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[snurri]

Mighty God King on Fantasy novels.

I'll tell you my favorite in the comments.

Comments

[snurri.livejournal.com]

My favorite would have to be Mary Sue Gets a Dragon.

[iamza.livejournal.com]

I'm partial to the Dune cover myself, mostly because I've never actually managed to finish book 2 and now I have a good a reasonable an excuse to give up trying. :-)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Oh, hell yes. Don't bother. There's an exponential drop in quality with every book.

[rsheslin.livejournal.com]

Those are really, really funny (and accurate.) I know he was kicked off LJ, but does MGK have a feed?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I'm almost certain he does, but I read him on RSS so I'm not sure where to find it.

[scarypudding.livejournal.com]

On that note, the defenses coming from some of MGK's commenters scare me.

Though not as much as the thought of what Kevin Anderson's Paul of Dune must be like as that exponential drop has carried on into the sequels and prequels and... what do you call this latest one, an inquel?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I have to confess that I still have lingering affection for some of those books. I think I will not tell you which ones.

RE: The Dune books, I want to know who's reading all these quels. Seriously.

[v-verticordia.livejournal.com]

LOL! "The Land of Bad Names!" That could describe so many fantasy novels.

Ironically, I joined a displeased-former-fans-of-Goodkind type forum this week....He's an Objectivist, not a Libertarian. Which is far, far worse. Some have suggested his work be called Ayn Rand in Fantasyland.... His work also features a chicken as the embodyment of all evil. Good. Night.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

EVIL CHICKEN! I love it. The stuff of David Boreanaz's nightmares.

Isn't Goodkind the one that got all incensed a year or two ago and insisted that he didn't even write fantasy?

[v-verticordia.livejournal.com]

Yes! He's gone bat-shit crazy! He insists he writes "deep and meaningful treatises on humanity" (that's almost word for word a direct quote) and has banned talking about other authors on his fan site (along with any criticism of his own, er, work)because he doesn't write fantasy. I hear his hero starts beating up peace protesters in the last book! And don't even try to read interviews with--the pontificating...it's like his version of a magic power!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I read his first book a long, long time ago. I don't remember so much the Objectivism/Libertarianism, but I do remember the sado-masochism.

[mythusmage.livejournal.com]

Can disappointed-former-readers-of-Goodkind fans join?

Working Wizard's First Rule: You'll never get rich insulting your clientele.

[v-verticordia.livejournal.com]

Yes. He was quite big on that--but he was just ripping off Robert Jordan's version of sadomasochism. I gave up on him when he started ranting about Communism for 700 pages (book five I think) and accusing our government of being out-of-control socialists. (?????) If only! (I mean, the government sucks, but...too socialist?? Only for the rich buggers on Wall Street....)

[(Anonymous)]

I like the Feist one. When I read his first book, someone asked me how I liked it. "Well," I said grimly, for I knew this boy was a fan of the series. "I felt like it was someone writing about his D&D character." "That's exactly what it is!" he said, full of enthusiasm. So. We're not friends anymore.

[timakers.livejournal.com]

godfucker! That was me.