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Maybe I should remove the pictures.
(I moved them to photobucket. He has several more at his blog.) Last edited by BenG; 10-29-2009 at 11:54 AM. |
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Still, an author with the nerve to name a major character "Herpes Zoster" deserves some sort of prize IMHO. Note that I don't specify what sort of prize.
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10-29-2009, 12:25 PM | #18 |
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Some of you will give me crap for this but I propose avoiding Stephen R. Donaldson's "Thomas Covenant" series. It wasn't badly written but I guess I just need SOMEONE to empathize with. I think all it did was give me a headache (as did some of Tolkien's meanderings but THAT at least had a payoff).
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Those covers are too funny.
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I have to disagree with the assessment on Mercedes Lackey, Stephen R. Donaldson, and Terry Brooks. They are quite good. I'm sorry you (you know who you are) cannot see this.
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Jack Chalker's Well of Souls ( I think that is what it was) series really turned me off.
I'll read most anything in science fiction and fantasy, and the first one was average, but enjoyable. Somewhere in there however, it just got too uncomfortable for me. In one of the books, the main character had a female companion who had no legs and no arms and was completely dependent on our hero for everything. In another book there was a female character who was physically mature but mentally deficient. She was under complete control of the lead character. Maybe, someone who finished the series will tell me who Chalker turned it around in the end. Possibly we'll find out that these female 'slaves' were hiding super mind powers and were in control the entire time -- or some other nonsense. The bottom line for me is that even if the conclusion was good, the trip to get their was too painful. I'm not into this complete subservience thing whether its male/female or King/peon. For me it only works is the POV is the undertrodden and we get to see them breaking free. |
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Robert Newcomb. Formulaic dreck from start to as far as I could be bothered to read.
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Then you have to consider the gender of the reader. I think there is fantasy that will be appreciated more by women than men, and the opposite is true too... PS : As for Mercedes Lackey, the only one I read (I have some in my TBR list, and one started) is "Tiger Burning Bright", with Marion Zimmer Bradley and Andre Norton, and I really enjoyed it ! Last edited by Idoine; 10-30-2009 at 11:20 AM. |
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10-30-2009, 12:18 PM | #30 |
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I don't like Donaldson - his books are very well written but completely unpleasant to read. Terry Brooks annoys me - I liked him well enough at 13 but not now. I thought Jordan lost control of the story around the third volume. (I remember reading a passage and it felt like nothing happened for a hundred pages - and then the same nothing happened for another hundred pages to the same characters later on.)
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