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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Anthony has done good work. I recommend _Macroscope_, _Cthon_ and _Pthor_, _Prostho Plus_ and the Orn, Omnivore, 0X trilogy among others. He needs to be judged by more than Xanth.
And I'll recommend The Belgariad, too. I just can't recommend anything else of Eddings', because he only has one story and cast of characters.
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Dennis
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I like a lot of Anthonys work. I am planning to pick up a few Xanth books again as I had read the others in my public library, but only the first 5 perhaps.
In one of the Xanth books he had an article after the end of the novel that talked about how he writes books, he writes the outline and fleshes it out a little then attempts to sell it to publishers. If they do not buy it he does not write the book. So now he does not spend time writing a book only to find he cannot sell it, part of the contract negotiation is a price and delivery time.
I noticed the comment on the GOR series. A friend told me the first 6 or so were superb then it got on horseback and galloped away. I am in Australia so when I tried to buy the first book I was hit by the dreaded geographic restrictions.
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I have just finished The Wizard of Karres and I enjoyed it. In reference to the earlier person calling it bad I have to say it is not as good as the original. I think the missing ingredient is humour. The humour is different to the original and is missing a certain something along with distrust and disrespect for authority.
Eric Frank Russell could have written a sequel with the same humour and anti authority angle I think.
I remember reading some Christopher Anvil in the 80s and I think he could do a similar thing, I have just purchased an Anvil book and am looking forward to reading it and will see if my memory is correct.