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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 1598 Views
eyjafjallajökull? - 19/09/2010 01:16:49 PM 1013 Views
Yes, that one is quite evil - 19/09/2010 01:19:16 PM 1091 Views
Hmm. - 19/09/2010 02:03:49 PM 1047 Views
Awww - 19/09/2010 02:06:44 PM 1187 Views
It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:12:23 PM 1002 Views
Re: It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:14:36 PM 998 Views
Re: It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:19:07 PM 1080 Views
sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:40:35 PM 931 Views
Re: sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:42:45 PM 961 Views
Re: sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:44:32 PM 1023 Views
Mat and Elayne and Thom are pretty recognizable as English names *NM* - 19/09/2010 04:32:20 PM 455 Views
Some Dutch girl's names are lovely. - 19/09/2010 04:20:57 PM 1046 Views
Yeah, he once said that - 19/09/2010 08:47:05 PM 994 Views
But it's spelled Elena or Yelena in the Roman alphabet, surely. - 19/09/2010 04:14:46 PM 1114 Views
I know the example I quoted is spelt that way - 19/09/2010 04:19:56 PM 994 Views
I actually rather like David Eddings' names. - 19/09/2010 02:26:52 PM 1177 Views
Re: I actually rather like David Eddings' names. - 19/09/2010 02:28:30 PM 960 Views
Ce'Nedra is one of the rare cases where the apostrophe is justified. - 19/09/2010 04:16:51 PM 1003 Views
Me too - 20/09/2010 03:01:02 PM 1061 Views
Nynaeve ("Neigh-neev" ) - 19/09/2010 02:45:22 PM 1078 Views
Re: Nynaeve ("Neigh-neev" ) - 19/09/2010 02:49:53 PM 1051 Views
Funny, I hate the "neigh-neev" pronunciation. - 19/09/2010 04:29:14 PM 1132 Views
me too - 19/09/2010 06:31:11 PM 929 Views
Re: Funny, I hate the "neigh-neev" pronunciation. - 19/09/2010 06:45:54 PM 1110 Views
Mild-may-your-sufferings-be-at-the-hands-of-the-wicked. - 19/09/2010 04:18:31 PM 1060 Views
That is very cool. *NM* - 19/09/2010 04:21:49 PM 433 Views
I just looked up that book series... - 20/09/2010 05:24:11 PM 1103 Views
Quite a bit. - 21/09/2010 12:04:51 AM 1004 Views
It's fantastic. *NM* - 21/09/2010 04:02:16 PM 482 Views
iain m banks has some great names... - 19/09/2010 04:52:49 PM 993 Views
I was grumbling to myself about his names last night - 19/09/2010 04:56:44 PM 1113 Views
That's a fairly silly stance, you know. - 19/09/2010 05:04:22 PM 1179 Views
I don't know - 19/09/2010 05:08:29 PM 967 Views
I've always been quite impressed by Anomander Rake. - 19/09/2010 10:05:10 PM 949 Views
That is a good name, I agree. - 19/09/2010 10:18:37 PM 880 Views
The ships in the Culture do have the BEST names. *NM* - 20/09/2010 07:13:45 PM 467 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 444 Views
+1 *NM* - 20/09/2010 05:11:58 PM 438 Views
Hands down winner is Zaphod Beeblebrox. *NM* - 20/09/2010 03:56:58 PM 492 Views
So true *NM* - 20/09/2010 04:00:06 PM 426 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 1034 Views
That is a very good one. - 20/09/2010 07:13:42 PM 959 Views

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