Fantasy book suggestions please

[WorkerCaste]

Terry Brookes has some entertaining series.

Shannara starts off rather derivative of LotR in my opinion, but develops its own voice over time. For light reading, I really enjoy the Landover series (Starting with "Magic Kingdom for Sale") And his "Running with the Demon" series is interesting.

[Lunan]

Love the McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern , I found the Acorna series a little less interesting.

that could be because acorna is light fluff(fun light fluff with very little "hard" sf) of course the third children's book is due soon

[babylonlurker]

for whatever reason i'm on a fantasy book kick lately and i'm asking for suggestions of books or series to pick up

I have enjoyed Raymond Feist's Riftwar saga :
Magician (sometimes a single vol. sometimes : Apprentice/Master vol's)
Silverthorn
A Darkness at Sethanon

and the corresponding Empire saga :
Daughter of the Empire
Servant of the Empire
Mistress of the Empire

Love the McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern , I found the Acorna series a little less interesting.

[OmahaStar]

I'm reading the "Southern Vampire" series now. It's by Charlaine Harris, and starts out with "Dead Until Dark", followed by "Dead in Dallas" and the third one (which I'm reading now) is "Club Dead" ... There are seven books so far, with more on the way.

Short version of the beginning ... The main character, Sookie, is a bartender in a small town in Louisiana, about an hour away from New Orleans.

The Japanese have recently introduced a product called "True Blood" to the world. TB is, well, synthetic blood. Because of its release, the vampires of the world have "come out of the closet" living in the open. They tell the world they have a virus that makes them appear to be dead for three days, and they have allergies to the sun, causing the pigments in their skin to whiten.

Living in this small town, Sookie is fascinated by the idea of meeting a vampire. Unfortunately for her, they always hang out in bigger cities like New Orleans, Kansas City, and the like.

Oh, and Sookie is called "crazy sookie" by the townspeople. She can read peoples' thoughts. She also has a bad habit of saying it, so the people in the town think she's looney. But since her parents died when she was seven, and she's been raised by her grandmother, they just go with it. No one ever believes her.

And then a vampire shows up in her bar, followed by a string of murders.

It is a light-hearted "romantic comedy" with supernatural beings. Vampires, Weres, maenads, and a host of other "fantasy" beings are real ... but they keep quiet about it. The others see the vampires as being lower-level creatures, not worthy of them, because of the whole going public thing.

It's a real page-turner series, and a mixture of genres.

If you get a chance, pick up the first book and see what you think.

[Jan]

Yes, she's got several trilogies set in Valdemar and the two I mentioned were (I believe) the first. She's got a couple of other sets of 'urban fantasies', too, most of which seem to be written with colaborators.

Jan

[Lunan]

Have you read Mercedes Lackey? I highly recommend her 'Arrows of the Queen' and 'Last Herald-Mage' series.

Jan

i seem to keep picking them up in stores reading 2 or 3 pages and putting them down.
aren't most of her books set in 1 world just over the course of several thousand years?

[Jan]

Have you read Mercedes Lackey? I highly recommend her 'Arrows of the Queen' and 'Last Herald-Mage' series.

Jan

[Lunan]

for whatever reason i'm on a fantasy book kick lately and i'm asking for suggestions of books or series to pick up

i have read: LoTR, Wheel of Time, Sword of Truth, Anne Rice, Anne McCaffrey, Heinlein(glory road and some of his later books boarder on fantasy), The Once and Future King, The Deed of Paksarion(misspelled), Inheritance, harry potter, Oath of Swords trilogy(quite good) and others i have forgotten
if you would be kind enough to help me with suggestions please(i think i would prefer series but stand alones are good too