My apologies Harry T. I should have known better where to post this.
& You should absolutely read GGK if you get a chance. Add
The Last Light of the Sun to the other recommendations. But for me, nothing tops Tigana.
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Don't The Hobbit and LotR kind of rule each other out? (How stand-alone is stand-alone?)
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Heh, here we go.
Let's define stand-alone as "you can enjoy it without reading anything else". It has a beginning and an ending with the main storyline complete. But whatever works for you. Its also why I included Tigana because that is hands-down, written in stone, stand-alone.
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I'm going to provisionally go for Peace by Gene Wolfe, just so this post isn't entirely negative.
It is a great book, even though it took me two attempts to get started, but it's fantasy in the broad sense (like most Wolfe) not the narrow sense (epic/high fantasy). It's hard to think of standout stand-alone works that are actually epic fantasy. I guess it's not that epic if it ends that quickly. |
Gene Wolfe is indeed excellent and Peace is now on my TR list.