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

[Maxperson]

Ahmed, Saladin 18
Alexander, Lloyd 25
Anthony, Piers 16
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 18
Bulfinch, Thomas 20
Cook, Glen 26
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 20
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 15
Hodgson, William Hope 18
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 19
Kay, Guy Gavriel 20
King, Stephen 9
LeGuin, Ursula 23
Lynch, Scott 21
Martin, George R.R. 8
McKillip, Patricia 20
Mieville, China 20
Peake, Mervyn 20
Pratchett, Terry 21
Rothfuss, Patrick 18
Sanderson, Brandon 24
Smith, Clark Ashton 20
Tolstoy, Nikolai 19
Wolfe, Gene 20

 

[tglassy]

Ahmed, Saladin 18
Alexander, Lloyd 25
Anthony, Piers 16
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 18
Bulfinch, Thomas 20
Cook, Glen 26
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 20
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 15
Hodgson, William Hope 18
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 19
Kay, Guy Gavriel 20
King, Stephen 7
LeGuin, Ursula 23
Lynch, Scott 21
Martin, George R.R. 8
McKillip, Patricia 20
Mieville, China 20
Peake, Mervyn 20
Pratchett, Terry 21
Rothfuss, Patrick 18
Sanderson, Brandon 25
Smith, Clark Ashton 20
Tolstoy, Nikolai 19
Wolfe, Gene 20

Whoops. Guess I didn't go to the last page.

I actually love Steven King. But he is very different. And his fantasy was all. Over. The. Place. He didn't even know where he was going with it, and he admitted as much. So, no. He's out.

Love you Mr. King! Don't hate me!

 

[Dausuul]

I find it interesting that King, popular as he is with the general public is apparently so unpopular here. Meanwhile, fantasy authors most of the general public could do without, such as Sanderson are being upvoted. It's just interesting that some of the bigger authors are downvoted. I assume much of that is because they are typically not noted to be fantasy authors (though King has done fantasy...Tolstoy did not as far as I'm aware). Of course that doesn't account for George R.R. Martin.

Maybe it's the ideology that if they are popular with the public they must be pariah's for use elite gamers?

That said, the only reason I am downvoting Saladin is because I've not really ever heard of him or read any of his stuff, as opposed to someo fthe others.

Still early in the voting though, surprised to see Martin and King so low already though. Trying to figure out the psychology of it.

I think Martin got a number of downvotes out of sheer frustration.

Dunno about King, though.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I think Martin got a number of downvotes out of sheer frustration.

Dunno about King, though.

You need to realise that someone can dislike an author's style without thinking they are bad writers.

If you must have an explanation, I don't like my fantasy dark, I don't like it grim and I don't like it overly serious. That's quite enough reason to downvote King and Martin.

 

[Eltab]

Ahmed, Saladin 18
Alexander, Lloyd 25
Anthony, Piers 16
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 18
Bulfinch, Thomas 20
Cook, Glen 26
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 20 + 1 =21 Pictures are worth thousands of words.
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 15
Hodgson, William Hope 18
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 19
Kay, Guy Gavriel 20
King, Stephen 7 - 2 = 5 If I slay you dead in the first chapter, you can't come back to haunt me for the rest of the book.
LeGuin, Ursula 23
Lynch, Scott 21
Martin, George R.R. 8
McKillip, Patricia 20
Mieville, China 20
Peake, Mervyn 20
Pratchett, Terry 21
Rothfuss, Patrick 18
Sanderson, Brandon 25
Smith, Clark Ashton 20
Tolstoy, Nikolai 19
Wolfe, Gene 20

 

[tglassy]

Martin will never finish his books. They have become a point of shame for him, and he has a mental block keeping him from going back to it, because every time he thinks about it, his guilt over not finishing them overwhelms him. And he never wanted to do the books in the first place. He wanted to make a TV series with all the detail and such of a book series. Which he did. So why finish the book if that was his goal all along? Because of this, Martin will not win many fans. People love his books, but he refuses to finish what he's started. If he ever does, that may change as people forget the decade long hiatus between his books . But until then, I don't expect him to win any contests.

Stephen King is an amazing author, and has literally defined a genre. I've read a number of his works, and he really is great. But he's his own thing. He doesn't really write like other authors. And many of his stories just put people off.

Not to mention both of these people have weird issues with sex and such. Martin reads like a dirty old man getting his jollies off, and King wrote a freaking, detailed orgy with 12 year olds. All of King's books have some weird sexual overtones, from necrophilia to pedophilia to any other kind of -philia you can think of. Not that sex is necessarily out of place in a book, but it says a lot about the author, and in reality, it's just not necessary. I've read almost all of Brandon Sanderson's books, and they are very clean, while at the same time being riveting and fantastic. Not every reader wants to fill their head with smut.

 

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[rczarnec]

Ahmed, Saladin 18
Alexander, Lloyd 25
Anthony, Piers 16
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 19
Bulfinch, Thomas 21
Cook, Glen 26
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 21
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 13
Hodgson, William Hope 18
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 19
Kay, Guy Gavriel 20
King, Stephen 5
LeGuin, Ursula 23
Lynch, Scott 21
Martin, George R.R. 8
McKillip, Patricia 20
Mieville, China 20
Peake, Mervyn 20
Pratchett, Terry 21
Rothfuss, Patrick 16
Sanderson, Brandon 25
Smith, Clark Ashton 20
Tolstoy, Nikolai 19
Wolfe, Gene 20

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Martin should be made to work as a caretaker at a remote hotel until he finishes his books.


Actually, no. I don't care. I couldn't finish the first one.

 

[OB1]

Ahmed, Saladin 18
Alexander, Lloyd 25
Anthony, Piers 16
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 19
Bulfinch, Thomas 21
Cook, Glen 26
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 21
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 13
Hodgson, William Hope 18
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 19
Kay, Guy Gavriel 20
King, Stephen 6
LeGuin, Ursula 23
Lynch, Scott 21
Martin, George R.R. 6
McKillip, Patricia 20
Mieville, China 20
Peake, Mervyn 20
Pratchett, Terry 21
Rothfuss, Patrick 16
Sanderson, Brandon 25
Smith, Clark Ashton 20
Tolstoy, Nikolai 19
Wolfe, Gene 20