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[Becky]

Welcome to the group, Spoiledforchoice!

[Robin]

Stephen wrote: "Hi all! My name is Stephen and I am a science teacher living in Oklahoma. Married, kids, a dog, all that good stuff. I have been reading fantasy since I first discovered [b:The Hobbit: Or There and..."

Welcome - I just got done reading...The Amulet of Samarkandand and really enjoyed it I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the books in that series.

[Robin]

Spoiledforchoice wrote: "Hello! I love fantasy! My favorites include the Dark Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop. Also, Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfess. Writers that I really like include Elizabeth Bear (she writes fantas..."

Hi and welcome - I too really enjoy Brandon Sanderson. I really really want to read Name of the Wind and I have it on my TBR list but everytime I've picked it up it is just not grabbing me - I've heard too many great things about this book to be deterred - I'm definitely going to work on this more.

[Linda]

Hi, I just joined, so I'll introduce myself. I'm Linda, currently living in NC, but originally from PA. I've also lived in CT and Columbus, OH. My first "adult" book (when I was in grade school) was Sands of Mars (Arthur C. Clarke), and he was my favorite author for ages. Randevouz with Rama was when I stopped reading him. I guess my first fantasty was The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, which I loved. Actually, I think even before that it was Lord Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King, which triggered a lifelong love of the Arthurian Legend. Unfortunately, these days I don't enjoy reading narrative novels, and it seems as though 99% of the King Arthur books are first person.

I'm currently re-reading The Symphony of Ages series by Elizabeth Moon. I like it well enough, and I want to read the additional books, so I'm refreshing my memory on the first three.

I don't know if I have any particular favorites I can list. There are plenty I've enjoyed, but I would have to go check my bookshelf for titles and authors, and I'm just too tired to do that at the moment (lol). I like series, but I think three is ideal, and I hate waiting for additional books in a series. George R. R. Martin is a perfect example. I absolutely loved his books, but the last one was a serious disappointment. And I've gotten tired of waiting for new books, so I don't particularly care if I finish it.

I'm looking forward to getting some ideas for new novels to read (already seen a few I've jotted down).

[Robin]

Welcome Linda - and thanks for the friend acceptance. I've not read George R.R. Martin but really need to start I've heard good things.

For recommendations - I would suggest Mistborn which we will be discussing here soon and The first book in the Bartimeus Trilogy I just completed and liked.

-- Wife of fantasy author Michael J. Sullivan: The Crown Conspiracy | Avempartha

[Linda]

Robin wrote: "Welcome Linda - and thanks for the friend acceptance. I've not read George R.R. Martin but really need to start I've heard good things.

For recommendations - I would suggest Mistborn which we w..."

I'm just looking at Mistborn now. Too late to join the monthly reading, but I'm definitely interested.

[Robin]

Linda,
I would put it on your TBR for some point - you can always "join the discussion" after it is over.

[Benjamin]

Hi all,

I'm Ben from Singapore. I've been an avid fantasy fan since i picked up David Eddings when i was a young kid. While i agree that his recent works have been sort of sub-par, he'll always hold a special place in my heart and i'll probably buy whatever stuff he releases. That said, i've broaden my readings over the years and have covered quite a number of authors. Current favourites would be Joe Abrecrombie, Mary Stewart, Bernard Cornwell, Brent Weeks, Robin Hobb, Greg Keyes, R.A. Savatore, Brandon Sanderson and Eddings! (yes, i'm loyal).

[Fox]

Linda wrote: "Hi, I just joined, so I'll introduce myself. I'm Linda, currently living in NC, but originally from PA. I've also lived in CT and Columbus, OH. My first "adult" book (when I was in grade school)..."

Funny... I'm from NC but currently live in PA! *grin*

[formlit]

Becky - thanks

Robin - Name of the Wind is great. Give it a couple more tries before you give up, huh?

Bryce - thanks! i had no idea there was a group dedicated to just him!

[Benjamin]

Bryce wrote: "Ben1xy wrote: "Hi all,

I'm Ben from Singapore. I've been an avid fantasy fan since i picked up David Eddings when i was a young kid. While i agree that his recent works have been sort of sub-par, ..."

Thanks for the welcome Bryce. I guess many Eddings fans will admit that the quality of writing has dropped and the constant rehash of characters bearing similar traits certainly doesn't help too. But the Belgariad really captured my imagination back when i was a young lad. And thanks to him, I've continued readings ever since. I used to hate books.

