Spec me a book... Needs magic!

agnes · 22 Jul 2011 at 22:17

Looking for a fantasy world, dungeons and dragons with sorceres and huge magic scenes... That sort of thing.

Currently read (Author - book's')

J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter 1-7
Gath Nix - Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen
Ian Irvine - Geomancer, Tetrach, Alchymist and Chimera
Marcus Sedgwick - The Dark Flight Down

Still not enough dragons/magic or just general awsomeness

Seen all the Lord of the rings films, tried reading the books but still nothing! lol.

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Alan! · 22 Jul 2011 at 22:26

The Dragonlance Chronicles are a good read.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragons of Spring Dawning

They tick all your boxes.

AGD · 22 Jul 2011 at 22:29

Brandon Sanderson - try any of his series. Very very good.

Also Wheel of Time series if you somehow haven't heard of it before!

Dano · 22 Jul 2011 at 22:34

Robin Hobb - Farseer Trilogy

beh · 22 Jul 2011 at 23:16

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series by Michelle Paver.

shorttricky · 23 Jul 2011 at 09:29

My mother-in-law raves about the Trudi Canavan books. I don't know how much magic there is in them, but one series is called the Black Magician Trilogy, so I'm guessing it's at least mentioned

Shamikebab · 23 Jul 2011 at 11:01

Dano said:
Robin Hobb - Farseer Trilogy

THIS!

Magic and Dragons and absolute brilliance

Ahleckz · 23 Jul 2011 at 11:19

Might be a bit of a curveball, but Discworld would be worth checking out. Particular the Rincewind and Wizard storylines.

exia · 23 Jul 2011 at 11:35

Raymond E. Feist - Magician (Riftwar Saga)

burns · 23 Jul 2011 at 11:36

The Pern books by Anne McCaffrey could be a good bet.

Skidder · 23 Jul 2011 at 11:41

Also a bit of a curve ball but what about rivers of london. Magic in modern day london.

Dolph · 23 Jul 2011 at 12:00

The various books in the Dresden files

semi-pro waster · 23 Jul 2011 at 12:05

The High Druid of Shannara series by Terry Brooks may be worth a read, I've only just started on the second book in the trilogy and it's fairly entertaining but no idea if it's got enough dragons in it to satisfy.

If you don't mind reading a book with a more contemporary setting then Clive Barker's The Art Trilogy is pretty good, still a fair bit of magic but no dragons, at least in the two parts that have been released so far. Bear in mind there's also no schedule for the third book so that may prove annoying if you liked the first two.

DJ_Martin · 23 Jul 2011 at 12:14

The eragon books are meant to be alright. Not my thing though, I have Brisingr on my book shelf but have never opened it

marin · 23 Jul 2011 at 17:46

Try Wizard of Earthsea, 1000x better than Harry Potter !

PhillyDee · 23 Jul 2011 at 17:50

How about some of Tom Holts? Probably not at all what you are looking for, but good fun.

ryujinjakka · 23 Jul 2011 at 21:46

You Could give Katherine Kerr's deverry series, has magic, dragons, elves dwarfs and other races and lots of battle scenes and spreads over a good 15 books or so, so plenty to read.

No1newts · 23 Jul 2011 at 23:34

Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan
Malazan Book of the Fallen Series - Steven Erikson

You wil struggle to find better than those two series and you will have plenty to read, both about 12 books long.

horseunderwater · 24 Jul 2011 at 13:36

Try David Eddings The Belgariad series he was an excellent author

IceBus · 24 Jul 2011 at 14:08

Surely the Game of Thrones series meets this spec exactly?