Anyway, try David Eddings, Terry Brooks or good ol' J.R.R. Tolkien. I won't recommend you the recently translated short stories of Andrzej Sapkowski, because enjoying them is a matter of acquired taste (they're pretty brutal and loaded with crude humor) and I'm afraid the translation loses a bit of the original charm.
The best thing about it is that if some kid from Montana can get his stuff published, complete with gushing reviews, I have a reason to write mine. And after I read a blog where a chick heckled all inconsistencies, deus ex machinas, bizarre happenings, accidental double entendres and other stuff commonly encountered in Mary Sue fanfics, I have a reason to write my stuff good.
The point, as I noticed after clicking "send", is missing - I meant I've read a blog where someone pointed out all the shitty stuff (inconsistences, malapropisms, plot holes etc.) in two first books of the Inheritance trilogy and it was way too much for something that got published. Don't worry, we had a case like that here as well, but at least every reviewer ran the book in question ("Codex Of The Magi" - won't get translated, so sorry, but no new book for you to enjoy) into the ground. Sometimes the guy in the publishing company screws up. And guys in marketing are always dumb as fuck (my own experience - trying to promote total and utter train wrecks with unbelievable perseverance is something I can't understand, no matter how hard I try). Pushing a book out only because it was written by some 16-yo. farmboy from Montana? No, thanks, I'll pass.
Don't worry, we had a case like that here as well, but at least every reviewer ran the book in question ("Codex Of The Magi" - won't get translated, so sorry, but no new book for you to enjoy) into the ground. Sometimes the guy in the publishing company screws up. And guys in marketing are always dumb as fuck (my own experience - trying to promote total and utter train wrecks with unbelievable perseverance is something I can't understand, no matter how hard I try). Pushing a book out only because it was written by some 16-yo. farmboy from Montana? No, thanks, I'll pass.