Which Fantasy Author Did You Find Most Disappointing? Showing 651-700 of 1,088

[Cheryl]

I think if Fitz had turned into a cold, remorseless killer, I definitely wouldn't like him as much. His appeal to me is that he's not your normal assassin and still retains a lot of human qualities and foibles.

[Indrajith]

Actually Fitz was more of an all-purpose King's man than an assassin tho the novels are named that way. I loved the series for Fitz's selflessness and Nighteyes :)

[[deleted user]]

*shakes head* Good think I like you so much, Michael. We'll just have to hug it out over you not liking Hobb. ;)

[[deleted user]]

Leighann! Fraggle Rock And Duck Tales?!

You're a cruel, cruel woman.

*mumbles...high adventure that's beyond compare...we are the Gummy Bears*

[Leighann]

☠The Dread Pirate Grant☠ wrote: "*shakes head* Good think I like you so much, Michael. We'll just have to hug it out over you not liking Hobb. ;)"

There you are....as the conversation started sliding toward Hobb I thought sure your superreader senses must have been tingling.

[Leighann]

[Leighann]

☠The Dread Pirate Grant☠ wrote: "Leighann! Fraggle Rock And Duck Tales?!

You're a cruel, cruel woman.

*mumbles...high adventure that's beyond compare...we are the Gummy Bears*"

Oh trust me I've been humming all three all day!

[Jason]

Leighann wrote: ""

Love that picture, Leighann!

[Leighann]

Hehe - come on can't you picture Grant :) I know I can - of course I had to mod the pic to add the book but hey :)

[[deleted user]]

Tracey wrote: "I never thought of Fitz as a failure. Granted, he doesn't have as high a body count as some [spoilers removed], but he used the skills he was taught to solve problems without killing. [spoilers r..."

I guess that was exactly my point. He did find other ways to deal with his problems. However, (view spoiler)[ I especially like that he came to the decision to make Regal dedicated to the queen and heir in the end rather than kill him...but in that sense, I find that kind of a failure as an assassin because he had so many opportunities to kill him--and wanted to--but never could. It wasn't until the very end when he had him right where he wanted him that he chose not to kill him. By that point he was shaped by experience enough to understand that killing him wasn't the answer that would bring him peace. Is that often decided by assassins in the strict sense of their profession? (hide spoiler)]

[Jason]

Totally, Leighann!

[Mach]

Michael wrote: "I have not ruled out Hobb yet. As I said, th..."

You might like her more if you make it to the The Liveship trilogy, that's when i really started to admire Hobb.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Oh, I hated 1984 too. Never finished it and don't really plan to. I was bored crapless.

[whimsicalmeerkat]

MrsJoseph wrote: "Oh, I hated 1984 too. Never finished it and don't really plan to. I was bored crapless."

I really liked it.

[[deleted user]]

Lmao...that is hilarious Leighann :) I've know folks that were so/so about Farseer that loved The Tawny Man trilogy. Either way, I won't hold it against ya, Michael ;)

[Jason]

I loved 1984, too.

[Valerie]

I also loved it.

[Scott]

I liked it. Read it twice. The second time was for a class, but still.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

I liked it a lot when I read it in high school. But, then, I liked Animal Farm a lot in high school, too, but was less impressed during a recent reread.

[Laura]

My friend read 1984 and she really enjoyed it. She admitted that the middle does get a bit tedious, but the end was worth it.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

I was so bored.

[Jason]

I hated Animal Farm. I'm not sure why, though.. Just didn't win me over. I did like anti-communist message, proving that it looks good on paper but doesn't work in practice.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I love the end statement of Animal Farm.:

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

I liked Old Benjamin the best, and I thought it was really cool when I'd read that Benjamin is the author-insert for Orwell.

[Bill]

I have never been disappointed by Gaiman from Sandman to American Gods. The latter is, IMO, the great American novel of the century.

A new edition, his preferred edition, with ~11,000 more words was just released (there is an older deluxe edition, but the cheapest I have found it is $600. It came with a reading copy which sells for about $180)

American Gods 10th Anniversary Edition

[Chelsea]

When I first started going on this site, I saw how many people loved The Curse of the Mistwraith and the rest of this series and thought "Well, gee, I think I'll read that!"

I received it for Christmas, and I'm really sad my friend wasted her hard earned money on it. I cannot comprehend how people liked that book. I understand that many people here enjoyed it, and I gave the book two honest-to-goodness tries! Unfortunately, I am one of the few for whom the book did not sing.

