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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShadowDenizen" data-source="post: 1342678" data-attributes="member: 16485">I actually prefer "Love in the Time of Cholera" to "One Hundred Years of Solitude", but that's neither here nor there.To chime in, though, "Doctor Zhivago" (or perhaps "Death in Venice") is the best book I've ever read, while Janny Wurts' "War of Light and Shadow" are my favorite book(s).With that said, due to he new "coolness" of JRRT, there's lots of great fantasy currently out there being published, such as Tad Williams, Laura Resnick, etc. (Of course, YMMV.)Unfortuantely,  though many current writers fall into the "Let's Drag it out forever" camp (Jordan, Brooks, Goodkind, et al.)Personally, I've atually recently returned to the "roots" of fantasy, and re-read "Gormenghast", the "Gray Mouser" series, the "Elric of Melnibone" saga, "The Lord of the Rings", and "the Coming of Conan" (a reprint of the first 13 Conan adventures published.), and found myself pleasantly surprised at how well they stand the test of time: not only that, it also renewed my love of the fantasy genre.That's a blatant generalization. There are plenty of people out there (like me) who are discerning readers, even in the element of their fandom.  I am rabid Buffy-phile, but I feel no compunction to go out and but every Buffy novel out there. Indeed some of the novel's I have read (like "The Book of Fours") are complete garbage.  And, as an aside, I actually liked the "New Jedi Order" series. That actually doesn't bother me as much as his tendency to describe things in excruciatingly boring detail. I don't really need to read three pages on "how green Nynaeve's dress was" (or whatever.)</blockquote>

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