Cpt_Oblivious said:
Mr_spamamam said:
Terry Pratchett. Discworld books are amazing, but he's also done some other good books like Johnny and the Bomb, or Good Omens
But read other stuff first, you'll never get through
all the discworld stuff.
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is very good.
As is Wee Free Men.
I read pretty much all of Discworld, but then again I read a prodigious rate and the libraries here will mail you anything from other libraries, if it is not at that branch when you come in. I did not like Good Omens as much as t he bulk of the Discworld books (I know shoot me for blasphemy).
I also liked the Phule series. Of course Asprin "co-wrote" most of his shit due to to tax problems so you won't find a whole lot with only his name in the title, and when you do find his name along with someone else it is hard to tell at first if he only edited it, wrote the whole damn thing, or cooperated with someone. His Myth Inc series was quite good as well, even if he personally was a prick.
Anything by Christopher Moore excellent. I have high praises for his work, of course it is not traditional orcs and elves fantasy.
David Eddings writes a lot of good books, just sat away from the non fanstay works. Mostly written with his wife those are much better series.
Card's work has heavy Mormon undertones to a lot of his work. Not noticeable his book Enders Game, but features heavily in the later books of the series. Two of his series a sci fi series, and a fantasy alternative history work are both retelling of the Mormon story.
George R.R. Martin and The Dark Tower Got Mentions as well.
I preferred the Dark Tower style right up until The Wizard and the Glass, it seems that was around that time King realized he could turn out a book written entirely in his sleep, and still make money. After that he just started getting crazy and kinda killed the last books. Except for some reason I really liked the ending.
