/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.829436]

Are there other fantasy novels worth reading?

[Anonymous No.829441]

The Hobbit

That's about it really.

[Anonymous No.829443]

A Song of Ice and Fire

[Anonymous No.829450]

A Wizard of Earthsea

[Anonymous No.829468]

>>829443
I don't normally go for much fantasy, but I just finished a Game of Thrones and FUCK ME that is a good book.

Also Elric/Michael Moorcock in general.

[Anonymous No.829469]

The Worm Ouroboros

[Anonymous No.829471]

Everything by Guy Gavriel Kay. Seriously. I cannot get enough of that guy.

[Anonymous No.829472]

This novel is God-tier

[Anonymous No.829476]

The older Discworld novels.

[Anonymous No.829493]

>>829471
>>829443
Seconding these. Lions of Al-Rassan is majestic.

[Anonymous No.829513]

The War of the Spider Queen saga.

6 books by 6 different authors. Based around Forgotten Realms, it's a long tale about Menzoberranzan and drow. (sans Drizzt)

I was a big fan of Salvatore's stuff anyway, so these 6 books were fucking awesome to me.

Drow culture rules.

[Anonymous No.829563]

I've always been reluctant to reading fantasy books that aren't Tolkien for 3 reasons :
- He fucking invented fantasy as we know it today. Everything else feels like an immitation.
- I'm having a hard time believing other fantasy novels can be as epic and in-depth as LotR
- Other fantasy books' covers all look like metal album covers

[Anonymous No.829573]

Good Fantasy for 13-year-olds - Dragonlance / Forgotten Realms

Good Fantasy for 16-year-olds - Wheel of Time / Sword of Truth

Good Fantasy for 20-year-olds - ??????????????

[Anonymous No.829577]

>>829563

Oh, anon, you're such a card. You almost got me.

[Anonymous No.829591]

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[Anonymous No.829602]

The First Law and The Prince of Nothing are some of the best fantasy I've read, besides A Song of Ice and Fire ofcourse.

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[Anonymous No.829618]

>>829602

>The Prince of Nothing

Second.

[Anonymous No.829624]

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[Anonymous No.829644]

>>829624
why did you do that?

[Anonymous No.829645]

>>829602
The Prince of Nothing is amazing.

I would also recommend Robin Hobb, although not the Soldier Son trilogy, which is...a bit extreme, even for her. Hobb hates her protagonists, you see, and does nothing but figure out what would be the most painful thing for them to go through, and then does something even worse.

That reminds me!

Stephen R. Donaldson and his Thomas Covenant series is a must read if you want to claim to be a /lit/erary man.

[Anonymous No.829647]

Depends how you define fantasy, OP. If you want something that stays close to the stock orcs and elves end of things but is more adult your choices are pretty limited. Try Prince of Nothing.

If you want literature of the fantastic, you have to be willing to accept a certain lack of D&D monsters and tropes. Try Gormenghast.

[Anonymous No.829654]

>>829436

Silmarillion

[Anonymous No.829661]

>>829610
Just read that the other day. Weird and evocative. I liked how it built up the Death God over several stories.

[Anonymous No.829665]

[Anonymous No.829667]

My fav. Tolkien's work is actually The Children of Hurin.

If anyone knows simillar novels do tell please.

[Anonymous No.829668]

>>829661
>Someone else read Gods of Pegana

[Anonymous No.829675]

Bridge of Birds is really really good. Fantasy set in ancient china, its like a third straight fantasy quest fare, a third comedy, and third caper story.

[Anonymous No.829681]

>>829665
This one lists "Assassin's Apprentice" by Robin Hobb as a coming of age story. This is technically true, but also wildly misleading. Do not, for love's sake do not read the book if what you want to read about is a boy who grows up to be a respected and successful adult.

The tale Robin Hobb weaves is filled with heartbreak and misery and just basically deviates in every conceivable way from what you would expect in a coming of age story. The only reason it's not a complete lie is that the protagonist starts out young and gets older over time.

[Anonymous No.829682]

Legend of the Seeker.

[Anonymous No.829683]

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[Anonymous No.829692]

>>829682
Haw haw haw, that's a TV show.

it's based on the Sword of Truth series, which is probably the second worst fantasy series in the world. The worst, of course, is Christopher Paolini's abortion, Eragon.

[Anonymous No.829696]

>>829681

You're such a fucking pansy. The soldier son books were particularly good.

[Anonymous No.829700]

>>829696
If by good you mean they made Fitz look like he had an easy life, yes.

[OP No.829715]

>>829436
The Old Kingdom Trilogy - Garth Nix

[OP No.829720]

>>829715
forgot my image

[Anonymous No.829724]

Been meaning to read Steven Brust's "Jhereg" for ages. Comes universally recommended.

[Anonymous No.829728]

Been a while since I read them, so might be nostalgia-goggles here, but I think Tamora Pierce did some good stuff.

[Anonymous No.829744]

I don't know if I should ask this here or not, but I'll go ahead anyway.

Been reading Discworld recently. Just finished the first book and I rather liked it. Just asking if all the books in the series are of similar quality or if they get worse as they go on (if so, when should I stop?), I'm asking this because there are, what, over 30 books in the major series? I find it hard to believe that they don't worsen as they continue but I could be wrong here.

Also OP, read some Earthsea and George RR Martin

[Anonymous No.829758]

>>829744
Pratchett's early stuff is bluh, the more recent stuff is fantastic. He only gets better.

[Anonymous No.829766]

>>829744
He gets better dude. So much better.

[Anonymous No.829767]

>>829758
Shit, seriously? That's fucking awesome right there.

[Anonymous No.829773]

>>829720

I enjoyed those books so much when I was younger.

[Anonymous No.829776]

I'd say Michael Ende's The Neverending Story is the best fantasy book ever. But just because it's different than most fantasy. I like that the fantasy there is not loltolkien but has a mixture of all sorts of mythologies. It feels more middle eastern than anything at times. It's also cool how it subverts the typical escapism of fantasy books. I also loved that it wasn't "epic", it was more personal. It felt more important because of that.

Am I the only one who feels this way? (Considering it hasn't been mentioned in any list)

also in b4 retards think the movie = book