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Looking for "R-rated", gritty, gorey high fantasy books (lemmy.world)
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I wanna read something that's fucking brutal with fighting and sex and all the things, but also WELL WRITTEN (so NOT George R.R. Martin, I can't stand his shit). I want Lord of the Rings on crack and steroids.

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[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm going to choose to interpret your comment as charitably as possible, and that your library is the best curated on the planet. What have you been reading?

[–] musky_occultist@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Hah, I did mean it in the spirit of good discussion. (Though maybe I also feel like I have a sacred mission to keep the unwary from inadvertently Goodkinding themselves!)

I've actually been having a hard time getting into anything new lately for some reason, but I recently reread C. S. Friedman's Coldfire and Magister series (serieses? trilogies), which are kind of dark, but not so "gritty, gorey" that I thought they'd be a good recommendation for this thread. The former in particular is excellent, and they're both fairly unusual takes on fantasy.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

And those are getting added to my list, I'll see if they hold up