Survivor Appendix E (5e) Authors- Ursula K. LeGWINS!

[Flexor the Mighty!]

CAS rules so much.

 

[Sacrosanct]

I think the biggest plus for these threads is if I see an author I haven't read yet get a ton of positive feedback, I go out and get a couple books and read them. I wouldn't have read Elizabeth Moon without threads like this.

 

[Prakriti]

Ahmed, Saladin 18
Alexander, Lloyd 25
Anthony, Piers 16
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 19
Bulfinch, Thomas 21
Cook, Glen 27
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 21
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 11
Hodgson, William Hope 18
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 19
Kay, Guy Gavriel 20
King, Stephen 1
LeGuin, Ursula 23
Lynch, Scott 21
Martin, George R.R. 4 Eeek!
McKillip, Patricia 21
Mieville, China 18
Peake, Mervyn 20
Pratchett, Terry 23 Oook!
Rothfuss, Patrick 14
Sanderson, Brandon 25
Smith, Clark Ashton 21
Tolstoy, Nikolai 19
Wolfe, Gene 21

 

[Blue]

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Ahmed, Saladin 18
Alexander, Lloyd 25
Anthony, Piers 16
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 19
Bulfinch, Thomas 21
Cook, Glen 27
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 21
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 11
Hodgson, William Hope 18
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 19
Kay, Guy Gavriel 21 # So much goodness
King, Stephen 1
LeGuin, Ursula 23
Lynch, Scott 21
Martin, George R.R. 6
McKillip, Patricia 21
Mieville, China 18
Peake, Mervyn 20
Pratchett, Terry 22
Rothfuss, Patrick 14
Sanderson, Brandon 25
Smith, Clark Ashton 21
Tolstoy, Nikolai 17 # Overrated
Wolfe, Gene 21

 

[Yardiff]

Ahmed, Saladin 18
Alexander, Lloyd 25
Anthony, Piers 16
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 19
Bulfinch, Thomas 21
Cook, Glen 27+1=28
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 21
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 11
Hodgson, William Hope 18
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 19
Kay, Guy Gavriel 21
King, Stephen 1
LeGuin, Ursula 23
Lynch, Scott 21
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Martin, George R.R. 4-2=2
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McKillip, Patricia 21
Mieville, China 18
Peake, Mervyn 20
Pratchett, Terry 23
Rothfuss, Patrick 14
Sanderson, Brandon 25
Smith, Clark Ashton 21
Tolstoy, Nikolai 17
Wolfe, Gene 21​

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

GRRM and King desperately hold onto the ropes as Cook and Gavriel keep up the pressure! Another chair in the ring!!!! My God!

 

[Lord Mhoram]

Ahmed, Saladin 18
Alexander, Lloyd 25
Anthony, Piers 14
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 19
Bulfinch, Thomas 21
Cook, Glen 28
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 21
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 11
Hodgson, William Hope 18
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 19
Kay, Guy Gavriel 21
King, Stephen 1
LeGuin, Ursula 24
Lynch, Scott 21
Martin, George R.R. 2
McKillip, Patricia 21
Mieville, China 18
Peake, Mervyn 20
Pratchett, Terry 23
Rothfuss, Patrick 14
Sanderson, Brandon 25
Smith, Clark Ashton 21
Tolstoy, Nikolai 17
Wolfe, Gene 21

 

[Dausuul]

I used to LOVE King, voraciously devouring each new novel. Then he had the accident. Got sober. And his writing turned to crap for the most part. His last two novels in the Dark Tower series ruined the entire thing and made me wish I had never picked up the first book. Just horrific. Even flipping though old classics I loved I find flaws I didn't the first time. And even in my favorite by him he wrote the worst line I've ever read in a book. However I will give him credit for Revival, which was great.

Just a note, King got sober many years before he had the accident.

But yeah, there was a while there when he was putting out some... I don't want to call it dreck, because Stephen King on his worst day is still better than 90% of writers. His prose is just so well-crafted and his characters are incredibly engaging. But he seemed to lose the thread of his stories. For a while he was on a "Real stories don't have endings" kick, and wow, did that ever suck *cough*From A Buick 8*cough*.

He seems to have made a partial comeback, though. Some of his recent books have been very good. "Revival," as you say, was excellent, and his latest book of short stories had some real gems. ("Outsider," on the other hand, dropped the ball badly about a third of the way into the novel. It seemed so promising at the start, yet I could not bring myself to finish it, which almost never happens with Stephen King.)

 

[BookBarbarian]

Ahmed, Saladin 18
Alexander, Lloyd 25+1=26
Anthony, Piers 14
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 19
Bulfinch, Thomas 21
Cook, Glen 28
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 21
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 11
Hodgson, William Hope 18
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 19
Kay, Guy Gavriel 21
King, Stephen 1-2=OUT!
LeGuin, Ursula 24
Lynch, Scott 21
Martin, George R.R. 2
McKillip, Patricia 21
Mieville, China 18
Peake, Mervyn 20
Pratchett, Terry 23
Rothfuss, Patrick 14
Sanderson, Brandon 25
Smith, Clark Ashton 21
Tolstoy, Nikolai 17
Wolfe, Gene 21

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Just a note, King got sober many years before he had the accident.

But yeah, there was a while there when he was putting out some... I don't want to call it dreck, because Stephen King on his worst day is still better than 90% of writers. His prose is just so well-crafted and his characters are incredibly engaging. But he seemed to lose the thread of his stories. For a while he was on a "Real stories don't have endings" kick, and wow, did that ever suck *cough*From A Buick 8*cough*.

He seems to have made a partial comeback, though. Some of his recent books have been very good. "Revival," as you say, was excellent, and his latest book of short stories had some real gems. ("Outsider," on the other hand, dropped the ball badly about a third of the way into the novel. It seemed so promising at the start, yet I could not bring myself to finish it, which almost never happens with Stephen King.)

Yeah I wasn't really trying to tie them together, but I should have said he got sober and his writing dropped off, then got in the accident and it went to crap. Then again its hard to keep up with the pace he had in the 70's and 80's with horror classic after classic. The last two books of his I read, of course both revolve around ex addicts, and he put himself into Dark Tower like he was trying to deal with why he got hit. He claims he got sober right before Needful Things which fits when I think he started to go downhill a bit. Then again as I said, its hard to match the mastery of early King so I'm probably being too hard on him.

In any event I'm throwing him over the top rope if I get the chance.