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Any good fantasy books out there?
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Any good fantasy books out there?
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The works of John Crowley are excellent, especially Little, Big.
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John Wolfe and Gene Green
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Has anyone here read Thiong'o's fantasy novel?
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Wolfe and Tolkien.
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Tolkien's writing wasn't *that* good, but he knew how to tell a story.
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>>7779882
Not the other way around?
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Nope
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>>7779838
your a poopyhead
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>>7779905
Definitely not. Tolkien's faux-medieval prose makes my eyes bleed. The only reason why he's considered one of the greatest is because of his worldbuilding and storytelling.
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>>7779822
Ghormengast, Book of the New Sun and Silmarillion are my favourites.
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>>7779838
delet this
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>>7779822
The Painted Man, Peter V. Brett
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>>7779963
>The only reason he's considered one of the best is his world-building and story telling
>the only reason
>story telling

I fell for it.
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>>7779963

>Tolkien's faux-medieval prose makes my eyes bleed.

It's better than modern prose with shitty, short sentences.
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>>7779963
It's absolutely nothing like medieval English
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borges and barthelme
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