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Old 01-21-2002, 09:28 PM   #18
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I've just started reading The Gormenghast Trilogy, a very surreal fantasy trilogy about a castle and its inhabitants. It was written (I think)in the mid-1940s by Mervyn Peake, an English writer. Very poetic writing, elaborate description, a complete and very strange world. It's not fantasy like elves-n-dragons fantasy, but surreal, weird, magic-realism fantasy. There's been some new interest in it this year because it was adapted for TV as a mini-series.

Try Terry Pratchett too! A mixture of fantasy and (sometimes sharp) satire. He has a whole series of books set in Diskworld, a demented yet hilarious universe of his own creation. His best one I've read is Small Gods.
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