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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Bakker is not good Bakker's interesting because the evil faction in his world actually has a reason for being evil beyond 'hey let's be evil.' He's gotten more and more up his own rear end with each book though.
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Lovecraft and it's barely hidden racial undertones would be even more relevant today.
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it is really tolkein's fault? it is funny that one of the big fantasy series after tolkein was about as direct a ripoff of lord of the rings as could be - the shannara books.
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But LOTR is the best sieve the fantasy genre has, OP. You know exactly what not to bother with.
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this thread started as irredeemable idiot garbage and somehow got even worse
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:this thread started as irredeemable idiot garbage and somehow got even worse gently caress you I'm getting some great tips for my reading list.
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Imaginig an universe where Gormenghast caught on instead of LOTR and genre fantasy is 70 percent inbred Dickens pastiches nearly unreadable with purple prose.
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Would Sex Be Better Without Womens?
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Bakker is not good 
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Hey Applewhite, Jim Butcher (author of Dresden Files) has a series called the codex Alera and there are no orcs, elves, etc. It's pretty good. Conan is also my favorite.
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The Time Dissolver posted:Imaginig an universe where Gormenghast caught on instead of LOTR and genre fantasy is 70 percent inbred Dickens pastiches nearly unreadable with purple prose. We can dream
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natetimm posted:Hey Applewhite, Jim Butcher (author of Dresden Files) has a series called the codex Alera and there are no orcs, elves, etc. It's pretty good. Conan is also my favorite. the bad guys are zerg with kerrigan tho.
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Applewhite posted:gently caress you I'm getting some great tips for my reading list. try the bible
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Blue Star posted:Y'all need to check out Clark Ashton Smith. He was a friend of both H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, and he wrote the same kind of stuff, but his was way better, imo. For one thing, he actually had a sense of humor and often included some levity in his stories. He also was probably the least manchild-y of the three. He actually had a wife and lived in his own place. this is the best post in the thread because the only thing better than being a garbage literature enthusiast is being a hipster about it
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lovecraft? howard? heh. i read smith. you've probably never heard of him
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Applewhite posted:gently caress you I'm getting some great tips for my reading list. i started reading scott bakker in january, and it was really different it's not everyone's cup of tea, but i'd recommend that you try it start with The Darkness That Comes Before (2004) the series also has a conan, but he's closeted and neurotic the author isn't in the top10 gooniest looking scifi-fantasy authors club though, even if he's quite goony 
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Applewhite posted:gently caress you I'm getting some great tips for my reading list. I got a tip for your reading list. Burn it.
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 charles stross is competing for the top places
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Hogge Wild posted:
He looks exactly as horrible as his prose indicates
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china writes some good weird fantasy.
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Groovelord Neato posted:china writes some good weird fantasy. she had a big clit
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natetimm posted:Hey Applewhite, Jim Butcher (author of Dresden Files) has a series called the codex Alera and there are no orcs, elves, etc. It's pretty good. Conan is also my favorite. His steampunk-ish book Aeronaut's Windlass was pretty good.
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RonJeremysBalzac posted:Lovecraft and it's barely hidden racial undertones would be even more relevant today. It's not exactly hidden.
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natetimm posted:Hey Applewhite, Jim Butcher (author of Dresden Files) has a series called the codex Alera and there are no orcs, elves, etc. It's pretty good. Conan is also my favorite. I disagree. Codex Alera was written by Jim Butcher as a challenge by another author to write a story using The Roman Lost Legion and Pokemon and have the story not suck. Of course Jim turned it into a best selling series, but the series is still 1)predictable and 2)is sort of a more lovely fantasy rewrite of Dresden files themes. Your reading time is better spent elsewhere.
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any of you shits read Malazan? I'm more than half way through Gardens of the Moon and I am frustrated and annoyed. I have no idea what the gently caress's going on. I was told this series owns.
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Stormlight Archive, on the other hand. boy howdy, what a good time. Thank god Brandon Sanderson is a fantasy author that actually writes books. unlike that one cocksucker
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ROFLburger posted:Stormlight Archive, on the other hand. boy howdy, what a good time. Thank god Brandon Sanderson is a fantasy author that actually writes books. unlike that one cocksucker gently caress Patrick Rothfuss. The real reason Doors of Stone is delayed is because he's written himself into a corner and now he's screwed.
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ROFLburger posted:any of you shits read Malazan? I'm more than half way through Gardens of the Moon and I am frustrated and annoyed. I have no idea what the gently caress's going on. I was told this series owns. Is that the one that starts as an empire and soldiers and stuff because it then veers off into a bunch of different characters and troll races and loses the main narrative and something something I gave up
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ROFLburger posted:any of you shits read Malazan? I'm more than half way through Gardens of the Moon and I am frustrated and annoyed. I have no idea what the gently caress's going on. I was told this series owns. i read the first book a long long time ago but i kind of quit reading fantasy for a long time too. everybody always parrots that line about it being a hill too climb at first i dont know about that. if you can find promise or entertainment in his writing in the first book it does vertically improve in terms of style and skill from what little i read of the second one.
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Applewhite posted:Sure the Lord of the Rings series is a modern classic that may never be surpassed, but every high fantasy novel published since has been, in one way or another, a pale imitation of Tolkien's seminal work. what is best in life
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:what is best in life Actually reading the original Robert E. Howard stories 
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Start Malazan with the second book, Memories of Ice. Gardens of the Moon is technically the first book but it only makes sense after you've finished reading almost the entire rest of the series and learned the history of the world a bit. I'm not sure why Erikson did it that way. I heard somewhere that Gardens of the Moon actually started as a D&D campaign set in Malazan which he later rewrote to be an actual book.
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:lovecraft? howard? heh. i read smith. you've probably never heard of him too bad you dont read enough that youve transcended genre or hard lit considerations and are mainlining NYRB classics while drinking from the Well of Mishima and oh yeah a genre novel or two in there somewhere as well i guess im telling you to step up your loving reading game bitch
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Pththya-lyi posted:Actually reading the original Robert E. Howard stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6l8MFdTaPE
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ROFLburger posted:Stormlight Archive, on the other hand. boy howdy, what a good time. Thank god Brandon Sanderson is a fantasy author that actually writes books. unlike that one cocksucker I hate most of his characters. They're always flat and predictable. Stormlight Archive is terrible about this. The good guys are stalwart champions of justice whose only fault is recklessness in pursuit of good. The bad guys are all mustache twirling assholes who can't stop tying bitches to railroad tracks and biting the heads off kittens.
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Helical Nightmares posted:I disagree. Codex Alera was written by Jim Butcher as a challenge by another author to write a story using The Roman Lost Legion and Pokemon and have the story not suck. Of course Jim turned it into a best selling series, but the series is still 1)predictable and 2)is sort of a more lovely fantasy rewrite of Dresden files themes. I read them all and I don't regret it. It gets tiresome in places, but I really enjoyed the portrayal of the Canim. It gets less interesting as more bug stuff happens. They should have stayed a sub-plot.
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The_Angry_Turtle posted:I hate most of his characters. They're always flat and predictable. Stormlight Archive is terrible about this. The good guys are stalwart champions of justice whose only fault is recklessness in pursuit of good. The bad guys are all mustache twirling assholes who can't stop tying bitches to railroad tracks and biting the heads off kittens. lol. Stormlight books are the only Sanderson books I've read so far. I agree with you 100% except that those things don't really bother me all that much
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