Reddit mentions: The best humorous fantasy books

A scathing 2-star review on Goodreads for Crux Skullcrusher and the Definitely Evil Sword that starts off describing by comedic fantasy short as "definitely humorous" has led to a bunch of people picking it up and hopefully leaving their own scathing reviews, whilst begrudgingly admitting that I am, in fact, humorous. I'll take it!

Get CSatDES on Amazon, where I'm still a five-star man, and let me know what you think!

Meanwhile, copy edits continue on my full length novel, The First Rule of Adventuring, wherein professional adventurer Asmund Alefson hates his job and dreams of opening a restaurant, and his latest rescue, Princess Silga Goldenfield, dreams of a life of not being kidnapped five times a year and decides that becoming an adventurer is the best way to go about it.

I had also recorded some preview audiobook chapters that got good feedback from friends and friends of friends, and have now committed to releasing an audiobook version of TFRoA, wherein I'll be doing a lot of voices and characters. Fun times!

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There are still 2 or 3 that I have a soft spot for... Golem in the Gears, Crewel Lye, Night Mare, and Man from Mundania were all really good. It's basically the second half of the Xanth series, from about The Colour of Her Panties on where things get recycled to the point that I honestly believe that Piers Anthony is writing his own Xanth fap-fiction at this point...

It was always that way, I suppose, but it usually had plot and good humor to back up the rest.

The last one I tried to read was Jumper Cable ... the top-rated review says it all, pretty much. I was like, okay, main character is a spider and Night Mare was great. How can he fuck this up?

Spider gets turned into a man. Of course. And now he must experience all the "pleasures" of being human and so forth...

>"But I've always liked the more innocent naughtiness rather than this in-your-face, "They had sex, and then this guy had sex with that girl...and then this other girl, and then this one, and then these two had sex all over again, and then..." sex, sex, sex, ad nauseum. I never thought it would happen, but I think I've just been turned off of the series.. "

The strange thing is, I absolutely don't mind erotic things of any kind, but it doesn't have any of the redeeming value you'd find in Nabokov or Haruki Murakami...

Is it safe to say at this point that I'm an antifan? I actually keep on reading these things and laughing at disbelief at how bad it is. The ending to DoOon Mode was ridiculous. Even the Amazon reviewers are tongue-in-cheek!

Knot Gneiss

>Here we go “Adventuring” in Xanth once more, meeting a horde of the familiar characters while running the gauntlet of a multitide of sins. [...] Xanth remains a land of happy endings, however, and readers can expect the usual amount of enjoyment from this thirty-fourth Xanth tale. --Roland Green.

The Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony.

Its 7 books, the first one being "On a Pale Horse."

The story is set in a not-so-distant future kind of world (only slightly more advanced technology than us) that has also incorporated magic and mixed magic and science together. There are seven Incarnations: Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Good, and Evil. The Incarnations are actually "offices" held by people who were once human but who, upon taking office, gained temporary immortality and special powers along with their office.

By far the first book ("On a Pale Horse" which deals with the Incarnation of Death who is actually a really nice guy) and the 6th book ("For Love of Evil" which deals with the Incarnation of Evil who even more surprisingly started out as a VERY nice guy!) are the best books in the series. I read them as a teen but they were my brother's copies and he took them when he moved out. I was lucky enough recently to find 6 of them at a cheap book sale for 50 cents each, except for book 6 (my favorite!) and so book six is on my wishlist.

This series is so cool and so intriguing, I guarantee if you read book 1 you will be hooked. The nice thing is that the books are not too long and they read easily and they all work in plot details together to weave one giant story of many Incarnations' lives.

Edit: Here is a link to the first book!

The dark lord of derkholm is one I haven't seen mentioned in a while, but I still have my ratty old copy flying around and it really is an amazing book. It is a very funny and compelling play on traditional fantasy tropes.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Lord_of_Derkholm

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Derkholm-Diana-Wynne-Jones/dp/0064473368

If you're a fan of table top rpgs (or I suppose any RPG as they hold some similar themes) I recommend the book NPCs and it's sequel Split the Party. It has the adventure story/quest aspect written very well (including battle scenes) while playing with RPG tropes that add a nice humorous touch all thru out.

Every couple years, around Halloween, I reread A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny. It's about various forces preparing spells that will either end the world or keep it around for another year. The protagonist is Jack the Ripper's dog.

It's a young adult novel, but it's a lot of fun.

By the way, thanks for the Mannix recommendation, I just added The Wolves of Paris to my list.

Dark Lord of Derkholm, by Diana Wynne Jones, is somewhat like this.

I'm trying to help ya out. I doubt this is it, but...http://www.amazon.com/Castle-Air-Diana-Wynne-Jones/dp/0064473457

Here is a link

Also, this.

This makes me think of The Dark Lord of Derkholm

Red As Blood by Tanith Lee. Short story collection..awesome book.

A Night in the Lonesome October by Zelazny. You will not regret this one.