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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HaroldTheHobbit" data-source="post: 9098365" data-attributes="member: 7031679">Ok, so I'm a sci fi dude at heart, and I still think the absolute majority of fantasy I've (tried to) read are formulaic, overlong snoozefests. But that also mean that I've only read a fraction of fantasy literature compared to broad sci fi and other genres and classics, and there actually are good fantasy books.So I have a list of 3 to pick from.3 The original Dragonlance trilogy. As a young teen it shaped my view of what good fantasy and roleplaying fiction should be. In retrospect it is poorly written, have a whole bunch of unsavory bagage, and there are way, way better game based books. But nostalgia is nostalgia.2 Tolkien. The genre master of course. But I have a hard time reading his books as the best fantasy of all times, I view them more as important fantasy literature in a historic sense that set lots of high benchmarks for the genre.1 So my number one must be LeGuins Earthsea trilogy, and to pick one, the first in the series, A Wizard of Earthsea. Amazing prose and creativity, enjoyable for adolescent and adult alike.A comment on Ghormengast: I love the trilogy and have reread it a bunch of times, but for me the books are more weird fiction than fantasy. But lets not derail the thread by getting into a genre definition war ;-)</blockquote>