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I think you will be missing out on some gems. I always wrote off things like HP Lovecraft, Franz Kafka, Harry Harrison etc as books for ironic hipster and crusty old professor types, and you know what? I couldn't have been more wrong.
Even the short books like "The Metamporphosis" (Kafka) which you can read in an hour completely drew me in and made me realise what i had been missing. "Deathworld" (Harrison) again was excellent, and you know what? I suspect a very large influence on the script for Avatar.
Oh, another recommendation of modern fantasy, "The Blade Itself Trilogy" by Joe Abercrombie, a little less magicy than others at the start, but absolutely fantastic books, I would say as good as Game of Thrones for the most part.
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