[Scott]

It seems odd that Gaiman wouldn't have been able to release his preferred edition to begin with.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Chelsea wrote: "When I first started going on this site, I saw how many people loved The Curse of the Mistwraith and the rest of this series and thought "Well, gee, I think I'll read that!"

I recei..."

That was me and GRRM. Could not do it. I gave away so many copies of his books that my wallet cried. ANd yes, hardback.

[mark]

i first read 1984 back in college, on acid while listening to the eurythmics soundtrack. it was an 'upsetting' experience, i suppose you could say.

[Jason]

Wow, Mark! I would not want to take acid while reading that book. Talk about a nightmare! LOL

[mark]

i had what is quaintly known as a "bad trip"...scary waking nightmares, yikes! i needed lots of hugs.

[Jason]

No doubt! LOL Especially at the end.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Oh wow! That just sounds scary.

[Laura]

Scary experience :O

Another one of Gaiman's that my friends have read is Good Omens, co-written with Terry Pratchett. It's in my TBR folder as my friend recommended it, but has anyone else here read it?

[[deleted user]]

I've read it. It was pretty good.

[Mach]

How did you manage to read on acid?

[mark]

don't forget the eurythmics on headphones taking place while reading on acid!

as far as how, well...i didn't turn into a zombie back in those college days when me and my pals dropped acid a lot. usually kept my head about me and so usually placed in the position of trip-leader, fruit-and-water buyer, person who deals with authority figures, person who buys movie tickets, etc. apparently i have tremendous powers of focus.

[Valerie]

Laura wrote: "Scary experience :O

Another one of Gaiman's that my friends have read is Good Omens, co-written with Terry Pratchett. It's in my TBR folder as my friend recommended it, but has anyone else here ..."

A lot of people love it. I only thought it was okay. I much prefer their separate works.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

mark wrote: "don't forget the eurythmics on headphones taking place while reading on acid!

as far as how, well...i didn't turn into a zombie back in those college days when me and my pals dropped acid a lot...."

LOL!

When I still drank heavily in public I used to go out with a friend of mine to clubs a lot. I was in charge of making sure her hair didn't look like a rat's nest, that she didn't go home with strangers, and that she didn't get left behind. Baby sitting while wasted...it's always an adventure.

[mark]

those were some very important charges, mrs joseph! i used to try to just sneak away if it seemed things were going to get too drunken (myself included). bad behavior, very unreliable. but nowadays folks seem to have almost caught up to my schedule and my fear of getting too sloppy. about time!

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Tell me about it. Once we went out in a huge group and decided to go to get breakfast after. My husband (b/f at the time) had to literally pry some guy off of her by giving him a skin burn!* When we got to the diner I had to prop her up in a corner of the booth and smooth her hair back. It was everywhere and you could have stuck a fork in her (she was done).


*chafing the skin until it's painful and raw feeling

[Chelsea]

MrsJoseph wrote: "Tell me about it. Once we went out in a huge group and decided to go to get breakfast after. My husband (b/f at the time) had to literally pry some guy off of her by giving him a skin burn!* Wh..."

That is an amazing story!

[mark]

(she was done)

LOL! yes - she sure was! that is a funny, funny image.

[Beth]

Hey, ya'll...

I'm really late to the party on this thread, and it may already have been answered...

I read #1 Anita Blake and loved it...then got the head's up as to what happens, and stopped, before I got *too* attached. Someone forwarded me a link to LKH's blog, on the subject. In a nutshell, yes, she knows how people feel and doesn't care. It was basically a "I'll write what I want, and if you don't like it, don't buy it." So I don't.

I also won't buy anything else she writes...because I don't like people talking mean to me. ::sulking::

Just kidding about the sulking...but I do get a 'tude.

I'm Beth, btw. Nice to meet you all!

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Welcome Beth!

[Jason]

Hi Beth! Welcome to the group!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Welcome Beth.

[Danielle The Book Huntress]

Welcome, Beth. I don't buy LKH anymore. I have books 7-9 in the Anita Blake series, and I'm hanging my hat up after that.

[Maggie]

Yeah...Anita had so much potential! Book 8 was the last good one

[Beth]

Another one is Philip Pullman ::ducking from missiles being readied for throwing:: -- I read The Golden Compass, along with my son, who was reading it for Battle of the Books. We didn't discuss it until we both finished, within a couple of days of one another...we both HATED it. And that was before I knew of the hubbub about the children killing God at the end, etc. I just found them flat, and all the characters unlikeable...no one, except for the Armored Bear, was engaging...and I liked him the same way I like the droids from Star Wars...as a novelty.