On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 05:47:27PM -0500, "Peter H. Granzeau" <pgranzeau at cox.net> wrote: > At 11:54 11/25/2002 -0600, Matthew Hunter wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:16:15AM -0500, "Peter H. Granzeau" > ><pgranzeau at cox.net> wrote: > >> How about Jane Yolen's two "Jenna" books, _Sister Light, Sister Dark_ and > >> _White Jenna_? Yolen also edited a series of YA novels, which might turn > >> up some good books for kids, as well as authored many more herself. > >Gods, no. That is the ONLY book I have literally torn up and > >thrown against the wall. > A very atypical response. You obviously don't like Jane Yolen. You > shouldn't convert your personal likes and dislikes into a general > recommendation, is what I think. I was *disgusted* with Jane Yolen. I got less than 3 chapters in and already, by that point, the cliches had piled up higher than I could stand. The only other books that came close to that reaction were Eddings (after 12 books) and the Wizard's First Rule horror. Eddings was at least enjoyable to read, until he realized he was writing the same book over and over. WFR I went into knowing it would be bad, and I still barely lasted 10 chapters. Neither of the latter got thrown against the wall. SLSD stands out as uniquely bad in my experience. Since a recommendation thread is all about opinions, and we only have personal opinions, I don't see any problem expressing my dismay at this suggestion. Particularly since I flatter myself by thinking that I can distinguish between "I don't like this book personally" and "this book sucks", and the book in question was firmly in the latter category. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt