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Date: 2010-06-20 10:14 pm (UTC)There is so much that is wrong in the world of Eddings, in both politics and story, but he's skilled enough to make it pretty entertaining anyway. Even as a sophisticated, enlightened adult, I got swept up all over again when I went back to reread the Belgariad--I could see all the things that were wrong with it, but I enjoyed it anyway.
(Also, while I think he's wrong-headed about all kinds of things, it always seems superficial--the books are sexist, but in a smug, cutesy, parroting-the-received-wisdom-of-gender-politics way, not anything really thoughtfully misogynistic; the race tropes are exasperating and offensive, but not malicious; the politics are ridiculous, but in a way I find very typical of the fantasy genre, that kind of thing. YMMV on how much that might genuinely offend.)
Xanth, maybe? Dragonlance? Forbidden Realms? I know I read more drek than that, but I guess most of the drek I read wasn't that memorable.