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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Looking for a good fantasty/adventure book 2read...any reccomendations? thanks?Question: Looking for a good fantasty/adventure book 2read!.!.!.any reccomendations!? thanks!? im looking for a new book to read, something with Fantasy, adventure, allot of action and it has to be something that cant be put down, i like books which have things such as Fantasy creatures and all that lark!.!.!.!.but please, please, please dont reccomend, twilight saga, eargon saga, darren shan saga or the demonata saga because they've been read x thanks in advance :D xWww@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: PERCY JACKSON AND THe olympian series and maximum ride seriesWww@QuestionHome@Com I really love the Dragonlance series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman!. The regular trilogy: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning are all amazing!. My favorite series by them though is the Death Gate Cycle!. It's a 7 book series, all pretty thick, but it's really cool!. After a nuclear holocaust, humans split into two groups, the Patryn and the Sartan and were locked in continuous conflict!. The Sartan divided the earth into four elemental worlds (fire, water, air, stone) and then made a fifth where they imprisoned all the Patryn!. Years went by and the Sartan lost contact with one another, and the worlds were left to themselves!. One of the Patryn, Xar, escapes the labyrinth and then goes back to free others!. At the time of these books, his helper Haplo is sent into the four realms to wreak havoc and stir things up in preparation of Xar's coming to take them over!. It's a pretty incredible series!. The first four books all take place in one of the elemental worlds!. Books 5 and 6 bring together two worlds at a time, and Book 7 incorporates all four and the final showdown!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Jim Butcher's - The Dresden Files!!! I could not put them down!. The series is terrific with lots of action!. He is a professional wizard that is listed in the phone book!. He is like a private detective but with wizard powers!. He is poor and living in modern day!. Runs into all kinds of creatures and all kinds of trouble!. I am notorious for taking a month to read a book!. I was not able to put his books down!!! I hope you give it a try!. If you saw the tv series, don't be turned off to the books!. The tv series DID NOT do the books justice at all!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Try Split Infinity by Piers Anthony!. Its the first book in the Apprentice Adept series of 7 books!. They are my fav series!. I have read them several times!. You can also try the Myth series by Robert Asprin!. They are awesome especially if you like humorous fantasy books!. The first one is called Another Fine Myth!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Uglies series - Uglies, Pretties, Specials, Extras Artemis Fowl series - Artemis Fowl, The Arctic Incident, The Eternity Code, The Opal Deception, The Lost Colony, and The Time Paradox Gemma Doyle trilogy - A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing Inkworld series - Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath Www@QuestionHome@Com Twilight and Eragon blow!. If you want good (Tolkien style) high fantasy, try The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay!. Garth Nix' Abhorsen series is also very good, but for younger readers, as is The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Try "Brisingamen" by my aunt Diana Paxson!. Anything by Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle In Time, A Wind In The Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet) !.!.!.Narnia, Harry Potter, LOTR, of course!. What about Anne McCaffrey!? If you like sword and sorcery, Tanith Lee or Michael Moorcock!.Www@QuestionHome@Com There's the inheritance cycle by Christopher Paolini, consisting of the books Eragon, Eldest, and the latest, Brisingr!.This series is awesome!!!!!!!!!! I'm sure you'll like it!Www@QuestionHome@Com Here are some older fantasy authors worth checking out: Jack Vance Fritz Leiber Clark Ashton Smith James Branch Cabell L!. Sprague de Camp H!. Rider Haggard Talbot Mundy Robert E!. Howard Www@QuestionHome@Com The Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickerman The Earthsea books the Tales of Drizzt by R!.A!. Salvatore (One of my favorites! But it's a long series) Sabriel series by Garth Nix Mister Monday and the other books by Garth Nix Www@QuestionHome@Com You gotta try "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman!. It's got giants, wizards, monsters, and, of course, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and her handsome groom, Wesley!Www@QuestionHome@Com read book named fish, alchemist(by paulo coelho) both are very small yet good books!.!.!.!.!.!.!.i know what are u thinking is good self developement book i once read Www@QuestionHome@Com His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman!. AWESOME books!Www@QuestionHome@Com Try the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Noble Dead series or the Pendragon series (it's not about King Arthur)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Harry PotterWww@QuestionHome@Com Conan series by Howard and/or DeCampWww@QuestionHome@Com twilightWww@QuestionHome@Com dragonlance and forgotten realms!.Www@QuestionHome@Com fruits basket!