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Looking for recommendations

[thewakokid]

Not sure what it would be called, but something like... Arabic fantasy? Sort of Princesses, and Veils, and Evil Viziers, Genies and Belly Dancers. all that cliche stuff. Preferable for more modern, maybe adult audiences?

What do you think?

Re: Looking for recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it's outdated, obviously, but the Encyclopedia of Fantasy is usually a good starting point for looking into stuff of this kind:

http://sf-encyclopedia.uk/fe.php?nm=arabian_fantasy

Re: Looking for recommendations

[thewakokid]

Old or not, I'd never heard of it, so thanks! Good looking out!

Re: Looking for recommendations

[type_wild]

It's not fantasy, but The Architecht's Apprentice is certain modern and adult and has got the whole Princesses and Veils and political scheemings going on.

Re: Looking for recommendations

[thewakokid]

Ok, that sounds like my kinda bag. Thanks!

Re: Looking for recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it's not modern, but you might consider The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, written by Jan Potocki in the early part of the 19th century. I can't promise veils and genies, but there are a pair of beautiful Moorish princesses, a Cabbalist, inquisitors, Gypsies, demonic possession, a lot of interlocking and nested narratives, and a good deal of messing with both the protagonist's and the reader's heads.

Re: Looking for recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah it's useful to remember that arabesque was a significant part of a lot of Gothic and Romantic and similar types of fiction.

Re: Looking for recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

The great thing about The Saragossa Manuscript is that everybody has a different explanation for everything, it's like Rashomon.

Re: Looking for recommendations

[thewakokid]

You had me at a pair of beautiful Moorish princesses. But seriously thanks for the rec, I'll look into it.

Re: Looking for recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

Porn. It is called porn. Racist porn.

Re: Looking for recommendations

[thewakokid]

OK, I'll take some recs for some racist porn please.

Re: Looking for recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

DA - http://books.harlequin.com/search#w=sheikh

Re: Looking for recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

Semi serious question: Is there porn you'd consider not racist? Isn't basically everything fetishized in porn by way of being in it?

Re: Looking for recommendations

[thewakokid]

To be fair to them, I think they may have been making a joke.

Re: Looking for recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

See, I was gonna say porn with just white people in it, but then that would be racist through not having enough diversity. Truly it is a troubling problem.

Re: Looking for recommendations

[dahli]

Passing by to say this made me laugh hard.

Re: Looking for recommendations

[herpymcderp]

It's really goddamn old, but I immediately thought of Quest for Glory 2. Probably available on good old games.

Re: Looking for recommendations

[thewakokid]

Will review, thanks!

Re: Looking for recommendations EDIT

[thewakokid]

And Flying carpets!! It's gotta have flying carpets!

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[type_wild]

Okay

ETA: How could I forget Iznogoud

Re: Looking for recommendations

[sarillia]

There's a companion book to Howl's Moving Castle called Castle in the Air that has most of this stuff.

Re: Looking for recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

Castle in the Air, the sequel to Howl's Moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Hero and heroine are from an Arabic-fantasy culture and there's a flying carpet.

NB: Reccing with caution because one of the protags is a rapist. A Wind in Cairo, by Judith Tarr. The heroine is great and the other protag gets taught a lesson by being turned into a horse for most of the book.

Re: Looking for recommendations

[skeletal_history]

Sort of Arabic (make that Moorish Spain) fantasy -- Guy Gavriel Kay's The Lions of Al-Rassan.

From that page: In The Lions of Al-Rassan, GGK went further than he ever had before towards history and away from traditional high fantasy. Al-Rassan is a thinly disguised Al-Andalus – the book speaks powerfully and poetically of the conflict and tragedy of a fragmenting world inspired by the history of reconquista Spain. The three peoples that inhabit Al-Rassan and its neighbour Esperana -Asharites, Jaddites and Kindath- are clear parallels of Moors, Christians and Jews. People somewhat familiar with Spanish history might realise that Rodrigo Belmonte is inspired by the legendary figure of El Cid, but they may not realise that other direct historical parallels also exist. For example, there was a Jewish chancellor to a Moorish King in one of the city states, Granada, whose name was Shmuel HaNagid (Samuel the Prince). There was also an Ibn Ammar. There may not have been a day of the moat – but there was a day of the ditch. For a brief look at the historical events that inspired the book, click here.

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[(Anonymous)]

It's not exactly what you're looking for, but The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud is excellent. Technically I think it's middle-grade but it's written for more advanced/YA readers and it's thoroughly enjoyable as an adult and is pretty dark. 20th-century England's ruling class is "magicians" who don't have any power themselves, but are able to summon various types of genie. It has three protagonists and the chapters are divided between them; a power-hungry boy magician (I promise it's different from Harry Potter, and he ages up), a girl who is immune to magic and leads a resistance against the magicians, and a djinn named Bartimaeus who narrates his chapters in first person and is fucking hilarious. Then there's a prequel that was written after the trilogy called The Ring of Solomon, probably best to read last (but it's up to you), that's set in ancient Jerusalem where the two protags are Bartimaeus and a female body guard for the Queen of Sheba. And Solomon is in it too. And there might be a flying carpet but it's been a while since I read it so I'm not sure.

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[(Anonymous)]

Throne of the Crescent Moon, by Saladin Ahmed

It's my rec for the book club.