it is hard to defend the hill that i will die loneliest on — the excellence of the Merlin Cycle of the Chronicles of Amber — because i uniformly like and appreciate the people it needs defending from and there is little i can say without absolutely going for their throats
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His Dark Materials cratered much faster than that
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I was thinking about trying to reread those
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better you than me
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They don't hold up huh? I remember finding them enchanting as a teen
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Golden Compass or whatever limeys call it in the land of the filthy sassenach is great, i thought the other two fell over incredibly flat i think opinions are strongly divided about that though so ymmv
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It's faintly amusing to me that Pullman wrote a several thousand page gnostic epic and came out of it saying "welp, I'm an atheist and la di da for me ho ho ho." Like damn dog, you really have no respect for your own time.
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we aren't seriously comparing Roger Zelazny on his hackiest, most self-indulgent day to Bob Salvatore on his most insightful and euphonic, though, are we
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Uh no definitely not. Though I've not actually read Zelazny. Carried around Lord of Light for several months and never made it beyond the first chapter.
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Skein and Mother were pretty smutty/schlocky but that was kind of inevitable given the author
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far me it from me to speak against smutty, and schlocky can be peachy, but i just remember them being an absolute mess full of characters i can't care about because i literally can't tell them apart because our Piers lacks the concept of voice entirely
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not the hugest surprise that the point where he started trying to write womens' POV was where it severed contact with the rails completely
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