:: Hey, i have an 11 year old. I want to encourage his reading a bit
:: more. The problem is he's more of a sword and dragons guy wheras I
:: was always more of a ray gun type.
: Gene <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: Hmmm...The Curse of Chalion, Fortress in the Eye of Time, The
: Riddlemaster of Hed, Three Hearts and Three Lions, The Dark Is Rising,
: Magician (Feist), Obsidian Trilogy, Earthsea, Oath of Swords, The
: Chronicles of Amber, Homeland (Salvatore), The Deed of Paksenarrion,
: The Belgariand. Some of these may be too advanced for him, whereas
: others I wouldn't necessarily recommend to adults.
Hm. Would Brust's Vlad stories be too advanced? How about Hambly's
Darwath trilogy? (I especially liked The Walls of Air, for some reason.)
Those Who Haunt the Night? For an interesting hybrid, Wen Spencer's
Tinker series. Maybe Bujold's Sharing Knife (though some *** scenes in
a bit more detail than the others, maybe just a tad more than pg13, if
that's to be avoided). Or Butcher's Calderon series; the protagonist
starts out young. Or even his Dresden series. Or hey, Sanderson's
Elantris, or Mistborn[1].
Now, some of these have few dragons, but still. Some of them may be
"too advanced", have too convoluted a plot, though maybe not. Maybe too
violent, or just too long a book? Maybe. Of course Zahn's Dragonback
series has dragons, and young protagonists, shorter length, and intended
for young readers... but swords, not so much. Ray guns and space****ps
instead of swords, oh well. Hm.
Anyhow... I've tried to concentrate on recent-ish things that go a
bit afield from the standard tolkienesque or D&Desque settings.
[1] Heh, swords... the second book, The Well of Ascension, has
the quintissential sword-plus-teen-power-fantasy scene... where
young Vin wields a sword bigger than she is to dispatch the Bad Guy
beseiging the city she's in, by cleaving both him and the horse he
rode in on in twain in a single stroke. Single stroke for both,
I mean, not one each. Hey, she was provoked, OK? You wouldn't
like her when she's provoked.
You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind,
you don't pull the mask off the Lone Ranger, and you don't
mess around with Vin.
Wayne Throop throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://sheol.org/throopw
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