Recommend a Fantasy series that is beautifully written

[Miriel]

So I posted this in the reading thread...

I wonder if I'll be able to find a high fantasy book that I actually like, or if the genre itself bothers me. For some reason, I find that a lot of people who write high fantasy write in a really similar style. A style I kind of hate.

A lot of the fantasy books I've read in recent years, I haven't been all that impressed with. I find that a lot of times, the actual writing style is very rarely beautiful or lyrical. There's usually tons of descriptions, horrible dialogue, and the writing style itself is weak compared to convoluted magic systems and world building.

Here's an excerpt from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn: The Final Empire, which is a great example of the kind of writing I hate.

Is this a burden that any man should bear? Is this a temptation any man could resist? I feel strong now, but what will happen when I touch that power? I will save the world, certainly - but will I try and take it as well? Such are my fears as I scribble with an ice-crusted pen on the eeve before the world is reborn. Rashek watches. Hating me. The Cavern lies above. Pulsing. My fingers quiver. Not from the cold. Tomorrow it will end.

Ugh! Terrible! It reads like fanfiction. :/

Can anyone recommend a good fantasy series that ISN'T written like a cliche? Favorite fantasy book that has beautiful words? I've found the Discworld series to be delightfully written, but for some reason, it's not maintaining my interest enough.

I thought Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy was lovely. Would like more stuff like that. And I've had a lot of luck with more modern fantasy stuff (Daughter of Smoke and Bone in particular was wonderfully written with a super inventive and haunting mythology). But I really have been itching for more of an old school fantasy.