 | | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?) —James Stacey
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| | | "TWS Garrison" <tgarriso@math.purdue.edu> wrote in message news:GAKFqz.58w@lugnet.com... (...) position (...) caves (...) Inklings. (...) Ouroboros_ by (...) fantasy--notice (...) spelling (...) of (...) post-nuclear-apocalyptic (...) As opposed to (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?) —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | (...) I couldn't finish it either. I threw it against the wall. It had such a marketing hype from Ballantine along with the Hildebrandt illustrations, I felt betrayed that either would have anything to do with it. (...) I am a leper. I feel sorry (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?) —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | | | | (...) I think that I've agreed with you about Prydain here in the past, but I just can't let an opportunity pass unanswered. Alexander's Prydain books are just about the best fantasy fiction that I've ever read. I read it all as a kid and I happen (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?) —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | | | (...) Oh alright. I agree: written for "young people" or not, the Prydain books are amongst the elite of fantasy fiction. Certainly the best written, for me. I read them as an adult, simultaneously with Eddison's first series. I broke with a long (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?) —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | | (...) One thing in Donaldson's favor is that he isn't afraid to make his protagonists wholly unlikeable characters, as opposed to nice guys who do things as nice guys and end up as nice guys when the story is over. It's the age-old redemption-story, (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) I enjoyed Feist, even knowing it was derived from an RPG supplement. I enjoyed Daughter of the Empire and it's sequels more though. I wonder how many people who read Feist's books ever saw the RPG supplements though? Frank (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) "Sword of Sha na na?" BWAAAAAA! :) Lord Bowser, your mighty steed awaits! (...) I'll put on the "historian cap" here: most Mediaevalists hate it, but Norman Cantor's polemic _Inventing the Middle Ages_ has a rather ...interesting... chapter on (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?) —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) Tolkien pretty much did his thing for self-satisfaction rather than packaging something to be "sold" to a popular audience. In any case, Tolkien was interested more in mythology than actual history. I saw Inventing the Middle Ages on a (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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