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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FriarRosing" data-source="post: 4870861" data-attributes="member: 63942">So, when I went to my local used bookstore to sell off some of my old 3.X stuff (it was too much clutter), I picked up a copy of the first Lankhmar book and the first Elric book. So far, I don't know how much I think of Moorcock as a writer, but Leiber seems excellent. I was once an aspiring creative writing major, and Moorcock's book in the first few pages broke so many things we were taught. The tense was seemingly randomly changed, point of view has changed, there are so many adverbs and awkward run on sentences. Looking at it from that direction, it's just crazy. At first I wasn't sure if I could read it, but I've made my way through it a bit, and I can't really say I don't like it. I can't say I totally like it either (yet), but I certainly like it more than I dislike it.I've only read of a few pages of the Lankhmar book, and so far I'm impressed with Leiber. He has a much clearer, and prettier, writing style. It's cool to me that this thread could list so many books for me to look into. My girlfriend, who has no interest in D&D, is a big fan of the Lloyd Alexander books, and just randomly mentioned them to me the other day. I mentioned that I was reading about them in relation to D&D, and I'll probably borrow those from her some day.But anyway.I figured it'd be cool to let fans of the old school know that a young dude of the new school is checking out their recommendations.</blockquote>

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