Eddings might be "generic cookie cutter fantasy", but dammit, it's fun "generic cookie cutter fantasy". Also, immensely quotable.

I do love Ray Bradbury. I probably read "The Martian Chronicles" a hundred times over, and all his crazy short stories and other novels at least once. They're not all great, but for me the good outweighs the bad. Especially the stories set on Venus, for some reason. And The Veldt. And "Something Wicked This Way Comes". Wacky fun.