Greg Who Cooks
Executive Chef
Yeah, Tolkein's Hobbit and Trilogy go without saying. As far as Dresden I just didn't like the author's writing style, it didn't have anything to do with not knowing the back story, and I figured out some of the back story anyway.
Speaking of really bad writing style (IMO) I started a fantasy novel by Sherrilyn Kenyon and it was so awful I had to quit in the middle. The plot looked like she was just figuring things out on the fly with no advance planning. It was typing, not writing. She went on my ban list. I don't understand how she has published multiple novels. Must be something there that I don't see. At least I could read another Dresden novel if I wanted, I'd just rather focus on books and authors I'm likely to like more.
Larsson's Millennium Trilogy was great. The movies, not so good. It's impossible to replace all the detail and complexity of the book with special effects and cram it all into 90 minutes on the screen. The saddest thing is that the author had never been published in fiction, wrote the three novels in the Millennium series and parts of a few more, then died of a heart attack before any of them were published, so he never got to see the success of his novels. And also sadly, we'll never see any sequels. (What's left is hopelessly tied up in courts by a family dispute.) The movies are probably okay for people who don't like reading. But people who enjoy reading could probably skip the movies altogether.
Speaking of really bad writing style (IMO) I started a fantasy novel by Sherrilyn Kenyon and it was so awful I had to quit in the middle. The plot looked like she was just figuring things out on the fly with no advance planning. It was typing, not writing. She went on my ban list. I don't understand how she has published multiple novels. Must be something there that I don't see. At least I could read another Dresden novel if I wanted, I'd just rather focus on books and authors I'm likely to like more.
Larsson's Millennium Trilogy was great. The movies, not so good. It's impossible to replace all the detail and complexity of the book with special effects and cram it all into 90 minutes on the screen. The saddest thing is that the author had never been published in fiction, wrote the three novels in the Millennium series and parts of a few more, then died of a heart attack before any of them were published, so he never got to see the success of his novels. And also sadly, we'll never see any sequels. (What's left is hopelessly tied up in courts by a family dispute.) The movies are probably okay for people who don't like reading. But people who enjoy reading could probably skip the movies altogether.
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