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I highly recommend the Dragonlance series; especially the ones written by Margaret Weis / Tracy Hickman and Richard A. Knaak.
They really throw you into the action, and have a ton of character development. There are some details and descriptions of people, places, etc...but no where near the boring detail as Tolkiens stories (not saying they're boring stories, I love them - his detail descriptions just go on for pages though).
If you go with Dragonlance I'd start with Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Weis/Hickman) or The Legend of Huma (Knaak).
I had my best friends start with Huma because it kind of starts before the original book (DoAT). They were a little lost in the first few pages; the rest of the time you kind of know who the characters are referring to.
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