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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 month ago (15 children)

TIL there's a sub here for books.

Terry Goodkind wrote the Sword of Truth series beginning with The Wizard's First rule in 1994, with 17 books in the main series and I believe still ongoing. Not much sex, but it has the brutality down, and is very well written.

[–] musky_occultist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I regret that I have but one downvote to give. Wizard's First Rule is literally the worst book I ever read. (A lot of people do seem to like it, though.)

[–] 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.

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