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Two questions.

1) I'm taking a series of cross country flights soon and want some pulpy, mindless high fantasy fiction fun to read on the plane.

2) Is The Once and Future King the best novel out there regarding King Arthur / is it even worth reading?

>> No.6604809

Ignore, meant for the other thread.

>> No.6605051

>>6604805
Asoiaf

>> No.6605095

>>6604805
>2) Is The Once and Future King the best novel out there regarding King Arthur

Yes

>is it even worth reading?

No

>> No.6605253

Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards. High fantasy heist with a Tarantino twist.

>> No.6606553

>>6605253
Ugh. I Put the first one down after ~250 pages. At first the dialogue was kinda charming, but when every conversation is nothing but a competition to see who can say the most edgy/sassy thing possible it gets tiring. Plus all the characters talk in the same voice and the descriptions are unwarrantably verbose - as in all fantasy novels. If the best thing that someone can say about your prose is that it's functional, don't fucking devote whole paragraphs to descriptions of what things look like.

It might have helped if there was a plot, or interesting characters but all Lynch seemed interested in doing was "worldbuilding" which has to be one of the most boring things an author can do. I wish we didn't even have a name for it. One of the worst books I've attempted to read in a long time.

>> No.6606568

>>6604805
Idylls of the King is the best Arthurian thing, though it's a set of poems.