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So, from reading this (and other forums) I can deduce that:
Stephen King is crap.
David Gemmel is a Hack
Tolkien's style leave alot to be desired.
Pratchett retells the same story over and over
Dan Brown writes like a 12yr old.
and so on...
so, are there any good authors out there? or do people just like to bitch?
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Heroic Knight
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| I tend not to read a great deal of fantasy any more, as most of the authors suck, but I can't praise George R R Martin enough! His Song of Ice and Fire series is fantastic.
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Tart (8/25/2006)
Dan Brown writes like a 12yr old.
From the genius of Radio 4's 'The Museum of Everything' the other week:-
"The Da Vinci Code isn't real, it's just a badly written novel"
"Ah, that's just what the church WANTS you to think..."
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Champion
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G.R.R.Martin is very good.
I also think Stephen Erikson's 'The malazan book of the fallen' series is really good. I have re-read them a few times. He's a love him or hate him type, but worth a try.
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Heroic Knight
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Iain M Banks is fantastic.
"When I want your opinion, I'll read it from your steaming entrails"
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Heroic Knight
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| you might consider Stephen Donaldson The first and second chronicles of Thomas covenant and the gap series are really good. (although I've never read the gap series, I stopped at book two, it was just too depressing for me!)
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Prodigal
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Its down to personal taste, personally I dont like Stephen Donaldson, but others do.
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Heroic Knight
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Julian May is always worth a go if you haven't previously.
George Macdonald Fraser if you can cope with the fact that he may not share modernist politically correct standpoints...
Jenko
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Binidj (8/27/2006)
Iain M Banks is fantastic.
Yes, but Iain Banks is a right Cunt...
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