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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2650104" data-attributes="member: 5171">If you're going to make an accusation, please have something better to fall back on than saying that I implied something without so much as a quote to back it up.I'd say that the closest I came was categorizing Dark Jezter in that way, which came in reference to a post he made to Joshua Dyal -- which he later apologized for. I hadn't read his apology when I posted my shot back at him. And even in that, I never mentioned "rabid fanboys". Which, while many things are open to opinion and interpretation, pretty solidly makes you mistaken. Which is great, since I didn't mention fanboyism. There are Martin fanboys and Jordan fanboys and Goodkind fanboys, and they are all, in their own way, annoying, even though I greatly like one of those authors. There aren't nearly enough Pratchett fanboys or Christopher Moore fanboys, although I suspect that if there were a lot of them, they'd be just as annoying in their own way. And the only mention of fanboys in this thread, as I casually remember, was Dark Jezter voicing a concern that Martin fanboys were going to poison the thread, and you stating quite clearly that I had mentioned rabid fanboys and then declaring a few posts later that you hadn't actually accused me of mentioning them directly.Regardless, I hope the list helps the thread-starter figure out if he wants to give the books a shot. I honestly think he should -- last I saw at Borders, the publishers had come up with a sweet idea, making "Wizard's First Rule" only $1.99 or something crazy low like that to hook people into the entire series. Even if you don't do libraries, $1.99 for a 900-page novel is a pretty great deal. Worst case, you read it enough to know you don't like it, and you donate it to a library, and you're only out two bucks. Best case, you've discovered something you like and have a whole lot of books and a whole lot of pages to enjoy. I wish they'd start putting out really low-priced first books of more authors. That seems like a great way to lure people in.</blockquote>

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