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kjk · 11-04-2009, 07:15 PM

Wow.

I'm a pretty voracious reader of science fiction and fantasy, and I have to say that I agree with almost EVERY single author mentioned on these ten pages (especially the first couple pages).

And by agree I mean that over the years, I have tried to read EVERY ONE of the works/authors mentioned (except Gaiman and Diana Gabaldon), over the years, and just would not recommend any of them, much less re-read them.

The only exceptions I noticed were Gene Wolfe (love the New Sun series), Michael Moorcock (love Elric), Zelazny (love Amber) and ...well, damn.

I will admit that Lin Carter was one of the FIRST fantasy authors I read, and I think his Green Star series got me interested in the whole genre (plus it was kinda racy for a 12 year old).

(Cool to find out other people tried the more obscure ones like "Prince of Nothing", etc.. besides me

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11-04-2009, 07:15 PM	#144
kjk . Posts: 3,408 Karma: 5647231 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: never enough	Wow. I'm a pretty voracious reader of science fiction and fantasy, and I have to say that I agree with almost EVERY single author mentioned on these ten pages (especially the first couple pages). And by agree I mean that over the years, I have tried to read EVERY ONE of the works/authors mentioned (except Gaiman and Diana Gabaldon), over the years, and just would not recommend any of them, much less re-read them. The only exceptions I noticed were Gene Wolfe (love the New Sun series), Michael Moorcock (love Elric), Zelazny (love Amber) and ...well, damn. I will admit that Lin Carter was one of the FIRST fantasy authors I read, and I think his Green Star series got me interested in the whole genre (plus it was kinda racy for a 12 year old). (Cool to find out other people tried the more obscure ones like "Prince of Nothing", etc.. besides me )