Re: Star Wreck

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:23:21 -0500, Kathryn Huxtable
<kathryn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I didn't, so here's the difference in our tastes. I read them as they
came out and pretty much hated each one, but read them anyway since
I was in college and had time on my hands.

I only read the first trilogy.

However, I liked some of the stories in _Daughter of Regals_.

Well, one thing I can tell you is that the second trilogy is like the
first, so if you hated the first, there's no reason to go on to the
second . . . not that I think you were about to, LOL.

I don't remember if I read Daughter of Regals . . . I do remember the
title but that may be because I saw it on the shelves. I did read
another, shorter series of Donaldson's with a likeable Falstaffian
character named the Tor, I remember it as having been OK but not
compelling.

I'm kind of surprised actually to hear that so many people disliked
those books. As I recall they were quite popular at the time and sort
of a rags-to-riches literary success story, an over-the-transom
submission. And it's not often that I find fantasy at all gripping, it
usually seems superficial to me: Here's your wizard, here's your dark
lord, stir and bring to a rolling boil . . .

"Aha! I am Gleep, Wizard of the Foist Rank, able to raise dust devils
and give hairballs to cats! Join me, oh unknown fellow who thinks he's
the son of a cucumber farmer but is in reality the princely descendant
of a long line of Defenders of the Fill in the Blank, on this sacred
quest to cast the Nipple Ring of the Gods into the Mudbank of Despair
before the Somewhat Less Than Bright White Lord can curse the Blessed
Kingdom of Grundlethupp with ring around the collar!"

--
Josh

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man."

- George Bernard Shaw

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