Interjections

[Domi]

Well, there are a number of writers that I would recommend before Salvatore. While Salvatore definetly hit the nerve with his Drizzt and it made his rich and successful, he is by no means a decent writer. His style is wooden, his plots are repetitive, and his characters a card-board 1 D cutouts, that work on the level of arhtypes, and that only for a while.

 

The best fantasy (in my opinion, obviously):

 

G.R.R. Martin "A Song of Ice and Fire

G.G. Kay Anything but Fionavar (The Lions of Al Rassan being my favorite)

 

Good Fantasy:

 

R. Hobb "Farseers", "Tawny Man" and "Livesheep Traders" series

T. William's "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" series

 

OKay Fantasy:

 

R. Jordan "The Wheel of Time" series.

 

[Grand_Dracolich]

I thought he was good, at least up to par with Brian Jacques...

 

Anyway, lets get back to the thread.