Fictional books kinda like Diablo?
Josh Brandt
Paul Powell wrote:
>
> I've never been much of a science fiction fan when it came to books, but
> I must say I got sucked into Diablo's story line. Is there any good
> books that are like Diablo's story line? I went to the science-
> fiction/fantasy section at my local bookstore but there were so many
> books and I didn't know what was good.
>
> Thanks for any advice!!
> Paul
> ppo...@vt.edu
I believe the best books out there are the old Forgotten Realms books
(Moonshae, Dark elf, Icewind Dales, Cleric quintet, and the avatar
trilogies)...
Also, any book by R.A. Salvatore is a must too.
Paul Powell
JPT Cooper
I never used to read books, but a friend forced me to read a book from the
Death Gate cycles. I got completely hooked, and bought the whole series of
7. (Dragon Wing, Elven Star, Fire Sea, Serpent Mage, Hand of Chaos, Into
the Laberinth, The seventh Gate, all by Weis and Hickmann)
After reading that series twice, I bought a series called Dragon Lance,
and I am now reading my 7th book in that series.
All of these books are excellent, make sure you find time to play diablo
again(?)
Read http://www.dscga.com/~dragoncon/people/weism.html
All the best.
Warloc
>
>
>I never used to read books, but a friend forced me to read a book from the
>Death Gate cycles. I got completely hooked, and bought the whole series of
>7. (Dragon Wing, Elven Star, Fire Sea, Serpent Mage, Hand of Chaos, Into
>the Laberinth, The seventh Gate, all by Weis and Hickmann)
>
>After reading that series twice, I bought a series called Dragon Lance,
>and I am now reading my 7th book in that series.
>All of these books are excellent, make sure you find time to play diablo
>again(?)
>
>Read http://www.dscga.com/~dragoncon/people/weism.html
>
My all time favorate is Robert Jorden's Wheel of Time series (The Eye of The
World, The Great Hunt etc.) It is very large (> 5000 pages ) and there are
still more books to come. I would also recommend the Dragon Lance series by
Weis and Hickman.
Scott Greig
Travis Hamer
Warloc wrote:
>
> My all time favorate is Robert Jorden's Wheel of Time series (The Eye of The
> World, The Great Hunt etc.) It is very large (> 5000 pages ) and there are
> still more books to come. I would also recommend the Dragon Lance series by
> Weis and Hickman.
>
> Scott Greig
I agree about the Wheel of Time series, it's the best fantasy series
I've read.
Travis
Jim Wesolowski
Josh Brandt <jos...@concentric.net> wrote:
>Paul Powell wrote:
>>
>> I've never been much of a science fiction fan when it came to books, but
>> I must say I got sucked into Diablo's story line. Is there any good
>> books that are like Diablo's story line? I went to the science-
>> fiction/fantasy section at my local bookstore but there were so many
>> books and I didn't know what was good.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice!!
>> Paul
>> ppo...@vt.edu
>I believe the best books out there are the old Forgotten Realms books
>(Moonshae, Dark elf, Icewind Dales, Cleric quintet, and the avatar
>trilogies)...
>Also, any book by R.A. Salvatore is a must too.
You guys are forgetting the ultimate be-all-end-all fantasy author.
TOLKIEN
nuff said
Jim Wesolowski vap...@prism.gatech.edu
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Christopher J. DePuydt
Even though this really doesn't belong here, one of the best series I ever
read were the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny. Too bad he's dead.
He made Jordan look like a child in the realms of writing.
--
Chris DePuydt You can't fight evil
cjde...@mtu.edu with a macaroni duck!
http://www.csl.mtu.edu/~cjdepuyd/ -Arthur, The Tick
Joel Mathis
Warloc <warloc@> wrote in article <5lr2rj$4...@crash.videotron.ab.ca>...
>
> >
> >
> >I never used to read books, but a friend forced me to read a book from
the
> >Death Gate cycles. I got completely hooked, and bought the whole series
of
> >7. (Dragon Wing, Elven Star, Fire Sea, Serpent Mage, Hand of Chaos, Into
> >the Laberinth, The seventh Gate, all by Weis and Hickmann)
> >
>
> >After reading that series twice, I bought a series called Dragon Lance,
> >and I am now reading my 7th book in that series.
> >All of these books are excellent, make sure you find time to play diablo
> >again(?)
