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Here's the list from the article:
For me a lot of these are solid, but some are pretty questionable. I regret the time I spent with Night Angel, for example, and found Hunger Games to be entertaining, but not substantial enough to get past the first book.
Hunger games also isn't fantasy, it's Sci-Fi.
The fact that it's on the list and not something like Spellmonger tells me the person who made this article isn't really all that passionate about fantasy books and likely based their research off various google results for "popular fantasy series".
Haven't you been to a bookstore/browsed books online? They're the same thing, that's why they're in the same category! /s
I don't know Spellmonger; I'll have to check it out
Nothing to say about a list that ranks Dresden files above earthsea and discworld!
Temeraire? Im reading those now, they are okay but not THAT good.
Is Hunger Games fantasy? I haven't read them but the movies makes them seem more like a futuristic dystopia, scifi.
Thanks for the summary. I can agree with each deserving its place...
Except First Law. Couldn't get into that one, but may give it another try.
I would recommend not. The ending was extremely frustrating for me. Throughout the series all the characters grow and then in the last two pages they all revert back to who they were at the start and go back to doing exactly what they were doing before