A Question for the 25 and under crowd - What have you read?

[Nightson]

I'm 19, Vance, Moorcock and Brooks are the only ones I haven't read.

On China Meiville, his fantasy is not traditional fantasy, but it is wonderful and imaginative. If you haven't read him then you should give him a try. Perdido Street Station is the best book to start.

 

[Derulbaskul]

I'm 40 so I didn't vote. I've read all those authors although I rarely read fantasy now (or much non-fiction). I just don't enjoy it very much. I much prefer reading history, religion and politics... and then designing my own campaigns and adventures for my fantasy kick!

 

[Engilbrand]

Roughly 6 years before I started playing D&D, I was reading the Salvatore novels.
Jordan and Goodkind have also been fairly major.
I've read a bit of Lackey and Keyes.
The Hobbit was good, but the actual trilogy bored me to the point that I stopped halfway through the second book.
I read the Elric stuff from Moorcock when I was a young teenager.
These have been the big ones. All other have been rare. Realistically, Salvatore shaped my idea of fantasy and what D&D should be more than anyone else. One of the reasons that 4th edition grabbed me so much is that I could finally have a character do all those things that were done in the Driz'zt novels.

 

[Shroomy]

I'm 32, so I didn't vote. I'm not a huge reader of fantasy fiction but I've enjoyed Rowling and love Mieville.

 

[Klaus]

I'm 34.

I've read:

Weis & Hickman (when I was 15)
Lovecraft
Lieber (only comic book adaptations)
Tolkien (just prior to the release of the movies)
GRRMartin (a couple of years ago)
Howard (a couple of years ago)

I've also read a bit of D&D novels (mostly Eberron) and back in the 90s I read a lot of Star Wars EU novels.

 

[Jhaelen]

Where's the voting for those over 25?

Since I'm 36, I didn't vote but I've read all of them except: China Mieville

 

[Mournblade94]

I've read snippets of Rowling, she's terrible.

Doesn't really matter. She is a positive force in that she got millions of kids to read around the globe.

My wife keeps trying to get me to read Harry Potter. She has been doing this for years. I have no interesti n reading the children's section at this point so I am pretty sure I won't sit down with them.

I saw the movies and they were great, and enough for me.

Still she gets mad anytime I start a new book because I don't give little harry a try.

Thank you JK Rowling for what you did for education, but your not my type of fantasy.

 

[jasin]

I'm 27, so I didn't vote, but from the list, I've read Vance, Leiber, Howard, Tolkien, Moorcock, Mieville and Pratchett. Tolkien got me into the whole fantasy thing, and reading Vance, Leiber and Moorcock has noticeably enhanced my enjoyment of D&D by finally shedding light on the origin of some of D&D's idiosyncrasies.

 

[Robert Ranting]

Heh, I will be 25 in June, so I make the cut.

I respect Tolkien's contribution to the genre, but do not like reading his prose.

I like Pratchet, but not enough to read all of the discworld novels.

China Mieville is among my favorite authors of all time, and I have read most of his published work.

The rest I have not read.

Not on your list, but also among my favorite Fantasy authors:

Stephen R. Donaldson (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant)
Neil Gaiman (Stardust, American Gods, Good Omens (with Pratchet))
Peter David (Sir Apropos of Nothing).

 

[Mournblade94]

Interestingly enough, I hear alot of the younger fantasy readers, talk about their distaste for Michael Moorcock and his 'type' of writing.

Michael Moorcock incidentally is one of the most NON traditional fantasy authors of the the old guard. He is very much, as he writes in his 'Epic Pooh' encouraging non traditionalist fantasy.

The non traditionalist fantasy is not necessarily my thing, but I have always loved Moorcock and his non traditionalist stories.

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