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ParanoidObsessive 09/07/19 12:09:03 AM #208:	WhiskeyDisk posted... Those books deserve better, the writing was quite good. Probably better than Weiss and Hickman fare Definitely better, and I say that as someone who really likes The Death Gate Cycle. Though I admittedly never really got into the Dragonlance books as much as some people. I rank all of my sci-fi/fantasy books on my shelves in what I consider to be order of quality - the best series up top, slowing getting progressively less great as you go downward. Keeping in mind I've probably got about 30 years worth of books on those shelves (as I literally NEVER throw books away, I never sold any of my college textbooks back, and have maybe lost or irreparably damaged maybe a half-dozen tops over the entire span of my life - so I've still got books from when I was 10), the Dark is Rising books are on the second shelf down. Basically the only stuff ahead of them is Roger Zelazny and Stephen Donaldson, who I pretty regularly cite as my favorite fantasy writers ever. Granted, there's always the caveat of "the books are great for young adult fiction", but I easily consider them better than Harry Potter ever was (though that means less because I've always disliked Harry Potter and seen Rowling as a bit of a hack), and on par with a lot of adult fiction as well. I'd probably recommend them to pretty much anyone, if not for the fear that they might feel a bit too un-contemporary now, with the added fear that people who grew up with Harry Potter will get a bit of the "Seinfeld is Unfunny" or "Tolkien is so cliche" dynamic where they don't feel as fresh because you're familiar with books that came after and copied them. WhiskeyDisk posted... Hell I can remember harassing the librarians of my hometown library for almost a year to track down the last 2 books of the series, and the local Waldenbooks couldn't even find them until I managed to track down the ISBN numbers for them which was no easy task for an 11 year old in a Pre-Google world. I bought all mine as a set when my school had the Scholastic book fair come through. The same way I got my Narnia boxed set. And the Bunnicula books. Oh, and Still More Tales for the Midnight Hour books. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:927089472] in Valley of ... [t:77923465]...</cite> <quote><cite>WhiskeyDisk posted...</cite> <quote>Those books deserve better, the writing was quite good. Probably better than Weiss and Hickman fare</quote> Definitely better, and I say that as someone who really likes The Death Gate Cycle. Though I admittedly never really got into the Dragonlance books as much as some people. I rank all of my sci-fi/fantasy books on my shelves in what I consider to be order of quality - the best series up top, slowing getting progressively less great as you go downward. Keeping in mind I've probably got about 30 years worth of books on those shelves (as I literally NEVER throw books away, I never sold any of my college textbooks back, and have maybe lost or irreparably damaged maybe a half-dozen tops over the entire span of my life - so I've still got books from when I was 10), the Dark is Rising books are on the second shelf down. Basically the only stuff ahead of them is Roger Zelazny and Stephen Donaldson, who I pretty regularly cite as my favorite fantasy writers ever. Granted, there's always the caveat of "the books are great for young adult fiction", but I easily consider them better than Harry Potter ever was (though that means less because I've always disliked Harry Potter and seen Rowling as a bit of a hack), and on par with a lot of adult fiction as well. I'd probably recommend them to pretty much anyone, if not for the fear that they might feel a bit too un-contemporary now, with the added fear that people who grew up with Harry Potter will get a bit of the "Seinfeld is Unfunny" or "Tolkien is so cliche" dynamic where they don't feel as fresh because you're familiar with books that came after and copied them. <cite>WhiskeyDisk posted...</cite> <quote>Hell I can remember harassing the librarians of my hometown library for almost a year to track down the last 2 books of the series, and the local Waldenbooks couldn't even find them until I managed to track down the ISBN numbers for them which was no easy task for an 11 year old in a Pre-Google world.</quote> I bought all mine as a set when my school had the Scholastic book fair come through. The same way I got my Narnia boxed set. And the Bunnicula books. Oh, and Still More Tales for the Midnight Hour books. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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