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<blockquote data-quote="Azul" data-source="post: 2504957" data-attributes="member: 11779"><p>Hmm.. I'd have to go with:</p><p></p><p>Thieves' World - One of the biggest fantasy series of the 80s. Still one of my favourite fantasy anthology series. Great setting although the feel seems a little retro now (kind of like reading Conan I suppose)</p><p></p><p>The Belgariad by Eddings - Pretty much a classic now. The Mallereon was fun but felt like a repeat.</p><p></p><p>The Wheel of Time by R. Jordan - Yeah, he can't seem to finish the bloody thing but the richness of the setting is superb. The first five or so books are very good.</p><p></p><p>The Jackal of Nar (and its two sequals) by John Marco - Very cool series with a gritty, Machiavellian flavour that stands out from most of the fantasy genre - lesser known but very much worth reading</p><p></p><p>A Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart (sp?) - the first novel of Master Li and Number Ten Ox - awesome novel in a fantasy Tang dynasty China - the two sequals are ok but not worthy of being called classics</p><p></p><p>Not a lot else to report. Fantasy has become increasingly formulaic over the past 25 years so most recent fantasy novels seem pretty much like cookie-cutter work. It seems like the Tolkien/D&D axioms have come to dominate the genre some completely that it just isn't very fantastical anymore. Some of the writers are quite competant at producing prose (e.g. Feist, Moon) but few present a vision that really seems very original. It's gotten so that I cringe when I see the tired old tropes - elves, dwarves, angsting princes/princesses/sorcerers/sorcereresses, quasi-Medieval Tolkienian worlds, dragons, unicorns, King Arthur returned from Avalon, quasi-Celtic pretentious tripe, yadda yadda yadda... yawn.</p><p></p><p>It's gotten so that reading most fantasy novels feels like reading about a narcissist's D&D campaign. I'd like to see something original and thought provoking... I suppose that's why I slowly migrated to sci-fi and non-fiction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Azul, post: 2504957, member: 11779"] Hmm.. I'd have to go with: Thieves' World - One of the biggest fantasy series of the 80s. Still one of my favourite fantasy anthology series. Great setting although the feel seems a little retro now (kind of like reading Conan I suppose) The Belgariad by Eddings - Pretty much a classic now. The Mallereon was fun but felt like a repeat. The Wheel of Time by R. Jordan - Yeah, he can't seem to finish the bloody thing but the richness of the setting is superb. The first five or so books are very good. The Jackal of Nar (and its two sequals) by John Marco - Very cool series with a gritty, Machiavellian flavour that stands out from most of the fantasy genre - lesser known but very much worth reading A Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart (sp?) - the first novel of Master Li and Number Ten Ox - awesome novel in a fantasy Tang dynasty China - the two sequals are ok but not worthy of being called classics Not a lot else to report. Fantasy has become increasingly formulaic over the past 25 years so most recent fantasy novels seem pretty much like cookie-cutter work. It seems like the Tolkien/D&D axioms have come to dominate the genre some completely that it just isn't very fantastical anymore. Some of the writers are quite competant at producing prose (e.g. Feist, Moon) but few present a vision that really seems very original. It's gotten so that I cringe when I see the tired old tropes - elves, dwarves, angsting princes/princesses/sorcerers/sorcereresses, quasi-Medieval Tolkienian worlds, dragons, unicorns, King Arthur returned from Avalon, quasi-Celtic pretentious tripe, yadda yadda yadda... yawn. It's gotten so that reading most fantasy novels feels like reading about a narcissist's D&D campaign. I'd like to see something original and thought provoking... I suppose that's why I slowly migrated to sci-fi and non-fiction. [/QUOTE]
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