What other fantasy books do YOU read?

[McCaber]

People who have read A Game of Thrones: Sean Bean will play the part of Eddard Stark in the coming HBO series.

[Nerwen]

Well, I started to read Ashling, the second sequel to Obernewtyn, a fantasy for teenagers. I read the first book when I was a teenager, and liked it, but I don't know if I can be bothered with this one. Maybe it's just that I'm too old and too cynical these days.

I mean, the first instalment wasn't exactly original– your standard neo-medieval post-apocalyptic fare, complete with psychic mutants. (The Chrysalids must vie with LotR for the title of Most Frequently Ripped-off SF Novel.) All the same, if my memory's not playing me false, it wasn't too bad and the really cliched stuff stayed in the background.

With this one it's taken over... all the mutants now have silly Capitalised Names for their various "Talents"– in fact Everything Is In Capitals– and the story's going round and round in circles and seems likely to end exactly where the first book left off.... you know the kind of thing.

*sigh*

Oh, and there's a character named Angina(!), and it's not meant to be a joke.

[Gwathagor]

Anyone read the Mistborn series? I'm on the second book, The Well of Ascension. Good stories so far, ingenious system of magic. The writing itself is decent, but not fantastic (no pun intended).

[Hakon]

I actually just ordered the first book in Mistborn series online. A okay book by the same writer is Elantris. I just finished it a few days ago.

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by McCaber

People who have read A Game of Thrones: Sean Bean will play the part of Eddard Stark in the coming HBO series.

Really?! That's cool. (Although he wouldn't have been my first choice for the role, but with his skill, I know he can do it!)

Has anyone read Vellum by Hal Duncan? I just finished it, and I must say it was quite baffling. I have some (a lot of?) criticism against it, but I can't help but be hooked when someone takes ancient sumerian myths, the Bible and various other things and makes them into a pompously grand-scale mix involving a lost pre-ice age civilisation and repeated appearances of certain mythical characters throughout times and places...