Best fantasy book series

[Teh EkwEE]

Sorry about bumping the old thread, but new fantasy things continue to arrive on our doorstep every day.


Mirinee: I've finished Crossroads of Twilight a while back, and I say you should definitely get ahold of them all. The paper backs are cheap at $6 a piece. The book is very sluggish however, all of them except ten are action packed. But definitely worth reading, Jordan is "getting his affairs in order for the final books" as it were. Since you've read Eye of the World you've already gotten yourself in to deep to stop now. Besides, there is a surprise in book 9 that you can't miss and I repeat cannot miss. I read off of Jordan's website that book 11 is due out March, 2005 (this month), after I post this I will be off to Jordan's site and seeing if they have anything on it.

I purchased books one and two of Tales of the Otori: Across the Nightingale Floor and Grass For his Pillow I was wondering if anyone could tell me if this series is worth reading? If not I can sell them and make some money back. I also purchased New Spring: The Novel which I haven't got around to reading, but reading part of a chapter off of Jordan's website, I've learned that it's set during the last part of the Aiel War. Outside Tar Valon, during the battle know as the Blood Snow, and from the reviews I've read it seems you won't be slogging through it like Crossroads of Twilight, or as one critic wrote. "Jordan is back in full form"

Also I highly recommend, to every one, reading the Sword of Truth series. This is series is very close to Jordan's Wheel of Time series, but I has more adult themes acompaning it. It has some "bad words" for the younger kiddies but nothing we would consider awful( The books occasionaly use "bitch" and "whore" but nothing like the F-bomb.) Un-akin to Jordan, Goodkind doesn't take the time to establish his characters(this is in no way a bad thing), he introduces them and builds their personallities as he goes along, they become similarly eerie, like they're people you know, or could easily know. The action hits fast and doesn't really stop. And you come to care about the characters. Book one is entitled: Wizard's First Rule. Goodkind just released Chainfire in January, so the Series is not yet done.

If you have any fantasy series that you could recommend to me, and have a place that you know of where they can be bought over the web, then please post it here.

Thank you, and happy readings,

Teh EkwEE.