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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 1383 Views
eyjafjallajökull? - 19/09/2010 01:16:49 PM 808 Views
Yes, that one is quite evil - 19/09/2010 01:19:16 PM 883 Views
Hmm. - 19/09/2010 02:03:49 PM 839 Views
Awww - 19/09/2010 02:06:44 PM 977 Views
It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:12:23 PM 796 Views
Re: It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:14:36 PM 798 Views
Re: It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:19:07 PM 858 Views
sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:40:35 PM 709 Views
Re: sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:42:45 PM 739 Views
Re: sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:44:32 PM 793 Views
Mat and Elayne and Thom are pretty recognizable as English names *NM* - 19/09/2010 04:32:20 PM 357 Views
Some Dutch girl's names are lovely. - 19/09/2010 04:20:57 PM 825 Views
Yeah, he once said that - 19/09/2010 08:47:05 PM 776 Views
But it's spelled Elena or Yelena in the Roman alphabet, surely. - 19/09/2010 04:14:46 PM 893 Views
I know the example I quoted is spelt that way - 19/09/2010 04:19:56 PM 770 Views
I actually rather like David Eddings' names. - 19/09/2010 02:26:52 PM 966 Views
Re: I actually rather like David Eddings' names. - 19/09/2010 02:28:30 PM 756 Views
Me too - 20/09/2010 03:01:02 PM 851 Views
Nynaeve ("Neigh-neev" ) - 19/09/2010 02:45:22 PM 858 Views
Re: Nynaeve ("Neigh-neev" ) - 19/09/2010 02:49:53 PM 843 Views
Funny, I hate the "neigh-neev" pronunciation. - 19/09/2010 04:29:14 PM 898 Views
me too - 19/09/2010 06:31:11 PM 706 Views
Re: Funny, I hate the "neigh-neev" pronunciation. - 19/09/2010 06:45:54 PM 890 Views
Mild-may-your-sufferings-be-at-the-hands-of-the-wicked. - 19/09/2010 04:18:31 PM 844 Views
That is very cool. *NM* - 19/09/2010 04:21:49 PM 336 Views
I just looked up that book series... - 20/09/2010 05:24:11 PM 832 Views
Quite a bit. - 21/09/2010 12:04:51 AM 800 Views
It's fantastic. *NM* - 21/09/2010 04:02:16 PM 368 Views
iain m banks has some great names... - 19/09/2010 04:52:49 PM 786 Views
I was grumbling to myself about his names last night - 19/09/2010 04:56:44 PM 877 Views
That's a fairly silly stance, you know. - 19/09/2010 05:04:22 PM 953 Views
I don't know - 19/09/2010 05:08:29 PM 762 Views
I've always been quite impressed by Anomander Rake. - 19/09/2010 10:05:10 PM 746 Views
That is a good name, I agree. - 19/09/2010 10:18:37 PM 676 Views
The ships in the Culture do have the BEST names. *NM* - 20/09/2010 07:13:45 PM 365 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 346 Views
+1 *NM* - 20/09/2010 05:11:58 PM 328 Views
Hands down winner is Zaphod Beeblebrox. *NM* - 20/09/2010 03:56:58 PM 366 Views
So true *NM* - 20/09/2010 04:00:06 PM 329 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 804 Views
That is a very good one. - 20/09/2010 07:13:42 PM 762 Views

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