fantasy novels

[DK]

The love for ASoIaF makes me exceptionally happy. Unfortunately, that series and its awesomeness has just about ruined every other fantasy novel. For someone who writes fantasy, I tend to hate just about every series I read. xD

I agree with everything you just said. I find it nearly impossible to be affected by the "usual" fantasy novel shocker after the jarring events in A Storm of Swords. It's kind of hard to beat the tragedy that is the Stark family. Unfortunately, after A Feast for Crows, I worry that even GRRM will have difficulty topping that in the future.

I don't know, I actually read Feists Magician trilogy after reading ASoIaF and still enjoyed it thoroughly, although I guess it was sort of broken for me in that I kept expecting all the likeable characters to die, or get raped and kidnapped, or some sort of generally horrific thing happen to them. When things kept going well I was utterly lost and confused.

[rubah]

about a Game of Thrones
(SPOILER)smurf GRRM ;.; I loved ned ;.;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; I cried so hard over him ;o

The only bad thing about the books is that if you go a year between reading them, you can't really pick up with the next one and carry on x.x; and I don't feel like rereading a million pages so I can read a second million pages ;o

Apparently Ann C. Crispin the star wars author collaborated with Andre Norton (the witch world author) on a witch world book. I find that funny because I was/am reading AC crispin's han solo trilogy while I read CotWW xD

andre norton also has a book called Gods and ANDROIDS. I recommend that you take a look at the text on the cover. I laughed really hard when i saw it xD

my mom apparently has the first eight wheel of time books. or so she claims.

[Araciel]

Care to explain why?

Not really.

:P

Seriously, I just think they feel comic-y. Not that there's anything wrong with that, and I did enjoy every one of his books I've read (which is many, some of which even outside the FR universe), but it just seems to me that the flow of his books and language/imagery therein would be better suited to a graphic novel. The same can be said of a lot of fantasy books, but his in particular just strike me that way.