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Discovered the first book in a bookshop in Japan just after I started as cabin crew. They had very few books in English and it looked my sort of book. Absolutely loved it and read all of them.
I'm currently rereading the Mallorean as we speak 
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Good evening OP!
My sisters, my friends and I read all the books whilst at school. As my older sisters bought all the books, I didn't have to - but I did it anyway. I wanted my own dog eared copies and still have them today. Mostly bought new as I lacked patience with finding second hand copies in shops back then.
We all loved the Belgariad and the Mallorean. Although the Belgariad was the better of the two. |
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"Have you got a favourite character Lisa?
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Velvet, I think. Or Vella.
Pol is a bit too prim.
Silk for the win.
Always!  "
Maybe with Beldin as a runner up. |
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My school friends started calling me Silk as, according to them, I had the same sarcastic sense of humour. I also have the right colour hair. They still call me Silk even now but I don't think I'm such a sarky so and so. 
They also claimed I looked like a cross between a rat and a weasel.  |
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over a year ago
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"My school friends started calling me Silk as, according to them, I had the same sarcastic sense of humour. I also have the right colour hair. They still call me Silk even now but I don't think I'm such a sarky so and so.
They also claimed I looked like a cross between a rat and a weasel. "
And Silk's half-brother!! |
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"Never could get into the dreamers, though. Was that what the later series was called?"
I liked the Sparhawk books - The Elenium and The Tamuli
But I didn't really like The Dreamers. Too complicated but also predictable.
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"Never could get into the dreamers, though. Was that what the later series was called?
Mallorean"
I read the Belgariad, the Mallorean etc. The dreamers came later. |
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By *isaB45 OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Never could get into the dreamers, though. Was that what the later series was called?
Mallorean
I read the Belgariad, the Mallorean etc. The dreamers came later."
I'm not sure if I saw these. |
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"Never could get into the dreamers, though. Was that what the later series was called?
Mallorean
I read the Belgariad, the Mallorean etc. The dreamers came later.
I'm not sure if I saw these."
They really didn't seem as good. |
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By *isaB45 OP Woman
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"Never could get into the dreamers, though. Was that what the later series was called?
Mallorean
I read the Belgariad, the Mallorean etc. The dreamers came later.
I'm not sure if I saw these.
They really didn't seem as good."
Steer toward or swerve away from? |
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"Never could get into the dreamers, though. Was that what the later series was called?
Mallorean
I read the Belgariad, the Mallorean etc. The dreamers came later.
I'm not sure if I saw these.
They really didn't seem as good.
Steer toward or swerve away from?"
Hey everyone has their own taste. You might like them. But I'd go for Elenium + Tamuli 1st if you've not read them. |
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"Never could get into the dreamers, though. Was that what the later series was called?
Mallorean
I read the Belgariad, the Mallorean etc. The dreamers came later.
I'm not sure if I saw these.
They really didn't seem as good.
Steer toward or swerve away from?"
Steer towards the Sparhawk ones, steer away from the Dreamers (think the book titles are The Elder Gods and The Younger Gods)
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"Never could get into the dreamers, though. Was that what the later series was called?
Mallorean
I read the Belgariad, the Mallorean etc. The dreamers came later.
I'm not sure if I saw these."
I never read the Dreamers. After reading the Elenium and Tamuli, whilst I enjoyed them, I felt disappointed with how many characters seemed to echo ones in the Belgariad and Mallorean and I didn't want to keep reading variations of the same characters. I might try reading the Dreamers one day. |
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"Never could get into the dreamers, though. Was that what the later series was called?
Mallorean
I read the Belgariad, the Mallorean etc. The dreamers came later.
I'm not sure if I saw these.
I never read the Dreamers. After reading the Elenium and Tamuli, whilst I enjoyed them, I felt disappointed with how many characters seemed to echo ones in the Belgariad and Mallorean and I didn't want to keep reading variations of the same characters. I might try reading the Dreamers one day. "
Eddings did seem to recycle his own work a lot. Especially over time. |
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"So have readers found other series or stories with the same sort of likeable ensemble cast? There's an unfinished series I can't bring myself to recommend much as I love it (not Game of Thrones)
J"
Maybe the old dragonlance books, back in the day? dunno how they've aged though. |
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"My school friends started calling me Silk as, according to them, I had the same sarcastic sense of humour. I also have the right colour hair. They still call me Silk even now but I don't think I'm such a sarky so and so.
They also claimed I looked like a cross between a rat and a weasel.
And Silk's half-brother!!"
I would be very surprised if I had any half-siblings in reality! |
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"My school friends started calling me Silk as, according to them, I had the same sarcastic sense of humour. I also have the right colour hair. They still call me Silk even now but I don't think I'm such a sarky so and so.
They also claimed I looked like a cross between a rat and a weasel.
And Silk's half-brother!!
I would be very surprised if I had any half-siblings in reality! "
You never know. The milkman gets around |
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"So have readers found other series or stories with the same sort of likeable ensemble cast? There's an unfinished series I can't bring myself to recommend much as I love it (not Game of Thrones)
J"
Julie - if the only reason you can't recommend it is because it's not finished, can you tell us anyway? I'd like to check it out.
Quite a few years back, I became a big fan of the Heralds of Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey.
I currently very much enjoy the Bewitched & Bewildered series by Alanea Alder although there's a lot more romance in that series. However, there's several books left to be written/published in that series. |
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"My school friends started calling me Silk as, according to them, I had the same sarcastic sense of humour. I also have the right colour hair. They still call me Silk even now but I don't think I'm such a sarky so and so.
