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I_Abibde posted...

Never enough Zelaznys or Donaldsons in the world of fantasy literature. Then again, I can remember back when Donaldson was a controversial writer. ... These days, I doubt he'd make anybody bat an eyelash because people only seem to care about naughty bits in visual media and young adult 'literature'.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It sort of goes hand in hand with what I tend to think of as the Blurb Test - when I read the back cover blurb of a book and they've thrown a half-dozen Proper Nouns at you before they even tell you the name of the main character, I put that book right back on the shelf and never look at it again. They're both generally good indicators that what you're looking at is hack genre trash written by an author who is just trying to mimic the style of other writers, and doesn't really have an interesting story of their own to tell.

This sounds like the reasoning I used to ditch Final Fantasy XIII. Take a drink every time a character says "L'Cie" or "Fal'Cie" in the opening act of the game.

As much as I actually liked XIII, I like my liver far more, thank you.

Also I will admit to that flaw in the game, easily, as well as many works of fiction. When I write something I at least have the sense to try to ease my audience into new words or concepts, and even then try not to have so many that it's a burden by the time the meat of the story has picked up. XIII went overboard. Many of Sanderson's books did not if you bother reading them instead of the blurb, but the blurbs definitely did go ham on that.
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