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22259738 No.22259738 [Reply] [Original]

Name the best fantasy novel you’ve ever read.

>> No.22259740

The mormon book.

>> No.22259742

Book of the New Sun

>> No.22259779
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22259779

Unironically the Bible. It's my favorite book ever and i think it's greatest story ever written with actual life lessons and wisdom all though out the stories that are still relevant even till this day and if followed can help better your life immensely. The book is the most original piece of literature ever written and it's so influential that any shitty hack writer can copy or reference elements of it into their own work and make their own shitty literature magnitudes better. Not even religious but i gotta give credit where it's due.

>> No.22259794

any fantasy written by socialists or communists is pretty good

>> No.22259798

>>22259738
Gormenghast

>> No.22259808

Ficciones by Borges
Invisible Cities by Calvino

>> No.22259819
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22259819

Malazan, zero question about that. Nothing even comes close, although Gene Wolfe made a pretty good effort.
You read Malazan, read Gene Wolfe, and then drop fantasy altogether since you're getting the best of the best.

>> No.22259889

Mine

>> No.22259892

>>22259794
Elric of Melnibone then

>> No.22259921

the lord of the rings.

>> No.22259946

>>22259742
spbp

>> No.22259967

Nothing can beat The Mahabharata- the Hindu epic.

lots of 3d chess, war, gore, and sex that will put D&D to shame.

>> No.22259972

LOTR lol

>> No.22259973

Cugel's Saga

>> No.22259977

>>22259738
The Hobbit. I might also bunch that up with TLOTR trilogy that follows; but I've ought to urge anyone to read The Hobbit first.

>> No.22259983

>>22259977
I only read it half way, and I never read lotr

>> No.22259988

American Gods

>> No.22259989

>>22259967
That's pushing the definition of fantasy else we'd be including things like Paradise Lost or Odyssey
It does deserve more influence on people though

>> No.22259994
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22259994

A Voyage to Arcturus

>> No.22260025

>>22259742
this

>> No.22261179

>>22259967
I am from India but I never read it. Saw the classic TV show, though.
I assume you read a translation.

>> No.22261184

>>22259738
I don't read fantasy much. The only one I really liked and got into is A Song of Ice and Fire.
And Ascendance of a Bookworm, if you're into light novels.

>> No.22261188

>>22261179
How do Indians view their classics?

>> No.22261243

>>22261188
Religion.

>> No.22261263

>>22261243
What do only the priests read it? It seems like the text is closer to Homer than the Bible. I guess the oral culture of consuming it through television makes sense in some way.

>> No.22261274

>>22259738
My diary

>> No.22261297

>>22259819
Malazan has some great highs but it also has books that are snoozefests and some dumb parts Erikson could have done better with (Tavore being allowed to say nothing for several thousand pages about what she's up to to anyone).

>> No.22261309

>>22261263
No, but they're a big part of Hinduism. The characters in Ramayan and Mahabharat are avatars and children of gods and goddesses and demons. Some are worshipped as gods themselves. And usually the versions sold to people are sort of written to be like religious books and not exactly fantasy novels. Yes there are moral lessons and ideologies to be taken, but I don't think the worship should be so extreme. Also doesn't help that Bhagvad Gita is essentially a part of Mahabharat.

>> No.22261316

The Return of the King

>> No.22261451

>>22259738
The Holy Bible.