Top epic novels

By epic I mean books that bring manly tears to your eyes.

So far items from /tv/, /a/, /jp/ and /v/ have had their share of epicness, but I personally have not read any novels that goes beyond just "hmm, it's an interesting story".


Any recommended title that from /book/ that can claim this category?

This is a good thread. We should have threads like it more often.

Let's think. What books are fucking incredible, apart from the mentioned Great Expectations?

Hm...

Well, I really, REALLY fucking loved the Romance of Three Kingdoms. God, it's a masterpiece. It's worth the ever-lasting, age-transcending praise it gets. How it leaps from historical textbook to magical fantasy, or to heroic epic, is at times outright mind-bending. It's completely different from a modern novel, of course, but it's artistry will always young and modern (I'm guessing, since it was written when Europe was wearing black and lived in mud, and it's still awesome and relevant). The ending ifs fucking marvellous, too. How the shit do you end a multithousand-page historical novel? Holy fuck, that was truly genius.

WHat else was epic? Hm. Decidedly not the shitty fantasy novels listed above. LotR, everyone read that already, and you better read it when you're really young, or poor writing will make you cringe at times. ASoIaF is shit, unless you're pulp-monging "fantasy" reader of the "I love wolfs!" variety that has no fucking taste.