Eddings/Hobbs Types of Authors?Follow

I know this is probably a silly question, but have you read the other books/series by Eddings? The Redemption of Althalus, The Eleniad and The Tamuli?

If not, those may fit the bill, though I imagine you've probably already read em.

Poldaran, I might have to try them again! I remember starting book one of the dreamer series (I think it was) and truly *hating* it. So rather then give up on my author that I love, I just stopped reading it. I will try these other series though! Thanks!

Zieveraar, I will try these authors as well. I have steered away from Salvatore just because he fills up a whole bookshelf from what I can tell, and I have little faith in authors that have something *awesome* and then just keep writing (Wheel of Time, imo - and Sword of Truth series after book 6ish).

Thanks very much for the recommendations all! As soon as I finish Hawking's stuff, I'll try one of these!!

I honestly disliked Althalus. It displayed my biggest problem with Eddings, his repetitiveness. Not really all that big a problem, but it really bugged me in that book. The characters are identical, almost to a t I believe the proverb is, to his Mallorean and Belgariad.

Hmm, lets see.

Sword dancer series - Jennifer Roberson
The "vlad taltos" series, by Steven Brust. Also about an assassin, though not quite the same plotline at all. One of my favorites. Only complaint is that he writes slow and the books aren't that long.
Terry brooks, Shannara series, start with sword of shannara
Christopher rowley's Dragons of Argonath series
If you like mixed genra space opera with swordfighting type series, Simon green's Deathstalker series is also quite good.
I'm guessing you already read George R.R. martin

Hmm, others, maybe the liadian universe by steve miller and sharon lee, start with a balance of trade, sci fi, but interesting chareacter development.
If you like a little darker characters sometimes, Glen cook's "the black company series" has some of the most developed and dynamic characters around.

Are you interested in sci-fi space opera at all? plenty more reccommendations along those lines as well

you must obviously be a Kevin J Anderson "fan" then...

The good part is you not knowing him! I doubt there are many Dune fans (Frank Herbert's series) who like the guy.
He's written the series "The Saga of the Seven Suns" as well, an ongoing space opera of mediocre quality (as always just imo).

And I agree on the Sword of Shannara, I hardly made it to 100 pages before I just sighed and left it alone.

Well, hate is a strong word; the man was apparently at the foundation of Del Rey books, nobody does that and is bad.

I just don't want to read what he's writing.

Have you tried Raymond E. Feist? Low magic fantasy world, interesting characters, and he has a very interesting way of moving the story through long periods of time that I find rather nice.

I'd recommend starting with Magician (Apprentice).

I bring this guy up because you mentioned Robin Hobb, and I'm a very big fan of the Farseer books.

Another author with a truly unique fantasy world is Laura Resnik and her book "In Legend Born". It has a little bit of everything, fire eating mystics, water controlling assassin lords, political maneuvers, and plenty of well described (not generally over the top) sword play.

Edited, Dec 4th 2007 6:52pm by AsuranConvict

Katherine Kerr's Deverry series

J V Jones: Master and fool

Raymond E Fiest: Magician series.

Anything by Anne McCaffery, if you like Edding you'll like McCaffery.

The Elenium and Tamuli are very good series. Much better than any of the newer Eddings stuff.

Sword of Shannara is a tough book to get through. Knowing the backstory from The Sword of Shannara is helpful, so just skip it and wiki it to get the background. The book itself is sophomoric and a boring read.

The upside is that the Elfstones and Wishsong are much better and his best series was much later The Voyage of Jerle Shannara Trilogy. A really good series.

I've never checked out Hobbs. Are the books similar to Eddings?

I read the first two! Waiting on ordering the third cause I promised myself no new books for a while! LOL

I do know what the ISBN numbers are, but sorting them by such does not suit my needs for sorting.

I enter them into Shelfari via the ISBN, and then sort them on by shelves by genre, then by series and author. Usually I go chronologically for something like the Star Wars and Star Trek series'.

=)

It keeps me busy to sort/re-sort/sort again! heheheh

I really cant think of any series that had me chuckling as much as the Belgeriad and the Mallorian. It was a well written. So, I am gonna recommend a few authors/series that were just as enjoyable for me.

Fantasy:
Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Series is very good.
Elizabeth Moons Pacsenarian (sp?) series is very good. Starts with Sheepfarmers Daughter.
As someone else suggested, I like Raymond Feist's (sp?) Magician series as well.
You cant go wrong with Andre Norton.
Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures is good.
Piers Anthony has a few series that are very good, such as the Xanth, and the series that starts with On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality?)

Science Fiction:
David Weber's Honor Harrington series is extremely good. I cant say enough good things about this series.

Alternate History:
S.M. Stirling's Dies the Fire series is Very Good!
Flints 1632 (Circle of Fire) Series is good.
David Drake is doing the Island in the Sea of Time series, I think. Very good.