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First person fantasy. Can it work?
Beamer:
--- Quote from: neurovore on May 30, 2007, 08:51:46 PM ---You're making me wince by mentioning drek like Eddings in the same context as Tolkien, you know.
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Could you please explain why you consider Eddings drek?
Beamer
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Cyclone Jack:
Zelazny's The Chronichles Of Amber are in first person. I doubt you can find a more epic fantasy. 'Epic' is as much a function of atmosphere and style as location and event.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Cyclone Jack on May 31, 2007, 08:19:42 AM ---Zelazny's The Chronichles Of Amber are in first person. I doubt you can find a more epic fantasy. 'Epic' is as much a function of atmosphere and style as location and event.
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I didn't mention those, because so far as I am concerned, the first two read well, and then they slowly get less and less good. Zelazny freely admitted that he only kept writing them to put his kids through college.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Beamer on May 31, 2007, 04:16:12 AM ---Could you please explain why you consider Eddings drek?
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Bearing in mind I haven't read one for ages, because of how negatively they struck me when first I found them, let's see... lack of originality, paper-thin characterisation, irritating banter, predictable plots - almost at the level of "take a close look at the map, you know they're going to have to visit every damned country in it", moral obnoxiousness on the "casual mass slaughter is OK if the heroes do it" front, and, on a word-by-word level, the writing is banal.
CrazyGerbilLady:
Personally I love the Belgariad and the Mallorean. Love the characters. Couldn't get into their latest series though .. THOSE characters I just couldn't bring myself to give a hoot about. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
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