Must Read Fantasy Series?

[oreogod]

I just purchased Game of Thrones by George RR Martin. I used to like fantasy awhile ago, loved Tolkien and got through half of the Wheel of Time series.

I hope this book is good, Ive heard a lot about it.

[MLG]

for something new try the Prince of Nothing Series by R Scott Bakker. Only the first two are out, and they aren't perfect, but they are fantastic. this review sums them up nicely.

[jakethebake]

i haven't read any of this fantasy crap since about the 7th grade, but i recall liking the chronicles of narnia and the wrinkle in time series.

[contentless]

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I just finished the one with the pequinos.

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This one became my favorite.

[Paluka]

Song of Fire and Ice by GRRM absolutely destroys everything else. It makes Wheel of Time look like Wheel of Turd.

[ethan]

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Song of Fire and Ice by GRRM absolutely destroys everything else.

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Agreed. I basically never buy anything in hardcover because I already own a huge backlog of books I haven't read, but I have the 4th one in the series preordered already. It should be interesting. Here's a link to GRRM explaining what went into it - books 4 and 5 are apparently going to cover the same time period but will will focus on different subsets of the characters.

[davelin]

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Song of Fire and Ice by GRRM absolutely destroys everything else. It makes Wheel of Time look like Wheel of Turd.

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[Pocket Trips]

On a related note I guess this is a good place to ask this among my fellow fantasy reading geeks [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I am trying to find out the series name and the author of a series i started and really liked. All I can really remember about it was that the hero was a prince and the villian was named count Bellagio or something very Italian sounding was being kept alive beyond his years by a potion that would make his eyes gleam blue and at the climax of the 2nd book a toy maker had a bomb that was shaped like a castle go off at his inauguration/ crowing ceremony. I know I am not doing this book justice in describing it here but it has been 10 years or so since I read it.

i thought it was excellent and would really like to look into the sequels to it. I used to work for a book distributor and got pre-release copies of many books while working there so mny of the books i read from back then have all blended together in my mind. Any help will be greatly appreciated [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[gvibes]

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On a related note I guess this is a good place to ask this among my fellow fantasy reading geeks [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I am trying to find out the series name and the author of a series i started and really liked. All I can really remember about it was that the hero was a prince and the villian was named count Bellagio or something very Italian sounding was being kept alive beyond his years by a potion that would make his eyes gleam blue and at the climax of the 2nd book a toy maker had a bomb that was shaped like a castle go off at his inauguration/ crowing ceremony. I know I am not doing this book justice in describing it here but it has been 10 years or so since I read it.

i thought it was excellent and would really like to look into the sequels to it. I used to work for a book distributor and got pre-release copies of many books while working there so mny of the books i read from back then have all blended together in my mind. Any help will be greatly appreciated [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I've definitely read it, but I have no idea which one it is.

[Piers]

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I would definately read " the liveship traders" series by robin hobb... amazing trilogy with a beginning, middle, and end. It was so good I was disappointed that it actually had a definitive conclusion

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Erhmmm... Have you read her fool trilogy then?

Must admit I was slow on the uptake.