On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 04:07 PM, Joshua Kronengold wrote: > Gaertk at aol.com writes: >> _Dark Lord_ wasn't bad, but it didn't make me rush out and >> read more of her stuff. > > It's pretty atypical; she doesn't -usually- write that kind of parody, > but then, Diana Wynne Jones does not write like Diana Wynne Jones > (which is something she shares with Steven Brust, who does not write > like Steven Brust). > > Read _Archer's Goon_. Or the Dalemark books. Or Charmed Life, (one > of her Chrestomanci books, one of the best of them), or > _Fire and Hemlock_, a marvelous riff off the True Thomas theme. > > -Then- rush out and buy more of her stuff. > > > -- > Joshua Kronengold (mneme at io.com) "I've been teaching |\ > _,,,--,,_ ,) > --^--him...to live, to breathe, to walk, to sample the /,`.-'`' -, > ;-;;' > /\\joy on each road, and the sorrow at each turning. |,4- ) )-,_ > ) /\ > /-\\\I'm sorry if I kept him out too late"--Vlad Taltos '---''(_/--' > (_/-' > > I remember reading Eddings in high school. The five books of the Belgariad were pretty good and fairly original. Too bad he has used the same formula over and over ever since. ---- "I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific."---Lily Tomlin