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View Poll Results: Least fave writer | |||
Terry Brooks | 6 | 20.00% | |
Elaine Cunningham | 2 | 6.67% | |
Sara Douglass | 6 | 20.00% | |
David Eddings | 2 | 6.67% | |
Raymond Feist | 2 | 6.67% | |
Terry Goodkind | 2 | 6.67% | |
Ed Greenwood | 7 | 23.33% | |
Robin Hobb | 1 | 3.33% | |
Robert Jordan | 1 | 3.33% | |
George Martin | 1 | 3.33% | |
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11-15-2003, 04:14 PM | #21 | |
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sorry, but tolkien's descriptions bore me no end. even the huge battle in book two was duller than watching paint dry. good thing film is an instantly descriptive media.
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11-26-2003, 09:43 PM | #22 | |
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On the 'boring, cumbersome and long-winded', though... well, that's epic poetry for you. Tolkien's style is based on works centuries old, but that's not bad because he meant it to be that way. I'm not even sure he ever admitted to writing 'novels'. Reading an epic and then complaining that it was too slow, it lacked pace or lingered on the description is like buying a dog and then saying you don't like him because he's hairy and has four legs. [ 11-26-2003, 09:46 PM: Message edited by: Tancred ]
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11-27-2003, 05:10 AM | #23 | |
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She's second only to G.R.R. Martin. Her book isn't your typical Fantasy novel. Instead of being black and white, the characters are shade of gray. Borneheld has his reasons to act as he was, and so did Axis. You are not expected to cheer. You should have kept reading. By the end of the third book I was crying and cursing Sara Douglass for ever writing such a story. Of course now that I'm over it I'm very happy she did. Any book that can affect me so much is a masterpiece, in my opinion.
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