faro wrote:improvstone wrote:Regardless of whether it is good or not I refuse to read anything that nut job created You'll not be reading any vanVogt, either, since he rather blindly supported said "nut job" for many years?etc., etc.Heh. If anything, Battlefield Earth was the best indication of how much LRH's newfound "science" managed to change him from a decent pulp writer... into a decent pulp writer.Few things can debunk an individual's "aura of mystique" as much as their own written word.
improvstone wrote:Regardless of whether it is good or not I refuse to read anything that nut job created
Kingofpain89 wrote:seeyouinescrow wrote:The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs. Odd little fantasy book I read way back in 5th or 6th grade. Couldnt find it anywhere else so I stole it from the library in high school.
seeyouinescrow wrote:The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs. Odd little fantasy book I read way back in 5th or 6th grade. Couldnt find it anywhere else so I stole it from the library in high school.
MShipley88 wrote: Robert Jordan just plain, old-fashioned.........sucks. His impossibly long and boring Wheel of Time series features characters who repeatedly do the least logical thing in every situation. They fill the rest of the text up with whining, stupid sub-plots or retarded romances. Jordan needs to read Moorcock and then ponder why his own books suck so hard. Suck.
These days, the only fiction writer other than Moorcock who manages to hold my attention for an entire book is Stephen King...and even then I seem to enjoy King's commentaries and musings on writing more than his actual stories. I am currently re-reading the unedited version of The Stand....King's best work.
killjoy32 wrote:that robert jordan series...hmm well i read them and yeah they were ok i thought, but tbh, i sat there WANTING for things to happen and they just like.. didnt. i think the interest element is too widely spaced in it and he goes on too much in between and just frankly turns me off. i would have rather the books have been 200 pages shorter, been more interesting and a lot less waffle really.but hey thats just me and they are a bestseller so plenty of ppl clearly like them Al
Disjected wrote:Man, I thought starting to read this thread I could name something no one else did. Guess I was wrong, you guys actually read as much as I do.Alreday covered things like Horsclans, The Black Company, Dune, Enders Game, etc.I didn't see the Foundation series listed (but I may have missed someone saying it). I liked the premise of the adventures with a group hiding and trying to control the universe. I could see this turned into a module with some eveil set of priests trying to do the same through manipulating and observing the areas around the world on a ruined hidden island.But then, I will also read "bubblegum for the brain" stuff if it can drag me along for the few hours it might take to read it.
bbarsh wrote: I like Howard's non-Conan books and stories.