"Calling Robert Jordan's characters 'cardboard' is, frankly, impugning the moral rectitude and dimensionality of high fiber reprocessed paper products everywhere."

I don't know who said this, but it had me in stitches for a long, long time.

Tancred

Did Robert Jordon write the Horseclan Series back in the seventies and eighties?

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Sir Taliesin


Meddle not in the affairs of dragons
if you are crunchy and good with ketchup!

L.Ron Hubbard, for those cheap attemps at Conan

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I will never read L Ron Hubbard! They LOOK so icky!
Isn't he the guy that set up the 'Church' of Scientology?

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Fljotsdale

That's why I won't read L. Ron Hubbard. I have a problem with people who want to
control other peoples minds! Sorry if that offends anyone out there.




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Fljotsdale

Sir Tallieson, that was Robert Adams who wrote Horseclans. He's dead now

It's a shame. They were pretty good books. Use to read them in middle school and high school.


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Sir Taliesin


Meddle not in the affairs of dragons
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I concur with the view that Moorcock's "evil" elves were superior to how Drow are depicted in D&D, but remember that the age target for D&D is broader than Moorcocks books.

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THE NAME OF THE SWORD IS THE SAME AS THE SCYTHE

I dont really have a worst. Maybe Andrew Offett or Katherine Kurtz. Anyone remember that crap? Pretty lame stuff. I did not care for Zelazny either.

But, I will say this, Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings and Moorcock - Chronicles of the Black Sword may be the best fantasy ever written regardless of what people may think of the rest of their works. Hey, J.D. Salinger had one good book in him, but it was a doozy.

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