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Saxx
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That good is he?
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Mantyluoto
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Location: Somerset, UK
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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i enjoy the other two series but they are not a patch on the Sparhawk ones.
and in fact i only ordered them because i thought they were prequels to the Sparhawk books and i was majorly disappointed when they turned out not to be. |
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Drizzt
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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Go find out..!! And you should like Silk as well. Cool character.
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Max Power
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Drizzt wrote: | A David Eddings fan? A real one? 
Ok, the Sparhawk books I can understand as I enjoyed them myself, kind of, but PLEASE tell me 'The Dreamers' isn't just 'not doing it' but is actually making you vomit. Awful, awful writing.
If you haven't already, read 'The Belgariad'. |
I'm afraid that I have to agree with you on this, Drizzt. The Dreamers series is too full of 'clever' jokes, twee language, and it feels a little too self-congratulory for me. And the story just ain't that good. Which is a shame, as I was a big Eddings fan in my teenage years.
Silk is one of my favourite characters from the Belgariad, but there's no-one in the latest series who I really like. Shame, really. 
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Drizzt
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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There's nothing to like in the latest series. Horrid.
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Farseer
Joined: 04 Sep 2004
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Location: Cardiff, UK
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I had read lord of the rings and the hobbit but wasn't really into reading that much until i read dawnthief, recommended by saxx in about 2001/2002. after that i was hooked. |
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Saxx
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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I hooked him up! I couldn't keep a book like that to myself, so i got my boy farseer into it!
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jolinare
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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dawnthief, actually.
not the first fantasy novel i'd ever read, but a darn sight more acessable than lord of the rings. |
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CrazySlyHawk
Joined: 28 May 2007
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Location: Galway
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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I totally agree w/ dolinare.
All tht stuff in the hobbit and lord of the rings seemed very unentertaining.
Dawnthief jumped in and I was hooked. |
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skandranon
Joined: 25 Feb 2008
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Location: north east England
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| Not strictly speaking fantasy i suppose but Patrick Tilleys Amtrak Wars got me hooked in a big way then David Gemmell did the rest. |
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OLD NEW GUY
Joined: 10 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:11 am Post subject: |
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| The lion the witch and the wardrobe...hooked me as a kid. |
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Auum
Joined: 19 Mar 2008
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Location: England
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:17 am Post subject: |
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Well, i started reading the GAP series by Stephen Donaldson which got me into SCI-FI / Fantasy, then i went over to read Dawntheif. So those two books really got me into Fantasy
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Deornoth
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I was going to say 'The Hobbit' but, thinking back, would actually have to say that it was either Alan Garner's 'Elidor' or Joan D. Vinge's 'LadyHawke' (so much better than the film!) that got me hooked. Happy times... 
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wigwam
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| I used to read whatever Conan books I could get my hands on from the local library as a youngster but I think the seminal ONE book was Magician by Feist. |
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Max Power
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| wigwam wrote: | | I used to read whatever Conan books I could get my hands on from the local library as a youngster but I think the seminal ONE book was Magician by Feist. |
Pity that he seemed to peak with that book - I really enjoyed it, but the rest of his series never lived up to this. The best was the Empire series, which of course Janny Wurts worked on.
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