I'll cross my fingers and hope his next publication will be something much better

:)

[Benjamin]

Bryce wrote: "Ben1xy wrote: "Bryce wrote: "Ben1xy wrote: "Hi all,

I'm Ben from Singapore. I've been an avid fantasy fan since i picked up David Eddings when i was a young kid. While i agree that his recent work..."

It's helped me in many ways too. When i was doing my dissertation, i actually acknowledge David Eddings alongside my professors. That raised quite a few evebrows

[Jane]

Viktoria wrote: "Good to meet you Robin and I look forward to The Crown Conspiracy..."

Hey Viktoria - I read this over the holiday and REALLY enjoyed it!!

[Jane]

Bryce wrote: "I'm Bryce. I'm from southeast Idaho. I work at a Marriott here and spend my time wishing that I was a great author, and never writing anything. Guess I'll never meet that goal! I'm an english major..."

Welcome to the group Bryce!!

[Cameron]

Hey, I'm Cameron. I'm 19, and I'll be honest and say that I haven't been much of a reader in my short life, but things changed once I started reading fantasy, so much so that I spent a great deal of my Christmas money on books. I just started A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin, and I must say this is a fantastic read (so far, anyway). Feel free to message me. Thanks, everyone.

[Robin]

Ben1xy wrote: "Hi all,

I'm Ben from Singapore. I've been an avid fantasy fan since i picked up David Eddings when i was a young kid. While i agree that his recent works have been sort of sub-par, he'll always ..."

Welcoem to the group!! I just recently was introduced to Brandon Sanderson and liked him quite a bit.

[Robin]

Spoiledforchoice wrote: "Robin - Name of the Wind is great. Give it a couple more tries before you give up, huh?
"

So I just finished it today -- I did get pulled into it and really enjoyed it....but...I thought the ending was "less than fullfilling" - I would have liked to seen it "wrapped up more" - or broken down into smaller books - one with his family, one in the streets, one at university etc. It did not feel "self-contained" to me.

-- Wife of GR author Michael J. Sullivan: The Crown Conspiracy (10/08) | Avempartha (04/09)

[Robin]

Cameron wrote: "Hey, I'm Cameron. I'm 19, and I'll be honest and say that I haven't been much of a reader in my short life, but things changed once I started reading fantasy, so much so that I spent a great deal o..."

I've heard good things about GRRM - but haven't read him yet - too many books too little time!! Welcome to the group Cameron.

[formlit]

Robin - self-contained? i guess not. i am not even sure it was meant to be. it is only the first book. but i know I am going to read the next one when it comes out.

[Robin]

Spoiledforchoice wrote: "Robin - self-contained? i guess not. i am not even sure it was meant to be. it is only the first book. but i know I am going to read the next one when it comes out. "

Don't get me wrong - it's not like I didn't like NoTW. I think the "transition" between the two could have been better handled. When Tolkien's publishered split LOTR into three parts - it was not well done (IMHO) and I kind of feel this is what happened with NoTW. Compare/contrast that to something like the Harry Potter books - each one was a book in its own right with its own beginning, middle, and climax. This just seems like an "ongoing telling" - which is possibly exactly what he was "goign for" just not what I would prefer but everyone has different tastes.

[Robin]

Bryce wrote: "I'm fairly certain it wasn't meant to be self contained at all. It's the first of three books, so you can't really plan on it being nicely wrapped up. I mean, some authors can do that, but it's mor..."

The other thing you have to realize is I'm probably more "picky" about this than many. My husband wrote a six book series and he wrote all the books before the first one was published so he could make sure that if something had to be added to book 2 to lay the groundwork for book 5 he had the capability. They are not a series of sequels but instead crafted to expose just one "episode" of a larger story. Kind of like Babylon 5 where there was a 5 year story arc but each show had its own parts.

-- Wife of GR author Michael J. Sullivan: The Crown Conspiracy (10/08) | Avempartha (04/09)

[formlit]

robin - oh okay. lol i guess i am not as picky as you, because I really didn't mind.

