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Well, you guys, all I can say is that being turned off of fantasy by David Eddings is like being turned off of horror by Poppy Z. Brite. You can't take the works of a terrible hack as being representative of a genre on the whole. There IS a lot of crap fantasy out there, but there are also authors like Steven Erikson, Gene Wolfe, China Mieville, Tad Williams, etc. I read a lot of fantasy, and I also read a lot of SF and horror, and I've found that, by and large, the quality fantasy writers are superior to their counterparts in other fields. Exceptions made for Ligotti and Campbell.
If it's just not your bag, that's one thing, but don't let the Eddingses and Goodkinds of the world ruin an entire genre for you.
Side note: if you don't know where to start with F/SF, Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series is probably the best work of fiction I've ever read. This is aimed at anyone reading this thread.
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