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Im looking for a specific type of book. Usually, the setting of the book interests me more than the story or drama. Im looking for books that have the setting of a detailed fantasy world as the focus. Sort of like a 'Little House in the Big Woods/Anne of Green Gables' set in high fantasy. Can you recommend something?

>> No.3077435

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3077455

Check the fantasy section of your local book store.

>> No.3077467

>>3077455

what do you recommend?

>> No.3077495

>>3077410
Wheel of Time.

The world is intricately detailed.

>> No.3077516

>>3077495

Thanks, I'll check it out. Im guessing to start with Eye of the World?

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3077572

Uhhhmmmm. Well I have been trying to get into Le Guin, though I haven't been on a fiction track in a long time.
The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed, come up all the time.

>> No.3077607

>>3077572

Im looking for something a little less scifi and more fantasy but I'll try this out as well

>> No.3077706

Well Tolkien created an entire mythology with an incredible history and focus on his world, so he might be a great option. Although seeing as how he did right myth, the story does form a crucial component to his works, maybe as much as the setting/world.

Asoiaf has both focus on story and plot as well as the world and society the story takes place in. Martin is really great at turning the setting of the series into a character in itself. Like Tolkien's stuff, Asoiaf concentrates on story, don't get me wrong, but the setting is given just as much importance. Maybe even more, despite the attention to characters/their psychologies and plot. Through the different story arcs of all the characters, you begin to get a sense of the world they live in, and soon enough that world has become as intricate and complex and fascinating as any of the individual plots.

Can't really think of any other examples, although I second Ursula Le Guin.

>> No.3077710

>>3077706
did write myth*