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Originally Posted by Lizzie in Ma
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.
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I'll avoid commenting on Hobb (my favorite) but I can comment on these. I too love the Belgariad, but the problem is, all of the Edding books are almost repeats of the Belgariad. Same characters, same themes, same funny gods, same sorts of plots. I hit my limit with their first Dreamers book...terribly derivative of their other works.
McCaffery is still a good read (just re-finished the series up to All the Weyrs of Pern last week) but from what I hear, Todd's books are terrible and doesn't have the same talent, and she's gotten too old to write or something.
Anthony...I just re-read some of his stuff. Xanth...first couple, maybe up to Crewel Lye, are OK. Incarnations...is OK. Depending on the book. Evil is still good. Adept trilogy is still good, but goes way off kilter in the sequel series. And man, Anthony has a dirty old pervert thing going in some of his books that just seems weird, now. I dunno if it's being a parent now or what but it just jumps out at me a lot more than it used to.