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excellent stand-alone fantasy novel?

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by Enagonios, Jul 22, 2004.

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    [​IMG] hey, would anyone happen to know any good stand-alone (meaning no sequels, prequels, series, etc.) fantasy novels? and good samurai novels too. thanks all.
     
    Enagonios, Jul 22, 2004
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    Tad Williams's "War of the Flowers" is an excellent stand alone fantasy novel enjoyed quite a bit.
     
    joacqin, Jul 22, 2004
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    If you can find it, Silverlock by John Myers-Myers is pretty neat. I think it's long out of print though.
     
    dmc, Jul 22, 2004
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    I quite liked "Tigana" by Guy Gavriel Kay.
     
    Colthrun, Jul 29, 2004
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    David Gemmel's 'Dark Moon' is good.
     
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    I enjoyed "Emergence" by David Palmer enough to have read it several times over the years. His novel "Threshold" was very good as well, but it was the first book of a planned trilogy that never got any further.
     
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    Another David Gemmel book, "Galilee" is a good one, also check out "The redemtion of Althalus" by David Eddings. Both darn good reads.
     
    Urithrand, Aug 9, 2004
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    yeah, i have the redemption of althalus already. i enjoyed it but it got a bit too "cute" for my taste with all the damn familial pet names
     
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    You must look for this one: The Redemption of Althalus By David Eddings. It's a Stand alone (Although the dutch translation was split into 2 volumes for some unknow reason).

    It's a real good fantasy story!
     
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    The original: Romance of the Three Kingdoms! Seriously, this is one of my favorite books of all time. It's sort of fantasy, so that's my suggestion. Only problem is that it's hard to find.
     
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    im about to start reading RoTK (was inspired from playing Dynasty Warriors hehe). Any more ideas? My moms about to come back from the states so I have to get the titles fast :o its hard to find decent fantasy novels here in the philippines, what a pisser.
     
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    A Classiq: Alice in Wonderland and offcourse: Through the Looking glasss, and what Alice found there
     
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    Morningstar by David Gemmel the way it's told is really cool :)
     
    Vermillion, Aug 14, 2004
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    "Across the Nightingale Floor"--a fairly good samurai novel IMHO. Unfortunately the author's name escapes me. There's also "Shogun" by James Clavell.
     
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    yeah, shogun started me on the whole samurai trend. im trying to find Taiko by Eiji something right now.
     
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    The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny sort of counts -- fantastic book(s). It's available in one volume now, though it was originally 10 novels. Simply one of the best fantasy series of all time.
     
    The Deviant Mage, Aug 24, 2004
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