Eragon Series

DampCat · 16 Mar 2010 at 21:10

Hola.

I read fantasy. I previously read ALL the Pratchett Discworld series (my favourite), some Robert Rankin (touch and go), Tolkien, Neil Gaiman and a couple of random authors who escape me.

Im looking for a new series to occupy my abundant spare time, but, im liited to choice as the bookshops here are, well, PeePee Poor. I can get books 3 or 4 of one series, then books two and four of another... but never book one.

The only series ive found that's complete is the Eragon books (the 3 books in total).

I'm not hugely into books set in the modern day (Neil Gaiman excepted) and like a fantasy world. I enjoyed Harry Potter as far as "young adult" books are concerned, and all the Pratchett "YA" books too. Will i enjoy Eragon, given my previous reading history?

If not, what else can you recommend? Joe Abercrombie had some nice looking books but i cant find part 1 here.

Cheers

Shamikebab · 16 Mar 2010 at 21:28

Robin Hobb - Farseer Trilogy

californiadream · 16 Mar 2010 at 23:15

Shamikebab said:
Robin Hobb - Farseer Trilogy

Not sure about Eragon. But I definitely agree with the Robin Hobb suggestion. The story and the characters in her books are amazing.

Zeroecho99 · 17 Mar 2010 at 09:23

Try any of the series by these authors:-

Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time
George R R Martin - Game of Thrones
Terry Goodkind - Sword of Truth
Any book written by David Gemmell
A 2nd shout for Robin Hobb

I've only read the first two Eragon Books (there's four but No.4 is still being written) and thought they were "ok" but nothing startling.

deadite66 · 17 Mar 2010 at 09:34

Zeroecho99 said:
Try any of the series by these authors:-

Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time
George R R Martin - Game of Thrones
Terry Goodkind - Sword of Truth
Any book written by David Gemmell

these plus the tales of malazan series (high fantasy though so can be a hard read to understand all of it)

edit: also add the terry brooks Shannara series and pretty much all forgotten realms books (don't bother with Ed greenwood though as he's a terrible writer)

The Dread Pirate · 17 Mar 2010 at 10:00

Don't really rate Eragon I read the first book and thought it was average at best I reccomend.

The Chronicles of Obernewtyn ~ Isobelle Carmody

Garth Nix ~ The Old Kingdom Series

Phillip Pullman ~ Dark Materials

David Eddings ~ The Belgariad & The Mallorean Series

Various ~ Star Wars Expanded Universe Novels (Han solo Trilogy On-wards anything set before this isn't Star Wars so far as I'm concerned!)

C.S Lewis ~ The Chronicles of Narnia

ci_newman · 17 Mar 2010 at 17:03

It's kind of a series since the original was 10 smaller books, but how about Amber (AKA The Great Book of Amber) by Roger Zelazny:

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Book-Amber-Complete-Chronicles/dp/0380809060

I really enjoyed reading it

Antar Bolaeisk · 17 Mar 2010 at 17:10

Capn' $qu!ff said:
Phillip Pullman ~ Dark Materials

This

Or perhaps "The Dark Tower" series by Stephen King.

DampCat · 17 Mar 2010 at 18:47

Thanks for the ideas guys/. I read through the other thread too and decided on A Song of Ice and Fire or the Wheel of Time series, depending on what i can find in the crap middle east bookshops.

deadite66 · 17 Mar 2010 at 19:40

i'd go for the song of ice and fire first, wheel of time drags on a bit after a few books as the author started dragging the story out for the sake of money.