I'm a high fantasy pleb.
What are some good high fantasy books?
I'm a high fantasy pleb
Isaiah Walker
Isaiah Barnes
The Wheel of Time series
You'll have a good amount of reading
Henry Martin
Is Malzan good?
Gavin Ortiz
God no
Justin Gutierrez
Should I start with the prequel book?
Easton Morales
brainlet
Ryan Nelson
I haven't read fantasy since I was a child but the latest episodes of GoT have been so incredibly bad that I might get back into genretrash this summer.
Decided to start with Earthsea if I do, after lurking a couple Yea Forums fantasy threads.
Robert Parker
It's... Kind of shit in a chaotic way. But it's also great in a chaotic way.
Anthony Turner
Kayden Parker
The King of Elfland's Daughter
Mason Butler
Gormenghast, The Broken Sword, Bas-Lag, The Worm Ourobouros and Viriconium.
Dominic Watson
>liking dungeons and dragons fan fiction
Adam Roberts
Everything is fanfic user. Malazan has a pretty cool original spin on magic and brings some interesting world building and character development to the table.
Nicholas Stewart
>everything is fanfic
What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
Explain yourself.
Zachary Smith
>But the magic system is good!
If this is a point of recommendation, it's a sure sign the book is trash that caters to autists.
Noah Hughes
Not him, but nothing is truly original.
Jacob Parker
>tfw you can't avoid being a derivative psued ripping off God
James Gomez
What do you mean by "truly original"?
Parker Howard
A "truly original" thing would be incomprehensible.However, this doesn't excuse hacky derivative bullshit.
Jack Morales
something comparable to it that i might have read ?
Nathaniel Phillips
"Original" means that it's the beginning of something distinct, not that it wasn't influenced by anything whatsoever. If you take old shit and do something new with it, it's original. That's how ideas develop. That it was influenced by other works is irrelevant. Fucking retards.
Blake Martin
oh good god, do not read Way of Kings or any of the Stormlight Archive. hell, for that matter, don't touch anything by Sanderson that wasn't Wheel of Time. I sincerely hope pic was unrelated
try Book of the New Sun if you're willing to try a low fantasy sci-fi crossover, I'd give high fantasy recs but the genre is dead
Samuel Cruz
BEFORE READING MODERN FANTASY LITERATURE READ THE FOLLOWING WORKS
>Gilgamesh
>Odyssey and Iliad
>Aeneid
>The Bible
>Prose Edda
>Beowulf
>Song of Roland
>Le Morte d'Arthur
>Orlando Furioso
>Jerusalem Delivered
>Paradise Lost
>Blake's Prophetic books
That should give you an idea on what's good and what's bad in Fantasy
Jace Cook
>>The Bible
He wants fantasy user
Ian Hall
>no Mahabharata
>no Ramayana
Aiden Reed
based chivalric romance chad
Joshua Allen
No - start with The Eye of the World. The prequel is for afterwards, honestly - its much better to experience the actual books first
Nicholas Young
this but unironically
also add Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to that list
Evan Scott
game of thrones
Aiden Jenkins
isnt it low fantasy?
Colton Sanders
>caring
Anthony Barnes
Blood Song (Book 1 only).
A Throne of Bones.
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Book 1 and 2 only).
The Lord of the Rings.