/lit/ - Literature

>>19363290
The state of fantasy bothers me a lot because of what you describe. I always say I love fantasy, but I can only think of really Tolkien and Robert E Howard as examples, and as much as I love their work, I can't deny that compared to someone like Nabakov or something like the Iliad, they're flat and shallow by comparison.
It's weird, because this only seems to be the case in fantasy literature. Dark Souls is a Fantasy game, but it captures feelings of the sublime in isolation in a way no Fantasy novel ever does. And yet, apparently the leading examples of fantasy lit are Malazan and Game of Thrones by modern standards? I read those books, and I just get depressed. There's nothing mysterious or sublime about them at all.
So, what's going on here? Is it that Fantasy as a genre is just not suited for the written word, or is the issue publishers and nerd culture?

Any books with creatures as the main character? Dragons, monsters, beasts, you name it. Bonus points if they're females but males are fine too.

Anything but the Last Unicorn also. It's a great book, and I've already read it twice.