Great Fantasy Books to Read by C. S. Hand

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[...] touch with the fantasy genre.  (That is what happened to me, anyways.) But there are now fantasy books for adults, because there were plenty of other children who read the same books as you did, [...]

[...] One of the most interesting things about fantasy novels is the fantasy books that the characters within them read.  I think it also provides an interesting glimpse [...]

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[...] Do you remember where you were the first time you opened the first book of the Kingkiller Chronicles? Do you remember the long nights where you couldn’t stop touching the pages, and the words [...]

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[...] Are you looking for the best dark fantasy books? Are you looking for amoral protagonists, anti-heroes, and complexly drawn characters [...]

[...] What is the appeal of all these dark fantasy books featuring anti-heroes who are seemingly capable of committing terrifying deeds of murder [...]

[...] One of the things I love most about dark fantasy books is their cynical wisdom and fearless truth-telling. You know the kind of book I’m talking [...]

[...] For many people, especially those readers of dark fantasy books, meeting an anti-hero is something they take for granted.  After watching us connive [...]

[...] now would be good time to post a catalog of all the first sentences from the best fantasy novels that have been written over the years. I have made a few exceptions here and there [...]

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[...] are all Drizzt quotes I found while reading the second book from this wonderful series of fantasy novels, written by the famous fantasy author R. A. Salvatore. “I pray that the world never [...]

[...] We are in the midst of the Golden Age of fantasy literature and people are eagerly looking for more books like the Name of the Wind.  There is a [...]

[...] something that has become rich and rare. This is one of the more moving openings in all of fantasy literature and one of the reasons I love this series. Constantly Asking Yourself: Who Are The [...]

[...] the Revels There I LOVE long titles.  There need to be more verbose titles in fantasy literature!  This one has a nice postmodern echo of the popular thriller “The Girl [...]

[...] flare to.  It is acid green in color.  It is most famously used by Rita Skeeter. Fantasy Literature As an erstwhile graduate student of literature, in addition to reading fantasy books, I [...]

[...] learn about the drow ranger’s eye color in the chapter titled “Lavender Eyes” from the fantasy novel the Crystal Shard, by R. A. Salvatore. Of course, if you read Homeland before you read [...]

[...] pretty shocked that Robert Jordan’s A Memory of Light did not win or rank as the best fantasy novel of 2013 on any collection I consulted.  You might think that the concluding entry to a [...]

[...] work, are to be enthusiastically thanked for raising the level of awareness for this kind of fantasy novel. What makes a book like The Name of the Wind? I combed through thousands of Amazon and [...]

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[...] Rings, Harry Potter, and the Dark Elf trilogy, but then you grew up and lost touch with the fantasy genre.  (That is what happened to me, anyways.) But there are now fantasy books for adults, [...]

[...] marketing department in major publishing houses.  The cynic in me feels that some in the fantasy genre want to be taken more serious, and that including this novelty signals a more earnest and [...]

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[...] you are going to use a one word title for your fantasy book (and there are certainly enough fantasy authors trying this) it has got to deliver big. It has to be unusual. It has to grab attention. It [...]

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[...] not say, about our cultural moment. Regular candidates to these nominations include fantasy authors like Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, Neil Gaiman, Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, [...]

[...] novels from the 1980s to fantasy novels composed during 2000 and after? The standards that fantasy authors wrote under during one epoch will be completely different from the standards that [...]