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Originally posted by Erekose:
Ok, i have already spelt out my distaste of Rose Estes. Who do you think is the worst modern writer of Fantasy?
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Mercedes Lackey.
Piers Anthony.
Patricia Wrede.
Alan Wold.
I can't think of any others right now, but these four definitely rate a "blech-ptooie!"
As for AD&D novels...
Memnoch, where's your rant about Ed Greenwood?
I picked up _Elminster: The Making of a Mage_, and found myself thinking, "Dang,I thought only women wrote MarySues!"
His complaining (in the afterward of _Crown of Fire_) about how the scenes with Elminster and The Simbul fighting some of The Villains in _Spellfire_ had to be cut was just... pathetic. Elminster and The Simbul were not the main characters in _SP_, and if he wanted them to be, he should have written a different books.
Lynn Abbey writes Greenwood's characters better than he does.
DP