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3023925 No.3023925[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

>Looked at cinema Showings to see if any new movie is coming out.
>All of them are either comic-book movies or remakes of movies that came out 20 years ago.
>Getting tired of this rehashed bullshit.
>Go to the local library

Is there any good fiction books or fantasy novels you guys have to recommend. I need something new and innovative that will throw some spice in my life.

Pic related: anyone reading Lord of the Rings?

>> No.3023928

lol

>> No.3023957

>bump

>> No.3023967

Contemporary fiction?

I recommend the Bible.

>> No.3023966
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>> No.3024059

Read Crime and Punishment

>> No.3024104

The King of Elfland's Daughter.

>> No.3024105

Read some Jack Vance, Mervyn Peake, RA Lafferty, or John Crowley

>> No.3024115

A good fantasy series that I've been reading is by Raymond Feist. The first book in the series is Magician: Apprentice (unless you get the cool version that's just Magician).

>> No.3024124

>>3023925
Everything by Joe Abercrombie is fucking suh-weeet. Samething goes for Scott Lynch, Michael J. Sullivan, Roger Zelazny and Patrick Rothfuss - all godtier fantasy. But Joe Abercrombie above all.

>> No.3024132

Seconding Mervyn Peake.

>> No.3024159

Check out Vurt by Jeff Noon. I think he's state of the art for fantasy.

>>3024124
Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber is so damn good. Scheming, swordplay by written by someone who knows what he's talking about, and great prose.

>> No.3024162

>not excited for taken 2

You are literally the biggest faggot.

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3024163

>>3024124

Amen to this, I shudder to think how many people gave up on his first book though, this trilogy finishes as a 10/10 and from there on it only gets better.

>> No.3024188

Am I the only one who enjoyed Piers Anthony's "Bio of a Space Tyrant" series?

>> No.3024210

>>3024188
the wincest was fun. but i read it in high school, don't think it would hold up now for me.

>> No.3024258

>>3024162
That's ultra-pleb, fuckhead.

>> No.3024273

>>3024258

It's actually antipleb, you're the turbopleb for thinking any different.

>> No.3024277

>>3024258

>greatest action movie ever made
>pleb

heh

>> No.3024287

>>3024277

>taken
>greatest action movie ever made

how's it feel to be 13

>> No.3024289

>>3024287

I turned 24 today, not that it matters, if a 13 year old thought Taken was the greatest action movie ever made they would have excellent taste.

>> No.3024291

>>3024289

> greatest action movie ever made
> not something starring Bruce Willis or Harrison Ford

What the fuck is wrong with you, boy? Did they beat you upside the head when you was young? Huh? They make you eat paint-chips in that crapstain shack you done been raised in?

Fucking shameful, is what it is.

>> No.3024292

>>3024291

>two washed up hacks that cant hold a candle to liam neeson's imposing figure or his acting ability

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you stop shitposting now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

>> No.3024295

>>3024292

Compare and contrast.

> that bullshit tough-guy monologue
vs
> YIPPEE-KI-YAY, MOTHERFUCKER.

>> No.3024302

>>3024295

>hurrdurr catchphrases compared to well thought out, relevant dialogue

>> No.3024315

>>3024295
one is just as bad as the other

>> No.3024346

What immediately comes to mind for me:
Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake
Prince of Nothing, by R. Scott Bakker
Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
Veniss Underground, by Jeff VanderMeer
Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke.

All fantasy novels or series besides Lord of the Rings that stand out in either being just really great and influential or innovative and envelope-pushing in their own respect.

>> No.3024491

>>3024346
Add A Song of Ice and Fire for innovative and envelope-pushing.

>> No.3024494

>>3024188
>>3024188
>Piers Anthony

fuck that guy

>> No.3024516

>>3024491
> Add A Song of Ice and Fire for innovative and envelope-pushing.

0/10, made me rage and spit at the monitor.

>> No.3024545

>>3024516
That would make it 10/10.