Dragaera

Comfort Books

Fri Jul 19 02:28:49 PDT 2002

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 02:32:33AM -0700, Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> wrote:
> At 04:51 PM 7/18/2002 -0500, Matthew Hunter wrote:
> >On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:58:11PM -0400, Randi128 at aol.com wrote:
> >> All these David Eddings fans. I found his books to be too busy showing us
> >> what a clever conversationalist he is. He is another author that I put 
> >in the
> >> same catagory as Tad Williams and Robert Jordan.
> >
> >Don't even go there.  Jordan can actually be a decent writer when
> >he isn't trying to drag something out to 13 books.  Dunno about
> >Tad, never could read his stuff.
> I really enjoyed his first book, _Tailchaser's Song_.

I keep being tempted by that.

Unfortunately, I've tried his Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy
and couldn't get through the first book.  Ditto his "Otherland"
books.  It's annoying.

-- 
Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org)