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Posted By: View Profile/ContactKsaltotun Feb 14, 2005 - 06:28 am Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

Hello all. I'm looking for a novel :-). Please recommend me something that meets my demands:
Required:
1. Genre - Fantasy
2. Original language of the novel - English
Desirable:
1. A wizard should be the main hero. I like wizards more than warriors.
2. No sob-stuff.
3. I don't mind pathos novels. Expressions like "And then the hero slew the terrible monster with a long forgotten incantation" :-) do not affect the attractiveness of the story for me.
PS. My first fantasy book was "Conan the Warrior" by Robert Howard. Now I'm finishing reading his works and looking for something to read next.

 

Posted By: View Profile/Contactgnollslayer Feb 16, 2005 - 10:57 am Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

Terry Goodkind's "Wizard's First Rule" should meet your requirements, and your desire-ments.

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactAldan Feb 16, 2005 - 11:23 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

By the way, you chose well in starting with Howard's Conan novels. They weren't complex, but were quite enjoyable reads. I agree with gnollslayer about the choice of 'Wizard's First Rule' for a good read that meets your requirements. Plus, it's a long novel, so you'll be able to enjoy it for a good long time...

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactTheophilus Mar 11, 2005 - 05:41 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

Have you read "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin? I believe it would meet all of your standards.

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactMagus Mar 11, 2005 - 08:26 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

I'm reading that right now, actually. Excellent book! But it's surprisingly short. Oh, well. There are like four more of them.

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactTheophilus Mar 14, 2005 - 08:33 am Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

Yes, although one of them is a collection of short stories.

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactMagus Mar 14, 2005 - 03:10 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

Really?

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactTheophilus Mar 14, 2005 - 04:19 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

Yeeep.

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactMagus Mar 14, 2005 - 06:07 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

Interesting...

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactTheophilus Mar 14, 2005 - 06:29 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

*refuses to make another one-word post in response.* :P

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactMagus Mar 14, 2005 - 06:39 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

***Look up "Yeep" in the dictionary. Technically it's not a one word reply, as it really isn't a word.***

LOL

 

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