Poll - I'm over 25 and I've read....

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

I am disturbed and saddened by how few people taking this poll have read Steven Erikson.

 

[Peraion Graufalke]

I'd like to add Karl Edward Wagner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_(fantasy)) to the list of missing authors.

 

[Wombat]

I could whinge about "missing" authors, but that is hardly the point here, neh?

I see a lot of authors I like here, many that I don't care for; several I have read once, some of whom I would read again, and some who I wouldn't read again if I was handed a free book. Reading is a highly personal matter. There are authors who inspired my roleplaying habits who would never appear on a list such as this, and others who were popular "back in the day" but few would recognize anymore.

As long as I can read Tolkein, DeLint, Le Guin, and Leiber, I am satisfied.

 

[Primitive Screwhead]

Okay, second try- here's the pol for those of us over 25. I've included all the authors mentioned by posters in the other thread and a few gaming-specific ones (who here read Gord?)

Yeah for Gord the Rogue!
That was one of my first real fantasy books after Tolkien and Lewis.
Since then I have read pretty much all the major authors mentioned as missing, with Brust being a favorite.

I am not surprised to see that the 25 and up crowd appears to have a broader reading background. This poll is a bit limiting as it excludes many other books that can be sources for gaming material. Lian Hearns 'Tales of the Otori', for example, is an excellent world setting.

It would be interesting if we could do a broader poll, with a couple thousand options that reach across the genre's to see how much broader the readership base really is.

 

[Tequila Sunrise]

I read a chapter of Brooks once, and then burned the book in disgust. Romance as a sole motivation for self-destructive behavior makes me vomit.

 

[Asmo]

I read a chapter of Brooks once, and then burned the book in disgust. Romance as a sole motivation for self-destructive behavior makes me vomit.

Wow, you burned the book? That´s pretty hardcore.

Asmo

 

[I'm A Banana]

I haven't read any of those, because I am tremendously, embarassingly, illiterate.

...wait...

 

[drothgery]

I am disturbed and saddened by how few people taking this poll have read Steven Erikson.

I don't know. I checked that I've read him, but the Mazalan books are one of the few series I've given up on. Interesting world, but too complex and depressing. I somethimes think a lot of newer writers have forgotten that you read SF and fantasy for fun.

 

[Asmo]

I somethimes think a lot of newer writers have forgotten that you read SF and fantasy for fun.

That´s why Feist needs to be on the list

Asmo

 

[WayneLigon]

I read a chapter of Brooks once, and then burned the book in disgust. Romance as a sole motivation for self-destructive behavior makes me vomit.

OK, now I'm curious. What possibly could motivate such an extreme reaction?