So I grew up very sheltered and isolated from society and as a result missed out on a lot of pop culture and other common things. I love to read, and I really enjoy fantasy and DnD and those types of things and I’m trying to find and catch up on the great fantasy books/series that every fantasy lover/nerd should know. I’m not as interested in sci-fi, but I’m willing to read the “great” ones too. What would you recommend?

Series I’ve read: The Lord of the Rings The Witcher The Dark Tower The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Dungeon Crawler Karl

Update to add also read: Wheel of Time Most of the Stormlight Archive The Hobbit

I’m just starting my first Discworld book.

Edit: Thanks everyone! Keep them coming, I’m going to make a list with all the suggestions and start working through them.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    15 days ago

    I read the first book because I’d heard praise for it. It was either during that one, or the next book what I thought:

    • orphan
    • gifted magician
    • professor who hates him
    • professor who likes him
    • male friend
    • female friend
    • and some others that I can recall after so many years

    …fucking hell. I’m reading a retelling of fucking Harry Potter!

    • flubba86@lemmy.world
      4·
      15 days ago

      Yeah. It’s full of really common pop-fiction tropes. But the writing is so beautiful you don’t notice it.

      It really jumped the shark when in the second book the guy who is a virgin and can’t talk to girls suddenly became the god of sex and literally out-sexed the sex nymph who had been sexing men to death for years.

      • dvlsg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        15 days ago

        Did it? I think one of the points is that the narrator isn’t particularly trustworthy.

        • proudblond@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          15 days ago

          Yes but also is that just Rothfuss’ excuse when fans call him out about plot inconsistencies? Because that’s how I heard that “explanation” came about.

          • dvlsg@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            14 days ago

            Oh I didn’t even know Rothfuss ever brought it up explicitly. It’s a conceited character talking about themselves, so it seemed expected to me.