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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vonlok The Bold" data-source="post: 2413573" data-attributes="member: 29417">I like Tolkein because of all the fantasy books I've read he has the greatest style.  It is entirely his own, and has a sense of story telling that just really gets me into the story itself.  Not only that he writes well in an academic sense.  Contrary to that is Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.  I liked the first books because of the world he created, but even in the very first book, he had awful run-on sentences that served no point in furthering the story.I loved George RR Martin because he is unique.  I loved the complexity of his characters.  I like stories where political intrigue play a major part, so he had that going for it as well.  Martin does use certain devices too much in his novels, but over all his style and writing is a cut above the standard fantasy writer. I like John Marco's subject matter, but most of his stuff seems cliche, and predictable with little depth of character.     In general I like stories about the kinds of PC's I would play.  If it is too much about wizards or has too much magic it doesn't interest me.  I do like limited magic, but where problem solving or the methods of the bad guys getting away has to do with brain power and problem solving more than a cool spell. I also like novels that have an adventuring party.  It can break up the monotony of a solo protagonist, and gives some interesting dynamics.  However, Dragon Lance characters were pretty one-dimensional, and some of the stuff seemed forced. It is hard to find books about groups, because it is hard to write, and have each of the protagonists have distinct and complex characters.  The Three Musketeers wasn't a fantasy novel but it did a good job of this.   I like suspense and action.   I like low magic more than high magic, political intrigue, and group oriented stories, but I will throw them all out the window for a story written with a great style that is different from the ordinary fantasy novel. Brokedown Palace is a story like this.  It has a style similar that have Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree, but it is a fantasy novel.  I love that book.  It's great.  It has style, and that style trumps any subject matter that might normally not appeal to me. But in all honesty my tastes are pretty varied, and I love what I consider good fantasy novels, I can't stomach most of the fantasy novels written.  My tastes also might represent a minority of fantasy readers than the average fantasy novel fan.</blockquote>

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