My good book listFollow

Is that it?? yeppers i think i can do better than that.

Belgariad and Mallorian: David Eddings

LotR : JRR Tolkein

The Illearth War <Cronicles of Thomas covenant>: Donald Stevenson

The Pendragon series: Steven Lawhead

The Magician series: Raymond E Fiest.

Eon and Eternity: Greg Bear

Grunts: Mary Gentle

The Pern Series: Anne McCaffery

The Singers Series: Anne McCaffery

The Rowen Series: Anne McCaffery

The Ender series: Orsen Scott Card

The Drizzt Do'Urden Series: R.A.Salvatore

Mission Earth: R Hubbard

and thats off the top of my head.

all the above are worth reading and come to well over 100 quality reads. If you are really strong will read The Wheel of Time by R Jorden, be warned it's dull as hell after book 5-6 and he hasn't finished it yet.

It's old now and no longer officially linked, but https://everquest.allakhazam.com/Store/Books.htm

Don't forget the Dune series.

Nice choices, allakhazam.

My top 3 series would probably be

1) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galazy - Douglas Adams

2) Chronicles Series - Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman

3) The Belgariad / The Mallorean - David Eddings

Imagina that.

Besides what's mentioned above, I have fond memories of:

The Wizard of Earthsea series (Ursula K LeGuin)
The Deryni, Camber, etc. series (Katherine Kurtz)

sorry, not starter, 1 past.

The following authors have, in my opinion, never written a bad story (that I have read):

F. Paul Wilson
Terry Prachet
Tolken
Lovecraft

And I consider the following books on my favorites list:
The LaNague Chronicles
Every Repairman Jack novel (all read)
Every Dark Tower novel (all read)
Every Adversary Cycle novel (all read)
Every DiscWorld novel
Sims
Wheel of Time (not for everyone, I like the drawn out series)
The Wayfarer redemption (even with the overly used Deus ex Machina) (all read)
The Galatic Center Series (Hope you up to date on your theoretical physics) (all read)

I've also read and enjoyed much of what the previous posters have mentioned. I honestly don't care what other people read half as much as I care that they are reading.

Right now I'm working through some more F. Paul Wilson, Terry Prachett's Reaperman, and Dean Koontz Fear Nothing.

Let's see, without looking at my library at home...

Roger Zelazny's Amber series... along with many other books by him such as This Immortal and The Dreammaster.

Isaac Asimov's Robot and Foundation series. Will Smith's I, Robot is interesting, but it's not the book, btw

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series... funny fantasy, but still intelligent

George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire... hard core, brutal fantasy series without a lot of silly magic

Orson Scott Card's Ender series and Memory of Earth series... each unusual in their own ways, and breaks out of the episodic formula route of many types of series

Herbert's Dune--'nuff said

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon (shame on TNT for trying to make a movie of it!)

Mary Stewart's Merlin series... nice take on the character

Jack Whyte's Camulod chronicles... if you can get past the stupid sex scenes from time to time, one of the best realistic versions of the Arthur legend I've read

Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth... for the first 5 or so books anyways...

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time... for the first 4 or so books...

Dragonlance... the core books by Weis and Hickman

Timothy Zahn's Star Wars books... a lot better than Lucas has done with the prequels

Select Robert Heilein books... such as Friday, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land... although his need to have everyone sleep with everyone does get old after so many books...

Select Piers Anthony... although, don't expect to read too many of his as they quickly become forumaic, and the way he depicts children makes me think he's a closet pedophile

Douglas Adams... wondering what the new movie will be like?

arrgh... that's all I can think of right now... but that's only the tip of the ice berg!

Besides the obvious classics, Tolkien, Herbert, Adams, etc., some sci-fi books I enjoy are these;

John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenatta series, which includes A Hymn Before Battle, Gust Front, When the Devil Dances, and Hell's Faire. Also the Council Wars series with There Will Be Dragons, Emerald Sea, and Against the Tide.

E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series (my name is from these) and Skylark series are both awesome, albiet dated.

Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park, Timeline (book was much better than the movie), and Sphere

Of course many many more.

I was hoping someone would mention this. This is SOOO good. Do yourself a favor and at least give the first 50 pages a try, you'll be hooked.

So what is your beef with Weis and Hickman? I have read many of their book and they are all very good. Granted not as heady as Frank Herbert but I don’t think they set out to start a new religion. The books they write weren’t meant to be college level reading. All their characters are interesting and deep enough to make you like them and morn their loss when they die. I found myself cheering on the heroes and at the same time I could empathize with the villains and see what made them become the way they are.
I think their books hold an important place in fantasy writing and they certainly don’t deserve to be labeled with the vicious words you used to describe them.
When I feel like reading deep works I will get a Shakespeare or Frank Herbert book. But sometimes I don’t want to read a book that requires me to consult a dictionary every other page. Those are the times that stories by Weis and Hickman or R.A. Salvatore take me on another adventure filled with excitement and fun with the occasional nail biting drama that I have come to expect from these great writers. I think the only reason your bashing them is so you can use big words like swords to make yourself seem like a scholar, and that a little light adventure reading is beneath you and your 30 pound brain.

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Mariller

excellent book if I may say so myself. (more for the female population as it has some romance in it.)

Been a while since i did my first post on this thread and i thought i would add a couple of authors to the list.

Farseer Trilogy: Robin Hobb
Deverry Series: Katherine Kerr
Chronicles of castle Brass: Micheal Moorcock (How's that for old school?)