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Myth Weaver
All right, not all fantasy, just everything except for Martin. I hope you don't mind if I express some skepticism on judgment passed on the majority of fantasy fiction from someone who doesn't bother to read it?
You don't need to doubt my opinion, you should declare it wrong from your perspective or agree with it from your perspective. There is no need to be wishy washy. But at the same time, you can't claim it is truly wrong because it is... opinion, therefore neither of us is right or wrong in a pure sense. I'm only reading Martin now, I've read plenty over time. Some good, some not so good, mostly entertaining. Heck, I understand why people hate Martin, or hate Tolkien, or CS Lewis, Tad Williams, or you name it... even me! Gasp. Heck, I'd love to be hated by most of the fantasy lit world, it would mean they know my name, LOL. I also understand why people like Salvatore and all kinds of pulp fantasy from D&D... but I will continue to not be wishy washy, and potentially over-judgmental, and say that most of it isn't very good.
I do flip through a lot of beginnings to fantasy books, they are most often disappointing, although when I get the time to actually sit and read instead of working on my own stuff, some of those you mentioned are on my short list of things to check out.