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[jester1470]

Anyone a fan of his very LOTR inspired Fantasy stuff, i've always enjoyed the Shannara stuff though wasnt so keen on the Word and Void stuff, but am pleased theres a bnew Landover book out soon

Anyone else read them and managed to get pastthe LOTR rip off that is Sword of Shannara?

[Pierre Von Mondragon]

I preferred the self indulgent moanfest that is Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant sequence, and, having read quite a lot of Fantasy in my yout', I thought that Brooks was ultra derivitive, worse than Eddings even (at least he went for a bit of wit, even if his clouds always scudded). Now the Fionavar Tapestry is a different kettle of elf all together, and Hugh Cook was momentarily interesting, but why do all these dudes find it so hard to just write one book, instead of 3 (or 5, or 10).

[jester1470]

Originally Posted by Pierre Von Mondragon

I preferred the self indulgent moanfest that is Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant sequence, and, having read quite a lot of Fantasy in my yout', I thought that Brooks was ultra derivitive, worse than Eddings even (at least he went for a bit of wit, even if his clouds always scudded). Now the Fionavar Tapestry is a different kettle of elf all together, and Hugh Cook was momentarily interesting, but why do all these dudes find it so hard to just write one book, instead of 3 (or 5, or 10).

I definitely preferred Brooks stuff when he movexd away from the LOTR clones stuff and got a bit mroe interesting, the gf likes Steven Donaldson but I've never read any myself but I found Eddings to be dull beyond belief, i do know what you mean about these epic stories going on for book afetr book, as they end up effectively telling the same story over and over f you reuse the characters so much.

[fugitive]

I've read a lot of Donaldson as well. I couldn't get into Eddings or Brooks but I loved all the Raymond Feist series of Magician books.