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<blockquote data-quote="ergeheilalt" data-source="post: 123668" data-attributes="member: 3460">Gritty, not gritty, or in between?I love Gritty Fantasy books. I love the &quot;White Robe&quot; fantasy books. Goodkind IMO was a great writer. I'm not saying that his works are nausea-less; his writing did, however, bring the &quot;castration&quot; passage come alive in my mind. His story gets drawn out (As far as I can tell &lt;U&gt;Pilliars of Creation&lt;/U&gt; had no real impact on Richard or Khalan.), but the books are great in quality. Black and White fantasy is great too. Weis, Eddings, Brooks (which I am currently re-reading for the third time) are all great authors that have created books with clearly defined good and evil. (I kinda put Brooks in the middle, as many of the tasks given to the various Druids are not pure good). This does not mean they are poor writers, they have a different flare of writing.For those who like worlds in which good &amp; evil are balanced, I suggest &quot;Her Majestly's Wizard&quot; ... if the puns don't kill ya, the story will entertain you to say the least.As for T.C. by Donaldson, The only things I really drew from that book we're rather embarassing questions for my father...I was 13 when I read those books. I did, however, enjoy the idea of hidden tomes of magic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ergeheilalt, post: 123668, member: 3460"] [b]Gritty, not gritty, or in between?[/b] I love Gritty Fantasy books. I love the "White Robe" fantasy books. Goodkind IMO was a great writer. I'm not saying that his works are nausea-less; his writing did, however, bring the "castration" passage come alive in my mind. His story gets drawn out (As far as I can tell Pilliars of Creation had no real impact on Richard or Khalan.), but the books are great in quality. Black and White fantasy is great too. Weis, Eddings, Brooks (which I am currently re-reading for the third time) are all great authors that have created books with clearly defined good and evil. (I kinda put Brooks in the middle, as many of the tasks given to the various Druids are not pure good). This does not mean they are poor writers, they have a different flare of writing. For those who like worlds in which good & evil are balanced, I suggest "Her Majestly's Wizard" ... if the puns don't kill ya, the story will entertain you to say the least. As for T.C. by Donaldson, The only things I really drew from that book we're rather embarassing questions for my father...I was 13 when I read those books. I did, however, enjoy the idea of hidden tomes of magic. [/QUOTE]

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