> >
> >Read http://www.dscga.com/~dragoncon/people/weism.html
> >
>
> My all time favorate is Robert Jorden's Wheel of Time series (The Eye of
The
> World, The Great Hunt etc.) It is very large (> 5000 pages ) and there
are
> still more books to come. I would also recommend the Dragon Lance series
by
> Weis and Hickman.
>
I'd just like to point out that you need to be absolutely sure you get the
ones by Weis and Hickman, as the other books are absolutely ghastly. Their
books aren't great literture, but they do make for a good read.
Eric Holler
vap...@prism.gatech.edu (Jim Wesolowski) wrote:
>Josh Brandt <jos...@concentric.net> wrote:
>TOLKIEN
>nuff said
>Jim Wesolowski vap...@prism.gatech.edu
Yeah, but for someone only looking because they like Diablo I'd
recomend the Salvatore books., specifically the series with a certain
dark elf.
Eric Holler
Eho...@in.net
"All the worlds a stage, and I got stuck as a stage hand."-Me
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On Sun, 18 May 1997 22:37:11 -0400, ppo...@vt.edu (Paul Powell)
wrote:
>I've never been much of a science fiction fan when it came to books, but
>I must say I got sucked into Diablo's story line. Is there any good
>books that are like Diablo's story line? I went to the science-
>fiction/fantasy section at my local bookstore but there were so many
>books and I didn't know what was good.
>
Books by Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman..
The Dragonlance Chronicles
Dragonlance Heroes
Other by other authors
Forgotten Realms
Books by TSR Inc.
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flinx
Travis Hamer wrote:
> Warloc wrote:
> > My all time favorate is Robert Jorden's Wheel of Time series (The Eye of The World, The Great Hunt etc.) It is very large (> 5000 pages ) and there are still more books to come. I would also recommend the Dragon Lance series by Weis and Hickman.
The first three chronicles of the Black Company and the first book of
the Glittering Stone by Glenn Cook are probably some of the most
underrated fantasy adventure books of all time. They are written in a
darkly intelligent way that suggests a story for adults not the pissed
off teen market. They are a unique series of story that finally excapes
they trite young hero who doesn't know it, but he's lord of the
universe, come back to from prophecy to defeat evil once and for all,
while finding the true love of his life the fair maiden and they all
live happily ever after stories (whew!). Such as Edding's as Jordan and
etc...
If you can find these stories or any other book by Mr. Cook (he also
writes a very humorous fantasy detective series (trust me)) I highly
recommend reading them.
Thanx for your time and the loan of the soapbox...
flinx
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Dan Hamernick
> >>
> >> I've never been much of a science fiction fan when it came to books, but
> >> I must say I got sucked into Diablo's story line. Is there any good
> >> books that are like Diablo's story line? I went to the science-
> >> fiction/fantasy section at my local bookstore but there were so many
> >> books and I didn't know what was good.
> >>
> >> Paul
> >> ppo...@vt.edu
>
> >I believe the best books out there are the old Forgotten Realms books
> >(Moonshae, Dark elf, Icewind Dales, Cleric quintet, and the avatar
> >trilogies)...
> >Also, any book by R.A. Salvatore is a must too.
>
> You guys are forgetting the ultimate be-all-end-all fantasy author.
>
> TOLKIEN
>
> nuff said
>
> Jim Wesolowski vap...@prism.gatech.edu
>
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
I am in the process (for the 5th time) of reading Lord of the Rings by
J.R.R. Tolkien
Although not a student of medevial languages, I did notice the word
"haradrim" used. To me, Diablo's "Horadrim" is a play on this word.
There are other parallels in the LOTR trioligy and Diablo.
Regards
Dan
Gavin Estey
In article <19970520183...@ladder02.news.aol.com>, KC Gator I
<kcga...@aol.com> writes
>The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan is excellent, but check into
>David Eddings his books are just as good if not better.
David Edding's books are very good - check out the Elenium trilogy. It
has an evil demon bad guy and a jewel...
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Nick Lekkas
The Dragon Lance books by Weis & Hickman
are the best books I have ever read.
The stories are just so good...
Paul Powell <ppo...@vt.edu> wrote in article
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robi...@ll.mit.edu
In article <5lt4n7$40i$1...@news.indy.net>,
eho...@indy.net (Eric Holler) wrote:
>
> vap...@prism.gatech.edu (Jim Wesolowski) wrote:
>
> >Josh Brandt <jos...@concentric.net> wrote:
>
> >>Paul Powell wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I must say I got sucked into Diablo's story line. Is there any good
> >>> books that are like Diablo's story line? I went to the science-
> >>> fiction/fantasy section at my local bookstore but there were so many
> >>> books and I didn't know what was good.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for any advice!!
