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Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:37:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Stacey writes:
> As opposed to Earth in the distant past (some have claimed) - Tolkien
> I had to stop reading Sword of Sha na na cos it was such a blatent rip off I
> couldn't stomach it - I love the lord of the Rings. Tolkien was a great
> scholar of western European Mythology and it did inspire much of his work,
> but it can definately be said he put it into a unique context which many
> others have tried to emulate.
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.
> Brookes was embarrisingly bad, Donaldson was
> just too depressing, Feist was too far up his own ass and Eddings was to
> simplistic for his own good.
I am a leper. I feel sorry for myself. Repeat ad nauseum. Donaldson is
one of those love or hate there is no in-between authors. I'm on the hate
side. I have a problem with Feist because his world was simply a FRP
supplement with the whacky idea of a feudal Japanese-based civilization
being right next to a European feudal civilization (and when the nonsense
was pointed out, thus was borh the rift idea). Ignorance is bliss - my wife
enjoyed it. Eddings was predictable, but was quite good with teen-age angst
- totally clueless about cavalry, though.
> imho. David Gemmell is the only writer to get
> close.
Alas, my fantasy knowledge fails me: who is Gemmell?
> Apart from Terry Pratchett who in lampooning the entire genre has
> created something quite original. I haven't read any Harry Potter yet cos
> people keep saying they're the best childerns Fantasy books ever, lets see
> if it ages as well as CS Lewis' Narnia or The Hobbit. I'll put money on the
> fact it dosen't
I highly recommend Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain (which, like
Tolkein, is inspired in part by the Mabingion) which I would rate above
Narnia, and perhaps The Hobbit. I wouldn't rate Harry Potter as the best,
but I thought the various novels enjoyable.
>
> anyway.... ... I want a lego balrog !
Hold the wings!
Bruce
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