Comments on: MGK Versus His Adolescent Reading Habits

By: MadKalnod

MadKalnod — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:57:15 +0000

Definitely spot on about Eddings. I’ve only read the Belgariad, the Malloreon and the Elenium, but I’m surprised, however, that nobody mentions the trope that I spotted popping up so often in his work: The practice of creating a minor character with next to no plot importance who is simply so sympathetic, likeable or innocent that they exist simply to get killed horribly and unjustly in order to wring a cheap emotional reaction out of the reader. I can’t remember specific examples now, but I guarantee that you’ll notice it as you read them. I even remember Eddings himself commenting on the practice fairly early on in the Elenium by having Sparhawk remark that one of the knights in his little Fellowship is simply too nice not to get killed soon. My gaming group even used Eddings as a verb to describe introducing such a “Dead-NPC-Walking.”

By: carnackiArdent

carnackiArdent — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:48:38 +0000

Let’s see… I enjoyed Eddings and Pullman, but I’ll freely admit that Eddings could get very repetitive (I think it really hit home the second time they got to the desert place with the ghosts). I still like Silk, though. And Pullman did get a little… heavy-handed as he went along, though not so much in the first one – I honestly missed that the Magisterium was working for the church in Golden Compass (yes, I’m American ).

Only ever read the first few McCafferey books, never really got into them, especially since it was in middle school and the dragon mating stuff *still* made me uncomfortable. Likewise only read the first three Dune books because the third confused the hell out of me. Somehow avoided Anthony until I was old enough to know better.

By: Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin « Bibliophage's Buffet

Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin « Bibliophage's Buffet — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:55:37 +0000

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By: sure, why not

sure, why not — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:15:44 +0000

i’m more amused by the ‘philip pullman didn’t write an atheist series!’ comments than the original photoshops

from snopes.com:
“…Pullman has left little doubt about his books’ intended thrust in discussions of his works, such as noting in a 2003 interview that “My books are about killing God” and in a 2001 interview that he was “trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.”

dune is awesome, and how young are you that you got to read asoiaf in your adolescence? dang.

10 pts to gryffindor for ‘asshole leper hero’

By: s westdahl

s westdahl — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:45:55 +0000

“For some reason Asimov’s “Old Scientists are Sexy” and Heinlein’s “The Perfect Woman would be Me with Big Boobs” didn’t make the list, but otherwise, a cavalcade of memories.”

By: lass

lass — Mon, 09 May 2011 05:55:18 +0000

for ASOIAF:

“Winter Is Probably Not Coming”

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By: CTNico

CTNico — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:21:58 +0000

YOu forgot John Norman’s Gor series aka “I have serious issues with women.”

By: redlex

redlex — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:07:39 +0000

Thanks, i really enjoyed the article. Eventhough it took ages to load. *stupid it megacable!*

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Raymond E. Feist’s Eulogy | born on state highway one — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:36:53 +0000

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By: EskimoDiabolist

EskimoDiabolist — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:41:38 +0000

All these years after reading Dune and then the next 2, I still refuse to believe they were written by the same person: Dune IS a masterpiece (I think), but the sequals I read were, as the French would say epouvantable!..Was it the second book where his kid wears a suit of desert trout and starts leaping around like the Hulk?

By: chris buttner

chris buttner — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:21:58 +0000

I just read Lord Foul’s Bane. And then I saw this cover and laughed my ass off because in my 1st web search upon completion of this awful piece of crap I see exactly what the title should have been (add rapist in there too). Wow, this book is so bad on so many levels that its actually pretty fun to read. So blatantly ripping off everything Tolkien that calling it generic doesn’t begin to describe…Its like Donaldson went to college, smoked his 1st joint, got his 01st (and maybe last) piece of ass and she turned hom onto LOTR and he excreted this nonsense.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:01:12 +0000

David Edding’s books kept me from committing suicide, and for that I’ll always be grateful.

I guess the value of a book to someone depends on what you get out of it.

By: JuiceJenn

JuiceJenn — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:42:26 +0000

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By: Diekeellulp

Diekeellulp — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:38:04 +0000

I am righteous wondering if there is any tenable behaviour pattern to trickster in a poker game? I play a joke on been losing fortune online since 2009!!