the dune movie was cool! catching up on the classics huh?
After tolkien all that other tripe like david eddings, robert jordan et al just seemed lame.. but i read LOTR and the hobbit in the late eighties.. before the 90's fantasy glut. it just annoys me when people get exposed to lesser writers first and when they get around to reading the original and best (well 20th century anyway) they find it a little less special.. cause all the tolkien copycats have stolen the thunder when you go backwards......
ok, ok.. they're not that bad.. but so much of the fantasy novels have become pulp fiction..
i've finished ranting..Ursula LeGuin is good.
stuff like terry brooks' isn't too bad..
anyways.. for sci-fi fantasy stuff i started to migrate towards terry pratchett's discworld series.. none of the posturing of try hard elve-botherers.. just silly fun..
if you want you can try "good omens" (with neil gaiman) or "pyramids"
other classics will include anything by douglas adams..