Also, the posts Jo Walton links to from her tor.com post are really funny!
My favorite cover in Part 1 is the David Eddings cover, with the new title: Remember The First Five Books? Like That.
Or maybe the Robert Jordan cover, which is down farther.
My favorite in Part 2 is once again the one at the top, Mercedes Lackey’s cover with the title: My Little Pony Goes To War.
Hah hah hah! Sorry. That really *is* just what the cover looks like. I also really love the Turtledove cover’s new title.
Not sure which one I’d pick from Part 3.
Anyway, these are well worth clicking through and admiring.
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Oh, man Weis and Hackman, “A Tale of 5 Million Experience Points.” So true. The thing is, I knew it was bad even as an adolescent. (Same with Eddings, who really did write the same thing over and over.)
I admit I never read Weis. (And don’t plan to.) I thought Eddings did a good job with dialogue, but his books did tend to be a bit repetitive, didn’t they?
Yes, Weis-Hickman are useful only as a cautionary tale. My favorite technique for a (negative) review of an excessively plot driven book: well, it’s better than Weis and Hickman…