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I FEEL LIKE I AM MADE ENTIRELY OF PHLEGM. I swear, once I get over this stupid thing I am boiling the interior of my car. And my sheets. And my entire place. Because sneezing + giant amounts of phlegm = EW

/end tmi

Also man, I miss being able to read the back of an epic fantasy and not going "eh, seen it before." I mean, they're so much a matter of how well they're written that reading the blurb doesn't help me at all in making up my mind to buy it. Does anyone have any recs for any really well-written epic fantasy? I've been wanting to read large-scale stories involving politics and saving kingdoms and random dragons and stuff like that (mystic phallic symbols optional) but every blurb I read involving that puts me to sleep.

Date: 2010-06-07 04:37 pm (UTC)
inarticulate: Harold Belserius from Tales of Destiny 2, reading a book. (this book could kill you)
From: [personal profile] inarticulate
I'm not sure Naomi Novik counts as epic fantasy, but it has dragons and politics!

And for fantasy that… I don't remember if it has dragons, honestly… Ricardo Pinto's Stone Dance of the Chameleon series has one that's not based in a pseudo-European culture and avoids the clichés that way. I seem to recall that it's fairly epic and political? Could be wrong, though.

Lynn Flewelling's Tamir Trilogy is fairly epic fantasy and more politics and saving the kingdom (well, queendom, actually) than her Nightrunner series.

uhhh.

Kate Elliot's Crown of Stars series was really interesting, IIRC! It's been years, though; I need to reread. Definitely the most epic and the most political of these recs-- there are seven books and they are all huge.

Date: 2010-06-07 05:26 pm (UTC)
inarticulate: a geisha reading in bed (all my favorites have happy endings)
From: [personal profile] inarticulate
Haha, I have authors like that, too! And I'm totally going to be stalking this post for recs, because I haven't been picking up any new authors lately, and I know there's more good stuff out there. :D

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