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So good he decided to do it twice. :)

I believe you'll get more out of Liveships if you have already read Farseer, but no, it's not essential.

I'm also in the negative camp. In my opinion Eddings perfectly encapsulates what is wrong with fantasy today.

Beauty by Sherri Tepper - not your average time travel story (if such exists) but probably my favourite book on the concept.

I advise against the Runestaff books, but any of the Elric books are worth buying.

It depends whether the author can pull it off or not. I'm guessing you read something that the author had just decided to write in second person for no particular reason. However, there are a couple of works that use second person very effectively and the style comments significantly on the...

Dracula - reading it made me want to kill myself. How boring can vampires be? Very, according to Bram Stoker.

Tarot cards: I have a deck but would never really use them, but didn't want them to just collect dust as they are very pretty, so I use them as bookmarks. Means I never really run out and can keep multiple books on the go.

The first time I read it I lost interest about half way through. However, I came back to it and thought the second half was much better and more exciting than the first. I've also read the second book Isle of Battle, but didn't think it was anything special and I might get the third book if I...

Nothing really springs to mind. You could try It, the Stand and Eyes of the Dragon all by King. These works are fairly similar to DT and that's about the best I can do.

Babel 17 - Samuel Delany Lord of Light - Rodger Zelazny Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe The Island of Dr Death and other short stories - also Gene Wolfe These are about the only ones I can think of at the minute which really stand out.

There's some nostalgia value because I read it when I was quite young and really loved it. I tried to read it recently and I found the first couple of chapters so bland that I stopped reading so as not to destroy the memories I have. The Empire trilogy he wrote with Wurts is, im my opinion...

Babel 17 by Samuel Delany. One of my favourite sci-fi books and plenty to talk about (but still nice and short).

She writes children's books under her real name which I suddenly can't remember. :( Anyway, I thought Across the Nightingale Floor was generally quite average. Apart from the Japanese style setting which seemed almost gimmicky because of its lack of detail and relevance there was very little...

It's a little removed from the worlds of Drangonlance and the Hobbit, but you should give it ago. In fact, I think everyone should, though it's always going to be controversial because of sheer length and heaviness.

Excellent news, I've been eagerly awaiting this novel for several years now :). Always been perfectly contented to wait if it means a higher quality production and I'm fairly confident Martin will pull though and hopefully match the anticipation.

Lions of Al Rassan is the only book of his I've read, but it was very enjoyable. Slightly irrational and OTT at times, but generally refreshing.

Two giants of the genre, everyone must at least try them and while they won't be to everyone's taste (the are heavy-going books), personnally I think both Gormenghast the Book of the New Sun (plus everything else Wolfe has written) are absolute masterpieces.

How about Slayer? :)

Fantasy authors decide names by mashing the keyboard, its a well known fact :) vfwguefw - child if I have a boy gvrwhhgvwu# - and a girl Makes things so much easier ;)