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Originally Posted by sherman
BTW, to those people wanting to by the Gor books from fictionwise - they are all Multiformat ebooks, and therefore there should be no geographic restrictions on those titles.
I checked, and there is no mention of geographic restrictions listed in any of the Gor book (or any other multiformat book) descriptions.
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When I poked around their help/FAQ section, I came across them mentioning explicitly that no Multiformat books have region restrictions.
Regarding hit-and-miss authors... I gave some Gaiman books a try after reading
Good Omens. I liked
American Gods OK, but most of what else I tried (including
Sandman) had too much of a "this is DEEP and MYSTICAL" vibe that put me off.
I really like most Dragaera books by Steven Brust, but never got more than a couple of pages into
Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille.
Regaring Stephen King's last
Dark Tower books, I don't mind the self-insertion so much (I read
Neverending Story as a kid. Fiction and reality interacting is a topic that interests me), but that they were anticlimatic and badly crafted, what with previously powerful antagonists more or less evaporating, and such.
I got some kind of collected Elric novel at some point, and wouldn't recommend it. Too dark and bleak and violent.
Jasper Ffordes Thursday Next novels I'd love to like - the setting is wonderful - but the I can't read a name like "Jack Schitt" without cringing at the stupidity, and pages With. Writing. Like, This. were terribly grating, too.
I suspect I'd find a lot of older fantasy and science fiction grating due to even more ingrained sexism than is normal for modern works. For example Joan DeVinge's
Snow Queen had as a major plot thread built around the fact that there was exactly one woman in the police force, and nearly all of her colleagues resented that, which nowadays sounds weird, and as a plot point is frustrating.