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Lately I've been reading mostly historical texts, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, some philosophy, as well as some stuff like Song of Roland Sir Gawain and whatnot.

Anyway, when I was younger I really loved reading Tolkien. I've probably read The Silmarillion about 8-9 times. I pretty much dropped fantasy altogether shortly after I finished reading everything by him, since I sadly found out most modern fantasy is utter crap. But is there anything out there /lit/ could recommend?

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I should get the obligatory reply out of the way, the Gormenghast trilogy by Peake. Gothic, dense prose, character driven. These cover illustrations were done by Peake himself

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>>9107407
Malazan is as flawed as other fantasy series, but the author is by training an archaeologist, and incoporates historical like events like Xenophon's march to the sea and the martyrdom of hussein at karbala. If thats the way your interest goes thats probably the best path

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>>9107418
>>9107417
Thank you both, I'll check them out as soon as I finish reading The Education of Cyrus. Really enjoying it, but it's kind of nice to have a different genre lined up next.