Help Me Decide on a Fantasy Series

[Kreader]

I'd recommend, Graceling, Symphony of Ages (even though it starts slow), Septimus Heap (YA book series), The Farseer trilogy, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Tinker and of course the already mentioned Black Magician's trilogy.

[1sillywabbit]

Trudi Canavan's 'Black Magician Trilogy' is brilliant!!

not read any of the others

[Raven]

Every time I come into this thread, I feel like I'm reading a different Black Magician Trilogy to everyone else!

[chrysalis_stage]

Every time I come into this thread, I feel like I'm reading a different Black Magician Trilogy to everyone else!

 

 

I wish people would give her other trilogy more attention.

[Fionen]

I ended up using part of the card on birthday gifts for my bookworm sisters. That left enough for me to get Magyk (Septimus Heap #1) by Angie Sage.

 

Roxi, I will get around to reading the Coldfire series. It sounds great.

[bubbleprincess]

A series that is good as well is the Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop and also duology Landscapes of Ephemera. I also just discovered Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series.

Edited August 29, 2009 by bubbleprincess

[Raven]

If it is, it cost you less than

[Nollaig]

Oh you got the new modern covers. I got a revised version of the original covers.

[Raven]

Oh you got the new modern covers. I got a revised version of the original covers.

 

I like them, I think they look good.

[Nollaig]

They're nice, but they make me think Garth Nix or something, not nearly 15-20 year old sci-fi.

 

These are mine:

 

[Raven]

They're a bit too "sword and sorcery" for me!

[Nollaig]

Well, the books do have a lot of swords and sorcery in them

[BookJumper]

Yours are the ones I want, Roxi - as ever, great minds think alike! Alas, Forbidden Planet only had volume three with that cover and in tatty condition at that, I'll have to Amazon it I think... loath as I am to do that, given my recent less-than-satisfactory online purchases...

[Nollaig]

They're gorgeous aren't they? Like I say, I paid a lot for them, and they came from America, but it was worth it coz I really love them.

[Raven]

Well, the books do have a lot of swords and sorcery in them

 

Okay, perhaps I should have said "Naff sword and sorcery".

There was a trend in the eighties and early nineties to put somewhat whimsical, airbrushed covers on fantasy books that I particularly dislike (I know these books may be of that era, but this type of cover would stop me picking the book up in the first place).

I much prefer the simpler covers they have now, to my mind they are more striking, and they don't give off the low-budget eighties vibe that is reminiscent of films like Hawk The Slayer and Beastmaster.

But, each to their own I suppose!

[Nollaig]

That's what I love about them! Cheap and tacky screams eighties sci-fi - If I had the money I'd buy a load of old sci fi movie posters with the god awful artwork, I just love it

[BigWords]

I much prefer the simpler covers they have now, to my mind they are more striking, and they don't give off the low-budget eighties vibe that is reminiscent of films like Hawk The Slayer and Beastmaster.

 

Then I shouldn't point out how enjoyable I found Hawk The Slayer, and even the Beastmaster films ('cept the last one)...

[Raven]

I don't mind Beastmaster, to be honest, but it's not what I look for in a book.

 

Hawk the Slayer is rubbish though!