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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
Someone else mentioned Mercedes Lackey - I still like her books a lot, especially the Last Herald Mage trilogy which remains a favorite. Sometimes I get a little eye-rolling from the numbers of lifebonds and lovey dovey fantastic relationships, but I just blame that on the sappy nature of this particular female author  I'm reading them again right now.
Who I have trouble reading now is Piers Anthony. I remember my dad calling him a "marshmallow head". I re-read his Phaze trilogy a while ago - they were still entertaining. But the 2nd Phaze trilogy just went downhill fast and I couldn't finish it. I read the first 2 Incarnations books again...still entertaining...I find a lot of his stuff feels a bit like "dirty old man" now, esp. the later Phaze books. I can do the first 1-2 Xanth books, and I still like Crewel Lye - but other than that...can't do it. |
I agree on both counts. I still love the Arrows series which I first read as a teenager. It's still great comfort reading. I enjoyed it more than her recent Collegium Chronicles books.
Piers Anthony has *not* aged well for me. Even as a teen I quickly got sick of the Xanth series—there is only so far you can go with a pun before it gets old. Very old.
Several of his series started with a bang but also went downhill. I think his best book ever was On a Pale Horse. I enjoyed the next few books in that series, but the quality slowly went downhill and the last 2 were total let-downs. Same story for the Phaze series, with a great opening book and not so great sequels.
-Marcy