Too many people are so caught by how much of a dick he is, and as a result don't give his books an honest read.
Boring world. Boring characters. Boring storyline.
Sorry, but when a book is that boring I'm not going on to the second in the series. For me, not reading him again had nothing to do with his politics.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Underappreciated Fantasy books?
03/09/2009 03:36:10 AM
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I don't think Donaldson is underappreciated so much as disliked.
03/09/2009 04:21:33 AM
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Donaldson is "kiddie" have you actaully read Donaldson?
14/09/2009 04:30:14 PM
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Re: sentence structure
14/09/2009 07:22:28 PM
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Goodkind.
03/09/2009 05:20:51 AM
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I didn't know anything about Goodkind when I started reading his books.
04/09/2009 12:52:37 AM
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I barely made it through the first book.
04/09/2009 03:21:36 AM
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Michelle West
03/09/2009 05:29:39 AM
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I agree
04/09/2009 06:35:20 AM
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Janny Wurts
03/09/2009 05:33:19 AM
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Kate Elliott
03/09/2009 06:04:56 AM
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Re: Kate Elliott
03/09/2009 06:11:11 AM
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I actually put down Mistwraith a couple times before I made it through the first few chapters.
05/09/2009 05:20:33 AM
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Lois Mcmaster Bujold
03/09/2009 08:38:20 AM
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Well, I am about to react like the people above who are having an allergic reaction to goodkind...
04/09/2009 10:05:43 AM
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Everything by Guy Gavriel Kay.
03/09/2009 02:46:54 PM
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+1, Tigana's a wonderful book. *NM*
03/09/2009 06:40:16 PM
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I've only read The Lions of Al-Rassan, but it was fantastic. *NM*
03/09/2009 10:23:49 PM
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch
03/09/2009 03:18:04 PM
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I liked the first Fey book a great deal.
03/09/2009 06:34:50 PM
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*hugs*
04/09/2009 01:50:30 AM
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AHH!
04/09/2009 03:49:29 PM
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*dies of laughter*
08/09/2009 08:31:17 AM
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God? !
08/09/2009 04:24:14 PM
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Christopher Priest, Brian W. Aldiss, Paul Kearney, Chris Wooding
03/09/2009 03:52:49 PM
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Priest and Aldiss are brilliant. I'll have to pick up some of Wooding's works.
22/12/2009 05:39:14 PM
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Eric Garcia
03/09/2009 06:35:11 PM
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You've been pimping these books for... getting close to a decade now?
22/12/2009 05:26:04 PM
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For younger people: Nicholson's Wind on Fire trilogy
04/09/2009 01:06:08 AM
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Not even just for younger people! Nicholson wrote the Gladiator screenplay
04/09/2009 09:32:42 AM
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The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney (Spook's Apprentice in the UK)
04/09/2009 01:22:43 AM
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For this board?
04/09/2009 07:09:00 AM
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I've read three of those and have plans to read maybe 10 of the others.
04/09/2009 02:22:42 PM
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Re: J. G. Ballard wrote more than SF! And they were all awesome!
04/09/2009 03:37:02 PM
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Re: All the stuff that gets called "Magical Realism". Stupid post-colonial conservatives.
04/09/2009 03:49:43 PM
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Not one book but the whole Historical fantasy genre is sorta unappreciated..... *NM*
08/09/2009 09:44:36 PM
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The Chronicles of Prydain! by lloyd alexander
26/09/2009 07:48:50 PM
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