/lit/ - Literature

>>2292074
>>2291982
either of these
>>2292944
or from this guy , actually I'm taking note of those , I only know 3 from that list

>>2292908
that's filth, are you a troll or just an unfortunate soul?
>>2293083
I was going to recommend it. Just finished The Blade Itself

OP I recommend The First Law series
>>2295714
people either love or hate it, I love it personally
>>2296110
pick up the story from where Sanderson takes over, you won't regret it


Fantasy is such a broad genre, it allows the author to do so many things.

No one series is like the other -no good series- in almost any way. Let's take names for example:Some are drop dead funny with characters like Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler, some are gritty and pulpy goodness with names like Shadow Weaver or MoonBitter, some are a mix of the two where you can find both types of characters. When the author works, and I mean really puts time and effort into his books, researches, works on world-building and especially on making characters believable he can take you in a new world.
Did I mention I'm quite the fantasy enthusiast?

>I always saw fantasy as kind of lame and trite

well weren't you an edgy little hipster

try reading before you make judgement calls next time

story involving magic does not equal pointy hats and weak plot-twists under the guise of magic, just how stupid are people here?

fantasy is such an amazing genre, an author can work with elements of religion, create new rules for how the world works, for how society works, he has a fresh start on how anything works, then he makes it feel believable and real, that is, if he's not as shit as people who post their latest novellas here are most of the time

my fantasy recommendations: Wheel of Time, Old Kingdom Trilogy, The Black Company Chronicles, The Name of the Wind, Mistborn, Way of Kings

>>2000690
1/10 made me reply

>Elizabeth Bear

"Fantasy's detractors often try to argue that it's in some way a morally inferior kind of literature: it's "not real," "escapist," "consolatory," "backwards looking," "monarchist," "made up." It divides the world into good and evil, black and white, without shades of gray. But I would argue that at its finest, fantasy is the exact opposite of those things. Fantasy can serve as a kind of hyper-reality, a social allegory. It is uniquely capable of compressing the scope of human experience into a narrative—and I think that's what can make it epic, or give it that epic feel. It can illuminate good and bad, motive and desire."