The 6 stages of reading fantasy

The Chemical Mage and The Nuclear Druid were an epic duo

Im a full blown Lv 6...

i must have missed the stage where im on my fifteenth reread of name of the wind cause rothfuss wont publish doors of stone

Why is stormlight and malazan in the same stage ?

This is staged

No GoT?! ADULT actually!

Highly recommend you move stage 2 to past stage 4 imo hahaha I just found LOTR really difficult considering the older fantasy dialect, it’s just very unique to modern fantasy in most of the writing style but then again that just put it in a league of its own. 🍻🐐

Perfect! 😂😂😂

Hell I started at stage 3 😂

I was all about those stories about wizards and magic schools, then I got into some more realistic and grim stuff then I discovered progression fantasy. And rn im going full circle and back on magic school stories lol

So I just jumped randomly between the stages.

Malazan is the final boss of Fantasy

What stage would "I have no mouth and I must scream" fall into?

I’m all of the above

I just started with priority of the orange tree and then jumped to Brandon Sanderson way of kings😂

Lol it's funny cause it's true. I read Narnia and Harry Potter as a kid - early teen, then I read Tolkien and George RR Martin in college, and now after college I'm halfway through the Wheel Of Time, struggling to keep track of 20 Ashaman, 70 Aiel, 120 Aes Sedai, Ghealdans, Saldeans, Sea Folk, Cairhienin, etc etc

anyone can suggest
for somone his fav book is LOTR, enjoying the wheel of time book 1 and thought kingkiller by Patrick rothfus book 1 and 2 acceptable but slow?

i like high fantasy but still don't know much about it and i don't like where the protagonists are too young and teens, or the main is female nor i enjoy sex scenes and romance and the preferred pacing is normal with a bit of speed play, and overall speed is not too fast nor too slow? basically balanced

i went from wof and warriors strait to way ok kings...

i went from stage 1all the way to 5 and it was great way of kings is a masterpiece

I am stage 5

I love several of those books, but what was written at the beginning causes me conflict haha Since only Abercrombie and Erikson are adult fantasy of all the ones you listed. Most were YA or Children's. Which is not a bad thing, but it does make you curious.

Stage 7 is when you make you first re read of malazan and the mind blowing star

Lord of the rings is one of the few times I prefer the films to the books.

Im near the end of Gardens of the Moon and my brain physically hurts

I might have jumped to stage 6 immediately after reading Eragon...
DON'T JUDGE ME!!!

I read most of these, except the Ken Liu one, and.. idk, I can’t see the name while typing- (never die, and the legends and lates… any good?)

Oof, I found this hard to read with the info over the title cards. I’m old. Hopefully old because the info and subscribe button can be moved and some kind souls will say, “Okay, Boomer, here’s what you do…”

Funnily enough, I'm currently reading The Two Towers, and I just bought Bookshops and Bonedust the other day not realizing it's a prequel.

This is ironically the order I read these books. Spot on lol

AS A WHEEL OF TIME FAN, i feel so called out omg! He just wrote toooooo many different names

I assume the last stage was ASOIAF theorists talking about how Joffrey meant to poison Tyrion at the purple wedding

Given that samderson vot me into reading and o have read barely anything else(yet), I have managed to skip to stage 5&6

I started on stage 5😂

I-
The only thing I’ve read on this list is Way of Kings. What’s that doing on stage 5?!😂

Out of all these books I've only read Brandon Sanderson. I'll have to check out some of the others.

Phase 4 here

Personally attacked by the lore wiki bit

Where the hell is Game of Thrones?

Stage 3

Is this ASMR??

Coming from a major Tolkien Phase to wanting to read Jonathan Strange. I guess this is acurate

i got onto stage 6 when i had read the name of the wind 💀

The Tolkien covers are so gorgeous! ❤

Slowly slowly sllllooowly getting through book 2 of Malazan. I listen to audiobooks and this series I keep having to rewind to fully comprehend what is going on. I think this series is the final boss of Fantasy books.

Lmao I guess I’m at the Sanderson stage but missed a few books. Lol I also think you missed Harry Potter. For me it was Harry Potter than the inheritance cycle, than lord of the ring, than Witcher, the wheel of time, a song of ice and fire and other books in that world, Sanderson, and now the Drizz’t series in the forgottean realms of Dungeons and dragons. I’ll probably jump to Robin hobb or joe abecombre next unless I decide to take a break and read some scifi. I’ve been wanting to read the mass effect books and continue on in my Star Wars journey. Also I wouldn’t mind reading more world of Warcraft books. They have some great lore and stories. I would really love to get into the world of league of legends. The arcane show was phenomenal and I’d love to learn more about the lore.

I guess i started at level 4

Mazalan Empire is a big lore to explore!

"LOTR is even better than the movies" omg, cue old lady Titanic meme, eesh 😂

No Robin Hobb😢?

I always recommend mistborn and wheel of time to everyone I meet