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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 1246 Views
eyjafjallajökull? - 19/09/2010 01:16:49 PM 676 Views
Yes, that one is quite evil - 19/09/2010 01:19:16 PM 744 Views
Hmm. - 19/09/2010 02:03:49 PM 706 Views
Awww - 19/09/2010 02:06:44 PM 846 Views
It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:12:23 PM 673 Views
Re: It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:14:36 PM 667 Views
Re: It makes sense for him, though. - 19/09/2010 02:19:07 PM 733 Views
sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:40:35 PM 580 Views
Re: sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:42:45 PM 603 Views
Re: sorry to keep nitpicking - 19/09/2010 02:44:32 PM 658 Views
Mat and Elayne and Thom are pretty recognizable as English names *NM* - 19/09/2010 04:32:20 PM 306 Views
Some Dutch girl's names are lovely. - 19/09/2010 04:20:57 PM 688 Views
Yeah, he once said that - 19/09/2010 08:47:05 PM 646 Views
But it's spelled Elena or Yelena in the Roman alphabet, surely. - 19/09/2010 04:14:46 PM 763 Views
I know the example I quoted is spelt that way - 19/09/2010 04:19:56 PM 634 Views
I actually rather like David Eddings' names. - 19/09/2010 02:26:52 PM 837 Views
Re: I actually rather like David Eddings' names. - 19/09/2010 02:28:30 PM 631 Views
Me too - 20/09/2010 03:01:02 PM 721 Views
Nynaeve ("Neigh-neev" ) - 19/09/2010 02:45:22 PM 735 Views
Re: Nynaeve ("Neigh-neev" ) - 19/09/2010 02:49:53 PM 717 Views
Funny, I hate the "neigh-neev" pronunciation. - 19/09/2010 04:29:14 PM 767 Views
me too - 19/09/2010 06:31:11 PM 571 Views
Re: Funny, I hate the "neigh-neev" pronunciation. - 19/09/2010 06:45:54 PM 754 Views
Mild-may-your-sufferings-be-at-the-hands-of-the-wicked. - 19/09/2010 04:18:31 PM 735 Views
That is very cool. *NM* - 19/09/2010 04:21:49 PM 283 Views
I just looked up that book series... - 20/09/2010 05:24:11 PM 688 Views
Quite a bit. - 21/09/2010 12:04:51 AM 668 Views
It's fantastic. *NM* - 21/09/2010 04:02:16 PM 312 Views
iain m banks has some great names... - 19/09/2010 04:52:49 PM 656 Views
I was grumbling to myself about his names last night - 19/09/2010 04:56:44 PM 747 Views
That's a fairly silly stance, you know. - 19/09/2010 05:04:22 PM 817 Views
I don't know - 19/09/2010 05:08:29 PM 635 Views
I've always been quite impressed by Anomander Rake. - 19/09/2010 10:05:10 PM 612 Views
That is a good name, I agree. - 19/09/2010 10:18:37 PM 551 Views
The ships in the Culture do have the BEST names. *NM* - 20/09/2010 07:13:45 PM 312 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 294 Views
+1 *NM* - 20/09/2010 05:11:58 PM 280 Views
Hands down winner is Zaphod Beeblebrox. *NM* - 20/09/2010 03:56:58 PM 313 Views
So true *NM* - 20/09/2010 04:00:06 PM 275 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 670 Views
That is a very good one. - 20/09/2010 07:13:42 PM 615 Views

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