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Default high fantasy books... - 06-18-2006, 23:33

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Originally Posted by Roman_K
Anne McCaffery: Consider reading the Earthsea trilogy. I only read the first book, but I liked it and plan to look up the other two. Don't expect a grand plotline, or a truly well-written book, but it is better written by far than The Lord of the Rings. The story comes across well, albiet with the... slightly archaic style that was used by many fantasy writers of that period.

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That was written by Ursula LeGuin, or isn't that what you meant?


P.S. No offence to Anne McCaffery fans, but I hate her writing - at least that stuff about all the different colour dragons, it's one only two stories in my life that I couldn't finish because it irritated me so much.

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