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What do readers say about The Colour of Magic?
fast-paced and funnyvery, very funnylight fantastical fantasyinventive and funny'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday
NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat ... Read more about The Colour of Magic
FIRE ROARED through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards’ Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its o...
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What do readers say about The Fellowship of the Ring?
adventure and fairy talea holy grailtoo much folklorea wonderful classicThe opening novel of The Lord of the Rings-the greatest fantasy epic of all time-which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
The dark, fearsome Ringwr... Read more about The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo was very rich and very peculiar, and had been the wonder of the Shire for sixty years, ever since his remarkable disappearance and unexpected return. The riches he had brought back from his trav...
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What do readers say about A Game of Thrones?
fast moving storydark and depressingtightly crafted prosehonor, duty and loveWinter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King's Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert's name. There his family dwells in pea... Read more about A Game of Thrones
The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer. They set forth at daybreak to see a man beheaded, twenty in all, and Bran rode among them, nervous with excite...
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What do readers say about The Dark Tower I?
post apocalyptic tonehis end-times workgrim and despairingslow almost meditative storytellingThe Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.
'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.' The iconic opening line of Stephen King's groundbreaking series, The Dark Tower, introd... Read more about The Dark Tower I
The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what might have been parsecs in all directions. White; blinding; waterless; without feature save for the faint, cloudy haze ...
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What do readers say about The Blade Itself?
cynical, dark, high fantasyvivid, visceral prosethe characters are well-writtencompelling and wittyThe first novel in the First Law Trilogy and debut fantasy novel from New York Times bestseller, Joe Abercrombie.
Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead ba... Read more about The Blade Itself
Logen opened his eyes a crack. Light, blurry bright through leaves. This was death? Then why did it hurt so much? His whole left side was throbbing. He tried to take a proper breath, choked, coughed u...
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What do readers say about Assassin's Apprentice?
clear and invitingtraditional, old-fashioned fantasyfirst person narrationstraightforward and simple"Fantasy as it ought to be written . . . Robin Hobb's books are diamonds in a sea of zircons."-George R. R. Martin
Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father's gruff stableman. H... Read more about Assassin's Apprentice
A history of the Six Duchies is of necessity a history of its ruling family, the Farseers. A complete telling would reach back beyond the founding of the First Duchy, and if such names were remembered...
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What do readers say about H.P Lovecraft?
good old fashioned horrorlibrary of americathe book itselfweird fiction"The Call of Cthulhu," first published in the magazine Weird Tales in 1928. The creature is described as "a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigio... Read more about H.P Lovecraft
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it ...
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What do readers say about Magician?
leaden and repetitiveit is quite lengthya good adventure storythe world of midkemiaThe Riftwar Saga-a classic of fantasy literature which no true fan should be without-opens with this tale of magic, might, and adventure.
"One of the world's most successful fantasy fiction authors."-The Guardian
Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga-a c... Read more about Magician
Pug danced along the edge of the rocks, his feet finding scant purchase as he made his way among the tide pools. His dark eyes darted about as he peered into each pool under the cliff face, seeking th...
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What do readers say about The Dragonbone Chair?
top notch writinggood old-fashioned storytellingplodding and slowlengthy and boring"One of my favorite fantasy series." -George R. R. Martin
"Groundbreaking." -Patrick Rothfuss
"One of the great fantasy epics of all time." -Christopher Paolini
New York Times-bestselling Tad Williams' landmark epic fantasy saga of Osten Ard begins... Read more about The Dragonbone Chair
ON THIS day of days there was an unfamiliar stirring deep inside the dozing heart of the Hayholt, in the castle's bewildering warren of quiet passages and overgrown, ivy-choked courtyards, in the monk...
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What do readers say about Wizard's First Rule?
fluid, simple and well-controlledepic and personala gripping talericher, detailed worldMillions of readers the world over have been held spellbound by this valiant tale vividly told.
Now, enter Terry Goodkind's world, the world of the Sword of Truth.
In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell... Read more about Wizard's First Rule
It was an odd-looking vine. Dusky variegated leaves hunkered against a stem that wound in a stranglehold around the smooth trunk of a balsam fir. Sap drooled down the wounded bark, and dry limbs slump...
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