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I am an absolute beginner in the feild of fantasy-books and wonder what books I have to read. Please do not tell me that I shall read the Tolkien and his Lord of The Ring-thriology because I would like to start somewere else. I am right now starting to read the second book in the Firekeeper series by Jane Lindskold. the first one was really great and called "Through Wolf's Eyes" and the second one is "Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart". Then I will read one Ursula K. LeGuin book.

Well what is next up for me I like to read books about strong women.

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Start with "the Hobbit"

I loooove fantasy!!

When I was younger, about 15, I used to paint those small metallic figures in all sorts of colors!! And I was damn good at it!! I never did any games with them though!

I still have those figures at home!!

I also still have many of those books where you can "play along" with dices and a paper with a pencel, you know these books where YOU are the hero!

Today I´m more into movies!

I've never heard of those books with dices and papers....

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Leelene wrote:I've never heard of those books with dices and papers....

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It´s those kind of books where you can go to different pages depending of the choices you make in the history! Like, "You´re standing in front of a closed door, if you want to open the door go to page 375, if you want to move on go to page 157!"

Those are really good books!! But hard to complete!!

They sounds like videogames but in bookform to me!

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Yeah, you can say that!! You have all these different choices!!

I'm not very deep into fantasy, but I can recommend you Andrew (Andrzej) Sapkowski's books - especially the "Wiedzmin" serie ("The Witcher"). He is the Polish author, but I think his books have been already translated into English. He has great style of writing and big sense of humour. What I also love in his books are many clever allusions to the history and current situation.
Even people who rather don't like this kind of literature find his books interesting.


And just as a curiosity - in the mentioned serie there'a a character called "Jarre" (it's used as a name), in fact not my favourie one, as rather boring comparing to other - that's a boy who felt in love with one of the main characters and...OK, I won't tell anything more as somebody may want to read the book in the future
Going back to the name - on the website dedicated to Sapkowski there's the index of names of people nad places in the "Wiedzmin", where you can read what/who were they inspired by. Next to the "Jarre" it's written "popular French composer". I don't know if the index was consutlted with Mr Sapkowski, but I heard that he likes electronic music.

I like those too.

I sadly have no time to read at all, but I must say I liked to watch The Chronicles Of Narnia, and I think that's fantasy too... as long as it doesn't get too deep (it has to be imaginable, although I have quite a big imagination capability... )

Oh I have fantasies in my head allright...

Haven't read books in a long time though. Fantasy elements are neat, though.

GeeJee wrote:I sadly have no time to read at all, but I must say I liked to watch The Chronicles Of Narnia (...)

I like it too, I read these books as a child and saw some film in TV (I think it was some serie)

Ronja wrote:

GeeJee wrote:I sadly have no time to read at all, but I must say I liked to watch The Chronicles Of Narnia (...)

I like it too, I read these books as a child and saw some film in TV (I think it was some serie)

Yeah, well, the movie was good too. It's very well balanced, in the way that it's not too much fantasy. It should be not too unrealistic, imo. That's why LOTR was never tempting for me to watch, somehow...

Well, I like sci-fi (like StarWars, StarTrek: TNG, Voyager, TOS and all that stuff) better than fantasy...

LOTR???

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