[Rob]

Hello to everybody. I'm new to GoodReads, still learning how to navigate and literally stumbled into this club.
Anyway, I'm Rob Turner of Glendale, CA. I read just about anything I can lay my hands on, but fantasy novels and stories are way up on my list. Among my faves are the Dorsi series by Gordon Dickson and the World of Tiers series by Philip Farmer. After I graduated from the Marvel heroes universe, the earliest sci-fi novel I can remember reading was Slan, about a mutant genius who grew up believing he and his kind was developed in a human laboratory.
That said, let me get back to poring over the other posts in the club.

[Becky]

Hello Rob, welcome to the group!

[Robin]

Hey Rob - welcome

[Joannes]

Helloo:

I´m Joannes. It is a quite strange name, because I am from the Basque Country. It is in northern Spain for those who don´t know it (I´m not going to talk about politics here).

My favourite fantasy writer is, by far, J.R.R Tolkien. I think he is the best, because he created a whole world. Everything.

Well, I´m going to stoop writting, I hope I enjoy this great website.

[Becky]

Welcome Joannes! J.R.R. Tolkien is one of my favorites as well... I hope you enjoy the group!

[Leslie Ann]

I realize I've been remiss in not welcoming all our newest members! So, to all you folks who've joined since mid December, here's a great big WELCOME to the Fantasy Discussion Group!!!

Leslie Ann
author of Griffin's Daughter the group's pick for Feb. discussion

[Robin]

Welcome Joannes - glad to have you as a member of the group.

[Rob]

Welcome to the club, Joannes. I enjoyed JRR myself, although, at the time, I had a hard time keeping all the characters' names in place. I had to keep referring back to the prevous chapters, sometimes even back to the previous books. But he's not the only one who created whole new worlds and universes. Keep on reading and you'll see what I mean.

[Hayley]

Hello everyone, I'm Hayley. I'm newish to Goodreads (been here a while but only just settling in) so I'm always glad to find more fans of fantasy.

A little about me, I got into fantasy via C.S. Lewis at an early age, as well as some animal-fable-style novels I'm not sure many people have heard of. My first introduction to fantasy as a genre as Mercedes Lackey, and I've tried to branch out and discover many new authors since then. Unfortunately university has sort of gotten in the way of that, with its large reading lists of its own, so I am always keen for new recommendations.

I'm a fourth-year English lit student, hammering feverishly away as a novel in my spare minutes, and currently cresting the 3/4 hump in the plot. My 'currently reading' list for the next four months will be nothing but academic books and english literature, and after that I hope to make up for lost time and get some more 'market research' in before I go into editing and submission!

Looking forward to talking with you all.

[Becky]

Welcome Hayley... Good to have you!

[Cameron]

Welcome to the group Hayley! :)

[Marc]

Which C.S. Lewis? I read his Perelandra series pretty early on.

[Hayley]

Chronicles of Narnia when I was young, and my brother loaned me another series later that I never found time to read, and have now lost track of.

Also thank you everyone, you're the first group of people who have spelled my name correctly after seeing it typed ;) Amazing how easy it is to overlook that first 'y'

[Leslie Ann]

Hi Hayley, and welcome!

[Becky]

People misspell your name when it's staring them in the face? That's not cool! :(

[Hayley]

Haha, I know. It's bizarre. At least it's still the right name? :)

[Next]

Hello all, my name is Jared and im from Orange County, CA. I am an animation major @ The Art Institute of California - OC and have a great love of anything takes what could possibly be our reality had things gone one way or another. I've been an off and on reader for years. I recently started reading again because, well... i'm not really sure actually. I picked up Brisingr a couple months back and was again, not wow'd (unlike Eragon and very much like Eldest) at all. All of a sudden I had decided i needed to read more, Found Mistborn: The Final Empire and absolutely loved it, great characters, plot, take on magic that I once again found my love of books. Not to mention, it's so much cheaper then the movies!

Current Favorite Authors:

Brandon Sanderson (can you guess why?)
Frank Herbert (only read dune.)
Orson Scott Card (i love this SF author's fantasy books surprisingly)

[Marc]

Jared wrote: "Hello all, my name is Jared and im from Orange County, CA. I am an animation major @ The Art Institute of California - OC and have a great love of anything takes what could possibly be our reality ..."

