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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Someone in another forum once asked if there were Third Order Idiot Plots that required the readers to be idiots. I said "Yes, they're called Star Trek novels...", grinned, ducked, and ran. 
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Dennis |
Fantasy to avoid, harder than it sounds. I'll read most anything once or at least give it a try. I struggle sometimes between my dislike of a book and my completion issues.
Robin Hobbs, wanted to like her, fell for all the reviews, blech. Can't do it.
Terry Brooks Shannara series. Too much of a wannabe. Drove me nuts. I do enjoy many of his other books though.
Gor, man those take me back. Read a few and yes, I liked them. I make no excuses. But I can't imagine reading all of them.
David Eddings, so talented at characterization and snappy dialogue. The Belgariad is one of my favorite reads of all time and I need the Mallorean because I have closure issues.
Steer clear of anything that Anne McCaffrey writes with her son Todd. I loved the Pern series, it was one of the first books I ordered from the Science Fiction Book Club when I was 13. It surely lost momentum and coherence in it's later editions.
I never got into Xanth but Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality were great reads and, though I haven't read them since college, the Blue Adept series was fun too.
Never liked the Gunslinger books, Steven King lost me at Tommyknockers.
I'm sure I could think of more but I need more coffee.