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Another 1 for Feist's Riftwar saga, need to get more of his stuff read but I always worry that when I love one set of books by an author that the rest will just not seem good if they fail to live up to previous standards.
Terry Pratchett's stuff has always kept me going when I can't be bothered reading anything new, I find his approach to writing to be easy on the mind and generally his books just flow, wouldn't say they changed me in any way but still pass the time which is as good a reason to read as any other
Stephen King's Dark Tower series (up to and including book 5, Wizard & Glass) are really good, I especially like the paradox which is created in the third book (if memory serves me correctly) but I felt that the series tailed off as S.K. tried to finish it off before he paps it. The introduction of 'fantasy' things from our world spoiler: just destroyed any sense of 'almost real' which I thought had been built up so well in the previous books.
The Dragonlance chronicles were a good read too, very much in the stereotypical fantasy vein but I enjoyed them very much nonetheless. As a side note, has anyone seen the Dungeons & Dragons film (the first one) - I thought the story of this echoed the Dragonlance Chronicles, if you've not seen the D&D film (lucky you!!!!) then check out the Sci Fi channel, sometimes they're on there, not great film by any standards like but if you've read the chronicles it would be good to hear your views on the film those little ball things from Harry Potter, which are used to play that broomstick game, used as weapons in the Dark Tower lands and the introduction of Father Callahan from 'Salems Lot in particular |
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