> >>> Paul
> >>> ppo...@vt.edu
>
> >>(Moonshae, Dark elf, Icewind Dales, Cleric quintet, and the avatar
> >>trilogies)...
> >>Also, any book by R.A. Salvatore is a must too.
>
> >You guys are forgetting the ultimate be-all-end-all fantasy author.
>
> >TOLKIEN
>
> >nuff said
>
> >Jim Wesolowski vap...@prism.gatech.edu
>
> >"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
>
> recomend the Salvatore books., specifically the series with a certain
> dark elf.
>
> Eric Holler
> Eho...@in.net
> "All the worlds a stage, and I got stuck as a stage hand."-Me
<lurk mode off>
Paul:
You might also enjoy Michael Moorcock's "Elric of Melnibone"
series. His novels capture the same dark moods as a Diablo
dungeon crawl. Stormbringer is one nasty kings sword of
vampires. <grn>
Titles:
1. Elric of Melnibone
2. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
3. The Wierd of the White Wolf
4. The Vanishing Tower
5. Bane of the Black Sword
6. Stormbringer
7. Elric at the End of Time
Ed Robinson -- robi...@ll.mit.edu
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vap...@prism.gatech.edu (Jim Wesolowski) wrote:
>Josh Brandt <jos...@concentric.net> wrote:
>>Paul Powell wrote:
>>>
>>> I've never been much of a science fiction fan when it came to books, but
>>> I must say I got sucked into Diablo's story line. Is there any good
>>> books that are like Diablo's story line? I went to the science-
>>> fiction/fantasy section at my local bookstore but there were so many
>>> books and I didn't know what was good.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any advice!!
>>> Paul
>>> ppo...@vt.edu
>>I believe the best books out there are the old Forgotten Realms books
>>(Moonshae, Dark elf, Icewind Dales, Cleric quintet, and the avatar
>>trilogies)...
>>Also, any book by R.A. Salvatore is a must too.
>You guys are forgetting the ultimate be-all-end-all fantasy author.
>TOLKIEN
>nuff said
agree with you 100%...
>Jim Wesolowski vap...@prism.gatech.edu
>"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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Ch...@bigcheese.com
Couple of other ideas:
Dennis L. McKiernan - The Iron Tower Trilogy
The Dark Tide, Shadows of Doom, The Darkest Day
Mike Jeffries - The Road to Underfall and subsequent books in the
series.
Terry Goodkind - Wizard's First Rule, Stone of Tears, ?
This is my #1 recommendation. Wizard's First Rule is huge,
captivating, and very good.
DaIai Lama
Everyone has their own tastes in literature of course, but I think the
books best suited to the Diablo mindset are the Elric series by Michael
Moorcock. Very few authors really get into the slashing/hacking dying
aspects of combat and though a few may be dark and somber like the Elric,
none of them are as consistant and well developed as Michael Moorcock's.
The main character, Elric, makes Diablo and Lazarus look like cub scouts
by comparison. If you are looking for a master of fantasy though, you
have to read Jack Vance (Dying Earth, Eyes of the Overworld, Green Magic,
Cugel's Saga). No one even comes close to his mastery of language, nor
his concise yet vivid evocations of imaginary realms.
Dalai Lama
DaIai Lama
The Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series by Fritz Leiber is also quite along the
lines of Diablo.
Dalai Lama
Mark Asher
I have to say that these are some of my favorite fantasy stories -- quite
literate. Leiber puts most fantasy genre writers to shame.
Mark Asher
DaIai Lama <daia...@aol.com> wrote in article
<19970527064...@ladder02.news.aol.com>...
Mark Asher
Fred Saberhagen's Book of Swords triology is pretty good, especially the
second one which is mostly a dungeon-crawl. Good writing and neat magic
swords like Coinspinner (brings luck) Townsaver (wielder of this weapon
will fight on beyond death if the town he is defending is attacked), and so
on. When I was reading this I kept imagining how these swords could be
Uniques in Diablo. You might want to read a sort of prequel to this series
called Empire of the East from Saberhagen also.
Mark Asher
Mike
> Terry Goodkind - Wizard's First Rule, Stone of Tears, ?
> This is my #1 recommendation. Wizard's First Rule is huge,
> captivating, and very good.
Mike
Ch...@bigcheese.com
Agreement on Michael Moorcock.
The six books of the original Elric of the Melnibone are very well
done.
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