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| pbj:
--- Quote from: Locke141 on March 23, 2015, 12:38:49 pm --- --- Quote from: pbj on March 23, 2015, 12:04:50 pm ---The Harry Potter books certainly got screwed up because she started writing them like screenplays towards the end. So I agree it's better for the cycle to be finished before they start moving it to other venues. --- End quote --- They also suffered from using "magic" to fill plot wholes. I prefer it when magic is used sparingly or has some basic rules lade out. Other wise it just a catch all to solve ever problem. "Well Harry we'er really screwed this time. No wait, I have a watch that turns back time but I can only use it this once even though I've been using it all year but did not say anything till just now." It's like reading a mystery where in the end you couldn't have never figured it out because the character knew something you couldn't have none. --- End quote --- Meh, gotta move the plot forward somehow. |
| nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: dkersten on March 23, 2015, 02:21:16 pm --- I LOVE a good epic story line because it means I can keep reading a story for months. However, nobody has been able to really pull it off throughout the entire series. Mission Earth got straight up bizarre when Hubbard got senile, and I believe the last 3 books were ghost written by someone else. I never read the Harry Potters because I had already seen the movies and I don't want to invest that kind of time into a series where I already know the outcome. Sword of Truth was OK, but mostly because he actually made each book a complete story on it's own. However, now that it is finished, I tried to read his continuation and found it horrible and impossible to read. I will continue to watch GoT on HBO, and I will even buy the next book when it comes out, although by then the series on TV might have already taken it in a better direction. We will see... --- End quote --- You might like David Edding's Belgariad & it's sequel Mallorian. Both are composed of 5 books. I actually read the first book of GoT & holy hell just as soon as you got to know a character he off'd them. Or crippled one. That book was BRUTAL. |
| SavannahLion:
Yeah, I had to stop reading the ME books because of that. I had assumed it was due to his whole dianetics/scientology ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- until I realized all of that started sometime in the the 50's. Battlefield Earth was an OK but i could've easily lived without it or the movie. |
| dkersten:
--- Quote from: nitrogen_widget on March 23, 2015, 04:01:07 pm ---You might like David Edding's Belgariad & it's sequel Mallorian. Both are composed of 5 books. I actually read the first book of GoT & holy hell just as soon as you got to know a character he off'd them. Or crippled one. That book was BRUTAL. --- End quote --- I counted Eddings as one of my all time favorite authors, probably number one for a long time, and it is a shame he is gone. I never really saw any of his books as "epic story books" though. They were too short, the Belgariad series not even totaling the length of the first two WoT books. To me, "epic" would be a long and intricate story line that is told over 8-15 books. Belgariad and Mallorian are more like Dragonlance books to me.. shorter stories that fit nicely in a trilogy. Perhaps one day I will go back and read them again though. I don't know - as much as I loved those two series, by the time the Tamuli series came out I was about 21 and I don't think I even finished them because I found them too boring, so perhaps I have to leave those book in the past. I did read the stuff he wrote with his wife before he died though, and it was pretty good. In my mind he is one of my top 5 authors of all time, and I suppose that is good enough for me. |
| dkersten:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 23, 2015, 04:06:28 pm ---Yeah, I had to stop reading the ME books because of that. I had assumed it was due to his whole dianetics/scientology ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- until I realized all of that started sometime in the the 50's. Battlefield Earth was an OK but i could've easily lived without it or the movie. --- End quote --- I loved BE.. the movie sucked ass, but the book remains one of the best post apocalyptic epic stories of all time for me. ME was great because nobody else was writing a decology made up of 750-1000 page books. When I read it I was around 17 years old, and I did it all in one shot (took like 3 months). I didn't know or care about scientology, although he did use his book sales to fund the church. |
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