Fantasy novels - recommendations?

knockabout, obviously

I've enjoyed The Kingkiller Trilogy by Patrick Rothfuss - well the first two, annoyingly he hasn't finished the third yet.

Urban Fantasy-wise, you could try Kate Griffin's Matthew Swift novels, Ben Aaronovitches Rivers of London or Mike Carey's Felix Castor series. All good knockanout fun with ghosts, demons, demi-gods and exorcists.

Tad Williams' Otherland series is great. Set in the near future where cities have become metropolises (sp?) and the Internet has become a virtual reality world that people can physically explore.
4 books, 2000+ pages, lots of great characters and a cliff hanger at the end of every chapter.

What more can you ask for?

I enjoyed Octavia Butler. But I am not sure whether she's sci-fi or fantasy. Definitely different, though.

Well if you found Pullman dull, I don't rate your chances with a lot of fantasy tbh - the Pullman is very good and far, far better written than most fantasy imho.

Have you read The LOTR?

Martin Miller, 'Good Fairies Of New York' is fun - quite rude though!

Stephen King's Dark Tower series is awesome.

The Game Of Thrones series is v badly written and pretty boring but lots of people seem to like them. I've read two and won't bother with any more of them. There are only about 3 characters I actually cared about and one of them is dead before the end of book one. I had to trawl through a lot of boring stuff to follow the stories of the characters I was interested in. I think he must believe that, like Dickens, he gets paid by the word - because he certainly uses far more words than necessary!

I didn't get on with Robin H at all. Trudi C has quite interesting characters but the books are v badly written - okay if you only care about character and plot.

How about seem teen fiction? The Knife Of never Letting Go is the first in a v good series. Across The Nightingale Floor is the first in another v good series. Mortal Engines is the first in yet another.

Wheel of Time
Sword of Truth
Belgariad/Mallorean/Elenium/Tamuli
Redemption of Althalus
Raymond Feist
J V Jones
Farseer/Tawny Man
Dragon Prince/Dragon Star trilogies
Thomas Covenant
Witch Star series
Mordant's Need
Song of Ice and Fire
Mistborn
Janny Wurtz
Anne McCaffrey (only if you like Dragons)
Guy Gavriel Kay
Malazan Book of the Fallen et. al
Tad Williams
Brent Weeks

I have obviously spent far too many years reading this stuff.

Do you know, I hated the WOT series. It started off quite excitingly, but I found it tedious after the 6th or 7th book and just had to leave it alone.

I did enjoy Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher series, as well as the Trillium series (written by 3 women authors).

Terry Brooks - the Shannara books, Game of Thrones, I love Trudi Canavan, Robin Hobb loved the Farseer and Liveship books but couldn't get into the other series, David Eddings.

Best series has to be "The Wheel of Time" started by robert Jordan and finished off by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan died. Best I have read since LOTR.

Game of Thrones is excellent. I also enjoyed Robin Hobb's The Farseer Trilogy & The Tawny Man trilogy. Currently reading Trudi Canavan which is good but not as well written as the Martin/Hobb.

Hi,

What sort of book do you want?

Big epic quests = Tolkein, David Eddings, Robert Jorden.
One persons story (hero) = Maria v. Snyder (sp?), Trudi Canavan
Urban fantasy = Charles de Lint.

Game of Thrones is good but I personally found that having seem the TV series the book gave name nothing new (but I only read the first 2 chapters and that was just after watching the series.)

Robin Hobb is a very good author. As is Sheri S. Tepper but she can be a bit women's-lib preachy.
Guy Gavril Kay writes a very good book too.

There is a lot of steam punk stuff out there too but I haven't read much to date.

George R.R.Martin's 'Game of Thrones'. Brilliant.