Dragonlance

yeah i have to say i just reread all the books for a song of ice and fire and they absolutely blow everything else away that i have read. like a wheel of time is a good series dont get me wrong, and sword of truth wasnt bad either but they just arent even close. it kind of sucks now because i cant find a another series i enjoy half as much.

It's not fantasy, but the whole Ender's series by Orson Scott Card is absolutely fantastic, and one of the few books that I can actually say I enjoy as much as ASOIAF.  Give them a whirl.

Anyone who I may have offended talking critically about Jordans books, im sorry that your friend is dead.  Jordan if you can hear me, I really liked your descriptions of the nomadic bedouin type people. What was that one guys name, Rhuarc?

I think I would like to make a character based around that.

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Ha-HA... this thread picked the next book for me to read

New Ender booklet, Gavin.  The Power of Gifts, IIRC.  Read it - naturally it is top shelf.  The concept is tht a brilliant (naturally) pacifist son of a preacher gets drafted for Battle School.  "They can force me to go, but the cannot make me fight."  Excellent presentation of ethical problems and their solutions.  I lent it to Norm (Ardin Silverbow).  As I mentioned on Charlie's Picks, well worth the time.  If you want, I'll have Norm bring it to the April Event and you can borrow it.  When in 6th or 7th grade, my son read the book at my urging and his entire class soon followed.  It was universally enjoyed.  My wife, who does not read much for fun and science fiction never that I knew, has read most of the series.  Ender and Harry Potter - those are her two habits.New Card paperback is about terrorism in the USA, but of the domestic sort.  Basically the nuts at both ends of the spectrum.  Acceptable.  If you are heavily into mysticism, try his Alvin Maker series, and he has some excellent shorts based in the mid 19th century USA where the war ended differently and magic exists.  For fun, "Froggie goes Acourting" cannot be beat.

No one mentions Tyrian, the Dwarf.  I like him - despite his flaws, he is real.  Martin is so late with the book, and the series is already overexpanded, which in this instance I do not mind.  When we took our Central Europe Napoleonic Battlefield Tour, I read the last book in between playing games at night.  They are all tough to put down, but knowing I had intervals over two weeks to finish it plus the transatlantic flight made me able to accept reading chapters at a time, as opposed to ignoring friends and family.