Hello /lit/, Barnes & Noble employee here, just had a quick

>ordering books for your wife's son

>>9408285
Well, there is always Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately most fantasy is written for a young audience. A Song of Fire and Ice would probably be a good recommendation. The Witcher books are also good, starting with Blood of Elves. By the way, i've been interested in working for Barnes and Noble and was wondering what your experience with them has been? How did you find yourself working for them?

>>9408285
Ishiguro's "Buried Giant" is a pretty solid deconstruction of fantasy, while still fitting into the fantasy genre.

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>>9408302
She was a heavy reader, and had moved way beyond classics in the fantasy genre, so I would have felt really stupid recommending LotR to her, as I just knew she had already read it to death somehow. She REALLY made it clear she didn't like George R. R. Martin's books, though she wouldn't really tell me why (they were too gross I think it was). I hadn't really ever thought of Weidzman, but I'm not exactly sure she was looking for explorations of morality, but rather looking for genre fiction. Thank you for your response though.

As for your question, its low pay, easy work as long as you can sell things. If you are the kind of person who doesn't want to push your interests on others (you know, a polite person?) you will have trouble starting out. They also demand that you work in cafe sometimes, so you need to be able to make coffee and handle food/get a food worker's card. Its great if you are in college though.

>>9408306
This is an excellent recommendation, and is exactly the kind of response I was hoping for. Thank you very much anon.

Any other recommendations would be more than appreciated. Thank you all so much.

>>9408302
>>9408329
Thanks for humoring my question. Sorry I couldn't help you with yours.

The Once and Future King is GOAT fantasy.

>>9408360
Its cool man, thanks for trying regardless

>>9408380
>>9408306
>arthurian
I'm noticing a pattern here haha

>>9408422
On that note, I suppose you could go for Mallory (Le Morte d'Arthur), and from there it's only a short jump to continental myths (Nibelungenlied, or even things like The Song of Roland), though those are getting less and less fantastical.

>>9408428
I think Song of Roland would be a recommendation for me, and I know its probably stupid to say this but when someone is interested in Norse mythology, I always sell them the Levine Metro Opera version of Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen/Ring cycle on dvd, James Morris is really a perfect Wotan and the costumes are great

>>9408428
Le Morte d'Arthur is great but I feel like it has rather limited potential as a recommendation. You need to have fairly specific tastes to want to read it.

There's also the problem that pretty much every edition of it available is bad, or requires you to be willing to read middle english.

>>9408285

These are considered classics where I'm from, but some people may not have read them:

Robert Asprin "MythAdventures" series are good for the first 5-6 books. It's a humour/satire fantasy. Goes downhill.

Anne McCaffrey - Pern series - romantic fantasy with no magic, but with dragons and fantastic events. Turns out to be SciFi in the end.


I'm Russian and also worked at similar establishment here, but was "let go" because I have made no effort to push turds that our writers produce en masse (think pleb-powerfantasy-fiction that does not even get to fanfiction-tier), and instead asked customers for their favourite works to get points of reference and recommended stuff based on that.