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The 21 Must Read Fantasy Books of All Time (booksofbrilliance.com)
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If you are like me, then you are a huge fantasy fan. It is easily my favorite genre and I have to force myself to read to read other books. But for this list, we will be staying with this genre as we share our list of the 21 must read fantasy books of all time!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I don't understand the love that the Dresden Files gets. Great idea with terrible execution. Butcher's writing is just clumsy with bad dialogue and weak world building. The series was originally recommended to me because I was lamenting that Gibson had moved away from noir after Neuromancer and a friend thought Butcher would fit the bill.

[–] stratashake 2 points 2 years ago

I genuinely despise the dialogue for at least the first six books in the Dresden files. If my friend didn't convince me to keep going, I would have given up. However, around book 10-12 is when I saw the magic.

That's a huge time investment for something you may not eventually like, but it paid off for me fwiw.

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