The Caer Falken Inn

Greetings everyone!

I am seeking any suggestions you all may have for some good books to read. And yes, you guess it, with a setting very similar to what we rp on Friday nights. I recently finished a series by Salvatore and before I just pick one off the shelf I thought I would ask you guys your opinion.

Let me know what you think of and thanks.

Mark

These are my favorites.

The Belgariad and The Mallorean. A 5 book series and its sequel 5 book series, which I justfinished reading for the 4th or 5th time. Author: david Eddings. very detailed world and history with an easy going read and witty sense of humor without being campy. After the Hobbot and LOTR, my all time favorite.

You like D&D? The Dragonlance books by Weiss and Hickman are a must, recently re-released. There are numerous sequels and stories about individual characters from the story. It was a gimmick in the early to mid 80's. They released a series of Dungeon modules that matched the books. They actually played out the plot lines in R&D and then had the authors write stories based on what happened in the campaign. It paid off for TSR in the millions and helped build a fan base to make D&D a household word. It's got flaws, but is fun.

Thieves World/Sanctuary books. A project developed by Robert Aspirin back in the fantasy renaissance of the early 80's. A bunch of writers, after gathering at a sci fi convention, decided to have a shared universe and all tell stories in that setting, borrowing each other's character to enhance their own stories. In a sense, each chapter was like a seperate short story by the individual authors. Some authors took their characters and did later solo books (Lythande and Shadowspawn are the most famous). I understand these were also re released not thatlong ago.

Classic sci Fi/fantasy:

Elric of Melnibone/Stormbringer series by Michael Moorcock and fafhrd and the Grey Mouser/Nehwon series by Fritz Leiber (whom I actually corresponded with and got literary advice from). They were contempraries of each other, both won awards and were both very important to gary gygax, the D&D founder, as inspiration. gary claimed that LOTR did not inspire D&D despite some similarities in genre, but these other folks were greater inspirations. These books are all short and the series' are like 5 or 6 books long, probably available now in single volumes.

Do you like Robin Hood? I suggest Sherwood and the sequel Robin and the King. I have read these two books by Parke Godwin so many times that the leaves are falling out of the binding. They vary from the traditional Richard the Lion hearted stories in that, the author reasons the following: If ever there would have been such a hero, he would have existed during the Norman invasion at the time when William the Conguerortook over England. They blurthe lines between right and wrong and good and evil between Robin Hood and the Sherriff of Nottingham, both og whom merely want to get along in life and be happy, but the world and politics bring them head to head, face to face and alternatingly enemies and friends. I LOVE these books, and the fact that nobody knows about them is a sin. The history of the times is highly accurate too.

That ought to keep you busy.

LMAO yeahhh no way I can add to that

Thanks very much for the detailed suggestions. I am a big fan of the long epic reads so that first one will be my next target. I did however just purchase a three book epic that is from the Dragon Lance series.

I am also curious about reading the Robin Hood books, how can anyone not like that??

And you did give me another easy, cheap idea. I can reread Tolkien for the umpteenth time. Amazing how that never gets old to me.

Thanks again!