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ITT: Epics

The more unique in setting/anything the better.

>> No.677380

The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy

>> No.677406
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677406

It's a story of a journey.

It's a story of survival.

It's a story of joy and sadness, life and death, war and peace, victory and sacrifice.

It's a story about bunny rabbits.

Enjoy.

>> No.677420

>>677380
fuckin' THIS and moby dick.

>> No.677418

>>677380
More like three epics.

He's talking about three separate stories here anon.

>> No.677426

Otherland.

It's not exactly unique per say, as cyberpunk is an existing genre, but rarely is cyberpunk given the epic treatment in such a way.

>> No.677438

Lord of the Rings. The Silmarillion has more uniqueness to it as it is set in the backstory that helped preserve LOTR's freshness.

>> No.677445

>>677406
Get that furry crap outta, oh hey, Watership Down. I loved that story.

>> No.677448

FUCKING DRESDEN FILES

A;SDLJFOAHIWEGO'IHASD'GHJ

>> No.677504

>>677448

I read book 1! borrowing the next few from a friend

>> No.677559

Dark Tower

>> No.677568

War and Peace

>> No.677576

>>677568
You do not get more epic than this.

Or Romance Of The Three Kingdoms.
Or Gone With The Wind.
Or Les Miserables.
Or Pillars Of The Earth.

>> No.677598

Rice Boy for unique setting. Plus the story is epic.

It's a comic though.

>> No.677610

ASOIAF

>> No.677618

>>677598
Go talk comics in /co/ please.

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677637

>>677372

Kalevala

>> No.677660

Homer

>> No.677770

100 Years Of Solitude

>> No.677776

Arabian Nights.

>> No.677810

Pillars of the Earth.

>> No.679121

You want uniqueness?

His Dark Materials, motherfucker.

>> No.679136

The Ramayana

>> No.679178

Shogun

>> No.679185

Fucking Drizzt and the Dark Elf Trilogy.

>> No.679208

Dune

>> No.679231

Atlas Shrugged

>> No.679251

The Battle of Frogs and Mice, by Homer
The Lusiads, by Luis Vaz de Camoes
The Changing Light at Sandover, by James Merrill

there's 3 epics I bet you haven't read

>> No.679256

>>679185

You best be trolling, son.

>> No.679261

The twig saga

>> No.679296

Foundation

>> No.679305

>>679256
Who knows.
Maybe I am...
Maybe I'm not.

>> No.679339

IN THIS THREAD NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK EPIC ACTUALLY MEANS!!

>> No.679345

>>679339
Enlighten us, please.

>> No.679376

Book of The New Sun

>> No.679416

Snow Crash

>> No.679428

>>679416

I lol'd. Fail. His other work might just be a little more epic, no? Prolly look up the word before flaming me too.

>> No.679437

Book of The New Sun

>> No.679441

The Odyssey
bitches

>> No.679946

twilight

>> No.679950

The Poem of the Cid

>> No.679951

>>679345
an epic is a long narrative poem

your all talking about novels

>> No.679957

Beowulf

>> No.680082

>>679957

Yes.

>> No.680102

The Faerie Queene.

>> No.680456

The Waste Land

>> No.680488

>>679951
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_(genre)

Definitions change, friendo.

>> No.680498

The Wheel of Time.

He he.

>> No.680509

Hyperion

>> No.680539

Elizabethan mini-epics: Marston's 'The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image', Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander', Thomas Lodge's 'Scilla's Metamorphosis' and Shakespeare's 'Venus and Adonis'.

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>> No.680568

Noone has mentioned Malazan Book of the Fallen? I'd classify that as being pretty epic.

>> No.680580

>>680498

Second that.

>> No.680603

>>680568
Definately. The scope of it is immense. Spans lots of characters, lots of places and a fair few years.