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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 4870099" data-attributes="member: 1645">First, how do you know you won't like those works?  Or are you saying you've tried them and didn't like them?  Because I have no problem with that.Second, I wouldn't consider those masterpieces of the fantasy genre; I'd consider them important influences on the fantasy genre.My advice is to start with the works that a lot of well-read people -- people who have read the "classics" of the genre and the more recent best-sellers -- consider really, really good.The goal is not to read works by dead authors, or to read works that are really old.  The goal is to read good writing.  And there's obviously nothing stuffy about our definition of "good" if we're placing Robert E. Howard and Fritz Leiber at the top of the swords & sorcery canon.</blockquote>