reccomend it to people.

oh wow, thanks epiph, just mentioning meredith ann pierce brought back a whole flood of really good memories of that book.

**epiph** · June 25th, 2003

i dunno...i've only read the darkangel trilogy.

**epiph** · June 30th, 2003

heh, i only just noticed your edit, anita.

i'm glad to know the rest of her books are good too, because the darkangel trilogy is one of the those books that i come back to again and again and the images just haunt me all the time. it's so good.

**Nachtnoir** · December 27th, 2004

I can only put 5 on here?

Wow this is hard

1. Lanhkmar - Fritz Lieber
2. The Eternal Champion - Michael Moorcock
3. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
3. Discworld - Terry Pratchett
4. The Dark Tower - Stephen King
5. Chronicles of the Black Company - Glen Cook

Yeah, that's 5.

**Apoc** · December 28th, 2004

No1-The Malazan Book Of The Fallen by Steven Erikson
No2-A Song Of Ice and Fire by GRRM
No3-The Lord Of The Rings by Tolkien
No4-Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan
No5-Tales Of The Otori by Lean Hearn

other notable mentions-Sword Of Truth, Cloud Of Sparrows and the Iliad

**Bobb** · December 28th, 2004

Originally Posted by Apocalypse

No1-The Malazan Book Of The Fallen by Steven Erikson
No2-A Song Of Ice and Fire by GRRM
No3-The Lord Of The Rings by Tolkien
No4-Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan
No5-Tales Of The Otori by Lean Hearn

other notable mentions-Sword Of Truth, Cloud Of Sparrows and the Iliad

This is kinda sad, (but good for me as I'm learning about other fantasy books and authors), but until I started recently reading the Wheel of Time books, the only other fantasy books I've ever read and voraciously followed was/is the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King which I started reading in high school. I once read that he said he didn't expect to finish to live to finish the story. I was so pissed when I heard that!

But, I'm in and have to follow it as far as it goes.... *sigh*

**Malcor Sylverwood** · December 28th, 2004

Originally Posted by Bobb

...Dark Tower Series by Stephen King which I started reading in high school. I once read that he said he didn't expect to finish to live to finish the story. I was so pissed when I heard that!

But, I'm in and have to follow it as far as it goes.... *sigh*

Its finished

-Malcor "Gunslinger" Sylverwood

**cobaltknight** · January 14th, 2005

1. The Hobbit; Lord of the Rings; Silmarillion - written by God, I mean, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

2. All of the Shannara series; Word and Void series; Magic Kingdom of Landover series - written by Terry Brooks

3. Demon Wars series; Crimson Shadow series - written by R.A. Salvatore

4. Macroscope; Apprentice Adept series; Incarnations of Immortality; Magic of Xanth series; Shade of the Tree - written by Piers Anthony

5. Stormbringer; Elric of Melniboné - written by Michael Moorcock

'nuff said.

Count Cobalt, the Blue Knight

**Bellaedonna** · February 12th, 2005

Hi, all.

My top five are....

Rhapsody Series, Elizabeth Hayden
Chronicles, Dragonlance -- M. Weis and T. Hickman
Kinslayer Wars, Dragonlance -- M. Weis and T. Hickman
Landover Series, Terry Brooks
Thomas Covenant Series, Stephen Donaldson

I also love Raymond E. Feist and David Eddings. LotR is a given, but I need to reread the series because I read it last when I was 13.

I have read the WoT series, and I guess that's what prompted my registering here. I noticed that WoT seems to be in almost everyone's top five, but frankly, I am so frustrated with the man, I could scream. I've read every book--thousands and thousands of pages--and he had me hooked through, oh.. probably Crown of Swords. After that, I read out of duty because I knew the characters--or at least the 25-ish main characters--and I had invested so much time in the books, I had to get closure on it.

Well, I am about 2/3 of the way through Crossroads at Twilight... and still, no Rand. There are so many characters, and the storyline is so convoluted regarding Aes Sedai politics, that I am ready to scream. I finally put the book down and let it collect dust on the balcony. I need closure on this thing, but I'm not willing to torture myself anymore to get it.

Any thoughts? IMO, Mr. Jordan, END THE WORLD ALREADY!!! or at least give us a nice predictable, good-guy-won finale.

Bellaedonna

**Darth Everhate** · February 12th, 2005

5- LOTR series - Tolkien
4- Wheel of Time series - R.Jordan
3- Dragonlance Chronicles - Weis/Hickman
2- The Dark Elf Chronicles (aka anything written about Driz'zt)
- R.A. Salvatore
1- The Elric series - M. Moorcock