They also claimed I looked like a cross between a rat and a weasel.
And Silk's half-brother!!
I would be very surprised if I had any half-siblings in reality!
You never know. The milkman gets around "
I could have a real life Urgit? My mother never tells me anything! |
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"My school friends started calling me Silk as, according to them, I had the same sarcastic sense of humour. I also have the right colour hair. They still call me Silk even now but I don't think I'm such a sarky so and so.
They also claimed I looked like a cross between a rat and a weasel.
And Silk's half-brother!!
I would be very surprised if I had any half-siblings in reality!
You never know. The milkman gets around
I could have a real life Urgit? My mother never tells me anything! "
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"So have readers found other series or stories with the same sort of likeable ensemble cast? There's an unfinished series I can't bring myself to recommend much as I love it (not Game of Thrones)
J
Julie - if the only reason you can't recommend it is because it's not finished, can you tell us anyway? I'd like to check it out.
Quite a few years back, I became a big fan of the Heralds of Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey.
I currently very much enjoy the Bewitched & Bewildered series by Alanea Alder although there's a lot more romance in that series. However, there's several books left to be written/published in that series. "
I'm gonna guess it's Rothfuss or Scott Lynch... |
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"So have readers found other series or stories with the same sort of likeable ensemble cast? There's an unfinished series I can't bring myself to recommend much as I love it (not Game of Thrones)
J
Julie - if the only reason you can't recommend it is because it's not finished, can you tell us anyway? I'd like to check it out.
Quite a few years back, I became a big fan of the Heralds of Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey.
I currently very much enjoy the Bewitched & Bewildered series by Alanea Alder although there's a lot more romance in that series. However, there's several books left to be written/published in that series. "
I like Mercedes Lackey. And I like romance so that's not a deal breaker in any way.
The books are The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. They are among my favourite books ever which is why I'm so reluctant to recommend as everyone I've told has also loved them and is in the same desperate boat waiting for the final book. It has been years! 
Ilona Andrews and Shannon Mayer are good but more on the sci-fi and shifter side of fantasy. Also Sarah J Maas.
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"So have readers found other series or stories with the same sort of likeable ensemble cast? There's an unfinished series I can't bring myself to recommend much as I love it (not Game of Thrones)
J
Julie - if the only reason you can't recommend it is because it's not finished, can you tell us anyway? I'd like to check it out.
Quite a few years back, I became a big fan of the Heralds of Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey.
I currently very much enjoy the Bewitched & Bewildered series by Alanea Alder although there's a lot more romance in that series. However, there's several books left to be written/published in that series.
I like Mercedes Lackey. And I like romance so that's not a deal breaker in any way.
The books are The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. They are among my favourite books ever which is why I'm so reluctant to recommend as everyone I've told has also loved them and is in the same desperate boat waiting for the final book. It has been years!
Ilona Andrews and Shannon Mayer are good but more on the sci-fi and shifter side of fantasy. Also Sarah J Maas.
Jx"
I knew it lol |
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"I like Mercedes Lackey. And I like romance so that's not a deal breaker in any way.
The books are The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. They are among my favourite books ever which is why I'm so reluctant to recommend as everyone I've told has also loved them and is in the same desperate boat waiting for the final book. It has been years!
Ilona Andrews and Shannon Mayer are good but more on the sci-fi and shifter side of fantasy. Also Sarah J Maas.
Jx"
Thanks J. I'm waiting to start on Rothfuss.
I've read Ilona Andrews, Shannon Mayer and Sarah J Maas - I like them too. I'm currently partway through Shannon Mayer's Alpha Territories series, just waiting for the next to come out.
For more shifter books, I recommend Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series. Also K N Banet's Jacky Leon series. They are both ongoing series' but none of the books end on cliffhangers. |
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"Thanks J. I'm waiting to start on Rothfuss.
I've read Ilona Andrews, Shannon Mayer and Sarah J Maas - I like them too. I'm currently partway through Shannon Mayer's Alpha Territories series, just waiting for the next to come out.
For more shifter books, I recommend Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series. Also K N Banet's Jacky Leon series. They are both ongoing series' but none of the books end on cliffhangers. "
I've read everything by Patricia Briggs - the Alpha and Omega series is linked to the Mercy Thompson books. So I'll definitely check out the Jacky Leon books
Thanks for this thread Lisa!
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"Thanks J. I'm waiting to start on Rothfuss.
I've read Ilona Andrews, Shannon Mayer and Sarah J Maas - I like them too. I'm currently partway through Shannon Mayer's Alpha Territories series, just waiting for the next to come out.
For more shifter books, I recommend Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series. Also K N Banet's Jacky Leon series. They are both ongoing series' but none of the books end on cliffhangers.
I've read everything by Patricia Briggs - the Alpha and Omega series is linked to the Mercy Thompson books. So I'll definitely check out the Jacky Leon books
Thanks for this thread Lisa!
J"
Oh yes, I forgot about the Alpha and Omega books - I have read them too. They're good, I do enjoy them and have re-read but I prefer Mercy Thompson.
I think you'll also like books by Anne Bishop - the Black Jewels series (which has a sequel that I can't recall the name of), the Courtyard of the Others series and World of the Others.
Possibly also Brogan Thomas' books. I loved (and cried through) the first two books of her Creatures of the Otherworld series. The 3rd and 4th books were ok. She's started a sequel series which so far I love. |
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