Kevin's Watch

I must admit, I liked Edding's Mallorean series, and the first books of Weis/Hickman's Death Gate series weren't that bad. Though Death Gate dropped off in quality after the first four. That was the first time I noticed the tendency towards these massive multi-volume series that so irritate me today about fantasy.

Fist wrote:On the outside chance that your view of things is different now than it was when you were 16, I'd recommend you try again. Heh, that's ok, I know how tough it is to try something again when you have such negative memories of it.

Yes, yes. I know. I probably should try again.

I remember why I read the book: I had the ubiquitous tenage boy fascination with martial arts and philosphy. And the quote you posted reminds me that my expectations were not really met with much more than a bunch of unrealistic fighting scenes and the "white boy meets eastern philosophy" clichee. And then of course the sultry sex scenes

My guilty pleasures? Sherlock Holmes short-stories. In fact, they were my first encounter with english fiction (way too hard, but highly vocabulary building). Today I eat them like candy between real meals

And since you mention erotic fiction, I have read some Anaïs Nin, which I enjoyed a lot. It's been a while though.

I enjoyed the Saberhagen Book of Swords series. I own every single one. I've thought about rereading them recently, but I'm already rereading ASOIF.