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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 1540 Views
eyjafjallajökull? - 19/09/2010 01:16:49 PM 955 Views
Yes, that one is quite evil - 19/09/2010 01:19:16 PM 1027 Views
Hmm. - 19/09/2010 02:03:49 PM 991 Views
Awww - 19/09/2010 02:06:44 PM 1120 Views
It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:12:23 PM 942 Views
Re: It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:14:36 PM 943 Views
Re: It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:19:07 PM 1016 Views
sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:40:35 PM 869 Views
Re: sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:42:45 PM 900 Views
Re: sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:44:32 PM 955 Views
Mat and Elayne and Thom are pretty recognizable as English names *NM* - 19/09/2010 04:32:20 PM 425 Views
Some Dutch girl's names are lovely. - 19/09/2010 04:20:57 PM 986 Views
Yeah, he once said that - 19/09/2010 08:47:05 PM 937 Views
But it's spelled Elena or Yelena in the Roman alphabet, surely. - 19/09/2010 04:14:46 PM 1047 Views
I know the example I quoted is spelt that way - 19/09/2010 04:19:56 PM 938 Views
I actually rather like David Eddings' names. - 19/09/2010 02:26:52 PM 1119 Views
Re: I actually rather like David Eddings' names. - 19/09/2010 02:28:30 PM 906 Views
Me too - 20/09/2010 03:01:02 PM 1006 Views
Nynaeve ("Neigh-neev" ) - 19/09/2010 02:45:22 PM 1018 Views
Re: Nynaeve ("Neigh-neev" ) - 19/09/2010 02:49:53 PM 997 Views
Funny, I hate the "neigh-neev" pronunciation. - 19/09/2010 04:29:14 PM 1058 Views
me too - 19/09/2010 06:31:11 PM 862 Views
Re: Funny, I hate the "neigh-neev" pronunciation. - 19/09/2010 06:45:54 PM 1049 Views
Mild-may-your-sufferings-be-at-the-hands-of-the-wicked. - 19/09/2010 04:18:31 PM 997 Views
That is very cool. *NM* - 19/09/2010 04:21:49 PM 406 Views
I just looked up that book series... - 20/09/2010 05:24:11 PM 1046 Views
Quite a bit. - 21/09/2010 12:04:51 AM 947 Views
It's fantastic. *NM* - 21/09/2010 04:02:16 PM 453 Views
iain m banks has some great names... - 19/09/2010 04:52:49 PM 936 Views
I was grumbling to myself about his names last night - 19/09/2010 04:56:44 PM 1032 Views
That's a fairly silly stance, you know. - 19/09/2010 05:04:22 PM 1118 Views
I don't know - 19/09/2010 05:08:29 PM 906 Views
I've always been quite impressed by Anomander Rake. - 19/09/2010 10:05:10 PM 895 Views
That is a good name, I agree. - 19/09/2010 10:18:37 PM 824 Views
The ships in the Culture do have the BEST names. *NM* - 20/09/2010 07:13:45 PM 436 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 414 Views
+1 *NM* - 20/09/2010 05:11:58 PM 403 Views
Hands down winner is Zaphod Beeblebrox. *NM* - 20/09/2010 03:56:58 PM 459 Views
So true *NM* - 20/09/2010 04:00:06 PM 398 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 978 Views
That is a very good one. - 20/09/2010 07:13:42 PM 902 Views

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