> Good Authors:
> Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Robert Asprin, Anne Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton, Piers Anthony, Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks, Steven Brust, David Drake, Anne Bishop, J.R.R Tolkien(Duh, because if you hadn't noticed my taste runs to fantasy), Death Cycle books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Roger Zelazny, Patricia Mckillip, J.K Rowling, Phillip Pullman and others I can't think of.
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> Bad authors:
> Robert Jordan, Raymond E. Feist, Dragonlance books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, anything with King Arthur in it, Frank Herbert, and a few others.

I would like to recommend the "Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R. R. Martin. Probably the finest high fantasy series written in recent years. If you're a fan of Pratchett, I would also suggest Robert Rankin whose comic fantasy (albeit contempory fantasy) has been described as being what Pratchett should be. I am also currently recommending Jack Vance's "Tales of the Dying Earth" to anyone who will listen.

If you're also into science fiction, you sould look out for Peter F. Hamilton and Jon Courtney Grimwood. Both excelent authors.

winter"avid reader of fantasy"mute