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I've read Eragon and Twilight, and for action/adventure, I highly reccomend the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman!. It starts with The Northern Lights (also known as The Golden Compass), then The Subtle Knife then The Amber Spyglass!. The first one was a little hard to get into, and the beginning is a bit confusing, but if you stick with, it gets amazing!. The 2nd two I read in a day each!. You won't be able to put it down!. Its set in world where people's souls are outside their bodies, in the form of animals called daemons!. Everyone's daemon represents them in some way!. Its set in different worlds and involves magic and Gyptians (kinda like gypsies) and Armoured Bears and heaps of other fantastical things!. You can read an extract of the first book here: http://www!.philip-pullman!.com/pages/cont!.!.!. You might also want to watch the movie trailer, although I didn't think the movie does the book justice!. It'll give you the gist of what its about!. http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=2vMmf8YAL!.!.!. I reccomend watching the movie AFTER you read the books!. It'll make more sense!. ----------------------------- And Im sure you've read Harry Potter, but if you haven't, you should DEFINITELY read them!. Action, adventure, mystery, everything!. ------------------------------ Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld is amazing too!. Set in the future, where at age 16, everyone gets an operation to be "pretty"!. No more prejudice against skin colour or attractiveness!. It goes Uglies, Pretties, Specials, Extras!. http://www!.scottwesterfeld!.com/books/ugl!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Hi! The House on the Borderland , The Ghost Pirates or The Night Land written by William Hope Hodgson !. :0) http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/William_Hop!.!.!. http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/The_House_o!.!.!. http://www!.gutenberg!.org/etext/10002 "In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten!. While there, they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned it!. Its torn pages seem to hint at an evil beyond anything that existed on this side of the curtains of impossibility!. This is a classic novel that worked to slowly bridge the gap between the British fantastic and supernatural authors of the later 19th century and modern horror fiction!. Classic American horror writer H!. P!. Lovecraft lists this and other works by Hodgson among his greatest influences!." http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/The_Ghost_P!.!.!. http://www!.gutenberg!.org/etext/10966 "The Ghost Pirates !. !. !. is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate!. With its command of maritime knowledge, and its clever selection of hints and incidents suggestive of latent horrors in nature, this book at times reaches enviable peaks of power!." — H!.P!. Lovecraft http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/The_Night_L!.!.!. http://www!.gutenberg!.org/etext/10662 The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson [O]ne of the strangest visions ever published in science fiction or fantasy is presented!. The Sun has gone out: the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism!. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, the Last Redoubt, probably the first arcology in literature, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark!. These are held back by a Circle of energy, known as the "air clog," powered from the Earth's internal energy!. For millennia, vast living shapes - the Watchers - have waited in the darkness near the pyramid: it is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies!. Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human!.?a Excerpted from The Night Land on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia!. =^,,^= Www@QuestionHome@Com Twilight!!!!! or Vampire kisses!. percy jackson the olympians series maximum ride series Anne McCaffrey's Pern series The His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld Go Ask Alice Romeo and Juliet Crank Burned The Lovely Bones Perfect Cut Life in the Fat Lane The Girls What My Mother Doesn’t Know Smack Lush Doing It** Freaky Green Eyes* Sold Reckless The Perks of Being a Wallflower Such a Pretty Girl* Anatomy Of a Boyfriend* Impulse My Sisters Keeper Been There Done That The Secrets of Boys Smashed The truth About Forever Pledged Glass Vanishing Acts Good In Bed Fireworks Sticky Fingers Someone Like You Shacked Up Love Sick* Lost It Dreamland* Dancing Naked Just Listen Good Girls Story Of a Girl* Just Like That Stoner and Spazz 13 Little Blue Envelopes This Lullaby Rainbow Party that summer Teach me two way street** my favorite but all of these are terrific keeping the moon The Saga of Recluce series by L E Modesitt Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg Try the Chronicles of Narnia by C!.S!. Lewis or A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket!. Both have been made into major motion pictures and i loved them both! hope this helpss xxWww@QuestionHome@Com |