It's hard to tell over the internet and a lot of people take things personal when they shouldn't. Sorry for accusing you of being offended and over sensitive.

I hated all of Anne Rice's books. I hated reading Stephen King's Needful Things. I also hated reading his first book from the Dark Tower series(never read the others). I also hated reading Starship Troopers. And I can only stand J.R.R. Tolkien's writings when I'm in the right mood. Like mentally prepared for all the details... Because J.R.R. Tolkien spares no details...

The first trilogy has just finished being released here in Brazil, with Magician split as two books.

In fact, they called it all "A Saga do Mago" (The Magician Saga) which is rather bland compared to its original name, The Riftwar Saga.

I bought them, but I'm yet to read them. I do expect them to be good, though.

On the subject of The Lord of the Rings, it took me quite a while to read the Trilogy. I had it in a single volume. I read half of it, then returned to it and finished, more than a year later. It simply didn't capture my attention all that much.

A Song of Ice and Fire is a series that I was eager to read, just because I had read that it was pretty good. After I bought the first and before I read it, my mom commented on the TV series plot and I suddenly didn't feel all that interested in it anymore. I eventually read the first and liked the writing, though not so much the story. I do want to see it through, though. I have all the other published books of the main series, I just haven't read them yet because they are utterly huge.

Thanks. Haven't read any of those. I liked Stephen Kings' Shining and Pet Sematary but that was long ago.

I'll let you know if I liked the Riftwar Saga.

I once knew a person who was a huge fan of the Discworld books and that person was also a fan of Stephen King''s stuff so you should check out his other books.

THis sums up what I think about the series too.. It's a bit to simplistic.

If your a fan of Stephen King you might want to check out The Eye of the Dragon. I think it may be his only fantasy story, but not positive on that. All I know is it was a pretty good book.

If you have never read The Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan, you are missing out.

Steven Karl Zoltan Brust (Steven Brust on the cover) is one of my favorite authors because of his sense of humor, the "three musketeers" writing style of the one series, and the way he really gets into the humanity and gears of the world in the Vlad Taltos novels.

David Eddings is a very good fantasy author, I might recommend checking out the Belgariad(5 book series followed by another quintology in the same world: Malloreon), though the Elenium trilogy is also good and followed by the Tamuli trilogy. There are similarities in places between the two world settings in the four series but quite different worlds.

A less known one might be Dennis L. McKiernan, I'd recommend starting with the Iron Tower trilogy over the Silver Call duology as it was written first but set later in time. A good epic struggle. Well, when epic used to mean something.

I would absolutely second the Amber novels, and if you can find The Deed of Paksenarrion book/s (originally published as three books) they are good, and unusual in having a female protagonist. Also unusual in telling the tale of a common sellsword(well, an uncommon one) and not a prophecied Savior of the World. Id better leave before i remember any more.