jester1470 Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester1470 Posted May 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugitive Posted May 25, 2009 Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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