thread: Raymond E Feist - similar recommendations?

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  1. #1
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    oooh I love Raymond Feist, he is my favourite. Do you have the single books too (i.e the ones that are not part of a series) "faerie tale" was great.
    I had to get the newest one wile it was still in hardcover, so it would be the same size as the others (lol cant have them not liniing up in the bookcase!) So I normally get them at Target or BigW as there cheaper.

    David Eddings I like, not so much Robert Jordan though i think thats cos the WOT series was just too long for me.

    Terry Brooks is another one I've read reasonable recently so I havent read much but like the "genesis of Shannara" series.

    Ian Irvine too, the "View from the Mirror" series. There were 4 books in all I think, and it took me about a third of the first one to get in to it, but after that I read all four in a weekend. Not so much similar in style to Feist though, just a good series.
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    Rayray, that's the series I'm reading through. Knowing that someone else has found the same thing makes me think it's more the book than me. I was ready to give up at one point, but I'm glad I kept with it until it grabbed me.

    BW

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    I wouldn't bother with the wheel of time series, as far as I know the author died and rudely left the series unfinished.

    I second going on to Robin Hobb after Feist, I have every single Feist book, can't get enough.

    I also recommend Fire and Ice Series by George RR Martin, Those three authors are my top three.

    All the others mentioned are great also.

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    Woohoo!!
    Thanks for the suggestions.

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    I also like the Aurian series by Maggie Furey. At the time I got them it was the first female main character I had read. I re-read this series regularly

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    Love Feist here too! Others I like are Janny Wurts, Jennifer Fallon, Fiona McIntosh, Katherine Kerr, David Eddings.

    I started the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan too and got up to book five. Just lost concentration on it, they are VERY long. DP got up to book eleven so he did better than I did Might get around to finishing it one day cause I can't leave the books unread once I've started

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    Jul 2008
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    I second the David Eddings option. My Husband loves Eddings AND Feist! Belgariad is definitely a good place to start!