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Are there any SFF authors you truly hate?
Marc the Noggin:
Are there any SFF authors you truly hate?
I think mine has to Gene Wolfe - never in the hisotry of the world have so many readers raved about such a badly written load of drivel. >:(
Relabb:
Tolkien must make this list - just truly terrible in every way. Yet idiots all over the world worship him. Why?
RJ:
R.A. Salvatore and Weiss and Hickman. Had to review some Salvatore and, foolishly, believed a friend who told me the Dragonlance books were really good. They're not.
Merle:
Heinlein, bleurgh.
Also, I just cannot get on with Poul Anderson (although there are things I admire in his books), and Asimov tends to bore me silly.
All of an era it must be said.
whome?:
I've got a Terry Brooks 'Sword of Shannara' phobia that may be entirely unjustified!
I feel I should stand up for Gene Wolfe as I did enjoy the first series. I read them some long time ago and am not convinced I understood what he was on about. But chunks of it still linger in my mind, which doesn't happen with everything one reads.
As for Tolkien - love him or hate him, would the fantasy genre exist without him?
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