David and Lee Eddings I have always found to be good, and though their books did feel a little Cookie cutterish with some of the same character concepts reappearing in each of the series, their latest series actually seems to have mostly broken out of that mould which has been good.
The latest few series of Terry Brooks' Shannara saga have been pretty good as well after it sort of bogged down for a few books.
I'm not sure as to his books from the past 5 years, but David Gemmell's books were pretty good, though don't expect anything new, he died last year.
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