[Jon Shannow]

Can anybody recomend some light and comic fantasy. It does not have to be out and out humour like discworld or jason cosmo, just something with abit of fun.

And please no spoofs like Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody and Tired of the rings


Thanks

[Loque]

Anything by Tom Holt and Grunts by Mary Gentle (though it wasnt entirely my up of tea) Oh, that reminds me, tea!

[Runebreaker]

Asprin (sp?) Myth series was great and not a parody an original series.....dont think he finished it though

[ezchaos]

There's Piers Anthony's Xanth series. Anthony comes out with a new Xanth book every couple of years and he's been doing it since '77. I enjoyed this series back in the 80's and early 90's. I remember the stories were type that you could breeze through in a few days, and I'm not a fast reader. I'll confess that I haven't read any of Anthony's newer Xanth books.

Here's a link to a Comic Fantasy site:
members.tripod.com/AmusedMuse/fantasyc.html (http://members.tripod.com/AmusedMuse/fantasyc.html)

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[SusF]

Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett!

Douglas Addams Hitchhiker seris or Dirk Gently series

Any of Tom Holt (just found "Expecting Someone Taller" at the library, woo hoo!)

Spider Robinson's Callahan series

Susan

[Macros]

Try Roger Zelazny's,

1) Bring me the Head of Prince Charming
2) If at Faust you don't succeed

The two books are part of a series and there is a third book whose name I can't remember right now.

[Bond]

The third book is A Farce to Be Reckoned with


In the following post add "Connecticut" in front of "Yankee" and replace "at" with "in". Was made into a good movie with Bing Crosby as well.



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[Ntschotschi]

Mark Twain "A Yankee at King Arthur's Court" (I hope this is the english title).The best. Very funny and witty.

[Loque]

by the way, nice name :p

[Ancalagon the Black]

The Wiz Biz books... impossible to find, but so much fun to read! The novels are by Rick Cook, and I'm pretty sure they are out of print. Also, Robert Lynn Asprin's Myth series is great, but the lastest book came out in 1991, and left the serious at a clifhanger ending (albeit a halrious cliffhanger ending). Both series of novels are fairly short.
I also recommend R.A. Salvatore's Spearwielder's tales, although i have only had a chance to read the first two (of three).