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The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin is also a great fantasy book for kids
added that to my son's reading list
My son the Dr.(I love dropping that) said the "Dresden Files" is a good one to read. To show his intelligence he attended UCF for undergraduate work and Nova SouthEastern for the rest, but he bleeds red and black. One of my other sons graduated from UF but the only UF shirt he wears has to be completely void of any reference to Football and wears the red and black 99% of the time. Had UGA bed stuff in the dorm. Guess that really shows how smart I am.
I have read those, they are good. My only beef is that there are so many. It never really concluded. It's kind of like James Bond movies. Just different stories in the same world over and over.
I’m a big CS Lewis fan. I’ve been to his grave, church and home in Oxford. Till We Have Faces is a good one and uses his background in mythical studies as a basis for a retelling of the Cupid and Psyche story.
For fans of fantasy I highly recommend the Traitor Son Cycle by Miles Cameron the first in the series is "The Red Knight" great characters , action and pace. For historical fiction fans I recommend the Chivalry series by Christian Cameron starting with the "Ill made Knight" these are the same author and I have no reason why he uses two names..but both are great series.
I'm a big fan as well. Have read almost all of his non-fiction books.
You're right, and that's why I added the notes to my list for you. When a series becomes successful some writers accede to the publisher's wishes and pump out a lot of books. Piers Anthony's Xanth trilogy is great, but I can't vouch for the 40 books that came after that, because I didn't read them.
Most of the series I recommended were trilogies, and your son could read any one of them very quickly if he enjoys it. LMK if you decide to give The Book of Three a try. (That's the first book in the Prydain series.)
just finished the first Mistborn trilogy this morning. really enjoyed it. first Sanderson I have read
I just recently started the Wheel of Time series so I'll be buried in those for a while but I'll have to add that one to my list.
@lmiked7 now that I think of it the Traitor Son cycle would be a great counter to the Wheel series , Wheel has much more detail as is several thousand pages longer but Traitor moves much quicker and has some very well developed characters, and more humor .
I'll have to give it a shot once I finish WoT. I'm only on the first one but I could see myself realistically finishing it by the end of the year.
I'm generally willing to try out any Fantasy series so long as it's finished or very close to it. George RR Martin has scarred me on that front lol.
Ok last comment , if you haven't tried the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher look into them . Great character and funny as heck ...for a wizard.
Those are good. I haven't picked up one of those books in several years. Did Butcher ever write anymore and/or finish the series? They sort of just kept on going.
He has book 16 Peace Talks coming out July 14th ..