Best book you've ever read...

[Silk]

The problem with Salvatore was that he eventually ended up writing the same story over and over...

[GreenMonsta]

Oh I agree. Once his first three trilogies involving Drizzt were done he then decided to repeat. Thats why I stopped reading. But again that is kinda the point I was trying to make. Had he written the books as a continuous set of books I may have been compelled to finish them all, but seeing how they were seperate trilogies I didnt have a problem with stopping after the first few.

Although I did read a couple of the books he wrote about the spin off caracter Caderly and they were alright.

[Silk]

I enjoyed the Cadderly series. Of course, I was also several years younger when I read them last...

Also, looking at some of the discussion that went before, I'd have to disagree with the assertion that Martin is a bad writer. His series has some problems but as far as I'm concerned they're not unsurmountable, and I don't think that his actual writing is one of them.

[MrPaperCamel]

I would agree that Martin is a good writer. I just didn't think the series had enough substance to keep me interested.

[Silk]

Lucky you. If I felt the same way, I wouldn't have to care about whether or not I'll be thirty by the time a Dance with Dragons comes out.

[MrPaperCamel]

Lucky you. If I felt the same way, I wouldn't have to care about whether or not I'll be thirty by the time a Dance with Dragons comes out.

=(, sorry.

[Silk]

Haha. Shame on you!

Nah, it's fine. I'm sure it won't take him another nine years to finish Dance.

By the time he finishes the series, however, I probably will be thirty.

This is why there should be more standalones in fantasy.

[GreenMonsta]

Yeah but standalones alwayse leave me wanting more, no matter how good they are.

[MrPaperCamel]

War of the Flowers was one of the first to do that to me. Started of so slow and boring, and by the end I was so sad that there wasn't more to get to.

[Silk]

I don't mind wanting more. If I don't, the book couldn't have been that great to begin with.

Who's the author of that one, Paper?

[MrPaperCamel]

Tad Williams

[Silk]

Hum, I'll have to check it out. Only thing I've read by Williams is the -

Uh, darn it. The trilogy that starts with the Dragonbone Chair. I don't even remember the name of the series...

[Loud_G]

I wasn't all THAT fond of War of the Flowers. It had some really nice ideas, but it also let me down in several ways.  The big revelation at the end, I had predicted from 1/3 of the way through the book. I guess it was an ok book. Not terrible, but not great.

[Silk]

Gah! You people and your mixed reviews!

*sigh* I guess the only way to find out is to try it myself and see...

[MrPaperCamel]

I didn't think the reveal was that predictable. There were actually more than one, and the one I think you are thinking of didn't seem that pushed to me. As though he wasn't really expecting us to miss it. Maybe that was me. I will admit the first part of the book drags horribly. But after that it moves very nicely =).

Oh, and it was the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy.