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well that would appear to be the case!

Well I maintain they are not a 'bad' read, but the second series that follows on from the story is certainly better than the first.

the first point is one that would kind of feel dis-ingenuous and would do a dis-service to the book store, I wouldn't feel bad about doing it in the local library however! The second point is a good one however and I will look into that before I buy my next book! (though I would still prefer to...

general I am very lazy - I just search on amazon in the kindle section. Occasionally I will flick through the reccomendations they supply. I used to go visit the book store and browse the shelves but since moving over to electronic format I haven't done that for a long while. For the record...

Thanks for the welcome all :)

I went back to check and it was indeed from book three to book four, from Storm of swords to A feast for crows.

The later books get better, a bit more a plot and some interesting ideas explored. I think have read everything she has written and while it is not tolkien it is certainly readable

Dammit! there should be a "send to Editor" button rather than "Submit Post" Anyway the cancer is a bit of a downer, Non-hodgkins Lymphoma, and certainly something I will have to live with for the rest of my life but at least it has given me the requisite kick up the backside to do some of the...

I went with the Black Prism simply becuase it is so rare to have an entirely new school of thought on magic, and it is one that works so well.

I hate these books, struggled to get through book one and then got to the beginning of book four (I think??) to find that half the characters had been killed off with no explanation, I thought I had missed a book! refused to read any further and won't ever watch the TV adaptation.

The early Xanth books were great at the time, having re-visited them as an older reader I find them to actually be quite weak and lazy. I tried some of his other efforts and found them difficult to read and overbearingly constructed and heavy handed in the delivery. Simon

do you introduce yourself to a forum full of writers? Gushingly eloquent, overflowing with purple prose (I have been reading already), annoyingly casual in a 'sup homies kind of way to imply an overbearing sense of confidence and belonging? Would devastating charm work on what is quite...