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Wheel of Time is all right. Better than a fair amount of stuff I've read, but jeezus fucking christ does his incessant focus on meaningless idiosyncrasies and people's perceptions of the opposite sex piss me off. There's some pretty awesome stuff in there, but the flaws really do drag it down considerably.
I would also back the recommendation of Neil Gaiman. You'd probably want to start with Neverwhere.