Novels are great, any long work of fiction is a good way to spend in evening. Do you enjoy novels?
Yes I do! I was just planning to start the series Lord of the Rings! Have you read it before?
Oh I love those, the fantasy novels written by J. R. R. Tolkien. Have you read the other part of the series, "The Hobbit"?
I started The Hobbit once, but I couldn't really get into it. Some of those fantasy books take some time to get "into the world", if you know what I mean?
Oh definitely, especially Tolkien's Middle Earth, the continent of the Earth where all his stories take place. Have you read any other novels?
Yes, I read another fantasy series i believe was called The Malazan Book of the Fallen. By someone, Erikson. I read the first four novels, it was amazing!
I believe their first name is Steven Erikson, the Canadian author and yes those are great books
Yes, that's it! I think the guy was an actual Anthropologist, and is amazing at building worlds, and going deep into the character development. What do you like to read?
Steven Erikson
Steven Erikson (born October 7, 1959) is the pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin, a Canadian novelist, who was educated and trained as both an archaeologist and anthropologist.
He is best known for his ten-volume spanning epic fantasy series "Malazan Book of the Fallen", which began with the publication of "Gardens of the Moon" (1999) and was completed with the publication of "The Crippled God" (2011). By 2012 over 1 million copies of the series had been
the latter book I was struck by the fact that Gandalf was not much of a person—just a good guy. So I gave Prospero, my wizard, most of my phobias and crotchets. It was simply meant as entertainment and any profundity will have to be read in." Writing in 1973, Lin Carter described "The Face in the Frost" as one of the three best fantasy novels to appear since "The Lord of the Rings". Carter stated that Bellairs was planning a sequel to "The Face