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Although the execution is original the plot is defintely not. King has based this on a the poem CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME , Tolkien, and Sergio Leone westerns (much like KJ Bishop did for The Etched City) Regarding recommendations I have two list each with a synopsis for each...

SPOILERS I don't know; Tyrion through Spoiler chapters was apparently on his way to meet Dany. END SPOILERS

If your a fan of epic fantasy, and haven't been able to find anything worth your time reading, painfully trying to find something enjoyable other then Martin or Erikson then let me recommend R. Scott Bakker's 'Prince of Nothing', which along with the 2 aforementioned writers is the best epic...

I'm not quite sure I get you, I have Drowned Wednesday already.

Some of them are (defintely leaving out some good ones):: 1. The Weaver - 'Perdido Street Station' -China Mieville 2. Uther Doul - 'The Scar' China Mieville 3. Severian - 'The Book of the New Sun' - Gene Wolfe 4. The Wandeingr Jew - 'A Canticle for Lebowitz' - Walter Miller Jr. 5...

Now official, from Martin, read HERE

Very tough choice; if I had to choose it would probably me Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast. my top 200? 1-101 is Here 102-200 is Here

A Feast for Crows Look, I post enough content on this site I hope I don't get tagged for promotion but I don't feel like typing the same thing over so basically at the recent con, Martin has announced this book is done with some changes. This has been confirmed by his significant other Paris...

Thanks for the kind words:) Hmmm...Don't forget there is 200! A list on my blog and a different list at FBS! My Blog list is HERE. New this week, with 102-200! And my prior 101 list is Here Well in all honesty, the epic series get more attention because they are simply, and...

The problem being discussed regarding many opinions of epic fantasy and the stigma associated with it and its perpetuation is spoken at great by Moorcock in his essay HERE (particulary the last page) Both of whcih are excellent writers by any definition or category. I finally read Ford at...

I admire anyone who can view critique (in this case critique that seems very rational and admit there relevance. Very admirable Although I do disagree with you; this is just a personal opinion on a series and there certainly is nothing wrong with that. I will say - if your would have...

Like Rune I also have recently ventured into the Old Kingdom work which apparenlty is more popualr work by far, hoeever for soem reason found his Keys to the Kingdom series more worthwhile. The former just seems to be run-of-the-mill-fantasy to me (albeit written at a level higher than...

That article has been discussed somewhat widely among genre circles, and although in most cases he is right, some examples he uses show he is more ring to make a broad point than dispalying he has any idea what the hell he is talking about in regards to any knowledge that lies below anything...

Defintely not confusing at all. Luckily I just finished a list that rounds at moy former 101 list of recomendations that has many such titles on it, like novels that woudl fall into the more literal fantasy or be a part of Slipstream of magic realism categories. My new list of 99 novels (all...

Came back from vaccation and fount a copy of The Crimson Sword, the author Eldon Thompson sent to me. He describes hsi work as high fantasy which is normally not my cup of tea as of late, but I'm about to read that and a review copy I got from Prime Books, Holly Phillip's Palace of Repose a...

Generally speaking, and this is coming form a huge Starwars fan I find most of the efforts to be utter garbage. There are a couple of authors who have gone o nto write some quality works and those are the authors I'd focus on. Matt Stover who among other thigns wrote The Revenge of the Sith...

Any Dan Brown novel, but msot notable the Da Vinci Code

I agree with many and think it's the least enjoyable of the 3 Bas-Lag novels, however that said that doesn't imply it's not a superior novel (Won the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2 weeks ago for Best Novel). Iron Council represent a vast change for Mieville thematically IMHO, as althoguh the prior 2...

Maldoror is credited with being a catalyst for the surealism and is as story about possibly the most nihislitic person in literary history (teh title character). Being a surreal novel it's really about true freedom and rebellion, and smal ldifference betwen them. An engaging chaarcter profile...

Highly recommend Conte de Lautreamont's Maldoror *EDITED* I want to add works by Thomas Ligotti and Arthur Machen as well.