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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 958891" data-attributes="member: 8863">I actually like Toliien and Jordan, though I found the last WoT book massively disappointing as well.I can tolerate W&H's Dragonlance.Eddings can write well, but he tends to fill his books with a lot of garbage that ruin an otherwise good story.  The Belgarion starts off well, but then goes downhill around the third book.  The Mallorean is little more than a re-rash of the Belgariad, and while it has its moments, ther's a lot of crap filling it up.  The Elenium I think is his best series, he puts in characters that are actually unique, and writes a fairly believable world, though he can't resist putting in scenes that are totally irrelevant.  The Tamuli had good moment,s but is loaded down with a lot of crap as well, but at least it's not a total rehash of the series that preceeded it.  Then there are the two books about Belgarath and Polgara.  They're good in terms of character development, especially the one about Polgara, I had disliked the character before reading that book.  However, he rehashes a lot of the backstory in Belgarath, and rehashes the rehasing in Polgara (about half of Polgara at least is a retelling of Belgarath from Polgara's POV).A lot of game related fiction seems to be crap.  I've remember reading some horrible series set in Greyhawk, and a series in the Planescape setting that sucked so badly I couldn't finish it.I didn't like Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea.  It was just kind of boring to me, and Le Guin picks terrible names.The Shadow War trilogy.  I found this very disappointing.  I like Willow, but this series doesn't even resemble the movie at all.  The world is interesting, but the writing is terrible.  I think it sort of went against what I expected of the story, and I think it ruined my enjoyment of it.</blockquote>

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