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Post by Knightfall on Sept 16, 2010 1:26:00 GMT 1
Hehe, Moorcock.
Now that that's out of the way, I've still been looking closely at Lord Foul's Bane wondering if I should add it to the read pile. I've been looking for good, escapist fantasy, but I'm not sure if a traveling rapist would fit the bill. =O
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Post by jklinders on Sept 16, 2010 1:45:13 GMT 1
Thomas Covenant rests squarely at the top of the pile of the most unlikable protagonists I have ever read. If you can handle that and if you can handle finding yourself nodding at crap he says from time to time knock yourself out.
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Post by Battlechantress on Sept 16, 2010 2:23:43 GMT 1
Yeeeeaaaah, what linders said. There's a reason why I only got through the first trilogy and no further (and even then...).
(Of course, I also hurled "Stranger In A Strange Land" across my old bedroom when Heinlein ran his mouth off and said all women are to blame for being raped. It was over a decade before I even tried reading "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" as a result, and that's probably the last Heinlein novel that I'll ever bother with.)
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Post by jklinders on Sept 16, 2010 3:39:10 GMT 1
Why do I never know what everyone else is talking about? -- I don't play enough games, read enough books, know anything about anything or write hardly any fanfic these days.... It's a good job I'm such a god-damned awesome moderator. SADNESS. *sigh* here Buch. Can't have you feeling too left out. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock Author Bio. He did more bad work than good. Here is another on Elric. Not an especially likable guy. Throws a good party though if you don't mind mingling with demons and elementals. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric_of_Melnibon%C3%A9 Please note that elric was a kind of nose thumbing at traditional heroic fantasy. Conan for example Tolkien's works in particular. It is not required reading but OK for killing a dull afternoon.
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Post by ommadawn on Sept 17, 2010 2:23:36 GMT 1
Hehe, Moorcock. Now that that's out of the way, I've still been looking closely at Lord Foul's Bane wondering if I should add it to the read pile. I've been looking for good, escapist fantasy, but I'm not sure if a traveling rapist would fit the bill. =O To be fair, that's only a small part of the first part of the first book (though the repercussions of Covenant's act are far reaching indeed). It's still a mighty good read and avoids many of the typical fantasy cliches, in my opinion. Keep a good dictionary handy though, if you do read it. Donaldson wanted to use every word he could, literally.
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