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Post by Seryn on May 19, 2006 3:17:40 GMT
Okay, a fairly simple question. If your favourite isn't there tell me and i'll add them for you. Personally, i'll have to say Tad Williams as I LOVE the Otherland series (even if it isnt fantasy exactly). But I must also give honourable mentions to Terry Pratchett and Robert Jordan.  |
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Post by CoralSkywalker on May 19, 2006 9:18:26 GMT
Okay, a fairly simple question. If your favourite isn't there tell me and i'll add them for you. I'm afraid you can't add poll options after you've created a poll..  That's what sucks at these boards.. But anyway.. difficult choice since I'm totally not reading any books anymore nowadays (only for school  ) But I'll pick Tolkien, cause he's the one that made me realise fantasy existed, and I'll be grateful for that forever ^^ |
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Post by Seryn on May 19, 2006 9:28:51 GMT
I count Tolkien as one of my favourites but more out of respect for the influence he's had on the genre than for his writing itself. I'd previously have counted him as my top favourite author mainly for that reason alone, but i'm sorry to say that i'm beginning to tire of Middle-Earth a little  As for the poll options, i guess ill have to leave it at that then, unless you think theres any major ommisions in which case i could start the thread again. |
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Post by metalkitten on May 19, 2006 9:34:23 GMT
I'm going to have to vote for Raymond Feist on this one. Of course Tolkein is the ultimate and there basically wouldn't BE a fantasy genre without him - Any poll with him in is going to be biased. But I have to say that the Magician trilogy will always be very special to me. I have read it so many times and I never get tired of it. LotR is absolute genius and a great read, but for shear entertainment I have to go for Feist.
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Post by Sneltrekker on May 19, 2006 11:23:12 GMT
Robert Jordan. Tolkien, Feist and Pratchett are also great of course, but Wheel of Time is my favorite epos.
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Post by Vempire on May 20, 2006 11:10:35 GMT
Katherine Kerr, David Gemmel, David B. Coe and Weis & Hickmann:P
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Post by Silhouette on May 21, 2006 21:22:06 GMT
The 'gaffel' option is missing!  I wouldn't be able to choose one from that list. Actually, I don't read a lot of fantasy books at all, but my current favourite is 'The chronichle of Prydain', written by Lloyd Alexander. |
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Post by forgottenlegend on May 27, 2006 12:19:36 GMT
lol, you forgot Weis and Hickman (my favourite by them is the Deathgate-cycle), and you misspelled Feist... anyways, i voted Robert Jordan, he's good  . Tolkien is good too, but he's a bit overestimated imho. And i touht of an explenation for that, too: seen as he's the first real Fantasy-writer, he didn't have any competition from other writers, in contrast to nowadays, when there are more than pleny fantasy-series, wich forces the writers to work out their characters way more then JRR did, and that shoud result in bigger and better books... but hey, thats just my opinion, if anyone else got an other one, let me know  |
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Post by Seryn on May 28, 2006 0:50:15 GMT
Damn my grammer. And i knew people would come up with other authors that are missing from the poll, but then we would have just come up with a bunch of authors with one vote each. I guess a gaffel option would have come in handy though That's quite an interesting theory on Tolkien. I'd say that competition is definitly a major driving force behind some of the better fantasy today. It's just a shame that so many authors DON'T get the point of the requirment of being original  Expanding on that thought though, is that the high standard of some fantasy comes in part, simply from refinement of conventions started by Tolkien. Tolkien himself only had a bunch of old and often fragmentary fairy tales and legends to work from. As the genre has grown however, modern authors have a lot of examples to draw from. They can see what works and what doesnt in the literature of other authors and can try and improve upon that, which i guess simply brings us back to your idea of competition. So while Tolkien does indeed seem tad over-rated compared to more recent works, I still have a great deal of respect for the man |
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Post by forgottenlegend on May 28, 2006 9:05:14 GMT
exactly, nice addition...
and, i wasn't saying i didn't respect the man and his work - it's great and i enjoyed reading it very much, so i still respect him alot- but as i said, it might be the smallest tad overrated.
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Post by Sneltrekker on Aug 28, 2006 15:39:47 GMT
Pissed off at Jordan atm for the stupidest reason.
Aaagh.
Can't find book 11 ANYWHERE in Belgium.
Just finished reading book 10.
I -HATE- -HATE- - HATE- cliffhangers. That's why I always try to read series like this in one run as close as possible to each other.
Now downloading the english version of book 11 off of eMule simply. Fuck. I need to know what happened after book 10.
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Post by Seryn on Aug 30, 2006 23:32:48 GMT
I've given up on WoT for now. I had enough trouble trying to remember who was who when book 10 came out and it'd be even worse trying to read book 11 now. Hence i'm just going to wait till the series is complete and start all over again - not something to look foward to *groan*
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Post by Sneltrekker on Sept 3, 2006 20:52:41 GMT
Mh. I've actually hadn't had much of a trouble with book 10 except for some very minor characters ... like I mix up sometimes the commander of the armies of Geldan and Mayene (not sure of their english names)
Haven't yet started book 11 ... but that's the biggest thing I guess, have to adjust to the english names, but at least I can keep continuity in the story. if I stop reading the series until they're all out i'll also need to restart.
And as far as restarting, I had actually read books 1-7 three years ago. I have reread those. And enjoyed it the second time as much as the first. Noticed a few things I missed the first time also.
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That's what sucks at these boards..
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. Tolkien is good too, but he's a bit overestimated imho. And i touht of an explenation for that, too: seen as he's the first real Fantasy-writer, he didn't have any competition from other writers, in contrast to nowadays, when there are more than pleny fantasy-series, wich forces the writers to work out their characters way more then JRR did, and that shoud result in bigger and better books...
