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Which series should I choose? Anonymous Mon Sep 10 02:06:27 2018 No.11761825 [Reply] [Original]

I've never really read fantasy like this. Plenty of fictional literature but unless I'm forgetting something LOTR is the only "elves and orcs" type fantasy book I've ever read.

Not looking for anything deep or particularly well-written, just a light story to get immersed in.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 02:08:04 2018 No.11761828 asoiaf

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 02:09:16 2018 No.11761831 Are you a man? Then Tolkien is all you should've read. And if you're a woman then never post here again.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 02:11:18 2018 No.11761834 You shouldn't read either. You're an adult, or at least a teenager. You're too old for that juvenile crap.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 02:16:14 2018 No.11761849 >>11761831 Yes >>11761834 Are they genuinely bad or are they just bad enough that you can't gain street cred on literature message boards? Because the second one isn't a problem, I read Agatha Christie regularly as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 02:32:32 2018 No.11761888 >>11761825 read the one is finshed, grr martin in hack who can't even finish what is suppose to be his masterpiece before he eventually croaks on the toilet.

Anonymous Mon Sep 10 02:43:07 2018 No.11761915

Witcher is only decent if you know Polish for the original text: the translations are terrible. A Song Of Ice And Fire starts out good, great even, but plummets into unprecedented nadirs of boredom and cringe after book three, and it's unlikely it ever gets resolved. On the whole you're probably better off not picking up either.

Instead, read good fantasy such as Conan the Barbarian, Tigana, Gormenghast, Xanth, or anything by Tolkien.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 02:44:05 2018 No.11761916 >>11761825 read the first book of witcher and then read asoiaf

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 02:59:03 2018 No.11761948 >>11761825 if you MUST read fantasy, read Gormenghast. There's better stuff in scifi if you want shallow genre fiction to be immersed in

Anonymous Mon Sep 10 03:18:55 2018 No.11761985

>>11761915
>>11761948
>Gormenghast
Thanks for the recommendations, I'll look into those.
>There's better stuff in scifi if you want shallow genre fiction to be immersed in
I've read the first Dune and the first Dark Tower but neither really inspired me to pick up the second book of the series. Dune was significantly better though, but I felt satisfied at the end like the story was complete.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 03:28:58 2018 No.11762006 >>11761985 Look into more classic scifi (Dick, Le Guin, etc.). I personally really enjoy Neuromancer but that's partially due to nostalgia so look into that at your own leisure.

Anonymous Mon Sep 10 05:05:48 2018 No.11762227
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>>11761825
/lit/ is mostly full of a bunch of non-fiction/ really old classic novel nerds so they don't really read much fantasy. wheel of time series is pretty good imo

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 05:58:01 2018 No.11762341 >>11761825 Never ever read grrm.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 07:42:05 2018 No.11762561 >>11762341 I thought the books weren't as bad when it came to m-muh feminism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 07:44:18 2018 No.11762574 >>11762227 Wheel of Time? More like Waste of Time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 07:49:37 2018 No.11762594 >>11762561 No it's not that. He's an old autistic pervert that has nothing interesting to say. If you wanna read some greasy old dudes sex fantasies you can do that online for free and it's most likely better literature than asoiaf

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 07:52:04 2018 No.11762603 >>11761915 Xanth? You fucking degenerate. Piers Anthony is garbage.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 08:01:53 2018 No.11762632 >>11761825 Read Book of the New Sun dude. Up to a point it's as shallow or deep as you want it to be.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 08:06:35 2018 No.11762649 >>11762574 pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffftttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 10 08:30:22 2018 No.11762718 Witcher is better, and it also has more descriptions of cute girls.

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