I sometimes cruise a number of political sites/blogs from across the political spectrum when the mood strikes, like it has over the last couple of days.
It just so happens that while doing so today, I ran into a list of recent fantasy books compiled by Orson Scott Card at the National Review Online’s blog, The Corner.
Check it here, if you’re interested. His descriptions are succinct, but a few of them sound interesting, and I’m actually not a big fan of fantasy lit.
(I have to admit, when I think of lists of fantasy-genre fiction, National Review doesn’t always come to mind…)
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Looked through the list. Brandon Sanderson is a good writer. I wouldn’t necessarily say great but good. I’ve read his Elantris & Warbreaker, both decent stories. My wife has read The Mistborn Trilogy & seemed to like it okay. Sanderson was also chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series.
Kate Eliot’s Crown of Stars series both my wife & I found to be really hard to follow. I might check out some of the other writers on the list. Don’t really care for George R.R. Martin or Sean Russell, though.
I notice Rowling isn’t on the list, but I suppose he was letting us know about less well known authors!
Interesting list.
I think Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s series was brilliant. But, The Liveship Traders, the series Card recommends was an ordeal. It was like reading more Wheel of Time. Great premise, brilliant actually but it was only the loyalty that Hobb had created in me by the greatness of the Assassin series that kept me reading Liveship Traders.
Oh well.