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**gastabegree** · 05-14-2006, 08:00 AM

I concur, His Dark Materials is my favourite series, I prefer it to both LOTR and Harry Potter.
If we start proposing series then I think Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea series is very good, it was made into horrible tv films some years ago but tthey really are not related to the books.

As far as Fantasy series go:

I remember liking the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series (1st and 2nd) by Donaldson and the Amber series by Zelazny, but these are a bit old now, eh? The Xanth novels got a bit tiresome after a while. I've read all of Pratchett's stuff. Quite a bit of LeGuin (she is good), Anne McCaffrey, DragonLance, Terry Brooks, etc., etc. But, really, I can't think of anything that compares to Tolkien's Middle Earth novels. The quality of the writing, the depth of the history - it's just amazing as far as Fantasy writing is concerned. Some of his stuff seems a bit cliche, until you realize that he was the first to do it. Just good stuff, all around.

Hank.

05-14-2006, 08:00 AM	#25
gastabegree Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 503 Senior Member	I concur, His Dark Materials is my favourite series, I prefer it to both LOTR and Harry Potter. If we start proposing series then I think Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea series is very good, it was made into horrible tv films some years ago but tthey really are not related to the books. As far as Fantasy series go: I remember liking the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series (1st and 2nd) by Donaldson and the Amber series by Zelazny, but these are a bit old now, eh? The Xanth novels got a bit tiresome after a while. I've read all of Pratchett's stuff. Quite a bit of LeGuin (she is good), Anne McCaffrey, DragonLance, Terry Brooks, etc., etc. But, really, I can't think of anything that compares to Tolkien's Middle Earth novels. The quality of the writing, the depth of the history - it's just amazing as far as Fantasy writing is concerned. Some of his stuff seems a bit cliche, until you realize that he was the first to do it. Just good stuff, all around. Hank.
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