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ronincats, I read Riddle-Master for the first time last year and it is easily one of my favorite fantasy reads ever. Amazing stuff. ... Fire, by George R. R. Martin
~The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
~The Tower at Stony Wood by Patricia A. McKillip
~The Riddle-Master Trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip
~Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
~Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
~2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke ... ...
The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
The Briar King by Greg Keyes
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Riddle-Master by Patricia A. McKillip
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Califia's Daughters by Leigh Richards
Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith
Farthing by Jo Walton
Crusade ... The Riddle-Master of Hed which is the first book of The Riddle-Master's Game which you own.
Jack Vance's Lyonesse
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay which is the first part of The Fionavar Tapestry.
... Cooper all are fantasy with romantic side plots.
I highly recommend Patricia McKillip's stories, especially the Riddle-Master series, Alphabet of Thorn, The Changeling Sea and The Forgotten Beasts of Eld. I, too, enjoyed The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and The Riddle-Master, but my two favorite McKillip's are The Sorceress and the Cygnet and (most especially recommended) The Changeling Sea.
I am reading His Majesty's Dragon. Isn't this a book you recommended? ... reading The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, which won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1975, and then her fantastic Riddlemaster Trilogy, her lyrical writing immediately transports me into another world.
This book deals, as her books so often do, with multiple levels of reality, from ... lunacat
I'm excited to see your good reviews of the Riddle-Master Trilogy because I'm ordering that in February for my 999 fantasy category. I had planned to count it as one book--but I see now that if I get in a bind I can use if for 3. I can hardly wait until you finish the third one. I'm ... ... dark as some of her imagery, with a sense of humor and some lively characters! It's my favorite of her recent books ( the Riddlemaster trilogy and Forgotten Beasts of Eld are some of her earliest works--mid to late 70s.).
ETA The Perilous Gard is also one of my favorites from way back-- ... ... it was time to read about him again as an adult.
Genre:
I don't read a lot of fantasy , but I'd like to take a look at The Riddle Master books this year. Severn and a few others at the SFF site always had great things to say about McKillip. I'd also like to take a look at the first novel ... ... Chameleon and On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony, The Belgariad by Eddings, The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander, The Riddle-Master by Patricia McKillip, Shannara by Brooks, and The Riftwar series by Feist.
I'd also recommend the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane and others, ... ... can't get in the books he recommends.. He also sent Tigana home with me, but that one looks like I will like it.
Riddlemaster Trilogy was highly recomended by either TadAD or ronincats or both (as was Left Hand of Darkness--my son also recommended that and I own it, because i like Ur ... ... opera.
Fantasy
Definitely have something by Kay...Tigana is fine. I was one of the ones suggesting the Riddle Master books, I think it's great. However, if you're worried about the length, try The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by the same author.
Some other stuff to consider, ... ... recommended on LT and I was able to look at them today and they seemed like they might be enjoyable.
McKillip, Patricia: Riddle-Master trilogy--recommended on LT and looked at today; a possibility but it is long so I'd better like it! (I love LotR--but my older says that is more mythology ... ...
#26 alcottacre - I think it would be great place to give McKillip a try.
If you like it, my second favorite of hers is The Riddle of the Stars...sometimes published as The Quest of the Riddle Master...and sometimes as one book and sometimes as three. If you get a single volume, try ... ... of Darkness READ 2009
5. Herbert, Frank: Dune
6. Kay, Guy Gavriel: Tigana READ 2009
7. McKillip, Patricia: Riddle Master Trilogy
8. Miller, Walter M.: A Canticle for Leibowitz
9. Bradbury, Ray: The Martian Chronicles READ 2009
Other possibilities:
Category 6: Mys ... 94. Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
95. Riddle-Master by Patricia A. McKillip
96. After the Kiss by Suzanne Enoch
97. The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
98. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
99. Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
100. Knit Two
Page ... Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Earthsea Quartet by Ursula Le Guin
Riddlemaster's Game by Patricia McKillip
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
At least that's my answer today. ... Wicked! in spite of rave reviews by everyone I know. Just can not do it.
4. Couldn't finish Riddle of the Stars even though it was one of my favorite books as a much, much younger person.
5. Couldn't finish the latest Tom Clancy and guest author I started. I ... ... conflict from the point of view of Israeli-Arabs, which I had never considered before.
I recently read the Riddle-master trilogy omnibus, and I wasn't sure whether to count it as one big book or three small ones. Ultimately, I think I've decided to count it as three small ones ... ... I could cover them all in a day. My bedtime reading this week is an old Book Club Edition of Patricia A. McKillip's Riddle of the Stars which has all three of the riddle master of Hed books in it. This is a different edition than any the touchstones picked up. I read them individually ... Sci Fi / Fantasy
1. Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
2. Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
3. Riddle-Master by Patricia McKillip
4. Fire Study by Maria Snyder
5. The Terror by Dan Simmons (overlap with Historical Fiction)
6. Th ... ... Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
The Bronx is Burning by Jonathan Mahler
Riddle Master trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip
Bloody Jack by Louis A. Meyer
The Complete Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
Th ... ... Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
The Warrior by Kinley Magcregor
The Bronx is Burning by Jonathan Mahler
Riddle-Master by Patricia A. McKillip
Bloody Jack by Louis A. Meyer
Frogs and French Kisses by Sarah Mlynowski
The Complete Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Mo ... ... is much more useful than a list of books one hasn't liked.
Although I am glad to see I'm not the only one who thought Riddle-Master stunk. : ) ... Gene Stratton-Porter (also A Girl of the Limberlost)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Riddle Master of Hed by Patricia McKillip ... but the prose was achingly awful. Such clunky sentences... I was howling in pain.
Second would have to be The Riddle-Master's Game trilogy, I got through it but was very disappointed.
Oh, and I've been trying to read A Tale of two Cities since about 1999...
Edited to ... ... Nix is considered YA lit, but still higly recommended. I also have to put in a word for Patricia A. McKillip's Riddle Master which has some of the most wonderful characters I've ever encountered. ... throw out a few suggestions.
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia McKillip (Except for the Riddle Master, which can be gotten in one collected volume, her books are stand-alone novels.)
The Buried Pyramid by Jane Lindskold
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
Freed ... Patricia McKillip, mostly for the Riddle-master and Cygnet books, Ursula Le Guin though I ultimately love her sci-fi to her fantasy. Michael Ende and Diana Wynne Jones (especially for creating The Tough Guide to Fantasyland ) and Robin McKinley. Pamela Dean though I've ...
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