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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TDRandall" data-source="post: 1677376" data-attributes="member: 4808">Never even heard of LeGuin or Mieville - thanks for the heads-up folks!  Although given the thoughts about those from above it may not exactly line up with what I'm looking for...For me, reading fantasy fiction is one of the rare realms of "utter fun" I have left; maybe I end up too "fluffy" as a result.  Of course I remember Tolkein - he hooked me for fantasy after all - but I probably won't read it through again.  Never could get through the Silmarillion even back then...I read several books by Feist, but that petered out over the years.  Same for McCaffrey and Brooks and Moorcock, but I stuck with them longer than Saberhagan.  I was big on Piers Anthony way back when but dropped out of Xanth - last thing I read of his was the Incarnations series.I think I've read everything by Eddings.  One person I haven't seen listed here yet that I really did enjoy is Melanie Rawn - enjoyed the Dragon Prince, Dragon Star, and the Exiles series so far.  I enjoyed Troy Denning with the Dark Sun Prism Pentad, but don't think I've read anything else of his.  Although not exactly fantasy, and each book is done by a different authore IIRC, I enjoyed the Dark Matter novels too - even have "By Dust Consumed" but haven't been able to get into it given it's electronic format).  Reviewing the above, it looks like I enjoy multi-book series that don't go into TOO many books before some major shift in overall story thrust.The biggest disconnect I have is George R.R. Martin.  I want to love him.  I just finished Game of Thrones and am impressed by the overall sweep and style.  He certainly seems to like extremes, though - the evil people are just so evil (and devious), crazy is sheer lunacy, the sex is blatant, loyalty is loyal to a fault (not exactly dumb, but always one step behind).  And while I expect the "good guys" to have challenges that seem daunting, I expect them to have some major victories too.  Except for a glimmer of hope with the status of the war at the end of the book, the Stark family as a whole crashed and burned a whole lot more than I was ready for.But I am definitely more a reader than anything else.  Movies are OK, I haven't hit the theatre in years, TV is being watched less and less.  I'd rather let the pictures run through my head as I turn the pages.</blockquote>

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