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robin hobb's trilogies have gotten better everytime. the fool's trilogy backed onto the liveship traders makes her (?) easily today's premier author.
i'm a big fan of feist and jordan, as my other picks. but i think feist's work with other authors, most notably with wurts in the daughter of empire trilogy, is better than his solo stuff (which is excellent).
i'm sure this will draw flame, but i cant let it go. jrr tolkein may have been the first to synthesise all the western mythologies into a cohesive singularity, but he was neither the first to write on it nor is he the best - not even close. in fact, by today's author's standards, he's unreadable.
edit: i see now that my last comment overlaps with the *other* thread on worst authors and that i'm not alone. cheers.
[ 10-22-2003, 01:49 AM: Message edited by: sultan ]
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