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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 4603233" data-attributes="member: 2205">Wow.  I never would have guessed that the first post in this thread was out there somewhere.  I left D&D because I was frustrated that it didn't emulate the fantasy novels I was reading very well.  Back in the 1e and B/X days.  3e, or at least d20 if you worked in some optional and possibly 3rd party stuff, did that better than any other edition of D&D I'd ever played.Also; wow---you can't find good new stuff to read, but you're talking about how good David Eddings and Terry Brooks are?  Much of the rest of your list is stuff that I don't like much either.  I mean, Feist is OK, but nothing extraordinary, Donaldson is probably my least favorite fantasy writer ever to go into print, Moorcock is terribly over-rated, and the early Dragonlance books weren't any worse than the early Salvatore Forgotten Realms books.I dunno; I can tell you what I'm reading, but if that's the stuff you like, I can't guarantee that you'll like any of it.  Most of the stuff you seem to consider the watermarks of the genre are works that I think are pretty "meh" at best.I'm reading James Silke's oldish (late 80s) Death Dealer series, based on the Frank Frazetta character.  Plus some Jim Butcher Dresden Files stuff.  On my docket is Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora about a fantasy con-man; kind of fantasy Ocean's Eleven, the next book in Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series, the next book in Glen Cook's Black Company series (these aren't exactly new anymore either), the last of the Leigh Brackett Skaith books, Transit to Scorpio by Alan Burt Akers, the Llarn series by Garnder F. Fox and some Robert E. Howard (I just picked up the last of the Dell Rey Conan compilations and the Kull compilation a few weeks ago.)Oh, and I read Alan Campbell's Scar Night not to long ago, and I've been hankering to read the sequel there, too: Iron Angel I think it's called.</blockquote>

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