Thanks for all your welcomes. I'm chuckling already, obviously I've found the right place.

My two favourites, although very different, would be by Pratchett and Eddings. Eddings is so "old fashioned" fantasy when you know good will win out but it's so well written you just have to keep reading to find out how. I loved Belgariad and Mallorean and Elenium/Tamuli. Couldn't get into...

Hi from Australia, where we have to stand on our heads to read a book the right way up :lol: . I'm a voracious reader and been looking for a forum to talk about books and reading (the next best thing to doing it, is talking about it) for a while. It's so nice to find a forum that doesn't lump sci-fi...