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[OT] Which do you think are the best fantasy novels/authors?
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<blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 509971" data-attributes="member: 319"><p>The great books of fantasy? That's a bit of a tough call, a lot it hasn't exactly stood the test of time yet... Lord of the Rings and Hobbit, definitely, but others mainly fall into "Books I think are great, but not necessarily great western literature." category:</p><p></p><p>Edit: Not necessarily in this order, but I'm too lazy to re-write the whole list...</p><p></p><p>George Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire"</p><p></p><p>Steven Brust's "Jhereg" series</p><p></p><p>Tim Powers' "The Drawing of the Dark", as well as Anubis Gates, and Last Call (the latter are modern fantasy, but fantasy nonetheless)</p><p></p><p>Tad Williams' "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" trilogy</p><p></p><p>Ursula LeGuin's "A Wizard of Earthsea"</p><p></p><p>Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" and "American Gods"</p><p></p><p></p><p>Now, given that this is, after all, a <em>discussion</em> board and the point was brought up...</p><p></p><p>I think Rowling's books are ok as children's fantasy, but something that's turning out to be about as formulaic as Scooby Do is barely literature, never mind great...</p><p></p><p>Salvatore... I remember reading some other fantasy writer's introduction to one of Salvatore's Drow novels, in which the writer said something along the lines of "There are many worse things that you can be called than a solid, workmanlike writer." when describing "Bob", and I thought, "Hmm, that is probably one of the nicer ways of calling someone a hack." </p><p>While I wouldn't mind having him as a DM, he is an extremely formulaic writer, capable of creating only the most shallow characters (whose thoughts he needs to spell out in page after page of internal monologue, because otherwise we'd never realize what was going on inside these cardboard cutouts), and with a horribly repetitve vocabulary to boot. Not to mention his painfully tedious tendency to fill up several pages with blow-by-blow description of sword swings...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mmu1, post: 509971, member: 319"] The great books of fantasy? That's a bit of a tough call, a lot it hasn't exactly stood the test of time yet... Lord of the Rings and Hobbit, definitely, but others mainly fall into "Books I think are great, but not necessarily great western literature." category: Edit: Not necessarily in this order, but I'm too lazy to re-write the whole list... George Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" Steven Brust's "Jhereg" series Tim Powers' "The Drawing of the Dark", as well as Anubis Gates, and Last Call (the latter are modern fantasy, but fantasy nonetheless) Tad Williams' "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" trilogy Ursula LeGuin's "A Wizard of Earthsea" Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" and "American Gods" Now, given that this is, after all, a [i]discussion[/i] board and the point was brought up... I think Rowling's books are ok as children's fantasy, but something that's turning out to be about as formulaic as Scooby Do is barely literature, never mind great... Salvatore... I remember reading some other fantasy writer's introduction to one of Salvatore's Drow novels, in which the writer said something along the lines of "There are many worse things that you can be called than a solid, workmanlike writer." when describing "Bob", and I thought, "Hmm, that is probably one of the nicer ways of calling someone a hack." While I wouldn't mind having him as a DM, he is an extremely formulaic writer, capable of creating only the most shallow characters (whose thoughts he needs to spell out in page after page of internal monologue, because otherwise we'd never realize what was going on inside these cardboard cutouts), and with a horribly repetitve vocabulary to boot. Not to mention his painfully tedious tendency to fill up several pages with blow-by-blow description of sword swings... [/QUOTE]
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