Read all their stuff / Stop reading after their hit series

[kaitykaity]

My selections --

Mercedes Lackey -- Read everything she writes.

Steve Brust -- Read everything he writes.

Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Read everything she writes.

Terry Brooks -- Read Sword/Elfstones/Wishsong. The rest is gunk.

Robert Jordan -- Read the first five of Wheel. The rest is gunk.

Terry Goodkind -- Read the first four of Sword. The rest is gunk.

George R. R. Martin -- Don't know, haven't started him yet.

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

1. I'd have to say I agree with most of yours

I've haven't read any Brust though. Martin is excellent, though I have yet to be able to find anything of his that's not Song of Ice and Fire.

[kaitykaity]

2. I found out about Brust through a guy here on DU.

Lazarus is a big fan, got me going on the Book of Jhereg.

Anyway, I'm basically fishing for writers who have more
than five books that I can plow through like I did with
the Sue Grafton books. I started reading her when M came
out, and so I got the pleasure of reading like 12 books
that I loved straight through.

Yummy.

[NewJeffCT]

3. Hmmm, I'm not so high on Goodkind.

I thought only Goodkind's first book was good, the rest gunk. Too derivative of Jordan, even in that first book.

I'm not sure if I got turned off from Jordan's Wheel of Time series in the 4th book or the 5th, but I did not even pick up the last book of the series yet. I'm sure I could pick up the final book in 10 years from now and not have missed much in the series.

Martin is awesome - I'm dying for book 4 of the series. Not your typical "innocents on a quest to defeat the ultimate evil" rip off of Tolkien.

I liked Brooks when I was a teenager, just haven't read him in years.
I think I read "Sword of Shannara" right after I first read Lord of the Rings... I think I also read Elfstones & Wishsong and a few non Shannara books of his.

I've read zip of your first 3 authors.

I used to love Piers Anthony, but haven't read him in well over 10 years now. The first Xanth books were good, but they kind of devolved into parodies of themselves.

I'm not sure what really good fantasy I've read in the past decade that isn't somehow a slightly different take on the Tolkien model.

[kaitykaity]

4. I forgot. Add David Eddings to the list of

read Belgariod and Mallorean and leave the rest.

[TroubleMan]

5. Book 8 & 9 in The Wheel of TIme were good

but he totally blew it out his ass on Book 10.

Dammit.....I'm going to have to finish the series no matter what though. I've invested to much time reading all those books.

The first 5 are truly great books though, so I still recommend the series as a whole to anybody.

[Darranar]

6. Book 10 I liked. It had less action...

but at the end I got the impression that everything was about to explode - which I think was the point.