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20481869 No.20481869 [Reply] [Original]

Recommend me some good fiction. I read almost exclusively non fiction and want to sometimes read some relaxing fiction. I enjoyed the Witcher series when I listened to it but that was a while ago and I doubt I would like it as much now. Some kind of masculine and heroic journey could interest me. I'm also interested in history so old aesthetics appeal to me.

>> No.20481934

The Worm Ouroboros

>> No.20481990

>>20481934
Thanks. Sounds somewhat interesting. Anything a bit less fantasyesque?

>> No.20482019

>>20481990
The Pillars of the Earth
Nostromo
Captain Blood
The Saga of Grettir the Strong
Etidorhpa

>> No.20482032

>>20481869
https://8ebooks.net/david-gemmell-collection/
david gemmell for the love of god. 10/10 fit for your recommendation

he has everything, fiction history, fiction. yep, he's got it all
David Gemmell

>> No.20482317

I like Diogenes. I like that he didn't write anything. I like that the only thing that exists about him are well and ill-intentioned legends.

>> No.20482328

The Iliad and The Odyssey are the classic masculine heroic stories.

>> No.20482368

>>20482019
>Etidorhpa
Sounds interesting. Thanks.
>>20482032
I will check him out. Legend doesn't sound that awful. I just tend to feel that most fantasy books are pretty average and not that interesting. Got into Witcher originally by playing the video games. I like inspiring characters and many fantasy novels don't have that.

>> No.20482379

>>20482328
I'm actually reading the Iliad. It's just not something I can completely relax on because of the style of the translated poetry.

>> No.20482400
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>>20481869
Kristin Lavransdatter
Le Morte d'Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Pirate Freedom
A Canticle for Leibowitz

>> No.20482413

>>20481869
Soldier of the Mist might be right up your alley.

>> No.20482463

>>20482413
Thank you! This one sounds excellent. I love ancient Greece and novels that treat the supernatural (in non fantasy way) as normal interest me.

>> No.20482515

>>20481869
/qa/ lost

>> No.20482627

>>20481869
Conan stories by Robert E. Howard.
It's prehistory mixed with fantasy. Howard read alot of history/myths and used that in writing his stories.
Decay of civilization is a big theme