Good on you . She ' s well capable of putting up a fight , and she did to stand up for the rights and decency of society . That was her option and she took it . As you take yours . <| sep |> Outlaws of the M a r s h C h i n e s e C l assicsClassicVolumesdptel , also known as Water Margin , is a classic of Chinese literature . It is a great book with an expansive world contained within . At the beginning of the book , an inept government official releases 108 demons from a sealed room in a monastery . These 108 spirits are reincarnated as the protagonists of the story , sent to earth to crusade against corruption and restore the throne to the rightful emperor . One by one , the 108 heroes who are actually outlaws , I guess collect at a bandit stronghold in the mountains before the government sees their deeds and tasks them with driving out foreign invaders . My favorite character is Lu Da , who I suppose you could compare to Barrett in some ways big , strong , brash , and loyal . He is a military man who becomes a fugitive after killing a butcher . He is sent to a monastery to hide out , but his appetites and vulgarity prevent him from being a convincing monk , so the other monks kick him out . His story is pretty hilarious , involving a lot of drunken asswhoopings . Philip K . Dick ' s The Man in the High C a stlethemaninthehighcastle . pdf . Not fantasy , but it has political intrigue and a really wild plot twist . I don ' t know that it is really all that similar to FF to be honest , but if you ' re a nerd like me then maybe you ' ll find something in it . H . P . Lovecraft ' s stories are centered around a few central mythologies and offer a lot to the reader . Barnes and Noble printed his complete f i c t i o n s n o b l e l e a t h e r b o u n d c l a s s i c s hplovecrafthplovecrafttel in handsome synthetic leather binding . The short stories range from a few pages to a few chapters , so you can kind of pick and choose how much you want to read . You ' ll want to keep reading though . I ' ve spent entire nights glued to the page , story after story . His dream cycle is more on the fantasy side , but he is known more for his cosmic horror . The Cthulu mythos has inspired a lot of creepy creature art . Related authors include M . R . James and August Derleth , but I have yet to get around to their works .