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Most of us love fantasy novels or books. Feel free to share here any of your favorite authors, as well as discuss books you've read, and to suggest some authors to others who might be interested. This is also a good place for book reviews or theories.

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One of my fav authors: J.R.R. Tolkein
What he wrote:
Most famously:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Hobbit
Not quite so famously:
The Simarillion
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
The Lost Tales, Part One
The Lost Tales, Part Two
And others....

Details and Comments: I've read The Lord of the Rings (all 3), The Hobbit, and parts of The Simarillion and Lost Tales, Part One and I am looking forward to reading more.
No, it's not an overexaggeration that Tolein writes whole paragraphs about ordinary trees, but the books are still reall worth reading. I personally thing the Lord of the Rings movies aren't as great as the books, but I can understand why many people prefer the movies: Loads more action, much less description.

Oh, yes. And there's something else I'd like to add...

The Worst Books I've Ever Read:
Eragon
Eldest Both by Christopher Paolini
The New Prophesy: Warriors By Erin Hunter

Description: Though Eragon (its sequel being Eldest) is well written for a 15-year-old, it is not well enough written to be called a "book for the public besides Paolini's family to read." Though the writing gets a bit better in Eldest, it is still not great. And on top of that, you could almost call Eldest a pornography book because there are so many scenes with women undressing for this reason or that reason or no reason. (Ok, so I'm exaggerating a little bit about how many times that happens, but it's still too many times for a book that 8-year-olds are going to read.) Both books are complete rip-offs of Lord of the Rings. In fact, if you take Lord of the Rings, replace the rings with Dragons, add horns to the orcs, and change the characters' names, you've pretty much got Eragon and Eldest.

As for Warriors, I didn't even get more than a few chapters into the book when I had to quit reading it because the names (such as Leaf Paw and Tawny Pelt) gave me a headache and the story was just plain overly sappy.

That's what I really dislike about Paolini. His books and and The Prophacy Stones, which was written by a thirteen-year-old girl.

Myself, I'm sixteen (seventeen in two months) and have been working on a fantasy novel of my own for the past three and a half years. But if and when I get it published, I want it to be of proffessional quality, real, honest-to-goodness proffessional quality. It ticks me off that these guys my age and younger are getting published just because they 'write good for someone thier age'. I wrote well for a five-year-old, but I don't want any of those stories to ever leave my closet. >.<

I know! It's so annoying! I've also been told that I'm a good writer, but 9 out of 10 chances I'm never going to even publish any of my short stories that I write now, unless I give them an extreme make over once I get into/out of college! Much less get famous for them.

(I'm 13 and working on a novel. Stop decriminating me! talk2hand I'm an excellent writer according to my librarians and teachers)

My Favourite Authors:

J.K Rowling
Mary Harelkin Bishop
Meg Cabot
Jean Little
Carol Matas

I like J.K's Harry Potter books because they are full of so much fantasy and adventure and it's all very creative what with her madeup world and spells and the whole idea. It's very creative and now whenever I write books I always pick up tips from her books.

I personally knew Mary Harelkin Bishop because she was the librarian at my school for 6 years. She wrote the Tunnels of Time books (Tunnels of Time, Tunnels of Terror, Tunnels of Treachery, Tunnels of Tyranny). It's awesome knowing authors (our new librarian is Dave Glaze, author of Pelly; and I also know Marcia Frid, author of the Bumpy the Bad Little Bear series).

I love Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series, because it is a diary first of all. I love diaries and these ones are especially satisfying because of the whole princess-genius-money thing. I love Mia Thermopolis! I also like her book 'Teen Idol.'

I like Jean Little's Dear Canada books. The Dear Canada books are historical fiction novels by many different authors- they are Scholastic and I absolutely heart them! There are 13 or 14 of them and they are all set in area of Canada, though none where I come from (yet)!

I really like Carol Matas' books because they are very mysterious and full of unexpected surprises. I like her books Cloning Miranda, Greater Than Angels and the Time Travel Series. (She also wrote a Dear Canada series!)

The prophecy stone was a little blanned but I really Liked Eragon and Eldest. I found it to be wel written. IOt's not the authors its the reader. Its whether you like it or not. Not the ageof the author or they're ability (But if they suck theu won't get published!0 and Eraggon and Eldest are really populer.

stare Go to a total stranger and get them to read one of your stories. If they think it's good, then it's good. If they throw it in your face and tell you that you suck, congradulations, you're a writer. Otherwise, keep your aditude to yourself, and the rest of us will deal with it the same way.

As for Eragon, I'm not saying Paloni's a bad guy. He seems very nice from his interviews, very deturmined and focused. However, his writing style is a pain in the a**. No set-up, no decent description, and his characters are about as exciting as Cheeroes for breakfast. Not to mention, Eragon himself is what the writer's forum elequently calls a 'Self-Inserision Gary Sue' . Paloni's even admited that he based the character off of himself. While my characters always have a bit or me in them, they're their own people and often very much NOT like me, more agressive, more stoic, more cocky, more anything, as long as they're NOT ME!

Long story short: I honestly believe the Eragon is a waste of good paper, and should have been turned into an e-book and sold over the interenet instead.