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Reading this thread with great pleasure, but could I just mention, Terry Brooks was, I believe, the first to write "in the tradition of" Tolkein. For many Tolkein fans, Brooks was water in the desert.
Not that I like either author much. Don't like Harry Potter either. Wouldn't bother suing me though, not unless you want your winnings in second hand books. Kat-in-Sydney Quote:
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I understand what you mean - and thanks for the information, too. I've encountered quite a number of books that spend way too much time on telling/building a kind of backstory to the characters or to their world(s) and feel like I know what you mean by this. Don |
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I'm a bit in the opposite direction. I tend to go for the more challenging stuff because I feel less bored reading it.
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The folks I've encountered who loved Brooks tended to be teenage kids. They had mediocre vocabularies and had read too little else to have any meaningful standard of comparison. ______ Dennis |
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![]() The editor in chief at Anthony's publisher was a guest at as local SF group at one point, and in the course of her presentation she mentioned that the average SF book they published in PB got a 100,000 copy print run, but an Anthony novel got an initial order of 250,000 copies. This got greeted by a chorus of groans, at which she replied "His stuff sells, people!" So it does, and I. too, respect his motivation. If you enjoy it, by all means read it. You're at least aware it's utter silly fluff. I just can't read any more of them, and get my guilty pleasures elsewhere. ______ Dennis Last edited by DMcCunney; 11-02-2009 at 10:35 PM. |
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I'm currently of two minds about the Armageddon Reef series he's doing for Tor. On the one hand,. I've enjoyed reading (and rereading) them. On th othe hand, in various ways he's repeating himself, recycling elements he's used in other books, and while he does it pretty well, I can't help wondering if he's run out of new ideas. ______ Dennis |
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![]() That said, even income NOW would do. That'd be fine *grin* |
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I wasn't a teenager when Shanarra first came out. I was a night shift comp operator at a nuclear plant who had just finished LotR for the first time, in horrible need for something else like it. I'd read more classic literature by 15 than most anyone has that I know now. And I liked it very much though I've never read it again in the last 25 years. The only fantasy I knew about then was Tolkien, and Brooks, and Conan which I didn't really like much, and ER Burroughs and Lieber which I did. And some 4 books by somebody about a wizard and a lesser wizard and an otter and somebody else, fighting some great evil. I remember the lesser wizard's name was something like Faringay and the wizard was something Grey something. And that's all there was.. So yes, I really liked SoS very much when it came out and didn't give a rip for the Tolkien purists who fussed. I certainly could tell Tolkien was a far better writer but ya know, english beer is still water to a man dying of thirst. ![]() Last edited by wayspooled; 11-03-2009 at 08:24 AM. |
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