If you like Alternate Universe (AU) books, I would heartily recommend The Proteus Operation by James P. Hogan, and anything you can find by H. Beam Piper set in his Paratime series. He did mostly short stories, but several of them were collected into a book called Paratime, and Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. There was a sequel to Lord Kalvan written by some other authors, called Great Kings War, with permission (after Piper died) but it wasn't as good as his work.

[Jo]

Hi! My name is Jo and I have been a fantaholic for about 25 years or so. My first fantasy book was probably the Velveteen Rabbit and I quickly went downhill(??) from there. Favorites vary but include The Harper Hall of Pern, A Game of Thrones, Charles de Lint, Jacqueline Carey, Wendy Pini, Peter S. Beagle and well many others. Unfortunately, I has been having a hard time finding great new fantasy authors (and I know that they are out there), so hopefully y'all will be able to help me!!!

[Collin]

Hello all. I'm Collin, currently living in New York (no not city) though moving to Boston (hopefully) in the near future.

My first fantasy book experiences was as a wee lad when my mother read LOTR to me, and in turn when I first read The Hobbit and LOTR as a young teen.

Since then I have grown in my fantasy readings, evolving to Dragonlance (of which i have read well over 30 books) until today. I am constantly trying to find new and excellent authors. At this point I am reading Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss and Scott Lynch (as well as others).

Hope to have some great discussions in this group, and hopefully learn about new authors. Cheers.

[Elise]

Hi, my name is Elise and I love all things fantasy and sci-fi. Some of my favorite authors (tends to change all the time)

Neil Gaiman, Terry Goodkind, Brandon Sanderson, Jim Butcher, James Maxey, J.K. Rowling, C.S. Lewis, Joe Abercrombie, Jules Verne, Douglas Adams, Anne Bishop, Stephen Donaldson, Kelley Armstrong, C.S. Friedman, and H.P. Lovecraft

[Robin]

Hayley wrote: "Hello everyone, I'm Hayley. I'm newish to Goodreads (been here a while but only just settling in) so I'm always glad to find more fans of fantasy.

A little about me, I got into fantasy via C.S. L..."

CS Lewis was also one of the early reads that got me in this genre - along with Tolien of course - Heley I'm going to assume you have read Watership Down....How about Ducton Wood? Both great animal based stories.

-- Wife of fantasy author Michael J. Sullivan: The Crown Conspiracy | Avempartha (04/09)

[Cameron]

Welcome Elise!

[Robin]

Elise wrote: "Hi, my name is Elise and I love all things fantasy and sci-fi. Some of my favorite authors (tends to change all the time)

Neil Gaiman, Terry Goodkind, Brandon Sanderson, Jim Butcher, James Maxey, ..."

Hey Elise welcome! I like Sanderson and CS Lewis, and Rowlings of course - I tried one Gaiman (Stardust) and it wasn't for me but I'm going to read others before I give up on him!

[Leslie Ann]

Hello and welcome to all you new members! It is exciting to see our discussion group grow so explosively in the last few weeks. As one of the original members, I knew that there were plenty of fantasy fans out there, but many are in the SciFi/Fantasy group already and I didn't know how many had the time or inclination to be in both.

Leslie Ann Moore
author of Griffin's Daughter

[Next]

Leslie wrote: "Hello and welcome to all you new members! It is exciting to see our discussion group grow so explosively in the last few weeks. As one of the original members, I knew that there were plenty of fant..."

It just so happens that JJ snatched me up before I even KNEW about groups on GR. It seems like a nice group of people and i've already recieved some good suggestions for books and next month's book is already being shipped via amazon.com

[Fox]

Collin wrote: "Hello all. I'm Collin, currently living in New York (no not city) though moving to Boston (hopefully) in the near future.

My first fantasy book experiences was as a wee lad when my mother read ..."

Dragonlance! I loved the Elven Nations Trilogy. I always meant to read the Dragons series (Dragons of Autumn Twilight and so on) but I never can find the first book at a convenient time. I'm more into Forgotten Realms myself. So I'm accustomed to halflings and so on. Dragonlance has slightly different races (at least in name). One day I will get to that Dragons series.

Welcome to the group! :) :)

[Fox]

Robin wrote: "Hayley wrote: "Hello everyone, I'm Hayley. I'm newish to Goodreads (been here a while but only just settling in) so I'm always glad to find more fans of fantasy.

A little about me, I got into f..."

Didn't C.S. Lewis get everyone into fantasy?? lol! Ditto here!!