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Old 10-14-2010, 10:33 PM   #76
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I got the same impression when I read Centaur Aisle. I never touched one of his books after that turkey.
Piers Anthony is a strange creature . I most of his books in paperback and paperback and some in ebook. I was a fan of his in middle school and high school.

His EARLY EARLY stuff is really good. Then, he hit this point where he had a bunch of good ideas but only the first book in each series was reasonably well-written and then things sort of fell apart. Finally, he got to the point where even the first book was bad.

I don't think he's total trash...there's two trilogies he wrote that I really liked, and my adult uncle liked at the same time:
Orn/Ox/Omnivore and Var the Stick/Sos the <something - rope?>/Neq the Sword.

The same couldn't stand any of PA's Xanth books .
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Old 10-14-2010, 11:07 PM   #77
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I think this is the book that soured me on his work:
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Old 10-14-2010, 11:16 PM   #78
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Another one who's early works were great was the late David Eddings. After a while, though, it seemed he ran out of ideas and just kept repeating the same basic theme.
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Old 10-15-2010, 10:04 PM   #79
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Another one who's early works were great was the late David Eddings. After a while, though, it seemed he ran out of ideas and just kept repeating the same basic theme.
I've actually read [though I can't point to it right away] that Eddings was deliberately writing the same story tropes over and over to try to prove a point about fantasy books and the genre overall. If he wasn't doing that, he was a terrible writer after the Mallorean and his separate Elenium series ;-)
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Old 10-15-2010, 10:45 PM   #80
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Still, a lot of people like the "same theme" with new scenes, characters and such - often it's what draws people to keeping with the same author.
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Old 10-16-2010, 03:26 AM   #81
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Still, a lot of people like the "same theme" with new scenes, characters and such - often it's what draws people to keeping with the same author.
Yes, that's true... I do that a lot... It's like coming home.. You're very comfortable.. I do the same with some movies...

A long time ago I read a series of books, and they appealed to me so much I read them again and again... I even played the same cd's while reading them... Whenever I now play the cd's I think of the characters in the book...

I never had much money for books, so re-reading was essential... in those days..
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Yes, that's true... I do that a lot... It's like coming home.. You're very comfortable.. I do the same with some movies...
Yes, similar here. I remember reading a few of the Eddings books about a dozen times.

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I've actually read [though I can't point to it right away] that Eddings was deliberately writing the same story tropes over and over to try to prove a point about fantasy books and the genre overall.
Since people notice, it appears that he disproved his point then.
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Old 10-16-2010, 11:38 AM   #84
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I've actually read [though I can't point to it right away] that Eddings was deliberately writing the same story tropes over and over to try to prove a point about fantasy books and the genre overall. If he wasn't doing that, he was a terrible writer after the Mallorean and his separate Elenium series ;-)
Not all of his books use this common plot, though. My favourite Eddings book, "The Redemption of Althalus", is a completely different story.

I'm pleased to see that what looks to be Eddings' entire output is available as eBooks (in the Amazon UK Kindle store, at least).
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Still, a lot of people like the "same theme" with new scenes, characters and such - often it's what draws people to keeping with the same author.
Aren't there only about nine plots out there, anyway? Everything else is just a variation on the theme...
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Old 10-20-2010, 09:08 PM   #86
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I think this is the book that soured me on his work:
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Just the blurb sounds painful.

I'm reading "If I Pay Thee Not In Gold" right now, it's a fantasy book he co-wrote with Mercedes Lackey, about a woman in an amazonian-type society who comes to respect men. The best I can say about it is that it feels like it could have been _SOOO_ much better.

It actually started out okay (meaning: at least it was readable) but turned into a "road trip" story where the trip is boring. When I'm not reading that, I'm re-reading Jack Chalker's Four Lords of the Diamond series (4 books total). It's probably a telling point that I'm 1/3 of a way through the third 4L book, while only having moved about 20 pages in the amazon book.

That's one of the many joys of a kindle -- you can leave a book and then go back to it seamlessly. No fumbling for the last page read, no dog-earing, etc.
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