I'm talking like proper ass pulp shit with some Frank Frazetta ass shit on the cover, like a big Barbarian dude throwing an axe at a sorcerer with a pet giant snake.
I've never actually read any of that stuff but I'm curious what that genres Citizen Kane is.
I enjoyed the Shannara series as a kid. Sort of halfway between Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, with a little bit of A Canticle for Leibowitz thrown in.
Shannara is interesting historically because it was one of the first really successful attempts to write a Tolkien style fantasy after LotR was released. Today it reads as LotR fanfic, which it basically is, but it played a very important role in opening up the fantasy genre. I believ the same author also wrote the slapstick "Magic Kingdom for sale: sold!" Series and some modern urban fantasy stories that I remember being good.