The only thing I might suggest would be Patricia A McKillip's stuff. Granted, dad and I have slightly different tastes within her writing (I still can't get into the Riddle-Master trilogy), but she's probably one of the only fantasy writers I can handle in large doses -- my taste in books is all over the place, but probably leaning more towards quirky sci-fi like Douglas Adams or things written in the style of Jane Eyre or some of the other old-school classics.
I'm not sure if a book I read called The Alchemist's Daughter could be considered fantasy or not -- it's a recently written book, but it has the feel of one of those old stories. I wish I could remember the author.
Back to Patricia A McKillip though, I'd probably reccommend Ombria In Shadow as my favourite of hers. Everything she does just seems to be one step in a different direction than all the other fantasy I've read, and I love the characters in this particular book. As with most of her writing, it's very dreamlike.
Actually, if you like some of those lighter fantasy books (yay for me and my darker tastes), I found an unexpectedly good read in Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy. I was expecting a tryhard kid's book, and what I got was an incredibly cheeky modern fantasy which was a lot of fun to read.
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Date: 2007-11-10 06:43 pm (UTC)The only thing I might suggest would be Patricia A McKillip's stuff. Granted, dad and I have slightly different tastes within her writing (I still can't get into the Riddle-Master trilogy), but she's probably one of the only fantasy writers I can handle in large doses -- my taste in books is all over the place, but probably leaning more towards quirky sci-fi like Douglas Adams or things written in the style of Jane Eyre or some of the other old-school classics.
I'm not sure if a book I read called The Alchemist's Daughter could be considered fantasy or not -- it's a recently written book, but it has the feel of one of those old stories. I wish I could remember the author.
Back to Patricia A McKillip though, I'd probably reccommend Ombria In Shadow as my favourite of hers. Everything she does just seems to be one step in a different direction than all the other fantasy I've read, and I love the characters in this particular book. As with most of her writing, it's very dreamlike.
Actually, if you like some of those lighter fantasy books (yay for me and my darker tastes), I found an unexpectedly good read in Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy. I was expecting a tryhard kid's book, and what I got was an incredibly cheeky modern fantasy which was a lot of fun to read.
Just my two cents.