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Anonymous Fri May 10 21:30:46 2019 No.13094155 [Reply] [Original]

I'm a high fantasy pleb.
What are some good high fantasy books?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 10 22:11:57 2019 No.13094323 File: 119 KB, 1200x800, wheel_of_time_tv_series.0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Wheel of Time series You'll have a good amount of reading

>>	Anonymous Fri May 10 23:14:39 2019 No.13094616 Is Malzan good?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 10 23:15:44 2019 No.13094624 >>13094616 God no

>>	Anonymous Fri May 10 23:38:17 2019 No.13094723 >>13094323 Should I start with the prequel book?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 10 23:43:14 2019 No.13094750 >>13094624 brainlet

>>	Anonymous Fri May 10 23:43:35 2019 No.13094751 I haven't read fantasy since I was a child but the latest episodes of GoT have been so incredibly bad that I might get back into genretrash this summer. Decided to start with Earthsea if I do, after lurking a couple /lit/ fantasy threads.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 10 23:44:17 2019 No.13094758 >>13094616 It's... Kind of shit in a chaotic way. But it's also great in a chaotic way.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 10 23:47:55 2019 No.13094770 File: 44 KB, 321x499, 5106ZN+VOkL._SX319_BO1,204,203,200_[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13094155

>>	Anonymous Fri May 10 23:50:02 2019 No.13094783 The King of Elfland's Daughter

>>	Anonymous Fri May 10 23:53:20 2019 No.13094792 Gormenghast, The Broken Sword, Bas-Lag, The Worm Ourobouros and Viriconium.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 10 23:53:33 2019 No.13094793 >>13094750 >liking dungeons and dragons fan fiction

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 00:11:34 2019 No.13094861 >>13094793 Everything is fanfic anon. Malazan has a pretty cool original spin on magic and brings some interesting world building and character development to the table.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 00:16:10 2019 No.13094883 >>13094861 >everything is fanfic What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Explain yourself.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 00:22:44 2019 No.13094914 >>13094861 >But the magic system is good! If this is a point of recommendation, it's a sure sign the book is trash that caters to autists.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 00:29:44 2019 No.13094946 >>13094883 Not him, but nothing is truly original.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 01:04:22 2019 No.13095105 File: 85 KB, 837x960, 934B88C2C5D044469C1221E8DC2542FB.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13094946 >tfw you can't avoid being a derivative psued ripping off God

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 01:31:35 2019 No.13095233 >>13094946 What do you mean by "truly original"?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 01:34:20 2019 No.13095246 >>13094946 A "truly original" thing would be incomprehensible.However, this doesn't excuse hacky derivative bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 01:53:56 2019 No.13095301 >>13094758 something comparable to it that i might have read ?

Anonymous Sat May 11 01:54:59 2019 No.13095305

"Original" means that it's the beginning of something distinct, not that it wasn't influenced by anything whatsoever. If you take old shit and do something new with it, it's original. That's how ideas develop. That it was influenced by other works is irrelevant. Fucking retards.

Anonymous Sat May 11 02:18:25 2019 No.13095365

oh good god, do not read Way of Kings or any of the Stormlight Archive. hell, for that matter, don't touch anything by Sanderson that wasn't Wheel of Time. I sincerely hope pic was unrelated
try Book of the New Sun if you're willing to try a low fantasy sci-fi crossover, I'd give high fantasy recs but the genre is dead

Anonymous Sat May 11 07:39:00 2019 No.13096161

>>13094155
BEFORE READING MODERN FANTASY LITERATURE READ THE FOLLOWING WORKS
>Gilgamesh
>Odyssey and Iliad
>Aeneid
>The Bible
>Prose Edda
>Beowulf
>Song of Roland
>Le Morte d'Arthur
>Orlando Furioso
>Jerusalem Delivered
>Paradise Lost
>Blake's Prophetic books
That should give you an idea on what's good and what's bad in Fantasy

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 07:49:50 2019 No.13096192 >>13096161 >>The Bible He wants fantasy anon

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 09:26:08 2019 No.13096438 >>13096161 >no Mahabharata >no Ramayana

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 09:43:36 2019 No.13096489 >>13096161 based chivalric romance chad

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 09:56:11 2019 No.13096541 >>13094723 No - start with The Eye of the World. The prequel is for afterwards, honestly - its much better to experience the actual books first

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 13:07:48 2019 No.13097468 >>13096161 this but unironically also add Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to that list

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 16:03:38 2019 No.13098292 >>13094155 game of thrones

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 16:08:57 2019 No.13098317 >>13098292 isnt it low fantasy?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 18:38:35 2019 No.13099047 >>13098317 >caring

>>	Anonymous Sat May 11 19:05:56 2019 No.13099161 >>13094155 Blood Song (Book 1 only). A Throne of Bones. The Lies of Locke Lamora (Book 1 and 2 only). The Lord of the Rings.

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