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Looking for "R-rated", gritty, gorey high fantasy books (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world to c/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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[–] rhadamanth_nemes@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wizard's First Rule is the only tolerable book, if barely. They're all thinly veiled (not thinly veiled) fetish writing, or high school level political theory.

At a certain point it's clear that Terry fired enough editors that the remaining ones stopped trying.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah Wizard's First Rule even had a decent stopping point at the end, iirc? That or by the third or so. Good enough read if you're an edgy teen.