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What's your favourite fantasy series, /lit/?

>> No.2752496

The Shades of Grey Trilogy.

>> No.2752502

harry potter

>> No.2752505

Earthsea

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>>2752496

>> No.2752571

The Prince of Nothing by R. Scott Bakker

>> No.2752579

elidor

>> No.2752616

WoT

>> No.2752644

The Warlord Chronicles

>> No.2752647

>>2752505
I'll second this.

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asoiaf.

you mad ?

>> No.2752657

>>2752650
Not at all. Enjoy what you enjoy. Anyone who gets angry at someone else for having what they consider "inferior taste" is an intellectual child.

>> No.2752659

Dark Tower

>> No.2752667

>>2752657

+1

>> No.2752669

>>2752657
>>2752667
Is /lit/ always like this?

>> No.2752672
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The Riftwar sagas

>the dread cometh

>> No.2752679

A Song of Ice and Fire

>> No.2752682

>>2752669
No, trolls are asleep right now.

>> No.2752686

ASOIAF

Pretty much only read that, LotR, some shit by Jim Butcher that was average and some WoT books

>> No.2752690

Tales of the Otori

>> No.2752707

Mistborn series.

Alloy of Law? Badass as fuck all day.

>> No.2752709

>>2752707
The new book was much better than the original trilogy.

>> No.2752714

A Malazan Tale of The Fallen.

>> No.2752727

#1 Book Of The New Sun
#2 ASOIAF
#3 LOTR

BOTNS is miles ahead of anything else. In fact it's my favorite series of any genre. Lotr gets bonus points for being original, though it's not that well written. ASOIAF is much better than /lit/ gives it credit for.

I tried reading Malazan, but it had zero compelling characters and the prose was mediocre. After BOTNS I can't stomach awkward prose and after ASOIAF I demand great characters.

It seems I've exhausted the supply of good adult fantasy. I may have to start reading kid stuff like Gaiman or Le Guin.

>> No.2752734

>>2752571
>>2752714

The only two correct answers.

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The First Law Trilogy.
I get to meet Joe Abercrombie tomorrow.

>> No.2752778

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever

>> No.2752794

Black Company
Book of the New Sun
Game of Thrones
Sword of Truth just kidding, more like sword of shit

>>2752727
>that feel when you will never read the Book of the New Sun series for the first time ever again

>> No.2752800

The Bas Lag Cycle, if it counts.

>> No.2752802

>>2752709
I agree. With how short Alloy of Law was, he really streamlined the process of characterization, developing a great world and a new system that combines the best parts of the old one. Hands down, Wax, Marasi and Wayne are some of my favorite characters in any fantasy fiction.

>> No.2752803

>>2752794

>Implying Game of Thrones is a fantasy series

>> No.2752812

>>2752803

Actually, there's this tv-series called a Game of Thrones, pretty sure it fits into the fantasy genre too.

>> No.2752819

The Black Company
Malazan Book of the Fallen
Horus Heresy

>> No.2752823

>>2752812

That's a tv-series, we're talking about books here, since this is a literature board. Just admit you made a mistakeit's okay, nobody cares

>> No.2752906

R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing and Aspect-Emperor Trilogies.

>> No.2752950

Lots of suggestions from this thread, thinking to try the Book of the New Sun series when I finish ASOIAF

>> No.2753259

The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent weeks
Malazan series

>> No.2753324

The Runelords series was fantastic until he kept going after the fourth book. If he had just ended it right there I would have been happy.

Other than that, really liking some Patrick Rothfuss right now.

>> No.2753333

The Elric Saga
Gormenghast
Game of Thrones

I don't know which to pick, they all scratch different itches.

>> No.2753378

Alice in Wonderland
Don Quixote
The Four Zoas
Gormenghast
Time and the Gods
The Worm Ouroboros

>> No.2753405

Discworld.

Unseen Academicals irritated me too much, though. I don't know if he's lost it, or if it's the influence of other people helping Terry write, or what. I haven't bought Snuff because I'm afraid it'll suck and I'll lose something. I dunno.

>> No.2753478

>>2753259
>The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent weeks

The first book in this series is the worst book I have ever read in my life. It is objectively horrible.