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Originally Posted by HarryT
We certainly do differ. The only one of Mr. Brooks's books that I've read is "The Sword of Shannara", and I can honestly say that never have I ever read a fantasy novel that's so blatant a rip-off of LOTR. If that's the standard of his writing I really have no wish to read any more of his work.
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I agree with you. He's written books that aren't LOTR rip offs but they're so cliche ridden and bereft of imagination that it hardly matters. Robin Hobb may meander through her stories, but she has at least built an interesting world - even if it is populated by a lot of standard tropes. I just finished a short story collection that was split between the Lindholm and Hobb personas. I found the Lindholm stories to have a lot more punch than the Hobb stories. Interesting to see how one person can write with such distinctly different voices.