Oh, and Tolkein . . .
. . . did anyone else have that ruined for them by reading tons of Tolkein-wannabe stuff first?
After I had sucked back epic ammounts of fantasy in grades 5-8, my attempt to read LOTR died after it felt like he was the sadly out of date version of ten things I had already read. Where were the females? When would he stop describing the scenery?
As an avid reader, I am really embarassed to say that in the end, I mainly just watched the movies.
posted by Lu Hill at 8:37 p.m.
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Awww, shame. My favourite authors are Tolkein, Gaiman, Lackey (ah, my comfort read par excellence), Bujold, Adams (Richard AND Douglas), Pratchett, Jones, Atwood, and maybe Irving. There are probably others that I just can't think of off the top of my head. I'm not sure I love authors so much as I love individual books though. Robert Rankin's "Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse" is one of my favourite books, but his other stuff is, to my mind, crap. The exceptions to that statement is Gaiman, who really can do no wrong to my mind.
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