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iain m banks has some great names... temeraire Send a noteboard - 19/09/2010 04:52:49 PM
my favorite being the high lady sharrow (i named my dog after her). his ship names are excellent. some of them are unpronounceable too though, and leave much to be desired... but generally i love them...

grrm has some nice names, but also some annoying ones. the use of the letter q (which makes me read it as uvular stop, as in ipa) always pisses me off because i get distracted trying to pronounce the names instead of reading on :-P qhorin, qyburn, qo'horik. more like q'annoying. :P

rj's names are ok, but the intended pronunciation gets ridiculous sometimes and i just go with whatever i think it should sound like. well... i do that whenever that happens, actually.

i vaguely remember i didn't like erikson's names much. i also can't stand his writing, so i can't quote them since i only read 1/4 of gardens of the moon. (too disparate, couldn't follow the story because every time you almost understand what's happening he jumps to somewhere else entirely; i got pissed off and quit.)

pratchett and gaiman tend to have very nice names that you feel good about... they're more homey or something. :)
"it's like the real world, except there's dragons!"

cw, you are missed...
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Good names - 19/09/2010 11:25:23 AM 1238 Views
eyjafjallajökull? - 19/09/2010 01:16:49 PM 670 Views
Yes, that one is quite evil - 19/09/2010 01:19:16 PM 735 Views
Hmm. - 19/09/2010 02:03:49 PM 700 Views
Awww - 19/09/2010 02:06:44 PM 839 Views
It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:12:23 PM 667 Views
Re: It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:14:36 PM 659 Views
Re: It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:19:07 PM 724 Views
sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:40:35 PM 573 Views
Re: sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:42:45 PM 597 Views
Re: sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:44:32 PM 652 Views
Mat and Elayne and Thom are pretty recognizable as English names *NM* - 19/09/2010 04:32:20 PM 304 Views
Some Dutch girl's names are lovely. - 19/09/2010 04:20:57 PM 681 Views
Yeah, he once said that - 19/09/2010 08:47:05 PM 638 Views
But it's spelled Elena or Yelena in the Roman alphabet, surely. - 19/09/2010 04:14:46 PM 757 Views
I know the example I quoted is spelt that way - 19/09/2010 04:19:56 PM 627 Views
I actually rather like David Eddings' names. - 19/09/2010 02:26:52 PM 828 Views
Re: I actually rather like David Eddings' names. - 19/09/2010 02:28:30 PM 623 Views
Me too - 20/09/2010 03:01:02 PM 713 Views
Nynaeve ("Neigh-neev" ) - 19/09/2010 02:45:22 PM 726 Views
Re: Nynaeve ("Neigh-neev" ) - 19/09/2010 02:49:53 PM 709 Views
Funny, I hate the "neigh-neev" pronunciation. - 19/09/2010 04:29:14 PM 758 Views
me too - 19/09/2010 06:31:11 PM 564 Views
Re: Funny, I hate the "neigh-neev" pronunciation. - 19/09/2010 06:45:54 PM 747 Views
Mild-may-your-sufferings-be-at-the-hands-of-the-wicked. - 19/09/2010 04:18:31 PM 728 Views
That is very cool. *NM* - 19/09/2010 04:21:49 PM 280 Views
I just looked up that book series... - 20/09/2010 05:24:11 PM 679 Views
Quite a bit. - 21/09/2010 12:04:51 AM 661 Views
It's fantastic. *NM* - 21/09/2010 04:02:16 PM 309 Views
iain m banks has some great names... - 19/09/2010 04:52:49 PM 648 Views
I was grumbling to myself about his names last night - 19/09/2010 04:56:44 PM 739 Views
That's a fairly silly stance, you know. - 19/09/2010 05:04:22 PM 811 Views
I don't know - 19/09/2010 05:08:29 PM 628 Views
I've always been quite impressed by Anomander Rake. - 19/09/2010 10:05:10 PM 604 Views
That is a good name, I agree. - 19/09/2010 10:18:37 PM 545 Views
The ships in the Culture do have the BEST names. *NM* - 20/09/2010 07:13:45 PM 310 Views
A Song of Ice and Fire tends to have good names. Grounded, but just exotic enough. *NM* - 20/09/2010 06:14:13 AM 292 Views
+1 *NM* - 20/09/2010 05:11:58 PM 278 Views
Hands down winner is Zaphod Beeblebrox. *NM* - 20/09/2010 03:56:58 PM 310 Views
So true *NM* - 20/09/2010 04:00:06 PM 273 Views
I don't know who has the best names overall, but I'll always love the name Bellatrix Lestrange. - 20/09/2010 07:12:18 PM 661 Views
That is a very good one. - 20/09/2010 07:13:42 PM 607 Views

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