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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 1520 Views
eyjafjallajökull? - 19/09/2010 01:16:49 PM 940 Views
Yes, that one is quite evil - 19/09/2010 01:19:16 PM 1010 Views
Hmm. - 19/09/2010 02:03:49 PM 971 Views
Awww - 19/09/2010 02:06:44 PM 1099 Views
It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:12:23 PM 926 Views
Re: It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:14:36 PM 930 Views
Re: It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:19:07 PM 1002 Views
sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:40:35 PM 851 Views
Re: sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:42:45 PM 878 Views
Re: sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:44:32 PM 934 Views
Mat and Elayne and Thom are pretty recognizable as English names *NM* - 19/09/2010 04:32:20 PM 415 Views
Some Dutch girl's names are lovely. - 19/09/2010 04:20:57 PM 969 Views
Yeah, he once said that - 19/09/2010 08:47:05 PM 918 Views
But it's spelled Elena or Yelena in the Roman alphabet, surely. - 19/09/2010 04:14:46 PM 1031 Views
I know the example I quoted is spelt that way - 19/09/2010 04:19:56 PM 923 Views
I actually rather like David Eddings' names. - 19/09/2010 02:26:52 PM 1106 Views
Re: I actually rather like David Eddings' names. - 19/09/2010 02:28:30 PM 882 Views
Me too - 20/09/2010 03:01:02 PM 983 Views
Nynaeve ("Neigh-neev" ) - 19/09/2010 02:45:22 PM 1000 Views
Re: Nynaeve ("Neigh-neev" ) - 19/09/2010 02:49:53 PM 979 Views
Funny, I hate the "neigh-neev" pronunciation. - 19/09/2010 04:29:14 PM 1041 Views
me too - 19/09/2010 06:31:11 PM 844 Views
Re: Funny, I hate the "neigh-neev" pronunciation. - 19/09/2010 06:45:54 PM 1029 Views
Mild-may-your-sufferings-be-at-the-hands-of-the-wicked. - 19/09/2010 04:18:31 PM 981 Views
That is very cool. *NM* - 19/09/2010 04:21:49 PM 394 Views
I just looked up that book series... - 20/09/2010 05:24:11 PM 1026 Views
Quite a bit. - 21/09/2010 12:04:51 AM 927 Views
It's fantastic. *NM* - 21/09/2010 04:02:16 PM 443 Views
iain m banks has some great names... - 19/09/2010 04:52:49 PM 918 Views
I was grumbling to myself about his names last night - 19/09/2010 04:56:44 PM 1009 Views
That's a fairly silly stance, you know. - 19/09/2010 05:04:22 PM 1093 Views
I don't know - 19/09/2010 05:08:29 PM 890 Views
I've always been quite impressed by Anomander Rake. - 19/09/2010 10:05:10 PM 878 Views
That is a good name, I agree. - 19/09/2010 10:18:37 PM 808 Views
The ships in the Culture do have the BEST names. *NM* - 20/09/2010 07:13:45 PM 427 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 405 Views
+1 *NM* - 20/09/2010 05:11:58 PM 395 Views
Hands down winner is Zaphod Beeblebrox. *NM* - 20/09/2010 03:56:58 PM 446 Views
So true *NM* - 20/09/2010 04:00:06 PM 388 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 956 Views
That is a very good one. - 20/09/2010 07:13:42 PM 885 Views

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