I was amazed no one new of Terry Brooks on the server last night, if your a fan of Tolkien, the lord of the rings then you would love Terry Brooks Shannara series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Brooks

Isn't there something on tv now as well called the Shannara Chronicles?  Is it the same thing??

Hey Hawk I read those books as a teen.  Read them, Thomas Covenant, Dragonlance, Raymond Feist, Kenneth Flint, and probably some more I can't recall.  Pretty much a dork then.  I rember reading George Martins first book when I was about 24 I think.  That's how long it's been waiting for him to finish. MTV is doing the series you are talking about.  It just started, if you have directv or something you can log on mtv app and watch first 4 shows.  It's not bad. Alanon isn't played by the guy who was Crixis in Spartacus.

what is this of fantasy books and a new tv show, you guys speak of?

@Audy. His name is Manu Bennett, and he also played Slade Wilson/Deathstroke in Arrow

The Shannara Chronicles, indeed, can't beat the books but I still like the show.
Thomas Covenant, Dragonlance, Raymond Feist, Audy, dorks don't grow out of it, but your reading material gives you more credit.

The Shannara Chronicles, indeed, can't beat the books but I still like the show.
Thomas Covenant, Dragonlance, Raymond Feist, Audy, dorks don't grow out of it, but your reading material gives you more credit.

Shannara Chronicles tv show is pretty good so far. The druid reminds me that he's a jedi and the magic reminds me that there is the force lol. overall I like where this is going but I hope its more of a dark theme.

I found Brooks' stuff boring and couldn't finish the first Shan. book.  Maybe I'll try again some day.
I've really enjoyed David Weber's sic-fi "Honor" series (sort of a Horatio Hornblower in outer space series with a strong female lead), and some of his other series, and I'm a huge fan of Bernard Cornwell ("Sharpe's Rifles" and other series).  I read the first Game of Thrones novel back in the early 90's.  Another wonderful Sci-fi series is Chung Kuo (The Middle Kingdom) by David Wingrove.

If anyone is interested in the David Wingrove series, Chung Kuo, he just recently did a revamp/restart of the series.  There are two new books, prequels, and the old book #1 is now book # 3.  Used to be an 8-book series, now planned for a 20-book series with more new ones to come.  Sort of like James Clavell meets Frank Herbert.  A little confusing, so either start with only the newly published series (all have similar cover graphics with the volume number listed) or read only the old published series (go to Amazon, for example, or wikipedia to see the books and see what I'm talking about).

Chung Kuo is primarily set 200 years in the future in mile-high, continent-spanning cities made of a super-plastic called 'ice'. Housing a global population of 40 billion, the cities are divided into 300 levels and success and prestige is measured by how far above the ground one lives. Some – in the Above – live in great comfort. Others – in the Lowers – live in squalor, whilst at the bottom of the pile is 'Below the Net', a place where the criminal element is exiled and left to rot. Beneath the cities lie the ruins of old Earth – the Clay – a lightless, stygian hell in which, astonishingly, humans still exist. These divisions are known as 'the world of levels'.

In addition to the world of levels, there are the great meat-animal pens and sprawling, vast plantations to feed the population. There is also activity beyond Earth. The ruling classes – who base their rule on the customs and fashions of imperial China – maintain traditional palaces and courts both on Earth and in geostationary orbit. There are also Martian research bases and the outer colonies, with their mining planets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Kuo_(novel_series)

Interesting novels there, Red. Sci-fi, Sci-fi everywhere lol

I want to read Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, Lensman series by Edward Elmer, Dune series, and Great Ship series by Robert Reed. But, I simply want to read a lot of Star Wars novels and Star Trek novels.

There is an author named sp Neal Stephenson who wrote the Baroque cycle, 3 very large books that are interesting.   More like a fictional tale of the world in sir Isaac newtons time.  Also a book called crytonomicon set in the Philippines that pretty good also.  Caleb Carr wrote a book called The Alienist, about the first serial killer in New York in either late 10s or early 1900s that was pretty good.  And a good all around book by David James Duncan called The Brothers K.  That's not scifi  or fantasy but a family growing up in the Midwest in the 70s.  It involves baseball, mom, apple pie, and the war.