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<blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 955593" data-attributes="member: 7394"><p>The Dragonlance novels pretty much set the standard for TSR novels. They weren't perfect, and were overly melodramatic in parts, but otherwise IMO a pretty good read. If you don't like these, chances are you won't like the other TSR/WotC shared world books either.</p><p></p><p>I like Salvatore, but I may be biased considering that I first read his FR books when I was in highschool, at a time when I could really appreciate the non-stop action. Today I still follow the books, although I am about 2 behind right now. People trash him all the time, yet somehow his books always make the bestseller lists. That means that the people who don't like him are a vocal minority, or people lie about not liking him and then buy his books anyway. I had the opportunity to meet him at a book signing a few years ago and he is the definition of a nice, unpretentious guy. I disagreed with him on some of his fundamental beliefs about fantasy books in general. He has the belief that the author shouldn't spend a lot of time building the world and should cut to the action. It works for him and the stroies he tells, but I certainly wouldn't denigrate Tad Williams for telling his stories the way he does.</p><p></p><p>I appreciate Tolkein and everything he has contributed to the fantasy genre, but I don't actually like to <strong>read</strong> Tolkien. Fortunately the movies make reading him unnecessary.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> </p><p></p><p>I also can't stand Jordan. I read one of the Conan books he wrote and it actually wasn't bad, but trying to read WoT is like pulling teeth without anesthetic. </p><p></p><p>With David Eddings I liked with the Belgariad, but things really went downhill from there. The Mallorian was a total waste of time, as were the Sparhawk books. I'm not even sure what he's released in the past few years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darrin Drader, post: 955593, member: 7394"] The Dragonlance novels pretty much set the standard for TSR novels. They weren't perfect, and were overly melodramatic in parts, but otherwise IMO a pretty good read. If you don't like these, chances are you won't like the other TSR/WotC shared world books either. I like Salvatore, but I may be biased considering that I first read his FR books when I was in highschool, at a time when I could really appreciate the non-stop action. Today I still follow the books, although I am about 2 behind right now. People trash him all the time, yet somehow his books always make the bestseller lists. That means that the people who don't like him are a vocal minority, or people lie about not liking him and then buy his books anyway. I had the opportunity to meet him at a book signing a few years ago and he is the definition of a nice, unpretentious guy. I disagreed with him on some of his fundamental beliefs about fantasy books in general. He has the belief that the author shouldn't spend a lot of time building the world and should cut to the action. It works for him and the stroies he tells, but I certainly wouldn't denigrate Tad Williams for telling his stories the way he does. I appreciate Tolkein and everything he has contributed to the fantasy genre, but I don't actually like to [B]read[/B] Tolkien. Fortunately the movies make reading him unnecessary.:D I also can't stand Jordan. I read one of the Conan books he wrote and it actually wasn't bad, but trying to read WoT is like pulling teeth without anesthetic. With David Eddings I liked with the Belgariad, but things really went downhill from there. The Mallorian was a total waste of time, as were the Sparhawk books. I'm not even sure what he's released in the past few years. [/QUOTE]
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