I'm looking for something new and interesting to read. I'll read just about anything, as long as it's fiction, and I'm especially interested in science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. Adherence to these genres isn't important - I'm just looking to add to my list. Thanks!
2007-02-25 15:42:28 · 12 answers · asked by Chaenis 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Robin Hobb's books are fantastic fantasy books. Her first three trilogies are all related; the Farseer Trilogy, the Liveship Traders Trilogy and the Tawny Man trilogy. The Farseer and the Tawny Man are about the same people. There are magics, including the Wit, a despised magic, allowing one to bond with an animal. The first series is about a royal bastard, who becomes an assassin, with the Wit.
The last one is set fifteen years later, that time having been taken up in the Liveship Traders, and Fitz, the Witted assassin, returns from a life alone with a different identity to Buckkeep castle, the royal castle he grew up in.
The second trilogy is set far to the south of Buckkeep, at the 'Cursed Shores'. It can be read seperately, as all the characters are different but for a small acception that you don't find out is a person from the first trilogy until you read the third trilogy.
Her next trilogy is completely different. It's called the Soldier's Son Trilogy. They are about a boy who, as the second son born, is to be a soldier, like his father. There are plainspeople, who can use magic, but iron, I think it is, takes their magic from them. I'm only half way through the first book, but my brother says they're great. She hasn't published the third one yet.
She also writes under the name Megan Lindholm. I'm just reading one of her books, the Reindeer People, and it's fantastic, also a fantasy.
Some other good fantasies:
Ian Irvine is supposed to be a great author, I haven't read his books but my brother has, and he has the same taste as me (fantasy, especially dungeons and dragons and such; like you, I also enjoy science-fiction and horror). He has three trilogies too, the second set a hundred years after the first, and the last ten years after the second. I think there are monsters and a war between them and humans or something...
And another good series is the Earth's Children series, by Jean Auel. They aren't really fantasy, but has that touch to it that I think makes many fantasy lovers enjoy. Anyway, it's set back just not long after the last ice age. A tall, white girl, Ayla, is taken in by a healer, I think it was, in a clan of short, bow-legged people. At first, the clan doesn't accept her, bit eventually they do. They have spirit animals, or something like that, and hers turns out to be one only the strongest of men have. That's just the first book, but she gets turned out of the clan, and various things happen to Ayla in the following books. They're great.
I hope these suggestions help! Good luck in your reading!
2007-02-25 16:15:51 · answer #1 · answered by Eloise 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really liked The Ghost of the Cavalier. Id heard a lot about it and I hope(and hear rumors)that the author is writing a sequel, which I hope. I liked it because of the way there was a twist at the end I hadn't expected. If it's not on the book shelves you can probably order it through a book store, or Amazon.com.
2007-02-25 15:49:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm a die confusing technology Fiction and fantasy Fan The e book that all started this type became "The Hobbit", the precursor to the "Lord of the rings" trilogy by JRR Tolkien. i'd say that "starting place" by Issac Assimov is up there as well-known Sci-Fi novel. I study for amusement and relax, so after arduous maximum Sci-Fi, I now study truly some Westerns. In that form you could't beat "The Sacketts" or some thing else by Louis Lamour. yet when I had to %. one e book as my well-known it will be "The agency" by John Grisham.
2016-12-04 23:14:43 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a lot of favorite books written by Anne McCaffrey. She writes really exciting dragon books. Also another author that writes a series called the Dragon Jousters, is Mercedes Lackey. You should check these authors out if you are into dragon books like me! ♥
2007-02-25 15:47:54 · answer #4 · answered by Sazziable 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Twilight and its sequel New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
all of Tamora Pierce books
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes books
Terry Goodkind books
all of these are great authors. happy reading
2007-02-25 15:50:47 · answer #5 · answered by ~Page Turner~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. most amazing story I ever read.
if you like fantasy read Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind.
2007-02-25 15:50:07 · answer #6 · answered by brian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For fantasy, check out the re-release of the Robert E. Howard Conan stories. They are great.
“Howard’s writing seems so highly charged that it nearly gives off sparks.”
–STEPHEN KING
Lot's of reviews on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345461517?ie=UTF8&tag=luckisforsuck-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345461517
2007-02-25 16:34:14 · answer #7 · answered by data_disaster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd have to say "1984" and "Brave New World." Both talk about a dystopian future, which is my area of specialization for my major.
Both are great books, however, "1984" is more doom and gloom, if you like that sort of thing.
2007-02-25 15:50:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Laurell K. Hamilton -- the whole Anita Blake vampire hunter novels they are really great!!!!
2007-02-25 16:04:48 · answer #9 · answered by suzanne w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Burned by Elle Hopkins she finds a way to relate to just everyone using one person, it made me cry because its so sad.
2007-03-01 05:28:10 · answer #10 · answered by Princess Ai 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