Large fantasy universes to get lost in

[Anonymous No.12871113]

What are some good long book series that have massive, detailed fantasy universes that really draw you in? Looking for something like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Eragon, Wheel of Time

[Anonymous No.12871130]

Narnia? His Dark Materials? Discworld?

[Anonymous No.12872276]

Most well thought out one I've found was Tenchi Muyo.

[Anonymous No.12872295]

Truly, there is no greater world to get lost in in this one you live in. About 5000 years of lore is enough for 5000 lifetimes and more to get lost in. That said I really like the Gormenghast series for Peake. Even for an experienced reader it's easy to get lost in Peake's writing style, and you can really tell he loved the world he created himself.

[Anonymous No.12872297]

Apparently Malazan is like this but I have only read half a book of it, didn't really care about the writing style

[Anonymous No.12872303]

Eragon a shit.

[Anonymous No.12872304]

>>12872303
>being this retarded

[Anonymous No.12872328]

>>12872304
Eragon IS shit.
There's almost nothing original about it.
He took the basic races of LOTR, gave it Luke Skywalker being the son of the Emperor's right-hand man being watched over by his former best friend, stole the magic system from Earthsea, and inserted his family and friends, including a fucking furry.
The only reason it got published is because his parents have connections and enough money to live comfortably in the mountains and homeschool his autistic ass.

[Anonymous No.12872334]

>>12872304
>underage dummy blatantly rips off star wars episode 4 by writing babby's first fantasy novel
>Bunch of zoomers lap it up.
>Try reading it in 2007
>"Holy Shit, this kid's prose is so fucking boring. But I refuse to not finish what I've started."
Eragon a shit. That's not to say that the other two books of his clichelogy were bad. But I refuse to torture myself again.

[Anonymous No.12872337]

fuck off back to r*ddit and die

[Anonymous No.12872422]

the witcher books are pretty good

[Anonymous No.12872428]

>>12872295
agreed, love reading and re-reading Gormenghast. It was really calming to read the night before a stressful job interview.

[Anonymous No.12872443]

>>12871113
All of the Earthsea books together make a pretty impressive world - you can commonly buy the first four in one volume, then you just need to buy The Other Wind to complete the main story. Then there's Tales From Earthsea and a few other short stories that explain more about the world and its history. I like Ursula Le Guin's style.

[Anonymous No.12873437]

i like the Witcher series desu

[Anonymous No.12873658]

>>12872443
Read the first three, but skip Tehanu. LeGuin wrote it after converting to feminism, and you can tell because every male character is stupid or evil.

[Anonymous No.12873685]

>>12871113
> fantasy
Lmao are you 12? Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl. Next year you’ll be old enough to read The Hunger Games and Twilight

[Anonymous No.12873827]

>>12871113
The Lord of the Rings shouldn't be held alongside any of those trash volumes.
Shame on you OP.

[Anonymous No.12874417]

>>12871113
>Looking for something like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Eragon, Wheel of Time
So, YA? If you feel like growing up you won't need to give up to reading books filling that criteria;
- The Old testament (Skip the leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy)
- The greeks (The odyssey, the iliad, ovid's Metamorphoses, etc)
- King arthur's stuff (Start with Le Morte d'Arthur ).
- You can make the point about how everything that Lovecraft wrote happened in the same universe.

[Anonymous No.12874496]

>>12872295
Didn't know of its existance. What's the main theme of the book?

[Anonymous No.12875149]

>>12874496
it's a fantasy slice of life. It follows numerous inhabitants of a ruined/fading castle and the small kingdom surrounding it.

[Anonymous No.12875263]

>>12875149
This will sound stupid, but it is fair to say that it is the dark souls of books?

[Anonymous No.12875269]

>>12875263
that's finnegan's wake
but yeah, if you're into the faded/ruined/semi gothic dark souls type fantasy you'll like this.
It doesn't follow a traditional hero-villain type plot though, it's more slice of life with great prose

[Anonymous No.12875296]

The Holy Bible

[Anonymous No.12876076]

>>12871113
Moorcock's Elric and Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber.

[Anonymous No.12876107]

>>12872422
this. they're so underrated and the lore fits in pretty good with the games too

[Anonymous No.12876136]

>>12872443
Seconding this and also The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant has the most amazing and unique lore.

[Anonymous No.12876495]

>>12873827
I think that wheel of time at least is on par with LOTR, Harry Potter is slightly worse, and Eragon isn't nearly as good.

[Anonymous No.12876686]

Faulkner. Yoknapatawpha County is just as mythical as Middle-Earth

[Anonymous No.12876874]

>>12871113
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.

[Anonymous No.12876880]

Warhammer. If it's newer than Tolkien and not adapted from a game universe it's probably not worth reading.

[Anonymous No.12876903]

Game of Thrones, The Expanse

[Anonymous No.12877375]

>>12874417
>Orlando Furioso
Based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.12877465]

>>12876903
>Black Company this short and old but still unfinished
Fantasy serieses were a mistake.

[Anonymous No.12877489]

>>12871113
Gonna get shit on for this but check out the earlier Halo novels. Fall of Reach, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx etc. They actually go into a lot of detail on Covenant society, the cultures of the individual species and the tensions between them, with plenty of chapters told from the aliens' perspective.

[Anonymous No.12877502]

>>12871113

I recommend Worth the Candle and Shadows of the Limelight. Both free online.

Shadows is the more traditional fantasy format, while WtC is slightly more of an Isekai in pseudo D&D, though quite original.

Both are pretty long and high quality.

[Anonymous No.12877509]

>>12871113
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. They're very interesting in that the protagonist is an anti hero, complains almost constantly, and repeatedly fucks over his much more interesting compatriots. The world building is incredible and was the only thing that made me keep reading because you will hate how much of a self loathing faggot Covenant is. I got to the 3rd book of the seconc chronicles before I stopped and read better books. The first chronicles are solid though. Theyre by Stephen R Donaldson iirc

[Anonymous No.12877590]

>>12871113
>Wheel of Time
>Eragon
>Harry Potter
Oh Lord!

[Anonymous No.12878672]

>>12877465
That chart is wrong. The Black Company has 10 books and is of a serialized nature where it doesn't matter when and where it ends.

[Anonymous No.12880028]

The Second Apocalypse series by R. Scott Bakker. Seven books long and counting. (A trilogy followed by a quartet, with another trilogy waiting to be published.) It follows a character named Kellhus, a member of this cloistered and monastic order called the Dunyain, who have been conditioning and breeding for absolute logic above all else for thousands of years. He's basically a goal-pursuing robot who can see exactly what needs to be done in any situation to attain what he needs. He feels absolutely no emotion and can read people's thoughts through their facial expressions. The series is about him attempting to stop the return of an entity called the No-God, which destroyed the empire of his ancestors but has been forgotten. In order to do this he attempts to conquer a brewing holy war by portraying himself as the second prophet of the god they worship.