Books you think I should read

[Ramblinwomble]

I know Hokeycat will consider some of these a little conventional as well, but they have been good page turners for me.

David Gemmell's early stuff - "Druss the Legend" etc. Good heroic fantasy where if the good guys win it is always at a cost

George R R Martins - "A Song of Ice and Fire". Shaping up nicely into a story of a fantasy world where evil is about to be let lose because "the great and the good" are spending all their time politicking... Not finished yet though

Glen Cook - "The Black Company". Not every-ones cup of tea but I find them a nice romp. The lives of a very successful group of mundane mercs in a high fantasy world.

Guy Gavriel Kay - "The Fionavar Tapestry" A good take on the innocents from the real world getting involved in a fantastic world story. Some real heroic sacrifice

Ricardo Pinto - "The Stone Dance of the Cameleon". The most uncoventional of this list. A very different fantasy world full of fantastic ideas. Sadly also an on-going work.

Greg Keyes - "The Waterborn" & "The Blackgod". A nice fantasy where the gods are not humanistic - ever wondered what it would be like to make an enemy of a river?

Oh, and the Thieves World series.

[Muletang]

The DaVinci Code - excellent book. I like the revelations, I can much more happily agree with the version of history portrayed in it.

[Pvt.Zombi]

Meg
The Trench
Primal Waters

In that order

All by Steve Alten

Not Safe for Selachophobics.